A Game in Yellow
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Publisher Description
Euphoria meets Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke in this latest novel by the Bram Stoker Award–winning author Hailey Piper, following a couple whose search to spice up their sex life leads them down a path of madness.
A kink-fixated couple, Carmen and Blanca, have been in a rut. That is until Blanca discovers the enigmatic Smoke in an under-street drug den, who holds pages to a strange play, The King in Yellow. Read too much, and you’ll fall into madness. But read just a little and pull back, and it gives you the adrenaline rush of survivor’s euphoria, leading Carmen to fall into a game of lust at a nightmare’s edge.
As the line blurs between the world Carmen knows and the one that she visits after reading from the play, she begins to desire more time in this other world no matter what horrors she brings back with her.
Bram Stoker Award–winning author Hailey Piper masterfully blends horror, erotica, and psychological thriller in this captivating and chilling story.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
The masterful latest queer horror novel from Bram Stoker Award winner Piper (All the Hearts You Eat) is a surreal and complex examination of desire and control. Kinky couple Carmen and Blanca have been struggling with their sex life due to Carmen's recent lack of arousal even in response to the most intense of BDSM scenes. Then Blanca meets an alluring woman named Smoke, who offers to loan them her copy of a mysterious play titled The King in Yellow, which has mind-altering properties. It seems to solve their problem: if Carmen reads from the book—briefly—it induces a sort of euphoria that brings her back into her body and allows for a frenzy of lust and desire. But when the effects wear off, the play's power is seductive and addictive. Carmen wants to read more, and more, and more—but, as Smoke warns, "These pages? They read you, too." Piper has an impressive gift for dealing in repressed memories and heightened sensations, crafting a dreamlike but still utterly absorbing page-turner. Readers will become enamored with Carmen and Blanca and hope for their relationship to survive this supernatural roller coaster. There's lots here to sink one's teeth into.
