Guillotine

Delilah S. Dawson

Sep 2024 · Titan Books (US, CA)

About this ebook

The Menu meets Ready or Not in this dark tale of opulent luxury and shocking violence from the New York Times bestselling author of Bloom.

Thrift fashionista Dez Lane doesn't want to date Patrick Ruskin; she just wants to meet his mother, the editor-in-chief of Nouveau magazine. When he invites her to his family's big Easter reunion at their ancestral home, she's certain she can put up with his arrogance and fend off his advances long enough to ask Marie Caulfield-Ruskin for an internship someone with her pedigree could never nab through the regular submission route.

When they arrive at the enormous island mansion, Dez is floored—she's never witnessed how the 1% lives before in all their ridiculous, unnecessary luxury. But once all the family members are on the island and the ferry has departed, things take a dark turn. For decades, the Ruskins have made their servants sign contracts that are basically indentured servitude, and with nothing to lose, the servants have decided their only route to freedom is to get rid of the Ruskins for good…

Ratings and reviews

I really don't have the words to talk about how cathartic this book was to read, to feel some justice is possible. I don't know what it says about me that I feel this way, but in 2026, I have had enough of this nonsense we're living through.

This book did not go the direction I thought it would, but I do love how it progressed. It was a fast-paced story about people getting what they deserve. Creepy and definitely worth a read.

About the author

Delilah S. Dawson is the New York Times-bestselling and Bram Stoker Award-nominated author of It Will Only Hurt For A Moment, Bloom, The Violence, Mine, Camp Scare, the Blud series, the Hit series, Servants of the Storm, Midnight at the Houdini, several Star Wars books, and the Shadow series, written as Lila Bowen. As a child, she cleaned offices alongside her parents’ janitorial service and once ate day-old birthday cake out of a bank’s kitchen trash, so that’s who you’re dealing with.
Find her online at www.delilahsdawson.com and on social media, @delilahsdawson.