Paranormal Romance

Malo'i is forty minutes away from his weekend when the penthouse elevator sprouts carnivorous purple vines. The culprit is Vaea, a gorgeous, haughty orchid-fae who sprouted from an imported planter and immediately declared herself supreme empress of the 150-story Aethel-Apex tower. Malo'i does not care about ancient fae dominion; he cares about his union break. Armed with commercial weedkiller and relentless deadpan sarcasm, he sets out to prune her revolution. But when the building's automated defense network misinterprets their feud and locks the entire skyscraper down, the sworn enemies are trapped together in a bio-engineered jungle. To survive, they'll have to negotiate a truce—and ignore the intoxicating pheromones blooming between them.

Nusa has one golden rule: don't touch live wires during an electrical storm. He is forced to break it when he finds Sela, a tempest-shifter with electric-blue wings, treating the continental telegraph network as her personal snack buffet. When an industrial power cartel rolls out steam-powered condenser engines designed to harvest every drop of storm-magic from the sky, Sela's clan faces extinction. Since Nusa is the only person on the continent whose skin can ground her volatile static shocks without bursting into flames, she ropes him into an airborne sabotage mission across five nations. Surviving the high-voltage sabotage is hard enough, but resisting their wildly electric mutual attraction proves downright impossible.

Suometar Tuominen wants silence, rain, and steady data from her submerged hydrophones across the Suvantola sound. She does not want Kaarle-alt—a pale, predatory sea-shifter tangled in the intake rotors of her pump station. Kaarle-alt carries the crushing cold of the gulf trench in his lungs and a psychic hum that vibrates through Suometar's jaw whenever he watches her. When regional dredging cutters begin saturation-bombing the shoals with acoustic charges to scour the water of anomalies, Suometar hides the creature in her flooded workshop basement. Trapped together between rising sea surges and encroaching automated patrol boats, the strange resonance between her nervous system and his instincts turns intimate. Saving him means letting an uncanny sea beast claim her home—and her heart.

Aboard the great coal-burning zeppelin *Kurogane*, Kazuki attends to the whims of the wealthy as they drift across toxic planetary cloud decks. His gift is simple: he smells every lie, every spike of terror, and every drop of venom in the circulating air. That is how he knows the reclusive countess in Suite Nine is no mortal passenger. Shizuka is a mist-vampire, an uncanny entity that feeds on the emotional exhalations of dying men. When her nocturnal hunting trips trip the ship's pneumatic scrubbers, Kazuki should raise the alarm. Instead, her cool, intoxicating presence brings peace to his overstimulated mind. But in the thin air between worlds, desire is as volatile as steam.

In the industrial basin of Austvund, the sky pays out sulfur and the foundries run on fat, rendering, and deadening wages. Kjellmar, a blunt chemical mixer pulling twelve-hour shifts at a municipal tallow refinery, intends only to collect his pension and finally build a quiet greenhouse in the smog.

But Smokestack Seven is clogged. A massive stone beast has made a roost over the exhaust damper, threatening a deadly chemical backdraft onto the refinery floor, and the municipal guilds forbid Kjellmar’s crew from firing up the boilers. Using his biological quirk—synthesizing raw fats and his own sweat into complex airborne pheromones—Kjellmar brews a potent solvent meant to annoy the beast off the stack.

Instead, the pheromone array triggers the creature’s dormant nesting instincts. The gargoyle wakes, crashes through the skylights in an avalanche of basalt and iron, snatches the screaming Kjellmar from the catwalk, and drags him back up to the soot-covered rim of the smokestack—publicly declaring the deadpan chemist its eternal hearth-mate before the entire stunned morning shift. Now Kjellmar must survive his own chemical blunder, untangle a mythic courtship while dodging factory inspectors, and keep from getting fired before his pension clears.

Paramedic Lenka has spent her life in foster care, unaware of her true lineage until she pulls a bleeding man from the city's treacherous river. The claw marks on his chest and the strange resonance of his blood awaken something violent and ancient within her. She is the last surviving heir of the Blazsek family, the murdered alphas who once ruled the city's hidden werewolf syndicates. Now, Tibor Zemanek—the ruthless alpha who controls the breweries, the bridges, and the police unions—knows she exists and will stop at nothing to eliminate her. Her only chance at survival comes from an impossible alliance: Radek Krizsek, Tibor's lethal second-in-command, a man whose loyalty to the Zemanek pack masks his own dangerous endgame. As Lenka learns to harness the wolf she never knew she had, she must navigate a deadly political underworld where one wrong step means death, and decide if the man protecting her is her greatest ally or the architect of her destruction.