Why You'll Love This
A vampire hunter's daughter hunts a beautiful serial killer — and slowly, terrifyingly, starts to fall for her instead.
- Great if you want: gothic sapphic romance tangled with obsession, grief, and danger
- The experience: atmospheric and brooding, with tension that curls under every scene
- The writing: White layers dread and desire so close together they feel the same
- Skip if: you want clear moral stakes — this leans into moral ambiguity deliberately
About This Book
There are stories about hunting monsters, and then there are stories about what happens when the monster is the most compelling thing in the room. The Fox and the Devil follows Anneke Van Helsing—yes, that Van Helsing—as she pursues the strangely beautiful woman she witnessed standing over her murdered father's body. What unfolds is less a straightforward revenge story than a gothic entanglement, one where the line between hunter and hunted blurs in ways that feel both inevitable and deeply unsettling. The emotional stakes are personal and visceral: grief, obsession, and a pull toward something you know you should resist.
Kiersten White writes with a gothic sensibility that favors atmosphere over exposition, letting dread and desire occupy the same sentence without apology. The Victorian setting gives the prose a formal elegance that makes its darker moments land harder by contrast, and the sapphic tension at the story's center is handled with real specificity rather than vague suggestion. Readers who enjoy books where moral certainty slowly dissolves will find this one genuinely rewarding—it's more interested in complicating its characters than resolving them neatly.
