A lush emerald island curves around a turquoise bay beneath a scarlet-glowing volcano.

WELCOME TO AHI’KOA

Love runs
wild here.

Ancient monsters. Unforgettable women.
A tropical island with a heart of its own.

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THE MONSTERS OF AHI’KOA by A.K. Rook

THE MONSTERS OF AHI’KOA

One island.
Five extraordinary loves.

From the deep Pacific to the cloud forest.
Follow the series in reading order.

BOOK ONE WATER

Tidebound

A marine biologist.
A kraken.

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Before you read

The couple. Dr. Naia Ohta, a divorced marine biologist studying cephalopod intelligence, and the non-humanoid keeper of Ahiʻkoa’s deep-water trench. He communicates through light and touch.

The world. Contemporary paranormal romance on fictional Ahiʻkoa in the Pacific, from a coastal research station to the deep ocean.

Romance threads. A scientist and a monster; an elemental bond; learning each other’s language; an island community standing together.

What’s at stake. A corporate seafloor project threatens the reef and the being Naia is coming to know. Protecting him also puts her scientific career and her changing body on the line.

Heat. Explicit, on-page sexual content, including intimacy with a non-humanoid partner.

Content notes (may reveal story details)

Ecological damage, animal death, grief, and divorce. These notes draw on the novel’s own content notice.

BOOK TWO SHORE

Skinbound

An ER doctor.
A selkie.

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Before you read

The couple. Dr. Jo Reeves, the island’s emergency physician, and Kai, a selkie from the waters off Shetland. His scarred body shifts between human and seal forms.

The world. Contemporary Ahiʻkoa: the clinic, harbor, and secluded shoreline of the fictional Pacific island.

Romance threads. A doctor and a selkie; care and trust; an elemental bond; found community.

What’s at stake. Old net injuries make Kai’s shifting painful and unreliable. Jo must protect his autonomy and their growing relationship as his secret becomes harder to keep.

Heat. Explicit, on-page sexual content.

Content notes (may reveal story details)

Medical trauma, a past patient death, chronic pain, and struggles over bodily autonomy. These notes draw on the novel’s own content notice.

BOOK THREE FIRE

Flamebound

A volcanologist.
A lava entity.

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Before you read

The couple. Dr. Hina Akana, a volcanologist returning to the island she left as a teenager, and Ahiakua, the lava entity living within Mauna Keo.

The world. Contemporary Ahiʻkoa, a fictional Pacific island: a volcano’s rim and inner chamber, family notebooks, and the shore community.

Romance threads. Homecoming; a scientist and an elemental monster; family legacy; love rooted in place.

What’s at stake. Hina’s research and her grandmother’s history lead to a living mountain. A corporate project threatens forced extraction, leaving her career and the island’s future entangled.

Heat. Explicit, on-page sexual content between adults.

Content notes (may reveal story details)

Grief and a parent’s death; medical procedures and clinical examinations; corporate environmental harm and threats of forced extraction; ancestral grief and displaced cultural belief; references to past professional burnout. These notes draw on the novel’s own content notice.

BOOK FOUR SKY

Stormbound

A pilot.
A storm spirit.

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Before you read

The couple. Malia Kealoha, a 58-year-old widowed island pilot, and ʻIwa, a storm spirit who answers her through the radio and the weather.

The world. Contemporary Ahiʻkoa and its Pacific flight routes: airstrips, a cockpit, and a sky that can listen.

Romance threads. Later-in-life romance; love after loss; an elemental bond; family legacy and found community.

What’s at stake. A weather-engineering project threatens the island’s sky. As Malia’s body begins to read the weather, the vocation that has shaped her life may become impossible to keep.

Heat. Explicit, on-page sexual content.

Content notes (may reveal story details)

Grief, terminal illness, aviation accidents and near-death emergencies, and loss of a vocation. These notes draw on the novel’s own content notice.

BOOK FIVE · EARTH

Out now · Released September 23