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Beneath the vibrant colors of stained glass, the small hillside convent of Howl Moor is on its knees for a different kind of prayer and worship.

The Altar Church of Lost Souls houses nuns, good works for the community, and secrets woven within dark halls and twisted sermons. Sister Jezebella is happy serving under her Reverend Mother and attending to her every desire. However, when newcomer Sister Lilith visits from a neighboring convent, Jezebella finds herself drawn to a different holy calling, one in the form of long blond hair and stolen glances.

But as Jezebella navigates her passionate relationships with her fellow nuns and her draw to the new girl, a bigger mystery is at play in Howl Moor. People turn up missing, wives are widowed, and someone-- or something-- is targeting church members. As the newest nuns at The Altar Church of Lost Souls, Jezebella and Lilith seek to uncover the answers behind the screams in the night and the howls in the forest-- all while facing their growing feelings and fervent passion for each other.

Church bells are ringing, these robes are tight, and holy hands are ready to be laid upon pure and perfect bodies.

311 pages, Kindle Edition

Published April 24, 2026

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Kat Blackthorne

30 books1,162 followers
Kat Blackthorne is a bestselling author of haunting romance. She writes passion, characters, and worlds that linger past the last page. Her tales embrace cozy darkness with magical and spooky twists. Catnip for her is banter, begging, challenging norms, and beings who worship their women.

Kat lives somewhere deep in the mountains in a witch's cottage with her talking feline. She has a collection of quotes and character names a mile long, her favorite holiday is Halloween, and her favorite book is whatever she read last.

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Profile Image for Solely Sapphic Reads.
173 reviews45 followers
April 24, 2026
ARC REVIEW
Single 1st Person POV. 5🌟 5🌶️. 311 pages
11 Spicy Scenes

Forgive me Reverend Mother for I have sinned!

I didn’t grow up religious in any capacity, I come from a family of atheists, but this book took me to church and I would happily become a nun if Reverend Mother Veilentine were my prioress!

Come meet sister Jezebella a nun at The Altar Church of Lost Souls, pious she is not, but passionate she is. As her relationship with her sisters in Christ deepens and a new nun appears who draws her eye, Jezebella will be torn between passion and a deeper yearning. Between pleasure and pain and mysteries unfolding, what could possibly go wrong?

This book was EVERYTHING I wanted and more. If you think you’re getting into a smutty little story about lesbian nuns you’d be correct but it’s so much deeper than that. Thighs and Prayers delves into the deep layers of oppression and the intrinsic gap between men and women within not only the eyes of the church but also society as a whole. It’s about finding yourself, loving that person and saying f**k you to the system that seeks to dim your shine!

Thighs and Prayers comes out today and if you know what’s good for you, you’ll forget your TBR and read this immediately!

Things to LOVE:
📚Mystery / Romance
⛓️‍💥Forced Proximity
🔍Mysteries & Disappearances
🙏Morning Prayers 😉
🙌Holy Mother Domme
⛓️BDSM
🌶️🍑👈 + 💦💦
Profile Image for Larareads.
566 reviews141 followers
April 26, 2026
Thank you to the author for giving me this ARC in exchange for an honest review.

I was soo excited when Kat first posted about this book and I loved it! The story is fascinating and I had such a fun time reading! Also the spice is freaking amazing and so so hot!
Profile Image for Rene.
76 reviews5 followers
August 2, 2026
This was so different than I ever expected. But wow! It was soooo good!!! Be sure to read the CW because this isn’t for everyone. I loved the female empowerment and the strong bonds the nuns had with each other. Halfway through, I was still wondering where this story was going and it didn’t disappoint. It was a fun, steamy, eerie read and I absolutely loved it. And the ending had a surprising buildup revealing some unexpected twists. I’m still in awe after reading this. Who would’ve known nuns could be so sexy.
Profile Image for Erica.
720 reviews857 followers
April 24, 2026
horny lesbian nuns with beautiful prose like what more do you need really

genuinely LOVED this book wow
Profile Image for ashlee ❤.
2,319 reviews134 followers
April 27, 2026
Jezebella + Lilith

-sapphic romance
-lesbian nuns (erryywhereee)
-town mystery
-feminine rage
-ultimate worship
-ff/fffff

“The hazards of scissoring should have been mentioned in the bible. No one warned me.”

