Blood and Bitter: A Practical Witch, a Vampire Inquisitor, and a Poisoned Bakery

About Blood and Bitter: A Practical Witch, a Vampire Inquisitor, and a Poisoned Bakery

Blood can poison. Bitter can heal. In the Grey Zone, magic is baked fresh before dawn.

Irene Emmet is a Truth-Weaver and owner of the Bitter Sweet Bakery, where witch law and vampire law overlap, secrets are traded over pastries, and one wrong ingredient can ruin far more than breakfast. When a Fae ambassador collapses on her floor after eating from a poisoned batch of truth-serum muffins, Irene’s neutral sanctuary becomes a crime scene. Her only ally is Ruben Dubois, a vampire Inquisitor whose Death Aura corrupts magical evidence on contact.

To clear her name, Irene and Ruben must follow a trail of soul-poisoning, Under-Realm ingredients, and political sabotage before the Grey Zone is swallowed by a conspiracy hiding inside the Vampire Council. Blood & Bitter is a slow-burn fantasy romance with a magical bakery, food-based magic, a practical witch, a forensic vampire investigator, fae politics, found family, sharp banter, and an ongoing series mystery.