Total pages in book: 125
Estimated words: 122030 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 610(@200wpm)___ 488(@250wpm)___ 407(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 122030 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 610(@200wpm)___ 488(@250wpm)___ 407(@300wpm)
“I think I can. That neighbor calls the next neighbor. Like a phone tree.”
Ryet points at me. “Exactly. And that neighbor calls the next, and on, and on, and on so…” We stop in front of a driveway that leads… up. Even though it’s winter, and cold, and the wind is blowing pretty good, there are at least ten people blocking that driveway.
Ryet puts the truck in park, then turns it off and looks at me as he continues his thought. “So that by the time Ryet the-man-who-doesn’t-age-at-the-top-of-the-hill gets to his driveway, they can be there to welcome him home. Because he’s been missing for about three years now.”
Then he opens his door, gets out, and walks over to the group of people. I watch as they all smile, and shake his hand, and pat him on the back. Several women are holding casserole dishes. How the hell did they have time to put that together?
I get out too, unsure what else to do, but I don’t want to be unfriendly. In fact, I am eager to meet these people who live in these hills and know what he is, and are OK with that.
As as I say hello—and learn, in the moment, that I am Ryet’s girlfriend when he introduces me—I stop seeing him as the monster I’m turning him into and start seeing him as Ryet the-man-who-doesn’t-age-at-the-top-of-the-hill.
Who just so happens to be the same man I met in a diner parking lot a couple weeks ago.
Charming. Quick to smile and laugh. Funny, and beautiful, and careful not to startle or scare. Using humor to put people at ease.
He’s so. Not. Paul.
And this is the moment I know, with a hundred percent certainty, that I made the right choice to save him.
Because he will never be Paul.
And I don’t have to worry about how long I will need to feed him.
Because that’s not why we’re here.
We’re not here to hide.
We’re here to live.
If you liked this book you should check out my other paranormal romance under my pen name, KC Cross.
Book one is called Damaged Gods and the series is called The Monsters of Saint Mark’s. It’s truly the monster romance you didn’t know you needed.
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THE MONSTERS OF SAINT MARK’S is a fun paranormal monster romance series about a girl named Pie who accidentally stumbles into a monster's 2000-year-old curse only to find she's exactly where she's supposed to be.
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When I answered an ad for a caretaker at Saint Mark’s Sanctuary I thought I’d be dusting chandeliers and polishing floors. I didn’t expect to be tricked into a curse, going in debt to a monster, and being forced to take a self-paced “Let’s Learn Magic” course so I can fix a two-thousand-year-old problem.
And that monster?
Not your ordinary, everyday beast.
He has hooves, and horns, and fur on his legs.
But ya know where he doesn’t have fur?
Yep. There.
Which is fine.
Except he doesn’t wear pants.
Nothing at Saint Mark’s is exactly what it seems.
The entire inside is magic, the hallways upstairs are nothing but parties from the past, and the super-hot guy who lives in the dungeon?
Yeah.
Not human.
My name is Pie and all I want is to be a normal girl with an average life.
I refuse to get stuck in this curse.
I refuse to learn magic to break it.
And there is no way in hell I will fall in love with a monster.
Famous.
Last.
Words.