https://www.torriheat.com/essays daily 0.75 2025-12-04 https://www.torriheat.com/essays/midnight-monster monthly 0.5 2024-05-27 https://www.torriheat.com/essays/ialwaysknewiwasrotten monthly 0.5 2024-03-25 https://www.torriheat.com/alternate-endings daily 0.75 2025-12-04 https://www.torriheat.com/alternate-endings/delirium monthly 0.5 2025-02-14 https://www.torriheat.com/home daily 1.0 2026-07-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/600c56f2276d9d4dbba0d68f/6e8467e2-7347-4316-901a-a9265d279e53/Realm+of+the+Wicked+cover.jpg Home - realm of the wicked A dark gothic romance All she ever wanted was to keep her little sister safe. All he ever wanted was her. When Stella’s beloved younger sister Grace falls ill and is given just months to live, she will do anything in her power to save her. But she never expected the Devil to answer her prayer. That night, Damien steps from the shadows of Stella’s bedroom, devastatingly beautiful and terrifyingly powerful, ready to collect the soul she was desperate enough to promise in exchange for her sister’s life. Dragged beyond the mortal world into the Fringe, a decadent realm suspended above Hell, Stella finds herself surrounded by demons who wear silk and smiles like weapons, shadows that whisper secrets and Hell’s ruthless Council, who are eager to claim what she owes. Every day in Damien’s estate brings new dangers, and a dangerously intoxicating kind of protection. Charming, arrogant and infuriatingly magnetic, Damien insists he can keep her safe… and maybe even save her soul. Stella knows better than to trust him. He’s dangerous, and his kingdom is built on deception. But worse than the lies is the pull between them – dark, irresistible and impossible to ignore. And in the realm of the wicked, the only thing deadlier than losing your soul is losing your heart… https://www.torriheat.com/about daily 0.75 2025-12-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/600c56f2276d9d4dbba0d68f/b81c8a64-f834-418b-8131-8d962c9cf751/image0.jpeg About - Torri Heat has control over everything in her life, except for the plot. Her characters demand centre stage, and she just goes along with whatever they want and hopes for the best. You never know whether you’ll end up with a dragon tail or on a submarine, but you will always get a taste of darkness with your romance. Her fierce women will inspire you to be sassy, and her dominant men will teach you how to be a good girl. When she isn’t creating alternate realities, you can find her working her other job as a nacho connoisseur. Torri is represented by Katie Monson at SBR Media, katie@sbrmedia.com https://www.torriheat.com/contact daily 0.75 2025-12-13 https://www.torriheat.com/books daily 0.75 2026-09-15 https://www.torriheat.com/books/standalones monthly 0.5 2026-09-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/600c56f2276d9d4dbba0d68f/8332b2e5-fbfb-47d2-b448-d680c449dc38/Front_Cover.jpg Books - Standalones - night terrors A Standalone Dark Thriller Romance She can't trust her own memories, and now she has to trust the dangerous stranger holding the key to her past. For as long as she can remember, Blaire Barlowe has lived by two rules: carefully control every aspect of her life, and never let her guard down. As a high-flying marketing executive climbing the corporate ladder, she’s built a meticulous, safe existence. But that safety is about to shatter. Plagued by brutal, hyper-realistic nightmares of murder and a mind carved up by missing years of memory, Blaire is rapidly losing her grip. When a late-night home invasion turns her worst paranoia into a deadly reality, she’s forced to run for her life into the city’s darkest underbelly. Enter Winder, a dangerous, tattooed street dealer with piercing blue eyes, a razor-sharp edge, and an unnerving habit of knowing her name before they've even formally met. Winder is cold and full of secrets, but as the threats close in, he is the only thing standing between her and total destruction. With her dream life on the line, and a killer tracking her every move, Blaire must untangle the lies buried deep in her own brain. But as the line between her waking life and her bloody dreams begins to blur, she has to ask herself a terrifying question: Is she running from a killer, or something much worse? Night Terrors is a dark, forced