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R.L. Merrill
Biography
Whether she’s writing contemporary romance featuring quirky and relatable characters or diving deep into the paranormal and supernatural to give readers a shiver, R.L. Merrill loves creating compelling stories that will stay with readers long after. Winner of the Kathryn Hayes “When Sparks Fly” Best Contemporary award for Hurricane Reese, and a Foreword INDIES finalist for Summer of Hush, Ro spends every spare moment improving her writing craft and striving to find that perfect balance between real-life and happily ever after. She writes diverse and inclusive romance, contributes paranormal hilarity to Robyn Peterman’s Magic and Mayhem Universe, and pens horror-inspired music reviews for HorrorAddicts.net. You can find her connecting with readers on social media, advocating for America’s youth, raising two brilliant kids, or headbanging at a rock show near her home in the San Francisco Bay Area! Stay Tuned for more…
Where to find R.L. Merrill online
Website: https://www.rlmerrillauthor.com
Series
Minded
by R.L. Merrill
A Peculiar Prom Night
Shifted: Magic and Mayhem Universe
A Peculiar Prom Night
Price:
$0.99 USD.
Shifted: Magic and Mayhem Universe
Price:
$2.99 USD.
Bated
Fated
Road Trip
You Fell First
The Miscreants
by R.L. Merrill
Fang Me Three Times: Magic and Mayhem Universe
Fangtastic Four: Magic and Mayhem Universe
Five Fanger Witch Punch: Magic and Mayhem Universe
Fang Me Three Times: Magic and Mayhem Universe
Price:
$2.99 USD.
Fangtastic Four: Magic and Mayhem Universe
Price:
$2.99 USD.
Five Fanger Witch Punch: Magic and Mayhem Universe
Price:
$2.99 USD.
Shifted
by R.L. Merrill
The Shifted Collection: Magic and Mayhem Universe
Ghoul Me Once: Magic and Mayhem Universe
Gator Me Twice: Magic and Mayhem Universe
The Shifted Collection: Magic and Mayhem Universe
Price:
$7.99 USD.
Ghoul Me Once: Magic and Mayhem Universe
Price:
$2.99 USD.
Gator Me Twice: Magic and Mayhem Universe
Price:
$2.99 USD.
Books
BAQWA Presents: Queer Cheer!
by K.S. Trenten, Pat Henshaw, R.L. Merrill, Liz Faraim, Richard May, Vincent Traughber Meis, M.D. Neu, Kelliane Parker, Allison Fradkin, Wayne Goodman, & Alexandra Caluen
Price:
$6.99 USD.
Words: 49,050.
Language:
English.
Published: September 1, 2023
.
Categories:
Fiction » Anthologies » Short stories - multi-author, Fiction » LGBTQ+ » General
An Anthology of holiday-themed works from members of the Bay Area Queer Writers Association
Shifted: Magic and Mayhem Universe
by R.L. Merrill
Series: Minded, Book 3.
Price:
$2.99 USD.
Words: 41,940.
Language:
English.
Originally Published: June 24, 2019
by
R.L. Merrill.
Categories:
Fiction » Horror » Ghost, Fiction » Humor & comedy » General, Fiction » Romance » Romantic Comedy, Fiction » Romance » Paranormal » Shifters
Maggie and Louis, Intervention Specialists from the Afterlife, are used to the unusual—or so they think—but a 500lbs alligator on the run, a mute witch with wonky magic, and a vulgar, talking cat are more than they bargained for. Welcome to Assjacket, West Virginia.
A Peace Offering
by R.L. Merrill
Price:
$0.99 USD.
Words: 23,160.
Language:
English.
Originally Published: December 13, 2020
by
Celie Bay Publications, LLC.
Categories:
Fiction » Holiday, Fiction » Romance » Contemporary, Fiction » LGBTQ+ » Gay, Fiction » Romance » Holiday, Fiction » Romance » LGBTQ+ » Gay
Dover Billings has sold his handcrafted wares at the Dickens Fair in San Francisco for over twenty years. He's not as outgoing as the other artisans at this yearly Victorian celebration and prefers to observe the festivities from the shadows. That is until a new corset maker moves into the booth next door and unsettles his carefully constructed life. Landry Malcolm is handsome, well dressed...
Bated
by R.L. Merrill
Series: Haunted, 1.5.
