Like it short and sweet? Here are the shorter stories and novelettes set in the world of the Blood & Ancient Scrolls series, featuring characters you met in the novels.
Finding Bela Lugosi Click here for FREE STORY
Sign up for Raven's Newsletter to go back to the nighttime streets of London in 1979 in "Finding Bela Lugosi," a vampire story of discovering yourself though forbidden love and stopping a vampire serial killer. In this FREE STORY Blood & Ancient Scrolls Series, meet Nthanda, the leader of the English vampires, and immerse yourself in the origin story of Viv, who discovers vampires are real just in time to fight a mass murderer for his life and for a future in which he’d only just started to dare to hope.This story features the lyrics of "Bela Lugosi’s Dead" by seminal goth band Bauhaus!
That Lesbian Vampire Pirate StoryClick here: $2.99 on Kindle
Set in 1860s New York, Sadie "the Goat" Ferrell is one of the criminal superstars of the gangs of New York. Gallus Mag is her mortal enemy…and in an epic bar fight Gallus Mag bites off Sadie's ear-and puts it in the pickle jar of other ears she has bitten off!, as the bouncer for the Hole-in-the-Wall bar in the notorious Fourth Ward.
Sadie takes this as sign, gives up on being a criminal by land, takes over the Charleton Street Gang, and is soon sailing up and down the Hudson River with the Jolly Rodger waving on the mast! But there is so much more in store for Sadie than just being a small-time river pirate. She and her gang board the wrong ship, and suddenly Sadie is facing an all-too-real pirate queen-who is also a vampire.
Will Sadie survive meeting this powerful vampire and rise to meet her fate? And will she ever meet Gallus Mag again, and find out that hate and love are two very intense sides of the same coin...?
- Enemies to Lovers
- Vampires
- Our Flag Means Death
- Gangs of New York
- Morally Gray Characters
- Villainous Romantic Leads
- Diverse and LGBTQ+ characters
- Gorgeously choreographed fight scenes
Interview with the Vagabond KingClick here: $0.99 on Kindle
It’s 1960. Desmond Bangbourne has travelled to sunny Trinidad to write a story about the infamous pirate and gangster Boysie Singh, hanged three years earlier. After interviews with family and locals fail to turn up useful information, Desmond is given an address to visit…after dark. There he meets the person he was least expecting, and the story pulls him into a murderous and soul-shaking encounter with the am’r (the vampires’ name for themselves.) Will Desmond be able to return to the sanity of the daylight world, or will he be trapped in a story he never should have pursued?
5 Star Amazon Review: "Raven Belasco has a way with voice and dialogue that really immerses you into a time and place, which is unique among authors. I've never been to Trinidad, but I could feel it and hear it through her prose. I love that she's taking these stories around the globe. I get to learn about history and different cultures, all while being entertained with a vampire story! Whether short story or full-length novel, Raven Belasco tells an excellent tale."