proximity, forbidden romance, and is a complete standalone. Triggers: Murder Blood Recreational Drug Use Drug Dealing Blackouts/Amnesia Suicide Ideation Guns Please reach out to torriheat@gmail.com if you have any questions or require any clarification on the triggers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/600c56f2276d9d4dbba0d68f/891ef177-9061-4c8a-914a-56f33065bb50/the+labyrinth+Ebook.jpg Books - Standalones - The Labyrinth A Dark Monster Romance The monster king was supposed to treat her like any other prisoner, but her existence became his absolute obsession. In a world left shattered by ecological collapse and extreme weather, monstrous predators rule the fortified cities, forcing surviving humans to struggle in poverty and dust outside the walls. Rissa, a resilient and fiercely protective woman, spends her days collecting scrap metal just to keep her mother, younger sister, and brothers alive. But her precarious survival strategy shatters the moment she finds a valuable silver ring in a debris pile near the forbidden Labyrinth gates. She had no way of knowing the ring belonged to Ten, a powerful, purple-skinned monster leader tasked with enforcing the Labyrinth's strict perimeter rules. When Ten tracks the stolen relic straight to Rissa’s family home, she makes the ultimate sacrifice, and agrees to leave with Ten as his captive to keep the rest of her family safe. Escorted deep into the Labyrinth, Rissa confronts a horrifying truth. She has been brought to a breeding camp designed to produce half-human children for the monsters' ruthless faction wars. As she navigates her new reality and lays plans for an eventual escape, she finds herself ensnared in a dark, volatile dynamic with her captor. Rissa grapples with a magnetic, confusing attraction to Ten, while he simultaneously struggles with an obsessive, unwanted fascination with her that threatens to break every rule they both live by. The Labyrinth is a dark, monster romance that can be read as a complete standalone. Triggers: Kidnapping Forced Captivity Assault Dub Con/Non Con Knife Play Blood Play Violence He kills for her She kills for him Breeding Monsters Famine Sadism Torture Sexual Slavery Please reach out to torriheat@gmail.com if you have any questions or require any clarification on the triggers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/600c56f2276d9d4dbba0d68f/ac41ab82-ba25-4e74-a26f-18a0ecd07221/Filth.jpg Books - Standalones - Filth A Dark Stalker Novella What’s a girl to do with an obsession with an older man? Alora is an artist who views the world through a lens of decay and hidden flaws. She has mastered the art of observing people from the shadows, picking apart their darkest secrets to feel less alone in her own corrupted mind. But then she meets Alexander, a pristine, successful therapist whose immaculate exterior seems entirely devoid of flaws. Fascinated and maddened by his apparent perfection, Alora’s observation spirals into a dangerous obsession. She watches his life from the window, breaks into his private apartment, and covers her canvases in portraits of his face, desperate to find the crack in his armor. When Alexander unexpectedly steps into her life, a volatile game of cat-and-mouse begins. As the boundaries between research and reality blur, Alora is pulled into an intoxicating world of dark desire and psychological tension. But Alexander isn't as simple as he seems, and as Alora’s past trauma, escalating instability, and violent impulses threaten to surface, she must discover whether she is the hunter or the prey. Filth is a dark, stalker romance that can be read as a complete standalone. Triggers: Discussions of Rape Discussion of Abuse Murder, Stalking Use of Blood Cutting (Not in terms of Self-Harm) https://www.torriheat.com/books/everbound monthly 0.5 2026-09-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/600c56f2276d9d4dbba0d68f/5547ecca-bcf1-465f-afae-94fe7e4b39c8/Jinxed-ebook.jpg Books - Everbound - Jinxed A Gothic Why Choose Romance Book One in the Everbound Universe She bought her dream house. Instead, she got a cursed gothic manor already inhabited by three gorgeous men frozen in time. Savannah Miles just wanted a home to call her own and maybe a spot for her dream thrift store. Instead, she bought a curse. When she purchases a dilapidated 