Their Heart A Hive by Fox N. Locke

You’ve been summoned to Honeymoore Manor. Will you discover its secrets in this unique spin on the vampire story? Lowen’s a lowborn boy dealing with grief and battling bad luck when he’s summoned to Honeymoore Manor. Within its walls, he finds a new family and becomes entangled in the life of genderqueer aristocrat, Tamorna Rosen Roane, and his strange hive of bees. But behind every bee is a sting. Drawing inspiration from Dracula and Jane Eyre, Cornish folklore and Arthuriana, this sensuous gothic re-imagines the Regency as a queer normative world without a boundary between myth and reality. A story of shanties and secrets, of long dead giants and merfolk that mind the sea, where piskies provide luck and the beast of Brasbudfand stalks the night. Balancing the macabre and the absurd, Their Heart A Hive offers a lyrical fable about the power of kindness and how no one is ever beyond help.

Young Adult • Fantasy • Diversity Representation/LGBTQ+ • Fantasy/Mythic, Retelling, and Folklore

Content Warning: Moderate CW for sexual content, child abuse, alcohol, fire, vomit, excrement, violence, injury detail, torture, medical content, death. Minor CW for sexual abuse, drug use, abandonment, suicide attempt.

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