#olinawrits

(I'm linking to IHS as it'll link to the other places you can get the physical book as those pages come up, for anyone who doesn't like Amazon).

Princess Orsetta knows that a Ringborn can only gain magic through the taking of consorts, yet she’s consistently refused to sleep with men. Instead, she’s spent her life until her death studying the illegal subject of necromancy from afar. When Princess Nemira finds the corpse of a woman in a shallow grave, bite wounds festering, she seizes that opportunity to flee from her arranged marriage. Joining alongside the misplaced Orsetta, whose condition grows worse, she slowly grows a misshapen fondness for the foreign princess. Necromancy, vampires, homophobia, a little spice, and two absolutely morally black women--who are also perfectly straight and just waiting for the right man, they swear!

For a consort to access the magic of the Great Ring, all they must do is sleep with a Ringborn. A commodity service with a high price.

Catarina de Alioni is mundane, a consort. She'll never be wealthy enough to afford the patronage of a Ringborn, not that she'd have the aptitude to make use of magic. She's struggling to get even the lowest of jobs as a laborer to satisfy her family.

But by the Great Ring's strange design, she ends up the apprentice of an enigmatic mistress in an obscure parlour.

Mistress Vincenza Nasciowa, a Ringborn with no consort, refuses any shyness in showing disdain towards her new apprentice. The gaunt woman bears secrets several times older than Catarina, not least of which being why she settled for someone so unimportant and unremarkable to replace her. Or worse, why a necromancer would think they'd ever need replacing.

Catarina can't get her heart behind sleeping with the Ringborn she's introduced to, and it kills her knowing that she might be disappointing Vincenza. She feels distant to all of them, truly only having any closeness to the mistress who gives her an unexpected chance of comfort after all her failures.

The Necromancer's Parlour is a dubiously cozy sapphic romantasy, filled with a sweet age-gap romance, some spice, and a tasteful amount of grief. First book in a two part series.

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(And once again, this absolutely lovely cover art was by @lyannatropes! Gosh, seeing my sweets drawn out like this is so nice. I can actually stare at them for hours.)

And here's the full picture of the cover if you wanted to see the back!