Carnelian

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Author: Jules Devito

Genre: Speculative Fiction

Release Date: September 23, 2024

ISBN: 978-1-952969-19-5

Suggested Retail Price: $20.99 USD

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.

Trigger warnings include 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