Ash & Stone — Alexa Piper

Two years ago, the world ended with a wish, and it's all Rory's fault. Now, after he's managed to survive all this time, it looks like karmic justice is finally coming for him. It looks like a monster is going to eat him, and Rory, while he is sorry for what he did, doesn't want to die.And he does not, because a stranger saves him from becoming monster food. The stranger features horns, blue skin, and too many swords. He is also really tall and muscular and handsome. In a monstrous way.Rory might have jumped from the frying pan straight into the fire, because a big blue monster isn't exactly Rory's idea of a happily-ever-after. Not that he's been thinking about that or about any sort of ravishing when the blue monster might still eat him or keep him as a pet.But while Rory does not get eaten or ravished (sigh), the meeting with his monster mate shakes loose more revelations about what really happened two years ago than Rory is prepared to handle, especially since he was considering the comfortable life of a monster's pet. He definitely wasn't considering his monster's murderous buddy, running so much, and going to another world, but sometimes, you just have to roll with the handsome blue monster the Apocalypse gives you.