Vengeful Monster by J.R. Gray
A Dark MM College Romance
Monstrous Heirs Book 1
September 15, 2026
🔪 Psychopath
🖤 Stalker
🔪 Black Cat x Golden Retriever Psycho
🖤 Dark Romance
🔪 Dark Rom-Com
🖤 Masked men
🔪 Secret Society
🖤 MM Romance
Is stalking just a one sided meet cute?
Ash Conrad throws his meticulously curated life plans out the window to attend an Ivy League. In a country he’s never been to, against family tradition, all in the hope of gaining entrance to an ancient and exclusive secret society.
The Legacy of Power isn’t just an elite secret society, it’s where the heirs of the criminal underworld play. Admittance would guarantee Ash access to the type of people who might help him save his brother.
But first he has to get through Rurik Locke.
Son of the world’s most notorious assassins, Rurik’s family founded Legacy. He’s a ruthless, violent enigma of a golden retriever—who’s not above a little stalking—and is utterly obsessed.
Ash needs his help, but Rurik’s chaos threatens every aspect of the careful structure he’s built to survive.
They’re about to find out the skeletons in their closets are a lot more intertwined than they realize, and Ash will have to let Rurik in to save them both.
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Vengeful Monster by J.R. Gray
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
The Legacy of Power. “Most members of this secret society are the world’s mafia heirs, future fixers, assassins, spies, and a myriad of other specialists.”
And Ash desperately wants in, even though he doesn’t belong. He wants to protect his brother and he feels that being a Legacy will help him accomplish that. He didn’t factor in the psychopathic Rurik. Rurik has always gotten what he wanted. He starts out just baiting Ash which quickly turns into an obsession he can’t contain.
Rurik is the embodiment of havoc. He sets his sights on Ash and never looks away. I don’t think he was trying to be funny but he was. For such a strong personality he seemed a bit addled at times. Ash on the other hand is controlled, almost cold. His regimented life keeps him sane. He lives with night terrors that paralyze him. Rurik can sooth the terror but not make it go away.
Okay…the first third of the book was repetitive. Rurik saying yes you will and Ash saying no I won’t. I was close to giving up on them, the but it started to get better. They were two entirely different people that blended their lives together, seemingly making one whole, viable person. The various people who were involved in their lives added a lot to the story, also making it lighter.
The deeper into the story the more convoluted it became until there was that ahah moment.
Not a lot violence on the page but it had a very dark theme which some readers could find unpleasant.
I liked the book overall but my rating reflects the fact that I was disappointed in the beginning.
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Gray is a cynical Chicago native, who drinks coffee all day, barely sleeps, and is a little too fashion obsessed. He writes realistic and damaged characters because everyone deserves a happily ever after.
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