Vampire Dalys Aldgate has been a survivor for 235 years. Life as an Australian convict has sharpened his survival skills, but the bush also bestowed him the ultimate gift of survival—a journey to the Other Side. With his soul left behind, Dalys became a mirror on to which humans project their fantasies, never seeing the "monster" on the other side. In present day Mississippi, using one of his many aliases, Dalys lives a reclusive life as the owner of a haunted inn until his even more haunting past catches up with him.Ex-cop Tia Martell is trying to adjust to life "after the job" and put the years of violence and death behind her. While on a freelance photography assignment to shoot antebellum mansions in Natchez, Mississippi, murder brings her face to face with Dallas Allgate, the coldest, yet most fascinating man Tia has ever met...

An engaging, futuristic thriller!Star-crossed lovers Rayn and Dina, bound to each other by their telepathic abilities, are forced to part when Rayn is deported back to his home world. But instead of reuniting as planned, they're enslaved by forces out of their control—he by the laws of his world, and she by a raider who seeks revenge against an old enemy.Raider Alecto Kylariz, a member of the mysterious race known as the Roven, seizes Dina on a whim, thinking to use her as bait in his game of cat-and-mouse with his nemesis, a military commander who murdered Kyl's lover long ago. But when Dina becomes too valuable to risk, the game changes. Now Kyl will stop at nothing to keep her from all his enemies, including her ex-lover, Rayn DeStar.Following his deportation to his home world, outlaw Rayn DeStar is on probation, forbidden to leave the planet. But when he learns Dina's been abducted, he trades his future freedom for the chance to go after her and kill her...

"... a distinctive twist from traditional vampire lore." —ParanormalRomance.orgNothing is going well for Alek Dragovich, enforcer for the Undead. His position in the Directorate is in jeopardy, but he has little interest in the Directorate's schemes until someone tries to kill him.Dhampir Marya Jaks, the offspring of a vampire and his mortal wife, can detect vampires, thereby making her a perfect vampire killer. When Marya learns that Drago has deemed her a threat to the vampire community and has ordered her termination, she strikes back.Drago, the hunter, has become the hunted. But is it Marya who wants him dead... or another mysterious power-hungry vampire?Jaye Roycraft, a former big-city police officer in Wisconsin, has incorporated her police procedural knowledge into her stories of the undead, creating urban fantasies that twist together modern realism with history. Jaye, author of ten novels, has presented numerous workshops for writers both online and...

Never ask Doctor Death to make a house call.Shelby Cort has fled a big-city police department for sanity and quiet as the sheriff of a small Michigan township.When dead bodies start to pop up in unlikely places and the killings go unsolved, Shelby comes under attack from the town officials, the media, and even her own co-workers. She finds an ally in the exotic and sexy new ME.But what Shelby doesn't know may cost her her life. The cool, collected Dr. Ricard de Chaux, who has been filling Shelby's off-duty time with longing and passion, is actually Doctor Death, the new Overlord of the local undead. His top priority is to protect his new charges, even if that means hiding the fact that the killer isn't human. Doctor Death, reluctantly working his way back into human society after years of seclusion, hides one piece of evidence after another.When the killer goes after Shelby and all of Ric's secrets are on the line, where will his allegiance fall?

Erotica/Dark Fantasy. 48565 words long.

"Jaye Roycraft writes with bone-chilling, hypnotic words that ultimately demand the reader's full attention." —Suzie Housley, MyShelf.comWar is hell, even when you're already dead.It's been twenty years since the vampire-mortal war nicknamed Hell ended, but underneath the gloss of political correctness and affirmative action, old hatreds die hard, especially in the heart of Chi-No, Wisconsin.It is here that many of Chicago's young vampires are mysteriously dying the true death. Chi-No police detectives Kilpatrick and Duvall have been assigned to the latest case.Human John Kilpatrick is not happy at being transferred to the "graveyard shift," and he resents being partnered with a vampire. Master vampire Wulf Duvall isn't thrilled to be working with an ignorant meatball like Kilpatrick, but he's excited to be doing something more important than checking taverns for illegal blood whores. Battling each other is hard enough, but the investigation goes from bad to...

"Ms. Roycraft has a very definite gift for grabbing the reader 'by the throat,' and holding on through the entire book." —Irene Marshall, Escape to RomanceSex has never been so deadly for one of the undead...It's been twenty years since the vampire-mortal war known to the undead as "Hell" ended, but peace has been hard for Chicago's doyen, vampire Che Kincade. Beauty and power ensure that blood, sex, and money come easily, but compromises and concessions are hard for a half-breed undead warrior whose roots run centuries deep in violence. Still, he's managed at last to make peace bearable.A secret affair with his mortal counterpart, Chicago Mayor Deborah Dayton, ensures that their weekly meetings at city hall to discuss the vampire problems in the city are accompanied by wonderfully delicious clandestine sex. But Cade's house-of-cards peace tumbles when, just hours after their usual tryst, news comes that a high-profile murder has taken place in the city....

Outlaw telepath Rayn DeStar has discovered the perfect hiding place...a home in the wasteland of Exodus. But his peaceful anonymity comes to an abrupt end when murder brings interplanetary investigators to the desert. Rayn has little interest in the crime but a great deal in the female telepath providence has sent him. Dina's strength awakens in him the lust for power and dominance he's fought against his entire life.Rookie agent Dina Marlijn arrives on Exodus carrying as many secrets as she hopes to unravel. She hides the fact that she's a telepath from everyone but her partner, for her abilities are close to those of the Dark Star dens, a race so hated they're banned from Synergy Worlds. But there's one secret Dina keeps even from her partner. No one hates the dens more than she does.When her prime suspect, a dens calling himself Rayn DeStar, saves her life, Dina pursues him for answers. With her investigative and telepathic skills, she believes she can manipulate him...