The Lavender Blade

Colton and Lucian have spent years conning wealthy marks with fake exorcisms — Lucian plays the charismatic front, Colton runs the trick behind it — until a real demon takes hold of Lucian's body, twisting it into something monstrous. With no priest, ritual, or lie able to reverse it, Colton is forced to learn actual magic and break every rule the two of them have lived by to save the man he loves before there's nothing of him left to save.

Set in a steampunk-inflected world where sleight of hand and real sorcery blur together, The Lavender Blade pairs a queer romance with darker, horror-tinged stakes: possession, class divides, and a con that turns disastrously real. It published July 8, 2025 through She Writes Press, with an audiobook edition narrated by Nicholas Boulton.