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Death Wish

By Lee Newbery
Series: Death Wish
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A darkly compelling supernatural thriller with added bite. The YA debut of middle grade rising star Lee Newbery. Do you want to live forever? In a world where vampires have—with their strength, speed and impossible good looks—become apex celebrities as well as apex predators, this is... Read More
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A darkly compelling supernatural thriller with added bite. The YA debut of middle grade rising star Lee Newbery.

Do you want to live forever?

In a world where vampires have—with their strength, speed and impossible good looks—become apex celebrities as well as apex predators, this is the question Kai Dimitri is forced to ask himself when he's invited to take part in the reality TV show, Death Wish.

The prize for victory is a vampire bite, and immortality, but winning is only one possible outcome. The other is death—real death, not the glamorous vampire kind. Even so, if there's the slightest chance that he can save his sick mother, Kai will take the odds—not to mention the fact that he might be falling in love with the irresistibly sexy Max, who is a vampire himself.

But with long-simmering tensions between humans and vampires rising to boiling point, the thirteenth season of Death Wish threatens to be the most shocking and deadly yet.

The stakes are high. Let the games begin.

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  • Death Wish
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    Death Wish
    A darkly compelling supernatural thriller with added bite. The YA debut of middle grade rising star Lee Newbery. Do you want to live forever? In a world where vampires have—with their strength, speed and impossible good looks—become apex celebrities as well as apex predators, this is the question Kai Dimitri is forced to ask himself when he's invited to take...
    By Lee Newbery
    Paperback
    $2600
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    Out 23 Mar 2027

Book Details

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ISBN: 9780241761236

Publisher: Penguin Random House Children's UK

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 07 January 2027

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd

Audience: Teenage

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 35.0mm

Width: 129.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 500g

Pages: 400

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Children's Fiction Children’s, Teenage and Educational Fiction Lee Newbery LGBTQ+ Penguin Books Pre-order Books Pre-orders Pre-orders by Release Date Series: Death Wish Young Adult Young Adult Mystery & Thriller

About the Author

Lee Newbery lives with his son and dog in a seaside town in West Wales. By day he has a boring grown-up job, but by night he sits down at his laptop to write stories of adventure, magic and love. His first book, The Last Firefox, won the Wales Book of the Year People's Choice Award and was shortlisted for the Waterstones Children's Book Prize. Lee enjoys adventuring, drinking ridiculous amounts of tea, and giving his dog a good cuddle - or a cwtch, as they say in Wales.

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