{"id":40578,"date":"2026-06-02T04:08:29","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T04:08:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lesbianfunworld.com\/books\/?p=40578"},"modified":"2026-06-02T04:08:29","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T04:08:29","slug":"terrible-praise-by-lara-hayes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesbianfunworld.com\/books\/terrible-praise-by-lara-hayes\/","title":{"rendered":"Terrible Praise by Lara Hayes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\r\n\r\nFive hundred years. That’s how long Stela has been Fane’s thing\u2014first as his blade, then as his money handler in Chicago. Back when empires still made sense, she carved through battlefields. Now she shuffles wire transfers and sits through board meetings with the ache of someone who remembers what it felt like to matter.\n\n\n\n\n\nElizabeth Dumas is a nurse who forgot she had dreams. She moved back into her mother’s house to manage the dying\u2014the medications, the bedpans, the endless small humiliations. Her mother was never kind, not before the stroke, not after. The caregiving isn’t redemptive or noble. It’s just what happened.\n\n\n\n\n\nThey meet by accident. The connection ignites fast and badly\u2014the kind of obsession that makes you stupid, that makes you careless. For Stela, it cracks something open that’s been sealed for centuries. For Elizabeth, it’s the first time anyone has wanted her without needing something from her first.\n\n\n\n\n\nThe problem: vampires don’t keep secrets well, and the underworld doesn’t tolerate loose ends. Other vampires see Elizabeth as liability or curiosity or prey. Fane sees Stela’s loyalty eroding in real time. Elizabeth’s grip on reality starts to slip the closer she gets to the supernatural. Neither of them chose this moment. Both of them are about to lose everything they thought they’d already lost.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n
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