by Katee Robert
First published 2025
Gemma is a sleep paralysis demon on her first solo assignment. Her job is simple: slip into a sleeping human's room and terrify him. She picks the wrong target. Caleb is a romantic who already believes in the supernatural, and when he opens his eyes and sees her pink skin and horns, he is not scared. He is interested. Gemma came to haunt him and instead finds herself stuck, fascinated, unable to do what she was sent to do. The night stretches out between them, warmer than it should be, and feelings surface that have no place in a demon's job description. By morning Gemma faces a real problem. She can return to her duties and leave Caleb behind, or she can admit that one human has made her feel something other than monstrous. This short story by New York Times bestselling author Katee Robert appears in Scared Sexy, a Halloween romance collection of stand-alone stories built to be read in a single sitting, each one mixing dread and desire in equal measure.
Genres: short-stories, romance, fantasy, horror, adult, paranormal-romance
Vibes: darkly-romantic, intimate, supernatural, tension-filled, whimsical
Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, forced-proximity, one-night-encounter, unlikely-connection
Period: Halloween
52 pages · Kindle Edition · Amazon Original Stories