This novella was so exactly checking all my boxes that I was convinced it was going to screw something up. I kept thinking: ‘is this going to be… everything I want? In one book??’

Yes, yes it was:
✨ a hot vampire hero, a neurodivergent heroine (who was 30 and not in a ‘I’m a spinster’ way, just in a ‘I’m a woman’ way—love that)
✨ the world-building was Greek-ish gods plus Miss Havisham’s house in Great Expectations… I can’t explain it any better than that. It was like Hercules but make it spooky and vampires
✨ it was hotter than I expected?
✨ when the hero says “May I write to you?” —SWOON
✨ this romance had so many obstacles against it that by about 30% in, I’d convinced myself there was no way this book had an HEA (worry not, it does have an HEA 🥰)
✨ oh, and this whole delight of a fantasy romance was less than 200 pages, on KU.

It’s technically book 1.5 in the Crowns of Nyaxia series but it feels like a standalone. If you want to dip your toe into this author’s style of fantasy romance, this is a great place to start!