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Dark Paranormal (Vampire / Demon / Monster)

Shadow Over the Pumpkin Queen

Amazon Bestseller · #34 in Teen & Young Adult Paranormal Romance
Megan Shepherd

Book 3 in the Pumpkin Queen series · Reading order →

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Why we recommend it

A gothic pumpkin-court fantasy where shadow and rule collide, and a bond forms under a curse no one else can lift. Whimsical yet dark, with slow-burn tension throughout.

At a glance

Shadow Over the Pumpkin Queen is a dark paranormal romance by Megan Shepherd. With 2/5 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 almost none lower for spice). Its tropes include slow burn, forbidden romance and morally grey MC. It runs to 416 pages. We have not tagged its content warnings yet, so check the author’s notes before you start.

Book details

Pages
416
Published
July 2026

Shadow Over the Pumpkin Queen spice level

Shadow Over the Pumpkin Queen is rated 2/5 for spice on Readark’s scale: brief and fade-out, meaning scenes begin on the page but stop short of explicit detail. Its darkness rating is 3/5: genuinely dark, meaning violence, coercion or captivity drive the plot, not just the mood. How we rate

Shadow Over the Pumpkin Queen content warnings

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