Hollywood After Dark Series by Janet Miller, Cricket Starr

All Night Inn By Janet Miller Sharon Colson is desperate. Stranded in the California coastal town of Los Niños de la Noche, she's broke, locked out of her rooming house, and needs a job. Jonathan Knottmann, the local vampire, is the only one in town hiring but he won't take her on as a bartender without her becoming his vampire companion. With no other options, Sharon accepts the mark of his fangs on her neck and thus enters the parafolk world of the All Night Inn... moreAll Night Inn By Janet Miller Sharon Colson is desperate. Stranded in the California coastal town of Los Niños de la Noche, she's broke, locked out of her rooming house, and needs a job. Jonathan Knottmann, the local vampire, is the only one in town hiring but he won't take her on as a bartender without her becoming his vampire companion. With no other options, Sharon accepts the mark of his fangs on her neck and thus enters the parafolk world of the All Night Inn. Over the course of the next few weeks Sharon learns many lessons from Jonathan—what brand of dog food shapeshifters like to nibble on with their beer, the kinds of drinks spellcasters favor, and that he'd rather be known as a nightwalker than the politically incorrect term of vampire. As the parafolk celebrate the full moon with howls and dancing, she even learns to love him the way he loves her. But the biggest lesson is one Jonathan and Sharon must both learn—that love cannot thrive unless it is based on trust, in yourself and your partner. less

A Hollywood After Dark book. Former movie star now turned vampire Cleopatra Lutz is bored with delivery boy dinners, but Michael Brown is far more excitement than she's bargained for. The utterly delicious man wants to be her nightwalker companion-her regular blood source as well as her lover-but she's wary of letting any man get too close to her. Michael has had a crush on Cleo for years, but when she takes sexual advantage of him, eats then runs, he decides not to let her get away with it... moreA Hollywood After Dark book. Former movie star now turned vampire Cleopatra Lutz is bored with delivery boy dinners, but Michael Brown is far more excitement than she's bargained for. The utterly delicious man wants to be her nightwalker companion-her regular blood source as well as her lover-but she's wary of letting any man get too close to her. Michael has had a crush on Cleo for years, but when she takes sexual advantage of him, eats then runs, he decides not to let her get away with it. It doesn't help that she's left the mark of her fangs in a very sensitive location and he needs proper ones to designate him as her companion. He is willing to do anything, even kidnap her and hold her prisoner in an abandoned movie studio, to work things out with her. Michael offers Cleo a life with others of her kind plus a return to her career as a movie star, but ultimately it is his love and trust that will win her mark. less

Al isn't happy when a beautiful, upper-class werewolf female in heat struts into his bar looking for her underage sister. Barbara is trouble, proving it when a riot breaks out over the right to mate her, although he can't complain when he ends up taking her to bed instead. Barbara needs Al to keep her heat under control while she searches for her sister but there can't be anything permanent between them... moreAl isn't happy when a beautiful, upper-class werewolf female in heat struts into his bar looking for her underage sister. Barbara is trouble, proving it when a riot breaks out over the right to mate her, although he can't complain when he ends up taking her to bed instead. Barbara needs Al to keep her heat under control while she searches for her sister but there can't be anything permanent between them. She might be attracted to Al's "Bad Dog" persona but she knows he isn't the right wolf for her. Too bad he's so good at scratching that pesky itch she has at the moment-although she really wishes he'd stop calling her Babe. Lots of werewolf sex and encounters with vampires, spellcasters and other parafolk lie in their future-just another busy weekend in Hollywood After Dark. less