Price:
$0.99 USD.
Words: 18,740.
Language:
English.
Originally Published: February 3, 2020
by
Celie Bay Publications, LLC.
Categories:
Fiction » Romance » Contemporary, Fiction » Romance » Multicultural & Interracial
Fans of the band Maggie's Bones from the Haunted series know that front man Marcus Lambert has a thing for the band's new manager, Sherry Jordan. No one can tell the story of how their affair came about better than Lambert himself. Learn what happened to the band over Valentine's Day 2012, just before the events of Haunted PLUS read new material showing just what the two of them were up to in...
Road Trip
by R.L. Merrill
Series: Rock 'N' Romance Series, Book 2.
Price:
$2.99 USD.
Words: 108,940.
Language:
English.
Originally Published: June 8, 2020
by
Celie Bay Publications, LLC.
Categories:
Fiction » Romance » Contemporary, Fiction » Romance » Multicultural & Interracial, Fiction » Romance » LGBTQ+ » General
High school counselor and heavy metal fan Abra Mora spends her summer vacation traveling in her gutsy Mustang GT to escape a dark family history of depression. Late one night while making an emergency pit-stop, she comes to the rescue of an off-duty police officer in peril and saves him from a fiery end. The straight-laced, model-handsome cop happens to be running away from some major baggage...
Fang Me Three Times: Magic and Mayhem Universe
by R.L. Merrill
Series: The Miscreants, Book 1.
Price:
$2.99 USD.
Words: 31,030.
Language:
English.
Originally Published: October 26, 2020
by
Celie Bay Publications, LLC.
Categories:
Fiction » Horror » Occult, Fiction » Romance » Multicultural & Interracial, Fiction » Romance » Romantic Comedy, Fiction » Romance » Paranormal » Shifters, Fiction » Romance » Paranormal » Vampires
Three kisses will break the curse, but what if your Prince Charming can't hold back the fang? Cursed witch Wilma Wetter is proud to represent her magical Germanic ancestors as a weather forecaster, even if it means taking a job in a town called Assjacket, West Virginia. While tracking the weather before an historic lunar eclipse, she and her trusty camerawoman Jules come across three...
Gator Me Twice: Magic and Mayhem Universe
by R.L. Merrill
Series: Shifted, Book 3.
Price:
$2.99 USD.
Words: 30,890.
Language:
English.
Originally Published: June 22, 2020
by
Celie Bay Publications, LLC.
Categories:
Fiction » Romance » Fantasy, Fiction » Horror » Occult, Fiction » Romance » Romantic Comedy, Fiction » Romance » Paranormal » General, Fiction » Romance » Paranormal » Shifters
Newly mated Layla and Garrett are diligently practicing their baby-making skills—until Baba Yaga pops in with a dire warning. A magical storm is brewing, and when it causes a supernatural communication breakdown, the water witch and her alpha mate will have to defeat ghosts from their past, their own insecurities, and a childhood nightmare come to life. Bring on the babies, bad jokes and...
A Peculiar Prom Night
by R.L. Merrill
Series: Minded.
Price:
$0.99 USD.
Words: 17,550.
Language:
English.
Originally Published: September 28, 2021
by
Celie Bay Publications, LLC.
Categories:
Fiction » Horror » Ghost, Fiction » Horror » Occult, Fiction » LGBTQ+ » Gay, Fiction » Romance » Multicultural & Interracial, Fiction » Romance » Paranormal » General
Four sexually frustrated chaperones Three hapless kids caught vaping in the bathrooms Two heated kisses One ghost ship on the San Francisco Bay turns this joyous celebration into one helluva creepy night… Meet siblings Ramona and Ruben, veteran teachers at Baymont High School. They've been chaperoning proms for years, but tonight they'll need all of their faculties to protect their students...
Pinups and Puppies
by R.L. Merrill
Price:
$0.99 USD.
Words: 20,150.
Language:
English.
Originally Published: June 30, 2020
by
R.L. Merrill.
Categories:
Fiction » Anthologies » Short stories - single author, Fiction » Romance » Contemporary, Fiction » LGBTQ+ » Gay, Fiction » Romance » Military, Fiction » Romance » LGBTQ+ » Lesbian
Marianne Cross has lived a life of structure and purpose for the past twenty-four years. Now reluctantly retired from the Air Force, her life is missing those two things that have always defined her. As she struggles to decide where her future lies, she finds peace and solitude flying her vintage airplane. When an opportunity with the organization Pawsitive Flight comes along, allowing her to...
