THESE BLOODY BLOOMS

From Goblin Presents: A Valentine’s Anthology

The Endless and Inevitable Death requests your presence…

Immortal life as an Ancient is predictable at best.

For a Gardener like Zara? It’s downright mind numbing.

Plant the seeds. Help them grow. Harvest the blooms…and force-feed them to the souls whose blood had born them so they could face their own judgement, whether they liked it or not.

Tedium ad nauseam.

That is, until Etienne—the broody Collector who’d been assigned to her the year prior—shows up on her doorstep to deliver a blackened scroll bearing Death’s seal.

With one brush of their fingers, Zara’s boring life is turned completely upside down, and it isn’t long before she starts to realize that everything is not what it seems in the great Below. And at the center of it all? Him.

Because as it turns out, Etienne has already given Zara his heart.

She just has to remember where she put it.

K.R. Fryatt's These Bloody Blooms is part of Goblin Presents: A Valentine's Anthology, a collection of five romance novellas designed like a box of literary chocolates—sweet, sexy, and written to fit every bookish appetite.