By: Charlotte Stein
Pub Date: 10-27-2026
Genre: Supernatural Romance/RomCom
Rating: 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌗
Heat Level: 🔥🔥🔥🔥(feral)
Tropes: Enemies to Lovers, Hidden Past, Amnesia, Hidden Enemy, Found Family
REVIEW
Ok, Charlotte. OKAY!
The line between love and hate is truly thin here, like paper thin. When someone has allegedly killed your in multiple lifetimes yet you are still inextricably drawn to them, there’s something to that. There are also some major misleads here into who the enemy is, which gives it some mystery and heft.
I really enjoyed this book. I think it was the best in the entire series. The absolute feralness of Halsten towards Marley translates very well from what we think to what is, and the found family aspect is beautiful.
Lastly, the spice was absolutely wild. Stein really has a way of writing the seggsy scenes that is so unbelievably hot. Like how Sten ‘feeds’–good lord. That part got to me in a big way because that’s a real thing for some people and there shouldn’t be shame around that. It’s good it’s getting the attention it deserves, because it’s effing hot as hell.
Thanks to NetGalley and St Martin’s Press for the advanced ebook copy in exchange for a fair and honest review!
PUBLISHER’S SYNOPSIS
Marley Maples is sure she’s finally evaded her vampire mortal enemy. Halsten has stalked her across oceans of time, and many, many lives. But now she’s arrived at the age of thirty in Hollow Brook, with no sign of him. So she’s devastated when he suddenly shows and yet again tries to make her life hell. Until her two witchy best friends suggest a spell to make him forget all about her.
There’s just one issue: he forgets his whole existence with it. All Halsten now remembers is being a big, hot, vampire Viking. And all he sees when he looks at Marley is his beloved little witch, his saviour, the light of his life. He goes from being a horror that haunts her nightmares, to a man who loves her and will protect her at all costs. And as much as she’s skeptical, she can’t help finding his fish-out-of-water, warrior ways and his desire to defend her endearing.
Maybe even a little sexy. In fact, it’s starting feel very sexy indeed.
And if she’s not careful, she’s going to lose herself to a man she swore to hate. A man who might return to her eternal enemy, at any moment…
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