Guides For Dating Vampires
In San Salud, vampirism is more than a myth: its medical mystery.
And those it effects are vanishing one after another...
Guide for Dating Vampires is a series of achillean vampire romances taking place in a fictional Californian city where a shady pharmaceutical company experiments on vampires. These are horny romps with a little angst and a lot of laughs, where each book features a new romantic pairing but follows a larger story of justice and revenge.
You can expect medium heat (one primary spice scene, plus another available as bonus content) and guaranteed happy endings for the couple’s relationship, though the over-arching plot will not be resolved until the final book.
How to Bite Your Neighbor and Win a Wager
“I want you to bite me.”
Vincent Barnes has suffered four years as a vampire, and they’ve been the most miserable years of his pathetic life. Too poor for black market blood, he feeds from sleeping humans to survive. He tries to never intrude on the same prey twice, but after a single delicious taste of a long-lost childhood neighbor, he can’t help returning for seconds.
Wesley Garcia has been waking up with fang marks. Lucky for him, he needs a vampire—to use as bait. He’s certain Vitalis-Barron Pharmaceutical killed his mother, but to gain access to their covert research labs, he has to bring them a bloodsucker for their experiments.
Step one, a dramatic offer: Stay, and you can bite me.
Vincent leaps at the chance to gobble Wesley up.
Wes’s plan is perfect. He’ll befriend the vampire, then trick him into coming to the lab. No fighting, no fuss. But Vincent is more than Wesley has bargained for: sweet and shy, with intoxicating fangs that awaken new desires in Wes. As the two bond, Vincent believes he might have finally found someone worth putting his trust in… and Wes fears neither of them will survive the betrayal he has planned.
In this book, you will find:
- Violence, including murder/man-slaughter.
- Medical experimentation, not conducted on or by the point of view characters.
- Non-consensual blood sucking.
- Non-consensual drug-induced sleep.
- Consensual predator-prey kink.
The only in-story sex scene in this book is fade-to-black in text, but there is a free extended edition, as well as another bonus sex scene, both available through D.N. Bryn’s newsletter. Future books will all have one or two in-text sex scenes, which will be skippable for those who aren’t interested (but long and juicy for those who are.)
Representation in this book includes (main couple only):
- Bisexual
- Gay
- Latinx
- Chronic depression
- Anxiety
This book also prominently features discussions of mental illness during stress and grief, the discussion/use of therapy to manage mental illness, and healthy discussions of kink.
How to Sell Your Blood and Fall in Love
“You have money, I have blood. How would you like to buy it?”
No romantic story has ever lived up to Dr. Clementine Hughe’s reality but at least he has his steamy two-million-word fanfic and a prestigious research position at Vitalis-Barron Pharmaceuticals, where their benefits are superb and their experimentation on vampires highly unethical. When a mysterious accident turns Clementine into a vampire, discovery would demote him to lab rat and his growing thirst for his coworker’s veins forces him to the streets to hunt.
Justin Yu is usually the one attacking villains in alleys, not the other way around. After the tragedy he brought upon his local vampiric community in his youth, he’s struggled tirelessly to keep their vampires safe. So when a panicking Clementine botches a bite attempt, Justin takes pity—and advantage—and offers the vampire a trade: his blood in exchange for an exorbitant fee.
In desperation, Clementine accepts.
Justin’s blood is bland and unappealing, but the more Clementine learns to appreciate the man’s sharp humor and persistent compassion, the more he acquires a taste for Justin. Justin is determined not to let Clementine’s good looks and thoughtful intellect distract him as hunters from Vitalis-Barron close in on Justin’s neighborhood, and it turns out someone there knows Clementine’s vampiric secret…
In this book, you will find:
- Referenced medical experimentation (not witnessed).
- Multiple memories and strong feelings of guilt related to the violent death of a parental figure.
- A reference to having been nonconsensually drugged.
- Blackmail.
- The smoking of prescription drugs for pain management.
- A short car crash (no major injuries).
- Public foreplay.
This book also features one high heat vanilla sex scene, which is able to be skipped so long as you pick back up in the story as soon as the orgasms are over.
Representation in this book includes (main couple only):
- Pansexual
- A-spec (demi/gray aro/ace)
- Autistic
- Chronic pain
- Filipino American
Note that the disabled characters in this book are not “healed” in the end. This is an choice made by an author who also lives with permanently reoccurring chronic pain and sensory overload. Please respect fellow disabled readers by not complaining about that lack of healing in your reviews.
Thank you.
Coming early 2024…
A single kiss from a masked vampire during Shane’s last journalistic endeavor has left him with an obsession and a mission: uncover the secrets of the black-market blood trade and find his mystery vampire in the process. But this investigation is dangerous. One knock at the wrong door and he could have fangs at his throat instead of lips.
