Written in Red by Anne Bishop

This is a Cassandra Sangue. A blood prophet whose future visions emerge from the cuts inflicted on her fragile skin.

For years, Meg Corbyn lived as property, her gift sold to the highest bidder. Now she’s running. 

She flees into a snowstorm and stumbles into the Lakeside Courtyard seeking work and shelter. 

H.L.D.N.A.Human Law Does Not Apply.

This is the terra indigene. Shapeshifters, vampires, elementals, and creatures with no name in any human tongue. The Others.

Here, humans are meat. 

But Simon Wolfgard, leader of the Lakeside Courtyard, doesn’t eat her. He hires her. And as Meg settles into a job surrounded by predators who could eat her if they desired special meat, she begins to learn what living means. 

The Controller wants his property back. The Others don’t trust humans. And Meg must hide the scent of her blood. 

She's been told what she is. She is property. She is prey. 

She's about to prove even prey has teeth.  

Original blurb by Ashley Duongtran for Toe-Curling Tales.

Not commissioned, not publisher copy—written for the love of the book.