This National Book Award nominee highlights three stories where romance and the supernatural are locked in a sometimes passionate, sometimes icy embrace. The tale Goblin Fruit reveals just how far goblins are willing to go to tempt today’s savvy young women. In Spicy Little Curses, a demon and the ambassador to Hell’s battle for the soul of a beautiful British girl is interrupted when, in the name of love, she decides to test her curse. The focus of the final story, Hatchling, is Esme, whose fourteenth birthday is marked by the fact that her left eye suddenly changes from brown to blue. This is just the beginning of changes in Esme’s life, as a handsome, fanged man suddenly pursues her. If he catches her, will that be the end for Esme, or just the beginning? Halloween may be just past, but these stories cast an irresistible spell.