Everything Looks Better in Red

A queer Such Sharp Teeth meets Fatal Attraction, in which a woman whose encounter with a magnetic stranger awakens both forbidden desire and the beast she’s always been meant to become.

Elsa has never quite belonged. Growing up, she was always the strange girl, the outcast, the one almost nobody ever noticed. Now in her forties and married to her high school sweetheart, she’s perfected the art of invisibility – the quiet wife; the woman who takes up as little space as possible. But beneath this façade, something darker writhes, waiting.

When she meets Jacey at an airport bar, Elsa’s carefully constructed world fractures. Jacey is everything Elsa has denied herself: dangerous, magnetic, and absolutely lethal. Their paths keep crossing, each encounter pulling Elsa deeper into Jacey’s orbit – and closer to the monstrous truth.

But as secrets from Jacey’s past resurface, and the body count rises, Elsa must choose: return to her cage of normalcy, or embrace the beast she’s always longed to become. 

• Slick, fast-paced, and gloriously bloody, Everything Looks Better In Red is a joyous celebration of embracing the darkness within and finding one’s place in the world. Gwendolyn Kiste does a wonderful job of exploring desire, rage, and power—and monstrousness in its many forms. Everything you could want from a werewolf story in one delicious bite.
  A.C. Wise, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Wendy, Darling and Ballad of the Bone Road
• Everything Looks Better in Red is surprising and wild in all the best ways. Kiste tears away a smothering suburban caul with the teeth of a wolfen flame who's to die for, to kill for, and maybe even to live for, too. A vivacious, aching love affair between the broken and the night.
  Hailey Piper, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of A Game in Yellow