Grace in the Shadows

A BWWM Victorian Mafia Time Travel Monster Romantasy

She cracked an ancient code. It dropped her into the lap of a four-thousand-year-old monster.

Dr. Naomi St. James is a brilliant, fiercely independent 21st-century historian from Chicago. But when a mysterious Mesopotamian artifact reacts to her touch in a museum basement, her world dissolves into geometric energy, violently depositing her in the smog-choked, hostile streets of 1888 London. She isn't just lost in time; she has become a living vessel for the "Grace"—a primordial, celestial fire burning in her very marrow.

Enter Balthazar. Standing nearly eight feet tall, he is an immortal Nephilim colossus who has ruled London’s supernatural Syndicate in absolute silence for four millennia. To the rest of the world, he is a terrifying myth carved from obsidian and cold marble, but to Naomi, he is a captor, a reluctant protector, and an undeniable temptation.

Bound together by an ancient, inescapable golden tether that synchronizes their very pulses, Naomi and Balthazar are forced into a dangerous alliance. A fanatical cult known as the Order of the Dawn is hunting Naomi, desperate to harvest her blood to mend their failing reality.

As the static tension between the scholar and the crime lord ignites into a scorching, intimate bond, Naomi must make an impossible choice: fight the current of the Grace to find a way back to her own century, or become the architect of a new empire beside a monster who would gladly burn London to the ground to keep her safe.

What Readers Can Expect:

• High-Heat BWWM Romance
• Dark Romantasy & Historical Urban Fantasy
• Extreme Size Difference
• Time Travel / Displaced Heroine
• Fated Mates & Magical Tether
• "Touch Her and You Die" Villain/Anti-Hero