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When the bodies of three male sex workers show up on the banks of the Mississippi River, the St. Louis LGBTQIA community grows restless while searching for a missing bartender. The police have been slow to respond, and a local reporter suspects a serial killer might be stalking the city’s streets.

Compiled by the Dark Poet Princess, Xtina Marie, here are 16 delectably horrific tales of the sinister side of dark romance, where not everything is hearts and flowers, and moonlight strolls hand-in-hand with your beautiful soulmate. This phenomenal anthology - named in honor of that unique part of the female anatomy believed by some to summon satan himself - overflows with the darkest storytelling and the brightest talent on the independent writing scene today: Madison Estes, John Leonard, J.N. Cameron, Arista Cyrene, Steve Wands, Joe Palumbo, Jeremy Billingsley, and more.

Adam Potter never thought going home for his birthday would be so stressful. Adam’s father (who he calls mom) guilts him into return home for a birthday dinner. He brings Patrick and Justin to meet everyone. While giving them a tour of the town, Patrick discovers a disturbing site. A troublesome neighbor is discovered dead in the town his family owns and Adam's mom becomes a suspect. Dark secrets surface that everyone wished would stay buried. Adam has to find who is framing his mother before he’s charged with murder.

There are two kinds of serial killers—organized and disorganized. This killer that Wren Delacroix is trying to make a profile for? He’s both. Or neither. Or… she doesn’t know what, but she can’t make heads or tails of his crime scenes. The killer leaves his teenage-girl victims where he killed them. Naked, dirty, and destroyed, they are tossed aside like nothing, and he runs. This is classic disorganized presentation.

Jeannie Parker married a serial killer. She didn’t know it at the time. But she blames her own demons for steering her into such a black orbit. Now, she’s running for her life... Stumbling through the frozen woods, she’s mad-lucky to find the decrepit cabin. But she can only hide so long. Their final showdown awaits. At least she’s stopped lying to herself about his depravity—so impossible to withstand, let alone outwit. Maybe she doesn’t deserve to get away given her complicity over the years. Still, a budding survival instinct within, Nag, disagrees with her assessment.

On a quiet night in their tranquil suburban home, the Fulton family awakens to a nightmare. Four armed men force bank manager Dan Fulton to steal a quarter million dollars from his branch-strapping remote-detonation bombs on him, his wife, Lori, and their young son. The FBI moves swiftly with a major investigation while Kate Page, a reporter with a newswire service, digs deep into the story. In the wake of the Fulton family's abduction, questions emerge, including one of the most troubling: is the case linked to Lori Fulton's tragic past?

Her codename is Chandler. She's a spy for a secret government agency. Trained to be the best of the best, no man is her equal. That is, until she meets Repairman Jack.

Ten years ago, when Eve Townsend was seventeen years old, Tightrope killed her family and took her younger sister, Maddie. Eve was left alive—the only survivor. After inheriting her family's fortune, Eve has dedicated her life to finding Tightrope, training her body and mind, honing her skills, using every resource at her disposal to track down Tightrope...and others like him.

Phoebe Whitford has mostly drifted through life, grateful that without a set plan, she completed graduate school, settled into a career, and become the go-to advice giver for her people. But after first watching her brother and then her best friend fall in love, she's wondering when—or if—it will ever be her turn. One night, at the bar she's been frequenting for years, Phoebe asks her favorite bartender a question that changes everything.

On the run after a heinous crime, one man learns this lesson as he races towards freedom in Mexico. One turn off the beaten path leads to a desolate gas station and a nightmare he’ll never forget…if he survives.

They say a picture speaks a thousand words. Sometimes… One of those words means someone deserves to die. Alexandra loves her glamorous San Francisco apartment, but nothing is going as she'd dreamed. The lucrative job that provides her cover is in jeopardy. No one is what they seem -- the aloof artist, the neighbors, and the man who is following Alexandra. Will a beautiful portrait destroy the lives of two women close to Alex?

> Joi Lansing: A Body to Die For, colorfully chronicles personal and intimate details of the last four years of the talented '50's blonde bombshell star's fascinating life. After three decades of successful TV and movie appearances and Vegas singing stardom, Ms. Lansing died far too young at just 43. Though her funeral was attended by luminaries of the day, (Frank Sinatra sent a huge floral display), her light went out relatively unceremoniously.

It’s been fifteen years since Vivian Delacroix unleashed her followers on the town of Cardinal Falls. The cult members killed anyone Vivian told them was a threat to their beliefs. Now, another killer takes young girls of nine or ten, all related to Vivian’s original victims. He drugs them, suffocates them, and painstakingly arranges them in ritualistic poses. The bodies give up no evidence to the killer’s identity.

Investigative journalist, Billy Daniels, never expected his interview with Riley, a delightful ten-year-old, would result in the overdose of her homeless single mother and Riley’s disappearance. She was last seen next to their broken-down 1996 Impala parked in a DC alley . . . holding her mother’s body. Billy searches for Riley only to discover her life is in mortal danger. A Russian covert operation—one that could shake the nation to its core—is headquartered in Washington. Agent Nika Rolinska, a daring and skilled assassin, has orders to tie up loose ends.

When 42 year-old behavior analyst Kate Lockbee's husband is killed in a house fire, she needs a fresh start away from Boston and the life she knew. After answering a mysterious job ad online, she is soon on her way to Cypresswood Manor, a plantation house in the Atchafalaya Basin of Louisiana. Her job is to be the therapist for a young girl with moderate autism. From the start, she is attracted to Young Winstone, her employer and the girl's father, but their differences and troubled pasts threaten to keep them apart.

Brace yourself for Letters from a Dead World—six terrifying stories spawned from the macabre imagination of David Tocher. With a uniquely Canadian flavor, this collection will leave you breathless, grappling with the darkest fears that haunt us all.

Novelist Gabriella West is refreshingly candid about her journey toward a diagnosis of ADHD, which started a few years ago when she encouraged her female partner to get a diagnosis. In Connecting the Dots, she highlights common symptoms that women with inattentive-type ADHD experience and reveals that although getting a diagnosis is not necessarily easy, the relief of finding an explanation for things that previously just seemed "wrong" is enormous and healing.

Brooklyn Sloane has left her job as a consultant for the FBI to take on her first cold case in the private sector. Doing so allows her the freedom to work the one case she's never professionally been allowed to touch-a ruthless serial killer, who just so happens to be her own brother. Privately, she's hunting her only sibling, but alongside her team, she's seeking justice for those without a voice. But there is always the anomaly . . .

The world's number one best-selling novelist and his wife are found dead in their east Florida beach home — from no apparent cause. Something outrageous has been done to the bodies. FBI Special Agent Naomi Soul and her partner Xue Sang are ordered to solve the crime. On the west coast of Florida, another best-selling author is murdered. The method is both horrible and graphic. Are the two deaths connected? The MOs are completely different, but the two authors knew each other well. One thing is clear. Someone is killing authors using the methods in their stories.

With little work during the pandemic, Chicago PI Georgia Davis agrees to help the best friend of fellow sleuth Ellie Foreman. Susan Siler’s aunt died suddenly, following her COVID booster, and Susan’s distraught mother wants the death investigated. However, Georgia’s investigation is interrupted by a family trip to Nauvoo, Illinois, the onetime Mormon heartland. It’s there that her life unexpectedly intersects with the runaway spouse of a Mormon fundamentalist.