Title: Crow's Shadow
Series: Grave Prowlers MC: Oregon & Idaho #1
Author: Kathleen Kelly
Genre: Dark Paranormal MC Romance
Tropes: Secret Supernatural Society, Magic & Witchcraft
Protective Hero, Found Family, Dark Secrets
Release Date: September 8, 2026
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A Dark, Obsessive Paranormal Grave Prowlers MC Romance.
The Grave Prowlers MC was born from death—coffins, cremations, and the kind of secrets that should never see daylight. In Grimstone, Oregon, the club handles the bodies, buries the evidence, and keeps the rest of the world at arm’s length.
Crow is no exception. Cold, controlled, and more comfortable among the dead than the living, he’s a ghost in leather and ink who has mastered silence, shadows, and the art of making people disappear.
Yet for all his carefully constructed distance, he’s never truly been alone, because Shadow has always been there.
She grew up on the edges of the club, quiet and watchful, a little wild, a little broken, and fiercely loyal to the people who became her family. She’s also spent most of her life loving Crow, the man who carried her out of a burning house when she was five and has spent every year since pretending he doesn’t see the way she watches him.
But Crow sees her.
He always has.
He simply knows some lines should never be crossed, and Shadow is the one temptation he refuses to touch.
Until she vanishes.
One day she’s there, moving through his world as she always has, and the next there’s nothing left but blood and the sickening realization that Shadow didn’t walk away. Someone took her.
For the first time in twenty years, Crow’s iron control fractures.
He tears through anyone standing between him and the woman he should never have wanted, leaving bodies in the Oregon dirt and coffins for the Prowlers to fill. He’ll do anything to bring Shadow home, but the deeper he digs, the more he realizes her disappearance is tangled in secrets buried long before either of them understood what they meant.
There’s something waking inside Shadow, an inheritance tied to her mother, to witchcraft, and to a past someone has killed to keep hidden. Worse, the fire Crow carried her from all those years ago may not have been the beginning of their story at all.
When he finally gets Shadow back, Crow discovers the woman he spent years refusing to want is nothing like the fragile girl he convinced himself she was. She’s fire wrapped in darkness, carrying power she’s only beginning to understand, and she’s done allowing the man she loves to pretend she’s invisible.
Crow has spent twenty years controlling every emotion, every impulse, and every dark part of himself.
Shadow destroys that control.
Now wanting her isn’t enough. He needs her with an obsession that should terrify them both, because she’s become his weakness, his addiction, and his reckoning.
His goddamn Shadow.
And after almost losing her once, Crow will burn the world down before he lets anyone take her from him again.
Crow’s Shadow is a dark, addictive paranormal MC romance set in Grimstone, Oregon, where witches keep secrets, the dead don’t always stay silent, and the Grave Prowlers don’t fear death—they bury it.
The Grave Prowlers MC is a series of obsessive anti-heroes, unforgettable heroines, deadly secrets, found family, dark magic, and love fierce enough to survive even the darkest grave.
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Crow’s Shadow was the first book I’ve read by Kathleen Kelly.
It is a motorcycle club closed door romance with paranormal thrown in as well.
This book is definitely an interesting take on your typical paranormal romance and it absolutely kept me intrigued. It was a bit dark in some spots (which isn’t really my cup of tea) but I still found myself enjoying it.
The reason why I didn’t really enjoy it enough for four stars was because the text tended to be a bit repetitive. Same phrases were used and I’m sure that’s to do with Crow’s character. The dark, broody MC member.
The characters were written well but I found the plot to be a bit jumpy and not with smooth development. I did love Shadow’s character and how she kept to herself but was extra observant. She’s cunning, smart and feisty. I also loved that she had a place in the club other than being one of the patched member’s property.
Overall, the book is intriguing and unique. Definitely something I haven’t read anything like before. The next book in the series already has piqued my interest and I look forward to Ember’s story.
It is a motorcycle club closed door romance with paranormal thrown in as well.
This book is definitely an interesting take on your typical paranormal romance and it absolutely kept me intrigued. It was a bit dark in some spots (which isn’t really my cup of tea) but I still found myself enjoying it.
The reason why I didn’t really enjoy it enough for four stars was because the text tended to be a bit repetitive. Same phrases were used and I’m sure that’s to do with Crow’s character. The dark, broody MC member.
The characters were written well but I found the plot to be a bit jumpy and not with smooth development. I did love Shadow’s character and how she kept to herself but was extra observant. She’s cunning, smart and feisty. I also loved that she had a place in the club other than being one of the patched member’s property.
Overall, the book is intriguing and unique. Definitely something I haven’t read anything like before. The next book in the series already has piqued my interest and I look forward to Ember’s story.
AUTHOR BIO
Kathleen Kelly, a USA Today Best-Selling Author and an International Best-Selling Author, is known for her fast-paced, spicy romance novels. Kathleen writes MC, Paranormal, Sports, and Band of Brothers Romance.
When she’s not writing, she’s collecting handbags (they always fit!) and planning her next international trip.
Kathleen can be spotted in local cafes, blending in with the regulars while plotting her next tale of passion and intrigue. She finds inspiration in the quirky characters around her, both real and fictional.
Living in Toowoomba, Queensland, with her childhood sweetheart, SL, rescue sweetheart Freya, and Eir, the soon-to-be gigantic Maine Coon who thinks she’s the main character, Kathleen values kindness, loyalty, and good stories.
If you have any questions about her novels or would like to ask Kathleen a question, she can be contacted via e-mail: HERE, or she can be found on Facebook. Kathleen welcomes messages from readers who share her love for stories that leave hearts racing and cheeks blushing.
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