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The Deep Keeps What It Wants

A Monster Romance

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The Deep Keeps What It Wants

By: Maven Ashcroft
Narrated by: Ione Cartwright
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Summary

Mara didn't mean to go under. She just meant to sit at the edge of the water one more night, the way she had every night since March, and let the cold remind her she was still breathing. She didn't expect the water to answer back. What pulls her down isn't a current — it's something old, vast, and achingly patient, a creature the town only half-jokes about warning newcomers away from.

He doesn't want her dead. He wants her kept, and the longer she spends in his cave beneath the tide, the less she wants to be anywhere else. But something is hunting his kind, and the ocean above them is running out of time to keep his secret — or to keep her. A short, spicy kraken romance for listeners who like their monsters vast, possessive, and a little bit heartbroken. For mature audiences only.

©2026 Maven Ashcroft (P)2026 Maven Ashcroft
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