Miss America and The Shark King: A Dark Historical Monster Romance
She came to Atlantic City to become Miss America. The shark god came to make certain she won.
Atlantic City, 1921.
Lulah Coon left rural Arkansas with one ambition: to see her name in lights.
New York gave her humiliation, violence, and a lesson she will never forget. No one hands a woman power. She has to take it-and be prepared to live with the blood on her hands.
Now stranded on the Atlantic City boardwalk, Lulah sees one final path to the life she deserves. The city's new beauty contest promises money, publicity, and a crown that could carry her all the way back to Broadway.
She only needs the entrance fee.
Anukani Nanaue offers her far more.
Tattooed, impossibly wealthy, and unlike any man Lulah has ever encountered, Nanaue is an ancient shark god who has watched human ambition rise and vanish for thousands of years. He recognizes the hunger inside her immediately.
He can secure her place in the contest.
He can make men notice her.
He can remove anything standing between Lulah and the crown.
In exchange, she must accept his protection, enter his bed, and carry the strange living bond he places inside her.
Nanaue keeps every promise.
One by one, Lulah's rivals begin disappearing beneath the Atlantic. The newspapers call the deaths tragic accidents. The pageant continues. And with every obstacle removed, Lulah moves closer to becoming the woman she crossed the country to be.
She knows what the monster is doing for her.
The question is not whether she can stop him.
It is whether she wants to.
Because Nanaue does not need Lulah to be innocent. He does not ask her to soften her ambition or apologize for the things she wants. He sees every ruthless, glittering part of her-and worships her for it.
But crowns are temporary.
Fame is hungry.
And walking away from a god may cost far more than the bargain that made her queen.
Miss America and the Shark King is an explicit dark historical monster romance featuring an ambitious beauty queen, an ancient Polynesian shark god, Atlantic City glamour, supernatural bargains, murderous devotion, morally black lovers, and a monstrous HEA.
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