Kaje Harper's Blog - Posts Tagged "novella"

For those of you who missed my Halloween "Hidden Wolves" novella that was briefly available, I have now put it up for sale. You can find Unmasked: a Hidden Woves novella on AZ, Google Play, and Smashwords, with other wide locations to come. 20,000 words, $1.99 I got this great new cover for it from Jo Clement - the human MC is said to look like Clark Kent and this guy is perfect :D

If you got the freebie with the old cover, it is the same story.

https://books2read.com/UnmaskedKaje

Unmasked: a Hidden Wolves stand-alone novella

Trent
Halloween has always been a night I take for myself. On that one night, I cut loose with a mask hiding my face, and head to the gay bars. I can dance and flirt and maybe get laid, just one guy in a crowd of guys like me. They don’t know I’m a werewolf. My pack doesn’t know I’m gay. Every year, I grab onto my night of freedom and enjoy it hard.

Until this year, when my Alpha tells me I have to shift into wolf fur and go trick-or-treating with the pack kids. I’m supposed to wag my tail and charm the humans with “Operation Werewolves Make Good Neighbors.”

This was not how I wanted to spend my Halloween, but I’m just pack Fifth. When Alpha says “Hop,” I ask “How high?” So here I am, out with the kids, playing a happy, furry Warg, when I hear a little girl crying. And in saving her, I set a chain of events in motion that will upend my entire life. When Halloween is over, I’ll have to figure out who I want to be, in a world not made for gay werewolves.

Unmasked is a stand-alone story in the Hidden Wolves universe, set thirteen years after the main series, as werewolves and humans are learning to live side by side.

And don't forget the first novel in the Hidden Wolves - Unacceptable Risk is a free read - https://books2read.com/u/mgzOW7

For the month of February, you can download 7 Workplace-romance novellas from various authors for free from Book Funnel. And when I was asked to contribute, what I came up with was a contemporary-paranormal (was supposed to be just contemporary. Oops) set in the modern-day Necromancer world.



Robin
I’ve been managing my uncle’s secondhand building-supply center long enough to know that I need to make an impression on new employees first. I’m five-foot-two and skinny and look younger than twenty-five. I start with the power suit and the power attitude, until I get the upper hand. Problem is, with Alaric, I’ve been bossing him around for a week wearing the stupid tie and shiny shoes, and I don’t think he’s impressed yet.


Alaric
The kid running this store doesn’t know that dangerous artifacts were dumped here in the clearance of a local sorcerer’s house. Robin’s human. To him, magic’s just a trick and a joke. My familiar Harry and I know better. If I don’t find the missing grimoire bound in human skin before someone less scrupulous does, we’re all in trouble. I need to ignore Robin’s cute ass and keep searching, although that ass gives me an idea for a distraction if I need one.


Saved by the Rat is a standalone 17,000-word story set in the Necromancer universe in modern times. (content warning for violence)

You can find my story and 6 more brand new novellas HERE - https://books.bookfunnel.com/workplacemmromance/3jpwl1296p


* Kaje Harper - Saved by the Rat
* Gabbi Grey - Ginger in the City
* Michelle Dare - Three Friends Wanting More
* D.C. Emerson - You're Ours
* Rinda Elliott - The Spy Who Vexed Me
* Skylar M. Cates - Fires and Liars
* Madalyn George - Todd's Home: A Hampstead Valley Novella



All these novellas are intended to be stand-alone introductions to one of the author's worlds, mainly contemporary. (I kind of broke the rules. It's Harry the rat's fault.)

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I hope folks enjoy these.

For those who didn't pick up my 17,000 word contemporary Necromancer story Saved by the Rat when it was free, the novella is now available wide - https://books2read.com/SavedByTheRatKaje



Meet Robin - short, bespectacled, young manager of his uncle's store and no-one's pushover.

Meet Alaric - temporary employee of said store with more to worry about than a cute, self-important manager. Namely, finding an evil grimoire bound in human skin.

Meet Harry - Alaric's rat familiar with a nose for magic.

Add workplace mutual attraction, a break-in, dark sorcerers, and you have Saved by the Rat.

This story is intended to stand alone for those not yet familiar with Necromancer but it carries the spirit of the series, set in modern days like the Magic duo. I hope readers enjoy this lightweight tale. (And tail. My apologies to those not fond of rats. Harry insisted he was not a ferret or anything but a proud rat, thank you very much.) On sale for $0.99 (or equivalent) on most vendors.

Hey folks - bad news, good news :) You may remember that I was talking about writing a story for a Ukraine charity anthology that was being organized by another author. That anthology was rather unceremoniously dropped at a very late stage, which means we all had our stories ready to go. I'm really sad not to see it come to fruition, since we had both M/M and M/F stories in it.

But on the plus side, she had asked for brand new novellas. So I now have one of those ready for release. And many of us will be putting our stories up for charity individually - I'll donate my royalties for Cowboy Dreams through December to Nova Ukraine.



BTW -
Gabbi Grey also has her M/M from the planned anthology up in a box set of two novellas and a short, with the first release month of royalties from Love in Mission City: The Boyfriend Gamble going to The Canada-Ukraine Foundation.
https://www.amazon.com/Love-Mission-City-Boyfriend-Gamble-ebook/dp/B0F6VPXG43
I'll let you know if I see where the others go with theirs (I got shut out of the group so I may or may not find out.)

Mine is now up for preorder too - if you are in my "Kaje's Conversation Corner" Facebook group, you may recognize the beginning of it. Remember Cowboy Dreams? The 9,000 word (ahem) "short" story I posted one Sunday a few years ago, that FB pulled down as "spam" for being too long? Well, the guys wanted more, so I added 27K and it is now a 36,000 word novella. Those who did read the short story will recognize the first chapter, but stick with it, lots more to follow.

This WILL BE WIDE but the preorder is Amazon only
https://www.amazon.com/Cowboy-Dreams-Kaje-Harper-ebook/dp/B0F7GTV7NK/
because the preorder time frame is tight.

The book will release on May 22.

Cowboy Dreams

The right man for a longtime cowboy might be a city slicker.

Joe

I've been going into Max's Place for twenty years, but tonight's different. There's a stranger at the bar with city-fancy clothes, wide shoulders, and the face of a fallen angel. I'm just an ordinary cowhand. Being gay's the most noteworthy thing about me, so I don't expect much. But when his eyes light on mine and he invites me to ride in his classic '67 Mustang, I figure what the hell. If he's a serial killer, what a way to go. And if he's not, then a couple of my cowboy dreams might finally come true.

Sylvester

I grew up here in these Colorado foothills, but I haven't been back since I was ten. Now I've inherited my grandfather's neglected ranch, and I can't decide whether to sell it or stay. I stop in at the only gay bar in fifty miles, wondering if I can have a decent life as an out gay man in this county. And there coming in the door is the kind of tall, lean, working cowboy who pushes all my buttons. I don't know if Joe will be a reason to stay or a one night stand, but I'm going to have fun tonight.

Cowboy Dreams is a 36,000 word novella about two solitary men in their 40s figuring out how unexpectedly well they fit together, in bed and out of it.

Amazon preorder : https://www.amazon.com/Cowboy-Dreams-Kaje-Harper-ebook/dp/B0F7GTV7NK/