Broken Bonds is an emotional second-chance paranormal romance and slow-burn healing story about a grieving widow and the nocturnal gargoyle guardian who brings her heart back to life. Nearly a year after losing her sailor husband at sea and suffering a quiet heartbreak of her own, museum conservator Anemone Seaver fills her days with foster kittens and heritage restoration until a storm sends a winged protector through her bathroom wall.

Readers who love the protective passion and emotional depth of Rebecca Zanetti’s Dark Protectors, Donna Grant’s Dark Kings, and Abigail Owen’s Inferno Rising will connect deeply with Dunstan and Anemone. This Heart of Stone novel also resonates with fans of Genevieve Jack, Juliette Cross’s Stay a Spell series, Deanna Chase, and aspirational paranormal icons Nalini Singh and J.R. Ward.

Available in e-book and paperback editions for every e-reader, this story layers tender microtropes: unpacked moving boxes, a stray cat renamed Lucky, sharing homemade goulash with a caring neighbour, a hero who wears her late husband’s clothes and offers to finish his half-built wooden boat, and twilight sailing under the stars. It evokes the emotional warmth of Truly Madly Deeply, Ghost, and Beauty and the Beast.

For readers who love: grieving widow romance, second chance at love, gentle giant protector, emotional healing, found family, rescue kittens, wounded hero with amnesia, and high-heat nocturnal romance. Perfect for fans of: Beauty and the Beast, The Lake House, Virgin River, and Goliath from Gargoyles.