A small-town, community Halloween party. A batch of home-brew gone very, very wrong. Made into monsters by mistake, the townspeople's lives would never be the same. But true love isn't about what's on the outside, and anything is possible in Screaming Woods…

This full-color duet edition includes two previously published, connected stories: NOW YOU SEE ME and SNAKE BELIEVE

NOW YOU SEE ME

Elise wishes she were invisible. Roan wishes he wasn’t.

ROAN

A Halloween party scarier than anything in the movies turned me into a monster. Invisibility isn’t the superpower people think it is. It’s a curse. Since it's unknown if I can spread the condition to others, I’m destined to be unseen and alone.

Until the night I post a grumpy “In Search Of” ad, and get a single reply. I don’t know why Elise agreed to my self-serving demands of complete visual anonymity, but my life became instantly fuller. I don’t have to see her to fall for her. But I know it can never be more than long-distance feelings and inspiration for my right hand.

Until the day Elise surprises me by breaking our anonymity agreement and shows up in my coffee shop… and gets a monstrous surprise in return.

ELISE

Appearances matter. I learned that after an accident left one side of my face heavily scarred. I’m used to the staring. The pointing and whispering. Kids asking their parents if I’m a monster. I’m also used to being alone, because the dating pool dried up the day I lost half my beauty.

I was job hunting the night I found Roan’s “In Search Of” post. It’s been years since I read a singles ad, and I still don’t know why I did. Call it coincidence, fate, or the universe doing something to balance the scales. It was as if Roan wrote that ad for me.

My friends think Roan must be a hideous ogre to be hiding behind his “no pictures, no contact” rule. I don’t care what he looks like. Roan and I click in every way. He doesn’t need to touch me in person to satisfy me. But I’d like him to.

Six months after agreeing to his conditions, I want to break them. I’m ready to take the biggest risk of my life–rejection by the man I love. I want all of Roan Byrne. The good, the sexy, and if he does turn out to be an ogre, the ugly. I only hope that when he sees me, he feels the same way…

SNAKE BELIEVE

She's afraid of snakes, but maybe this one can charm her.

CORA

Sent to Screaming Woods to write a magazine piece on its resident monsters, I’m ready to meet hairy beasts, ogres, vampires… Heck, I even have an interview scheduled with an actual invisible man. What I’m not prepared for? A snake man. I’m terrified of snakes. Now I’ll have to talk to a man-sized one on a daily basis, because he owns the motel where I’m staying and there are no vacancies elsewhere in town.

Once the initial shock of coming face to face with a walking, talking snake passes, I start to see Leroy for the man beneath the monster exterior. And the more I get to know my snake man, the more I realize my biggest fear would be losing him.

LEROY

My human life disappeared two decades ago, when I became a snake man. Now, I wouldn’t change back if I could. I have the best of both species in me. My new anatomy has definite advantages, and because of them, I’m frequently propositioned. But that’s not the kind of proposal I seek.

I’m the loneliest snake in town until the day Cora walks into the motel I own—and promptly faints at the sight of me. The magazine reporter is only in town to interview monsters for an article, but I know instantly that I won’t want to say goodbye to her. My charms have never failed me before, but I’m a 180-pound embodiment of her biggest fear. That won’t stop me from trying. Anything is possible in Screaming Woods.

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