Dating & Dismemberment

Emily Henry meets Grady Hendrix in the funniest and most and original romantic comedy of the year: a monstrously feel good cozy fantasy full of love,laughterloreand limbs. Darla DrakeDuchess of Deathis a legendary monster who has haunted the woods around Camp Clear Creek for years. Until an existential crisis forces her to take a sabbatical from wreaking havoc on pimply teens while she figures out what she really wants from the rest of her (possibly infinite) life. But what does a monster do when her malevolent days are over? For DarlaitΓÇÖs spending time with the decapitatedΓÇöyet still overbearingΓÇöhead of her motherreading romance novels she steals from campersand struggling with one monstrous case of melancholy. Until Jarko Murkvale arrives in Clear Creek and turns DarlaΓÇÖs life upside down. Jarko is a conceitedarrogantinfuriatingand unfortunately for Darlakind of hot. And with the Duchess of Death on the shelfJarko has staked his claim on Camp Clear Creek. But Darla refuses to go down without a fightand so in order to reclaim her territory she challenges Jarko to a series of hunts to see who the most fearsome monster really is. But the more mayhem they causethe more Darla begins to realize thereΓÇÖs more to this brash monster than she believed…and that Jarko may just be the antidote to her ennui. But thereΓÇÖs a reason Jarko came to Clear Creekand in order to fill her nine-chambered heartDarla will have to unravel the mystery of who this closed-off monster really is. And if they can manage to not literally tear each other limb from limbDarla and Jarko just might find that couples who slay togetherstay together.