To Astera, With Love

America, 2022 — drugs are legal, witches are real, and a literal vampire is president. In this world of boutique blood bars and policies that force witches to out themselves, 21-year-old Mercury Amell just wants to live. He wishes that the age-old feud between vampires and witches didn’t exist. He wishes that his powers and his skin color didn’t increase his odds of being burned at the stake. 

After making a powerful enemy, Mercury and his friends must travel to Astera, an annual gathering of witches. They battle vampiric cops, evil witches, aggressive humans, and each other along the way as they struggle to make it in one piece. Will their collective power be enough to get them to Astera safely? Or will they fall prey to their enemies and the laws that spell their destruction?

[TW: Police violence, lynching, racial slurs, off-page rape, drug use, anxiety, depression, feelings of self-loathing]