Where Madness Hunts: A dark fantasy romance

Deborah J. Martins


Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
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When a string of murders forces two academic rivals to work together, their hunt for the killer drags them into the Seven Circles of Faerie—where surviving each other may be harder than surviving the monsters.

Jo is desperate to clear her best friend’s name when a series of brutal murders leaves her friend behind iron bars and a god, a vampire, and the Wilde King of Faerie as the suspects. The only way to prove her innocence is to find the real killer.

But she can’t do it alone.

To uncover the truth, Jo must partner with the one person she swore she’d never rely on Evander.

Her former tormentor.

The infuriatingly brilliant rich boy who sabotaged her, stole her dream PhD position, and never once apologised.

When Evander’s mother turns up dead, he has his own reason to hunt the he wants blood.

Their uneasy alliance drags them into a world ruled by Dionysus, through political betrayals and into the Seven Circles of Faerie—where each circle exposes a different sin, strips away their defences, and forces them to confront the ugliest parts of themselves.

Jo needs the killer alive.

Evander wants them dead.

And as old resentments ignite into something far more dangerous, Jo must decide whether she can trust the boy who once made it his mission to ruin her, or if falling for him will destroy everything she’s trying to save.

Because in the Seven Circles, nothing stays buried.

Not sins.

Not secrets.

And not the feelings they’ve spent years pretending weren’t there.

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