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Knead or Die (eBook)
| Knead or Die | |
|---|---|
 Knead or Die eBook Cover, written by L.M. Foxgloves | |
| Author(s) | L.M. Foxgloves |
| Series | Succubus & Pastries |
| Publisher | Noctambre Editions |
| Publication date | April 3, 2026 |
| Media type | eBook |
| Length | 166 Pages |
| ASIN | B0GV3BMDXM |
| Followed by | Lost and Kneaded |
For other uses of the word Succubus, see Succubus (disambiguation).
Knead or Die is an eBook written by L.M. Foxgloves. It is the first work in the Succubus & Pastries series by this author. In this work the character Lucia is a Succubus.
Overview
- Title: Knead or Die
- Author: L.M. Foxgloves
- Published By: Noctambre Editions
- Length: 166 Pages
- Format: eBook
- ASIN: B0GV3BMDXM
- Publishing Date: April 3, 2026
Other Works in this Series on SuccuWiki
Plot Summary
My hands are weapons. That is why I make bread.
"Your starter has opinions?" "My starter has moods. That's worse."
Lucia Devos is 45, divorced, living with an unmanageable ginger cat, and wearing gloves she never takes off. In Herve, on the Belgian Ardennes plateau, everyone knows her bakery. Her rice tarts are legendary. Her sugar pie cures bad days. No one asks why she wears nitrile gloves to serve bread. No one asks the right question. Lucia is a succubus. Every touch of skin is a risk. Every kiss, a weapon. The bakery is her gilded cage—the place where she feeds instead of consumes. Until the night a revenant is found dead in his apartment. Sitting at his desk. Eyes open. No blood, no struggle. As if he simply… stopped. A revenant does not die of natural causes.
"You do that a lot? Read people." "Occupational hazard. You?" "Genetic hazard."
Faolan. The werewolf journalist with the worn fedora and ink-stained fingers, who writes his first drafts by hand because "the screen thinks too fast." Four dates at the Irish pub. Four times Lucia's hand pulled back under the table. He doesn't ask why. He waits. And he watches her knead as if the bread could tell him what she refuses to admit.
"You see people. Not what they show—what they hide. That's rare." "Everyone hides something. Seeing it isn't rare. It's just unpleasant."
But someone in Herve is hiding more than a secret. Someone killed a man who couldn't die. And the fractures opening beneath the town—beneath the fog, the gossip, the polished facades—won't close on their own. To find the truth, Lucia will have to do what she's avoided for three years. Touch.
A cozy paranormal mystery where a forty-five-year-old succubus baker and a werewolf journalist investigate an impossible murder in a small Belgian town full of fog, gossip, and supernatural secrets. A slow burn where trust is earned gesture by gesture, a fair-play mystery with every clue in plain sight, and a hidden community in the Ardennes where every neighbor has something to hide.
Book Review
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