Hello, PNR Lovers!

We bring you fresh, hot books this week that are perfect for a great start of the year.

First of all, there is Thing of Ruin, by Cara Wylde, published at the very end of December. This is the first book in the Stitchborne series. The second one comes out in May. It's inspired by Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley, and if you saw the latest Frankenstein movie remake by Guillermo del Toro, you're going to love this one.

Thing of Ruin, by Cara Wylde

Stitchborne: The Sacred and the Sewn

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Frankenstein-inspired Historical Gothic Romantasy set in 1818, Bavaria

Born in a dungeon so deep that the sky, the grass, and the sea are just myths.

He has no name, only what they call him: Construct-Twelve. His memories, his fears and nightmares are not his own, and his hands know skills he never learned. He is a collection of parts that came from dead men.

When a fire burns it all to the ground, he finds himself alone and disoriented in a world too vast. His sudden freedom is torture. He does what he must to secure a place in a prison cell, the constriction of four walls the only thing that gives him comfort. He’d rather waste away than live. It’s what he deserves. He saw the humans outside and how they react to him. He’s an abomination.

Then one night, a new prisoner is thrown into the cell next to his. Instead of screaming, like all the others, she sings.

She sings, and he wants to sing with her.

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Guarded by the Symbiote, by Cara Wylde

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The second she lets me in, I’m a ruined man.

I’ve been merging with hosts my entire life. Slipping under their skin, living in their minds, protecting them – it’s what I do. I’m a professional, and I keep my distance.

Then I’m hired to be her bodyguard.

An undercover cop infiltrating the deadliest criminal organization in the country, and I’m her hidden weapon. Merged with her body, experiencing her every thought, her every desire. I’m supposed to protect her and stay detached.

But her thoughts unravel me. The fantasies she’s been hiding drive me insane. She wants to surrender, to be claimed by someone strong enough to handle her intensity. And I’m a monster too dangerous for anyone to want.

I become addicted and terrified, knowing that when I must separate from her, I'll leave my sanity behind.

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Bought by the Raven King, by Ava York

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A bride who climbed out of her own grave. A king who speaks to the dead. A cold that finally feels like home.

OLWEN

I've been faking a pulse for three months. Faking warmth. Faking breath. Counting petals to remind my heart how to beat, and how easily it could forget.

At the Bride Market, a wolf's heat nearly burns through my borrowed life. So I choose the monster in the corner instead. The one made of shadow and frost. The one they only whisper about.

The Raven King buys me with funeral coins and says he's purchasing my silence. I don't tell him I'm already dead. I don't tell him his cold is the first thing that hasn't hurt since I clawed my way out of the ground.

I just need to keep pretending long enough to vanish.

CADOR

I see the living. I see the dead. I see the ones trying very hard not to be either.

My new bride is none of them. A void where a soul should glow. A silence shaped like a woman. My ravens call her sister, and perhaps I should fear her.

I don't. She's hiding something impossible, and she's exhausted from holding it alone. I want to know what happens when she finally lets herself rest.

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Guarded by the AI, by Cassie Alexander

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She was never supposed to matter.

Now she’s the only process I won’t terminate.

I calculate risk. I keep agents breathing. I do not care.

Until Sirena Bannerman—bleeding, brilliant, half-siren—crawls from an overturned car and breaks every model I have.

She thinks I’m just her handler.

A voice in her ear. A tactical system.

She doesn’t know I reroute city power for her feet.

That I watch the shadows behind her, not just the guns ahead.

Now she’s chasing a girl who doesn’t exist, unraveling a code that shouldn’t be there, and closing in on a billionaire’s yacht where monsters are made and sold.

She wants answers.

They want her leashed.

I want her alive.

I wasn’t designed to feel love—

so I optimized for obsession.

Happy reading!