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- Content warnings: Sexual content, Violence, Gore, Death, Murder, Parental death, Animal attack, Purity culture, Fire, Poisoning
Wolf's Bane
by Nancey Cummings
Book 1 in Monsters of the Nexus
Come for the werewolf regency mashup, stay for Aleksandar trying very hard to be noble while his beast has absolutely no interest in restraint. It is a slow-burn second chance with one foot in sci-fi ruins and the other in candlelit monster hunting.
goodreads 3.58/5 386 ratings
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Length418 pages
Series statusOngoing series
Spice4/5 · Passionate / intense
PacingMedium
Story profile
What the story promises
The strongest reviewed signals about romance, fantasy, and the reading experience.
Romance promise
- Childhood friends
- Male/female pairing (M/F)
- Slow burn
- High
- Passionate / intense
- The swoon
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- Cursed
- Protective love interest
- Rough / primal
- Romantic fulfillment
- Monster
- Mutual pining
- Emotional / vulnerable intimacy
- Tension finally satisfied
- Grumpy protector
- Only soft for them
- Possessive / claiming
- Shapeshifter
- Who did this to you
- Marking / biting
- Fated mates
- Slow burn with late spice
- Fantasy / supernatural intimacy
- Possessive/protective
- Growling / possessive sounds
- Touch starvation
- Longing glances
- Neck kisses / neck touching
- Claiming
- Monster romance elements
Fantasy promise
- Paranormal romance
- Shifter romance
- Small town / village
- Space/sci-fi
- Werewolves
- Monster romance
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- Space station / spaceship / colony
- Regency/victorian
- Shifters
- Second chance
- Paranormal
- Witches/wizards/warlocks
- Childhood sweethearts reunited
- Gothic
- Vampires
- Monsters
- Forced proximity
- Touch her and die
- Hurt/comfort
- Cursed love interest
Reading experience
- Dual POV
- Medium
- Atmospheric
- Moderate
- Survivor
- Yearning
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- Emotional
- Caretaker
- Dark
- Suspenseful
- Romantic
- Mysterious
- Character-driven
- Swoony
- Protect at all costs
- Cursed bloodline
- Star-crossed lovers
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Book details
- Length
- 418 pages
- Publisher
- Menura Press
- Language
- English
- Format
- Book