My Violent Muse - A Novel

By: Rosie Sycamore

Published by Grand Central Publishing, 2026-09-29

Would you still love me if I were a murderer...?



Morello is a nobody: a homeless orphan and starving artist with nothing but impossible dreams of escaping obscurity. Then Florence appears--dazzling, dangerous, and offering Morello a way out, on one chilling condition: each year, they must hunt and kill one of the art world's predatory men. In return, Morello will inherit a life of privilege and promise.



Together, they transform revenge into twisted performance art, staging each murder with meticulous, theatrical flair. But when Morello falls for Jude, a wealthy art student who offers her a glimpse of a life sans murder, her carefully curated reality begins to unravel--and she's one lie away from losing everything she's killed for. With the body count rising and anonymous threats closing in, Morello must finally ask herself: is the cost of vengeance ever truly paid? And after a life shaped by violence and manipulation, will she ever become the artist of her own fate, or remain forever someone else's muse?



Compulsive and deviant, My Violent Muse is a razor-sharp thriller about revenge, exploitation, obsession, and the dangerous bargains we strike for power, survival, and love.