This Crimson Debt

There’s a Community of Blood that lurks in the Shadows…By the time you realize they’ve noticed you, it’s already too late.Beloved French Quarter tour guide and master storyteller Rose Sinister has created a compelling new world in the vampire genre with the first installment of the Community of Blood series, THIS CRIMSON DEBT.Sensible, level-headed Grace Kelly Cordero is careening headlong towards a quarter-life crisis. Her boyfriend has dumped her, she’s stuck in the suburbs, and her beautiful best friend is a chaotic disaster.Waking up in a stranger’s apartment with fangs and no heartbeat after a New Year’s Eve party gone wrong was not part of her five-year plan.Thrust into the care of Harold Laing, a secretive, centuries-old vampire with kind eyes that hide a horrible array of past sins, Grace struggles to reconcile her monstrous bloodlust and nocturnal existence against the battered shreds of her faith and her humanity.It’s bad enough that she can’t go out in the sun, blood tastes terrible, and all her newfound heightened senses are overwhelming, but when Grace and Harold discover that the fiend who attacked her on New Year’s Eve has a new target in his crosshairs, it’s a race against time to save Grace’s best friend Becca from the same fate.Grace and Harold need each other more than they want to admit. But if the bloom of their growing attraction is going to survive the night, they’ll have to discover reasons to keep going, when all the things they thought they were living for are torn away from them.With every passing sunrise, the nights are growing shorter, and Grace is running out of darkness. Lurking behind every potential ally and foe, The Community watches—and their intervention might lead to Grace’s doom.EARLY READER PRAISE FOR THIS CRIMSON DEBT:“Five stars. The best vampire novel I’ve read in years.”“Fans of Colleen Hoover, Sarah J. Maas, and the new AMC adaptation of ‘Interview With the Vampire’ will love this!”“These vampires aren’t perfect preternatural beings. They’re messy, awkward, and instantly relatable. Everything in “This Crimson Debt“ feels believable and real. I couldn’t put it down.”“These characters live rent-free in my head.”“THIS CRIMSON DEBT draws on a deep well of vampire traditions and tropes to craft a story that, at its heart, is about what it means to be human. It’s about the home we can never go back to, not because it’s gone, but because we are no longer the people who lived there. The sweet ache of loss, finding love in the darkness, and hope of a flicker of light come together to draw you into the lives of real, complex, living (but not breathing) people. You won’t want to put it down.”“Fans of Rose’s New Orleans vampire tours and podcast will not be disappointed—this novel has everything: mystery, romance, spice, gut-churning plot twists and an ending that will leave you craving more.” Read more