Do you feel dead inside?
About the Book:
Do you feel dead inside?
Five words in the back pages of Harper's Bazar, wedged between liver pills and rail fares. A respectable woman would have turned the page.
I sent a telegram instead.
Wake me.
Two thousand miles from Boston there's a house that shouldn't exist. A house where women like me come to be unmade. The men inside, and I use the word loosely, don't want my fortune or my name.
They only need my consent.
I chose Broderick. Ancient, Scottish and starving. He has never allowed himself to want, and I might be the one thing he cannot let go of. I thought I was the one taking the risk.
But something has been circling the Wanting House for a hundred years. Patient. Ravenous. Waiting on a threshold it could not cross uninvited.
I was its way in.
I was warned the Wanting House would ruin me for my old life.
No one warned me it might just be the death of me.
Content Warning:
This is a dark, high-heat paranormal romance intended for adult readers. It contains explicit and recurring sexual content, including oral sex, penetrative sex, an FFM scene (not MCs), biting, blood drinking, consensual pain/pleasure, possessive language, and supernatural bonding through sex and blood. It also contains violence, gore (mostly ripping off heads of demons), magical coercion, abduction, drugging, captivity, family betrayal, threats of forced marriage, attempted sexual coercion by an antagonist, suicide and resurrection of a main character and themes involving consent and bodily autonomy including mariatal rape of a secondary character.
The central romance is consensual, but the book explores a world where consent is repeatedly threatened, manipulated, or denied by antagonistic forces.
Lillian and Broderick do get a deliciously dark HEA.