She’d been told for years she was hard to love. Then she met a demon who loved her easily. A low-spice paranormal romance for readers who have loved the wrong people for too long.

For Sweetie, love always came with conditions. Be quieter. Be easier. Be less.

But Max, the invisible demon that latched onto her during childhood, never asked her to shrink. He became her secret friend, her shadow. Max watched her favorite cheesy movies, listened to her vent, and clapped the loudest for her dancing.

The two grew up and he hasn’t hurt her once.

Which means it must all be a trick.

Everyone knows demons are evil. So, Sweetie waits for the day that Max will betray her. Now, 18 years old, she’s the only human who knows of Max’s existence and he’s her most guarded secret. If anyone ever finds out she’s hiding a demon, she could be executed.

Then everything breaks at once. A powerful demon that can conjure heaps of barbed wires wants her dead and a young demon hunter appears claiming the impossible, that he can see Max.

To survive the fight ahead, Sweetie must rely on Max, the one being she refuses to trust.

Because sometimes, when your heart has been broken enough times, betrayal isn’t the scary part. The scary part is letting someone love you when you’ve already quietly decided you aren’t worth it.