Heart of Steel is a high-heat paranormal romance with an instant bond, a summoned demon lover, and a heroine whose accidental ritual brings through a demon paramour instead of the immortal protector she intended. Written in dual POV with both the heroine and the demon’s perspective, the book follows a secret witch hiding her grimoire from her overprotective brother in a colonial Australian frontier setting, and the demon who has no name, no face of his own, and no devotion to anyone before she gives him all three.

Readers who love Jennifer L. Armentrout’s From Blood and Ash, T.A. White’s Firebird Chronicles, Eva Chase’s Flirting with Monsters series, Kel Carpenter’s Queen of the Damned books, and Deborah Wilde’s Jezebel Files will recognize the same combination of fierce heroine energy and supernatural hero devotion that makes those series addictive. Annette Marie’s Red Winter trilogy carries the same charged dual-POV pull.

The microtropes that make this specific: a demon who fights rival hellspawn to reach the portal first before anyone else can answer the summons, a shapeshifter whose face changes in real time to match his summoner’s unspoken desire, and a heroine who starts having very specific dreams about her protector and wakes up to find he can sense all of them. Available in e-book at all major retailers. Non-book comps for this persona include Good Omens (TV) for the demon-and-human bond dynamic, Hades from the video game Hades for the “born with no identity, defined by connection” hero arc, and the film Practical Magic for the witch-heroine tone.

For readers who love: paranormal romance with high heat, demon romance, instant bond romance, summoned creature romance, dual POV paranormal romance, protector romance, shapeshifter romance, witch heroine, historical paranormal romance, demon boyfriend trope, fated bond. Perfect for fans of: Good Omens (TV), Practical Magic (film), Hades (game), and readers who want their supernatural hero devoted from chapter one and their heroine keeping him anyway.