Sinister Desires

By Faedra Rose

It’s All Hallows’ Eve and Charleigh Llewellyn has just been dumped like a piece of trash after giving her ex-boyfriend a second chance over the holidays. Forced to walk home to her parents—through the woods—she is accosted by a pack of ravenous wolves.

But there are worse things than wolves lurking in the woods, and soon Charleigh finds herself indebted to a living, breathing monster. Following her most sinister desires, Charleigh feels compelled to repay the creature—soon learning the truth about his curse and much, much more...

• Language: English
• Publisher: Evernight
• Release date: Oct 7, 2022
• ISBN: 9780369506955

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Copyright© 2022 Faedra Rose

ISBN: 978-0-3695-0695-5

Cover Artist: Jay Aher

Editor: Jessica Ruth

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WARNING: The unauthorized reproduction or distribution of this copyrighted work is illegal. No part of this book may be used or reproduced electronically or in print without written permission, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in reviews.

This is a work of fiction. All names, characters, and places are fictitious. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

DEDICATION

This series is dedicated to all my fellow spooks, to those who love the darkness and live for the excitement and thrill of Halloween! You are my people, and I hope you enjoy reading this book as much as I did writing it. Stay spooky monster lovers!

SINISTER DESIRES

Loving Monsters, 1

Faedra Rose

Copyright © 2022

Chapter One

Flicking up the collar of my leather jacket, I adjust my scarf to protect my neck from the bitter chill. The one downside of having a funky neon orange pixie cut during fall—a bare neck. Breathing into my gloved hands for extra warmth, I watch as my escaping breath mists in the air before whorling away on the breeze.

The blood moon of All Hallows’ Eve hangs high overhead, its lurid radiance obscured by the twisting and gnarled branches of the woods. A piercing screech in the night disturbs a colony of bats and they take to the sky, their small silhouettes dancing chaotically past the moon.

I could kick myself for my current predicament; not that I mind the dark or solitude. But what kind of idiot gives her ex a second chance? Tonight, we were meant to just hang out, drive around town trick-or-treating like old times, and then we were going to take our ill-gotten gains to The Lookout and enjoy sexy Halloween fun in the backseat…

I should have known it was a trick. Jerks don’t change their colors. So instead of rekindling our college romance, he thought humiliating me in front of all the other couples at The Lookout would be a spectacularly funny way to wrap up our sham of a date. The fucker took my candy, then kicked me out of the car, leaving me alone and with no way of getting home.

I could fucking scream. The next time I see Cooper, it’s going to be the last time he has functional balls—and I’m not talking about the ones he plays gridiron with! Ugh. So, now, here I am, walking for miles through the woods that back onto all the old farms in the region. Some still have elderly caretakers, but most are derelict and abandoned—left to rot and ruin after the last generation of farmers passed on.

Farrowville doesn’t have space in its heart