If you are tired of formula-romances, with their perfect heroes, perfect heroines and perfectly predictable plots, you're ready for Dark Romance, where any rule can be broken in the service of an exceptional story. Purchase this anthology to receive eighteen great stories by leading dark romance authors and three full length ebooks delivered online. Award winning authors in this anthology include: CT Adams, Jordan Alexander, Allie Bates, Tabitha A. Bradley, Charlotte Boyett-Compo, Adrianna Dane, Amy Eastlake, Morgan Huxley, Steve Lazarowitz, Brenna Lyons, Terri Pray, Rob Preece, Patricia A. Rasey.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Enter into a world of unexpected and amazing stories.,
By Jaynie Ritchie (Australia) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Dark Romance Anthology: The Abyss (Paperback)
Ever wish you could read something that breaks all the rules? What about if there were no rules except to tell the best possible story the way it was meant to be told? Nancy Fulton, founding member of the Dark Romance Internet Group wanted to share her love of some untraditional authors by highlighting them in a new anthology. If you only read print books, you may not know these authors. They are the best of the ebook Dark Romance world. Their writing transcends genre to forge new stories open to all readers, and don't follow the traditional rigid romance structure or formula that is seen in the print world. The stories in THE ABYSS are about love; love that is not always true, and not always returned. Serious romances that will make you come away from the book thinking about something other than sweetness and light. THE ABYSS includes eighteen different stories from thirteen different authors. All of these stories have a great premise:
An Egyptian Mummy is found perfectly preserved, but all is not as it seems. Can ancient lovers find each other's hearts once more? A Couple seem destined to be together - despite the threat of a monster that may someday come between them. A Police Woman recovering from a vicious attack finds solace in the arms of another officer, but memories return of her attacker who seems less than human. A teenage boy becomes obsessed with a fellow classmate, and spends the next ten years transforming himself to be eligible to date her. A man whose mind is separated from his body guards secrets for his side of the war. When a woman gains entrance to his thoughts, he must discern whose side she is on. A man is hired to put a bullet in a beautiful woman, but something stops him from pulling the trigger. Will that be the worst mistake of his life? A woman struggles to keep her shop when she discovers the sale wasn't legal, and now her nemesis wants to take it from her. A human thief gets more than he bargained for when he breaks into a vampire den looking for silver. Will he trade money for a chance at happiness? A young woman is aggrieved by her brother's choice in friends, but should count herself lucky the rogue took no more than a kiss. A man and a woman meet on a deserted beach, both desperate to find solitude to think through similar problems. Could their meeting be a solution for both? A pregnant woman realises the father of her child is not to be trusted. Should she choose another just because he is good? A Woman seeks to end her life before her first change into a werewolf. A man strives to stop her, for she is also putting his own life at risk. A woman contemplates on how lucky she is that her master still wants her, despite what the years have done to her body. A woman struggling to escape her sadistic Dom is rescued by others who lead a more moderate form of the lifestyle. A young woman struggles against her families wishes to achieve the career she believes has called to her. When she achieves her goal - she finds new challenges await. A reporter goes undercover at a prison and meets an inmate who isn't all he appears to be. When he gets out, he discovers the woman has secrets of her own. A man is released from darkness with no memory. He is inexplicably drawn to a local woman, and as their love grows - his memory returns. Will it be to their detriment? A woman fights to stay behind with her husband and children, but she must leave and her past comes back to help her. Don't be put off by the word `Dark'. Don't be put off by the word `Romance'. Don't be put off by the cover. One thing you will find in all of these stories is good quality writing. This book has something for everyone - lovers of paranormal, literary, science fiction, and romance will all come away with a sense that this book was written for them. Even better, when you find an author you like - look them up at their website for more. They would love to hear from you. This anthology is a bridge between the print world, and the ebook world that these authors normally inhabit. To show you how easy it is to read and enjoy an ebook, you get three free ebooks with this anthology. These are written by one of the talented authors who has two of her own short stories in the anthology, Morgan Huxley. All three ebooks are an example of dark romance, and yet they are each different - paranormal, erotic, and historical. Go ahead and try something new. Buy THE ABYSS today. Jaynie Ritchie - reviewer
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
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A different, but fascinating, take on romance,
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This review is from: Dark Romance Anthology: The Abyss (Paperback)
In typical romance, the handsome and upright (but occasionally arrogant and conflicted) hero finds redemption at the hands of the beautiful, virginal, and spunky-but-not-too-spunky heroine--leading to a happily ever after. Nothing wrong with that, right? But sometimes, it's fun to read something just a little different. The Dark Romance Group [...] pulled together a group of their authors to create an anthology of 'romances' with a difference. Eighteen stories, thirteen authors, and at least that many variations on the theme of romance gone different.
THE ABYSS contains mummies, vampires, the god of destruction, a cold-blooded thief, a consentual slave, a man whose love is a fantasy, a budding romance where both the hero and heroine are lying to each other about their identities, even a professional assassin who falls for--something different. Pretty clearly, dark romance is a wide-open field and THE ABYSS does its best to convey some of the breadth possible when authors take off the constraints of traditional romance publishing and let themselves go. Most of the authors represented in THE ABYSS (CT Adams, Jordan Alexander, Allie Bates, Tabitha A. Bradley, Charlotte Boyette-Compo, Adrianna Dane, Amy Eastlake, Morgan Huxley, Steve Lazarowitz, Brenna Lyons, Terry Pray, Rob Preece, and Patricia A. Rasey) are extensively published in independent electronic press and the collection offers a uniformly high quality of story, writing, and production value. THE ABYSS isn't for everyone, but it also isn't all gloom and doom. There are moments of humor, clever twists, and human insights. Dark doesn't have to mean depressing and, while there were definitely some downbeat endings, the overall sense of the book is positive rather than negative.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Romantic Times says ". . .hours of reading pleasure. Enjoy!",
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This review is from: Dark Romance Anthology: The Abyss (Paperback)
February 14, 2004: Romantic Times Reviewer Diane Tugman says:
Inside the pages of this book you will read eighteen dark and short stories. Each one will take you on a journey into the realm of dark romance. . . every one tells a story of love just as passionate and needful as any other. Even the bad guy can be a prince, when given the right princess. . . . If extraordinary is what you crave then I recommend The Abyss for hours of reading pleasure. Enjoy! Overall rating: 4 Hearts Sensuality rating: Explicit
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