Adam, Mine.

From acclaimed author K. Ancrum, longlisted for the National Book Award for The Corruption of Hollis Brown and winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Icarus, comes a queer romantic horror thriller that serves as a love letter to Frankenstein. This haunting tale explores the consequences of our choices, the legacy of family, and the lengths we will go to be forgiven.

Victor Frankenstein is a young, wealthy, and brilliant prodigy who wants nothing more than to prove himself and change the world. His plan to correct what he sees as humanity’s greatest failures? Reanimate the sick and dying and bring them back to life. But no one will give him the opportunity to prove his genius.

Then, one drunken night, a wager is made—one that drives Victor to commit the unthinkable: kidnapping a teenage boy from a small neighboring village and experimenting on him in secret. Elias Hilfiker. The boy who would become his monster. His curse.

When Elias awakens, his voice is gone, his skin is stitched, scarred, and marked with mysterious symbols, and he has been abandoned by the people he loved. Meanwhile, Victor sets out on a desperate journey to discover how to undo the horror he has created, seeking answers from dark alchemists across distant lands while consumed by fear and guilt.

But Victor’s act of resurrection creates an unbreakable bond between him and Elias, leaving them able to feel each other’s pain, joy, and regret. As both search for a way to end the other, they are forced to confront questions of vengeance and mercy, love and forgiveness.

With every answer they uncover, the line between creator and creation, man and monster, becomes increasingly blurred.