One Dark Night: A Spooky, Steamy Small Town Romance Anthology by Andrea Jenelle

Tracy’s Rating: 3.5 of 5 stars

Series: Standalone & Connected to Ongoing Author Series

Release Date: September 15, 2025

One Dark Night is a collection of spooky and steamy small-town romances, featuring the following novellas: No Ghosts by Andrea Jenelle, Scared to Love by Angi N. Black, Fascinated by His Fangs by Christi Barth, Love is a Thorn by Karson Dickinson, A Knight for Fears by Kay Lucas and One Little Dare by Nikki A. Lamers.

All the novellas are well-written and have varying levels of spookiness and steam, but if I had to pick my favorite it would be, Fascinated by His Fangs by Christi Barth, which is the story of Anthropologist and supernatural podcaster Lucy Hinton who has traveled to Badnaban PA, dubbed the “Scariest Town in the Country” for a Halloween podcast, which she hopes to have at the uber spooky MacKillop Mansion. She meets the mansion’s new owner, Duncan MacKillop, a lawyer from NYC who just inherited the property from a grandfather he never met. After getting over a frighting introduction to the mansion and the shock of learning the Duncan and most of the townsfolk are vampires, she agrees to work with Duncan to figure out the secrets of the house and the mystery of Life Art and shadow warriors. As the only novella written in the third person, I really enjoyed this story, it was the perfect blend of spookiness and steam, and I would love to read more about Lucy and Duncan.

Overall, this is a great collection of spooky and steamy romance novellas that are perfect for the Halloween season!

*I am voluntarily leaving a review for an eARC that I requested and was provided to me by the publisher/author. All opinions in this review are my own. *