Victor's Body Shop (Novella): Ghouls and Gals Series, #0.5

By Loretta Kendall

Ghouls and Gals Series: Novella Prequel

Led by greed, the billionaire bachelor heir to the Frankenstein fortune learns the truths behind his family's legends. With the secrets of bringing the dead to life, Victor Frankenstein VI turns his newfound knowledge into a sex toy empire with links to the world elites and Hollywood's entertainment industry. When his most prized creation's free will is driven by ego and the pressure of fame, the scientist's fiancée is at risk of falling into the hands of a monster if Victor doesn't keep promises to make him a star.

After a brutal car crash that takes the life of the racing beauty, Georgina, Victor is forced to make her a bride to his very own Frankenstein monster. Just as life as he knows it collapses around him, an explosion in his lab will change the world forever, merging the horror and human realms and starting the Horror Wars.

 

• Language: English
• Publisher: Loretta Kendall
• Release date: May 24, 2024
• ISBN: 9798224271573

Loretta Kendall

Loretta started her life with a dream and a story in her mind. For as long as she can remember, she was a storyteller, sharing tall tales with her friends from an overactive imagination. Twenty-two years as an image consultant in the entertainment industry, she revisited her love of books and writing. She is also the Editor-in-chief of Lux Local Magazine, a makeup artist, photographer, and graphic designer. She has been writing since 2017 and has a passion for creating happily-ever-after romance stories with the perfect mix of steamy and slow-burn moments. A hopeless romantic, she lives her own happy ever of twenty-four years of wedded bliss.

Book preview

Prologue

Meet Victor Frankenstein VI

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I was on top of the world until the explosion in my lab caused a catastrophic rip in the timeline. Yeah, it’s all my fault, but who am I to complain? I’m a rich, handsome silver fox, and the ladies love me. That’s something, right? Humans and monsters alike come calling on my services, and I have made my laboratory and businesses a household name. Maybe not for the most upstanding reasons, but here I am. Living the life of luxury, as a billionaire bachelor.

Few humans in the past knew about monsters living among us, and lucky for me, my family had a firsthand experience of being part of monster history dating back to the 1800s. I’m not only what their kind call a beater (heart beater) but my family held the cornerstone of monster creation and innovation. I was just the lucky guy who managed to be able to bring it to the mainstream. We live in a new time, and nothing is too taboo for a multi-dimensional world.

Okay, I really shouldn’t be proud of the mess I made, considering I ruined a lot of lives on my quest for fame and fortune. But it worked out, right? No... I’m a screwup. Truth known, I’m not that great of a scientist, but no one needs to know that. Certainly not the feds. If they knew I caused the rift in time, I’d be a dead man. If it wasn’t for my assistant helping me cover up what happened, I’d be spending my days in prison. I'm man enough to admit it. After all, I’m the reason the monster and human realms collided in the first place and the Horror Wars broke out. I did it all for love, and I regret it to this day.

While traveling back and forth through dimensions, selling my monster creations to the elites, I didn’t plan for the explosion that would change life as we know it. Maybe I took one trip too many between the void. You see, I’m a sixth-generation scientist and things sometimes don’t go as planned when you’re dealing with radioactive materials. Things were going great. Then one day, boom. Monsters of all kinds were thrown into the human world forever. It was like every monster in retro films and stories showed up on this rock and I still haven’t figured out how I got into this mess.

There are no more scaring humans, spooking the streets on Halloween, or hiding under a bed at night to scare little kids. Nope. Humans know the truth now, and there’s no turning back. I got to give it to them. They’ve settled in nicely in their new life. The wars only lasted a little over a year before they were proved to not be any real threat, but I still have a load of guilt weighing on me.

So, I guess you would be wondering what exactly I could have been doing that caused this chaos. Several years ago, I was a budding scientist looking to make my mark and on my way to marrying the love of my life. That was, of course, until my uncle passed away. I inherited his vast fortune and an old musty castle that I didn’t want due to its disrepair. The Frankenstein castle was an icon, and only known in legends and storybooks. To our family, it held dark secrets that should have stayed hidden.

The one thing that convinced me to keep it was the legends that came from there and the original stories of the Frankenstein monster. I’m a Chicago native, but my family hails from Geneva, Switzerland, and even as a kid, I was fascinated with science and the stories my family had passed on. Even in the monster world, they passed the Frankenstein story down for generations and thought of as