“Despite years of fervent prayer and wise sermons, I’d only ever found god between my Sister in Christ’s thighs. At midnight mass, I found more than something as simple as the notion of god. I found divinity in a woman loving a woman. My highest calling wasn’t holiness, it was this— it was her. My vows gained a fullness as an understanding clicked into place. At midnight mass, between the thighs of god, every prophecy was fulfilled. At long last, a prayer answered.”

& really there’s nothing else left needed to be said, ya feel me!😏😏🙏🧎‍♀️🛐
Profile Image for Poppy || Monster Lover.
1,983 reviews625 followers
July 31, 2026
Jezebella was a bad nun but a good person. She was learning to embrace being a lesbian in a church that condemned women, and especially sapphic love. Enter Lilith, the enigmatic nun visiting from another convent with secrets she was hiding. Every character in this book had secrets upon secrets, because their world wasn’t a forgiving one. I liked the complexities of the characters and the spice was on point.

Spice: 5/5

Triggers: misogyny, mention of child abduction and threat to child safety, domestic violence of side character, murder (off page), blood, homophobia, death of animals, Christianity and religious trauma, discussion of depressed and unavailable parent causing parentification of child, inebriation, sex between FMC and side character that borders on cheating
Profile Image for ari ⁠♡.
274 reviews19 followers
May 9, 2026
First of all, this cover is STUNNING. I can’t even remember the last time I picked up a sapphic romance, so this was a really fun change for me.

I loved the gothic setting and atmosphere. Creepy convent, religious tension, yearning, suspiciously intense eye contact between women… and this book wasted no time with the spice 😮‍💨🌶️ These women were fighting demons (iykyk) and being horny at the exact same time. Priorities!

Weirdly enough though, despite how spicy everything was, the characters were still really endearing to me. Their dynamic had this softness to it that made me enjoy them together.

My issue is mostly that the story itself felt kinda flat. A lot of it felt kind of stagnant. Still, I’m glad I picked it up. I’m definitely going to be thinking about that last chapter for a while🤣
Profile Image for Celina.
1,664 reviews79 followers
May 30, 2026
I love weird things, especially weird books. I can't wholly relate to the whole growing up in a religious family thing, but there sure was religion here and as an African woman, writing Jesus and God with small letters, I almost felt thunder smiting me thru my kindle, like damn.

Also, this sort of prayers definitely be very rewarding. An enjoyable read. It has a bit of mystery to it, and since I love mystery books, I thought it was a major thing but it wasn't. I mean, Lilith was just Lilith, imagine my shock. A man died though, that is always something.
Profile Image for Jess Brady.
Author 1 book172 followers
May 5, 2026
LESBIAN NUNS - SAY LESS

I do want to preface this by saying I've yet to read Selah Gothic, but it is up soon! Kat Blackthorne makes me fall hopelessly in love with her characters, but Thighs and Prayers took it further. These characters weren't just ravenous for each other; they were desperate for what their time together brought. I am getting ahead of myself because before you get Sister Jezabella and Sister Lilith you get Reverend Mother Veilentine. Which from the beginning you can tell she isn't all that she makes herself out to be, again that comes later. Which I am not going to go into because no spoilers.

The heart of this story is what well and truly made me realize why I always find myself back in the worlds that Kat creates. On the surface it is two nuns who are feral for one another, but beneath that there is oppression, finding yourself and gothic mystery that ties it all together.

I'm fresh off the heels of this one, so my thoughts are rather all over the place. I didn't have stories like this when I was their age. Stories that could've helped me see that there was nothing wrong with me or that I wasn't "acting out" because I wasn't happy not being myself.

Right in the thick of this book, I remembered the author saying how important this book was to her and that is why this book matters. It is beyond HOT, but it is everything you could feel about not belonging tied up in one. Often times readers find their selves lost in the pages that an author creates, they can put themselves in the positions of the characters because they understand. That is what Kat Blackthorne gave me with Thighs and Prayers.
Profile Image for Elizabeth Knowles.
129 reviews10 followers
July 28, 2026
Smut aside...this book contains beautiful quotes and a somewhat supernatural-ish mystery. But mainly smut lol
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"What we do... what we've done... may exist in a forbidden area because of our vows, but being intimate as women who desire women, that could never be of the devil."
Profile Image for Amber The Ninth.
185 reviews24 followers
May 14, 2026
This was so much more than I was expecting in the best way possible!
Profile Image for Caro.
52 reviews4 followers
April 24, 2026
The holiest kind of chaos.

