Sinful Signings 2025 is on the horizon (July 19th-20th in Roanoke, Virginia), so things are getting dark here at Smutco Industries! We're kicking off our coverage of the dark romance genre with a book that came highly recommended by patron/dear friend Katie Hurd; Draga & the Savage: Dragobete by Jenny Allen. The spice may be on the low end, but the passion is INTENSE!

Book Descirption

Luminita
As a woman in medieval Romania, the inability to control my fate quickly grew from annoyance to a festering wound. Even as a Durand, who can rip the soul from a man, I have no place in power because I am female. When I left my home in Kotor, I vowed to prove the world wrong. Then I stumbled across a true mystery who eventually called me Draga, Beloved.

Aaron
After seven thousand years of life, I thought I'd uncovered all of life's secrets. Blood was my only joy as a vampire. When the Mongol's Golden Horde descended on us in 1241, I seized the opportunity to indulge myself amongst their atrocities. That is until a chance encounter earned me the name Salbatic, the Savage, and forever changed my life.

Triple T's

TRIGGERS: dark themes, violence, gore, & murder, on-page death of a minor, attempted sexual assault, depictions of war and devastation, drug use: both consensual & non-consensual, vampires (blood, blood letting, blood consumption).

TROPES: F/M cis/heterosexual dark romance ft. vampiric characters, historical romance (medieval eastern Europe), only one bed, romance NOT a love story.

TITILLATIONS: ritualistic sex, blood play and violence, sex outdoors, power struggle.

So...What Are You Into?

Katie: Doctor Who
Carl: Monster Prom 4 - Monster Con

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Music: "Storytime" by Mated Fates

This week, Katie and Carl continue to gush about their time at Monsterotica Book Con, including how delighted they were to meet B.C. King and Phantom Dame, co-creators of Cold Nights In A Warm Cave, the book we are covering this week. Join us and marvel at how quickly this book goes from sweet to silly to spicy in the blink of an eye!

Producer's Note: there is a tone at the 29:55 mark to indicate this week's Brief Descriptions of Long Books.

Book Description

Olivia, a fearless homesteader on the edge of civilization, is on a mission to establish a partnership with a notoriously isolationist enclave of bear folk. She sets off in search of the mythical caves, but when an unexpected blizzard snows out the road home, her only option is to find shelter within the enclave itself.

Winter has come early, and for the fifth year in a row, Vetch has failed to find a hibernation partner. Bracing for a season of cold, lonely nights, he heads into the woods, hoping to forage some comfort food, but to his surprise, he finds an entirely different kind of snack: a plump, juicy human woman.

The nights may be cold, but for two lonely souls in a firelit cave, things are heating up.

Triple T's

TRIGGERS: isolation (self-imposed), dangerous winter weather nearly kills our FMC, the subsequent illness nearly kills our FMC, mortification nearly kills our FMC.

TROPES: F/M Cis/Het romance ft. human FMC and Bearman MMC, snowed in, only one bed, nursed back to health, plus-size romance (e’rbody’s big), wife guy, makeover scene, pregnancy.

TITILLATIONS: BIG size difference, stretching and stuffing, dangerous blow jobs, excessive fluids, sex in public.

Brief Descriptions of Long Books: Once & Forever Kings series by Jonathan Hawker

So...What Are You Into?

Katie: "The Deep Blue Okay" by Self Esteem and "The Song (Love Is All)" From O'dessa
Carl: Doom: the Dark Ages

BONUS LINK: O'dessa trailer

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Katie and Carl Mizell are Smutco Industries. Together, they create Cheap Smut, a podcast for people who would never let anyone see their Kindle library. Each week, Katie explains the plot of a cheap, smutty book ($4.99 or less) to her husband Carl, who has little to no idea what the book is about.