Johnny B Truant

Game of Fangs is a stand-alone novel in the Fat Vampire universe.When Nora, Orlo, Robert, Amelie, Jaden, Rohit, and Brody form a seven-person team of live-action-role-players to enter a massive three-day Vampire LARP tournament, they have no idea two real vampires will be in the mix, on a mission of their own.As the gamers play, gathering points and moving upwards through the floors of the convention center, the vampires turn on contestants, searching for a lost descendant, and the game gets gruesome and increasingly deadly.Will amateur vampire hunters be able to sort out the bloody truth from the role-playing fiction and save the still-living from the more-than-dead?

Sometimes the safest place to hide is directly in the public eye.Someone has been glamouring Dr. Annabel Rice, and Maurice is not happy about it. Especially when he figures out what kind of information they are trying to glean. This time, hiding in the shadows isn't going to work. When a TV producer approaches Maurice about turning some unfortunate online videos of Reginald being a vampire (which the human world assumes are hilarious fakes) into a real TV show, Maurice and Reginald hide from dangerous vampires by enmeshing themselves in the complex world of the small silver screen. Will the fame go to Maurice's head? And can the good guys stay alive long enough to see Reginald's TV show wrap and outwit their stalkers?Fangs and Fame is book four of The Vampire Maurice side series set in the world of the bestselling Fat Vampire world.

Another life, another adventure...Maurice went to the Chicago World's Fair to disrupt it in the name of French pride.Instead, he finds himself embroiled in the mysterious disappearance of one of the fair's carnival freaks. But the primary suspect, H. H. Holmes, is strangely immune to both Maurice's glamors and his bites.Can Maurice stop a killer without his usual strengths?Vampires in the White City is book three of The Vampire Maurice side series set in the world of the bestselling Fat Vampire world.

The mob is out for blood - literally At the height of prohibition, the real threat on the streets of 1929 Chicago isn't Al Capone and his empire built on bootleg whiskey; it's the vampire mafia. And the liquid they trade is of an altogether deadlier variety.In this hidden world, the vampire mafia is bootlegging an addictive and deadly synthetic blood called Thrill. When the vampire Maurice discovers their blood-running operation, he must act to stop the flow of bootlegged blood, or risk the power balance of the vampire world tipping entirely into the hands of those who have been corrupted.But the mafia doesn't take kindly to interlopers, even those with fangs.The Vampire Maurice is book one of a side series set in the world of the bestselling Fat Vampire world.

Maurice is back in the office of Dr. Annabel Rice with another story from his eternal life. It's the 1980s, and Maurice thinks he may have a home with a punk-rock group of humans. They squat in buildings and hang out at their favorite club. Maurice feels like he may have found a life he can enjoy.But that existence is threatened with the arrival of an old enemy. Wealth-monger (and fellow vampire) Raphael Michaud has arrived in Old Austin to settle a century-old score about a bottle of Chateau Lafite ... and possibly something much more sinister than a fancy wine.Anarchy and Blood is book two of The Vampire Maurice side series set in the world of the bestselling Fat Vampire world.

The Era of Nighttime Has Begun...Forty years have passed since the end of the vampire/human war. Vampires have taken over the planet and have settled in, making themselves comfortable in the infrastructure their predecessors built, with just a few adjustments to ensure a permanent night.Humans still exist, tightly controlled, because the alpha species needs to eat. But even after four decades of peace, Reginald can't shake his conviction that the war never really ended - that the archive he still holds in his blood warns of an ominous change on the horizon.As old foes rise, the power structures of both races begin to falter and the very existence of life on Earth (both hot-blooded and undead) hangs in the balance. Rebel humans have developed new and frightening weapons, and they aren't afraid to use them even if it could mean the end of everything. And Reginald Baskin - always an outcast, always neglected - may be the only chance to stop it.But as Reginald steps into his destined role as a leader, he faces a hideous inevitability that even he never saw coming ... and that he may be too late to prevent.

What the New Order Seeks, Reginald Must Find...The new vampire president and his psychotic right-hand man have been playing a dangerous game with the humans over the past six months. In the public eye, the two races appear to be at peace ... but the situation below the surface is hot enough to boil.And while the untrusting humans mass their defenses, vampire armies have been building to match them - with plans to exterminate the planet's current inhabitants, saving only a handful of blood slaves.Reginald, Nikki, Maurice, and the others bunkered in at Maurice's estate find themselves in the middle of a no-win scenario: Is it better to fight with their own kind in the vampire revolution? Or should they turn traitors - and risk extermination by the angels - in order to protect the humans?But just as the cold war outside is about to turn hot, Reginald's ever-expanding vampire brain reveals the existence of an artifact that could predict the outcome of the coming war ... and maybe even a way to stop it. The only problem is that nobody knows where the artifact is, and when war then breaks and mass slaughter begins on both sides, it seems that time may have run out.Fat Vampire 5 is the biggest, bloodiest, most snack-filled installment in the Fat Vampire series so far, and sets the stage for the sixth book's epic series-ender - a conclusion so big it'll shake the human world's foundations.

