Candy, Blood, and Sex (The Scarlett Little Ryder Series, #1)

When Scarlett Little was a child her parents were killed in a savage animal attack. After their deaths the girl is raised by her grandmother in the city, well away from the North Carolina mountains where her parents met their end, but those mountains still hold a secret danger. A danger that threatens to claim the young woman. Can Scarlett escape its clutches, again? Or will she succumb to the call of the wild and her own dark lusts?

The story “Candy, Blood, and Sex” first appeared in the Ladies and Gentlemen of Horror 2013 anthology. This anthology featured the works of thirteen other talented writers and poets and generates proceed which are donated to The American Cancer Society. The story has since been expanded to include additional passages and is presented here in its extended form.