The Red Sacrament

A merciless, hypnotic glimpse into the lives and deaths of a vampire coterie in 19th-century Paris – perfect for fans of Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Laura Purcell, and Elizabeth Kostova.

Paris, 1869: the Théâtre Saint-Siméon is the most coveted place in the city – if you can get in. Rare black tickets grant the chosen access to midnight performances by performers who are magnetic, ageless, and never to be seen by day.

Arnault and his vampire clan have long survived thanks to strict rules. By night they perform on stage, targeting only as many spectators as needed to survive. They know the city – and how to remain invisible within it.

But their fragile balance begins to falter: first Béatrice appears, a witch who forges a strange connection with Arnault. Then Victor de Rouvray and his sister Françoise arrive – vampires from an entirely different world. The closer Arnault gets to the beautiful, enigmatic Victor, the more he risks being distracted from the eternal quarrels of his immortal companions, from the daily running of the theater, and – worse still – from his dark premonitions of blood, death, and hunger.

For a terrible change is coming: unrest and revolution simmer in the streets. Soon the city – and Arnault himself – will never be the same.