Marilyn Barr, Paranormal Romance Author
Historical, yet Paranormal Romances
Walk the Walk Paranormal, Pirate Romance Books
Book 1: Walk the Plank
Branko learns he will be sold into slavery when they dock in Charles Town, so he doesn’t hesitate to jump ship onto a neighboring sloop in the harbor. This boat will weigh anchor with him at the helm–once he decides what to do with the lady chained in the cargo hold who claims she’s a vampire.
Magda Dashkovari’s body has been given to science while she’s still living in it. Her prayers are answered when a pirate boards her boat, but she should have asked for her rescuer to be less bloodthirsty than she is…
Scientists hunt her in town, plantation owners hunt him from the north and south, Blackbeard blocks Charles Town Harbor to the east, and a war rages between settlers and natives to the west. These unlikely allies will have to link together to escape a life in chains…but will their trust in each other endure their journey to freedom?
Book 2: Walk the Deck
Branko has created a monster. Magda grows more aggressive by the day as she reclaims her inner identity. He would be proud of her if she didn’t risk her life at every turn. With each ship they take over, she’s first over the rail…taking his heart with her…
Magda loves life on the high seas and wants to claim the treasure only piracy can bring. Why does Branko want to settle on an island when he could have riches beyond his imagination? When evidence of a treasure galleon schedule turns legend into fact, Magda divides the crew into those members who wish to chase it and those who wish to settle…with Branko.
When Branko pushes his agenda, Magda must face her greatest fear or risk losing him forever. Will their opposing visions for their future tear their tenuous partnership apart, or will they find their love is worth more than gold?
Book 3: Walk the Night
Magda’s second chance at marriage promises to be a dream come true—if she survives her mysterious nightmare illness. She has been married for a week and is desperate for a much longer happily ever after.
Branko would trade places with Magda in a heartbeat, but the sickness plaguing Nassau prefers European hosts and spares the natives of the Caribbean. While he believes Mother Nature is punishing those who destroy her beautiful islands, he refuses to accept that Magda deserves to be on the list for retaliation.
The civilized world hasn’t a cure for Magda, but Branko will try anything to save her—including reuniting with a ghost from his past. He requests the help of a Hoodoo priestess but magic always comes with a price… She’s asking for Leaf, the young wildcrafter and ship’s cook, in exchange. Will Captain Branko repeat the betrayal of Blackbeard and sell a deckhand for treatment, or say goodbye to the love of his life?
Quartermaster: Mortar & Pestle Series
Catalina
He violated me. Don Rodrigo took my family’s business, home, and titles, but he will never own me. I’m on the run. He’s threatened to expose my secret. My last hope is to intercept the ship carrying my dowry before our match is permanent. Trusting pirates to give me a fair share is foolish but not as much as staying on the same island as my attacker…
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Chub
The letter from our arch-nemesis was written in feminine calligraphy but nutmeg Captain Teeth didn’t notice. Blimey that because the author of the letter is my lady love. I’d bet my last doubloon. If only she didn’t shrink away from my touch… Killing every scoundrel who dared to hurt her isn’t helping…but it cools the rage I hold inside.
Can Chub teach Catalina to assemble her shattered fragments into the strong woman she wants to be or is she too broken to believe in herself? Will she accept a pirate’s promise of true love or was the Mortar & Pestle’s message too late for lonely Chub to claim his lady love?
Hooking Captain Teeth: A Monster Brides Romance
Captain Teeth has searched the Caribbean for his lady love for years (and 5 books) but little does he know, he met her before he was marooned by Blackbeard. Young, cocky, and new to the bawdy world of piracy, Teeth met Sabrina in Maude's Tavern. After a night of passion, he threw a few coins at her and weighed anchor for his next adventure...only to forget Sabrina.
Sabrina never forgot Teeth, their night of romance, and the humiliation of his departure. How dare he mistake her for a working girl! She wants nothing more than to see him again...for revenge. No one jilts the most powerful Kraken in Caribbean...
Shiver Me Satyr
Bettina
With Quartermaster Chub and his wife’s counsel, I’ve settled into my role as a pirate queen like a guppy to the sea. I don’t miss my Kraken tentacles now that I have a purpose. This crew of rag-tag misfits depends on me to keep them afloat, fed, and not swinging from a Sheriff’s picture frame. Our first trip up the eastern coast of the continental colonies is honest work, but that doesn’t mean a prize won’t turn our heads toward the sweet trade. Once I offload the debauched satyr we’re removing from Boston’s high society, our crew will seek our fortunes.
