She loves all things spooky and/or vintage, and she’s given in to Ari’s corruptive influences and learned to sew so she can make her own vintage-style clothes and costumes. Rachel Langella is a creative writing teacher who has been writing for one reason or another most of her life.

Now that she is an empty-nester, she has turned her attentions to finding the perfect piece of land to build a fortress in preparation for the zombie apocalypse, and baking (and eating) far too many cakes.

When not writing, they can often be found scheming over costume designs or binge watching TV shows together.Īri McKay is a retired systems engineer turned full-time writer and seamstress. Their work includes the Blood Bathory series of paranormal novels, the Herc’s Mercs series, as well as two historical Westerns: Heart of Stone and Finding Forgiveness. Their collaborations encompass a wide variety of romance genres, including contemporary, fantasy, science fiction, gothic, and action/adventure. Rachel Langella and Ari McKay are the professional pseudonyms for Arionrhod and McKay, who have been writing together for over a decade. This story is set in the Asheville Arcana universe, but can be read as a standalone. And when those secrets catch up with him at last, the danger won’t be just for Gus alone. And somewhere along the line, Bear finds he wants it to be for real.īut there are secrets Gus is keeping from not just Bear, but the whole world. His older brother, Whimsy, is determined to help Bear find happiness no matter how much Bear objects, but meeting Gus gives Bear a wonderful idea: if Gus will pretend to be his boyfriend, Whimsy will get off his case. He found all of it amusing, until his fated mate walks in and suddenly the twists aren’t so funny any longer!īear Hickes is a mage who specializes in fire, but life has lost its spark since his twin brother got married and left him alone. He’s seen Fate catch up with the patrons of his bar while he served drinks and listened to their stories for three hundred years.

Or at least it seems that way to Gus, owner of the Rainbow Room, Asheville’s main hangout for gay paranormals. Sometimes Fate has a bizarre sense of humor.

Out of the Ashes by Ari McKay