“Love is sacrifice. One of us was always going to bleed for the other.”
Unveiling the cover for AN EDUCATION IN MALICE, my academic rivals-to-lovers Carmilla reimagining. Thank you designer Duncan Spilling for making this beauty a reality! The companion novel to A DOWRY OF BLOOD, she’s a twisting tale of passion, artistic obsession, and toxic mentorship set against the backdrop of an elite poetry cohort in the 1960s.
Deep in the forgotten hills of Massachusetts stands Saint Perpetua’s College. Isolated and ancient, it is not a place for timid girls. Here, secrets are currency, ambition is lifeblood, and strange ceremonies welcome students into the fold.
On her first day of class, Laura Sheridan is thrust into an intense academic rivalry with the beautiful and enigmatic Carmilla. Together, they are drawn into the confidence of their demanding poetry professor, De Lafontaine, who holds her own dark obsession with Carmilla.
But as their rivalry blossoms into something far more delicious, Laura must confront her own strange hungers. Tangled in a sinister game of politics, bloodthirsty professors and dark magic, Laura and Carmilla must decide how much they are willing to sacrifice in their ruthless pursuit of knowledge.
ST Gibson 