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Born of Blood and Magic

Narrated by Laura Horowitz

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Book 1 of The Lightless Series
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Pub Date 5 Mar 2024 | Archive Date 31 Aug 2025

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Description

They're destined to fall in love... if they don't kill each other first.

Violet “Vy” Finch is a vampire cursed, for the very blood she needs is poison to her. Suffering unquenchable hunger and shunned for being of mixed lineage, Vy searches desperately for her mother who disappeared over a decade ago—the one person who may be able to heal her. Unfortunately, a great sorceress prophesies that Vy will only get what she wants if Petra Malkovitch willingly works with her to find a magical relic with the power to change everything.

Petra Malkovitch is an assassin. A member of the Order of Light—a shadowy organization that hunts supernatural creatures for profit—she wants only to kill the vampire who took away the last of her family. When Petra's attempt on Vy's life is thwarted, she is shocked when her greatest enemy tells her that they can rewrite their pasts if they team up.

But is a common goal enough to bring them together, or will betrayal happen at the earliest opportunity?

Blending the adventure and magic of Patricia Briggs’ Mercy Thompson books, the wit and enchantment of Ilona Andrews’ Magic Bites series, and the soul-stirring romance of Laurell K. Hamilton’s Guilty Pleasures novels, Born of Blood and Magic is a thrilling, fun, sexy, urban fantasy unlike anything you’ve ever listened to before. 

They're destined to fall in love... if they don't kill each other first.

Violet “Vy” Finch is a vampire cursed, for the very blood she needs is poison to her. Suffering unquenchable hunger and shunned...


A Note From the Publisher

This audiobook contains: profanity, violence, gore, drug use, homophobia, and explicit sex scenes.

This audiobook contains: profanity, violence, gore, drug use, homophobia, and explicit sex scenes.


Advance Praise

"Despite knowing this is part of a series, I will say I was terribly affected by the end of the book. The reader spends a lot of time with Vy and Petra and both of them go through a lot of growth and elemental changes to their character. To say more than that would be a huge spoiler, just be aware that a day after finishing this book it is still very much on my mind. There are a lot of surprising turns in the story that is loaded with big emotions, well done action sequences, and a hard won romance between two characters who should have no way of falling in love. I was pleased that the world building is deeply drawn and gives no easy solution to any of the protagonists’ issues and plenty of possibilities for events to go one way or another, or even another after that."  - The Lesbian Review

"Loveddd this book!! I tandem read with the audio (narrator was AMAZING!!!). I’ve been looking for a higher level sapphic fantasy with true enemies to lovers for a while now. I’m not usually into urban fantasy but this one had me hooked. Enjoyed the world building and slow burn and the ending had my heart hurting!! Can’t wait for book 2!" - Goodreads Reviewer

"Despite knowing this is part of a series, I will say I was terribly affected by the end of the book. The reader spends a lot of time with Vy and Petra and both of them go through a lot of growth and...


Available Editions

EDITION Audiobook, Unabridged
ISBN 9781738253814
PRICE US$24.99 (USD)
DURATION 10 Hours, 3 Minutes

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