The Book You'll Never Read: why two authors shelved the fourth novel in their series

Here’s why some stories are meant to stay in the dark.

We wrote another full-length book in our A Conclave of Crimson: A Queer Vampire Romance series, but this one won’t be published. Why? Because no matter how hard we tried this series couldn't find its public audience, even though the few people who loved it, really LOVED it, and loved it fiercely.

But this story was not finished with us: the characters demanded more, and we are, above all, storytellers, so we continued. We began writing it in longhand at the bar in L’Hotel in Paris in September 2023, and finished it on 12 July, 2025 on two separate continents, working on other projects alongside it.

We wrote it. We love it. But we’re hiding it.

There are dozens of reasons why a book fails to find its audience but this story isn’t, by any stretch of the imagination, a failure. We are immensely proud of A Conclave of Crimson: A Queer Vampire Romance, of its themes and messages, especially in today’s intolerant world.

Not everything needs to be sold for cash. In this hustle era, where nearly everything is monetised, sometimes people forget to create just for the pure joy of creation… and for us, that’s what writing this series has been: a pure joy.

The decision to not publish was one we agonised over for months, and in the end, we made the difficult choice that the rest of it will belong just to us and our heart readers.

If you’re one of our core readers who adored the series and want more, we’ll be in touch once Book Four is edited and polished, although that may be some time as we juggle other projects.

Books One-Three are still available to read. If you haven’t visited our queer vampire world, the stories await you: and the trilogy is a complete story, even without Book Four 🖤❤️🤍