Alright, so I’ve already shared a “Fall Book Reads” post, but since it’s spooky season, my TikTok feed has been recommending some absolutely insane books. This post is dedicated to all you monster lovers out there. Also, make sure to double/triple check any trigger warnings.
I had a 10/10 time making this list. Happy Haunting! 🎃
1. A Gargoyle’s Delight by Naomi Lucas & Mel Braxton
For centuries I have suffered. Solidified and silenced, all because I failed to destroy what I was created for.
Except now, after so long… There is a female. One who always seems to be by my side. Day after day. Night after night.
She talks to me. Touches me. Tells me things. She shares stories of a world I no longer know. She is a reprieve from my punishment. A sweet delight. She liberates me from my solitude.
But when I rise, my adversary seizes his opportunity, and she’s caught between us. He only wants her to get to me.
She isn’t his. And I’ll do anything to protect what’s MINE.
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Literally, as I am making this list I am renewing my kindle unlimited subscription…I only lasted a month without it *sigh*
2. The Scarecrow’s Queen by Naomi Lucas & Mel Braxton
Once, I was feared by all who gazed upon me. For the past century I have served, defending my crops in solitude, baring my scythe as an omen.
But when the crops aren’t seeded, I find myself standing over a field of dirt and weeds.
It is her fault.
The female who has inherited the farm. She might be the new queen of these lands, but in her wake, she brings only ruin.
So, I will scare her away. I will claim these fields, and she will learn to fear me!
Until one evening, she is attacked by the crows. She cowers behind me for protection, begging him to spare her life.
Her terror and desperation stir me into action…
Nobody, not even a god, is allowed to frighten what is MINE.
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3. Morning Glory Milking Farm by C.M. Nascosta
Violet is a typical, down-on-her-luck millennial: mid-twenties, over-educated and drowning in debt, on the verge of moving into her parents’ basement. When a lifeline appears in the form of a very unconventional job in neighboring Cambric Creek, she has no choice but to grab at it with both hands.
Morning Glory Farm offers full-time hours, full benefits, and generous pay with no experience needed . . . there’s only one catch. The clientele is Grade A certified prime beef, with the manly, meaty endowments to match. Hands-on work with minotaurs isn’t something Violet ever considered as a career option, but she’s determined to turn the opportunity into a reversal of fortune.
When a stern, deep-voiced client begins to specially request her for his sessions at the farm, maintaining her professionalism and keeping him out of her dreams is easier said than done. Violet is resolved to make a dent in her student loans and afford name-brand orange juice, and a one-sided crush on an out-of-her-league minotaur is not a part of her plan—unless her feelings aren’t so one-sided after all.
Morning Glory Farm is a short human/monster romance novel (60k), featuring a high heat slow burn with a lot of heart, and a guaranteed HEA. It is the first book in the Cambric Creek Monster Romance series and can be read as a standalone. CWs are viewable on the author’s website.
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4. A Soul to Keep by Opal Reyne
All Reia ever wanted was freedom.
Known as a harbinger of bad omens and blamed for Demons eating her family, Reia is shunned by her entire village. When the next offering is due and the monstrous Duskwalker is seen heading their way, her village offers her an impossible choice – be thrown into the prison cells or allow herself to be sacrificed to a faceless monster.
However, he is not what he seems. His skull face and glow eyes are ethereal, and she finds herself unwittingly enchanted by him.
All Orpheus ever wanted was a companion.
Each decade, in exchange for a protection ward from the Demons that terrorise the world, Orpheus takes a human offering to the Veil – the place he lives and the home of Demons. The brief companionship does little to ease his loneliness, and their lives were always, unfortunately, cut short.
He’d thought it was a hopeless endeavour, until he met her. She’s not afraid of him, and his insatiable desire deepens within every moment of her presence.
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5. Court of the Vampire Queen by Katee Robert
Three Powerfully Alluring Vampire Men
And One Queen to Rule Them All
All Mina ever wanted was to escape her father’s control. Half human, half vampire, she lived eternally torn between two worlds, never fully experiencing the pleasures of either―until her father chose her as the pawn in his latest political move, gifting her to the darkly powerful and dangerously seductive Malachi Zion.
