Welcome to Calloway CountyFollow

by Vesper L. Rayne

Welcome to Calloway County, where the lake monster is named Karl, the sheriff has a 94% closure rate, and seven ducks are wanted in connection with several acts of petty theft. When Alpha Ryker Nightblood Moonfang meets Janice Kimball in the chicken-feed aisle of Local Supply Store #412, he knows immediately that she is his fated mate. Janice knows that the bag is heavy and the enormous vibrating man beside her appears to need a snack. Ryker has spent 847 years inspiring fear, commanding warriors, and practicing a Smoulder powerful enough to make the moon itself submit. He is entirely unprepared for graham crackers, rewards points, chicken bonnets, or a practical woman with a Joann’s card who expects him not to make things weird. But Ryker isn’t the only ancient, powerful creature being quietly dismantled in Calloway County. A six-hundred-year-old vampire develops complicated feelings about a cashier named Becca and her watermelon gum. Sheriff Dwight Smithers meets a redheaded woman who laughs with her whole body and knows the lake monster personally. Meanwhile, a weary store manager signs his divorce papers, a moon goddess begins drinking margaritas, and the ducks remain outside all known celestial jurisdictions. Told across ten interconnected episodes, *Welcome to Calloway County* is an affectionate satire of paranormal romance—and a genuinely tender story about strange creatures, practical women, unexpected love, and the ordinary kindness of being seen. Some things, apparently, are eternal.