He can’t lie. She can’t go outside. Romance novelist Frances Halloran hasn’t left her house since a stranger stabbed her, so writing letters to the Sealed—monsters freed from beneath the ridge after centuries—seems safe enough. But when a fire takes her sweet pen pal Peregrine’s farmhouse, she offers him her spare room, and his brother Rook comes with him. Rook takes whatever he wants: her coffee, her chair, her patience. The only things he won’t touch are the ones she gives him freely. A slow-burn monster romance and book one of The Ambry Compact. Free on Kindle.