But Colin finds more than he bargained for on the island. If he succeeds, he can marry his fiancée back in London and take his place in proper English society. Four acclaimed m/m authors imagine homoerotic love under the spell of Voodoo.Īnd the blurb for my novella in this volume, “The Bird”:Ĭolin Hastings is sent to Jamaica in 1870 to save his father’s sugar cane plantation. You cannot hide your desires from the loa, or from the maddening spell of the drums. In these four novellas, steamy nights of possession and exotic ritual will trigger forbidden passion and love. Interfering with the spirits is best left to those who know what they’re doing, for when the proper respect isn’t shown, trouble can follow. Still, while they hold the potential for great power, they can be dangerous to those who don’t take appropriate precautions. These religions seem mysterious and dark to the uninitiated, but the truth is often very different.

I hope this story conveys the sense of swampy, tropical heat, and pounding voodoo drums I felt when I wrote it! When he does a service for a powerful Obeah woman, he gets a gift in return-one that brings out desires he’d long denied.

Like a true Edwardian gentleman, he’s curious about the local floral and fauna-and about the practice of Obeah, the native form of voodoo. Lovely Colin, the third son of an English Earl, is sent to Jamaica to salvage the family’s sugarcane plantation. It’s set on an English plantation in Jamaica in 1870. So if you like some chills with your erotica, check it out! Each novella features a m/m romance and with a voodoo theme. The “bones” volume contains four novellas-from me, Jamie Fessenden, Kim Fielding, and BG Thomas. It is.) The second volume, “bones”, releases for this Halloween on October 27th. (Is it weird that I find the idea of sex with manmade beings hot? Nevermind. I loved all the stories in it, and thought it turned out pretty darn well. The first volume was called “stitch” and featured Frankenstein-themed stories written by myself, Jamie, Kim Fielding, and Sue Brown. We decided to start a gothic anthology and invite a few other m/m romance authors to join us.

It was a little over a year ago that my skype buddy, Jamie Fessenden, and I realized how much we both loved horror and gothic fiction. “Bones”, appearing in the anthology – Gothika #2 – Voodoo Drums for HalloweenĬompetition to win a copy of “Stitch” – Gothika 1, at the bottom of this post.

The Best Gift by Eli Easton