Rating: 4⭐️
Hailey Edwards has a really great new start on a series with her new paranormal novella, The Vampire in the Potting Shed.
The first in the Groom & Doom series, we don’t get much of a world foundation, although I saw mention that it’s set in the same universe as the author’s Black Hat Bureau (10 book) series.
This particular story is tied to one small town and territory, and focuses on Ana Sartori, who runs Gwinnett Street Groomers, a small pet grooming business and has an Alpha wolf shifter as an overprotective father. She herself can’t shift so remains outside of the pack business and affairs.
At 125 pages, Edwards packs a lot of information, interesting characters, and relationship dynamics into her storyline. That includes some neat twists and reveals.
It’s a quick, highly entertaining story and it makes you wish the next book was ready for reading.
I’m definitely reading it when it’s available.
A new winner for an author I enjoy.
Cover by Damonza
Groom & Doom
The Vampire in the Potting Shed #1
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The Vampire in the Potting Shed (Groom & Doom Book 1)
Blurb
There are two things Ana Sartori knows for certain. She can’t shapeshift into a wolf like her father or his pack. And, despite her being a latent, little more than human, he loves her despite her faults. She’s never going to be an alpha like him, but she can still hold her own in a fight. Not that her life is violent. He makes sure of that. Aside from occasionally wrestling pets into a headlock when it’s time to trim their nails at Gwinnett Street Groomers, Ana leads a simple life.
At least that was the case until someone broke into her pet resort and spa, leaving a mystery dog behind in one of the bougie boarding suites. Not to mention there’s a vampire hiding in the potting shed. A very tall, very handsome vampire. He even smells nice, minus the blood drenching his clothes.
Ana could handle those things, probably, but now there’s a new alpha determined to claim the town—and Ana—as his territory. Either she stands and fights for her home, or she runs to her father with her (metaphorical) tail tucked between her legs. Life is a lot of things, but for Ana, simple isn’t one of them anymore.
- Publisher: Black Dog Books, LLC.
- Publication date: June 16, 2025
- Language: English
- Print length: 125 pages
- Book 1 of 1: Groom & Doom
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