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Tied to Death (Monsters of Brimrey Island #4) by Vee Debras

He means death. But so do I. The cursed child of a cursed family, there are two questions that I’ve never been able to answer. Why would my brother end his life on my birthday? And why has he never come back to tell me? Since the day I was born, I’ve been plagued by spirits. They make me sick: numb and blind and passing out on a puddle of my own vomit. One day, I won’t get away. One day, they’ll kill me. I can’t let that happen, not before I talk to my brother one last time. But when I return home, all I find at his grave is an empty casket… And a man who tells me my brother’s not actually dead. Finch is not human. He’s a death creature who knows what I am and who can protect me from the spirits. For the first time in my life, someone can keep me safe. So what do I care if he says I should be scared of him? If he tells me I should leave? I won’t. Not until I find out what happened to my brother and unveil the secrets everyone is trying to keep from me—including Finch. Tied to Death is an MM monster romance with a transmasc main character, an obsessed love interest, many secrets, and even more angst. It can be read as a standalone with a HEA or as the fourth book in the Monsters of Brimrey Isand series.

Tied to Life (Monsters of Brimrey Island #3) by Vee Debras

He has the keys to save her…and me. When I get the news that my cat Melody is dying, I know there’s nothing I can do but watch her suffer… Until one night I wake up to a hand reaching for me from inside a tomb. Oliver St. James should not be alive, but he is here and begging me to get him out of the mausoleum that’s been his prison for the past twenty years. I will—with one condition: he has to tell me how he came back to life. The problem is that he doesn’t remember what happened to him, and his family has put their millions behind keeping it a secret. Press-backed lies, bought silence, NDAs. All to pretend their heir never existed. The more time I spend with nerdy, charming Oliver, the less I understand what he could’ve done for his family to hate him like they did. And the more pieces of the puzzle I find, the more scared I get of the price I will have to pay to save Melody. Tied to Life is an MM monster romance with a trans main character, a couple of nerds falling in love, lots of angst, and bad science. Though best enjoyed as the third book in the Monsters of Brimrey Island series, it can be read as a standalone and has a HEA. Check out the rest of the series for more queer characters finding love in this small town on a haunted island.

Tied to Hell (Monsters of Brimrey Island #2) by Vee Debras

The devil offered me a deal. Now he regrets it. Picture me—the loser. Twenty-five, stuck at home with my older sister, a job that pays pennies, and sickening amounts of medical debt. Sounds like fun? Enter the reason for all of the above: the chronic pain I’ve been suffering from for almost a decade and that I will never get rid of. Now picture him—the demon whispering in my ear. I get one wish, he says. Anything. In exchange, he gets my body for just ten hours a day. For just seven weeks. Pretty sweet deal, right? And it’s obvious what I’m going to ask for. Well, that’s what he thought. He couldn’t imagine there’s something that haunts me more than my pain. Something I would give anything to fix. So now he’s stuck with me, suffering and trying to convince me to change my wish, but there’s nothing that could make me give up what I asked for. Not even that purring, sultry voice that tells me we could be doing something other than fight for control. Tied to Hell is an MM monster romance with a trans love interest, lots of banter, angst, and spice. Though best enjoyed after the first book in the Monsters of Brimrey Island series, it can be read as a standalone and has a HEA. Check out the rest of the series for more queer characters finding love in this small town on a haunted island.

Tied to the Waves (Monsters of Brimrey Island #1) by Vee Debras

The ocean was the end of my parents' lives—he might be the start of mine. *An angsty MX monster romance* In an ideal world, my dead parents’ waterfront house would rot with them. In an ideal world, I wouldn’t need the money from selling it, and I would’ve never returned to the island I fled from at eighteen. But life is never kind to people like me, is it? So I’m back where I left the friends who broke my heart and the ex whose bruised fingerprints I still can’t scrub off my skin. The second-to-last thing I need right now is an injured, unconscious merman drifting over to my dock. And the last, the way he tells me I’m beautiful when he wakes up. Tied to the Waves is an MX monster romance with a nonbinary protagonist, a sweet love interest, lots of hurt/comfort, dark themes, and spice. As a full-length novel with a HEA, it can be read as a standalone or as the first book in a series full of trans characters set in the small town of Brimrey Island.