
A Steep and Savage Path
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HarperCollins Publishers · Ebook · December 18, 2025
From the SUNDAY TIMES bestselling author of THE THORNS REMAIN comes an enemies-to-lovers journey to the underworld unlike any other, for fans of THE CRIMSON MOTH and THE CRUEL PRINCE An immortal vampire.
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- Who it’s for
- For when you want romance with teeth and a serious, shadowed mood.
- Genres
- Vampire Romance, Enemies to Lovers, Fantasy Romance
- Published
- HarperCollins Publishers, December 18, 2025
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From the SUNDAY TIMES bestselling author of THE THORNS REMAIN comes an enemies-to-lovers journey to the underworld unlike any other, for fans of THE CRIMSON MOTH and THE CRUEL PRINCE An immortal vampire. A mortal bride. A vow that even death can’t break. Irina is about to be married to a dead man. She is the willing village sacrifice for the Wedding of the Dead: a desperate ritual designed to lay the hungry vampire that has been terrorising her Transylvanian village to rest.
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Irina’s beloved sister’s soul is trapped in the land of the dead. If Irina can retrieve it, she could bring her back – but Irina would need a guide, one who can walk between the living and the dead. Irina strikes up a deal with her new husband – if he agrees to get her safely there and back again, then he can drink her blood as much as he wants. They begin a perilous journey through the afterlife together, in which Irina realises Stefan isn’t the cruel and terrifying monster that she thought. In a land of three-headed beasts, winged creatures and walking corpses, the last thing Irina would have expected was to fall in love. Only, Irina learns that by bringing Stefan to the land of the dead she has put him in grave danger, and will be faced with an impossible choice. Will they be able to make it out, undead or alive? Read more
Dark Undertow
For when you want romance with teeth and a serious, shadowed mood.
Come here for
- gothic romance with bite
- moody, layered tension
Expect
- dark romantic pull
- sustained, immersive read
Where it sits
| Vampire Romance | 90% |
|---|---|
| Enemies to Lovers | 33% |
| Fantasy Romance | 33% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Fantasy Romance
- Fairy Tales & Myths
- Historical Romance
- Authors
- JJA Harwood
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Published
- December 18, 2025
- Format
- Ebook
- Reading lane
- Fantasy Romance