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Love Corrupts All - Out now!

Picture Love Corrupts All, the sequel to Love No Evil is out now! Currently in KU and available in ebook format. As per usual, paperback to follow in a week or two.

Blurb:
Rose chose her side and married Ethan to take her place as Queen of Blackthorn. But the war with the outsiders is escalating, and Ethan is struggling with the loss of his father and his new role as king. Rose can feel her new life is under threat, and she doesn't know how far she'll go to protect it.

Meanwhile, on the outside, Jayden joins a mission where, if he's successful, he will destroy Rose and Blackthorn alike, but with his family taken prisoner, and the girl he loves scarred from Ethan's attack, he doesn't care.


Now, when I wrote Love No Evil I was thinking it would be a standalone. Yes, there are suggestions of future danger, but it was more supposed to be about the cost of Rose's choices than setting up things in the future. But turns out there's a sequel! And this will not be the last book in this series (if you've read it, you'll probably have guessed - no way would I just leave things like that!) There's definitely at least one more book (Book #3, tentatively titled Love is War), but possibly more after that...

I'm going to write a bit about my thoughts on the story and writing it below - may contain spoilers!

Like Love No Evil this one was tricky to write. Initially it was going to just follow Jayden, but that felt like too much of a departure from the first one and the characters and world we knew and loved from there, plus there were interesting things going on with Rose and Ethan that I think were worth showing. So there's some Jayden POV and some Rose POV.

More than any book I've written previously, this one had a theme. The title "Love Corrupts All" is a fun play on "Power corrupts" and "Love Conquers All." I think both of those ideas are explored a little, but the main theme is right there in the title - love, which is supposed to be this beautiful force, instead driving people to do things which range from 'against the rules' to straight-up 'evil'.  This series has always played with the idea that love might not always be a good thing - like when you're in love with the 'bad guy' - and it was fun to take those ideas a little bit further.

I think there's a lot of fun stuff in this one, and also a bit of setup for book 3 that will hopefully have you excited for that one too.
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Published on January 06, 2025 13:27
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