Renée Ahdieh is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In her spare time, she likes to dance salsa and collect shoes. She is passionate about all kinds of curry, rescue dogs, and college basketball. The first few years of her life were spent in a high-rise in South Korea; consequently, Renée enjoys having her head in the clouds. She and her family live in Charlotte, North Carolina. She is the #1 New York Times and international bestselling author of the Wrath and the Dawn series, the Flame in the Mist series, and The Beautiful series.

HIT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING SERIES: The Beautiful spent 10 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list and The Damned hit at #5 its first week on sale with preorders that eclipsed preorders for The Beautiful. There are over 118,000 adds on Goodreads across both books.#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR: With three New York Times bestselling series under her belt and even receiving recognition by TIME magazine as writing one of the best 100 fantasy books of all time, Renée has grown into a brand name in YA fantasy and readers wait with baited breath for her next book. Accordingly, her social media continues to grow with over 60,000 followers across Instagram and Twitter. Renée can be counted upon to keep her readers engaged with giveaways, contests, and her ever-popular makeup tutorials. She continues to be a great partner and asset in the marketing and selling of her books.VAMPIRES ARE BACK!: With the success of Stephanie Myer's latest Twilight book and Sarah J. Maas's Crescent City series, it's clear readers are ravenous for vampires and all things paranormal. With Renée's fresh storylines, female leads, lush writing, atmospheric world-building, and steamy romances, she is poised to add new fans to her already solid and growing fan base. SIMULTANEOUS PUBLICATION: The paperbacks for books one and two of the quartet will publish simultaneously (May 2021) and about six months ahead of The Righteous (November 2021) to help build excitement for the next installment. A teaser for The Righteous will be included in the paperbacks and the last book in the series will publish in November 2022.

Now in paperback, the first book--an instant bestseller--in the sumptuous, sultry, and romantic YA vampire series from New York Times bestselling author Renee Ahdieh.

In 1872, New Orleans is a city ruled by the dead. But to seventeen-year-old Celine Rousseau, New Orleans is a safe haven after she's forced to flee her life as a dressmaker in Paris. Taken in by the sisters of the Ursuline convent, Celine is quickly enraptured by the vibrant city becoming embroiled in the glitzy underworld, known as La Cour des Lions, after catching the eye of the group's enigmatic leader, Sébastien Saint Germain.

When the body of one of the girls from the convent is found in Sébastien's own lair--the second dead girl to turn up in recent weeks--Celine must battle her attraction to Sébastien and suspicions about his guilt along with the shame of her own horrible secret.