Meet the Monsters of Hunted Mate

Every reverse harem lives or dies on its love interests. Give a heroine five identical brooding men and you’ve written one man five times. Give her five monsters — each a different flavor of danger and devotion — and you’ve built a world.

The Hunted Mate series claims true-crime livestreamer Sloane Wilder on camera, in front of fifty million people, with a pack of five. Here’s who they are, no spoilers past the first page.

Caspian — the incubus

Golden eyes, curved horns, a spade-tipped tail, and roughly three thousand years of practice at getting exactly what he wants. Caspian is the ringleader: velvet-voiced, endlessly patient, and the one who does the talking while the others do the growling. He feeds on desire, which makes him very good at his job.

Rune — the berserker

Eight feet of red-haired Viking fury and the least complicated love language in the group: mine. Rune runs hot, heals fast, and does not do subtle. When the moon pulls at his blood, everyone in the safehouse knows about it.

Ash — the shadow

Ash barely speaks, because Ash doesn’t need to. A living void with violet eyes and writhing tendrils of dark, he can fill a room, wear a shadow, or slip through a wall. He is the quietest of the five and, somehow, the most possessive.

Vorrik — the gargoyle

Carved from grey stone and built like a cathedral, Vorrik is the gentle giant of the pack — silent, patient, immovable. He guards. He steadies. He is exactly as soft as he is enormous, which is to say: only for her.

Lir — the vampire

White-haired, aristocratic, and colder than the others by design, Lir is the ancient one — the one who bonds in blood and swears he was hers first. His past is the series’ deepest thread, and his loyalty, once given, does not break.

Five doors, one queen

That’s the appeal of a well-built reverse harem: five completely different ways to be wanted, all pointed at the same woman. Sloane doesn’t have to choose between the seducer, the beast, the shadow, the guardian, and the ancient. She keeps them all — and by the end of the prequel, she’s not the prey anymore.

Meet them for free in Send Me the Knots, the Hunted Mate prequel novella, then continue with the full series.