The Starving Saints by Caitlin Starling Western

The Starving Saints by Caitlin Starling WesternPORTLAND, OR LOCAL AUTHOR From the nationally bestselling author of The Luminous Dead and The Death of Jane Lawrence, a transfixing fever dream of medieval horror following three women in a besieged castle that descends ravenously into madness under the spell of mysterious, godlike visitors. Aymar Castle has been under siege for six months. Food is running low and there has been no sign of rescue. But just as the survivors consider deliberately

and he can’t write

and most dangerous of all

all while trying desperately to keep his hands the hell off his best friend's sister

Briony Rosewood knows that the world as she knows it is changed forever

Even Violet seems to love her little brother

it sets Miranda on a desperate

and she uses my bond with Estrella to manipulate me into a betrothal I never desired

it feels like maybe it’s fate

The only people who know they exist are a mysterious local hermit named Scotland

With the heady mythmaking of Neil Gaiman and the heartrending pacing of Joe Hill

and a glorious reveling in all the things an ill-advised whistle might summon

He needs a fake girlfriend to discourage overzealous vampire matchmaking