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Blood and Caskets: Celeste
Paperback
Series: Shadows of New Orleans, Book 1
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 18 2025
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.36
Height: 0.34 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
A noblewoman betrayed.
A vampire awakened.
A dark love that could burn a city to the ground.
France, 1730 - Celeste Duvalier was born to silk gowns and candlelit salons, promised to a powerful marriage that would secure her family's future. But one brutal betrayal rips it all away. Stripped of her name and status, she's forced aboard a ship bound for Louisiana-as one of the infamous casket girls, sold as a bride to a stranger in New Orleans.
She's meant to arrive as a wife.
Instead, she arrives as a monster.
Somewhere beneath the storm-tossed decks, something ancient and hungry wakes. Celeste steps onto New Orleans soil reborn in darkness-her heartbeat stolen, her thirst sharpened, her soul caught between damnation and the faintest chance at reclaiming her power.
New Orleans is a city of masks and secrets, where blood is traded in shadows and power is measured in fear. Vampires rule behind lace curtains and wrought-iron balconies, mortals whisper of voodoo in the alleys, and every favor has a price. Hunted by the immortal who made her and haunted by the cousin who condemned her, Celeste must learn to master her new hunger before it masters her.
Then she meets Jacques Olivier.
Charming, elegant, and far too observant, Jacques is a nobleman whose easy smile hides his own scars and dangerous loyalties. He should be the last man she trusts. Instead, he becomes the one person who sees more than the monster... and the only ally bold enough to stand beside her as she carves out a place in a world that would rather use or destroy her.
As immortal rivalries ignite and the city trembles on the edge of chaos, Celeste is drawn into a deadly game of blood, magic, and politics. To protect the vulnerable casket girls who arrived as broken as she once was, she must step into a power she never asked for-one that could turn her into a legend... or a nightmare.
To claim her own destiny, Celeste will have to choose:
The dark sire who owns her past...
or the man who might hold what remains of her heart.
Blood and Caskets is the first novel in the Shadows of New Orleans series-a dark, atmospheric gothic vampire romance with moderate steam, themes of betrayal and survival, and a heroine who refuses to stay powerless.
Perfect for readers who love:
Historical vampire romance set in 18th-century New Orleans
Dark, sensual, gothic vibes (not sweet or closed-door)
Casket girls, convents, voodoo whispers, and immortal politics
Slow-burn romance, found family, and a woman rising from victim to power
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