BLOODY SAVAGE GOD (Godless Heathens #1) by Jordan Grant | Release Blitz
June 21, 2023
BLOODY SAVAGE GOD
Godless Heathens - Book 1
by Jordan Grant
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Release Date: June 21, 2023
Cover Design: Lori Jackson Design
Photo:
Ren Saliba
Genre: Dark Academia Gothic Romance Standalone
Trope: Enemies to lovers, anti-hero, dark secrets, redemption, bullying, branding, collaring and mental illness struggles
Synopsis
Leave humanity at the door.
Only godless heathens survive here.
— Saint —
Chryseum Reformatory Academy aka the Asylum.
This is where the rich send their fucked-up sons and daughters, delivering them to a prison in the Catskills of New York.
The Asylum doesn’t cure. It camouflages, protecting old money from apples rotting on the family tree.
They call me a psychopath, a lunatic, unhinged.
But here, I am god.
Now, say your prayers at the door, pet, because this is my senior year, my school, my world.
Even God doesn’t step foot here.
— Willow —
I didn’t want to kill myself, not really.
I wanted help.
I wanted someone—anyone—to listen.
But I’m just a flesh-and-bone cry for attention.
Now, my father’s shipped me here, where evil and old secrets seep through the cold, stone walls.
An inky-haired guy with a devilish smile offers me protection, but his price is high.
Wear his collar.
Be his pet.
Give myself to him, body and soul.
Author's Note: Bloody Savage God is a 400+ page, dark academia gothic romance recommended for those 18+. It features mature themes including, but not limited to, an incendiary heat level, bullying, branding, collaring, and, like my other novels, struggles with mental illness.
This book is the first of three standalone novels in the Godless Heathens universe, each of which takes place at Chryseum Reformatory Academy and features one of the three lords of the Academy (Saint, Gabriel, and Killian). Reading the other books in the series is not necessary to enjoy this book.
Please read the
content/trigger warnings carefully before reading, available either through the Look-Inside feature or on my website (linked on my Amazon author page and TBA soon).
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Excerpt
Saint watches him as he leaves, looking mildly interested, and I put more and more distance between Saint and me. He doesn't seem to notice or care until I am at least a solid twenty feet away. He just stands there, hands stuffed into the pockets of his pants like he hasn't got a care in the world.
I don't know where I'm going, but considering Saint Laurier looks like he's going to commit atrocities on a normal day—and I'm pretty sure I just made him mad, if that jaw tic is any indication—I don't want to stick around and find out.
"Going somewhere, pet?" he says, still not even looking at me before he turns and shoots me a glare that drills all the way down to the marrow in my bones. Then, he smiles broadly, showing all of his straight, white teeth.
"Far away from you," I manage.
He steps forward, and I take another step back.
"Run, and I will catch you. Hide, and I will find you. This is my kingdom, pretty girl. Even God doesn't step foot here."
He says it like he believes it. Hell, I freakin' believe it, but I'm not about to stick around and test the theory. I just have to keep away from him long enough for me to escape this hellhole. I jog backward down the hallway as a guard rounds the corner at the other end. He shoots me a quizzical look, but keeps on walking, the spineless turd.
"Will-low," Saint singsongs, and I hate how happy he sounds and how close.
Holy fuck. How did he get so close?
A second later, I hear the swipe of a keycard on a door lock pad, and Saint again shoves me into a dark, windowless room, lit only by the light coming in from beneath the door from the hallway. It's too dark in here. It makes my skin crawl.
"Do you know what this place used to be?" Saint says.
"I don't care," I snap, my heart skipping a beat as he blocks my view and I try to keep the light from beneath the door in sight.
He looks like he gives zero fucks about my attitude. "You should."
He steps closer, and I step back. He may be gigantic, but I am thinking about ways to knee him in the balls and flee for my life.
"In the late 1800s, the Academy was a typhus hospital," he says, reciting facts from my first day on campus. He erases another step between us, and I take another back. "There are secret tunnels throughout the hospital, used by the doctors to go from room to room to see patients and transport the dead. Can you imagine it, pet? The stench, the bodies, the death?"
He smiles in the dark, his teeth eerily white.
"Don't call me that," I say on a swallow, looking for a way out, but he's so tall, and this room is so small, like a closet. "I'm not your pet."
"Yes, you are, but your pride won't let you admit it yet. Let me show you what this place is like without me to protect you. You'll either come out stronger for it or you'll break, but I've got my money on stronger. That'll be fun."
"Fuck you."
He chuckles, and he's so close, his laughter feathers over my flesh.
"Tell me, pet," he says, leaning in as my back hits something solid, "are you afraid of the dark?"
A moment later, he reaches behind me, and a second after that, I am pushed into a cold nothingness. His face is the last thing I see before he closes the door and everything falls to black.
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Other Titles Within this Series
WICKED VILE KING
Godless Heathens - Chryseum Academy - Book 2
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Release Date: July 19, 2023
DIRTY TWISTED LORD
Godless Heathens - Chryseum Academy - Book 3
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Release Date: August 16, 2023
About the Author
Jordan Grant is a lost soul, who changed majors three times in college before deciding on English. Because she has about as much patience as her beautiful, wonderful (did she mention ah-mazing!) younglings, she graduated a year early and then went to law school because, well...
She mentioned she’s a lost soul, right?
The lawyer-turned-romance-author has a special place in her heart devoted to edgy alpha males and bad boys with naughty mouths. She loves to get lost in the blur between love and hate and is especially fond of prince charmings with dents in their crowns and strife in their souls.
She is an avid fan of all things sweet including red wine and cupcakes (red velvet, please!). When she’s not daydreaming about the characters in her head, she enjoys (attempting to) garden, petting furry animals, and wrangling her family into day-trip adventures.
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