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Since 1971, the newspaper of record for the San Francisco Bay Area Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender community.

Len Handeland's debut novel 'The Darkest Gift' is the perfect book to read on a dark and stormy night. The tale of Fabien and Laurent, two gay vampires who meet and fall in love in 18th-century Paris, is romantic and, at times, downright scary.

Authors headshot "I wrote The Darkest Gift as I felt no other author had written an enthralling vampire romance novel since Anne Rice, which was a breakthrough in featuring two vampires of the same gender as a couple. I felt it was necessary to write a compelling and enthralling book where my vampires were complicated and less ambiguous about their sexual orientation. Where the focus is on love, whether human and vampire or two vampires, bringing dignity back to stories written about same-sex ...