Crimson Skates

Jenny Owens was muddling through her messed-up life the best way she knew how-gritting her teeth through the day job, barely holding together a relationship that felt more like routine than love, and throwing herself into the only place she felt alive: the roller derby track. It wasn't perfect, but it was hers. She was finally in a body she could almost live with. Almost. She was surviving.Until everything changed.One moment of violence rips Jenny's world apart-and when she wakes, nothing is the same. Her body is... different. Too perfect. Her senses are sharper. Her hunger is impossible to ignore. The world around her feels wrong, or maybe she's the one who no longer fits.Struggling to understand what's happened to her, Jenny is forced to confront a terrifying new reality-one where blood is currency, mirrors lie, and shadows have teeth. With danger closing in, she turns to the only person she can still trust: Emma, her best friend and chosen sister. But trust is fragile when everything else is broken.As Jenny begins to uncover the truth about her transformation, she's drawn into a hidden world beneath the surface of her own-one pulsing with ancient politics, seductive power, and secrets that could get her killed. Or worse.Some of those secrets live inside her now.Set in the heartland of the Midwest, Crimson Skates is a fierce, trans-affirming vampire novel about identity, survival, and the haunting beauty of becoming. Part supernatural thriller, part gothic romance, part emotional queer coming-of-self, this is a story for anyone who's ever wondered if they were too much or not enough-and what happens when you finally step into your power, fangs and all.In a world that tried to bury her, Jenny didn't just rise. She rolled. >This can be read as a stand alone book.Note: Contains depictions of transphobia, physical violence, and trauma that may be triggering for some readers.