“Savage Blooms is the first book in a gothic romance trilogy about four young people unraveling ancestral sins and faery curses while succumbing to their mutual attraction in a crumbling Scottish manor. It’s truly a deeply indulgent fantasy world I built for my own pleasure first and foremost…”

Today on Fat Forward Books, a guest essay from author S.T. Gibson about her upcoming gothic romance novel, Savage Blooms, and how it explores intersections of queer desire. This is a great piece and a great book and we cannot wait for y’all to read. 🖤🥀

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Savage Blooms will be available everywhere books are sold on October 7.

S.T. Gibson, the queen of erotic fantasy romance, returns with this ravishingly dark trilogy of gothic manors, faery magic, and forbidden desires set in the foreboding Highlands of Scotland.

For as long as Adam can remember, the legends passed down from his world-traveling grandfather have called him to a crumbling manor in the Highlands. His closest friend Nicola longs for the same adventure, as well as for Adam himself. She'll follow him just about anywhere - even to the remote wilds of Scotland - if it pushes the pair to surrender to their shared attraction.

But when a storm strikes and strands them unexpectedly, Adam and Nicola find themselves at the mercy of the eccentric owner of the infamous house, Eileen, as well as her brooding groundskeeper, Finley.

Trapped by the weather, and bound by ancient faery magic, Nicola and Adam get more than they bargained for as they become entangled in Eileen and Finley's world of mind games, deceit and forbidden desire. As ancestral sins are unearthed, Adam and Nicola will have to reckon with the spell Eileen and Finley have cast over them - and whether or not they even want to be free.