Lead Me Astray

by Sondi Warner

Overview

Notes From Your Bookseller

This is the LGBTQIA+ paranormal romance detective story you’ve ached for. We can’t think of any recent title that includes as much diversity and inclusiveness in both plot AND character.

Welcome to Overlay City in New Orleans—a shadowy in-between where the paranormal and the real world meet. Its newest resident: Aurie Edison.

A victim of a hit-and-run, Aurie now exists as a ghost in this mysterious realm. Convinced there is more to her death than what she remembers, Aurie sets out to uncover the truth. She soon finds herself in the company of Mys, a psychic empath, whose need to help others trumps all else, and Zyr, a werewolf detective able to work both the human and occult worlds.

As they begin to piece together the events leading up to her death, Aurie can’t deny the deeper connection developing between them. Yet, with each new secret suggesting a more sinister danger at play, they realize they may not make it out (dead or) alive.

Undeniably queer and devilishly sexy, Lead Me Astray will take you to the shadowy depths of New Orleans and never let you go.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781777290078
Publisher:	Wattpad Webtoon Studios, Inc.
Publication date:	03/15/2022
Sold by:	Penguin Random House Publisher Services
Format:	eBook
Pages:	420
File size:	986 KB
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Sondi Warner is the author of Lead Me Astray, a supernatural polyamorous romance with over 130 thousand reads on Wattpad. When not writing, Sondi loves studying astrology, trying her hand at gardening, and painting. She lives in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, with her life partner, their four children, and their cat, Se7en.

Editorial Reviews

11/29/2021

Warner (Deserving) launches her Overlay City series with a frenetic polyamorous paranormal romance wrapped inside a thriller set in a supernatural nexus existing in the same space as New Orleans. After college student Aurie Edison is drugged at a party she uncharacteristically crashed, she’s killed by a hit-and-run driver and is left to wander the city as a ghost. Mys, an empath and genderqueer futanari—a supernatural being with hermaphroditic genitals—invites Aurie to their home while she figures out what unfinished business ties her to the world. Werewolf detective Zyr looks into Aurie’s case and discovers an opportunity to finally prosecute powerful vampire Darcy Cyprian, the host of the party where Aurie was drugged. As Aurie, Mys, and Zyr work together, a powerful current of desire runs among all three. Warner treads somewhat awkwardly around Mys’s worry about being rejected for their body while keeping the story queer-positive. There’s more energy put toward the supernaturals interacting with the mundane world than exploring Overlay City itself, and readers will hope for more texture in future installments. Still, though the intercreature politics hew close to genre tropes, there’s ample space for additional stories, and Warner proves her ability to populate them appealingly. This promises good things to come. (Mar.)

Publishers Weekly