The Stars Want Blood by Morgan Lawson

When a summer's wind whips through the spring gardens, when air meets earth, a fate that has long since been written amongst the stars will unfurl itself… There was only so long that anybody could handle living while disregarding every single piece of advice from their psychiatrist, and Hazel Culhane was reaching their breaking point. Hoping to recharge themself enough to handle the challenge of getting better, they tuck themself into a hidden cabin for a week. It wasn’t a bad idea, but they couldn’t have predicted that something would be waiting for them in those woods, something significantly more frightening than their own crumbling sanity… All of the Constellites — the celestial gods borne from the stars of the zodiac constellations — knew what fate had planned for them. It was the same in each generation of them. And as the Virgo god, Ezra Thompson should have been no exception. He doesn’t know why his Gemini counterpart came along so late, or why their newfound divinity doesn’t fit them, but it doesn’t take him very long to figure out that the quirky and unstable Hazel — the Constellite of Geminorum — is still his fate. Fate has given them love, but with it, destruction. Will they be able to rewrite fate and save themselves? Or will they get pulled into the event horizon that fate has waiting for them? ... and it will demand blood.

Adult • Diversity Representation/Disability/Own Voices • Romance/Fantasy • Fantasy/Romantic and Erotic • Diversity Representation/LGBTQ+/Own Voices • Diversity Representation/Mental Health/Own Voices

Content Warning: Mention of off-page substance abuse; suicidal ideation; mention of off-page, previous self-harm; mentions of eating disorders and on-page depictions of disordered eating behaviors (no numbers); gender dysphoria; mention of psychiatric institutionalization; religious trauma; mentions of off-page, previous child-abuse; minor BDSM dynamics/themes; temporary misgendering; an unfiltered depiction of mental illness (namely, Borderline Personality Disorder, Anorexia Nervosa, and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder)