"A sweeping vampire romantasy of royal bloodlines, love and sacrifice played out in the aftermath of a brutal war between vampires, humans, and the gods who conjured them."
April 2025 Debut of the Month
Patrice Caldwell’s Where Shadows Meet — the first in a duology — is a thrilling feast of vampiric fiction for romantasy fans.
Here, the author has conjured a rich world occupied by glamorously iconic characters — from a princess of the Heavenly Realms who wears a dress fashioned from sunlight, and a goddess who her sacrificed her wings for the girl she loved, to a vampiric princess who needs human blood to survive, and a show-stopping seeress — to weave a story of love and loss, devotion and betrayal, the awakening of ancient evil, and an ancient race dependent on blood.
1201 years ago, in the Heavenly Realms, Thana — a princess borne of a human and a god — determines to take control of her own destiny, and finds love with Favre, “a girl shunned because she was misunderstood by all the rest”. A girl who sacrificed her very wings out of love for Thana.
A millennium later, we meet Leyla, princess of an ancient race that survives on human blood, who ventures to the Island of the Dead in order to rescue her captured friend. As perilous as this is in itself, no one could have foreseen the wild, tumultuous scale of what’s unleashed…
Told from multiple points of view across time and splendid landscapes, Where Shadows Meet is shot through with the question as to whether we choose our own fate, or whether it’s determined for us, and steeped in dark atmosphere, devastating dilemmas, and dazzlingly imagined characters.

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Two deadly romances, one devastating destiny. You have no idea what I've done for love.
The LoveReading4Kids Editorial Team have read and reviewed Where Shadows Meet and determined it is suitable for children aged 15-18 years old
Where Shadows Meet features in the following genres: Featured Books for Young Adults, Debuts of the Month, Recommendations, Fantasy / Magical, Romance / Relationship Stories, Mystery / Mythology, Children’s / Teenage general interest: Vampires, werewolves and shapeshifters, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Fantasy romance, Children's and Young Adult Fiction, Children’s, Teenage and Educational, Children’s / Teenage general interest: Supernatural and mythological creatures, Children’s / Teenage: General interest, Relating to LGBTQ+ people, Relating to specific groups and cultures or social and cultural interests, Interest qualifiers
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Where Shadows Meet was written by Patrice Caldwell and published by Hot Key Books an imprint of Bonnier Books UK
Where Shadows Meet has 330 pages
£8.09, reduced from £8.99. In Stock.