Shouldn't Have Come

Shouldn't Have Come merges Her Soul to Take with The Four Horsemen series by Laura Thalassa into a horror romance set in a haunted motel. The harbingers are hot, deadly, and queer, the heroine won't choose, and everybody wins at the end… well, mostly. This is a paranormal dark monster romance dripping with depravity and spice. It is very smutty and strictly for adults—please check the Reader's Advisory before reading.

All she wanted was to take her shot.

Madam Valeria Raventhorn, a void witch with a talent for communing with the dead—and other unsavory things—is the last of her family's legacy. Shunned for her abilities, she jumps at the opportunity the Apparition Authority offers: a once-in-a-lifetime ghost hunt, broadcast live during a solar eclipse.

When the summoning goes wrong, the apocalypse is unleashed—and the Four Horsemen want only one thing: for Valeria to succumb. As the eclipse reaches its peak, she faces an impossible choice. Submit to the monsters… or sacrifice herself to stop them.

This book features pansexual and non-binary rep, themes of mental illness, bullying, and, above all, self-acceptance. The spice is depraved, the aftercare is real, and the HEA is well-earned.