V.J. Chambers's Blog
October 23, 2025
One of My Kind
Into every generation, three women are called to slay, to sing the demons to their doom.
According to the demon who’s blackmailing Monroe Kang, she’s always been killing her own kind.
Monroe has never really thought of it that way. She’s never thought of herself as half-demon, though she’s always known a demon contributed to her DNA by forcing himself on her mother, and she’s always hidden that fact. She’s always thought demons were monstrous and soulless, barely better than animals. She certainly never thought they were capable of blackmail.
As a member of The Trine, Monroe is an international pop sensation, but it’s just part of the job. She and the other members perform to fund their demon slaying. It’s a tradition that stretches back a thousand years.
Now, suddenly, everything seems confusing.
One thing she can always count on is the other members of The Trine. They’re all best friends. They sing together, slay together, and most especially snack together. Snacks are very important. So, together, they are going to get to the bottom of this demon scheme.
Monroe has to get close to the demon to find out his secrets. She has to pretend to be sympathetic to his side. It shouldn’t be easy. He’s cocky and insulting. Of course, he does have dark hair that falls in waves around his cheekbones and a deep, husky voice.
Not that she finds him attractive.
She does not.
And no matter what he says, she’ll never believe that she’s truly one of his kind.
For fans of K-Pop Demon Hunters who wish it was just a little more grown-up. This demon romance contains enemies-to-lovers action, besties, singing, tail play, mountains of carbs, horn kissing, kick-butt girl power, and a full helping of demon spice.
September 2, 2025
Krimson and Klover: a slasher romance
An unsolved murder
What does Peyton Nashby do two years after her high school best friend was senselessly stabbed to death, the killer never found?
A party in the middle of nowhere
Obviously, she goes to a reunion with all her old friends in a plush, remote Airbnb cabin, where there’s no cell phone service. Obviously, she and her friends drink hard cider in the hot tub and obviously, when someone goes missing, they all split up to look for her.
Peyton ends up searching the dark woods with Ezra Middleton—dork in high school, but now somehow grown into something hot, rippled, and stubbled, more man than boy. She hates Ezra, though, because of what he did to her back then. He says it’s because he had a crush on her, but that’s no excuse.
A killer amongst friends
Of course, now Peyton and Ezra are finding bodies in the woods and they’re being chased by a psychopath in a robe and mask with a knife. (One that catches Ezra and just lets him go, though, and what’s up with that?)
She doesn’t mean to kiss Ezra. Who does that? Hiding from a masked madman is no time to kindle a romance, after all.
And, anyway, can she even trust Ezra?
This tongue-in-cheek slashermance is a sharp and wicked ride of twists, turns, and spice. Warnings for dubcon, noncon, violence, and disturbing content. But it’s fun, y’all, I swear. Wink.
August 18, 2025
The Duke of Swords (The Highwaymen #4)
Release Date 8/19/2025
Amazon
When Miss Rae Smith’s father cannot pay his debts, she is taken away by the Marquis de Fateux, a lesson for others in his debt. This is what Fateux will do to men who do not pay. Does he marry Rae? Of course not. But he uses her. He takes her into his bed. She is ruined, ravaged, destroyed.
The Duke of Rutchester is Fateux’s enforcer. In the beginning, he tells her he doesn’t like the way Fateux treats her, but also, he can’t go against him. Rutchester owes Fateux, he says.
Anyway, with the way Rutchester looks at her, it wouldn’t be a rescue anyway, just a changing of the guard. One predator in place of another. Debauched by Fateux or Rutchester, would it really be different?
Yes.
It would.
He… something about him… something about the two of them…
One night, Rutchester comes to her, smearing red stains on her thighs as he parts them.
“Where is Fateux?” she breathes.
Gone.
Has she been rescued, then? Rescued by Rutchester? Rescued by a monster?
Rutchester’s book is the darkest yet, my pretties. Read at your own risk. Contains non-consensual and dubiously consensual activity. But never fear, because a happily-ever-after is guaranteed.
June 24, 2025
Feral Creed, The Hounds, Book Two
Lotus and her mates take shelter on a Polloi compound, where they must navigate the matriarchal hierarchy that demands alphas should be seen and not heard, and that omegas command.
An alpha’s desire is to his omega. She helps him best by having him serve her whims.
All of which might be fine, if they could just get their bonding bites and secure the pack. However, they have the evil scientist Dr. Acker locked in their basement, and she keeps triggering the alphas’ deadly training to kill omegas.
They should just kill Dr. Acker.
They should just bite Lotus.
They should just give in to their instincts.
But when they do, everything changes.
Contains: dub con, blood play, Knight’s-brand-of-sweet-is-psycho, feral violence, biting frenzies, discussion of cult-like religions, thoughtful discussions about polyamory versus monogamy, trauma healing, heat, nesting, and all the feels.
May 21, 2025
Scope of Truth, Out There, Book Three
Amazon
Release date 5/21/25
Jack Sigler wants Slade Russo and Claire Ingles to go undercover.
Russo and Ingles don’t trust that man as far as they could throw him. They’re convinced he’s playing an elaborate game with the entire populace and it’s likely he’s perpetrating the aliens as a hoax.
Jack Sigler claims he wants to prove the aliens aren’t real because he wants to destroy The Way of the Seven signs, the creepy alien cult. Jack Sigler claims a lot of things.
Jack Sigler is a liar.
They’re not working for him or with him.
But as to whether or not warring aliens who already destroyed their own home planet are coming to fight a big, splashy interstellar war in our own solar system?
Well, they need to know the truth.
