She runs the only diner that never closes on the meanest eleven miles of mountain highway. Her weirdest regular has red eyes, never orders, and is the reason nobody's died on that road in thirty years.
Dessa Kade inherited three things when her dad died: a bottomless well of grief, forty-one dollars, and the Nightjar, the only all-night diner on the Culler Grade. She did not inherit an explanation for the regular in the back booth.
He comes in every night. He never orders. He sits right at the edge of the neon, dry as chalk, and when Dessa reads her overdraft notices out loud in her best game-show voice, he's the only one who laughs. His eyes catch the sign wrong. He is, it turns out, the reason nobody has died on that road in a very long time. Not that he'd ever say so.
Bram has watched this road since before it had a name, and he has one rule: stay in the dark, never be seen, because guardians don't get kept. But the diner is warm, and she's funny, and for the first time in an age of the world he wants something with a name he doesn't have yet.
Then the state votes to blast a bypass through the mountain, and the mountain is going to come down on the road he's sworn to hold. To save the diner, the town, and the one weird thing that's kept her company at three a.m., Dessa has to talk a four-hundred-year-old secret into walking out of the dark and into the light.
Bottomless coffee, a monster who stays till close, and a love story you'll want to order at three in the morning because you needed it. Standalone in the Cryptid Comforts series. Guaranteed HEA, no cliffhanger, no cheating.
Tropes: Grumpy-Sunshine · Guardian Monster · Touch-Starved Cinnamon-Roll Hero · Small-Town Found Family · Only-One-Who-Laughs · Save-the-Failing-Diner · Forced Proximity · He-Falls-First
Genre: Romance
Dessa Kade inherited three things when her dad died: a bottomless well of grief, forty-one dollars, and the Nightjar, the only all-night diner on the Culler Grade. She did not inherit an explanation for the regular in the back booth.
He comes in every night. He never orders. He sits right at the edge of the neon, dry as chalk, and when Dessa reads her overdraft notices out loud in her best game-show voice, he's the only one who laughs. His eyes catch the sign wrong. He is, it turns out, the reason nobody has died on that road in a very long time. Not that he'd ever say so.
Bram has watched this road since before it had a name, and he has one rule: stay in the dark, never be seen, because guardians don't get kept. But the diner is warm, and she's funny, and for the first time in an age of the world he wants something with a name he doesn't have yet.
Then the state votes to blast a bypass through the mountain, and the mountain is going to come down on the road he's sworn to hold. To save the diner, the town, and the one weird thing that's kept her company at three a.m., Dessa has to talk a four-hundred-year-old secret into walking out of the dark and into the light.
Bottomless coffee, a monster who stays till close, and a love story you'll want to order at three in the morning because you needed it. Standalone in the Cryptid Comforts series. Guaranteed HEA, no cliffhanger, no cheating.
Tropes: Grumpy-Sunshine · Guardian Monster · Touch-Starved Cinnamon-Roll Hero · Small-Town Found Family · Only-One-Who-Laughs · Save-the-Failing-Diner · Forced Proximity · He-Falls-First
Genre: Romance
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