Dreamland

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DELUXE EDITION—a beautiful hardcover edition featuring sprayed edges and fully illustrated color endpapers.

From New York Times bestselling author Olivie Blake comes a tantalizing story of power, seduction, and the omens you’ll ignore when everything you’ve dreamed of feels just within reach.

The headlines are calling it the "summer of exsanguination" in LA—girls are being murdered, the Santa Ana winds are blowing a strange energy into the city, and all signs point to fire season.

More pressing for Anya Morris, though, is the drudgery of living at home, working part time at the family store, and contending with her mother's disdain for the acting career Anya knows she's destined for but that feels more impossible by the day.

It’s in this suffocating late summer heat that Anya receives a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, an invitation to work for the de Witt family, one of LA’s most influential film dynasties. Soon, she’s spending her days and nights at their strange villa high in the Hollywood hills, where she meets Jude, a recluse who is both the family’s heir apparent and its most closely guarded secret.

There’s a magnetism to Jude that Anya cannot resist, despite warning signs that scream like sirens in the night. Because the villa holds generations of bloodstained history, and an occult family curse may even live within its walls—or within Jude himself.

In this city, everyone cuts a deal with the devil. When Anya comes face to face with a devil of her own, she’ll learn just how far she’s willing to go to get everything she’s ever wanted.

Reviews

Praise for Dreamland:

“This is Olivie Blake at the height of her power, doing cartwheels on the high wire. Dreamland is a sweat-slick Hollywood fable about fame, fortune, and the sins we’d commit for either. A gory, gothic masterpiece.”—Alix E Harrow, New York Times bestselling author of Starling House

“Deceptively charming, Dreamland hides sharp secrets in its Hollywood smiles. Olivie Blake paints a sweeping portrait of L.A. that steadily bleeds the longer you look.”—Hailey Piper, author of A Game in Yellow

“From its setting (summertime LA) to its heroine (a genre-savvy gen-z aspiring actress), Dreamland is a gothic novel for the modern age.”—Johanna van Veen, author of Blood on Her Tongue

“A dizzying and atmospheric fever dream of a novel. I didn’t want it to end!”—Monika Kim, award-winning author of The Eyes Are the Best Part

Praise for Girl Dinner:

“A book that whets your appetite before devouring you whole. Girl Dinner is cunning, charged, and just as you’re comfortable—a profound shock. Perfect for the era we live in.” —Chloe Gong, New York Times bestselling author of Immortal Longings

“A brilliant head trip of a book, Olivie Blake constantly comes at timely topics from new and interesting angles. I can’t wait to see what she does next!”—Katee Robert, New York Times bestselling author of Neon Gods

“Whip sharp, nuanced, and highly propulsive. I will be thinking about Girl Dinner for a long time.”—Hildur Knútsdóttir, author of The Night Guest

“Girl Dinner is a crackling, tense journey between the ravenous teeth of feminine rage and sorority power struggles. Overflowing with creeping dread. I devoured it and loved every second.”—Chuck Tingle, USA Today bestselling author of Bury Your Gays

“At once hilarious, scathing, insightful, and heartbreaking—I devoured Girl Dinner! Olivie Blake never pulls any punches, defies genre boundaries, and this book cements her as one of the most unique voices writing at the moment. I live for her commentary on motherhood, relationships, and above all, academia. This book is the fever dream I never knew I needed, and I’m going to recommend it to everyone I meet!”—Ali Hazelwood, New York Times bestselling author of The Love Hypothesis

“A female-fueled tumbleweed of bloodthirsty seduction. A decadent dive into the dark depths of ambition and toxic relationships. Deliciously addictive.”—A. R. Torre, New York Times bestselling author of The Good Lie

“As always, Blake eats! Girl Dinner is truly brilliant—a precise and ruthless novel about the impossibility of being a woman and a mother, it also answers the question of what it takes to win when you start from a losing position. I savored every morsel of this wickedly fun and deeply satisfying interrogation of sisterhood, sorority life, and the true cost of success.”—Ling Ling Huang, author of Natural Beauty and Immaculate Conception

“An exploration of the many hungers of the female heart and the pain behind the drive to be everything to everyone, Girl Dinner shaves pearls into teeth and bites deep. As a woman, as a mother, as a wife, as an artist—I felt this story in my bones.”—Delilah S. Dawson, New York Times bestselling author of The Violence

About the Author

Olivie Blake is the New York Times bestselling author of speculative fiction for adults, including The Atlas Six trilogy, Alone with You in the Ether, Masters of Death, the short story collection Januaries, and her novel, Girl Dinner. With Little Chmura, she is the co-creator of the graphic series Clara and the Devil. As Alexene Farol Follmuth, she is also the author of the young adult novels My Mechanical Romance and Twelfth Knight. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and son.