Cover of The Ache by Scotia Petkov

A Saint’s End Novel · Book One

The Ache

Sebastian’s Story

Saint’s End, Book One · Dark paranormal romance · Coming soon

He was sent to make her leave. She’s the first thing he’s wanted in a hundred and fifty years.

Saint’s End sells ghost walks and storm-watching to the tourists, and keeps its real secret under the fog. On the bluff above it, in a black house, lives a family that has not aged since 1876.

Nora Calloway comes back to bury her aunt, an “accident” on a cliff road Maggie had driven for sixty years. She brings a camera and finds forty years of Maggie’s journals. She doesn’t believe a word of the official story.

The family sends Sebastian Harrow to make her leave. Everyone who comes near him wants him. He has never once had to ask.

Except her.

Nora is immune. She does the one thing no one has done in a hundred and fifty years: she looks for the man instead of away from the monster.

Something in him looks back.

What do we do when we’re afraid, little bird?

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Content Note

Dark paranormal romance, adult readers. Addiction themes, death, grief, explicit content. Consent-forward.

Content Warnings May Contain Spoilers Read the full content note

The Ache is a dark paranormal romance for adult readers. It contains the following.

On the page

  • Addiction
  • Sexual feeding
  • Premature ageing · memory loss
  • Explicit sexual content · open door · 18+
  • Consent-forward: nobody is taken past a no
  • Sexual contact with another woman (not the heroine)
  • Grief · parental death
  • Adoption · relinquishment
  • Coercive control · intimidation · surveillance
  • Sibling cruelty
  • Confinement
  • Forced starvation
  • Pregnancy
  • Self-loathing · dissociation · emotional numbness
  • Invasion of privacy
  • Alcohol

Referenced, or off the page

Car accident · murder · historical deaths · infidelity

Not in this book

  • No blood-drinking · biting · gore
  • No dubious consent or non-consent
  • No infidelity involving the main couple, and none on the page
  • No childbirth or baby on the page
  • Nobody under 18, anywhere in the series

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