Malachi is not a vampire to be trifled with. He rules with an iron fist and has a reputation for the darkest of sins. But the longer Mina spends with him, the more she realizes he’s not the monster she first thought―and as fear bleeds into lust, then trust, then something more, Malachi opens Mina up to a world she never knew could be hers for the taking: including the love of Malachi’s two closest friends and companions.
Now surrounded by all three men, the center of their shockingly seductive world, Mina may finally have the power to face down her father and take back the life―and crown―that by all rights should be hers.
LONG LIVE THE QUEEN.
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6. Ensnared by Tiffany Roberts
He’s spent years as a hunter, but now he’s the one ensnared in a creature’s trap.
Ketahn did not want a mate. Fate has a different plan for him. When the queen he despises declares her intention to claim him, he retreats into the jungle.
What he finds there changes his world.
Small, delicate, and pale skinned, Ivy Foster is nothing like the females Ketahn has known. She’s not of his kind at all. Yet the moment he sees her, he knows the truth in his soul—she is his heartsthread.
And now that he has her, he won’t let anything take her away. Not the jungle, not the gods, not the queen and her warriors.
Whether Ivy agrees or not, their webs are entangled. No one will ever sever those threads.
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7. Love & Monsters by Raven Flanagan
Mina goes out for a moonlit jog when she suddenly falls through a portal into a monstrous world of red skies, demons, and creatures of unimaginable horror. And she’s the only human there.
Captured and taken to be offered as a pet to the Lord of the City, she’s imprisoned in a dungeon cell already occupied by a strangely attractive and powerful prisoner, Vadric.
Sparks fly, and fate throws Mina and Vadric together on the journey of a lifetime. While discovering pleasure that she never could have imagined, Mina must find her strength in a dangerous world.
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8. Jack’s Head by Siggy Shade
The headless horseman was hunting for his next victim.
Well, he found one. Me…
Halloween night is not the time to be out alone. I knew that. But I could either stay with my abusive, soon-to-be-ex fiancé or take my chances with the monster who haunts the roads.
I chose the monster.
He could’ve taken my head on the spot. I…distracted him. Headless Jack was so pleased with my efforts that he made me a sexy proposal. If I stayed with him and satisfied his every dark desire, come morning, I’d leave with my head and his hidden treasure. I could have said no. Maybe I should have. I didn’t. Now, it’s going to be hard, dirty work. But someone has to do it. Might as well be me, right?
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9. A Lady of Rooksgrave Manor by Kathryn Moon
On the brink of losing her position as a maid and with no prospects to go on, the offer of a place at Rooksgrave Manor—a house of ill and unusual repute—sounds like a perfect fit for a young woman with Esther’s inclinations. Even better, the invitation comes by the hand of the handsome Dr. Underwood, a delicate gentleman with a ferocious alter ego who knows exactly what he wants from Esther.
Upon arrival, the men and the daily decadence of the manor feel too good to be true for a girl of Esther’s station. There are rules to be followed, expectations to meet, and Esther is afraid she might be too wicked even for a place like Rooksgrave.
Temptations lurk around every shadowy corner and Esther has never been a girl able to resist. But the risk of disappointing her new gentlemen isn’t all that’s threatening Esther’s new position. Rooksgrave Manor’s protections for its unusual patrons are failing, the wards are crumbling, and Esther’s new and exquisitely pleasurable life may all come tumbling down.
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10. The Kraken’s Sacrifice by Katee Robert
Catalina only made her deal with the demon because she had nowhere else to go. The world has kicked her every chance it got, so she’s all too happy to leave the realm she knows behind. What’s the worst that could happen?
She doesn’t anticipate being auctioned away to a kraken.
Thane is cold and distant…but he’s not unkind. Isolated as they are, Catalina finds herself seeking his company again and again. And when she finally agrees to uphold her portion of the bargain?
That’s when things get really interesting.
But she only gave the demon seven years, and when the time is up, she’ll have no choice but to leave behind the kraken who’s stolen her heart and return to the world that doesn’t want her.
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