Tentacles for Halloween

Rosabel loves Halloween, and this year the largest corn maze around is at the top of her to-do list. Once she steps inside, the shadows between the stalks start to move. Tentacles grab at her as she runs, and she keeps bumping into the same demon, an employee of the maze.

At dusk the shadows seem to drift off his muscled body. Rosabel can't tell whether it is the costume or the man, and she can't stop thinking about him. He turns up in her dreams too, where shadows crawl over her and bring pleasure. She goes back to the maze every day, chased by the tentacles and by the monster she dreams of.

The story also gives the monster's side. Trilnil works the haunted maze because it is a good place to feed. He did not expect to meet his fated mate. Her light blinds him at first, then he sees her, and his shadows reach out to touch her. At night he enters her dreams to learn about her and to plan how he will woo the human before autumn ends.

This is a monster romance with a paranormal, erotic slant, told from both Rosabel's and Trilnil's points of view, in a seasonal setting. It belongs to A Monstrous Mistake, a multi-author Halloween series in which human women go on dates with men in costumes, unaware that the fangs and fur are real. The question for Rosabel is whether she can keep a monster with tentacles.