Affinity for Pain: Book One of the Newborn City Series

The paranormal romance Affinity for Pain is Book One in the upcoming Newborn City Series.

A gripping new series set in a burgeoning urban city, about a demon just trying to make a living-and getting caught in a web of deceit, revenge, and love. All while something darker lurks just out of sight . . .

Newborn City, once a dead-end, old lady-infested town, is now home to hundreds of supernatural creatures. The Chakal demon, Hope Turner is one such being. Without physical sensation and the dreaded emotions that often go with it, Hope is the ideal human-hunting assassin. Tonight's plan is like all others- to introduce a bullet to yet another demon-hater's brain. Fate has other plans. Upon seeing Ciaran, she's paralyzed by omaeriku, a bond that forces Hope to feel it all: heat, cold, and pain (which she could've happily done without).

Ciaran O'Connor escaped his own Gladiator captivity to create a somewhat normal life. Now, someone from his past wants him dead. Aligned with the woman sent to kill him, who may have guest-starred in some saucy dreams, Ciaran must determine who put the target on his back and deal with his attraction to Hope. Worse yet, a sadist biting at their heels wants Ciaran back under his thumb.

As they race to find their attacker before thugs kill them both, old habits rips them apart, allowing Ciaran to be captured by the one person he fears. Filled with demons, a wealthy madman, and torture, Affinity for Pain follows two people as they navigate a violent road lined with monsters and a heaping dose of sex. Hope and Ciaran have seen and felt pain, but they'll soon see there's more to life than agony.