A book about blood and becoming, where monsters kneel, women rise, and power grows wild in scorched earth.

Lupines Bloom Where Blood Falls (The Florilegium Cycle, Book #1)

Everyone knows monsters don’t exist.

But knowing something doesn’t make it true.

Aurora Hagan has spent her life buried in books, dreaming of monsters. Not the kind that hide under beds. The kind that don’t knock—they enter. Drenched in shadow, burning with hunger, and hellbent on making you forget your own name.

She told herself they weren’t real. She just wanted them to be.

Then she moved to Lorewood, a strange little town that doesn’t fear monsters.

They run the local dive bar, sell used books, and keep the town alive.

The streets breathe with old magic and older secrets.

The locals smile, wave, and look the other way.

But the stories?

They’ve been whispering her name for years.

And at the center of it all?

Him.

Ezra is not a man. He’s a nightmare stitched together with ink and shadow, older than empires, forged in hunger and darkness. He’s a hunter. A predator. One who has spent centuries stalking the wilds, feeding on the flesh of the lost and wicked.

The darkness bows to him.

And now, it bows to her, too.

Because something inside Aurora is waking. Something even Ezra doesn’t understand. And when a cult of fanatics comes for her—determined to snuff out what she could become—

Ezra doesn’t just promise protection. He swears devotion.

Because Aurora isn’t waiting for a prince to save her.

She’s been waiting for a monster like Ezra to hand her a match and whisper, “Burn it all down, little lupine.”

She won’t run. She won’t cower.

She was meant to unite, meant to lead…meant to burn.
And the monsters?
They’ve been waiting for her to ignite.

⚠️⚠️Content Warning⚠️⚠️

This book contains scenes of graphic violence, explicit sexual content, blood play, and language that would make a sailor weep.

It also includes a depiction of sexual assault that is explicit, emotionally intense, and meant to be upsetting.

There’s one scene involving dubious consent. It’s not romanticized or without consequence. Ezra is just old, hot, emotionally stunted, and used to getting whatever he wants. He touched without asking. Not out of malice, but out of obsession and ignorance.

And when Aurora calls him on it, she doesn’t pull a single goddamn punch.

This is where he begins to understand that power isn’t dominance. Power is respect. Power is consent. Power is holding back when you could destroy everything, simply because she asked you to.

Please take care while reading. No book is more important than your mental health.

If those scenes are too much, skip them. You won’t miss the core of the story. You’ll still find heat, softness, defiance, and love on the other side.

Also contains:

• Monster sex (shadow tentacle included

• Light spanking

• Power exchange & praise kink

• Possessive shadow monster with a praise/degradation problem

• Recreational violence and the occasional dismemberment

• Religious themes, including demons, angels, Lucifer, & Lilith

Mentioned but not acted on in this book:

• CNC (Consensual Non-Consent)