This is Not a Bedtime Story

Your bedroom looks exactly the way it did when you fell asleep. The door is closed. Your things are where you left them.

But now you can’t move, and something on the ceiling is moving toward you.

That’s the kind of darkness you’ll find in The Shadow.

Ella has spent thirty years living with sleep paralysis and the things that come with it. Some terrify her. One has become a familiar presence.

Hat Man.

He watches from the shadows and keeps the other creatures away.

Ella has never been afraid of him, which gets complicated when he stops keeping his distance, because being comfortable with the shadow in your bedroom is one thing... wanting him to touch you is another.

I wanted to follow that familiarity into something darker and more intimate. His presence brings comfort, but it also brings jealousy, possession, and a devotion that doesn’t follow human rules.

Then there are the family secrets, an old bargain, an inherited debt, and something that believes it has a claim on her.

The Shadow is an adult dark paranormal romance with explicit content, unsettling creatures, dark humor, and a love interest who gives “watching you sleep” a very different meaning.

He isn’t the monster in her room. He’s what the monsters fear.