ROSE

As the motherless only child of a ruthless mafia don, I was destined to be leveraged, not loved. Until one of the gargoyles on my family’s centuries-old mansion came to life…and saved mine.

That was a decade ago. Since the night he carried me off, I’ve lived among monsters in Fate’s Falls, a mountain town cloaked and protected by ancient magic. Life has been peaceful and safe. I have everything a twenty-three-year-old woman could want…except romance. Sure, I’ve been on some dates with perfectly nice members of the local monster population, each handpicked and approved by my adoptive gargoyle father, but none of them made my heart race. Not the way Cornelius Reinhorn does.

The hulking rhino-man is tall, thick, strong, and dependable. I’m desperate to know if his gray skin is as rough as it looks, and I’ve spent more nights than I can count fantasizing about that horn on his snout. Cornelius has always been kind to me. Friendly, even, but never more. If only the big monster of my dreams would see me as a womanly flower, ready and willing to be plucked, instead of “cute little Rose,” the shy human who can’t squeak out more than single words in his presence…

A steamy, fated mates, cozy monster romance with a guaranteed Happily Ever After.