A hardcover so gorgeous ✨
My author friend Vasilisa Drake writes vampire romantasy, and this week, her book A Bargain So Bloody got the deluxe hardback treatment!
I can’t stop staring at it. 🤩
Sprayed edges. Foil case. Designed endpapers. Bonus chapters from Raphael’s point of view. (He’s the vampire — more on him in a second)
It’s a first-printing special edition, so once it sells out, it’s gone. And it’s absolutely a bookshelf trophy. 😍
The deluxe edition is out now in the US and Canada, in stores and online everywhere.
About that bargain… 🩸
Samara is locked away in a magical prison for a crime she didn’t commit.
Then she learns the freedom she was promised is a lie.
Her only way out? A bargain with the prison’s most dangerous inmate: Raphael, a vampire.
The deal is simple. She unlocks his enchanted shackles, and he helps her escape.
But he never promised to let her go…
It’s Book One of the Kingdom of Dark Magic series, and it’s loaded with:
🩸 Enemies to lovers
🩸 A searing slow burn
🩸 A morally gray vampire who falls first and falls hard
🩸 Touch her and die
🩸 Only one horse
🩸 A heroine who finds her own strength
In other words, all the things we know and love!
If you enjoyed my series, Our Fae Queen or Bound to the Vampires, you’ll LOVE Vasilisa’s book!
More than 19,000 readers have already rated Book 1 on Goodreads.
A Bargain So Bloody is a Best of #BookTok pick.
And it’s been picked up for translation into 5 languages — readers all over the world are falling for Raphael.
Hit the first button to find it in any format — ebook, paperback, audio, or deluxe hardcover!
I keep hearing great things about the audiobook narration too, if audio is more your speed.
When that ending grabs you, good news: Book 2, A Magic So Deadly, is already out. No agonizing cliffhanger wait for you. 😉
Near Boston? Come say hi to Vasilisa
She’s celebrating the deluxe launch in person on August 24 at Lovestruck Books in Cambridge, Massachusetts — in conversation with Jordan Lynde, author of Until the World Falls Down. Or August 27 at Serendipity Bookshop in conversation with Annie of Sable Sorensen (author of Direbound)!
If you can make it, tell her I said hi!
Writing can be a lonely business. Most days, it’s just me and the characters in my head. (Wow, that doesn’t sound crazy at all!)
I’m so glad to count Vasilisa among my writing friends. We do online write-ins and check-ins together where we laugh, cry, and celebrate together.
This week, the celebration is all hers. I couldn’t be prouder. 💜
P.S. Did we awaken a craving for sexy vampires? My own enemies-to-lovers vampire romantasy, A Match Made in Hell, is free as an ebook today!
Craving more vampire bites? 🖤
My Bound to the Vampires bonus stories will hold you over: extra scenes and epilogues from Mel and her men.