Slashed Beauties

A gothic feminist body-horror novel perfect for fans of Weyward, The Once and Future Witches, and The Familiar. Three cursed wax women. Two entwined timelines. One dark legacy that refuses to burn.

When antiques dealer Alys tracks down the last of three notorious Anatomical Venuses—hyper-realistic eighteenth-century wax women modeled on real sex workers—she believes destroying them will end the curse that has stalked her family for generations. But the legends are true: at night, these slashed beauties awaken to exact revenge on the men who harmed them.

In Georgian London, young Eleanor is swept into the glittering world of the charismatic courtesan Elizabeth and her protégé Emily, unaware that their beauty, power, and seduction conceal a dangerous magic—and a monstrous purpose.

As Alys’s journey collides with Eleanor’s past, the truth emerges: the Venuses were never passive creations. They are instruments of rage, forged by women with nothing left to lose. And now they want Alys to finish what they began.

Gripping, atmospheric, and ferociously feminist, Slashed Beauties is a macabre tale of vengeance, sisterhood, and the supernatural cost of denying women their autonomy.