Melissa Marr

NYT bestselling author Melissa Marr (writing as Ronnie Douglas) tells the story of an aspiring fashion designer and a biker who discover a desire that knows no limits.When the daughter of one of the Southern Wolves gets a flat in the middle of a thunderstorm, there's only one thing to do-strip down to her underwear and get a little muddy. But when Alamo, the sexy biker, shows up to rescue Ellen yet again, things are bound to get a whole lot dirtier....

Intrigued by the beautiful, too properly dressed woman in her library who has appeared as if out of nowhere, librarian Ellie finds the pull between them undeniable, but unbeknownst to Ellie, the woman, a powerful witch, has come to awaken Ellie's powers to help save her dying homeland.

The first bite is only the beginning. Twenty of today's favorite writers explore the intersections between the living, dead, and undead. Their vampire tales range from romantic to chilling to gleeful-and touch on nearly every emotion in between. Neil Gaiman's vampire-poet in "Bloody Sunrise" is brooding, remorseful, and lonely. Melissa Marr's vampires make a high-stakes game of possession and seduction in "Transition." And in "Why Light?" Tanith...