Welcome to the Dark & Spicy Book Club! Have you ever felt outside or alone in book clubs because what you write didn't fit in with most of the other books in the club? You read other people's books, hoping they'd read yours, but never really got much in return? Have you ever felt wrong or misunderstood because you write the characters and topics you do? Do you want to meet others like yourself, get feedback on your work, and read books within your niche? Well, look no further. The Dark & Spicy Book Club, run by The Dark & Spicy Community, might be the place for you. Take a look inside and see if this club is the perfect for for you and your books.

Kristy Knight came to Gravity Falls to start over - new job, new town, new life. But when her estranged sister Kathy (a notorious thief known as the Velvet Cat) tracks her down, Kristy's quiet new beginning collides with old secrets, dangerous habits, and the chaotic warmth of the Pines family. Between Ford's gentle curiosity, Stan's gruff charm, and Kathy's refusal to behave, Kristy discovers that starting over isn't as simple as she hoped - and family isn't something you can outrun. A story about sisters, second chances, and the strange magic of belonging. *** Notes: I'm going to upload chapters (consistently lol) twice a week, Monday and Thursday 7:00 pm (pacific).

At seventy-eight, Wayne Richards thought his fighting days were long behind him. The Caribbean-born veteran now calls Clementine Heights his residence, where grief is his only constant companion. When inhuman screams echo through Clementine's sterile corridors and the impossible unfolds before him, Wayne discovers that life has one more war for him to wage. Armed with nothing but a cricket bat and decades-old military training, he must confront a nightmare no one prepared for. As the familiar world crumbles around him, Wayne faces an impossible choice between surrendering and standing his ground.

A 72-year-old mad Soviet genius - illegitimate son of composer Dmitry Shostakovich, fugitive physicist, and connoisseur of blini - fled to the UK in the 1990s with miles of stolen superconducting wire. Now in 2025 he's dragging a baffled postmistress to Riga in a clunky Volga, dodging Interpol (or is it the Kazakh mafia?), while his motorbike-obsessed British sidekick tries to untangle why Igor's "harmless" string theory research might just be the universe's deadliest weapon. Chaos, curd-cheese pancakes, and cosmic chords ensue. Tone: Darkly comic, Big Lebowski meets Cold War spy farce. Comparisons: "If A Gentleman in Moscow crashed into The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window... with extra vodka."