Andres had been trying to forget his kiss with Shane Crowley by drowning himself in his work as a thief for the blood trade. When he finds it’s Shane’s blood his boss has decided to steal, Andres’s only option is to buy him for every drop he’ll ever produce. This act awakens something in Andres—new thoughts of ownership and chains that he believes could only ever be the desires of a monster.
Andres needs blood to live though, and he’s going to have it from Shane, even if it means donning a mask once more.
Between the strange desires Shane’s life as a part-time blood slave is stirring in him, and his investigations into the cycle of injustice that so many fanged citizens face, and texts with an odd new friend who feels vaguely familiar, Shane feels pulled in all directions. Little does he know all those paths lead back to the same vampire…
The third book in the Guides for Dating Vampires series features a hidden identity/alter ego, cat-and-mouse T4T relationship between a transmasc human and a he/they vampire who engage in light power dynamics, as they learn to express their desires for gilded collars and sensual obedience through healthy role play. While it can be enjoyed as a standalone, this book will contain minor spoilers for prior books in the series.
Standalone Novellas
These stories exist within the the Guides for Dating Vampires world, but focus on non-series relevant events, locations, and time periods. They may feature characters who appear in the main series however!
The Stars and the Stage
“If you want to prove yourself, then bleed for me.”
Diego refuses to see themselves as their society’s monster. Since fleeing their hometown—and the high school sweetheart who spurned their fangs—a decade ago, they’ve found a new home with the staff of a sensual role play club that creates fantasies for vampire-human couples. Working as the temporary stand in for humans with no vampire of their own, impassioned romance now seems like a thing of the past.
That is, until Diego’s traitorous high school flame reappears in a storm of drama, claiming he’s finally ready to earn their forgiveness—in whatever way Diego demands of him.
The man now trying to woo them back isn’t quite the one they remember; he’s aggressively forthright, persistently self-sacrificing, and strong in ways Diego could never have fathomed. But his sudden re-emergence comes just as the club is under threat, and any good thing might just be too good to be true.
Explore the wider world of the Guides for Dating Vampires series with this standalone novella set in Los Angles in the 90s, where a fiery sub/dom second chance romance blooms between the transmasc-NB/M couple.
In this book, you will find:
An extensive scene of sexual intimacy in which one partner eagerly consents to experiencing pain in the form of being bitten by a vampire’s fangs.
Multiple scenes where a character consensually slits a vein in his wrist to bloodlet for a vampire.
One scene in which a character implies they might slit a vein in their neck for vampire-feeding purposes (is not followed through on).
Talk of a past major depressive episode, including suicidal ideation during that time.
Minor PTSD-like symptoms that resolve quickly.
References to the police, including mentions of real world police violence and the police’s high likelihood of harming the marginalized communities they are meant to protect.
This book also features one high heat sex scene with sub/dom implications and blood play, which is able to be skipped, and one very short fingering that happens during a conversation.
Representation in this book includes (main couple only):
- Achillean (POV)
- Transmasc nonbinary (POV)
- Bisexual (Love interest)
- Polyamory (both)
The third character in their polycule is an aro ace vampire who functions as a side character in this story, but appears as an equally engaged member of their relationship in their future appearances in other stories and bonus content.
This book also features [trauma reactions], the healthy discussion and implementation of kink, and the use of save words.
FREE SHORT STORIES
All free short stories are enjoyable without having read the books they’re associated with.
(Note that these are not the newsletter bonus scenes. Those are available through your newsletter welcome email. Check your spam folder or email me if you’re having trouble finding them!)
His First Bite
A Vincent prequel story.
Maybe a little blood is a fair trade for being wanted…
Vincent hoped the anonymity of college would finally set him free of the outcast, melancholic cloud he’d been living under—but his first party leaves him tucked in a corner, pining for men he can’t find the courage to come out to. When the one guy who seeks him out has sharp fangs and an agenda, Vincent finds that vampires scare him far less than loneliness.
The Blessing of Vampires
A Justin and Clementine adventure.
Tragedy and vampires: two words that no one seemed able—or willing—to detangle.
Clementine wants to spend his vacation kissing his human boyfriend amidst romantic ruins and forgetting how much society hates his fangs, but the first ancient castle they tour boasts a myth about a vampire curse—specifically, their murderous tendencies and heroes who kill them. When a dalliance in the basement opens a trap door, Clementine and his boyfriend discover that the legends don’t tell the whole tale…
His Glorious Monster
A book three prequal story.
“WELL, AREN’T YOU DELICIOUS.”
Shane had not expected to meet anyone of interest at Vitalis-Barron’s Masquerade Gala, but when a gorgeous, flirtatious man dressed as a vampire reveals more and more of his fangs, Shane finds
himself enthralled…