Shadowbound Bride Duet Series by Bobbie Jo Hart

I only meant to sing to the stars.The shadows sent four kings with fangs and claws. When Annie Nichols vanishes from a midnight ride, the town whispers about wild animals and bad luck. The truth wears horns and fangs. In the in-between—a ruined manor that breathes like a living thing—four Nightmares hunt what’s wicked…and claim what’s theirs. They call Annie songbird, bride, wife. They count her breaths, demand her truth, and promise that “stop” is sacred—unless she asks for teeth... moreI only meant to sing to the stars.The shadows sent four kings with fangs and claws. When Annie Nichols vanishes from a midnight ride, the town whispers about wild animals and bad luck. The truth wears horns and fangs. In the in-between—a ruined manor that breathes like a living thing—four Nightmares hunt what’s wicked…and claim what’s theirs. They call Annie songbird, bride, wife. They count her breaths, demand her truth, and promise that “stop” is sacred—unless she asks for teeth.Daylight offers polite questions and empty rooms. Night offers devotion, danger, and a library window that trades inches of freedom for confessions. With every threshold crossed, Annie’s hunger safety, then choice, then the press of a mouth at her throat that feels too much like home.But doors work both ways. As the shadows seal her scent and old wounds in the human world split open, Annie must decide where she belongs—under fluorescent lights that never really saw her, or in the dark that won’t look away. The manor wants an oath. The Nightmares want a wife. And Annie’s song might be the key that unlocks the last, locked door.Run, if you want to be caught.Nightmare Fuel: a dark, gothic romance of thresholds, hunger, and a girl the shadows refuse to lose. Tropes & gothic manor • monster husbands • consent-is-sexy • chasing/marking • knife-to-throat softness • found worship • sunshine heroine × feral protectors • bargains/boons • windows as thresholds • “good girl” as praise • morally dark but devoted MMCs Content adult themes; stalking-as-devotion framed consensually; breath counting/possessive language; fear play, biting/marking; psychological tension; on-page spice in later chapters; HEA across series with cliffhanger threads. less