Mid-February Dispatch
Roses are red. Curses are forever. (Update inside.)
Hello, Darklings—
Before anything else, a Valentine from another lifetime:
“We’re not two people in a crypt. We’re a shape that’s been cut out of the dark.”
If you don’t know yet, you will because...
GILDED BLOOD is finished and the Cathedral of Crows Duet is complete— releasing 2/18
ARC sign-ups are now open:
If you want it early and can leave an honest review, I’d be grateful to have you.
Expect:
the culmination of two thousand lifetimes of devotion—where a vow became a curse and love refused to die
a romance so fated it drags ruin behind it like a bridal train
something beautiful with an edge, and love in the dark
Next: DEATH COMES QUIETLY (March)
After Gilded Blood, I’m moving straight into Death Comes Quietly—the final book in the Veilkeepers series, releasing in March.
This is Mary’s daughter’s story, set in the 1950s—where grief is treated like poor posture and “quiet” is considered a virtue.
Kassandra has done everything she was taught to do: smile, smooth, endure. But after Mary’s death, the carefully manicured life in Westchester starts to feel like a room with no air—perfect curtains, perfect parties, perfect silence that isn’t peaceful.
And the moment she touches the Reaper Stone… the town stops pretending to accept her.
When the men around her—her husband, her doctor—decide the solution is to “fix” her, Kassandra has to choose: be manageable… or be a Veilkeeper.
A dark Valentine for you
If the Root offered you one thing—one impossible thing you’ve been missing—
and the cost was someone else’s peace…
Would you take the bargain?
(If you comment with your answer, I will read them all.)
What to read while you wait for DEATH COMES QUIETLY
If you want something fun while you’re waiting (with shadows at the edges):
Kat Summers — Death Takes A Valentine is free 2/14-2/16
Take a trip to Paris, the land of love, this Valentine’s day as they try to stop a chaotic cupid. Join Death, his bride Hel, and a very cantankerous Raven, Corvus Q. Featherbottom - omen, psychopomp, and narrator of this hilarious supernatural romantic comedy.
If you want dark breed of romance (academy, obsession, and danger):
K.S. Valentina — Study in Scarlett is the FREE FOREVER
Get dragged into Obsidian Marrow Academy—where the gates don’t open, they take. Scarlett arrives as a Null with no magic and no allies… until three monsters decide she’s theirs: a shadow-wolf shifter, a frost fae prince, and a naga who smiles like a warning. Welcome to a dark fantasy academy where desire is dangerous, survival is a sport, and the girl everyone wrote off might be the thing the mountain was built to contain.
Elara Voss - Vane’s Prey
He didn’t save me. He collected me.
A high-tension dark stalker romance. Book One of the Vane Trilogy.
Click to Read Free
Luna Fox - The Void - The Stone Legacy FREE PREQUEL
Would you give your life to save the world?
A prequel to an action-packed magical adventure
Click to Read Tom Atwood Jr. - Slayer of the Dead
A story of epic proportions. Witcher meets Games of Thrones in this thrilling dark fantasy adventure.
More “while you wait” reads:
Thank you for being here—truly. For reading my monsters with tenderness, and my love stories with your throat exposed.
With love,
Kate Seger
Your images are some of my favorite.
Was their peace bought with my loss?