She came to Briarhill for one quiet florist job. She did not expect the grave to name her as a monster’s bride.
The Bone Orchard Bride is a gothic paranormal monster romance filled with haunted cemetery magic, a touch-starved monster hero, forced proximity, bridal bargains, and dangerous tenderness.
After a public wedding disaster ruins her reputation, Iris Bell wants nothing to do with vows, ceremonies, or beautiful promises made beneath flower arches. A memorial commission at Briarhill Cemetery should be simple: quiet work, honest pay, no brides, no gossip, no chance for another humiliation.
Then she finds the Bell grave.
A bone-white rose blooms where no flower should survive. An ivory ribbon carries pieces of her name. And when Iris cuts the impossible bloom, the earth opens.
Lord Caedren Hollow rises from beneath the grave: a skeletal fae lord of bone, bark, antlers, and pale petals. Courtly, terrifying, and devastatingly restrained, he tells Iris she has awakened an ancient bridal contract. According to the Bone Orchard, she is now his promised bride.
Iris refuses to be claimed by a grave, a flower, or a monster groom she never chose.
But the contract cannot be broken by running. To escape, Iris must complete the shape of a wedding over three nights, then stand at the altar and refuse before the magic can claim her completely.
Caedren should be the danger. Instead, he asks before he touches her. He keeps his distance when the contract demands obedience. He treats her refusal as sacred. And with every floral ritual, every charged almost-touch, and every careful act of restraint, Iris begins to wonder whether the monster beneath the grave is the first groom who truly wants her choice more than her surrender.
But the Bone Orchard has waited a very long time for a bride.
And it may not let Iris go so easily.
The Bone Orchard Bride is Book 3 in The Gravebloom Court, a gothic paranormal monster romance series set in Briarhill Cemetery, where impossible roses wake buried monsters, ancient bargains bloom from the dead, and love is the most dangerous secret of all.
