A Very Proper Monster: Elemental World Book 5

She wrote about monsters. She never thought she'd fall in love with one.

Victorian Dublin. Josephine Shaw is a spinster by reputation and a Gothic novelist by vocation, filling her sleepless nights with stories of dark, impossible creatures. When her father arranges a courtship with the quiet, courteous Tom Dargin, Josie assumes it's another dull obligation, not the beginning of something that will change everything she thinks she knows about the world.

Tom has served his sire faithfully for centuries. Courting a sick, sharp-tongued writer was just another duty. Except Josie doesn't behave like someone who expects to be managed. She asks questions he hasn't been asked in a hundred years. She looks at him like she already knows what he is. And she isn't afraid.

What starts as obligation becomes obsession. What was meant to be temporary becomes the one thing he would burn his long life down to protect.

But Josie is mortal. And the grave has always had the last word.

This collection includes A Very Proper Monster and a bonus short story, Night in the Waking City, where Tom and Josie face a volatile reunion with the wider immortal world in New York. Josie discovers just how dangerous it is to love something that can't die.

A perfect entry point into the Elemental Universe. Stand-alone, complete, and laced with Gothic atmosphere.