A bride auction. A Roc untouched for two hundred years. A nest he builds around her while she sleeps. WREN When my uncle's creditor raises a paddle to claim me, I do the only reckless, impossible thing that might save me. I choose the monster in the shadows instead. Tavrin is nothing like the horror I braced for. He fills my room with books I've whispered about only once. He brings me tea before I know I want it. And when he thinks I'm sleeping, he builds a nest around my body, arranging each book by how fiercely I love it. He watches me like I'm a treasure he's spent lifetimes searching for. But I can't curl into safety. Not yet. TAVRIN I bought her to free her. Now I'm the one undone. The mate bond snaps into place, and the change follows. Wings splitting skin, instincts narrowing to one claim, protect, keep. But Wren's uncle threatens the only family she has left. And to save them, I must choose between two impossible Let her walk away. Or tear this cursed city apart to bring her and her sister home. A spicy, dual first-person gothic monster romance with a guaranteed happily-ever-after, complete as a standalone. ✓ Fated mates ✓ Possessive monster hero ✓ Bought bride / Bride auction ✓ He falls first, hard and helpless ✓ Touch-her-and-die energy ✓ Found family + sister rescue Feral devotion. Dangerous tenderness. A Roc who would level a city for the woman he loves. For readers of Ruby Dixon and Harley Laroux craving a gothic monster husband who builds his bride a nest instead of a cage. One-click now and let the Roc carry you home. _Welcome to the bride market! Monsters bid, you choose. This is a spin-off series to Arranged Monster Mates. We're back on Alia Terra with steamy stories told by your favorite paranormal romance Eva Brandt, Lia Frost, Cara Wylde, and Ava York._

A burned-out healer with nothing left to give. A berserker who's forgotten how to be gentle. One monster who's soft only for her. She went to the Bride Market because she had nowhere else to go. She expected a monster. She didn't expect a man who looks at her like she's something precious. He's dangerous. The berserker rage lives under his skin, waiting. He's spent years alone because the last time he got close to anyone, people died. Everyone is afraid of him. Everyone flinches. Except her. She touches him like it's nothing. Falls asleep against his chest like he's not a monster barely holding himself together. And when she's near, the rage goes quiet. He doesn't understand it. But he knows one She's his. "You make it quiet. When you're near. The rage goes quiet." Soft Only For Her • Touch Starved Hero • Protector Romance • Size Difference • Grumpy/Sunshine • He Falls First Spicy monster romance. Guaranteed HEA. _Welcome to the bride market! Monsters bid, you choose. This is a spin-off series to Arranged Monster Mates. We're back on Alia Terra with steamy stories told by your favorite paranormal romance Eva Brandt, Lia Frost, Cara Wylde, and Ava York._

My body is becoming a prison of stone. For years, I chased a ghost. It is the curse of my without a soulmate to anchor our life force, a golem is doomed to harden into stone. The Marriage Temple never sent a letter; my DNA match never appeared. Now, I am too stiff to travel, dragging my heavy limbs to the nearest bride market as a final, desperate act. The calcification is claiming my breath, my pulse, and my ability to feel. Unless I find her, I will be nothing but a statue, a boulder void of life. Then I see her. She doesn't stand tall like the others. She is cowering, shaking, her pale skin mottled with dark bruises. My hardened heart gives a jagged, painful thud. I know the odds are against me. She is likely another match that won’t take, but I raise my paddle anyway. If I am to end as a cold, unfeeling object, let my last act be her freedom. _Welcome to the bride market! Monsters bid, you choose. This is a spin-off series to Arranged Monster Mates. We're back on Alia Terra with steamy stories told by your favorite paranormal romance Eva Brandt, Lia Frost, Cara Wylde, and Ava York._

She's a poisoner. Blacklisted. Every city in the region has her name on a watch list and her face on a gate notice. Humans don't want her. Monsters don't care. He's the most venomous creature in the kingdom. He's not safe, he's not kind, and he needs something from her that neither of them is ready to say out loud. She chose him because his danger is the kind she knows how to read. He chose her because she didn't flinch. One mountain. No way out but each other. This is going to be a problem. ✔ Morally gray hero ✔ Size difference ✔ Forced proximity ✔ Mountain isolation ✔ Only each other ✔ Touch-starved ✔ Venom as intimacy Dark, tense, spicy monster romance. Perfect for fans of dangerous heroes and heroines who refuse to flinch. One click and follow him into the cold where the only antidote is trust. _Welcome to the bride market! Monsters bid, you choose. This is a spin-off series to Arranged Monster Mates. We're back on Alia Terra with steamy stories told by your favorite paranormal romance Eva Brandt, Lia Frost, Cara Wylde, and Ava York._