New Release​: September 26, 2025

Cute Cnut: The Hardening

Warm Up Your Hand, Please, Cnut: It’s Chilly When You’re Dead

Stella McSteel is satisfied with her humdrum London life and humdrum Norfolk boyfriend until she meets dazzlingly handsome Swede Cnut Vanking from Sweden. With his perfect good looks, toned, muscular body, excellent dress sense and fabulous wealth he seems like the perfect man. But whilst Cnut may be cute, he’s also a man of mystery harbouring a secret so huge it threatens to blow Stella’s world apart. What could this secret be and can their burgeoning romance survive this really rather enormous secret which would, frankly, test any relationship?

Maybe he’s a vampire? Turn to Chapter 14 to find out!

An urban fantasy romance from the virtual pen of enigmatic genre-shattering novelist Karen McCompostine (Mrs.)!

It is time to enter the world of… The Hardening.

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A Word From The Author

My dear C&FF&Fs! (Current and Future Friends and Fans). This is Karen speaking. I am an author of three (3) novels, the first of whom is an Omnibus, which means a collection for those less versed in literary terms. As a romantic at heart, I range from romance through shifter romance to romantasy. Due to circumstances beyond my control, i.e. Colombian Maffia and/or police, I am forced to live my life in cognito…

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What Readers Are Saying​

I have been reviewed by many people who said many nice things about my novels! (Some said things that were not nice, so I am not quoting them here.)

“Be prepared for giggling if you insist on reading it in public places”

“Unbridled, unhinged, unmatched”

“She writes like Jane Austen drunk on mouthwash churning out fanfic”

“Left me … laughing out loud enough times to classify this book as a health tonic”