Chaotic Cupids: When Love Goes Awry

Coming soon! Chaotic Cupids will be released in eBook, trade paperback, and jacketed hardcover formats on July 22, 2025!

Love is in the air…or is it? When it comes to love, anything can go awry.

What if Cupid’s aim isn’t so perfect after all? What if the arrow finds the wrong target, or the right target at the wrong time?

Romance can blossom in an ancient castle, at a local café, or on an interstellar generation ship. But what happens when magic, technology, planetary alignments, or sheer bad luck turn romance into a disaster?

What if the meet-cute is not so cute?

What if the mystical globe crystals tell you that you have more than one soul mate? 

Or what if you’re a robot who has downloaded feelings? 

Here is your chance to free fall into a world where love, magic, and wonder can devolve into chaos and confusion. Upgrade your situationship with soul mates, arranged marriages, death personified, terraformers, and deals with the devil you know. These 23 original stories and poems take aim at your favorite romance tropes across galaxies, through portals, even into the afterlife…

Brought to life by New York Times bestselling author Kevin J. Anderson and award-winning editor Allyson Longueira—and their graduate students at Western Colorado University—Chaotic Cupids: When Love Goes Awry showcases the beautiful chaos of love in all its many and wondrous forms, with unexpected results, hilarious mistakes, and terrifying consequences. (Winged cherub optional.)

Once Upon A Time … Love got in the way. This wasn’t the plan, but the story might be better that way.