April 24, 2025
Stags
Release date 5/14/2025
Like most ancient rites celebrated in the current time, the rut weekend is a mix of the old ways and donuts.
Sure, it’s a sex rite. One weekend of no-holds-barred deerkin running in a field—stags and does getting busy under the midnight moon. But it’s also held at a nice convention center with a complimentary breakfast buffet in the morning.
The three female deerkin who meet at the orientation presentation are quite vocally adamant that they aren’t there to find a man.
Tawny wants a baby.
Eiren wants an adventure.
Rora just wants to be wanted.
So, the three will run with the stags in the wild wind, run and hope to be caught by some man-buck with antlers and a broad chest and a deep voice.
At least one of them will accidentally run into a wolf.
And despite what they claimed to want, they’ll all walk out of the convention center entangled with a man in some way, shape, or form. Whether it’s happily, or ever after, or something else entirely…
Not for readers who dislike open door love scenes, age-gap content, breeding kink, primal kink, biting, tail play, or antler sparring.
April 14, 2025
The Duke of Cups (The Highwaymen #3)
Release date: 4/15/2025
When Miss Hyacinth Thomas’s carriage is stopped by highwaymen, she doesn’t expect to be maneuvered into a murder plot.
The situation is complicated. She has connections to the Comte Champeraigne. The highwaymen want him dead. Normally they wouldn’t have leverage to force her hand, but they have seen that her jewels are fake. They know she isn’t who she says she is. She has only been pretending to be a British heiress.
The highwaymen aren’t who they say they are either.
One of them is the Duke of Dunrose. He’s horrible in every way. A playboy and a drunk who looks like an elfin princeling and won’t stop calling her ‘love.’ He’s carelessly arrogant, elegantly masculine, intriguing and beguiling, and entirely the worst person she’s ever met.
She hates him.
Truly, she does.
And she’s sure that being maneuvered into a scheme to poison the detestable comte isn’t going to change the way she feels about Dunrose. It certainly won’t bring them closer.
Definitely not.
February 15, 2025
The Duke of Hearts (The Highwaymen #2)
Miss Marjorie Adams isn’t the sort of woman to beg for help from a man, even one who’s been kind to her in the past. So, when she finds herself asking assistance of the Duke of Arthford and unable to tear her gaze from his shockingly bare forearms as he hastily rolls down his shirtsleeves, she begins to realize that something else is going on here.
Yes, it’s never happened to her before, but it’s inconveniently happened to her now. She’s in love.
Fortunately, she knows about love. She’s seen how it works, after all, what with the way her late father forced her into ignominious situations for leering men, situations that lined her father’s coin purse and destroyed her reputation. She knows love burns bright and brief. It fades fast. Her fascination will not last.
But then the duke arrives at her estate, buys it from her nephew for an outrageous sum, and presents to her the deed. Marjorie isn’t one to take help from a man, however, especially not one she happens to be inconveniently in love with. She cannot be in this man’s debt. So, she offers a scandalous transaction to the duke.
Her virtue in exchange for the deed.
It wouldn’t be noble for him to accept. But, then, of course, he’s not exactly the noble sort.
February 4, 2025
Deadly Alphas: The Hounds Duet, #1
Release date: 2/5/25
When an omega passes her heat at a facility, she signs a waver just in case. Because accidents do happen.
I’m an accident.
Not a fatal one, but one where something went very wrong.
Now, I am nothing but instinct, barely human, only my savage omega self.
Kept as a curiosity in a lab for experimentation, I’ll never know love or acceptance. I’ll never have a family or a future.
When I escape, the facility cannot allow me to be free. Society at large cannot know about accidents like me, after all.
They’ve created other experiments from accidents just for this purpose. Feral alphas, trained to use their unerring alpha instincts to hunt down omegas.
But when these alphas find me, they are not trained to claim me.
They are trained to kill.
The facility isn’t counting one thing, something so rare they don’t even know it exists. These deadly alphas are my scent match.
Contains: dub-con, warming, desperate desires, mating as comfort, male-male interaction, bisexual awakening, I-want-to-kill-all-girls-but-you, and one very cliffy cliffhanger. This is the first book in a duet.
January 15, 2025
The Duke of Diamonds (The Highwaymen #1)
Release date: 1/14/25
Dark historical romance for fans of Anne Stuart
A highwayman duke is a contradiction in terms. There’s no reason for a wealthy and titled man to turn to violent armed robbery. And yet, the Lady Balley, Patience Needbrooke, is positive she recognizes the tall, dark man who pulls her from her carriage that night.
“I. Am. Kidnapping. You,” he tells her, speaking quite slowly and enunciating as if she’s an idiot.
Patience isn’t sure which is worse—being kidnapped by some mad duke or being returned to the man who the duke will appeal to for ransom. Her husband the Viscount of Balley regularly beats her. It’s a bad world, or so it seems to her, and she must bear it up and make what she can of it.
When the Duke of Nothshire sees the bruise on the face of his kidnapping quarry, he can easily guess where she got it.
It would be stupid not to return this woman to her husband, stupid not to simply take the money and wash his hands of the entire affair, no matter how it plagues him. He knows that no matter what moral games he plays with himself, the truth is that he’s a very bad man, and there’s nothing noble in him. Trying to rescue Lady Balley, it would be abundantly stupid.
But then, there’s always a stupid reason to kill a pretty woman’s husband, is there not?
Dark historical romance for readers not easily triggered who enjoy romantic heroes with complex, tragic, and twisted pasts, heroes who don’t always do the right thing but always do whatever they do for the heroine.
