Sarai doesn't know why someone tried to kill her, but she does know that her case was closed without justice. Four years later, she returns to the scene of the crime with a new face and a new job as a Petitor, a prosecutor who can magically detect lies. She is assigned to work with the ice-cold and perennially sadistic Tetrarch Kadra, the most vicious of the four judges who rule the land... and the prime suspect in a string of deaths identical to Sarai's attempted murder. Certain of his guilt and hell-bent on justice, Sarai begins a double life: solving cases with Kadra by day and plotting his ruin by night. But Kadra is charming, and there's something alluring about the wrath he inflicts on the city's corruption. So when the evidence she uncovers embroils her in a deadly political battle, Sarai must also flight against her attraction to Kadra- because despite his growing hold on her heart, his voice matches the only memory she has of her assailant... A dazzling, Ancient Rome-inspired romantasy, This Monster of Mine is a bloodbath of manipulation, deception, and forbidden love.