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The Monstrous Beloved
Content Notes
Full content information for every book in the series. These notes are provided so you can make an informed decision about what you read. They are written by the author and updated as books release. Note: The Monstrous Beloved is a standalone-as-series — each book features a new couple. Future series are true sequential novels.
All books are explicit (18+) sapphic romance. All sexual content occurs between adult women.
Sable summoned the wrong thing, and now she can't get rid of it. Vex has been waiting centuries for the right Carnelian to make exactly this mistake.
This is an explicit (18+) dark sapphic romance. All sexual content occurs between adult women.
Present in this book
Explicit sexual content (F/F)
Dubious consent — magical compulsion; the binding creates forced proximity and makes physical intimacy necessary to sustain the bond; both characters are aware of and conflicted by this
Power imbalance (demon/human; information asymmetry)
Emotional manipulation and deception (concealed identity and agenda)
Coercive situation (physical separation causes pain and risk of death)
Referenced past death (off-page, prior to story events)
Generational trauma / family legacy themes
Morally grey main characters
Not present in this book
Graphic violence or gore
Non-consensual sexual content (all intimacy, while magically compelled, is ultimately chosen)
Petra came to Cauldmor to rebuild a career in quiet. Aoibhinn has been sitting on the rocks below the station for three years, calling it grief instead of what it is.
This is an explicit (18+) dark sapphic romance. All sexual content occurs between adult women.
Present in this book
Explicit sexual content (F/F)
Grief and prolonged trauma response (20-year vigil following community loss)
Institutional cover-up and erasure of non-human communities
Power imbalance (selkie/human; information asymmetry)
Professional failure and reputational damage (prior to story events)
Referenced community death and displacement (off-page, prior to story events)
Environmental damage as ongoing consequence of institutional harm
Morally complex secondary character (complicity under duress)
Not present in this book
Dubious consent
Graphic violence or gore
Non-consensual sexual content (all intimacy is fully chosen)
Verity has managed every risk in her black-market operation with careful precision. She did not account for the ancient entity in her basement that finds her fury delightful.
This is an explicit (18+) dark sapphic romance. All sexual content occurs between adult women.
Present in this book
Explicit sexual content (F/F)
Non-consensual access to mental/interior space (historical; addressed in narrative)
Institutional betrayal and career destruction (historical)
Power imbalance (scale; entity/human)
Surveillance and institutional threat
Coercive summoning (accidental; addressed in narrative)
Non-human love interest
Morally grey secondary character
Grief and professional loss
Dubious consent (perception without knowledge; addressed in narrative)
Elowen came back to Skovdal carrying shame she mistook for fact. Tarn has been holding space long enough. The valley remembers everything they haven't said.
This is an explicit (18+) dark sapphic romance. All sexual content occurs between adult women and is consensual and mutual.
Present in this book
Explicit sexual content (F/F), five scenes ranging from non-explicit to fully explicit
Institutionalized surveillance and discrimination against a marginalized group
Coercive business practices involving regulatory leverage against a community
Land dispossession and community displacement as ongoing threats
Sustained internalized shame and self-blame throughout both leads' arcs
Referenced past exploitation/manipulation in one character's backstory (not depicted on-page)
Graphic, anatomically detailed description of shapeshifting/transformation, framed positively rather than as horror
Lucrezia has been keeping the Registry's buried records for centuries, waiting for a journalist worth trusting. She did not plan for what happens when she finally finds one.
Content notes for this book will be published ahead of its release.
