Blood & Blarney by Noah Bodie

What happens when you look death in the face, and it stares back? When a charismatic stranger steps into Hugh King’s classroom, desire and danger follow. Rory is beautiful, calculated, and hungry in ways that have nothing to do with food. Their charged encounters begin to unravel into ritual, blood, and myth, and Hugh discovers that being claimed is not the same as being seen. Blending queer gothic erotica with Irish folklore, Blood & Blarney is a dark, intimate novella about hunger, consent, and what it means to touch death without being consumed.

Adult • Fantasy/Romantic and Erotic • Romance/Erotica • Diversity Representation/LGBTQ+/Own Voices • Romance/Paranormal

Length: 17,736 words (about 51 pages)

Content Warning: This book is recommended for audiences ages 18+. This work contains themes including, but not limited to: explicit sexual content, BDSM-adjacent/power-play dynamics, consensual non-traditional sexual practices, erotic blood imagery/blood-play dynamics, discussed violence/murder, reference to off-page sexual exploitation and stalking, themes of death and dying, paranormal/supernatural horror elements, psychological dissociation and emotional numbness, reference to historical/mythological suicide, depictions of trauma without graphic detailing, consent framed manipulative and coercive dynamics, eroticized danger, blood feeding, surreal body horror, emotional intimacy with implied power dynamics, folkloric imagery of death, and limited moral reassurance within dark/erotic themes.