Blood Pact

Blood Pact

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One would consider this an action adventure with the amount of blood running off the pages and the frequent swinging of swords, but it is the interpersonal aspect that elevates the story. Hiro and Hide's relationship feels delicately romantic when juxtaposed with the violent existential crisis that threatens the youkai. Their love is beautifully, candidly portrayed. A hauntingly engaging read.
Joan Lai
InD'Tale Magazine
Filled with illuminating Japanese terms and rich with culture, even the mundane becomes sensual with Maguire behind the pen. Equal parts romance and adventure, this historical LGBTQ fantasy is both scintillating and gripping, adding an aching beauty to an otherwise sanguine tale.
Nikki Flowers
Indies Today

Synopsis

In Hiro's world, youkai are a supernatural story used to scare children into obedience, and to keep men out of back alleys and brothels. Until Sakurai Hideyoshi walks through his door with a fantastical tale of a samurai who had killed a thousand men and drank the blood of his enemies, a man that lived in darkness but sought beauty to keep it at bay.

A story both terrifying and romantic...and completely ridiculous.

Unless it is true.

Convinced something softer lurks behind Hideyoshi's hard mask, Hiro follows him home. And discovers the story is real.

Only instead of the blood of his enemies, it is innocent blood taken.

Hideyoshi tells him never to return. Yet after Hiro's mother is mortally wounded, Hiro runs back to the one being he knows with the power to save her. When Hideyoshi can't, Hiro begs him for the next best thing: the power to avenge her.

As Hiro becomes youkai, he faces a new threat, something darker, older, and far more dangerous. With Hideyoshi at his side, Hiro must decide what he's willing to sacrifice--and what he's willing to do--to protect this new life before he loses everything for a second time.

If you like Bella Forrest, P. C. Cast, AJ Tipton, or Anne Rice, you will love this beautiful dark paranormal fantasy romance.

Release date: May 4, 2021

Publisher: City Owl Press

Print pages: 302

Content advisory: graphic violence

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