This Monster of Mine

Some monsters wear their cruelty like armor. Tetrarch Kadra wears his like a crown.

Four years after surviving a brutal, unsolved attack that left her scarred in ways no one can see, Sarai returns to the city as a Petitor — a prosecutor with the rare magical gift of detecting lies. She expects justice. What she gets is an assignment alongside Kadra himself, the most powerful and feared of the city's four ruling Tetrarchs, and the prime suspect in a string of murders that mirror her own worst nightmare with chilling precision.

Set in a richly imagined historical fantasy world where magic bends the courtroom and corruption runs as deep as the city's ancient foundations, *This Monster of Mine* is a dark, intoxicating blend of romantasy and mystery that refuses to play by the rules.

By day, Sarai stands at Kadra's side, using her gifts to serve the very man she suspects destroyed her. By night, she quietly builds the case that will ruin him. It's a perfect plan — until Kadra proves far more complicated than a villain has any right to be. His ruthlessness is real, but so is his war against the city's rot. And the pull between them, electric and deeply inconvenient, threatens to unravel everything she's worked for.

The truth about her attacker is closer than she thinks. So is the terrifying possibility that she might be falling for a monster.