Ember Stone
Where the Dark Loves Back.
Contains explicit content. Intended for readers 18+.
Ember Stone writes dark romance and high-heat monster romance — visceral, sensory, and shot through with dread-as-desire. Set in dark gothic estates and ancient lands, where the old things still hunger and the chosen are never warned. Books for readers who want their love stories with teeth.
Latest Release
Blood Flame
Book 5 of The Monstrous Claim Series
Released July 30, 2026
High Heat Monster RomanceA dragon-king and blood-flame vampire. One woman. One closing bargain. She came to write the book of her career and found two ancient beings who set fire to everything she thought she knew.
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Cruel Inheritance
The Hargrove estate. Four brothers who collect what they can't have. A crime the family has spent decades burying.
East Coast Gothic EstatesOld money, older sins: the Hargrove brothers were raised on a single creed, the only way to keep a thing is to make leaving impossible, and each one has built a life around it. Across a string of East Coast gothic settings, from a locked private gallery to a frozen coastal trust, each brother meets the one woman he can't simply acquire, while a buried family crime surfaces one fragment at a time. Interconnected dark romance novels about wanting the wrong things the right way, and what it costs a family to keep its worst secret standing.
Monster Romance
Monstrous Devotion
Five women. Five monsters. One stretch of haunted Irish coastline.
Dunmore Coast, northwest IrelandOn the Dunmore Coast in northwest Ireland, the old things never left. They wait in the fog, in the depths, in the standing stones — and when they choose, they choose forever. Five high-heat monster romances about devotion that doesn't ask permission, and the women who learn to want it back.
Monstrous Attraction
Carra Shore. The sister coast. Where what wants you finds a way.
Carra Shore, southwest IrelandDown the southwest Irish coast at Carra Shore, the sea is older and the hunger is patient. Five high-heat monster romances about the women drawn to a place they can't quite leave — and the monsters who knew they were coming long before they did.
Monstrous Claim
Sora Valley. A bargain four centuries old. The final year.
Sora Valley, Romanian CarpathiansDeep in the Romanian Carpathians, a bargain signed in 1626 bound five ancient entities to Sora Valley in exchange for protection — and 2026 is the last year for the final five bonds to complete. Five high-heat monster romance novellas about the women who hold what remains of an old deal, and the entities who have been waiting for exactly them.