The Dark in Her Veins

The Dark in Her VeinsFrom critically acclaimed, bestselling author MK Lobb comes a noir romantic fantasy set in a world in which sin is a fatal disease, and the rich hire the poor to carry out their basest instinctsuntil the forbidden romance between a sinner and a mysterious figure threatens to destroy everything. In Valestadt, everything has a price. Sinning leaves its mark in the form of the Bloodrot, a slow creeping disease that leads to madness, then death. Most sins

complicated characters

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but when I meet my magnetic older neighbour

Theodore Taylor

He’s also an arrogant jerk―and her new boss

as time goes on

The dare: seduce the hottest new hockey player in the junior class

So where does that leave me

To take down a god

Haunting is their life―but nobody working New Orleans' spooky circuit actually believes in ghosts

Can she free them both from Bernadette’s clutches before war consumes everyone they care about

revealing the mystery of death on her autopsy table—until the bodies start speaking to her in eerie