Romance Weekly - Short Stories of Love, Erotic and Paranormal Thrillers

The temperature rises, and Callum fades—leaving Vera alone with questions and the slow ache of anticipatory grief. She spends days researching winter walkers, learning about the spirits who've disappeared as the world has warmed. When the cold returns, so does Callum—with another lost soul who needs their help. Delia is a college student frozen in place, unable to remember how to live. Callum can...

Vera Holloway has spent five years surviving Minneapolis winters, punishing herself with cold she thinks she deserves. When a new client doesn't show for his appointment, she finds him dying in his car—and meets the impossible man who led her there. Callum is a winter walker, a spirit bound to the coldest days, guiding lost souls through January's darkest moments. He's done it for nearly 180 years...

Margot Sullivan walks into a bar that shouldn't exist on New Year's Eve—and discovers each drink takes her back to a pivotal moment she's spent decades regretting. The night she didn't confess her feelings. The career she didn't pursue. The goodbye she didn't get to say. But the mysterious bartender guiding her through her past knows more than he should. When midnight approaches, Margot finally re...

Loop ninety. Sloane remembers everything—and she's done playing by the Collector's rules. Instead of meeting Elias at the gas station, she goes directly to mile marker 47, where the loop closes. Using her threshold sight, she finally sees the truth: the debt binding them isn't one-sided. It can be balanced. When the Collector arrives to stop her, Sloane makes her choice—not to die, not to serve, b...

Eighty-nine loops in, Sloane's powers have evolved into something unprecedented: threshold sight, the ability to see between moments. She's remembering almost everything now—including the fact that she's falling in love with Elias. But the Collector has noticed her transformation. It appears with an offer: serve it forever and live, or die her final death. There is, it admits, a third option—but i...

Forty-seven loops in, Sloane has developed a desperate system: writing notes on her skin, hoping fragments survive the reset. Tonight, more memories stick than ever before—and she arrives at the gas station early, ready for answers. Elias finally reveals the truth. He's a debt-walker, bound for nearly two centuries to an ancient entity called the Solstice Collector. When he found Sloane dying on C...

Sloane Marchetti just wants to survive another Christmas Eve alone. After slipping out of her office holiday party early, she makes an inexplicable stop at a gas station—where a stranger is waiting. He knows her name. He knows where she's going. And he knows she's about to die. Elias claims he's watched her die over three hundred times, trapped in an endless loop that resets every midnight. Sloane...

The Gratitude Feast begins with forty-three seasoned guests ready to be consumed, but Nora and James's emotional immunity disrupts the ritual. When the ancient entity arrives, they discover it's been starving on synthetic emotion for decades, craving the real gratitude the Blackwoods forgot how to provide. By cooking genuine emotion together - combining their gifts with even Adrian's skill - they...

Discovering her grandmother's journal reveals a horrifying pattern - the Blackwoods have been preparing people with the gift as Thanksgiving offerings for generations. As Ben's betrayal hands Adrian the inn for his Gratitude Feast, James and Nora desperately try a dangerous solution: cooking together to create emotional antibodies. Their combined power creates something beautiful and genuine that...

Adrian's seven-course seduction dinner delivers exactly what he promised - emotions crafted like cuisine, each dish making Nora fall deeper under his spell. From oysters laced with anticipation to chocolate infused with surrender, she experiences manufactured desire so intense it overrides her judgment. After a night that leaves her hollowed out and addicted, she returns to find James's simple bre...

Food critic Nora Warren returns to her family's failing Hudson Valley inn and discovers she's not alone in her ability to taste emotions in food. James Brennan, the inn's sincere chef, shares her gift and offers genuine connection through simple, honest cooking. But when Adrian Blackwood arrives with soup that makes her taste manufactured desire, Nora finds herself choosing intoxicating manipulati...

Halloween night brings the final confrontation as Mara and Ethan use their merged electromagnetic field to power Salem's massive trap. Standing as bait in the center of the festival, they must hold the entity while every light in Salem feeds power through them. With the help of the trapped women's consciousness fighting from within, they destroy the entity forever. Free at last to give in to their...

