Hello, my Wylde-lings!

Happy Halloween! We're nearly there! I'm not going to do anything special for Halloween this year, but I hope you will! I'm very curious to see how Norwegians celebrate Halloween (if they celebrate it at all). In Romania, it wasn't a thing.

This will be a short email. I just wanted to let you know that the fourth book in the Monsters' Bride Market series is live today. It's also in Kindle Unlimited, if you prefer it that way.

Lia Frost brings you... *drum roll*... a pain hunter! He's a sort of vampire, but he feeds off pain, not blood. Sounds intriguing to me!

Bought by the Pain Hunter

by Lia Frost

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The bride market offers women a choice. I walked in ready to pick someone survivable—not someone terrifying. Not someone I wanted.

In Alia Terra, monsters rule. The only way out for a broken, unmatched woman like me? Sell myself at auction—and hope I don’t regret it.

But when the bidding begins, it’s not the sleazy merchant or the four-armed aristocrat who makes my blood burn.

It’s the shadow in the back of the warehouse. Towering. Unmoving. Watching.

When he speaks, the others fall silent.

And when he wins me, I know I’ve made a mistake.

Because Kiakoa isn’t just a monster—he’s a pain hunter. Feeding on agony. Built for destruction. And somehow, gentle with me.

Until he’s not.

Until he touches me like he needs me to live. Until I start craving the heat of his skin and the violence in his voice. Until I realize…

He’s not going to break me.

He’s going to ruin me.

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As for my new book, Thing of Ruin, the update I can give you is that... I think I'll have to move the release date to February next year. I think. I'm not yet sure, and I'll wait another few weeks, but the truth is that I'm slow in writing this one. Not because I don't sit down every day to write! It's just that I can only do one chapter a day. I hoped I could do more, and I hoped my pace would pick up after I wrote the first few chapters (which are always hard), but I have to do a lot of research as I write, and that takes time.

If you remember, I told you last time that the story is set in the year 1818, in Bavaria. I'm trying to be as immersive as I can, and that means researching every little thing about that period. I did a lot of research before starting to write the book, but still, as I write each chapter, more questions arise, and I'm not the kind of writer who just skips the details and leaves them for later.

It's going to be a beautiful book, I promise. A lot like Bought by the Revenant, but so much more.

Here is some new art my husband made! This is the main character, Rune. OMG, just looking at him, my heart aches. You're going to love him so much!

Until next time,

Cara