In a city where making art is a crime, Inana tells forbidden stories to paying strangers. Tessonja Odette opens her Songs for the Sinless series with the monster hunter who catches her at it.
Readical Key Points
- Book 1 of the Songs for the Sinless series and a Sunday Times bestseller, according to the publisher
- Adult romantasy; the author says the romance is not dark, though its world is
- Starred review from Publishers Weekly; also reviewed in Booklist and Library Journal
- Content note: the author's warnings list covers explicit sex scenes and language; it also lists violence, gore and blood drinking, blood addiction, body horror, grief, and references to past sexual assault, abuse and murder
- Hardcover, 320 pages, Delacorte Press, 2026
Art once brought hungry shadows to life, so creative work is outlawed and artists are given up to the Sinless, immortal royals who feed on people's blood as the price of protection. Inana, wanted for her storytelling, scrapes by in the underworld until Dominic, a half-Sinless Shadowbane, sees her perform. He hunts shadows and needs an artist to lure them out: serve him, he says, or be turned in.
She agrees, planning to betray him at the first chance, as their alliance leads into danger and the truth about each of them surfaces. It suits readers of dark fantasy romance and vampire lore. In Odette's city a story is contraband, and Inana keeps telling them anyway.
About the Author
Tessonja Odette writes romantic fantasy in several registers, from epic romantasy to retold fairytales, according to her publisher, and her series run from cozy fae romantic comedies to darker fantasy. Her earlier books include Curse of the Wolf King.
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