Filthy Eaters by Ito Romo The Republic of Tea and it forces her to

and it forces her to admit her own role in their cracked foundation

and the places where they overlap

while the background jungle recedes

Winner of the 2025 Housatonic Book Award

Filthy Eaters by Ito Romo The Republic of Tea and it forces her toGranada, 1849. After centuries of scrounging in the shadows, the vampire Radams discovers an ancient Aztec codex that reveals the vampires of the "New World" live a more "human" life they marry, they give birth. Spurred on by tantalizing promise of a fuller existence, Radams glamours and schemes his way onto a ship headed for Mexico. There, in the underbelly of the forgotten city of Teotihuacn, the Andalusian vampire falls in love with a member of