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Only In The Dark: A Dark Stalker Romance (Black Pages Edition)
Olivia
I'm running from my past. I came too close to getting caught. Now, I'm dating a boring man, living a boring life, trying to fly under the radar. But somehow, I've attracted the attention of a stalker, and he threatens the security I've built as he tempts me to the dark side. He invited me to a sex club on Halloween, where he promised to reveal his identity.
I didn't know how close he had been the entire time.
Or how much I'd love how dark we can be together.
Kieran
My brother's girlfriend should be the last person I want, but once I set eyes on her, she's mine. He doesn't treat her right. She should be lucky I'm stalking her, finding a way to be close to her every night. I could give her the world if she let me. I know there's something sinister beneath her facade. Something dark about her that my brother could never appreciate. And then my friend from Texas sends a photo of a female serial killer they're tracking down...and imagine my surprise when it's none other than the girl I invited to have a masked night with on Halloween. One night is all I need to convince her to be mine forever and get rid of my brother together. After all, two serial killers who kill bad men are the perfect couple.
Only In The Dark is a dark Halloween novella about two serial killers. It contains plenty of explicit and graphic content not suitable for people under the age of 18. Please read the trigger warnings before diving in.
I'm running from my past. I came too close to getting caught. Now, I'm dating a boring man, living a boring life, trying to fly under the radar. But somehow, I've attracted the attention of a stalker, and he threatens the security I've built as he tempts me to the dark side. He invited me to a sex club on Halloween, where he promised to reveal his identity.
I didn't know how close he had been the entire time.
Or how much I'd love how dark we can be together.
Kieran
My brother's girlfriend should be the last person I want, but once I set eyes on her, she's mine. He doesn't treat her right. She should be lucky I'm stalking her, finding a way to be close to her every night. I could give her the world if she let me. I know there's something sinister beneath her facade. Something dark about her that my brother could never appreciate. And then my friend from Texas sends a photo of a female serial killer they're tracking down...and imagine my surprise when it's none other than the girl I invited to have a masked night with on Halloween. One night is all I need to convince her to be mine forever and get rid of my brother together. After all, two serial killers who kill bad men are the perfect couple.
Only In The Dark is a dark Halloween novella about two serial killers. It contains plenty of explicit and graphic content not suitable for people under the age of 18. Please read the trigger warnings before diving in.
141 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 13, 2025
About the author
Ashley Reyes
9 books163 followersAshley Reyes is a dark romance author living just outside of Nashville, TN, with her family and one too many chihuahuas. She works in a library while studying Creative Writing at Southern New Hampshire University. Known for her Halloween novellas, she has six published works. She knew she wanted to be a writer in the first grade—after turning in a fake book idea for a report and getting called out by the teacher, but praised for her creativity.
In her free time, she enjoys photographing concerts, losing at video games, reading stories that pull her away from reality, and writing the kind of men you’d run from in real life but swoon over in books.
In her free time, she enjoys photographing concerts, losing at video games, reading stories that pull her away from reality, and writing the kind of men you’d run from in real life but swoon over in books.
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September 19, 2026
"a serial killer and an obsessed stalker – what could go wrong?"
this was so freaking unhinged and i fucking loved it 😝✊🏻❤️🔥✨
this was so freaking unhinged and i fucking loved it 😝✊🏻❤️🔥✨
September 4, 2025
As soon as I heard the plot of this story, I knew I needed to read it. I was not disappointed at all. There is a great mixture of plot as there is spice. It is the type of book you really need to check your trigger warnings before reading ahead. I loved Olivia and Kieran together, she could finally be her true self and thats what she needed all along. It is a great quick read for the spooky season upon us.
September 11, 2025
This was the perfect little novella read to start off spooky season. I love both of the main characters in this book. Both characters seem like normal everyday people until you really get to know them. My only bad thing to say about this book is I wish it were longer and we had more time with both of these main characters! This is my first Ashley Reyes book and I will definitely be reading books from her backlog!
September 3, 2025
Who needs a love like Johnny and June when you can have one like Kieran and Olivia with a dash of murder induced spice? I could not put this book down! Also, how does one find a grocery providing stalker?!
October 18, 2025
Such a silly funny goofy time for girls who love stalkers and masked men!
September 9, 2025
As a sucker for serial killers + stalker tropes, this book does those well!
