FERAL: MAX HEAT MONSTER ROMANCE (MM)

Dr. Emery Shaw enters the Exclusion Zone with a research team and a field notebook. He leaves the research team on day three.

He doesn't leave the creature.

Eight feet tall. Iridescent plates that shift between black and deep blue. Amber eyes that track him through the dark. Clawed hands that could crush his ribcage but instead learn — with devastating patience — exactly where to touch.

The creature doesn't speak. It growls. It vibrates at a frequency Emery can feel in his teeth. It pins him to the moss and covers him with its body and makes a sound that translates to MINE across every species barrier.

Emery is a conservation biologist. He catalogs things. He categorizes. He uses clinical language until the creature's mouth finds him in the dark and clinical language stops working. "Involuntary tumescence" becomes "please." "Physiological response" becomes "more." "Scientific objectivity" becomes the sound he makes when the knot swells and locks and the bioluminescent veins pulse blue-white beneath the plates and his body stops being his and starts being theirs.

The research team will come looking. They want to capture the creature. Emery has to choose: the world that named him, or the den that claimed him.

FERAL is a dark monster romance with maximum explicit content, creative monster anatomy, knotting, size difference, possessive claiming, a fated bond. Reader discretion is strongly advised.