Eaten by the Easter Bunny

by Megan Linski, Moira Black (Narrator)

This Easter, the bunny is hopping down one happy trail.

Arleigh Warren is the founder of Happy Rabbit Rescue, her town’s sole charity dedicated to saving rabbits. Burned out and stretched thin due to the requirements of animal rescue, Arleigh is one missed payment away from losing her shelter, her dream, and all her bunnies.

Desperate for help, she makes one monster a very tempting offer…Peter Cottontail appears to be a joyful symbol of his spring holiday. But as darkness falls, he transforms into a wererabbit, taking the form of a cruel, terrifying beast. Under the cover of night, he stalks his prey, and he has Arleigh locked in his sights.

The Easter Bunny needs an heir for his kingdom, and Arleigh is his only option for a mate. Seeking to save her shelter, Arleigh agrees to provide Peter with such an heir… and finds herself wrapped within his wicked desires. Eaten by the Easter Bunny is a short and steamy Easter monster romance from Megan Linski. This hilarious and wild romp celebrating the arrival of spring is another beloved holiday love story for listeners to enjoy.

Genres: Audiobook

3 pages, Audible Audio

Published March 23, 2026

About the author

Megan Linski lives in Michigan. She is the author of more than fifty fantasy and paranormal novels which feature themes of friendship, community, and healthy romantic relationships. She has over fifteen years of experience writing books alongside working as a journalist and editor. She graduated from the University of Iowa, where she studied Creative Writing.

Her passions include ice skating and horseback riding. In her free time she enjoys dancing in the snow and drinking fancy coffee while at her natural habitat, the mall.

Megan advocates for the rights of the disabled, and is an activist for mental health awareness.

Megan co-writes the Hidden Legends Universe with Alicia Rades. She also writes under the pen name of Natalie Erin for the Creatures of the Lands series, co-authored by Krisen Lison.

Awards Megan has won include;

Best Fantasy Book of the Year 2019 by Once Upon a Book

Best Co-Authored Book of the Year 2022 by Once Upon a Book

Author of the Year 2022 by Once Upon a Book

Keynote Speaker at Once Upon a Book 2023

Best Book Friends (Ava and Kallie) 2023 by Once Upon a Book

Featured in the FOX Teen Choice Awards Gift Baskets

Two-time Reader's Favorite Five Star Read (Bronze Medal Finalist)

Winner of Amazon's Kindle Scout Competition

Reviews

[☆Amanda☆ · Rating 2 out of 5]

I get it was suppose to be a short story but i really cant do insta love/acceptance.
Were bunny comes, captures her tells her shes going to have his babies and shes like oh ok sounds good???? nah but I needed an Easter book for a reading challenge so this works.

[Melissa Aguiar · Rating 2 out of 5]

Adult fairytale

[Sonia Pasquale · Rating 4 out of 5]

I honestly enjoyed this book. For a short story, it got to the point which is more than I can say for some books that are 600 pages and have gaps everywhere. I’m excited to read the rest of the holiday monsters

[Eve · Rating 3 out of 5]

So, Easter Bunny TLDR, SPOILERS!

Setting:
The magical Easter Bunny Kingdom is threatened by the Frost King’s expansion plans. All the does have fled; magic is waning. To the rescue!
The Easter Bunny (newly appointed, a "Were Easter Bunny" obviously, a cocky show-off—you know the type) is seeking a suitable bunny shifter to birth an heir so magic returns to the kingdom.

FMC Enters the Scene

Unaware of her own bunny shifter lineage, the dear girl has taken over the local rabbit rescue from her recently deceased mother—naturally, she is self-sacrificingly devoted to her long-eared kin. The Easter Bunny stalks her and eventually rescues her and a runaway baby bunny from a grizzly bear one night. The Head Bunny decides she is mate material and kidnaps her to the Easter Kingdom, explains the whole mess including her own bunnyhood, signs a surrogacy contract with her (she desperately needs cash since rescuing rabbits isn't lucrative), and then things get wild.

