Thirsty
A Novel
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
A high-heat, low-drama vampire romance where the only stakes are true love.
A revenge plot sets sparks flying in this screwball paranormal romantic comedy of enemies-to-lovers, chaotic supernatural friend groups, and scorching chemistry from debut author Lucy Lehane.
Charlie needs to revamp his career. Writing advice columns was hard enough before the whole internet was dying to know how to date the undead – but Charlie’s as human as they come. And he has no idea how to answer the messages flooding his inbox, like My Workplace Slack Is Haunted; Should I Cross Dimensions For a Fling? and How Exactly Do You Smash A…
When a chance nocturnal meeting at a local coffee shop sees him reuniting with Lorenzo – a vampire with an axe to grind – Charlie thinks he’s found his ticket to immortal career success. But Lorenzo has plans of his own: to get revenge on Charlie for separating Lorenzo from the love of his life years ago. When Lorenzo draws Charlie into his world of monsters and mayhem, he finds new friends and old souls that span centuries of existence, yet are somehow just as lost as the two of them. But as Charlie and Lorenzo grow unexpectedly closer, the secrets they dwell under might just crush them.
Can their love survive demons and drama? And which will prove deadlier… bloodlust or betrayal?
"A frisky, campy paranormal joyride." - USA Today bestselling author Timothy Janovsky
"My all-time favorite kind of vampire: surprisingly soft, adorably grumpy, and sizzling hot." - S.A. MacLean
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Lehane (Love, Hate, & Clickbait, written as Liz Bowery) sets this shrewd and inventive paranormal romance a couple years after supernatural creatures revealed their existence to the human world. Human advice columnist Charlie Wever struggles to make ends meet when the online magazine he works for shifts him to a pay-by-click model. Giving advice on buzzy supernatural problems would make his pieces more successful, but he feels unqualified to counsel the letter writer who recently learned that her eternally 20-something vampire girlfriend voted for Ronald Reagan. Back in his rural Virginia hometown to save money, Charlie bumps into Lorenzo, a centuries-old vampire who dated one of Charlie's friends in college and who holds a grudge against Charlie for advising said friend to dump him. Seeing an opportunity to increase his paranormal knowledge, Charlie lies that he's writing a graduate thesis on supernatural relationships. After Charlie's cheerful eagerness wears down the hilariously formal Lorenzo's resistance, he convinces Lorenzo to bring him along on the odd jobs he does for Virginia's supernatural community. Along the way, lust ignites, leading to some delicious sex scenes. Meanwhile, Charlie's online popularity skyrockets—but what will happen when Lorenzo learns the truth? Lehane's sprawling mythology, which also incorporates trolls and unicorns, neatly unfurls without ever distracting from the genuine and rewarding enemies-to-lovers romance. This is a delight.
