Carissa Broadbent

Six roses. Six vials of blood. Six visits to a vampire who could be her salvation… or her damnation.Lilith has been dying since the day she was born. But while she long ago came to terms with her own imminent death, the deaths of everyone she loves is an entirely different matter. As her town slowly withers in the clutches of a mysterious god-cursed illness, she takes matters into her own hands.
Desperate to find a cure, Lilith strikes a bargain with the only thing the gods hate even more than her village: a vampire, Vale. She offers him six roses in exchange for six vials of vampire blood–the one hope for her town’s salvation.
But when what begins as a simple transaction gradually becomes something more, Lilith is faced with a terrifying realization: It’s dangerous to wander into the clutches of a vampire… and in a place already suffering a god’s wrath, more dangerous still to fall in love with one.


Six Scorched Roses

Syrina

The god of plenty is also the god of decay. There can be no life without death, no feast without famine. The difference between excess and absence a mere whim of his moods.

He looked at me the same way that he looked at those dead crops. Like I was the corpse of a dream, buried in everything he couldn’t save.

Izaac Richards

I put my hand on my sisters shoulder, and for a moment I considered telling her that I loved her. 

If I did that, she would know where I was going and try to stop me. Besides, a word was useless compared to what I was about to do. I could show my love in medicine and math and science. I couldn't show it to her in an embrace - and what good would a thing like that do, anyway? 

Besides, if I hugged her, maybe I wouldn't be able to let her go. 

Maybe he was used to being cowered at. I did not cower. Why should I? I'd already met death three times now. So far, the fourth was a bit of a disappointment.

"Not all of us have the resources to travel," I said. 

He glanced at me in confusion. I gave him a grim smile. 

"Time, Vale," I said. "Time is the most valuable resource of all, and some of us are perpetually short."

I started to turn, but Vale caught my shoulder. 

I stared at him, unblinking. I didn't know what to make of the way he was looking at me like he actually wanted to hear my opinion. 

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