After the wild night (plenty of being eaten though), the Winter King storms in, threatening to bury the Easter Kingdom in snow. The lady is whisked away to the human realm for safety, pops out quadruplets in record time (rabbits have a one-month gestation), the Easter Bunny returns, and the bunny babies somehow save the realm with their magic. Then comes the big misunderstanding because she thinks he doesn’t want her, but he actually does, and she wants to keep her bunny babies and him too, and he wants her too. And they all lived happily ever after.


Overall Verdict: 3/5 Only if read ironically. At least it is short.

Heat: For those who like shifters and monsters. A minimal slip into BDSM, but meh.
Brain: Please deactivate. The FMC accepts all the magic nonsense without a single question and is otherwise a bit of a dimwit.
MMC: Not the most likable—fairly shallow and arrogant. If that’s your thing.

[IAmNotACentipede · Rating 2 out of 5]

2.75 stars

I was debating so much on this final rating, since I felt like off and on throughout this whole story it fluctuated between my final rating of 2.75 and at the high of 3.5 stars.
I think what ultimately came to be the final reason I ended a little lower was that the chemistry between the main characters to me just was lacking.

Arleigh was such a fun and fiery female main, but Peter was just kinda... there. It felt like he was this strange mix of uppity royal and disinterested knight combo that I just couldn't really see much more than these traits instead of romance. Their relationship seemed very transactional and the progress to finally ending up together just didn't seem to flow as well as the first book.

I will say that because this novella is a little longer than the first the plot was a little more fleshed out and there was more going on in the background for both world building and the characters, but what it made up for in that aspect it seemed to take away from the main couple being this perfect match.

[Abbey · Rating 3 out of 5]

Naughty bunny!

Okay, so for a monster romance novella. this wasn't too bad a concept and I probably found it more hilarious than I should. King of the bunnies himself, Peter Cottontail certainly had a mouth on him and the skills to back up all that talk too. Arleigh had a mouth on her too and certainly made sure her opinions were always heard when necessary and she really should have found her mother's affinity and obsession for rescuing only rabbits a bit strange but when that life is all you know, you're less likely to question its origins.

There were some interesting points - the possible extinction of Peter's rabbit shifter species and their magical realm; the threat of invasion from Jack Frost; and the renewal and strengthening of Peter's powers with the presence of his heirs. But overall, the story still felt a bit corny, hence 3 stars.

[Carmen · Rating 4 out of 5]

(more like a 3.5-3.75, rounded up for making me snort aloud far more often than I'd like to admit)

Definitely one that falls into guilty pleasure "it's so ridiculous it's somehow good?" which is pretty much what I was expecting.

The spice admittedly didn't do much for me for the most part (there were a few moments I did like), but there were plenty of laughs (I lost it when the rabbit vibrator appeared) and it was overall a good time.

It feels a lot like The Santa Clause movies, but with the Easter Bunny instead of Santa.

I do wish there was a lot fewer mention of "buns" though. Or that the shelter was a bunny cafe that sold actual buns to make it more punny.

[Kerri · Rating 3 out of 5]

Short and fun, but I would've liked this one a bit longer; it has fun world-building, and I'd love to read more.

I listened to this and didn't enjoy the reader, bc to me she sounded like she was narrating a children's book. Also, I hated it when she did the MMC voice. I might've liked the book more if I had read it instead of listening.

[Andrea · Rating 2 out of 5]

Nov 4, 2026

⭐️⭐️ 2 Stars Overall
Tension/Chemistry: 🥵 0/5
Spice Level: 🌶🌶 2/5 (open door)

Spicy Chapters: 2, 3, 5
Number of Spicy Scenes: 3

🎧 Audiobook: Individual female narrator
Narrators: Moira Black
Audio Rating: 3/5⭐️

Here comes Peter Cottontail,
a horny hare with no plot trail.
Even with that shifted rabbit spice,
still couldn't make this book read nice.

[April · Rating 3 out of 5]

I would give this more of a 2.75 star but ok a were-bunny. 🤣 That’s a first. But it was fun and fast read.

[Ella Whamond · Rating 2 out of 5]

Really deserves 1 star but I laughed alot so...

[Shelli Coe-Mackie]

Moira Black is the narrator for the audiobook

[Steve · Rating 4 out of 5]

My first rabbit shifter book. A lot happens in a short period of time.

[Julia Nash · Rating 2.5 out of 5]

Is this pronatalist propaganda?