Shadow & Flame

The colonies are no place for a witch.

Beset by growing rumors in his New England colony, Lazarus Graydon turns to the one thing he knows best for protection. Magic. In a moment of desperation, he summons a shadow demon and binds himself to it, sight unseen. But when Lazarus sees what steps out of the summoning circle, he realizes he may have gotten more than he bargained for.

Humans are to be avoided.

Tenebrae isn’t exactly thrilled with the arrangement, far from it, in fact. The wandering shadow finds himself trapped in an unfamiliar land, bound to the most infuriating and enticing human he’s ever encountered.Can Lazarus win over the ferocious Tenebrae, or are they doomed to be enemies?

Shadow & Flame is a medium burn, dark, enemies to lovers monster romance with a dual setting in present day Graymourne and its 1700s counterpart. An over-confident witch meets his match when he summons a shadow demon for protection. For readers who like their princes as dark as they are charming.

Content Warnings: Adult content, explicit sexual situations, violence between the MCs (prior to their relationship), gore, discussion of LGBTQIA+ bigotry, witch trials, death, under-negotiated kink, consentual but not safe or sane, mild cosmic horror, light blood and knife play, body horror, haunting/stalking, and brief animal death.