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In this final installment of the Resurrectionist trilogy, necromancers run a body-swapping Ponzi scheme, a tech bro plays with powers beyond his comprehension, and Selene’s beloved fiancé goes missing.
Selene Shade has had a rough few years. She stopped a ritual serial killer, unveiled a wild new depth to her own supernatural powers, and fought off interdimensional creatures more than once. Somewhere in there, she even made some friends and found love. Now, all she wants to do is get down the aisle with her overworked vampire detective. But, as she’s learned time and time again, nothing in life (or half-life) is ever that easy.
Amidst wedding planning, her groom has gone missing, the necromancers grow bolder, and a tech bro is focusing his excess of resources on the notoriously unstable dimensional portal that has made Goat Hill such a hot spot for the not-quite-human. To save the love of her life and stop a world-ending plague, Selene must reassemble the city's finest magic users and call in every government favor she has left.
Awake But Not Alive, is a thrilling conclusion filled with death, magic, and sacrifice, set in a world as full of soul-grinding office work as it is profound moral dilemmas. Join Selene and her band of unlikely allies as they come together to fight for their city and save the world... one last time.
Victoria Dalpe is a Providence-based horror writer and painter. To date, her short fiction has appeared in over sixty-five anthologies. She has published the short story collection Les Femmes Grotesques and the horror fantasy series Selene Shade: Resurrectionist for Hire with CLASH Books. In 2025, her short story "The Cleaner" was included in the Best Horror of the Year Volume 17 edited by Ellen Datlow and her short story "Because it was Worse Outside" was included in the Shirley Jackson winning anthology Why Didn't You Just Leave? edited by Nadia Bulkin and Julia Rios. Looking ahead to 2027, her second short story collection, I'll Break, You'll Break will be released with Lethe Press, the final entry in the Selene Shade Series: Awake But Not Alive and the reprint of her first novel, the sapphic gothic horror tale, Parasite Life.
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