Thighs and Prayers feels like stepping into something equal parts sinful and sacred, and I mean that in the best way possible.

The feeling of a lifetime of tangled religious experiences, of trying to reconcile who you are with what you’ve been taught… it hits. And the way the book reframes that into something softer, freer, almost like finding salvation outside traditional doctrine, just works.

And then there’s the language. The way religious imagery is woven into sensual and emotional moments is honestly hilarious at times, but also weirdly beautiful. It leans so hard into it that it becomes its own kind of poetry.

What really makes the story stand out is how different the characters are in the way they process it all. Jezebella diving headfirst into desire, Lilith holding back and questioning everything, it creates this constant tension that keeps pulling you in.

The secrecy just elevates everything. Every glance, every interaction feels heavier because of what’s at stake, and being trapped in that convent with them makes it even more intense.

And underlying it all, that gothic, eerie atmosphere, the forest, the missing people, the sense that something isn’t quite right, adds this quiet layer of unease that lingers the whole time.

It’s messy, it’s bold, it’s a little unhinged… and it knows exactly what it’s doing.
Profile Image for lumi.
24 reviews
July 4, 2026
2.5 ⭐
im a lesbian whos a raging hierophiliac. this shouldve been my perfect read. it wasnt.

the on the nose naming conventions: sister jezabella is the promiscuous nun, and sister lilith arrives then demonic things start happening? right

youve seen and heard evidence of something dangerous in the woods. especially at night. so you proceed to enter the woods many times, at or approaching night. okayyyy

the sex scenes were hot in concept but too short and not very descriptive for my tastes

big spooky supernatural mystery is actually just the characters we've known all along, of which the reveal is boring and eyeroll worthy

the romance was dull, genuinely no real connection at all and even any disagreements were ignored post rushed sex scene. youre really not gonna discuss anything at all? not the fact lilith clearly knows so much more than shes letting on? you wont ever push her on that?

also just a total lack of flawed or complex characters, everyone is perfect except for calling eachother bad nuns as foreplay

OH and "my collar felt tight" was this books watery bowels. ifykyk (fuck sjm)

only good parts of the book were the feminism and hot buff bartender lady who keeps ducks. rev mother if ur free, im free, hmu

it all led to such an anticlimax, much like sex with men <3
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
Profile Image for Lisa.
359 reviews5 followers
April 29, 2026
There’s no question what this sapphic nun story is on the surface, but there’s a little more to it than that.
Thighs and Prayers had me intrigued from the very beginning. Between the secrets each of the Sisters and the Reverend Mother were obviously all keeping, to the mysterious occurrences in the little village and the beasts that lurked in the woods, the story moved quickly and kept you guessing what everyone was hiding.
This was the first novel from this author, and I have to say I enjoyed it more than I expected. I don’t read a lot of erotica, but I’d definitely consider reading more from Kat if this is the outcome.
😈✝️
Profile Image for Tia.
152 reviews
June 17, 2026
Amen.

Lost me at with plot but the smut was good.

2.5 ✨
Profile Image for Sarah.
90 reviews1 follower
June 17, 2026
I need to be lobotomized after this one chat
Profile Image for Marley Ghostfern.
316 reviews136 followers
June 2, 2026
This book took me to church and I think I'd take my vows tomorrow if Veilentine were my prioress.

Sister Jezebella is a nun at The Altar Church of Lost Souls. Not pious. Very passionate. What starts as a sapphic story about lesbian nuns quickly reveals itself to be so much more. It's a story about oppression, self-worth, gothic mystery, howls in the night, blood on the trees, and people going missing in Howl Moor. I was being edged by the intimate scenes AND the mystery simultaneously and I have no complaints. You can't convince me otherwise: God is a woman. Go read this!

