I recently got the rights back to my first two horror romances and have re-released the first book, His Final Girl in a new, improved edition.
Writing cross-genre books comes naturally to me. My debut series was historical paranormal romance. Part of me is still baffled that it took so long for me to realize I could write horror romance.
However, marketing was not easy. My original publisher for this, and my next three horror romances, was a romance publisher, so they categorized and marketed it as a romance, and it IS a romance, with an HEA after all the carnage. However, the cover, while it had horror fonts, looked like a YA romance, and not making the horror elements clear enough. And, speaking of YA, making a series of books based on 80s horror movies meant writing about horny teenagers. And the publisher, of course wanted sex scenes since my previous series had them. Which means, these are not YA books.
Now that the sex and romance is covered, let’s move onto the horror. As I said in the original author’s note and in many interviews, horror was my first love, not romance, though I was hooked on those since my first one too. I remain eternally grateful to my agent and my former publisher for giving me the opportunity to write a horror romance series. Though this series didn’t take off like I’d hoped, it was so much fun to write. And I received so much joy when hearing from readers who loved what I was doing with these.
Writing these books even gave me the courage to write straight-up horror. You can find those works under the pen name, Brooklyn Ann Butler.
And lastly, this edition has a few changes, the biggest being the series name. The reference to B movies in “B Mine” didn’t resonate as well as I’d planned. So, since I always pitched these books as “80s horror movies, but with a Final Couple instead of a Final Girl,” The Final Couples works much better.
You will also find a teeny bit more gore added to some scenes, slight alterations to paragraphs, as well as a few minor corrections.
However, this is still not highbrow literature, but cheesy schlock as was always intended. Enjoy!
You can get the new, improved edition of His Final Girl on
Amazon
My store
Kobo
Google Play
Apple
Itch.io
Smashwords
Barnes & Noble (for some reason, the ebook cover isn't showing on that one and the paperback switches. The $13.99 one is the new one, but there's still a live link to the old paperback.)
AUDIO NEWS!!!
I also just signed a contract with Fright Night Audio to have an audiobook adaptation narrated and produced through them. The audiobook will probably come out in 2026 and will be on Audible only for 90 days after, then will go wide.
If you happen to be a voice actor or audiobook narrator, you can audition to narrate this book!
And if you're a book reviewer, you can request to review it!
If all goes well, I'll have them adapt the whole series!
The Final Couples #1
Two outcasts fall in love at summer camp. Will their romance be slashed by a masked killer?
On a North Idaho lakeshore stands a cheery summer camp built on the bones of an old mining settlement with a dark past. When Amteep High's 1979 senior class goes to Camp Natty, farm girl, Linnea Langenkamp, and computer nerd, Wes Carpenter fall in love at first sight as the jocks and cheerleaders try to make them miserable.
When Wes forewarns Linnea and her friends about a panty-raid, the jocks attempt to retaliate with a cherry-bomb, which goes off in a mineshaft and awakens a sleeping evil. The morning after Wes and Linnea consummate their love, the first body is found. A storm washes out the bridge and takes out the phone lines, trapping the campers. Then the bloodbath begins.
One by one, teachers and students are massacred in gruesome ways by an unstoppable killer that looks like a man, but isn't. An old miner's diary reveals a supernatural evil that won't stay buried.
Linnea's woodsy knowledge and Wes's techy skills flip their outcast status, putting the unlikely couple as the best line of defense against the killer.
Written in the tradition of summer camp slashers like Friday the 13th, Sleepaway Camp, and The Burning, His Final Girl promises all the cheesetastic staples: jocks, stoners, nerds, sex, keggers, off-the-wall gory kills…A few tropes are flipped, with unexpected survivors, and an HEA that romance readers crave.
New Adult | Horror | Romance Suspense [Broken Angels, On Sale: August 29, 2025, e-Book, / eISBN: 1230009324466]
A sweet romance with authentic characters, and a little blood and gore thrown in!
Formerly an auto-mechanic, Brooklyn Ann thrives on writing romance, urban fantasy, and horror novels featuring unconventional heroines and heroes who adore them. Author of historical paranormal romance in her critically acclaimed Scandals with Bite series, urban fantasy in the cult favorite, Brides of Prophecy novels, rockstar romance in the award-winning, Hearts of Metal series, and horror in the B Mine series, horror romances riffing on the 1970s and 1980s B horror movies that feature a Final Couple instead of a Final Girl. She lives in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho with her gamer son, rockstar/IT Guy boyfriend, three cats, a few project cars, an extensive book collection, and miscellaneous horror memorabilia.
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