Highblood: A Novel

“They say that as a young pup she liked to bite. She ripped chunks of flesh from three servants and nearly bled one of them to death.”

In Barranquilla, Carnival belongs to the living, the dead, and the women who feed on both in this hypnotic, genre-bending Caribbean horror novel that reinvents the vampire myth.

Julieta Vanterroso was born with fangs, a beautiful little monster in a family that knew exactly what to do with monsters. In Barranquilla, the Vanterrosos do not hide what they are....