Providence Girls: A Sapphic Horror Romance - Morgan Dante

Love changes you. So do the Outer Gods. An extraordinary departure. Dante splices genre in a beautiful and brutal Horror Romance a la The Shape of Water and Midnight Mass . Someone call Guillermo Del Toro, because Providence Girls deserves an adaptation. - Freydís Moon, bestselling author of Heart, Haunt, Havoc Now: Alone in a cottage, Lavinia writes to the woman she loved. Fifteen years ago: Middle-aged Lavinia Whateley escapes her hilly Massachusetts town when the townsfolk decide to sacrifice her on Halloween. After almost dying in the woods, she's saved and housed by the stoic and mysterious Asenath Waite, or Azzie. On the coastal outskirts of East Providence, they start to fall in love. However, things change when Azzie, with her secret past and the strange scars on the side of her neck, begins to transform into an eldritch creature of the deep. A story inspired by the doomed women in H.P. Lovecraft's The Thing on the Doorstep and The Dunwich Horror. Love changes you. So do the Outer Gods. Now: Alone in a cottage, Lavinia writes to the woman she loved. Fifteen years ago: Middle-aged Lavinia Whateley escapes her hilly Massachusetts town when the townsfolk decide to sacrifice her on Halloween. After almost dying in the woods, she's saved and housed by the stoic and mysterious Asenath Waite, or Azzie. On the coastal outskirts of East Providence, they start to fall in love. However, things change when Azzie, with her secret past and the strange scars on the side of her neck, begins to transform into an eldritch creature of the deep. A story inspired by the doomed women in H.P. Lovecraft's The Thing on the Doorstep and The Dunwich Horror. Best Historical Fiction in the 2023 Queer Indie Awards Love changes you. So do the Outer Gods. Now: Alone in a cottage, Lavinia writes to the woman she loved. Fifteen years ago: Middle-aged Lavinia Whateley escapes her hilly Massachusetts town when the townsfolk decide to sacrifice her on Halloween. After almost dying in the woods, she's saved and housed by the stoic and mysterious Asenath Waite, or Azzie. On the coastal outskirts of East Providence, they start to fall in love. However, things change when Azzie, with her secret past and the strange scars on the side of her neck, begins to transform into an eldritch creature of the deep. A story inspired by the doomed women in H.P. Lovecraft's