Reviewed by True
TITLE: Promised to the Nightmare Realm
SERIES: Dark Companions #3
AUTHORS: K.A. Merikan
PUBLISHER: Acerbi &Villani Ltd.
LENGTH: 110k
RELEASE DATE: July 16, 2026
BLURB:
“You will be my Dark Companion, sweetheart. I will always protect you.”
An honorable elven knight torn between duty and desire.
A human bookworm whose longing for true love may destroy him.
Nate
I’ve always dreamed of a grand love—the kind you read about at three a.m. when your heart aches and the world feels oppressive. I just never believed it would actually find me.
I’m a hopeless romantic. I fall for men who don’t stay. And the last time I trusted someone, it nearly got me killed.
Instead of dying, I was taken to the Nightmare Realm.
An elven knight pulled my soul from a dark river and offered me a bargain: my shadow in exchange for my life. I said yes, because I always do when a charming man chooses me.
Tristan is swoony, flirty, and oh-so-hot—as if every book boyfriend I’ve ever loved stepped out of the page to seduce me.
So, to hell with it, I follow him to a realm of endless darkness, monstrous beasts, and promises written in the stars.
Only then do I learn the truth: I’m bound to another elf, one who only cares about my shadow.
Ancient laws don’t care about my shattered heart, but the deeper I fall into the Nightmare Realm—and into Tristan—the more impossible it becomes to ignore the way he looks at me. How he protects me. How he tempts me into believing I might actually matter to him.
Even if loving me could cost him every vow he’s ever sworn.
And if the Nightmare Realm doesn’t destroy me first, loving Tristan just might.
REVIEW:
My goodness, what an adventure!
The night Nate tried to save little puppies from a breeding farm, he died.
Nate thinks that he is saved by a handsome and eccentric man.
Elven Prince Tristan Bloodweed, Knight of Grief Ocean, First Lieutenant of the Nightcloaks, indeed saved Nate, but not from death. Nate is now part of the Nightmare Realm.
When the time is right, Tristan will hand Nate over to his future owner, Captain Lorsen Gloombane.
But first Tristan will show him around in the Nightmare Realm. It sounds more terrifying than it is.
Tristan is head over heels for Nate and wants to court him, Nate is mesmerized by all Tristan does for him. He wants to stay with him. Nate is vulnerable as a human, and Tristan is hugely protective.
Everything changes when Nate has to leave with Gloombane. Tristan can’t go with them. He feels something isn’t right.
It took a while, but he finally found the love of his life again.
Nate is shattered, hurt and his spirit is completely broken.
How can Tristan find his way back to Nate’s heart?
This is just a slight and fleeting view of this story. It’s so much more, impossible to express without giving too much detail away about this journey.
What I love about fantasy is that everything is possible to create, and oh boy, did these authors create!!
The fantasy parts took my breath away, it was all just absolutely stunningly put together.
The hurt comfort was so well executed, I felt it all as sharp as a knife.
I enjoyed this story immensely!
All the hearts and stars!
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