by Katee Robert
First published 2023
Grace has spent years tracking what happened to her mother, a monster hunter who made a demon deal and vanished. Now Grace makes the same bargain, walking in with full knowledge of the risk. She lands in the demon realm and gets auctioned off to Bram, a gargoyle she has no intention of staying with. She has a plan. She has a deadline. She has zero interest in him. What she does not have is a thorough read of her contract. Every time Grace tries to leave, Bram finds her and brings her back to his bed. She fights it. She fights him. Then, slowly, she stops. Bram is patient and attentive in ways no one has ever been with her, and pleasure turns out to be a surprisingly effective distraction from old wounds and urgent missions. Grace starts to lose the thread of why she came here at all. The emotional core of the book is this: Grace has starved herself of comfort for so long that when she finally lets herself want something, she cannot easily stop. The past does not stay quiet forever, and when it comes for her, she will have to decide what she actually came to the demon realm to find.
Genres: romance, fantasy, adult, dark-fantasy, paranormal-romance
Vibes: atmospheric, dark, emotional, intimate, sensual
Tropes: captive-romance, enemies-to-lovers, forced-proximity, slow-burn
Setting: demon-realm
185 pages · Paperback · Trinkets & Tales LLC
Content warnings: explicit-sexual-content