Aubrey Wants To Die

Love is hard. Being undead is harder … Dolly Alderton meets True Blood in this dark, funny hell of a story

Aubrey is not what she seems. She’s young, beautiful, romantic, obsessive and … a vampire. All she wants is to be human again, and failing that, she wants to die. But the problem is, she can’t. Not by stake through the heart or holy water or crucifix or garlic or fire. And she’d know, she’s tried every method. Twice.

So she’s stuck here on this earth, all alone. Even the vampire who made her has abandoned her.

But everything changes when, one fateful night, she meets Jonathan. He’s everything Aubrey’s ever dreamed of and, what’s more, he’s her soulmate. Her Bella-Edward story. For the first time in 150 years, she has a reason to hope-eternal life might be bearable after all. So when Jonathan unexpectedly breaks up with her, she’ll do anything to get him back.

But that’s the exact moment Oscar, aristocratic douchebag and her long-gone sire, swoops back into her life. And he has other plans for her. Soon, she’s thrown into a world of glamour, glitter, blood and hedonism, a world that has her questioning everything she knows to be true-about life, but also about herself.

A world where nothing is simple … and no one is safe, either.

PRAISE

‘Chaotic, hilarious and wildly relatable. Aubrey is who I was, who I am, and who I want to be-at least for the next 150 years’ Genevieve Novak, bestselling author of Crushing

‘If Edward had bitten Fleabag instead of Bella, you’d get Aubrey. Funny, fast-paced, flooded with feeling-and has a bloody twist that will get your heart pounding loud enough to summon all the local vampires to your door’ Laura McCluskey, bestselling author of The Wolf Tree

‘Aubrey is the ultimate hot-mess vampire, and I inhaled her story in a night. Sexy and laugh-out-loud funny, full of delicious drama and surprisingly moving-Aubrey’s chaotic undead rollercoaster of a journey had me cackling, yearning and questioning my entire existence’ Anna Downes, bestselling author of Red River Road

‘What 150-year-old vampire living off bagged blood wouldn’t want to die after a bad break up? Pip Knight combines all of alter-ego Pip Drysdale’s sexy crime vibes with 100 per cent more vampires and bloodlust in this wild romp that’s way too fun to put down’ Ashley Kalagian Blunt, bestselling author of Dark Mode

Format: Paperback
Pages: 368
Imprint: HarperCollins AU
Publication date: 03/03/2026