Psycho Beasts

**Author:** Jasmine Mas **Estimated Reading Time:** 18 minutes

**What This Story Explores:** The cost of becoming a weapon, the ache of belonging to people who would die for you, and the strange mercy of finding family in the wreckage of everything you were taught to fear.

**Who This Book Is For:** Readers who want their romance feral and their heroines scarred, who believe love should leave bite marks, and who understand that the most dangerous monsters are often the ones wearing crowns.

There is a particular kind of exhaustion that comes from surviving the unsurvivable. Sadie knows it intimately. She has spent her life being beaten, burned, and broken by people who claimed to love her, only to discover that every wound was part of someone else's plan. In *Psycho Beasts*, the third installment of Jasmine Mas's Cruel Shifterverse series, that exhaustion becomes the fuel for something far more dangerous than rage: acceptance. The novel picks up in the aftermath of an impossible act. Aran, Sadie's best friend and fellow survivor, has killed her own mother. Not with a blade or a spell, but with her teeth, ripping the fae queen's heart from her chest and consuming it raw because that was the only way to end an immortal's reign. The act has crowned Aran ruler of a realm she despises, and it has broken something inside her that may never heal. Sadie watches her friend unravel while carrying her own impossible weight: she is a half-breed alpha, a creature the shifter realm considers an abomination, hiding in plain sight among the very people who would execute her if they knew. The world Mas builds is one of brutal hierarchies and ancient magic. Shifters are ruled by alphas, served by betas, and defined by their packs. The Mafia don who controls Serpentine City has decreed that all alphas must form packs within three months or die. For Cobra, the don's own son, this decree becomes a trap with Sadie at its center. The men who love her, four broken alphas and omegas with their own histories of abuse and survival, must navigate a system designed to exclude her. A female alpha is an anomaly. A female alpha who cannot produce heirs is a liability. A female alpha who is secretly a half-breed is a death sentence waiting to be signed. But *Psycho Beasts* is not a story about hiding. It is a story about what happens when the masks come off, when the enchantments fail, and when the truth arrives wearing the face of someone you once trusted. The novel's central tension is not whether Sadie will survive the don's trials, though those trials are brutal enough to kill most…