A sweet sapphic romance takes a deadly dark turn in this sharp-as-a-knife novella with the slow build menace of Angela Carter's The Bloody Chamber-from a New York Times-bestselling author hailed by Chuck Wendig as "a storyteller working at the top of her class."
Rosemary meets Ash at the farmers' market. Ash-precise, pretty, and practically perfect-sells bars of soap in delicate pastel colours, sprinkle-spackled cupcakes stacked on scalloped stands, beeswax candles, jelly jars of honey, and glossy green plants. Ro has never felt this way about another woman; with Ash, she wants to be her and have her in equal measure.
But as her obsession with Ash consumes her, she may find she's not the one doing the devouring...
Bloom by Delilah S. Dawson
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781803365770
Imprint: Titan Books
'A sapphic, cottagecore Hannibal. It's delightfully queer, viciously cruel, creatively cannibalistic, and distressingly passionate. It is a novella that revels in making the reader increasingly uncomfortable. You'll want to put it down, but you won't be able to.' - Locus
'A slim novel with incredible potency. A literary pursuit for the ages. I can't recall a courtship as captivating as the one in these pages, and if there's a better writer than Delilah Dawson going today, I don't know 'em.' -Josh Malerman, New York Times bestselling author of Bird Box and Spin a Black Yarn
'This quick and compulsively readable fairy-tale nightmare from Dawson will have readers gasping for breath and hungry for more.' - Library Journal