Immortality Has Met Its Match...Ever since the Ring of Fire, the world's vampires have seen their mortality. They won't live forever after all - not if the angels who created them decide to snuff them like candles.What do the angels want? What did their command to "restore balance" truly mean? For most, the angels' decrees mean mass murder and mass turnings ... but the humans aren't sheep, and won't just lie down and take it forever.As Deacon Maurice tries to maintain order with Reginald by his side, panic consumes the Vampire Nation. The center begins to fall apart and chaos grows like cancer. But as war between vampires and humans threatens, Reginald begins to discover strange new abilities within him: to navigate through blood history like no other vampire before him. To glamour those who can't be glamoured. And seemingly, to stop time itself.Fear has reached its tipping point. War is close. Reginald might hold the key to the angels' mystery ... but whatever could help him intervene just might be too late.

A New Dark Leader Has Emerged...Following Maurice's near-assassination and the overthrow of the American Vampire Council, Reginald, Maurice, and Nikki have fled to Luxembourg, where they've taken refuge under the protection of Karl Stromm and the EU Council.Things in America have continued towards chaos with no end in sight - until a coup shakes the world and a new American leader arrives with promises to restore order and derail the imminent human-vampire war.But things are not as they seem. A dangerous, genocidal faction has arisen to upset the fragile balance. The New World Order in America is not what it seems. And all the while the world's vampires face a war on two fronts: deadly, prepared human forces on one side, and their immortal creators on the other.

Angels and Demons, Myths and Legends...It's been six months since Reginald Baskin became a vampire too fat to live happily with the beautiful undead - six months in which Reginald and his two-thousand-year-old maker Maurice have learned that safety does not come with power. These days, Maurice is Deacon of the Vampire Nation, but plenty beneath Maurice are still plotting to depose him ... or dispose of him.But when a new and ancient threat rears its head, the Nation faces extinction and the truest of deaths - and Reginald, Maurice, and Nikki might be the only vampires who can stop it.This sequel to the cult hit picks up where Fat Vampire left off, following a trio of unlikely heroes down a path of myth and superstition into truths that have been buried for centuries - pitting the world's darkness against the unfathomable power of its angry creators.

Now a new TV series on SYFY: Reginald The Vampire Death Has a Brand New Appetite...When overweight treadmill salesman Reginald Baskin finally meets a co-worker who doesn't make fun of him, it's his own bad luck that tech guy Maurice turns out to be a two thousand-year-old vampire.And when Maurice turns Reginald to save his life, it's just Reginald's further bad luck that he wakes to discover he's become the slowest, weakest, most out-of-shape vampire ever created ... doomed to "heal" to his corpulent self for all of eternity.But as Reginald struggles with the downsides of being a fat vampire (too slow to catch people to feed on, mocked by those he tries to glamour, assaulted by his intended prey and left for undead), he discovers rare powers in himself that few vampires have ... and just in time, because the Vampire Council wants him destroyed as an inferior representative of their race.

WHEN ALIENS INVADE, ONLY A CON MAN CAN SAVE THE DAY...Hollis Palmer is not a good man. An unapologetic thief and womanizer, Hollis has no time for anything that won't profit him directly. So while the rest of the world is staring up in shock as aliens race toward Earth, he's busy stealing a case valuable enough that he'll be able to ride out any invasion in style.But ET's arrival proves to be a bigger catastrophe than Hollis - or humanity - expected. Meanwhile, his would-be hostage, Mia Davies, the trophy wife of his criminal boss, is making the aliens look like a walk in the park.As their plans crumble along with the rest of the world, Hollis and Mia find themselves on the run from a motley crew of aliens, criminals, and crackpots. The two of them must figure out a way to work together without killing each other before something really bad happens-like the city gets blown up, for example.The city of Austin is under siege, and only a charming criminal has any hope of saving it.The first book in the complete Save the Humans trilogy, Save the City is a relentless, action-packed tale of alien apocalypse that will leave you breathless - and ready for more.

Eight teams of assassins. One high-profile target. Winner takes all.Brothers Emil and Robert are professional assassins trying to do one last high-dollar hit together before they retire and get out of the game for good.So when Senator Simon Bisset - creator of the social media platform Float and shady dealer on the dark web - pisses off someone even more powerful, they finally see a payday worth chasing. But the icing on the cake? Emil hates Bisset more than anyone else alive - this job is going to be an unrivaled pleasure.Or it would be, if not for the fact that the bounty's an open call: whoever gets to Bisset first wins, and the other teams won't hesitate to take out the competition.But Emil's hatred for Bisset is making him increasingly erratic, and Robert's got his hands full trying to keep his brother on target.Can Emil and Robert evade the other assassins, cut through Bisset's security detail, and collect the bounty without losing what matters most?From the best-selling author team that brought you Pretty Killer comes The Target, a new stand-alone thriller that will keep you burning through the pages. Start sitting on the edge of your seat with a copy right now