This cover is definitely not for the faint hearted but if you love dark gothic traumances, a gender-bent Frankenstein, and plenty of unusual historical facts, you need to pre-order Hideous Countenance by @chloemarie_author
Hideous Countenance (A Flesh and Bone Novel)
Expected Release Date: February 9, 2027
Genre: Gothic Horror/ Traumance
Cover Artist: Chloe Marie (Public domain: Painting – Jacques Fabien Gautier d’Agoty, 1745)
TROPES:
-Women in stem
-Role play x doctor/patiant
-“The birds and the bees”
-A true “Rainasance Man”
-Gothic curse
-Immortal mania x mortal contempt
-Blood play
-He falls first, she falls harder
1816
Elisabeth van der Heijde, a kept scientist from Zaanstad, Netherlands, has been carefully crafting her safe escape for years but finds herself utterly shocked when a foreboding stranger lurks through her doorway with demands for her expertise on a covert project for the ominous Count Basarab of Moldavia. In exchange, his Count offers his hand in marriage.
She does not go willingly, but upon arrival Elisabeth discovers the bones of this castle possess irreparably damaged secrets, lies, and mysteries that one cannot resist but to learn more of! She quickly finds the promise of her suitor’s afflictions too alluring to refuse, and in her haste to devour his secrets she finds her tongue not only coated with lust but sealed with the greed of his time.
This gothic love affair is not light. It possesses, hungrily, and with unforgiving strength to the soul. Of Hideous Countenance is one of dark descent towards manic immortality and the ever growing need to attain the unachievable – no matter the stakes.
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TRIGGER WARNINGS:
-Bees as homemade vibrators
-bird skull used as nipple clamps
-Blood and gore
-Abuse – described on and off page
-Rape – not described/off page
-Blood consumption
-Body horror
-Religious ideology/trauma/verbiage
Heavy use of “the good Lord”, “thank the Lord”, and similar phrases passively thrown around given the MMC’s religious devotion.
-Voice kink/blindfold kink
-Kidnapping
-Blood play
-Infidelity
-Pregnancy/ children used in magical rituals/ on page
-Death
-Murder, descriptive, on page
-A perverted scene involving necrophilic desires
-Magically induced birth, coerced pregnancy, and child sacrifice
IG: @chloemarie_author @rrbooktours
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#rrbooktours #gothichorror #gothicbooks #traumance
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