A slow-burn, cozy paranormal romance with real stakes.

Stars Hollow x Northern Exposure, with vampires. For readers of The Ex Hex, My Roommate is a Vampire, Payback’s a Witch, and Bride.

Ellery runs to Alaska to figure out what she wants. Too bad nobody mentioned her new boss is grumpy, gorgeous, and technically dead.

Twenty-four years of being the perfect daughter ends with one explosive fight, three thousand miles, and a taxi driver named Gary who drops her in the entirely wrong town. Stranded, she takes the first job she’s ever chosen for herself. Falling for the locals is not on the itinerary.

Nick would like it noted, for the record, that he did not sign up for any of this. He didn't ask to be a vampire. He didn't ask to inherit his dead father's tour company, or the interspecies pact that chains him to Ravenslight Creek for the rest of his very long life. And he definitely didn't ask to hire some city girl in an impractical coat (that part was his meddling mother).

But stuck together, night after night under the northern lights, something shifts. For the first time in her life, Ellery feels seen. And Nick, who gave up on wanting anything, starts to want her. Badly.

When something with teeth comes hunting too close to town, too close to Ellery, Nick is forced to show her exactly what he is, and pray she doesn't run screaming back to New York.

Ellery doesn’t run. She has questions – lots of them. Which is a problem, because Ravenslight Creek has a way of dealing with outsiders who learn too much.

He can't leave.

She was never supposed to stay.

He won’t be the reason she does.

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Book one of the Ravenslight Creek series | 84,000 words

Tropes: grumpy x sunshine, small town Alaska, slow burn, forced proximity (one van, many long, cold nights), found family, he falls first and he falls hard, workplace romance, vampire x human, a little spicy. Cozy vibes with real stakes.

For reviewers: First person, present tense, dual POV (Nick & Ellery). The central romance resolves in this book. A series thread opens in the final scene that carries into book two. No cliffhanger. HFN with a series hook. Book two follows different leads in the same town. 

Content notes: Emotionally manipulative and controlling parents, estrangement from parents; grief and reference to a parent’s death before the book begins; some on-page violence and character death (not graphic); livestock death (aftermath only, not graphic); attempted physical assault (vampire attack); non-consensual memory alteration and the threat of it; mention of missing persons; people held captive; implied surveillance; consensual blood drinking; explicit sexual content, two open door scenes (sensual not graphic, consent negotiated on page, 2-3 🌶️ heat level); profanity. For adult readers.