Enemies to lovers romance! Cora, daughter of a Reaper, has a reputation as somewhat of a disaster in town. She always needs to be rescued from scrapes. Her father, who owns Insomnia, pays Grayson (yes, THAT Grayson who we’ve all been waiting to see find his wonderful happy ending after things didn’t turn out so well with a certain winter elf) to clean up some of her messes. So of course when Cora goes after an antique on display at a library exhibit that Grayson is supposed to be guarding, sparks fly. This was cute, cute, cute (more of a romantic suspense in feel than some of the other books--lots of fun) and I was so happy to see Grayson finally get his happy ending!

Please excuse typos/name misspellings. Entered on screen reader.
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This just did not land with me quite right.
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The Vampire’s Priceless Treasure

Greyson’s story. 11th book in the Nocturne Falls series. A town of paranormals that celebrates Halloween every day so they can live openly.
Best read as part of the series but can be read as a separate paranormal romance.

For me, the best part of this series is the town itself and the little gems that regular readers know. Like the underground tunnels that connect and protect the town. Like the specific local restaurants and characters. Like Alice and Birdie and the Sheriff.
Most of this book takes place outside of Nocturne Falls. They use the plane from the Ellinghams. They text Birdie for research a couple of times. It does start and end in Nocturne Falls which was important to me.

I didn’t like Kora for most of the story. She stole the antique necklace and that’s it? There is never a repercussion for that. Breaking and entering multiple places during the quest. A lighter she had previously used to set a fire and her lock picking tools. All the bad girl tricks and yet she changed. Truly I didn’t believe it until the end. I won’t add spoilers but there was a turning point that I understood she was being honest and real in the life changes.
Greyson didn’t fair much better. He keeps questioning whether she’s really changed. Rightly so, but this bothered me. Either accept her as she is or don’t but if you keep questioning her motives/truth, the churning of emotions makes everyone uncomfortable.
The funniest, they both had cell phones but neither thought to use the flashlight in it. They continued to us the lighter.

Bottom line - it is a romance and all the issues did get resolved and fixed. I was happy with the ending and the result.
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