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Source: borrowed through Kindle Unlimited
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Date read: January 16, 2026
Monster Security Agency
1. Guarded by the Golem
2. Guarded by the Snake
3. Guarded by the Spider
4. Guarded by the Kraken
5. Guarded by the Leshy
6. Guarded by the Vodnik
7. Guarded by the Nightmare - Paperback | Kindle
8. Guarded by the Reaper
9. Guarded by the Phantom
10. Guarded by the Krampus
11. Guarded by the Yeti
12. Guarded by the AI
13. Guarded by the Symbiote
14. Guarded by the Steel Seraph
15. Guarded by the Clanker
Cassie Alexander
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Synopsis (Goodreads):
No one survives hiring me. Not even her.Thoughts on Guarded by the Nightmare: I must say I enjoy seeing how these monsters and their special someones end up making things work. I mean, Sylas is a literal Nightmare whose payment is the life of the person who hires him. So, you know, that's ominous and seems like a hard thing to get past in a relationship. Buuuuuuut they somehow make it work. You know, eventually and after a few speedbumps.
I’m a Nightmare, a creature that feeds on fear, and I’m capable of boundless cruelty—which is why my services come at a steep price: the life of the person who hired me. As such, the only people who hire me on are those brought to me by fate, like Mina, a woman so desperate for revenge that she’s willing to spend her own life to get it.
I don’t usually care why I’m hired. Human affairs don’t matter to me. Food is food, and a job is a job.
Mina’s enemies will get what they deserve—and I’ll get what’s mine.
Her beating heart.
But first! Mina steps into MSA to see if she can find out anything about the Hourglass Killer and ends up hiring the monster himself. Well, hire might be a misnomer. Sylas knew Mina was there for him as soon as she stepped through the MSA doors. And his price for helping her is set in stone. Or set on her skin, I guess. Mina has some very specific things she needs to happen and Sylas is more than capable of bringing all her desires to life. Or, uhh, death, I guess. You see, Mina needs a few people killed and she's willing to do anything that needs to be done to make sure it happens.
Sylas is...complicated. He's a Nightmare. He needs to feed. He knows Mina's life is his once he does what he's been hired to do. But she makes him feel things. Things he hasn't felt in a long time. If ever. And she's not AT ALL put off by his darker tendencies. She understands what he is (as much as a human is able to) and she wants to be with him. Which throws Sylas because he's never met someone who wanted him for him, not as a means to an end.
A murderous group of terrible individuals, a best friend in a bad situation, twisted magic, some truly inspired deaths, a Nightmare who is willing to attempt to thwart fate itself, and a lady who had nothing left to lose until she suddenly did. *thumbs up*
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