The Lavender Blade
An Exorcist's Chronicle
$27.75
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
12 August 2025
Summary
For readers who loved New York Times bestseller Gideon the Ninth, Deards delivers a queer speculative fiction novel about what happens when a con artist exorcist becomes possessed for real.
A pair of con artist demon exorcists scam the nation’s wealthiest … until one of them is possessed for real
Colton and Lucian make a living conning the desperate with fake exorcisms—Lucian is the charm, Colton the trick, and together, they’ve turned deception into survival…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781684633203 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1684633206 |
| Author: | E.L. Deards |
| Publisher: | She Writes Press |
| Imprint: | She Writes Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 12 August 2025 |
| Weight: | 210g |
| Dimensions: | 216mm x 140mm |
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Critics Review
“The Lavender Blade by Emma Deards is your new queer fantasy obsession. Magical, funny, romantic, imaginative, and just a little spooky. What more could you want from two disaster con artists in over their heads?”—Mackenzi Lee, author of the A Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue
About The Author
E.L. Deards
Emma Deards grew up in New York City and earned her undergraduate degree at Barnard College at Columbia University, where she studied Japanese literature and biology. She was then accepted to The University of Edinburgh, where she completed her veterinary degree. She remained in the UK afterward, and since then has split her time between her day job as a vet and her truest passion: writing. Emma has authored a number of humor articles for In Practice, a veterinary magazine, and was the recipient in college of two writing awards: the Oscar Lee Award and the Harumatsuri Award. Her first book, Wild with All Regrets, came out in 2023.
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