Lucy Taylor's new collection, FATAL JOURNEYS, visits not only foreign lands but Journeys into the mind, the soul, and the evil that lurks within. The award-winning author of THE SAFETY OF UNKNOWN CITIES has collected together a new volume of horror and eroticism short fiction, her first in over a decade. FATAL JOURNEYS features nine stories to titillate and horrify.

The Plague Lovers A young woman in 14th century Italy flees the ravages of the bubonic plague with a mysterious lover who shows her how the pleasures of sex and suffering can intertwine. Later, she uses her knowledge of herbs and plants to inflict suffering of her own. Baubo's Kiss A sexually inhibited young woman vacationing in Greece with her female lover explores the erotic arts at the Temple of Baubo, the goddess of obscenity, and takes part in a Dionysian orgy. Prenuptials A woman meets the 'perfect' man and embarks on an erotic journey into self-destruction and sex addiction. The Safety of Unknown Cities Sexual adventuress Val searches for a place known only as "the City", a mythic land of unimaginable carnality and eroticism, where sexual obsession knows no bounds. She soon discovers the nightmare side to this land of sexual excess. Thief of Names Afflicted with a deadly disease, Nicholas searches for a cure in Toronto's seedy sex...

In the Cave of the Delicate Singers by Lucy Taylor is a horror story about a woman with a rare form of synesthesia who can feel sound waves and the dangerous rescue mission she undertakes in a cave with a nasty past.

Sweetlings by Lucy Taylor is about a small enclave of people living on the shrunken east coast of the United States, surviving and evolving as Earth's seas rise.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.