1907 gothic house sight-unseen, she thinks she’s scoring the deal of a lifetime. But the second she steps through the front door, it slams shut behind her, sealing her fate. Once you enter this house, you can never leave. She isn't the first unfortunate soul to be trapped. Inside the estate live three dangerously magnetic men, each frozen in time. Felix, the rigid perfectionist bound to the house since it was built in 1907. Theo, the laid-back, moonshine-brewing rebel stuck since 1992. Luther, the intense, quiet, book-loving prisoner caught between them since 1970. With no windows to break, no doors to unlock, and the outside world fading into a distant memory, Savannah is forced to navigate a deadly new reality. As the tension among them boils over into dangerous desire, Savannah realizes the house isn't the only thing keeping her caged—she’s falling for the men sharing her prison. In a house where time stands still, love might just be the most destructive trap of all. Jinxed is a forced proximity, why choose, gothic romance that can be read as a complete standalone. Triggers: Mild discussions of depression, addiction. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/600c56f2276d9d4dbba0d68f/cefe8b18-ddb0-4650-8ba8-42100b55e18d/Delirium+Ebook.jpg Books - Everbound - Delirium An Adventure Why Choose Romance Book Two in the Everbound Universe Trapped on a riverboat with three handsome strangers, she’s about to learn that in this jungle, sharing is survival. Scarlett Ward came to the jungle looking for bones and rubble, her version of treasure. What she didn't expect was getting trapped on a decaying riverboat with three men who are as lethal as they are irresistible. Nash, the perpetually shirtless captain who knows every secret of the river, and hides a dark past behind a perfect smile. James, the ruthless billionaire investor, hunting a lost treasure while holding dangerous leverage over the captain. Camp, the wild and brilliant eco-terrorist, on the run from the police. With the impending stormy season closing in and the waters steering them deeper toward a cursed lost city, the line between predator and prey begins to blur. In a rainforest where the most beautiful things are always the deadliest, Scarlett soon realizes her biggest mistake wasn't stepping onto the Carpe Diem. It was thinking she’d ever be able to choose just one. Delirium is a forced proximity, why choose, adventure romance that can be read as a complete standalone. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/600c56f2276d9d4dbba0d68f/c9e8a630-b0a8-4185-bee2-4b844d461a57/Screwed-ebook.jpg Books - Everbound - Screwed A Post Apocalyptic Romance Book Three in the Everbound Universe He was my college sweetheart. Now, he’s the masked enforcer holding me captive in a dystopian wasteland. Ten years after the Collapse turned fertility into currency and women into prey, survival requires keeping your head down and your weapons sharp. For a decade, Mila survived alone in the woods, dodging the human predators roaming the ruins of the city. But one wrong step during a city supply run lands her in the clutches of the Kingsnakes, a ruthless crew running a forced-breeding operation out of an abandoned motel. Selected in the Kingsnakes’s dark ritual by a masked enforcer named Brother Prospero, Mila prepares to fight to the death. Then the mask comes off. Ray isn't the monster she expected. He’s her university sweetheart, and the boy she thought died when she ran off ten years ago. To keep his starving younger sisters alive, Ray made a blood oath with the Kingsnakes, secretly subverting their cruel orders from the inside to protect the women assigned to him. Now, the only woman he ever loved is his official captive for the next thirty days. Trapped between jealous rival captives, brutal enforcers, and deadly Kingsnake rules, Mila and Ray are forced into a volatile game of pretend. Behind closed doors, ten years of suppressed longing explode into undeniable obsession. But in a lawless city where traitors are executed, keeping their past a secret might cost them everything. Screwed is a post apocalyptic, forced proximity, second chance romance that can be read as a complete standalone. Triggers: Voyeurism Kidnapping Non-Con/Dub-Con Discussions of Rape and Sexual Assualt. