Blood & Flowers

Two scions of warring vampire families must put aside their bad blood to unravel the disturbing mystery of a cursed house.

Elio Kane is desperate to escape his father’s controlling, brutal hold. His plans never included pretty, vicious Valerian D’Arcy, but fate brings them together when their fathers order them to investigate the crumbling, abandoned D’Arcy family home.

Twelve months of undoing various traps and curses have taken their toll on the already tenuous truce between the Kane and D’Arcy families, but Elio just has to hold it together for one more night, where he and Valerian will enter the D’Arcy home to defeat whatever waits inside.

After a decade of mutual animosity, Elio and Valerian are more than hesitant to set aside their differences. But as they navigate the labyrinthine, malevolent halls of a house much different than the D’Arcy family left twenty years ago, they find they have no choice.

The house plunges them into a dangerous game of cat and mouse, toying with their emotions and sense of reality, and revealing deep, festering wounds that plague both families. Anger and lust fly and the lines between them blur as Elio discovers that the man he hates is far more complex than he lets on.

If they survive, will Elio’s relationship with Valerian ever be the same?

Blood & Flowers is a 39k word dark, enemies to lovers M/M horror romance novella. It is intended for readers over the age of 18 and includes themes that may be disturbing. The author encourages you to read the content warnings before purchasing. They can be found in the screenshots, in the back of the book, as well as on mars’ website. Blood & Flowers is the first in a series and ends in a HFN. This version includes the extra 9.5k word short The God of Bruised Knuckles. This is an expanded and edited version of the original 2023 release.

Winner of the 2023 Queer Indie Awards ‘Best Sophomore Novel’ award.

Paperbacks available here.

Cover art by Yune