Devour Me (Devour Me, #1)

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Release Date: August 4, 2026

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By Emily Rath

From Emily Rath, New York Times bestselling author of the Jacksonville Rays hockey romance series, comes something entirely new...and just a little bit haunted.

The haunt is over. This is the hunt. I will have them for my own.

Dáinn the Devourer has spent the last two hundred years of his undead life reluctantly bonded to a dark witch, doing her dirtiest work. Devouring corrupt souls may not be satisfying for a wraith, but it keeps him fed. Sent on a job to Burr Island, Dáinn is forced to devour the soul of a rival witch.

But Jasper Prescott is no corrupt magical misfit. He's powerful and beautiful, with a soul worth savoring. Dáinn is eagerly devouring the witch when he's abruptly stopped. By a human no less. With one word, Birdie Rhodes does what no being has ever done: she takes his breath away. Now the witch, the wraith, and the human are set on a path that could lead to their destiny...or their ruin.

Desperate for his freedom, Dáinn makes a deal with Jasper: kill my mistress, and I'll let you keep living. But Jasper wants more than just to live. He has a coven to protect. Their secrets are being threatened by magical forces on and off the island. Bound together in this strange new deal, Jasper fights his growing attraction to the wraith, who is far more human than he appears. And Dáinn fights the urge to devour the delectable witch whole.

The only one who can save them is Birdie Rhodes, hapless historian and sometimes shop girl. Birdie only came to Burr Island for summer work. She has no idea magic is even real. She certainly has no idea she's now the only thing standing between her witch boss and the hungry wraith aching to devour them both.

As magical forces of darkness loom at Burr Island's shores, Jasper and Dáinn are both determined to keep Birdie close in Devour Me, book one in a dark, spicy paranormal romance trilogy.

Tropes

    Shadow daddy
    Unrequited instalove
    Age gap
    Why Choose/Polyamory
    MMF
    Dysfunctional throuple
    Lurking is my love language
    grumpy witch/charming wraith/jaded human
    No one gets to kill you but me
    The cat is not a cat