Note: This is my second release (due September 26th) for the Del Fantasma series for Aspen Mountain Press. The series is set in a bar run by a vampire, Cody Warren. Although each book is part of the series, each is a separate story so you can read one or dip in as you like, the only provision being that each is based on a drink. I came across ‘Virgin Special’ in a cocktail book I purchased in the Carribean many years ago. The moment I read the drink title this story popped into my head. This is therefore my first m/m/f book.

Genre: Paranormal, m/m/f non-traditional Romance, Novella, (R-18)


Virgin Special

by Sharon Maria Bidwell

When innocence is a complication what’s a vampire to do?

When the temptation to end his misery proves too much to deny, unbeknownst to James his very existence is about to change. He thinks he’s alone with his memories when he walks too close to the sea but someone’s watching him; someone who holds his fate in his hands, and in his matchmaking skills.

Seth doesn’t want to visit Del Fantasma. He certainly doesn’t want to see Cody Warren, but Hannah certainly does, and whatever Hannah wants, Hannah gets. Seth’s dedicated what remains of his existence to trying to make her happy, but they are now two and were once three, and there’s nothing Seth can do to ease her pain…or his.

Cody may have the answer to their grief, but while Hannah is optimistic, Seth’s moods are interfering with her plan. Then there’s the complication that the human who might well save them is a virgin, in every sense of the word.

When sorrow finally gives way to despair, Cody finds the right kind of innocence to ease Seth and Hannah’s grief, if only James will let himself believe he has the right to a new kind of love.

Read an Excerpt…

© Sharon Maria Bidwell, all rights reserved.

I’ve no idea what this tastes like but if it’s like anything else I tasted in the carribean it’s either deceptive fruity or watery…until it knocks your socks off!

Virgin Special Cocktail

Take a glassful of fresh raspberries, bruise them a little and pour upon them:
2 glasses of Old Brigand Rum
2 glasses of Brandy
1 glass Redcurrant juice and half glass sweetened lime juice.
Let steep for half an hour, then add 1 glass sherry and some ice.
Shake and serve in 6 cocktail glasses.
Decorate with a cherry.