Five Fanger Witch Punch: Magic and Mayhem Universe
by R.L. Merrill
Series: The Miscreants, Book 3.
Price:
$2.99 USD.
Words: 30,670.
Language:
English.
Originally Published: October 31, 2022
by
Celie Bay Publications, LLC.
Categories:
Fiction » Horror » Occult, Fiction » Humor & comedy » General, Fiction » Romance » Paranormal » General, Fiction » Romance » Paranormal » Vampires, Fiction » Romance » Paranormal » Witches
New vampires and life mates Wilma and Gus have had so much to learn that they haven't had any alone time to strengthen their mating bond. There have been countless interruptions and obstacles, including Wilma's foray into witchy MMA, so when warlock Roy Bermangoggleshitz shows up requesting help from Wilma to locate his missing children in Louisiana in the midst of a storm, she's determined to...
The Shifted Collection: Magic and Mayhem Universe
by R.L. Merrill
Series: Shifted, Book 1.
Price:
$7.99 USD.
Words: 120,110.
Language:
English.
Originally Published: April 19, 2021
by
R.L. Merrill.
Categories:
Fiction » Horror » Occult, Fiction » Romance » Collections & Anthologies, Fiction » Romance » Romantic Comedy, Fiction » Romance » Paranormal » Shifters, Fiction » Romance » Paranormal » Witches
From the magical town Assjacket, West Virginia to the Swamplands of Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana, join author R.L. Merrill on an adventure full of new love, magical hope, and wacky talking critters. Layla the wonky water witch saves cursed alligator Shifter Garrett, and in the process discovers the dark truth about her past. After years in exile from his Bayou Congregation, Garrett recognizes...
Fangtastic Four: Magic and Mayhem Universe
by R.L. Merrill
Series: The Miscreants, Book 2.
Price:
$2.99 USD.
Words: 28,030.
Language:
English.
Originally Published: October 25, 2021
by
Celie Bay Publications, LLC.
Categories:
Fiction » Horror » Occult, Fiction » Humor & comedy » General, Fiction » Romance » Romantic Comedy, Fiction » Romance » Paranormal » Vampires, Fiction » Romance » Paranormal » Witches
A storm is brewing in Assjacket, West Virginia. After being cursed for a lifetime, weather witch Wilma Wetter's magical powers were unleashed the moment she was Turned into a vampire, and now she must manage them before her haunted mansion is washed away. With her mate—singer and fellow fanger Gus Valens—his cousins, her ghostly housemate, and her new familiar by her side, anything seems...
The Rock Season
by R.L. Merrill
Series: Rock 'N' Romance Series, Book 1.
Price:
$2.99 USD.
Words: 96,180.
Language:
English.
Originally Published: April 1, 2020
by
R.L. Merrill.
Categories:
Fiction » Romance » Contemporary, Fiction » Romance » Multicultural & Interracial
Stevie Wilson is about to welcome a new life into an unsure world. Estranged from the father of her unborn child, she turns to her love of attending concerts with her vivacious best friend to deal with the stress and uncertainty. As a teacher and blogger, she counts on the magic of the music to ease her troubled thoughts of what will come next. What she wasn't counting on was meeting a "savior...
Sundowners
by R.L. Merrill
Series: Sundowners, Book 1.
Price:
$2.99 USD.
Words: 83,030.
Language:
English.
Originally Published: September 13, 2022
by
R.L. Merrill.
Categories:
Fiction » Romance » Suspense, Fiction » Horror » Occult, Fiction » Romance » Multicultural & Interracial, Fiction » Romance » Paranormal » Vampires, Fiction » Romance » LGBTQ+ » Gay
Vampire Creed Lowell drifts from town to town working with the elderly as a night nurse and looking to avenge his harrowing past. His youth and vitality make him a favorite of his patients and his gifts bring them peace. At long last he's arrived in the place where he hopes to find the truth about those who betrayed him…but first he finds an unexpected love with a man who might understand...
BAQWA Presents: Horror Show 2021
by Wayne Goodman, Richard May, M.D. Neu, Liz Faraim, & R.L. Merrill
Series: BAQWA Charity Anthology, Book 1.
