Bullheaded & Barely Behaved
(2026)(The first book in the Monsters, Mayhem, & Mating series)
A novel by Jeanette Clarke
Museum curator Lola Smith has a type: ancient, marble, and completely silent. So when her eccentric great-aunt leaves her a life-sized Minotaur statue, Lola assumes she's inherited a very heavy paperweight.
She assumes wrong.
The statue isn't stone. It's a cursed prince. A three-thousand-year-old, muscle-bound, horned-and-hooved problem named Ajax. He's trapped in her studio apartment, he's already shattered her coffee table, and he keeps sniffing her neck and muttering about her "fertile scent."
His demands: break the curse, reclaim his throne, and maybe stop destroying her IKEA furniture.
Her demands: a roommate agreement, personal boundaries, and an explanation for why she can't stop thinking about his knot.
But when Ajax reveals that the curse requires more than just a willing mate—it requires a pregnancy—Lola has to decide: walk away from the bullheaded beast who's stolen her heart, or let him claim her so completely that the whole labyrinth knows she's his.
Either way, someone's getting gored.
And it's probably her security deposit.
She assumes wrong.
The statue isn't stone. It's a cursed prince. A three-thousand-year-old, muscle-bound, horned-and-hooved problem named Ajax. He's trapped in her studio apartment, he's already shattered her coffee table, and he keeps sniffing her neck and muttering about her "fertile scent."
His demands: break the curse, reclaim his throne, and maybe stop destroying her IKEA furniture.
Her demands: a roommate agreement, personal boundaries, and an explanation for why she can't stop thinking about his knot.
But when Ajax reveals that the curse requires more than just a willing mate—it requires a pregnancy—Lola has to decide: walk away from the bullheaded beast who's stolen her heart, or let him claim her so completely that the whole labyrinth knows she's his.
Either way, someone's getting gored.
And it's probably her security deposit.
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