Dating & Dismemberment: A Monster RomCom (Mating and Monsters Book 1)

by A.L. Brody

infamous bronze scourge that had been passed down to her from her mother,

thirty-two

The scourge consisted of nine leather tails attached to a thick, wooden grip, each tail studded by heavy bronze ball bearings.

Traversal was a method of fast travel,

“Hi, Mom,” Darla said.

Was not expecting that

“You’re just lucky Franklin Shine didn’t find your frailty and use it against you instead of that shovel.

If any of these humans discovered ours, they could kill us for good.”

Every monster had a frailty, or a weakness. An object or artifact that was tied to them on an emotional or physical level, whose properties, if weaponized, were the only way a human could kill a monster for good.

I’ve dug more holes in Clear Creek than a gravedigger in Haddonfield,

sometimes you had to do what felt wrong to get to what felt right.

“I’d rather meet a rusty chainsaw with my face than meet my Mantula.

“Listen. Dar. Nothing just falls into place. You have to work for it. Look for it.

who hunted with a near-puritanical fervor reserved for the clergy and certain Floridian politicians.