SHATTER MY NIGHT

Urban Fantasy/Paranormal Romance

RELEASING 2026

Cover reveal coming soon!

From award-winning author Sarah L Richhelm comes another high-stakes new adult urban/paranormal mafia fantasy with an excruciating slow-burn rivals-to-lovers romance between two bodyguards trying to protect their client at all costs.

When fugitive mage Anika finds sanctuary—and a new job as a supernatural bodyguard—in a warded historical manor, she soon realizes that whatever lurks within the house may be more dangerous than anything she is running from on the outside.

FULL BLURB COMING SOON

Shatter My Night is the second instalment in the interconnected standalone Shadow Cages series mixing mafia vibes with romance, action, and spice in a reimagined, modern-day Europe.

The Tropes

Rivals-to-lovers

Very slow burn

Stabby stabby “John Wick” female characters

An FMC with Harley Quinn energy

Grumpy x Chaos

Everyone is morally grey

Motorbike-riding MMC

Bodyguard vs bodyguard

“Sarah Richhelm has created one of the most unique, vivid, fast-paced, intriguing, beautifully crafted worlds I’ve read in an age.”
— H.M. Hodgson, award-winning Paranormal Romance author

Awards:
- FINALIST Australian Romance Readers Association Favourite First Kiss 2025
!SPOILER WARNING BELOW!
Shatter My Night is a dark new adult fantasy for mature audiences and contains criminal activity and characters recovering from trauma. Anika has good times and not-so-good times throughout, and if you find any of the following content or themes distressing, please take care and seek support if you need it: profanity, violence, alcohol use, graphic sexual content, murder, torture, suicide, gaslighting, depictions of dead bodies, some minor horror themes, inferences to child neglect (on and off-page), inferences to trafficking (off-page), and inferences to non-consensual activity regarding sexual practices, human experimentation, and drug consumption (off-page).
A full list of content and/or trigger warnings can be found below. If there is something not included that you as a reader found distressing, please contact me so it can be added.
Profanity
Violence (including gun & knife violence)
Alcohol use
Graphic sexual content
Murder
Torture
Gaslighting
Assumptions of suicide
Depictions of dead bodies
Captivity (on and off-page)
Minor horror themes
Inferences to child neglect (on and off-page)
Inferences to trafficking (off-page)
Inferences to non-consensual activity including sexual practices, human experimentation, and drug consumption (off-page).