Dating & Dismemberment (Monsters and Mating #1)

Emily Henry meets Grady Hendrix in a hilarious and original romantic comedy full of love, laughter, and limbs.

Darla Drake, Duchess of Death, has haunted Camp Clear Creek for years. Until an existential crisis forces her to take a sabbatical from wreaking havoc on teenagers while she figures out what she wants from the rest of her (possibly infinite) life. So what does a monster do when her malevolent days are over? For Darla, it’s spending time with the decapitated—yet still overbearing—head of her mother and reading romance novels she steals from campers. Until Jarko Murkvale arrives in Clear Creek and turns Darla’s life upside down.

Jarko is a conceited, arrogant, infuriating, and unfortunately for Darla, kind of hot. With Darla on the shelf, Jarko has staked his claim on Camp Clear Creek. But the Duchess refuses to go down without a fight, and so she challenges Jarko to a series of haunts to see who the most fearsome monster really is.

But the more mayhem they cause, the more Darla begins to realize there’s more to this monster than she thought…and that Jarko may just be the antidote to her ennui. And if they can manage to not literally tear each other limb from limb, Darla and Jarko just might find that couples who slay together, stay together.