A Demon’s Desire

A Demon’s Desire is one of Lizzy Ford’s paranormal romance novels, working in the demonic and supernatural hero corner she has built her career around. Ford is one of the more prolific writers in independent paranormal romance and urban fantasy, with a catalogue running to multiple connected series and standalones spanning everything from light contemporary paranormal to darker supernatural thriller territory.

The demon’s desire premise hints at the kind of dangerous supernatural hero pairing that Ford has used in some of her work. A demonic male lead whose desire for the heroine drives the central romance, with the supernatural complications and the moral ambiguity that the demonic nature brings providing the kind of dark paranormal romance that the wider subgenre has been producing.

Ford’s writing is brisk and the books are generally on the shorter end of the genre. Her chapters are short, her plots move, and the supernatural rules of her world get explained as the story needs them rather than dumped in long expository sections.

Readers who enjoy authors like Annie Bellet, Patricia Briggs, Ilona Andrews, or the indie end of paranormal romance from writers like Karen Chance will find Ford operating in the same general neighborhood. A Demon’s Desire is a comfortable entry into her wider catalogue and a fair sample of what she does.