How to Marry a Marble Marquis

How to Marry a Marble Marquis is a Regency-set monster romance in C.M. Nascosta's shared Monsters Ball universe. After an incident at Lady Harthington's Ball ruins her Season, Eleanor Eastwick is left without suitors or a dowry, and Her Majesty orders her to the Monsters Ball as her family's last chance at a saving marriage.

Desperate to attract London's monstrous gentry, Eleanor seeks a crash course in courtship from Lord Silas Stride, the notorious rakish Marquis of Basingstone — a gargoyle who exists only half-alive by day and fully himself after dark. Silas had sworn off marriage, certain his nocturnal nature was too cruel to inflict on a wife, but Eleanor's easy compatibility with his darkness undoes that resolve lesson by lesson.

A standalone entry in the Monsters Ball shared-world series, the book pairs Regency courtship conventions with a gargoyle hero, and was published in December 2023.