Please help me welcome back saucy, sexy author Ann Mayburn as she celebrates Decadent Publishing's 200th 1 Night Stand series book release! One of the best things about writing for Decadent Publishing’s 1 Night Stand series has been the opportunity to explore many different kinds of worlds, including one of my favorite paranormal creatures, the shifter. When I was first thinking about what kind of paranormal romance I wanted to write for the 1 Night Stand series I knew right away that I wanted to do some kind of hot shifter sex, and that I wanted to write about ménage based relationships between a pair of Alpha’s and a beta, but the imaginary people in my head couldn’t agree on [...]

This short has a lot of great things going for it... strong male characters who push for what they want, rich emotional depth with layers of history to help sell it, and an intense BDSM experience that is neither too technical and obtuse nor too flowery or feminine or over-the-top. I also loved that the story doesn't end with the morning after and gives the reader a satisfying epilogue that makes you want to keep reading about these guys in their own series. Excellent short read and totally worth the investment (money, time, and emotion!). Loved it! Highly recommended for anyone who enjoys male/male bdsm erotica with the Master/sub dynamic.

Ten days of freedom. That’s all Fate had allotted me each year. In the streets of Venice, I could walk among them. Mingle. Belong. During Carnevale, they had no idea who I was. What I was. For ten days, it didn’t matter. Until I met her.