Okayy so no before you guys panic, they only kill bad evil people, not the innocent or random, okay? Like killing the pedo, the wealthy evil and whatnot that hardly get down through justice system, those that always get free because they have the money and connection and more, yeah that. So yes that kind of serial killers killing are alright with me.
So, this book started with Olivia, a seemingly good, naive girl that unfortunately stay with such a dickhead boyfriend, which then turns out to be way more ughh. At the same time, she’s been stalked with a mystery guy who are obsessed with her, not to hurt her, but protective and sweet with her too.
In the beginning, I feel like the story is almost similar with other books that have the same kind of tropes, but as the plot goes on, it doesn’t feel annoying or anything as their story went broader and tap into the characters backstory much deeper. It goes well and I become more in love with both fmc and mmc as well as the fmc bestie, and invested indeed with the plot growth. I love how the author did her best to include some important detailing in their killing such as the poisons that they use, how they killed and all. It’s not too detailed, but enough to say it’s not too vague as well. I love as much gory as they can get in a book, this one is just light for me, but better than nothing at all, really. Oh as usual, do check for tw if you’re a sensitive reader, as this is a dark romance book.
The ending is good as well, and there’s this one scene towards the ending that is so refreshing to see, Kieran definitely wowed me and damn, they both are great together indeed. I think this is the first that I found that exact scene but w fmc doing it to mmc instead of usually in mm books hehe. So good job for that! As for the spice, it’s okay w me, not too much, just nice with and as the story goes.
Overall, I do enjoy reading this book. If there ever will be more book next about Olivia & Kieran, hell yes I want to read them! Thanks for the ARC in exchange for my honest review 🖤🖤
Okayy so no before you guys panic, they only kill bad evil people, not the innocent or random, okay? Like killing the pedo, the wealthy evil and whatnot that hardly get down through justice system, those that always get free because they have the money and connection and more, yeah that. So yes that kind of serial killers killing are alright with me.
So, this book started with Olivia, a seemingly good, naive girl that unfortunately stay with such a dickhead boyfriend, which then turns out to be way more ughh. At the same time, she’s been stalked with a mystery guy who are obsessed with her, not to hurt her, but protective and sweet with her too.
In the beginning, I feel like the story is almost similar with other books that have the same kind of tropes, but as the plot goes on, it doesn’t feel annoying or anything as their story went broader and tap into the characters backstory much deeper. It goes well and I become more in love with both fmc and mmc as well as the fmc bestie, and invested indeed with the plot growth. I love how the author did her best to include some important detailing in their killing such as the poisons that they use, how they killed and all. It’s not too detailed, but enough to say it’s not too vague as well. I love as much gory as they can get in a book, this one is just light for me, but better than nothing at all, really. Oh as usual, do check for tw if you’re a sensitive reader, as this is a dark romance book.
The ending is good as well, and there’s this one scene towards the ending that is so refreshing to see, Kieran definitely wowed me and damn, they both are great together indeed. I think this is the first that I found that exact scene but w fmc doing it to mmc instead of usually in mm books hehe. So good job for that! As for the spice, it’s okay w me, not too much, just nice with and as the story goes.
Overall, I do enjoy reading this book. If there ever will be more book next about Olivia & Kieran, hell yes I want to read them! Thanks for the ARC in exchange for my honest review 🖤🖤
September 6, 2025
My first arc read 😍😍😍😍 this one is for the dark romance smut peeps 😍😍😍
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/🌶🌶🌶🌶🌶
This one was a quick little read but so good ! I loved the story line with the characters and at the end how it all ties together
And the SPICE guys OMG 🥵🥵🥵
I hope we get more of them in the future!!
Some spooky vibes for the spooky season too we love a good halloween book 😍👻
10/10 recommend it I could not put it down!!
I hope I can read more of Ashley's books in the future 🥰🥰🥰
thank you Ashley for this opportunity 💕💕
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/🌶🌶🌶🌶🌶
This one was a quick little read but so good ! I loved the story line with the characters and at the end how it all ties together
And the SPICE guys OMG 🥵🥵🥵
I hope we get more of them in the future!!
Some spooky vibes for the spooky season too we love a good halloween book 😍👻
10/10 recommend it I could not put it down!!
