Feed the Costume

Jules does not do true. She does Saturday.

Sex is easier with a closing time and a joke ready for the morning. At an invitation-only Halloween party, Jules picks the beautiful stranger herself and steers him into the coatroom.

Emilio is an incubus. He tastes want the way other men hear tone. All night the club offers him easy meals, yeses that are really shrugs, flirtation with nothing under it. They taste like spice over something spoiled. Then Jules grins at him, and under the grin is the first want all night that is not wearing a costume.

He would rather starve than feed on a joke. He will not take a punchline for consent, and he will not make her responsible for his hunger. Which turns every explicit, hungry encounter into the one question she cannot laugh off: what does she want, said out loud, with no exit built in?

Refusing easy meals costs him standing among his own kind, and the price is compounding. Her jokes are running out of room. One of them is going to break first.

Find out whether the joke gives out before the hunger does.

Feed the Costume is Book 3 of All Hallows Guest List: four scorching Halloween monster romance novellas, one bachelorette weekend, four friends. Each book is a complete standalone with its own happily-ever-after.