Today it is my pleasure to Welcome author Avina St. Graves to HJ!
Hi Avina and welcome to HJ! We’re so excited to chat with you about your new release, Pink Ink!
Please summarize the book for the readers here:
Gothikana meets Dexter in this sinfully delicious dark romance about a film student who’s secretly tracking the murders of a serial killer—unaware he’s also her brooding professor.
There’s a serial killer prowling the city, and no one has noticed…
Except for me.
I see the connections between his kills—
The artistic references,
The careful curation of the scene,
The macabre motifs that turn violence into vivid works of art.
When I recreate one of his murders for my film project at Cresswell University,
I unknowingly present it to the very man who committed the crime.
Professor Maddox Shaw.
A world-renowned artist struggling to recapture his muse.
A serial killer caught deep in the web of a dangerous secret society.
A man who makes me come alive.
Sleeping with your professor is bad enough.
Sleeping with a serial killer is just asking for trouble.
When trouble finds me, it’s not Maddox, but the powerful people pulling his strings.
There’s no line they won’t cross to keep their secrets safe.
And there’s no line Maddox won’t cross to keep me.
After all, he’s good at killing people.
Please share your favorite line(s) or quote from this book:
“My muse is every man that dies by my hands. They leave the world bent to my will. It’s the one and only time they would ever be anything close to beautiful. Art begets art.”
“Romance isn’t part of the syllabus, but neither is homicide. It seems I’m expanding my curriculum today.”
Please share a few Fun facts about this book…
I had the title ‘Pink Ink’ in my notes app for the longest time. Finally, an idea came to me: what if I made murder pretty?
As a joke, I asked myself, “What if a student unknowingly recreated her professor’s murders?” I knew from that moment I had a story, and a perfect title to go with it.
What first attracts your Hero to the Heroine and vice versa?
They both suffer from the burdens of their macabre interest. It becomes a constant battle of ‘otherness,’ and the desire to be seen for who they are, not their love for the things that go bump in the night. For the hero, Maddox, having his murderous art be recognized by his student and hailed for the masterpiece it is, it’s like finally becoming a person as well as an artist. The same could be said for our heroine, Reyna. After a lifetime of disapproving stares and sideways glances over her—let’s say—niche films, to come face-to-face with a man who feeds her curiosity is to be introduced to a whole new world.
Did any scene have you blushing, crying or laughing while writing it? And Why?
Let’s just say there’s a professor, his student, an office window, ripped stockings, and some rolled-up sleeves…
“I shake my head, panting. I need to get down before someone spots us. It’s only a five-story building. It isn’t like people can see more than just my back against the glass pane, but still, it would certainly raise questions.
His lips pull into a smirk as he rolls his sleeves up like men do before they eat. “Don’t look down anyway.”
“Are you crazy?” I hiss.
He drops down to his knees before me and spreads my thighs apart with both hands. “Yes.”
“Anyone could see us.” I try squeezing my legs together, but it’s no use against him. My attempt at pushing him back is just as futile.
“That’s the point, love.” He grins up at me, pulling my shoes and tights off before pushing my panties to the side. A low groan of appreciation sounds from the base of his throat when his eyes drop to the wet mess he’s helped make.
“We could get in trouble!” I whisper-shout in case anyone beyond the door can hear. Not like they wouldn’t have heard me moaning up a storm when Maddox was letting loose on my neck.
“Then you better stay still so no one knows.”
Readers should read this book….
Readers should read this book if they love a dash of murder and sprinkle of forbidden romance with a morally grey hero and a morally flexible heroine.
What are you currently working on? What other releases do you have in the works?
My own insanity means that I am constantly flip-flopping between different manuscripts, but there will always be a recurring theme of bloodshed and characters with a lot of trauma to work through. Trust that there will be fangs and politics on the horizon.
Thanks for blogging at HJ!
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Meet the Author:
Avina St. Graves is a bestselling dark romance author, known for Pink Ink, Death’s Obsession, Skin of a Sinner, Fiery Little Thing, Scorpion, and The Saltwater Curse. When she isn’t reading and writing, doom scrolling, or figuring out how to make red flags look green, you can find her holed up in bed, combating the three Ps: back pain, neck pain, and knee pain. Born in Indonesia, she now lives in New Zealand.
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