The truth about Salem's Halloween Festival shatters everything - it's a massive electromagnetic trap that needs Mara and Ethan as bait. When the entity takes Lily in broad daylight, wearing the faces of its victims, they're forced to trigger their complete electromagnetic merger to save her. Now permanently linked as one consciousness in two bodies, sharing every thought and sensation, they must l...

Discovering Rebecca's hidden journal reveals the terrible truth - the electromagnetic connection between Mara and Ethan is exactly what the entity wants. When passion finally overcomes caution in the abandoned Witch House, their first kiss creates a bond so powerful it draws the entity directly to them. Now physically unable to let go of each other as the thing feeds on their connection, Mara and...

The electromagnetic connection between Mara and Ethan explodes into something neither can control when they finally touch, sharing memories, desires, and the ghostly traces of the missing women. As Lily develops her own dangerous attraction to Marcus, the four must work together when they discover something ancient is actively hunting them through Salem's streets. With Halloween approaching and th...

True crime podcaster Mara Chen arrives in Salem to investigate three October disappearances, but when she meets Ethan Blackwood, she discovers the impossible - she can hear the electromagnetic echoes of the missing women. As an undeniable attraction builds between them, Mara learns she might possess the very ability that makes women targets. With her sister Lily arriving and showing similar sympto...

With a quarter million New Yorkers under supernatural control and marching toward the radio district, Lyra and Kai race to stop the Council of First Voices from using a massive transmission array to rewrite human consciousness across North America. As the Council reveals their plan to eliminate free will in favor of perfect unity, Lyra faces the ultimate temptation: unlimited power to fix every hu...

After using her untrained Command Voice to compel armed agents into forgetting their existence, Lyra learns the terrifying truth about her ancestry: she's descended from the White Siren, a woman so powerful that the Order was formed specifically to stop her. As Kai reveals that her abilities could rival those of the reality-altering Siren who nearly destroyed Salem, their supernatural connection d...

As Lyra flees through New York's predawn streets with mysterious Kai Thorne, she learns the devastating truth about her nature: she's a Siren, one of the last of an ancient bloodline whose voices can compel truth and obedience. While Kai reveals his own supernatural heritage as a "Listener" tasked with monitoring dangerous voices, their growing attraction creates a dangerous resonance between thei...

Late-night radio DJ Lyra Morgan discovers her voice carries supernatural power when her regular broadcast begins compelling listeners across New York City to confess their deepest secrets—with devastating consequences. As people begin dying after calling her show, mysterious Kai Thorne appears on her fire escape with warnings about her true nature: she's a Siren, one of the last of an ancient bloo...

As dimensional barriers collapse worldwide and the Collector begins manifesting fully in reality, Ava and Kieran race to the convergence point where all silver threads meet. Faced with an entity that feeds on the very concept of connection itself, they discover that their merged bond is spreading to other trapped souls, teaching them to resist. When the Collector offers to preserve their love eter...

As the silver thread pulls Ava deeper into the market's reality, she begins manifesting there during daylight hours while slowly fading from the normal world. Discovering that Kieran has been trapped for sixty-three years after a failed attempt to save his dying fiancée, Ava learns the true horror of the Collector's methods—it doesn't just take what people trade, it continues feeding on them until...

Ava returns to the night market after twenty-eight agonizing days of withdrawal, but this time she sees the horror beneath the wonder—customers connected by silver threads to a massive web, tended by an ancient entity called the Collector. Despite Kieran's desperate warnings and his revelation that he's trapped as the market's unwilling servant, Ava trades her sense of home for nostalgia honey tha...

Struggling food blogger Ava Kim receives a cryptic midnight text leading her to an impossible discovery—a supernatural night market hidden in the shadows of Seattle, where vendors trade in human experiences and emotions rather than ordinary goods. There she encounters Kieran, an enigmatic honey merchant whose wares contain pure joy, deep connections, and the very essence of wonder she's lost. Afte...

Marina dons an atmospheric diving suit to witness the siren hunt as the research vessel Northern Star approaches with forty-seven souls aboard. In the underwater cathedral, Nerida leads her people in a haunting song that compels the ship toward deadly rocks. Desperate to save innocent lives, Marina convinces Kai to use the submersible's sonar to disrupt the siren call, freeing the crew from their...