The Demon Down the Lane

Everyone in Ashgrove Hollow knows to leave the old Bellrose place alone. They say something moved into the ruined orchard behind it three winters ago - something with horns, and claws, and a temper that once cracked a lightning-scarred oak clean in half.

Wren Halloway isn't afraid of ghost stories. She's the one who reopened the bakery her grandmother left her, the one who still waves at the mail carrier, the one everyone in town assumes will be fine, always, because someone has to be. What she is not fine with is a half-collapsed orchard wall on the property line she just inherited - so she marches up the hill to have it out with whatever's living behind it.

She was expecting a bear. She was not expecting Ash: seven feet of scarred, horned, aggressively unimpressed demon who has spent three years making himself very clear that he wants to be left alone - and who has apparently never once, in three years, told anyone to leave.

What follows is not the plan. It's a porch repaired without being asked. A jar of honey left on a doorstep. A town's worth of casseroles that keep mysteriously needing a taste-tester. Wren didn't come up that hill looking for company. Ash didn't think he had it in him to want any. Neither of them planned on found family arriving one stubborn, home-cooked meal at a time - or on falling for the one person too curious, too kind, and too curvy-hipped-and-happy-about-it to take "leave me alone" as a final answer.

This is a slow-burn, small-town monster romance with a soft-hearted grump of a hero, a heroine who was never going to be scared off, a found-family cast that shows up with casserole dishes and zero boundaries, and a guaranteed happily ever after. No cliffhangers. No cheating. Just a demon learning how to be loved, one stubborn baker at a time.

Perfect for readers who love:
Curvy heroine romance. Small-town paranormal romance. Slow-burn monster romance. Grumpy-but-soft demon heroes. Found-family fated-mates romance. Cozy fantasy romance with real heart.

Book 1 of the Ashgrove Hollow series - a small town where every book brings a new demon, a new heroine, and a new happily ever after.