Rhiannon Ashcroft
Dark Paranormal Romance Author

Forbidden love. Dangerous desire. Happily ever afters worth fighting for.

I write dark paranormal romance about morally complicated people who want things they shouldn't want—and the light worth fighting through the darkness to find.

Darkness isn't the destination. It's what we survive on the way to the light.

Stories have a way of finding me.

Lately, though, they've been arriving differently.
Fragments. Images.
Pages I don't remember writing.
Glimpses of a Seattle that shouldn't exist—and people whose stories refuse to leave me alone.

So I'm following the trail.
You're welcome to come with me.

Welcome to Illicit Seattle

Dark paranormal romance. Forbidden love. Morally gray heroes.

Beneath Seattle’s rain-slicked streets lies another city—one ruled by supernatural creatures, dangerous secrets, and desires humans were never meant to understand.

The Illicit Seattle series blends dark paranormal romance, forbidden attraction, morally gray heroes, supernatural intrigue, betrayal, and steamy slow-burn romance in a hidden Seattle where desire can be a weapon—and love may be the most dangerous hunger of all.

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Here, vampires don’t feed on blood.

They feed on desire.

The Clan has spent generations turning hunger into power, trading in sex, influence, secrets, and temptation. Shapeshifters, illusionists, sirens, fae, and other supernatural factions have their own agendas—and everyone is watching everyone else.

There are rules for surviving this world.

The most important?

Never fall in love.

START WITH WAKING LOVE'S HUNGER — FREE

Start here — read the novella that begins Kat and Henry’s story

She was born with the power to control desire. She never expected someone else was already controlling her fate.

Kat Burke was born into an ancient vampire Clan that learned generations ago to feed on desire instead of blood. With a single touch, she can awaken what people want. With a sip of their energy, she can leave them craving more.

But Kat refuses to become what her family expects of her. She's spent years building a life beyond the Clan's reach. She wants freedom. She wants control of her own choices. She wants a life that belongs to her.

Until Henry.

He's the first person she's ever met whose desire she can't read.

What Kat doesn't know is that Henry was sent to watch her—to uncover her secrets and report back to the Clan.

The closer he gets, the harder it becomes to remember where the assignment ends and his feelings begin.

Someone has been moving pieces around Kat for a long time.

He was sent to betray her.

And in Kat's world, vampires may feed on desire.

They just aren't allowed to fall in love.

Waking Love's Hunger is the seductive prequel novella to the Illicit Seattle series—a paranormal romantic suspense where desire is power, loyalty has a price, and the most dangerous secrets are the ones hidden in plain sight.

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