Noel can fix the house. He is less prepared for the demon who makes it feel like home.

Noel Caruso inherits a mountain house he plans to repair and reassess by summer. Then he finds its rooms warm with the radiators off and Ren, an enormous horned demon, nursing a burn from the household iron. Noel replaces the hardware with brass and makes a second cup of coffee. Ren has used the crossing beneath the house for centuries, but he cannot work out how to repay kindness Noel never asked him to repay.

As they grow closer, Noel finds it harder to imagine leaving, and what they want matters more than what either owes. Then a threshold monitor gives them twelve days to formalize their bond or dissolve it. Their future must be a choice they make together, rather than another obligation Ren takes on alone.

Horns at My Hearth is a cozy, low-angst M/M monster romance featuring forced proximity, tender open-door intimacy, and a genuinely nonhuman love interest. This first book in The Carro Pines Threshold completes Noel and Ren’s romance with a happy ending and begins the series’ found-family story.

Wes Yee has a place for everything—until a winged demon begins making a place for him.

Wes moves to a quiet cabin in Carro Pines, hoping that solitude will feel different when he chooses it. Then clicking overhead reveals an unexpected housemate. Sevo, a winged demon, has filled the attic with copper chimes, river stones, and objects gathered from around town. Wes finds himself drawn to the beautiful nest and its maker.

Sevo gives each treasured object a place, and soon Wes’s belongings begin appearing among them. As curiosity turns to attraction, Wes must learn to recognize Sevo’s affection in unfamiliar forms—and decide whether the orderly life he planned has room for someone he never expected.

Wings in My Attic is a cozy, low-angst M/M monster romance set in a secluded mountain town, with an unexpected courtship, a growing found family, and a guaranteed happy ending.

This is Book 2 of The Carro Pines Threshold. Read it free with Kindle Unlimited.

Tomar knows how to care for an entire valley. Letting one man care for him is another matter.

Jonathon Obi leaves a consuming research career for a bait-and-tackle shop in Carro Pines. Then fresh fish begin appearing on his back step, including species that should not live in the mountain reservoir. His search for an explanation leads him to Tomar, a gilled, web-handed demon who has tended the valley’s water for more than a century.

Tomar brings fish, tends Jonathon’s bait tanks, and warms his shop. Jonathon sees the care behind those acts and wants to offer some in return. As they learn each other’s boundaries, their growing bond draws an auditor’s attention. A future together must make room for Jonathon’s needs and for the valley Tomar has always protected.

Gills in My Shop is a cozy, low-angst M/M monster romance with an aquatic demon, mutual caretaking, open-door intimacy, and a growing found family.

This is Book 3 of The Carro Pines Threshold and tells Jonathon and Tomar’s complete romance, with a happy ending.

Xavi has spent his career keeping a respectful distance. Then he meets the one subject he wants to touch.

Wildlife illustrator Xavi Connors takes a mountain sabbatical to find his way back to drawing. In a clearing, he meets Sule, a moss-covered demon with flowers at his throat and a wren nesting on his shoulder. Xavi’s sketchbook fills as their visits become something both look forward to.

Sule shows his affection by tending the path and shading Xavi’s desk, though Xavi needs him to ask before changing his surroundings. Sule needs time to find his answers. As they learn to make room for each other’s ways, Xavi realizes the drawings he loves most could expose Sule’s clearing. To build a life together, he must decide what to share with the world and when to set his sketchbook aside.

Moss in My Sketchbook is a cozy, low-angst M/M monster romance featuring an artist and his unexpected muse, open-door intimacy, and a growing found family.

This is Book 4 of The Carro Pines Threshold and tells Xavi and Sule’s complete romance, with a happy ending.

Aster has spent the winter sending love letters in light. Sasha has been reporting them to the power company.

Sasha Brandt works nights at a quiet gas station, where the gold patterns at the tree line become the one thing he looks forward to. After saving ninety-one of them on receipts, he finally steps outside and meets Aster, a demon who speaks through the color and rhythm of his luminous tail. Aster thought his messages were lost. Sasha has kept every one.

With a notebook between them and the station lights switched off, they begin learning each other’s language. But a declaration Aster intends as devotion awakens Sasha’s fear of being valued only for what he can do. Before they can untangle the misunderstanding, a delegation arrives to assess the valley’s human-demon bonds—and the connection they are still learning to trust.

Tail in My Station is a cozy, low-angst M/M monster romance with he-falls-first devotion, an unusual courtship, open-door intimacy, and a growing found family.

This is Book 5 of The Carro Pines Threshold and tells Sasha and Aster’s complete romance, with a happy ending.

August keeps extending his stay. Luis keeps calling it hospitality.

August Nazario came to Carro Pines with an assignment and a four-night reservation. Nine weeks later, his article remains unfinished, and his notes are full of Luis, the innkeeper who knows how he takes his tea. Beneath Luis’s human appearance is a demon who works hard to conceal his changing weight, his lingering warmth, and how much he wants August to stay.

August cannot tell whether Luis’s attention is personal or simply part of being a good host. Luis knows how to care for a guest but struggles to let August care for him. With August’s editor waiting and the town’s hidden couples seeking recognition for their bonds, both men must move beyond the roles that have kept them at a comfortable distance.

Hands at My B&B is a cozy, low-angst M/M monster romance featuring opposites attract, a caretaker learning to receive care, and open-door intimacy.

This sixth and final book in The Carro Pines Threshold completes August and Luis’s romance with a happy ending and concludes the series’ community story.