Dark Paranormal (Vampire / Demon / Monster)
The Ember and the Emerald (No Monsters Like Hers)
Book 2 in the No Monsters Like Hers series · Reading order →
SpiceDarkness
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Why we recommend it
A monstrous-world fantasy romance where an ember and an emerald hide a devotion unlike anyone else's. Slow-burn tension meets primal stakes.
At a glance
The Ember and the Emerald is a dark paranormal romance by Gena Showalter. With 3/5 for spice and 3/5 for darkness it sits mid-range for dark paranormal romance (of the 852 dark paranormal romance books on Readark, 19% rate lower for darkness and 10% lower for spice). Its tropes include slow burn, forbidden romance and possessive-obsessive MC. Of the 6 Gena Showalter books we rate, it is the least dark. It runs to 340 pages. We have not tagged its content warnings yet, so check the author’s notes before you start.
Book details
- Pages
- 340
- Published
- June 2026
The Ember and the Emerald spice level
The Ember and the Emerald is rated 3/5 for spice on Readark’s scale: open door, meaning explicit scenes written plainly, but not the engine of the book. Its darkness rating is 3/5: genuinely dark, meaning violence, coercion or captivity drive the plot, not just the mood. How we rate
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