Of Valentines and Visions, Camille Duplessis

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Of Valentines and Visions (Paperback, November 4, 2025) by Camille Duplessis continues the richly woven Threads of Wyrd series—a queer historical fantasy of longing, deception, and redemption set against a backdrop of gaslight intrigue and hidden magic.

Bertie Calder, second son of a wealthy family, has lived a life of indulgent repression—enjoying discreet affairs while maintaining the veneer of respectability. But his pursuit of the alluring Alastair Gow, already enamored with innkeeper Paul Apollyon, drags Bertie into a dangerous web of schemes and old desires. When he enlists Will Lucas—a childhood friend from a far rougher world—to assist in his pursuit, long-buried tensions begin to surface.

Will, hardened by a violent upbringing and the underworld’s cruelties, has carried an unspoken tenderness for Bertie since their youth. Drawn once again into Bertie’s manipulative orbit, Will must decide whether to protect him or destroy what little remains of his illusions. Meanwhile, Bertie’s own secrets threaten to unravel everything—forcing unlikely alliances between enemies, lovers, and ghosts of the past.

Duplessis’s prose shimmers with wit, sensuality, and psychological depth, weaving an intricate dance between love and obsession, guilt and grace. Of Valentines and Visions is both a gothic romance and a haunting character study—a tale of queer desire’s power to wound, transform, and, perhaps, redeem.