Hybris
When my parents named me, they shouldn’t have picked the word for overconfidence, willful arrogance, or insubordination. All I did was live up to their expectations. It’s not like I steal, fistfight, or murder. I’m a lover, not a fighter…which is exactly why I’ve been exiled from Boston. If those women prized their virginity more, they wouldn’t have begged me to relieve them of it. Oh, their pretty pleas ring in my ears as my parents lecture on my responsibilities in civilized society! My ruined reputation isn’t my fault, but who listens to an other? As I board the ship, I can’t prove my parents hired pirates to make me disappear, but it’s my gut feeling.
Hybris triggers everything in Bettina’s painful past, but she can’t behead him as promised in her contract with his parents. The ship seems to shrink as he befriends the crew and worms his way closer to her. What will she do with the salacious satyr? Certainly not fall for his charming ways… Find out in Shiver Me Satyr as part of the Time for Monsters series in 2025.
Coming to the Time for Monsters series on 7/10/2025!
Time for Monsters Horror Romance Books
Clutching Cthulhu's Pearls
Harriett
1922, Cypress Kentucky, USA
Does Leopold suspect me? My aging husband’s beady eyes are glued to his experiments and notes, but I twitch as if I’m the specimen he examines. His work created our menagerie of selectively bred and surgically enhanced animals—ugly snakes with mouse heads, birds with paws and puppy faces, and worse. They frighten me, but not as much as my future of lonely nights in an empty marriage bed. If we still lived in Boston, among the speakeasies and dancehalls, I’d get the attention I crave from men. With our long, platonic, unconsummated marriage, can Leopold blame me for skinny dipping in the swamp after his lantern goes out? But isolated on his estate, I refuse to give up my visits to the plant frons that give me more pleasure than a man ever could…
Phineas
She comes to my lagoon when the moon rises. With her silky skin, shimmering hair, and sweet voice, she’s irresistible. Her moans and gasps of pleasure haunt me between her visits. Who is she? Where did Papa get her? After years of his silence, is she the next female he selected to carry my eggs? I can’t risk her fleeing in terror at my monstrous appearance, but it isn’t fair for her to believe my tentacles’ touches are innocent plants…
How will Harriett react when Phin reveals his Cthulhu nature? What happens when Leopold catches them in the act—will he separate the lovers or incorporate them into his experiments?
Coming 2/10/2025
Wylder West Paranormal Romance Books
Hush Little Wylder
Picture-perfect Abigail Wylder rushes home to save her family’s reputation, but no one knows her behavior while in England is another scandal she must conceal. Will her secret embarrass her family more than her sister’s new mystical in-laws or her father’s deteriorating mind? Unwed and four months pregnant, it won’t be long before her dresses can no longer hide her shame.
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Boone Silvers has carried a torch for Abigail Wylder since he was a teenager. When he discovers her baby’s British father has rejected her, he offers to step into the role. He believes he is the luckiest barber in Wyoming with a second chance to have a family after what happened to his first wife.
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Secrets swirl around the couple until a tragedy shines a light on all their faults. Will Abigail choose happiness with Boone or do the unthinkable just to save face?
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Trigger Warning: Assault (not by hero), Miscarriage
InD'tale Crowned Heart
Award Winner 2021
2022 RONE Award
Finalist
2nd Place National Excellence in Story Telling Award
Imadjinn Award for best PNR of 2021-2022
Nartan Sagebrush's name may mean "to dance" in Arapaho, but he dances in secret. Forced to abandon his Shamanic apprenticeship, he is overwhelmed with homesteader life, and even his spirit guides are at their wit's end. Nartan takes fate into his own hands. Instead of divine intervention, a wife will help with his responsibilities and in assimilating into the Wylder community.
Olive Muegge answer's Nartan's "wife wanted" advertisement. Wildly independent she has secretly dreamed of a family to call her own. The secret she carries inside makes her an outcast and her wild ways don't fit the quiet wife Nartan thinks he desires.
Despite their differences, they are drawn to each other but a mistake may drive them apart. Will Nartan embrace his Shamanic past to save them both or will he choose to rid himself of Olive forever?
Dance to a Wylder Beat
Sound of a Wylder Silence
Ikshu Sagebrush lives in the shadows of his mystical brother, loudmouth sister-in-law, and the trauma he endured. When a chance meeting with a Christmas angel makes him consider stepping into the light, Ikshu calls to the spirits of his ancestors to help restore his voice.
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Ava Wylder is no angel, but her wicked ways are the catalyst Ikshu needs to face his inner demons and build a life. She would gladly trade her family’s wish for her to become a lady of a manor house in New York for the natural beauty of Wylder and a simple existence with Ikshu. When their families and community status step between them, she cannot fight for their love alone.
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Will Ikshu find his voice to make his intentions known, or let true love slip through his fingers?