Price:
$2.99 USD.
Words: 30,400.
Language:
English.
Originally Published: October 8, 2021
by
BAQWA.
Categories:
Fiction » Anthologies » Short stories - multi-author, Fiction » Horror, Fiction » Holiday, Fiction » Horror » Occult, Fiction » LGBTQ+ » General
Curl up with your favorite warm beverage this fall and leave a light on. It's time for Horror Show 2021. The Bay Area Queer Writers Association is proud to present this inaugural collection of spooky tales featuring authors Wayne Goodman, M.D. Neu, Richard May, Liz Faraim, and R.L. Merrill. Sometimes writing about the things that frighten us helps us cope with real-life terror, and these...
Ghoul Me Once: Magic and Mayhem Universe
by R.L. Merrill
Series: Shifted, Book 2.
Price:
$2.99 USD.
Words: 46,260.
Language:
English.
Originally Published: October 21, 2019
by
Celie Bay Publications, LLC.
Categories:
Fiction » Romance » Fantasy, Fiction » Horror » Occult, Fiction » Romance » Romantic Comedy, Fiction » Romance » Paranormal » General, Fiction » Romance » Paranormal » Shifters
The Magic and Mayhem continue as Garrett and Layla, along with their allies from Assjacket, return to the Bayou in a new Shifted adventure... Clarabelle Cocodri has a lot on her plate as guardian of her teenaged gator Shifter brother. When her favorite cousin—and new alpha—returns to Terrebonne Parish, she's not too sure it's for the best. He's mated to a witch, and the congregation has been...
You Fell First
by R.L. Merrill
Series: Rock 'N' Romance Series, Book 3.
Price:
$2.99 USD.
Words: 24,500.
Language:
English.
Originally Published: May 13, 2021
by
Celie Bay Publications, LLC.
Categories:
Fiction » Romance » Contemporary, Fiction » Romance » Multicultural & Interracial, Fiction » Romance » Police & Law Enforcement
A deputy sheriff and a tree trimmer meet during storm cleanup on a treacherous road and literally fall for each other in the line of duty. Calvin wants to explore their connection and Flor is game. Then things get sticky when his hard-earned sobriety is threatened and her pride is bruised. Their chemistry can't be ignored, but can they get past their personal obstacles? It'll take some getting...
Fated
by R.L. Merrill
Series: Haunted, Book 2.
Price:
$2.99 USD.
Words: 75,980.
Language:
English.
Originally Published: February 3, 2020
by
R.L. Merrill.
Categories:
Fiction » Romance » Contemporary, Fiction » Romance » Multicultural & Interracial
Sammara Gunderson Hollywood, California September 2012 As a music journalist, I've interviewed rock stars from all over the globe, using my special "intuitions" to pen some of the most in-depth and personal interviews in the business. Meeting Maggie's Bones—and especially their intense bass player, Mage—proved to be a life-changing experience. I was immediately drawn to this strange but...
The Absolution of Jonah Bane
by R.L. Merrill
Series: The Banes of Lake's Crossing, Book 2.
Price:
$0.99 USD.
Words: 50,140.
Language:
English.
Originally Published: June 30, 2022
by
R.L. Merrill.
Categories:
Fiction » Horror » Occult, Fiction » Romance » Multicultural & Interracial, Fiction » Romance » Historical » American, Fiction » Romance » Paranormal » General, Fiction » Romance » LGBTQ+ » General
In 1860, four brothers on a mission from God tunneled beneath the surface in Nevada territory, looking to find the next Comstock Lode. Legend has it they went down into the Earth as honorable Christian men but returned as something more sinister, their good intentions abandoned. There they became possessed and altered by an evil force, and their hold on the residents of what was known then as...
Haunted
by R.L. Merrill
Series: Haunted, Book 1.
Price:
$0.99 USD.
Words: 156,290.
Language:
English.
Originally Published: November 28, 2019
by
R.L. Merrill.
Categories:
Fiction » Romance » Contemporary, Fiction » Romance » New adult
"I haven't been so upset to not be able to hang out with fictional characters since I read Harry Potter, and that's saying a lot." Asha "Have you ever come across a Diamond in your TBR list? Well I did and this was it! This was the first book I read by this author and she is wonderful." Jamie "In order for me to give a book a 5, I have to have at least two big things happen. 1 being I must get...
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