Bride
Ali Hazelwood, the contemporary romance writer best known for The Love Hypothesis, takes her first paranormal swing with Bride, a vampire-werewolf political thriller dressed as a love story. Misery Lark, daughter of a vampire councilor, has spent her whole life being traded as a hostage between her own people and the humans, and now she is being handed over to the werewolves as a treaty bride to keep an uneasy peace from collapsing. Her new husband, the alpha Lowe Moreland, is supposed to terrify her. He does not. Hazelwood keeps her trademark voice, neurotic-smart heroine, alarmingly competent love interest, jokes about how nobody normal would put up with this, and bolts it onto a genuinely angled supernatural-politics plot. Her established readers showed up in force, and Bride became one of the year's biggest romantasy hits.
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What you might want to know about Bride
The questions readers send us most often, answered without spoilers.
To keep peace between vampires and werewolves, vampire Misery is married off to alpha Lowe Moreland and sent to live in his pack's territory. Each one assumes the other is the threat. Both are wrong.
Yes. Bride contains explicit on-page romance, around 4 out of 5 on the spice scale. It is Ali Hazelwood's first paranormal romance after a string of STEM-themed contemporary romances.
Yes. Bride contains explicit on-page romance, around 4 out of 5 on the spice scale. It is Ali Hazelwood's first paranormal romance after a string of STEM-themed contemporary romances.
Bride was originally published as a standalone, but Ali Hazelwood has confirmed a sequel is in progress. Several short bonus stories tied to the world have been released alongside it.
Bride was written by Ali Hazelwood, published in 2024 by Penguin.
Bride is 417 pages in standard print editions, though page counts vary slightly between hardcover, paperback, and large-print formats.
At an average reading pace of about 250 words per minute, Bride takes most readers 6 to 9 hours to finish.
Bride is available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats from Amazon, Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and most major bookstores.