Welcome! Hi - I’m Mel, I write smut urban fantasy!
I have to tell ya, I’ve been fishing around for a good newsletter platform, and I think this one might be it! I’m hoping you all think so too. I’ve got the sign up plastered all over my website (mleaden.com) if you haven’t check it out yet, you probably should.
If you’re looking for new reads, I’ve got a list for you. I’ve been accumulating it over the summer, so I’m going to need to break them up into categories.
I’ve been reading a TON of novellas! Easy reads while I was losing my mind over editing three books in a row, and releasing them back to back. (Word to the wise, it doesn’t matter how well prepared you are, never do that to yourself.) So the struggle was real.
Here’s what I’ve been working on in the Mythical Desires Universe! Please feel free to check these out, review them, send me DMs about how smutty they are and that you enjoy the heck out of them!
Rare Temptations: A Dragon Shifter Sapphic Romance is a novella with a lot of heat and a lot of heart. Set at a resort that specializes in magical beings, one demi-goddess and one dragon shifter find a lusty connection that blooms into more.
You can check out the content warnings and the blurb here.
Death Warmed Over: A Vampire Accords Novel is my first full length novel about, yep, vampires. Besides them, you get some mages, some humans, and a necromancer or two, along with a few dhampirs. Told from Mason’s point of view, from her transformation to present day, you see how she deals with challenges and relationships along the way. If you’re up for a very bisexual polyamorous romance with murder, mystery, and adventure, you’ll probably like this novel.
The blurb and the content warnings are available here.
The Saint George Chronicles: A Dragon Shifter Romance is a full length novel about two guys —one’s a dragon shifter, the other is part of an order of knights that can kill dragons with a magical ability— fate lands them at the same headquarters working together as detectives. This isn’t the murder, kill, thrill novels you might be used to with most stories that have some kind of law enforcement. It’s a lot of mundane cases, dealing with everyday citizens of San Francisco. What might surprise you is the slow burn, from beginning to end, while the book itself is scorching hot!
Check out the blurb and content warnings here.
What all my books have in common is the same world setting, plenty of on page thrills, and magical beings. There will be plenty of cameos and hidden gems along the way. I hope you’ll check them out and look forward to more.
If you’re interested in contemporary stories, you can check out mleaden.com for links to those stories and more reading suggestions!