STING IN THE TAIL

A Monster Romance

He was engineered to be a lethal weapon. She just needed a place to survive the storm.

Sophie Sutton has lost everything: her corporate job, her London apartment, and the last exhausting shreds of her family's conditional approval. Her only lifeline is a sudden inheritance—half of a highly secured, climate-controlled estate in the remote Scottish Highlands. But when she arrives in the middle of a blinding, brutal blizzard, she discovers her new sanctuary is already occupied.

Matthew Croft is not a man. He is a heavily armored, venomous scorpion-hybrid, engineered by a ruthless medical syndicate to be the perfect predator. Having escaped his creators, his survival depends on total, undisturbed isolation and the estate's specialized geothermal heat. He is terrifying, territorial, and demands she leave immediately.

Then the winter storm kills the boiler.

Without the heat, Matthew’s cold-blooded biology turns his impenetrable armor into a frozen prison. Suddenly, the apex predator needs Sophie to survive the night. As they are forced to work together to restore the failing mechanics, the ice between them thaws. Sophie realizes the terrifying monster is fiercely protective and doesn't require her to be "useful" to be wanted. Matthew discovers the one human who doesn't look at him and see a weapon.

But Matthew’s past hasn't stopped hunting him. When the syndicate breaches their perimeter, Matthew must choose: retreat behind his impenetrable, isolated armor, or risk biological failure to protect the only warmth he has ever known.
A slow-burn, high-stakes monster romance featuring forced proximity, grumpy x sunshine dynamics, and a fiercely protective hero who will burn the world down for his mate.

Tropes:

• Monster Romance
• Sci-Fi / Alien Romance
• Forced Proximity (Snowed In)
• Grumpy / Sunshine
• Touch-Starved / Protective Hero
• HEA (Happily Ever After) Guaranteed