I hope I can read more of Ashley's books in the future 🥰🥰🥰
thank you Ashley for this opportunity 💕💕
October 2, 2025
Only in the Dark
Kieran starts off the book doing what he does best. Being a stalker. This book had be right from the beginning. It’s the perfect size novella for a palette clean between books or even series. Olivia I found witty and love how they end up meeting “for the first time”. Ashley has beautifully written an amazing story and I hope we get another novella with the two or main (Kieran & Olivia) or even a spinoff with Olivia’s best friend Sarah!
I fully rate this 5/5!
Kieran starts off the book doing what he does best. Being a stalker. This book had be right from the beginning. It’s the perfect size novella for a palette clean between books or even series. Olivia I found witty and love how they end up meeting “for the first time”. Ashley has beautifully written an amazing story and I hope we get another novella with the two or main (Kieran & Olivia) or even a spinoff with Olivia’s best friend Sarah!
I fully rate this 5/5!
October 3, 2025
SPOILERS AHEAD
First, I want to thank the author for giving me an advanced copy of the book to read.
I thought this story was a neat concept when I heard of it — 2 serial killers, one of which is a detective and looking for her? Love it. And he’s a stalker? Amazing. It was a really cool idea. The beginning where our stalker MMC Kieran was watching FMC Olivia was really well done. And of course the spicy scenes were great lol.
Now, there were some parts I wasn’t a fan of. First, I was a bit confused by Sarah. She is very protective of her friend, even rushes to her house with a baseball bat, but when Olivia tells her about her first sexual encounter with the stalker, she’s just sort of nonchalant about it. Idk it just didn’t make sense to me personally for her character to act that way. The whole part of backstory where she kills Mother and tells Daniel about it seemed very rushed to me. There were some moments of inconsistencies, like when Kieran’s expression “turns into a snarl,” but he’s supposed to be wearing a mask, so how would she know that? Then, he mentions being called the Cocktail Killer, but he mentions it so late into the story that I forgot he was even a serial killer. I think this would’ve worked better as a longer story to really flesh these things out and let us know these characters more clearly.
Overall, I do love a good masked man, and a slasher plot is always fun.
First, I want to thank the author for giving me an advanced copy of the book to read.
I thought this story was a neat concept when I heard of it — 2 serial killers, one of which is a detective and looking for her? Love it. And he’s a stalker? Amazing. It was a really cool idea. The beginning where our stalker MMC Kieran was watching FMC Olivia was really well done. And of course the spicy scenes were great lol.
Now, there were some parts I wasn’t a fan of. First, I was a bit confused by Sarah. She is very protective of her friend, even rushes to her house with a baseball bat, but when Olivia tells her about her first sexual encounter with the stalker, she’s just sort of nonchalant about it. Idk it just didn’t make sense to me personally for her character to act that way. The whole part of backstory where she kills Mother and tells Daniel about it seemed very rushed to me. There were some moments of inconsistencies, like when Kieran’s expression “turns into a snarl,” but he’s supposed to be wearing a mask, so how would she know that? Then, he mentions being called the Cocktail Killer, but he mentions it so late into the story that I forgot he was even a serial killer. I think this would’ve worked better as a longer story to really flesh these things out and let us know these characters more clearly.
Overall, I do love a good masked man, and a slasher plot is always fun.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
September 4, 2025
I was given this book as an arc from the beautiful Author, and I absolutely loved it, it had everything, stalking, banter, a bit of gore, this book reminded me of driving my obsessions by lauren biel, it was an amazing book and so glad I was able to get my hands on it, I highly recommend it. This book is releasing or publication date is October 13 I believe
September 5, 2025
ARC review freely and happily given.
Who wouldn’t love to read about a serial killer and an obsessed stalker?!? This book has everything you’d want in a Dark Stalker Romance! I could have binged it in hours if life hadn’t gotten in the way. I was gripped by this story right away!
I will for sure be recommending this book to everyone!!
Who wouldn’t love to read about a serial killer and an obsessed stalker?!? This book has everything you’d want in a Dark Stalker Romance! I could have binged it in hours if life hadn’t gotten in the way. I was gripped by this story right away!
I will for sure be recommending this book to everyone!!
September 8, 2025
This short little novella was very interesting to say the least. I’m not a big dark romance reader so this was one of a very short list. While it was a good read and I enjoyed the story, I will say that some of the topics in this book were hard to read. I don’t feel like they are things that I will never read again but they are definitely not my thing haha. Overall, it was a good book and I think the FMC and the MMC were made for each other in a disturbing way haha!
