Usurper | Children of Lorcan #1

Character-driven with a riveting plot that has lots of twists and turns: Usurper will keep readers on the edge of their seat. Identity, friendship, love and political intrigue define this narrative dominated by a tense sibling bond entrenched in the murky waters of family mixing with politics.

DMITRY PETROV WAS SUPPOSED TO BE THE NEXT VAMPIRE KING OF RASPIEN.

On the night of his eighteenth birthday, Dmitry unwittingly finds himself at the center of a scandal that turns his life upside down. Stripped of his titles, inheritance, and everything he’s ever known, Dmitry has to learn to live like the other side.

Forced to question everything he’s been taught to believe, Dmitry is determined to forge ahead and build a new life far from the intricate politics and poison of a family bound to a golden chair and the weight of a crown once promised.

But dressing a prince in overalls does not a pauper make, and no matter the distance he travels or how hard he tries to forget, Dmitry has to face a harsh and inescapable truth; that a fate born into is not so easily shaken.

When he finds himself at the beck and call of a boy king with too much power and no patience, Dmitry begins to understand that there is more to inheritance than a title and a crown, and blood—indeed—runs much thicker than water.

A character-driven, political, dark fantasty, Children of Lorcan are the first books in The Lorcanverse. Each book of the series follows a different character arc, with an overarching plot that ties the series together. Set in the world of Denya, The Lorcanverse has a magic system based on vampire and wolf shifter lore, where all characters are mortal and vampires were created around 1,000 years before the start of the first series (Children of Lorcan) as a side effect of forbidden wolf magic. With a focus on the power of interpersonal relationships, both platonic and romantic, it’s a queer series at its heart with several queer characters, including several queer protagonists