Joleene Naylor is the author of the glitter-less Amaranthine vampire universe, a world where vampires aren't for children. Comprised of a main series, a standalone prequel, and several short story collections, she has plans to continue expanding with a trilogy and standalone novels. 
In her spare time, Joleene is a freelance book cover designer and for-fun photographer. She maintains several blogs, full of odd ramblings, and occasionally updates her website at JoleeneNaylor.com. In what little time is left, she watches anime, plays PokemonGo, and works on her crooked Victorian house in Villisca, Iowa. Between her husband, family, and pets, she is never lonely, in fact, quite the opposite. Should she disappear, one might look for her on a beach in Tahiti, sipping a tropical drink and wearing a disguise. 

Twenty-nine short stories of love, death, heartbreak, and blood.
Meet the Executioners, elite enforcers of the vampires’ laws. Walk with them through origin stories, follow them across the sea to the colonies, and run with them through the wilds, as they try to bring civilization to a land ruled by “day sleeper” clans. Fifteen interwoven stories tell the beginning of The Guild, set under the watchful - and sometimes malevolent - gaze of the ancient Malick, whose heavy shadow stretches even across the sea. Meet his favorite son, his willful daughter, his child-like pet, and many more whose jealousies, hatreds, and loves twist together to create consequences they can’t foresee. 


Tales of the Executioners

This story takes place in Iowa in June, 1912, nineteen years after Dismas', and is loosely based on several real axe murders that, to this day, remain unsolved.


Mary slowed to a jog and looked over her shoulder. She could just see the guards in the distance, running to catch up. If they were human, they'd be huffing and puffing. Luckily, they weren't. They were vampires, like she was.


The Guild called her special ability wind walking, though Madam LaFete had called it outrunning the shadows  because even the shadows were too slow to catch you. She remembered, in the early days, trying to see if that was true, if she really was faster than her shadow, but she'd never come to any conclusions.


Chapter 74: Mary - Chasing a Killer, Part 1