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Loving the Monster
Paperback
RomanceGeneral GLBTQIA Fiction
Publisher: Voidandvelvet
Published: Mar 10 2026
Pages: 234
Weight: 0.61
Height: 0.53 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Someone arranged him.
Roman Voss has spent twelve years being the person no one wants in the room - until the body is already there. A forensic consultant with a gift for finding the thing no one thought to lie about, he's been sent to embed with a Cold Case Task Force under orders he only half-understands, tracking a pattern of deaths that look natural and aren't. The work is familiar. The unit is not.
Eli Crave is the unit's forensic specialist: precise, private, and impossible to read before he chooses to be readable. Over weeks of shared crime scenes and parallel case work, Roman begins building two documents simultaneously - the official investigation, and something he has no professional framework for. A record. An accumulation. Forty-one pages of evidence about a man he cannot stop watching.
And then the pattern resolves. Roman finds his author. The case is complete, submission-ready, and would end Eli Crave's life as he knows it.
He doesn't submit it.
Loving the Monster is a slow-burn literary romance set inside a cold case unit, where two methodical, deeply private men spend eighteen weeks learning to see each other with the same forensic attention they give every crime scene - and discovering that being seen completely is the most terrifying thing either of them has ever faced. It is a book about the architecture of grief, the cost of institutional justice, the specific patience of a man who has decided to stay, and what it means to hand someone the thing that could destroy you and call it a gift.
For readers who want their romance earned: every page of tension is paid for.
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