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/600c56f2276d9d4dbba0d68f/e3d3a654-3392-41ae-aecf-8b6fb3bff72e/nosedive-ebook.jpg Books - Everbound - Nosedive A Paranormal Romance Book 4 in the Everbound Universe It was only supposed to be one secretive night in the Highlands. Now I’m trapped in the dragon clan's castle, playing the mate to a dangerous man who makes this fake relationship feel real. CHARLIE I’ve been running for so long that distance is the only armor I have left. With blood on my hands, my magic tightly hidden, and hunters on my trail, disappearing into the quiet Scottish Highlands was supposed to keep me alive. I didn’t account for Cam. Broad-shouldered, infuriatingly handsome, and a smile that melts right through my defenses, the Scottish stranger is a distraction I can't afford. One night of raw, intoxicating passion was supposed to be a moment of weakness before I slipped away in the dark. Until his brutal former pack corners us on the mountain, and Cam utters three words that change everything. She is mine. CAM I walked away from my clan’s dark legacy to find my own legacy, but the moment I laid eyes on the icy, fierce beauty on the trail, my dragon roared with a single demand. Mine. Charlie is a walking mystery, curvy, quick-witted, and hiding a dark secret that I’ll do my best to uncover. When my clan’s hunters attempt to snatch her as a trophy, I do the only thing that will keep her alive. I fake-claim her as my mate. Now, to make the lie convincing, I have to drag my stubborn, infuriating "mate" right into the lion’s den, otherwise known as a castle fortress full of lethal dragons who'd love to see me fail. She thinks I’m using her. My dragon thinks she’s my mate. Neither are true. And as the boundary between a fake claim and true fate disintegrates, I’ll burn the entire castle down before I let them take her. Nosedive is a resentful instalove, forced proximity, fake dating romance, that can be read as a complete standalone. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/600c56f2276d9d4dbba0d68f/aa6172d8-8888-41e2-90d1-4a4024b3e119/Sunk-ebook.jpg Books - Everbound - Sunk A Deep Sea Romantic Tragedy A Companion Everbound Novel Sunk is a standalone, why choose romantic tragedy. It is NOT a romance. There is NOT a complete HEA. Please be aware before reading. It takes place after Delirium and before Screwed in the Everbound timeline. Ten thousand meters below the ocean surface, the crushing pressure isn't the only thing that can kill you—the heat between crewmates is just as dangerous. Marine biologist Lucy has spent her life striving to outrun her past and claim her place in the scientific world. When a secretive corporation named Abyss recruits her and her lifelong best friend, Tucker, for a groundbreaking three-month deep-sea expedition in a state-of-the-art submarine called the Siren, it sounds like the opportunity of a lifetime. Enter Captain Jack, a cynical, hyper-competent, and intensely abrasive alpha who is furious to find a woman on his vessel. Jack pushes every single button Lucy has, yet his scorching glances and sharp mouth awaken an addictive, volatile craving she can’t ignore. When a heated confrontation in the dark corridors of the sub culminates in a devastatingly electric kiss, Lucy realizes Jack is far more treacherous than the ocean depths. Meanwhile, Tucker is harboring a lifelong secret. He has been desperately in love with Lucy for years, and watching her orbit the magnetic, infuriating captain is tearing him apart. And he’s not the only one. The quiet navigator, Nathan, has quickly found himself obsessed with their beautiful shipmate. As the Siren plunges deeper into the pitch-black ocean, unexpected geological formations sever their communications with the surface. Isolated in a claustrophobic steel tube with a man she wants to hate, a best friend whose heart she is unknowingly breaking, a man working up the confidence to confess his feelings and secrets closing in from all sides, Lucy must decide if she can survive the deep or if she will drown in the desires she tried so hard to bury. Sunk is a standalone, why choose novel. It is NOT a romance. There is NOT a complete HEA. Please be aware before reading. Triggers: Discussions about Mental Health, Abuse and Addiction Tight Spaces On-Page and Off-Page Death Deep Water and Being Underwater.