First published 2025
Cat walks into a Halloween party and notices Brigan immediately. Everyone around her does too, pressing close to him, laughing too loud, unable to look away. But whatever he is doing to them does not work on her. Brigan is old, centuries old, and his ability to bend people to his will has never failed him before tonight. Cat feels the pull, she is not immune to attraction, but she stays herself even as the night grows warmer and the distance between them closes. When Brigan understands that she can see past the surface of him, past the performance, to what he actually is, everything shifts. One night together carries real stakes. The spell that has shaped his existence for nine centuries might finally break. Or holding onto each other could cost them both something they cannot get back. Christina Lauren's Falling is a short story included in Scared Sexy, a Halloween romance anthology of standalone stories built to be read in a single sitting, each one mixing heat with a genuine edge of darkness.
Genres: romance, fantasy, adult, adult-fiction, dark-romance, paranormal-romance
Vibes: atmospheric, dark, intimate, mysterious, sensual, tension-filled
Tropes: immortal-love, paranormal-romance, power-dynamics, slow-burn
Setting: Halloween party
56 pages · Kindle Edition · Amazon Original Stories
Content warnings: sexual-content