Discover Book: Lemon Balm
After a vicious attack shatters his life, Cypress finds refuge in an abandoned church and a vampire who wants to die. Lemon Balm is a dark, tender fantasy about trauma, connection, and the risks of choosing love in the shadows.
Some stories begin with comfort.
Others begin with rupture.
In Lemon Balm, Artemis Quinn takes readers into the fragile space between trauma and transformation, where survival is messy, love is unexpected, and darkness is never just metaphor.
Cypress lives an uncomplicated life in New York City until a brutal dog attack fractures everything. What follows is not a quick recovery but two years of panic, despair, and searching for something solid to hold onto. That search leads him to an abandoned church deep in the woods.
But he isn’t alone there.
Acanthus — a vampire, a reluctant figurehead in the shadowed realm known as The Night Garden — has retreated from his responsibilities and from life itself. Once the creator of a refuge for the displaced, they now lie rotting in a coffin, waiting for the end.
Cypress’s arrival changes that.
As these two wounded souls circle one another, healing and danger intertwine. Their connection threatens not only their own fragile stability but the future of The Night Garden itself. In a world built on shadows, choosing intimacy may be the most dangerous act of all.
LGBT+ contemporary dark fantasy meets emotional reckoning in a story that readers describe as impossible to put down.
“I couldn’t put it down — I read it in three days!” — Grey
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