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How to Ruin a LibrarianA cozy monster romance with truffles, temptation, and one soulbonded chocolatier who knows your darkest cravings.

The Hollow Hearth Series
by Tansy Applewood
How to Ruin a Librarian: A cozy monster romance with truffles, temptation, and one soulbonded chocolatier who knows your darkest cravings. (The Hollow Hearth Series) by Tansy Applewood
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I just wanted to shelve books and avoid my feelings. Now I’m being emotionally unraveled by a sin-marked chocolatier who won’t stop looking at me like I’m dessert. (Welcome to Wren's Hollow, home of soulbonding, smut-positive gnomes, and chocolate that tells your secrets.)

I’m Roslyn Vellore. Librarian. Lorekeeper. Emotionally repressed human-shaped disaster.

I do not have time for monsters who flirt with their eyes and unpack your trauma with cocoa-dusted confidence. I especially do not have time for Santos Wildmere, Wren’s Hollow’s dangerously tender Velvarkin chocolatier whose magic-infused truffles taste like everything I’ve tried to forget.

My boundaries are ironclad. My wards are gnome-certified.
And I’ve never once accidentally made out with a man behind a bookcase.

Until now.

Because the soulbond between us? It’s real. It hums beneath my skin every time he looks at me like I’m made of sugar and starlight. And when ancient tomes go missing from the Loreloft and something dark rises, stirring long-buried magic in Wren's Hollow, I’ll have to work with the one monster who makes my knees weak and my shields glitch.

Together, we’ll chase down forbidden magic. Unravel the mystery. And I absolutely will not kiss him in the back of the library.

Or the chocolate shop.

Or…okay, listen. This is getting very inconvenient.


A spicy cozy monster romance about a feral librarian, a chocolate empath Velvarkin with wreck-me eyes, and the most dangerously sweet soulbond Wren’s Hollow has ever seen.

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FantasyRomanceParanormal FantasyMonster RomanceSlow Burn RomanceAdultSmall TownHoliday/SeasonalAutumn Fiction
Release date: September 16, 2025

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The Hollow Hearth Series

The Hollow Hearth Series consists of 2 total books. The current recommended reading order for the series is provided below.

Something Brewed This Way Comes (The Hollow Hearth Series)
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How to Ruin a Librarian: A cozy monster romance with truffles, temptation, and one soulbonded chocolatier who knows your darkest cravings. (The Hollow Hearth Series)
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