The Disability Book Archive

[ID: Two book covers. The cover on the left is red, the cover on the right is blue. The series title “Hunger Pangs” is written at the top of each cover in larger writing, yellow on the left cover, white on the right cover. The book title “True Love Bites” is written directly under the title in smaller caps, yellow on the left cover, white on the right cover. The author’s name “Joy Demorra” is at the bottom of both covers in white writing. Directly below it, on the red cover, white cursive reads “Flirting with Fangs Edition”. On the blue cover, the same cursive reads “Fluff and Fangst Edition”. Both covers have a tree branch in the upper right corner, a skull in the upper left corner, and show three people in the bottom half of the cover. A woman with blonde hair in a purple dress, a skinny man in a black tailed suit, and a larger man in a white shirt and brown pants. /end]

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Content Warning:

Taken from the author’s website:

• Former/Abusive Relationship
• Ableism
• Injury
• War
• Bigotry
• Recovery
• Sexual Content

Other Warnings:

• Blood
• Alcohol
• Medical Trauma

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Summary

In a world of dwindling hope, love has never mattered more…

Captain Nathan J. Northland had no idea what to expect when he returned home to Lorehaven injured from war, but it certainly wasn’t to find himself posted on an island full of vampires. An island whose local vampire dandy lord causes Nathan to feel strange things he’d never felt before. Particularly about fangs.

When Vlad Blutstein agreed to hire Nathan as Captain of the Eyrie Guard, he hadn’t been sure what to expect either, but it certainly hadn’t been to fall in love with a disabled werewolf. However Vlad has fallen and fallen hard, and that’s the problem.

Torn by their allegiances–to family, to duty, and the age-old enmity between vampires and werewolves–the pair find themselves in a difficult situation: to love where the heart wants or to follow where expectation demands.

The situation is complicated further when a mysterious and beguiling figure known only as Lady Ursula crashes into their lives, bringing with her dark omens of death, doom, and destruction in her wake.

And a desperate plea for help neither of them can ignore.

Thrown together in uncertain times and struggling to find their place amidst the rising human empire, the unlikely trio must decide how to face the coming darkness: united as one or divided and alone. One thing is for certain, none of them will ever be the same.

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Notes:

There are two versions of this book. One version, the Flirting with Fangs edition, is “high heat” and contains multiple scenes of sexual content. This version has a red cover. The other version, the Fluff and Fangs edition, is less explicit. According to the author’s blog, this means that some scenes are fade to black, but physical affection and discussion are still present in areas of the book, including a discussion regarding kink and consent. This version has a blue cover.

Here is a better look at both covers:

[ID: Two book covers. The cover on the left is red, the cover on the right is blue. The series title “Hunger Pangs” is written at the top of each cover in larger writing, yellow on the left cover, white on the right cover. The book title “True Love Bites” is written directly under the title in smaller caps, yellow on the left cover, white on the right cover. The author’s name “Joy Demorra” is at the bottom of both covers in white writing. Directly below it, on the red cover, white cursive reads “Flirting with Fangs Edition”. On the blue cover, the same cursive reads “Fluff and Fangst Edition”. Both covers have a tree branch in the upper right corner, a skull in the upper left corner, and show three people in the bottom half of the cover. A woman with blonde hair in a purple dress, a skinny man in a black tailed suit, and a larger man in a white shirt and brown pants. /end]

This is the first book in the Hunger Pangs series.

There is an ebook edition. There is a kindle edition.

Here is a link to the author’s website.

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Archivist Comments:

The author and this book are quite popular on tumblr. When it was submitted, they made a comment that the character Ursula also has “physical impairments and needs that require her to have a caretaker”, but that’ll be more present in the next book.

There’s a short “missing moments novella” that goes along with this story called Crewel Intentions.

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