Drumroll please! Meet The Youngbloods, aka what I hope will be your favorite listen of the summer! That’s right, starting later this month, my, Kami Garcia, and Sam Humphries’ new fantasy/horror/dark comedy/romance novella trilogy will be dropping one each month on Audible, and it’s going to be epic. Think: what if Succession, but with a family of demons, and a LOT more blood and kissing?
First, let’s show off this epic cover for book one by Kirk DouPonce!
THE YOUNGBLOODS: FAMILY DEMONS:
Don’t miss the first book in an addictive new serial novella trilogy brimming with suspense, dark humor and romance! Meet the Youngbloods, an unforgettable family of antiheroes.
The Youngbloods are a mafia-like demon family, sent as a sinister advance team to prepare Earth for an infernal invasion. But when something goes wrong, the demon invasion never comes and the Youngbloods are stuck on crappy Earth with the worst creatures in the world—each other.
Petra Youngblood is the family’s hunter. Her job: to track and kill the annual human sacrifice that keeps the Youngbloods immortal. Otherwise, they will crumble to dust. But as Petra is hunting down this year’s sacrifice, a man named Killian Irons, she breaks the first demonic rule. The one rule so forbidding, nobody else in her family has ever dared to break it...she falls in love.
Get your preorder on right here so you get it as soon as it drops on June 22. And…
Coming July 20: THE YOUNGBLOODS: BLOOD LUST, BOOK 2.
Coming August 24: THE YOUNGBLOODS: HELL TO PAY, BOOK 3
Preorder all three now. (If you’re a plus subscriber, you won’t be charged, btw.)
And we’ve got some OUTSTANDING actors bringing the Youngblood family to life, including: Khristine Hvam, Lee Osorio, Andrew Eiden, Amber Dekkers, Graham Rowat, Richard Poe, Luzma Ortiz, and Mark Sanderlin. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll ship Petra and Killian together so hard. We are SO grateful to these voice actors, for Audible and for our fabulous editor Rose Hilliard for making an incredible audio drama from our words!
As some of you may remember, Kami introduced Sam and I when she conscripted us into a joint project that became Creators 4 Comics, which raised far more than we ever imagined for the Book Industry Charitable Foundation to dispense to comics and indie bookstores during the pandemic. By the end, the three of us were so used to texting each other a hundred times a day, we knew we needed a new project as an excuse. At first, we were going to do a podcast, and then we were like, what if we co-wrote something? I knew a lot of people doing Audible novellas—we started brainstorming over zoom and the idea we came up with very quickly grew into a whole world and three novellas. We were beyond thrilled when the proposal sold, and then again, when we turned in the first one and our editor came back and suggested we write all three so they could be released a month apart.
Truly, a dream team of collaborators all round. And we already have other ideas in the works. *twirls fingers* We can’t wait for you to meet these hate-to-love, love-to-hate antiheroes who might just steal your hearts when you’re not looking.
Welcome to a hot summer for The Youngbloods!
How fun! Congratulations!
Holy shit! That’s awesome!!!