CM Nascosta Books in Order

If you want cozy small-town monster romance: Morning Glory Milking Farm → Sweet Berries → Moon Blooded Breeding Clinic → Welcome to Azathé.
If you love orc resort chaos and friend group drama: Girls Weekend → Parties.
If you prefer darker, high-intensity werewolf stories: Run, Run Rabbit.
If witchy, seasonal vibes are your thing: The Mabon Feast → Welcome to Azathé.
If you enjoy historical fantasy and ballroom politics: How To Marry A Marble Marquis.

CM Nascosta grew up in Cleveland, Ohio, a city tucked along the edge of Lake Erie, and she jokes that living by that water made it easy to lean into the eerie. From the start she was more interested in the strange and the spooky than in anything tidy or polite.

As a reader she gravitated toward monsters, folklore, and stories that let the odd creature in the shadows take center stage. Boys next door held less appeal than ghosts, sea beasts, and horned strangers. That preference quietly shaped her writing life, turning into a career built on nontraditional romances where the love interests are just as likely to be minotaurs, orcs, gargoyles, or spider folk as they are to be human.

Before readers knew her name, she was already drafting scenes in the margins of everyday life, working through characters who felt lonely, underpaid, or out of place. Many of her heroines echo the realities she saw around her, millennials drowning in debt, divorced thirty somethings rebuilding after bad relationships, witches and office workers who feel like they are failing some invisible test. Giving those characters partners who are literally otherworldly lets her talk honestly about power, safety, and desire while still keeping a sense of play.

Her breakout monster romances are set in Cambric Creek, a small town where humans and supernatural neighbors share coffee shops and bus routes. Books like Morning Glory Milking Farm, Sweet Berries, Moon Blooded Breeding Clinic, and Welcome to Azathé mix explicit, high heat relationships with very down to earth worries, from student loans to family expectations and fertility choices. The monsters in these stories are often better listeners and more considerate partners than the human exes the characters leave behind.

Nascosta also writes outside that core setting. The Girls Weekend books take three suburban elves to an orc nudist resort for what is supposed to be a carefree holiday and instead becomes a chance to face prejudice, class pressure, and long distance love. In a different corner of her universe, regency inspired titles like How To Marry A Marble Marquis and sea bound adventures in her nautical romances play with ballrooms, pirates, and ancient magic while still centering consent and communication.

Across her catalog there are through lines that make her work easy to spot. She loves blue collar jobs and strange workplaces, from monster run farms to experimental clinics and cozy, haunted tea rooms. She writes neurodivergent characters, anxious introverts, and people who use humor to cope with fear. Moments of kink and very explicit intimacy sit alongside quiet scenes of cooking dinner, texting friends, or spending time with a much loved pet.

Even when she writes in darker corners of her universe, such as the Cambric Creek After Darkverse, the emotional arc tends to bend toward hope. Her stories acknowledge depression, isolation, prejudice, and messy family histories without pretending they can be fixed overnight. Instead they let characters find better boundaries, truer friendships, and relationships that feel safer and more honest than what they had before.

Nascosta’s work has reached a wide audience, and she has been listed as a USA Today bestselling author. Much of that visibility has come from readers recommending her books to friends, drawn in by premises that sound outrageous but stay rooted in care, consent, and genuine affection between characters.

She still lives in a crumbling Victorian house in Cleveland with a very timid dachshund for company, writing nontraditional romances about beastly boys with as much heart as heat. As long as there are readers who want a little fang, claw, or tentacle with their love stories, she seems happy to keep expanding the world of Cambric Creek and all the strange places connected to it.