Nine brides meet their monsters in this sensual erotica collection from Natalie Deschain, with a guest story by Audrey Grace. Past and future, in worlds of fantasy and places closer to home, dark things gather in the shadows and monsters lurk, but demons and aliens and monstrous gods need love, too. Bride of the Alien Beast Jessica Barnes has always been a troublemaker. Faced with a dishonorable discharge, she takes an offer to join a secret research program to create superhuman soldiers by combining human genetic material with that of an alien- the old fashioned way. Bride of the Swamp Beast At the tail end of her lackluster stint in the Army, Olivia White finds herself signed on to a hidden research facility in the deep swamps, where mad science and human ambition have combined to create something terrible, but the hulking monster lurking in the darkness may be her only hope. Bride of the Sea Monster Christie has been waiting for her wedding night as long as she can remember, but her new husband has refused to touch her until they return home. In the coastal hamlet where they take their honeymoon, a terrible secret waits. Can she love a monster? Bride of the Storm God Heather's village will die unless the drought ends, but the only way to end the drought is to find and placate the Storm God. Only the purest, most beautiful sacrifice will do, and Heather is chosen. Bride of the Demon Beast One night while driving through a lonely stretch of uninhabited back country, Jessica suffers all sorts of troubles. A torrential downpour, a dead cell phone, and a broken down engine. The tiny town where she takes refuges shelters a demonic cult looking for a sacrifice to their strange master, but all is not as it seems. Bride of the Werewolf King In the depths of the Black Forest, a secret military unit investigates terrible secrets from wars past, and awakens the ancient werewolf king, who desires the last survivor as his queen. Bride of the Horned God Once in a generation, the Horned God emerges from his lair to choose a new Queen of Spring. Bride of the Alien Warlord When an alien invasion threatens Earth, their warlord demands that our leader surrender... personally. Mated to the Sea Tentacle On a tropical vacation, Eliza Summers draws the attention of a deep sea creature.