Lady Venom Takes a Mistress by Kat Blackthorne (Paperback)

From international bestselling author Kat Blackthorne comes Lady Venom Takes a Mistress, a haunted, spooky gothic sapphic romance and a twist on both Medusa and Beauty and the Beast, for everyone who needs a story where the women are lethal and insatiable.

To be bid upon was to be bought as a wife. To the winning bidder, his prize: a maid, a servant, a child-bearer. That, Poesy Laroche realises as she walks down the aisle towards her future husband, is to be the whole of her life. He has promised to break her into submission, and she knows better than to doubt him.

In an act of pure desperation, Poesy seizes the reins of her own fate and flees into the woods, a place rife with terrors. There, the screams that come at night dissolve into whispered stories of the mysterious Lady Venom, whose manor teems with snakes and horrors. And when Poesy loses herself within its winding maze, Lady Venom claims her as her own mistress, with seemingly no hope of escape.

Now locked inside a haunted estate where the flowers watch and the ghosts whisper, Poesy must unravel the secrets hidden within its eerie walls, and in the riddles upon Lady Venom’s forked tongue.

Please note this is a dark, spicy read; see the author’s site for content information. Set in The Halloween Boys universe, it can be read as a standalone. Perfect for readers who love a gothic sapphic romance, a lethal femme-dom love interest and a captive tale dripping with atmosphere and danger.