They say no one leaves Elowen’s Cathedral unchanged.Once a sanctuary for the lost and the holy, it now stands in silence—half-buried in fog and forgotten prayers, perched on the edge of a cursed forest where time breaks and shadows breathe. It is here, beneath shattered stained glass and hollow bells, that Arla finds herself drawn—desperate, haunted, and hunted by a truth she doesn’t yet understand.Arla has always been different. The whispers started after the fire. The dreams came later—waking visions of black wings, blood-soaked roses, and a voice that calls her by a name she does not remember. When her twin sister Eira disappears without a trace, Arla follows the trail into the cathedral’s ruins… and crosses into a realm stitched together by memory and myth.There, she meets Kael—a creature of impossible beauty and impossible sorrow. Not quite man, not quite monster, Kael is bound to Elowen’s Cathedral by an ancient sin. Cursed to feel everything and remember too much, he lives among ghosts of his own making. He knows Arla. Or rather, he knows the girl she was before the world tore her apart.Arla is not ready to remember. Kael is not ready to let go. But as Arla uncovers the twisted history behind Elowen’s fall and Eira’s disappearance, she and Kael must confront the terrifying truth: their fates have always been entwined. By blood. By magic. By love.But loving a monster comes with a cost—and not all monsters wish to be saved.As Arla begins to unravel the secrets of who she truly is, the world around them unravels too. The veil between realms is thinning. Old powers are waking. And Elowen’s Cathedral—heart of the wound that bleeds between them all—may not be a sanctuary, but a prison built of grief and longing.“When the Monsters Love” is a gothic romantic fantasy about broken memory, cursed devotion, and the thin line between love and ruin. When monsters love, they love with claws—and some hearts were never meant to heal.