Join us for the next Rainbow Holstein Book Club gathering on Thursday 17th September, to discuss August's chosen title: The Red Winter by Cameron Sullivan, at The Book Cow in Kingston! 🥳

THE BOOK:

1785, French countryside. The hunt for the Beast of Gévaudan.

A devastating love story. A bewitching twist on history. A blood-drenched hunt for purpose, power, and redemption.

The novel reimagines the story of Europe, from Imperial Rome to Saint Jehanne d’Arc, the madness of Gilles de Rais and the first flickers of the French Revolution.

Sebastian knows the Beast. A monster-slayer with centuries of experience, he joined the hunt for the creature twenty years ago and watched it slaughter its way through a long and bloody winter. Even with the help of his indwelling demon, Sarmodel – who takes payment in living hearts – it nearly cost him his life to bring the monster down.

Now, two decades later, Sebastian has been recalled to the hunt by Antoine Avenel d’Ocerne, an estranged lover who shares a dark history with the Beast and a terrible secret with Sebastian. Drawn by both the chance to finish the Beast for good and the promise of a reconciliation with Antoine, Sebastian cannot refuse.

But Gévaudan is not as he remembers it, and Sebastian’s unfinished business is everywhere he looks. Years of misery have driven the people to desperation, and France teeters on the edge of revolution. Sebastian’s arcane activities – not to mention his demonic counterpart – have also attracted the inquisitorial eye of the French clergy. And the Beast is poised to close his jaws around them all and plunge the continent into war.

SEE YOU THERE!

Grab your 10% copy in store or online now, with the code RAINBOW! 🌈 See you in The Book Cow for the meeting on Thursday the 17th September, at 6pm!

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