[Jaiya 01] • Marrying a Monster

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Journey to the country of Jaiya, where insect people live alongside humans, cars, and cell phones, and stranger things lurk in the shadows....

As a favor to her parents, Rina agreed to come back to her hometown and take part in an old local custom: a symbolic marriage between the town’s women and its guardian spirit, the Mountain King. She didn’t know she’d be marrying a monster…or kissing the man hunting the monster!

Note: Rina and another character are friends with or related to a few characters from the later books in the Jaiya series, but Monster is meant as a standalone with a "happily for now" ending. The romance is on the sweet side, but there is some violence due to the main characters' encounters with monsters and criminals.