In this book you'll find:
⛓️Sapphic romance
⛓️Mystery
⛓️Forced proximity
⛓️Holy mother domme
⛓️Prayers
⛓️BDSM
⛓️FF/FFFFF
⛓️Worship

🎶Kat Blackthorne,Hallelujah 🎶
Profile Image for TheMorgueDoll.
17 reviews1 follower
May 8, 2026
As as a queer ex Catholic turned Athiest, this was done SO well. The attention to detail while adding REALLY damn good spice was fucking phenomenal. I loved how Kat wrote Selah Gothic, but a bunch of lesbian nuns!? Feminism, sticking it to the man (literally) and also some mystery. Loved it. Love love loooooved it and was not at all expecting it to turn the way it did. THANK 👏🏼 YOU 👏🏼 KAT 👏🏼!!!!
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21 reviews5 followers
April 24, 2026
Review of advance copy received from Author

I always know I am in for an adventure full of twists and turns and secrets and passion when I start a Kat Blackthorne book, and I have been more than fulfilled with Her Worship and guidance with this one. God is indeed a woman...and loves lesbians.

This story healed me in ways I didn’t know I needed to be healed from religious trauma. Touched my soul and lit a fire in me that I am worthy to love and be loved as I am. One of my favorite quotes being "It was my favorite prayer, a delicious offering that I swirled in my mouth and sucked at greedily."

The tension of Sister Jezabella learning the ways of The Altar Church of Lost Souls from Reverend Mother Veilentine versus the freedom of the hidden moments with Sister Lilith is such a beautiful thing to watch flourish throughout the story. Both Jezzabella and Lilith learning the secrets of the town of Howl Moor...and the secrets of worshipping each other. I couldn't get enough.

"The only prophecies I'd ever been privy to were the swing of women's hips and the dip of their cleavage. God created women, and he may as well have created them for me and me alone with the fervor of which I adored everything about them."

Not only is there the passion with hauntingly beautiful prose that Kat is known for, we have the gothic mystery subplot that begins when Lilith appears... there are howls in the night, blood on the trees.... and people going missing? I was on the edge of my seat being edged with the delicously blasphemous intimate scenes and craving to know more of what is happening in the woods of Howl Moor.

Truly just another 5 star read by an author who puts her heart and soul in her work, and it shows in the vulnerability within her characters.

And now...it’s time to go to Midnight Mass.
Thank you so much Kat for letting me ARC read this phenomenal masterpiece and leave an honest review. For having faith in me to read something so special to you.
Profile Image for Chance.
54 reviews2 followers
April 25, 2026
Just Try It

Well that was exactly what I would expect from Kat and so much more. I’m pretty sure the Catholic guilt is gonna come for me soon but it will be so worth it. The book starts right off the bat and my jaw was dropped. The mystery of the forest, the new sister, the little town, and Reverend Mother will have you turning the pages until you finish.

Kat truly did make habits and tunics seem pretty sexy. And holy smokes that ending 🥵

If you’re interested in some naughty nuns then this is the book for you. Or just give it a try and never be able to look at a pew the same way again.

Profile Image for zagzig.
415 reviews1 follower
July 7, 2026
you know I wouldn't think you could get 300+ pages out of "what if nuns were horny and gay" but this book figures it out

Sister Jezebella is a recent arrival at the Altar Church of Lost Souls receiving regular instruction from the Reverend Mother when Sister Lilith shows up and it's smut it's largely smut. there is a plot which ostensibly has stakes and a mystery, we can't get 300+ pages of just smut (unfortunately?). but the book is carried by vibes, religious trauma, female rage, and nun sex

it's very good vibes, religious trauma, female rage, and nun sex though
Profile Image for ㅤmelli ꧔.
1,036 reviews5 followers
Did Not Finish
May 14, 2026
𓏲࣪◜dnf ♡ᵎ

I usually really like her writing style, but I'm finding it really difficult to get into this one.

Maybe I'll pick up the book again later and finish it.

started: 14.05.26
stopped: 14.05.26
Profile Image for Jacqueline Halle.
143 reviews4 followers
April 26, 2026
Sapphic nuns, howling in the woods and a take on midnight mass that you'll either be all for or disturbed by it all 😂🥵
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