September 8, 2025
This was the perfect dark romance with a touch of Halloween vibes! I loved the fast-moving, well-written plot. It is hard to write engaging characters, and Ashley nailed it. It was the perfect amount of mystery, spice, and definitely dark romance. Ummm, who doesn't love a thoughtful stalker...IYKYK.
September 2, 2025
absolutely amazing!!! yes I want a stalker who pays for my groceries hehe!!! but man to be Olivia and deal with what she does ugh being a dark romance girly.....yes please and thank you bahaha. but definitely a novella for the ages!!!
September 3, 2025
WOW! I almost have no words, talk about edge of your seat type of read! Legit did not want to put the book down! It wasn’t a super long read, but it was long enough to get me hooked! I definitely need more to this story!
September 5, 2025
I had the privilege of obtaining an ARC of this book. It is short, but so, so sinful! Olivia and Kieran are just *chef's kiss*. The book is filled with stalking, a little banter, and super spicy scenes. I binged this book in a few hours. It was hard to put down. 🥵😍
September 9, 2025
I’m speechless. I don’t even know where to start. I have no triggers, the dirtier the better and who doesn’t love a dark romance. GIRL, you nailed that 🫶 like oh my 👅🔥 i could not put the book down and I was shocked at every turn! Yall this is a MUST read!
October 14, 2025
This was a quick super spicy novella!! If you love masked men and possessive men in books then this book is for you!! I loved the book from start to finish!! I loved he wqs a thoughtful stalker and bought her groceries when she needed them. He even gave her dog treats!!
September 2, 2025
I loves this!!! I devoured this in one sitting. I literally stayed up just because I didn't want to put it down. If you like stalkers, bada$$, FMCs and revenge you definitely need to check this out!
September 5, 2025
I absolutely loved this book. It was such an easy book for me to read and drew me in so quick. I couldn’t put it down. I feel like there must be a sequel to this soon!!!
September 5, 2025
I received this as an arc thank you so much I did enjoy this book it is spicy and of course check your triggers. As it is a novella its short and to the point.Its a wild ride
September 9, 2025
LOVED this book so much it kept me hooked the whole time and the spice and story were spot on.
September 11, 2025
I just finished this book and I loved. It was amazing loved the twisted and passion. It the prefect mix.
October 14, 2025
Dedication
This book is dedicated to every reader who wished a masked stalker would give them orgasms and groceries.
This book is dedicated to every reader who wished a masked stalker would give them orgasms and groceries.
October 19, 2025
he buys me my favorite groceries?
This stalker romance is everything a girl could ever want, and she’s a switch. What more could you honestly ask for. 🤭
This stalker romance is everything a girl could ever want, and she’s a switch. What more could you honestly ask for. 🤭
September 8, 2025
Short story but LOVEDDD it!
January 15, 2026
I love the inclusion of character art it really brought the whole story together. We all need a best friend like Sarah, someone who supports you no matter what. Do I even need to mention the groceries umm yes please I’ll take ten thank you very much. For a novella the plot was very captivating and didn’t feel too rushed.
October 5, 2025
⭐️x4.5 (round up review)
🌶x4
Short, dark romance, novella, Halloween vibes, stalker... great book, taking your trauma and flip it to get revenge. I liked the banter between characters. The characters are a bit disturbed, so definitely check your triggers.
I received an advance review copy free, and I am leaving this review voluntarily.
Only In The Dark by Ashley Reyes
Release: 10/13/25
~141pgs
🌶x4
Short, dark romance, novella, Halloween vibes, stalker... great book, taking your trauma and flip it to get revenge. I liked the banter between characters. The characters are a bit disturbed, so definitely check your triggers.
I received an advance review copy free, and I am leaving this review voluntarily.
Only In The Dark by Ashley Reyes
Release: 10/13/25
~141pgs
January 9, 2026
LOVED this book! Definitely check the trigger warnings before reading. The MMC is a golden retriever type on the surface, sweet, devoted, hard working, except he’s also a full-on stalker, which made it even better. I was obsessed immediately, and couldn’t put it down. It gave me major Josh vibes from Lights Out by Navessa Allen, which is basically my kryptonite. First five-star read of the year for me! I can't wait to read more from Ashley!
September 7, 2025
Sex and murder. That's what you get with Olivia and Kieran. couples that slay together stay together. I would definitely recommend it to anyone who likes spice and murder.
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