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Also by Francesca May:

This Vicious Hunger, September 2025
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Wild and Wicked Things, February 2023
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THIS VICIOUS HUNGER
By: Francesca May

Orbit
September 2025
On Sale: August 26, 2025
Featuring: Thora Grieve; Olea
432 pages
ISBN: 0316287539
EAN: 9780316287531
Kindle: B0DPFL9C7Q
Hardcover / e-Book
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Fantasy | LGBTQ | Coming of Age

From the author of Wild and Wicked Things comes a dark gothic fantasy about intoxication, obsession and a desperate hunger for knowledge—whatever the cost.

Thora Grieve finds herself destitute and an outcast after the sudden death of her husband, but a glimmer of hope arrives when a family friend offers her the chance to study botany under a famed professor. Once at the university, Thora becomes entranced by a mysterious young woman, Olea, who emerges each night to tend to the plants in the private garden below her window.

Hungry for connection, Thora befriends Olea through the garden gate and their relationship quickly and intensely blossoms. Intoxicated, Thora throws herself into finding a cure for Olea's ailment and sinks deeper into a world of beauty, poison, and obsession. She's finally found the freedom to pursue her darkest desires, but will it be worth the price?