Into the Mire: Dark Fantasy Monster Romance
By Kora Valeka
[US Sale] She fell into the dark with nothing but a plan. She did not plan for him.
Nessa has survived on one rule: everything has a price. The Wardens' shaft took her boots, her leverage, and every exit she could see — but not her logic. Somewhere in the bioluminescent jungle beneath the surface world is an angle, a deal, a way out. She just has to find it before the dark does.
She finds Vargos instead.
He is massive. Scarred. Operating on the ragged edge of sanity — the Gloom-Rot has ...
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[US Sale] She fell into the dark with nothing but a plan. She did not plan for him.
Nessa has survived on one rule: everything has a price. The Wardens' shaft took her boots, her leverage, and every exit she could see — but not her logic. Somewhere in the bioluminescent jungle beneath the surface world is an angle, a deal, a way out. She just has to find it before the dark does.
She finds Vargos instead.
He is massive. Scarred. Operating on the ragged edge of sanity — the Gloom-Rot has been eating him for three years, and the beast behind his eyes is patient and growing. He should want something from her. That is how this works. That is how everything works.
He feeds her. Tends her wounds. Sleeps across her doorway so nothing reaches her in the night. And he refuses — every time, with infuriating calm — to let her pay for it.
Nessa's entire worldview cannot account for a creature who wants nothing in return. Her rational mind insists there is a price she hasn't found yet. Her body, inconveniently, is beginning to suspect he simply considers her worth keeping.
But the Rot is advancing. She can see it — the beast surfacing behind his eyes, the control slipping — and when the worst of it hits, she faces the only choice that cannot be calculated: reach for him not as payment, not as transaction, but as his anchor.
What does it cost to choose someone without a ledger entry?
And what does it mean that he has been holding himself very still, all this time, waiting to see if she would?
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