RELEASE TOUR incl Exclusive Excerpt & Giveaway:
Lilith by Wine Lo Borgias
Explore the futuristic New Los Angeles, where Lilith, a genetically engineered sex zek, navigates a perilous world of bio-plague and political intrigue. Tasked with a dangerous mission, Lilith must wield both seduction and strategy to survive in a world rife with betrayal and deception.
Length: 249 pages
Series: Lilith, Book 1
Genre: Sapphic/FF romance, Sci-Fi/Dystopian.
Tropes: Friends to lovers to enemies, seduction and strategy Content: Gore and blood.
Heat: 5 out of 5
Publisher: Talk+Tell
The world has transformed beyond recognition.
Once a place of order, it now lies in chaos, consumed by a relentless game of power and deception on a global scale. Amidst this turmoil, Lilith emerges, a product of genetic engineering known as a zek.
Tasked with extracting secrets from her male targets, Lilith utilizes her unique abilities, emitting potent military-grade pheromones to allure or evade, shape-shifting, and uses a variety of tactics both taught and improvised.
Yet, as she delves deeper into her missions, Lilith’s curiosity awakens. She begins to question her own origins, unveiling a world teetering on the edge of annihilation. She soon discovers the remnants of a fallen Dizzyland, full of mutated animals, zeks, and even fallen angels.
Driven with a hope for a new oasis, Lilith must transcend her naivety. No longer content to be a mere pawn, she must harness her abilities and uncover the truth about her origins and destiny. While also in the pursuit of a genetic ark offers the last hope for survival in the face of impending apocalypse.
EXCLUSIVE EXCERPT: “Where are you going dressed like that?” Eve says, standing in the doorway. Lilith is stunned and stalls to hide the missions in the mirror. Where did Eve come from, and how did she sneak up on her? She was dead asleep when she got up to go to the bathroom. Eve walks right up to her and takes her free hand in hers. Lilith flips the knife so its blade is flush with her other hand’s forearm wishing she could make it disappear. “Why are you dressed as a princess? The party isn’t for another night?” She has to tell Eve enough of the truth to placate her and reserve enough to not implicate her. She can tell her everything later when they are safe. Lilith kisses Eve gently on the lips, but Eve doesn’t kiss her back. “There’s something I have to do. I can’t tell you without putting you in danger, but it’s important for me and will be over soon.” “I hate sneaking around and lies,” Eve says. “I’m not lying. I have to be discreet. Go to bed, my love, and we will both wake up together in the dawn of a new day.” Eve considers her carefully, must know she’s going to meet an equestrian, and figures she just needs a little extra silver, so she nods and snuggles her cheek to Lilith’s. “Don’t tarry, my dear,” she says and kisses her again. “And don’t let Sarah see you sneaking out. She’s not as trusting as me and, as you know, is handy with that flamethrower.” Eve turns and saunters out with a kiss over her shoulder as she shuts the door behind her. Lilith breathes out and puts the tactical knife back into her high heel. She had almost stabbed her beloved out of paranoia. The mirror is now empty except for her haunted reflection. She wants to cry, knowing that she can trust Eve to support her even when doing things she doesn’t want to but has to do. She feels guilty she has to lie to her and almost knifed her in her panic. Maybe she can just come clean and tell her the truth? Not now, not yet, soon, very soon. After Luxk and the equestrian massacre, she tells herself she will tell her everything no matter what the consequences. A true relationship can’t be based on lies.
Who is Lilith…
Lilith is a zek, a genetically engineered sex slave in a post-collapse dystopian society of the future. Like the ones bred before her, she believes she must only do what she is told to live. And that is to accomplish her first mission. Designed to be beautiful, she struggles with self-criticism and her place in this world. Could this be it for her and society? Is the world really going to end because of greed, war, and inhumanity?
After her disastrous first mission, she feels betrayed and discovers secrets behind the global game of power and how she is just a pawn, but also how she might become a queen, even the savior of all the new species in a new world; The Oasis.
Inspired by a longing for peace and driven by a hope for a new future, Lilith must harness her abilities, discover her true origins, and find the genetic ark that will survive the apocalypse and birth a new world.
Set in the dystopian metropolis of New Los Angeles, join Lilith on her first mission in Amirkha, discover the true masters behind the scenes who manipulate humans, zeks, khets, and even fallen angels, and survive the Kali Yuga and seek the Oasis.
Wine Lo Borgias
I am what Thais would call a Kathoey or Ladyboy since I was born in a boy’s body, but felt like a girl even at a young age and my farmer parents in Isan let me dress as a girl until I reached puberty and then realized it wasn’t a phase and kicked me out of the house at fourteen.
I begged for money on the side of the road and a kind monk gave me bus fare to Bangkok and enough extra to pay a week’s rent and feed myself for a day. I got a cheap room with a mattress with no windows under the Skytrain and could only sleep from midnight to six am when it didn’t run though I could still hear drunks screaming outside.
I sold incense on the street and started teaching myself English talking with tourists and by reading an old dog-eared copy of Thoreau’s Walden. I didn’t understand most of the words so would look them up and his description of life in 19th century pastoral America seemed like a fairy tale as I sat on the street corner reading by street light in Krungthep: the City of Angels.
When I turned seventeen, I became a bar girl and over the next ten years and often aty the same time was a taxi driver, plumber (self-taught), Muay Thai fighter and instructor (8-2), visual artist and Grab driver. I was also briefly addicted to ya ba (smokable speed) while a bar girl, Grab driver, and visual artist making anon graffiti throughout Bangkok.
I often had to deal with aggressive men who were a lot bigger than I am and I had to think on my feet just to survive, but still, several times bad things happened and talking to other girls I realized I was not alone. Some of those experiences from being a bar girl, both good and bad, inform the life of the zek characters in Lilith
My American boyfriend helped me get clean and sober with the help of N.A. and I started writing short stories based on people I met in Bangkok including clients, madams, police, boyfriends and girlfriends, and even the psychiatrists I met both as clients and my therapists.
As a bar girl, I noticed that both the Americans and Chinese men (some who were high raking officials) were obsessed with each other, the strengths and weaknesses of their cultures, and the coming conflict between their countries.
I got to thinking about how ordinary, everyday people get caught up in historical events when they are often just looking to get through the day or night (i.e. complete their mission), find friendship, family and meaning, and sometimes against all odds: love.
I hope you enjoy Lilith.
I put my heart and soul into it to try to connect with other people I will never meet in real life, but am connected to by the heart.
Yin Di.
Lo.
