Bought By the Ankou

One night. One mask. One stranger I was never supposed to see again.

Tomorrow, I’m selling myself to save the only family I have left. Tonight, I want to forget what morning will cost.
Then I dance with a masked stranger.
He listens when I talk. Touches me like he’s been waiting centuries. And when he asks me to stay, I do what I always do when something good gets too close.
I run.
By noon, I’ve chosen the Ankou as my husband.
He carries the dead. Even the other monsters won’t stand beside him. And he looks me in the eye and tells me he isn’t the man who held me last night.
Fine. I can fill his silent house with noise. Argue about his badly hung bell. Make his stone-faced butler almost smile.
What I can’t explain is the masked stranger who comes to my door after dark.
No names. No questions. Nothing said about daylight.
Those are my rules. They should make this easy.
But something in the fen is wearing the faces of the people we love, and the man who raised me is running out of time. Saving him means trusting my husband with more than my body.
And I know that voice. I know those hands.
If I say his name, I’ll have to admit why I keep opening the door.
Soft Only for Her • Secret Identity • Masquerade • Grumpy/Sunshine • He Falls First

A spicy monster romance with a guaranteed HEA. Welcome to the Monsters’ Bride Market on Alia Terra. 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 authors: Eva Brandt, Lia Frost, Cara Wylde, and Ava York.