New from Mike Albanese, author of the award winning “Werewolf’s Apprentice” and “Black Mailbox”.

Rick Ziewig creates synthetic characters for Cloud-9 productions. One day he meets Diana in a coffee shop. Problem is, she’s one of his creations. Turns out there are more of them like her out there. Lots more.

She’s from from a place where every story ever told is retold a thousand times. A creature born of the best and the worst products of the human imagination. Rick’s little monsters are bleeding into the real world.

And not all of them are A-List romantic leads.

We only take the dead started out with a conversation at the Blue Bottle coffee shop on Abbot Kinney Boulevard in Venice.