Dream Vampire is a 12,000+ word vampire romance short story. Heat level: spicy/hot
Alana Fairfax wrapped her cloak tightly around her as she hurried down the dark, empty street toward home. The full moon cast long, eerie shadows as she passed the old, nightmarish cemetery surrounding the gothic mansion she’d avoided for the last four years -- the place her husband had died. As if her feet had a will of their own, she found herself standing in front of the hated place. Overcome and feeling strangely dizzy, she slumped against the cold bars of the iron fence. Struggling to rouse herself, she gasped as imaginary hands caressed her body and a sensuous voice whispered in her mind. Surrendering to the otherworldly seduction, she opened her eyes to discover an extraordinarily handsome stranger only inches away. He lifted her into his arms, and Alana’s life changed forever.
So cliched it's not even funny. Seriously, from capes and ruffled shirts, to him transforming into mist and such like that. Actually it really really really bothered me that she 'carried a ritual dagger for protection'. No no no. You never use a ritual dagger to physically harm someone. It was also slightly creepy that he knew her and had been 'training' her since she was a child. Just the way it came across was eww.