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The Red Winter: A lyrical folklore fantasy full of sorcery, demons and debauchery

A lush, bloody and openly queer fantasy built on the legend of the Beast of Gévaudan
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In 1785 the Beast of Gévaudan returns to the French countryside. Professor Sebastian Grave, a monster-slayer who hosts a demon, is recalled to the hunt by Antoine Avenel d'Ocerne, the estranged lover who shares a dark history with the Beast and a secret with him. Sebastian must decide whether to finish the Beast for good and whether to rekindle what they lost.

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France, 1785, and the Beast of Gévaudan is killing again. Professor Sebastian Grave has hunted monsters for centuries, with the demon Sarmodel living inside him. Twenty years earlier he followed this creature through one long, bloody winter that nearly finished him. Now he is summoned back by Antoine Avenel d'Ocerne, the lover he parted from, a man tied to the Beast by his own dark history and to Sebastian by a secret neither can escape.

Cameron Sullivan takes the real eighteenth-century legend and turns it into a dark, sensual fantasy that is as interested in old love and unfinished guilt as in the hunt itself. The publisher describes it as a lusty, dark, queer fantasy, and it suits readers who want their folklore bloody, richly told and driven by a love story at its centre.

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