YUKI BONAVICH
Author of dark sapphic thrillers and psychological fiction. Stories of obsession, power, survival, and morally grey women.
ABOUT
Yuki Bonavich writes on the edge of desire, crafting dark sapphic stories that move between romance, psychological suspense, and moral uncertainty. Her work slips easily from the intimacy of contemporary relationships into worlds shaped by power, secrecy, and consequence.
At the centre of every story stands a woman who refuses to be simple. Bonavich’s heroines are fierce, flawed, and self-aware, drawn into love that tests loyalty, control, and identity. Desire is never safe. Devotion is never clean.
Her writing is intimate and charged, favouring tension over excess. Emotion builds slowly, then breaks. Each book unfolds as a psychological labyrinth where obsession, betrayal, and longing collide , and nothing is resolved without cost.
When she isn’t writing, Yuki can be found with a book in hand or somewhere between sky and sea, reading, travelling, snorkelling, or chasing the quiet spaces that sharpen her imagination. Music shapes her process, drifting between soft indie ballads and dark cinematic scores, the same rhythm that runs beneath her prose.
BOOKS
Explore the worlds of The Beast At Midnight Series, Love Beyond Protocol, The Good Girl's Temptation and Girls Like Her.
THE BEAST AT MIDNIGHT
A Thriller Series
A dark sapphic spy thriller series exploring obsession, power, and survival in a world where love is a liability.
CROSSFIRE ALEX BLACK
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Crossfire: Alex Black is a dark sapphic spy thriller about a woman engineered for survival and the one vulnerability she was never meant to have.
Alex Black is a covert operative shaped by classified programmes, trained to disappear, and deployed where deniability is the only protection. She moves through global intelligence networks with lethal precision, completing missions that never officially exist. Control is her currency. Attachment is her risk.
When an operation entangles her with Hailey Berkeley, a psychologist embedded in the same shadow world for very different reasons, Alex’s carefully compartmentalised life begins to fracture. What starts as calculated proximity becomes something far more dangerous: intimacy. And in Alex’s world, intimacy is a liability that can get you killed.As competing agencies close in and secrets surface, Alex is forced to choose between the identity she was engineered to become and the woman she is slowly allowing herself to be. Survival has always been simple. Love is not.Crossfire: Alex Black is the first book in The Beast at Midnight series an addictive, high-stakes thriller where power, obsession, and desire collide, and no one escapes unscarred.
FALLING FOR THE BEAST
Coming Soon
Love Beyond Protocol
In the heart of Los Angeles, Lieutenant Christina MaCaw is a woman defined by her survival of war and the haunting memory of her first love, Yasmine Sullivan. She has abandoned the idea of love.Her world made a turn when she meets Naomi Scarlett, a kindergarten teacher who is the mirror image of her deceased soulmate, leading Christina to believe that fate has granted her love once again.However, this second chance is immediately threatened by a complex web of professional and personal peril: Naomi is currently dating Christina’s boss, the narcissistic Captain Owen Derbyshire.
As passion and obsession collide, a shadow falls over the city in the form of "The Night Reaper," a relentless serial killer who begins a sadistic spree targeting women Christina has been intimate with. What starts as a standard homicide investigation quickly becomes a personal nightmare, mocking Christina at every turn. The hunt for the Reaper reveals a shocking depth of betrayal, forcing Christina to confront the fact that the monster she seeks may be hiding in plain sight.Christina is forced to violate every protocol she swore to uphold. In a city where lust, vengeance, and murder intertwine, Christina must decide how much she is willing to sacrifice for a love that transcends time itself.
UPCOMING
STAND ALONE BOOKS
Standalone novels in development
Additional projects are currently undergoing editorial work and will be announced when publication timelines are confirmed.
UPCOMING
Love Beyond Protocol
In the heart of Los Angeles, Lieutenant Christina MaCaw is a woman defined by her survival of war and the haunting memory of her first love, Yasmine Sullivan. She has abandoned the idea of love.Her world made a turn when she meets Naomi Scarlett, a kindergarten teacher who is the mirror image of her deceased soulmate, leading Christina to believe that fate has granted her love once again.However, this second chance is immediately threatened by a complex web of professional and personal peril: Naomi is currently dating Christina’s boss, the narcissistic Captain Owen Derbyshire.As passion and obsession collide, a shadow falls over the city in the form of "The Night Reaper," a relentless serial killer who begins a sadistic spree targeting women Christina has been intimate with. What starts as a standard homicide investigation quickly becomes a personal nightmare, mocking Christina at every turn. The hunt for the Reaper reveals a shocking depth of betrayal, forcing Christina to confront the fact that the monster she seeks may be hiding in plain sight.Christina is forced to violate every protocol she swore to uphold. In a city where lust, vengeance, and murder intertwine, Christina must decide how much she is willing to sacrifice for a love that transcends time itself.
The Good Girl's Temptation
Robin has always kept her secret hidden. As a genetically modified superhuman, she and her sisters live by one non-negotiable rule: never reveal their true nature or risk becoming lab experiments and hunted prey. For Robin, survival meant staying in the shadows and following the code, until she met the one woman who could shatter her world.Jillian Koch, a dangerous and irresistible mafia boss, shatters Robin’s carefully guarded heart. Their forbidden desire ignites a passionate affair that threatens to unravel everything Robin has fought to protect. But in Jillian’s world, love comes with a price. When betrayal, jealousy, and lethal rivals arise, Robin’s life is thrown into total chaos.Twelve months after walking away from the woman who wrecked and redefined her, Robin finds herself at the center of a deadly hunt. Waking up in a merciless forest with no memory and a brutal head injury, she must outrun ravenous dogs and armed men who wants her blood.