Rosemary meets Ash at the farmers' market. Ash-precise, pretty, and practically perfect-sells bars of soap in delicate pastel colors, sprinkle-spackled cupcakes stacked on scalloped stands, beeswax candles, jelly jars of honey, and glossy green plants.
Ro has never felt this way about another woman; with Ash, she wants to be her and have her in equal measure. But as her obsession with Ash consumes her, she may find she's not the one doing the devouring...
Told in lush, delectable prose, this is a deliciously dark tale of passion taking an unsavory turn...
"A sapphic, cottagecore Hannibal. It’s delightfully queer, viciously cruel, creatively cannibalistic, and distressingly passionate. It is a novella that revels in making the reader increasingly uncomfortable. You’ll want to put it down, but you won’t be able to." Locus
"A slim novel with incredible potency. A literary pursuit for the ages. I can't recall a courtship as captivating as the one in these pages, and if there's a better writer than Delilah Dawson going today, I don't know 'em."
Josh Malerman, New York Times bestselling author of Bird Box and Spin a Black Yarn
"This quick and compulsively readable fairy-tale nightmare from Dawson (The Violence) will have readers gasping for breath and hungry for more."
Library Journal
“A cottagecore dream turned nightmare, astonishing in its beauty and violence. Every page drips with delicious dread. This bite-sized tale is perfectly wicked.”
Rachel Harrison, author of Such Sharp Teeth
“Sensual, smart, biting, and downright nasty, Bloom is a dizzying, heady feast for the discerning palate. I devoured this book in one greedy sitting.”
Paul Tremblay, author of The Pallbearers Club
“Sumptuous, lyrical prose meets horrific brutality in Delilah S. Dawson’s harrowing tale of obsession and cruelty. An elegantly written nightmare, Bloom will beguile unsuspecting readers before finally slicing deep and drawing blood.”
Eric LaRocca, author of Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke
“Dawson has brought the kind of irresistible treat you’ve been hungering for. Sapphic longing with a dash of darkness—the perfect recipe. Superbly seductive.”
Hailey Piper, author of A Light Most Hateful
“Delicate and murderous, Bloom is the perfect encapsulation of a subgenre I’d only heard of in theory but now exists in its final form: cozy horror. Delight in the berries, blood and cupcake frosting—find yourself enraptured by the farmers' market aesthetic as designed by the Mads Mikkelson version of Hannibal Lecter.”
Chuck Wendig, author of The Book of Accidents