Welcome friends! Today, I am thrilled to host the cover reveal for Carnelian by Jules Devito, in collaboration with the published, Inked in Gray. This is a horror novel coming September 2024. Let’s learn more!
Carnelian
by Jules Devito
Publication Date: September 23, 2024 by Inked in Gray
Genre: Horror
Cover by: Weird Undead
Millennials Killed the Killing Industry
When Jesse Westchurch finds out he’s dying, the last thing he expects is his old college roommate, Lucy Callahan, to climb through the second-story window of his quaint Long Island house and turn him into a vampire.
Millennial vampires are killing the killing industry by refusing to sacrifice humans, so Jesse doesn’t even have to drink blood. The ancient vampire government, Carnelian, offers distilled blood pills. But they come at a price: you work for them, you get your supply of pills. Sure, sometimes the work is dangerous, but they are sparing innocent lives.
The truth comes to light when Jesse figures out that Lucy and his sister, Ciceline, are Carnelian’s most skilled assassins, forced to pay off a century of debt for their blood pills.
When their latest hit on a murderous politician puts Jesse and his doting sister, Stella, in danger, their only refuge is an underground “blood club” run by Lucy’s found family, a group of hardcore Gen X vampires. Jesse has to find a way to expose Carnelian’s darkest secrets and obtain the pills they need to survive, or lose the family (both by blood and by choice) he has just finished putting back together.
Content notes:Trigger Warnings: Mental health issues (anxiety, GAD, health anxiety, cherophobia, thanatophobia) brief mention of past suicidal ideation and abuse, discussion of terminal disease (fictional) and chronic illness, blood / murder / violent imagery and imprisonment, abusive language, sexism, gun violence, non-explicit mentions of past drug addiction, pet in danger (no pet death), harm to children, hospital scenes, themes regarding consent, mentions of BDSM.
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About Jules Devito
Jules Devito was born in Queens, NY, and raised on eastern Long Island, where she still lives with her son, her Mom, two rescue Salukis, and some fish. Previous publications include “Little Red Riding Hood: Redux,” and “The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories.” Her work has been featured on Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s HitRECord On TV. She is also a massage therapist, a dancer, a lapsed martial artist, occasionally an avian rehabber, a prolific fanfic writer, and a total beach goth.
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