Solivagant: An MM Dark Monster Romance by Ronan Marlow (Paperback)

A full-length MM dark monster romance from Ronan Marlow, part of the Mayhem Manuscripts: Cryptids shared-world collaboration. There’s something in the woods.

He’s started sleeping with his boots on and a knife strapped to his leg. The sleep paralysis was torture — but what comes next is worse. Waking alone and vulnerable in the woods, far from home, following the sound of distant howling like a siren’s call. Something is wrong with him. It feels as though there’s a beast inside him, desperate to break free, and though he’s terrified to let it loose, he’s quickly realising he may not have a choice.

Every night the dreams return — another place, another time, a face he can’t quite remember. And every time he wakes, he’s walked a little further, until he finds himself in an abandoned, crumbling cabin that feels unsettlingly familiar: the decaying kitchen, the haunting scent of stew and mint, voices after dark calling a name he almost recognises, a face in the mirror that isn’t his own. There are eyes on him, too, constantly, with a weight he tries not to acknowledge. He doesn’t know what he’s searching for, only that the forest itself seems to be summoning him, guiding his sleeping body into its depths and whispering its secrets as phantom wounds across his skin. The dreams are getting worse. And he’s starting to think they might be more than dreams.

This is a dark MM monster romance for mature readers; please check any content warnings before reading.

Perfect for readers who love dark MM monster romance, an atmospheric cryptid-horror premise, a beast-within transformation and an eerie, dread-soaked slow unravelling.