From New York Times, USA TODAY and Amazon Top-15 bestseller Tamara Rose Blodgett/Marata Eros
🔥A Paper Heart Never Survives the Fire🔥
💘 Love fiercely.
⚔️ Fight harder.
🛡️ Protect what’s yours.
Grace Chapel lives in fear—of the past, of the man who hurt her, and of the threat that’s come back to claim what was never his. When Chad reappears with a sinister ultimatum, Grace must confront the nightmare she thought she’d outrun.
Enter Weston Cargill—a billionaire with his own demons. Fiercely protective and emotionally aloof, Wes is determined to shield Grace and her daughter, Vivi. But as secrets unravel and danger escalates, the heat between them threatens to consume everything.
🔥 Tropes You’ll Love:
✅ Protective alpha hero
✅ Damaged heroine with a healing arc
✅ Small-town secrets
✅ Dangerous ex and stalking threat
✅ Single mom heroine
✅ Slow-burn romance to explosive passion
MARATA EROS is the pen name of NEW YORK TIMES and USA TODAY bestselling author TAMARA ROSE BLODGETT, known for stories that refuse to color inside the lines. Her fiction is dark, gritty and addictive—blending erotica, fantasy, sci-fi, romance, and thriller into one relentless ride.
If you like your antiheroes feral, your heroines complex and your plots laced with heat, violence plus twisted redemption—you’re in the right place.
Formerly with Simon & Schuster, where she published A TERRIBLE LOVE, A BRUTAL TENDERNESS, and THE DARKEST JOY, Marata now thrives as an independent author with 90+ novels released across multiple worlds of dark romance with genre fusion.
She splits her time between the quiet misty beauty of the Pacific Northwest and the sun-drenched shores of Mazatlán, Mexico, alongside her husband, family and a canine supervisor of various shenanigans. When not writing, Tamara is a voracious reader, beachcomber, traveler and fasting lifestyle enthusiast.