Erotic gay vampire fiction: Crimson
“Everyone knows about vampires,” says Robin.
“They live forever, they feed on human blood. They cannot stand the sun, or the smell of garlic, or the sight of a crucifix. They are the stuff of fairy-stories to frighten children.”
Castelain is nodding slowly. “Yes, yes, and yes,” he replies. “And no, no and… no.”
Crimson is a new blood-sucking gay vampire novel that may make you want to sink your mortal teeth into this heart-wrenching, erotic love affair.
By Leigh Carroll, Crimson “grabs the booming genres of erotica and vampire fiction, tears their stereotypes apart and pieces it all back together into a tantalizing, dark look at unconventional love.”
“I wanted to write a book that both female readers and the gay community have been demanding for years, but no author has been brave enough to write,” explains Carroll.
“I admit that the subject matter is intense and likely to push readers out of their comfort zone, but that’s the whole point. By setting it in Victorian London and at an arm’s length from modern society, readers can let their kinks, desires and curiosities run as wild as they like.”
Set among the streets of Victorian London, Carroll hopes to have readers on the edge of their seats, wiping their sweating palms and locking the garlic away. Making love to a vampire may just be next on their list of fantasies…
Vampires walk in the mysterious early winter fog of Victorian London, and struggling stage actor Robin Wilder has fallen in love with one. It's mad, but undeniable: Robin is in love with a vampire. And Castelain is equally dismayed to find himself in love with a mortal. There’s only one thing to be done.
Robin is enchanted with all he has to learn of vampire lore and the carnality of blood, and Castelain finds that he has much to learn as well, of human love and passion. Wrapped in their private world of mutual discovery, the two vampires are unaware of the perils gathering around them.
When all the traps are sprung, Castelain has been stolen and Robin is alone: a vampire fledgling, dangerously unschooled in vampire lore. But Robin's inexperience is no match for his determination, and he enlists extraordinary assistants as he follows Castelain's trail across the Continent. And when he finds his Castelain, Robin will have to fight for him ... against a rival with centuries of deadly experience and cunning; an adversary whom Robin is forbidden to kill.
In Crimson, Leigh Carroll creates vivid characters, living and undead, who, she writes, “convince us that vampires can be as charming and tender as they are terrifying.”
The undead come alive for the reader as the passionate and ingenuous Robin “transforms Castelain anew: from the urbane and self-reliant vampire who sets out to seduce this irresistible mortal; to an ardent, laughing, loving vampire who is himself seduced by Robin’s devotion … and his touch.”
“I hope that this story helps make gay men more understandable and therefore more acceptable to the reader,” adds Carroll. “My beautiful blood-sucking boys are not cut from the regular mold, and they have steamy encounters that all readers will be jealous of, even if they don’t admit it.”
Crimson is available now on Amazon (www.amzn.to/1X1k9FS).
The Gayly - 1/26/2016 @ 2:50 p.m. CST