4.3 (813 ratings)

Selah Gothic

Name: Selah Gothic
Rating: 4.3 (813 reviews)
Author: Kat Blackthorne
ISBN: B0CZJ1WTXH

by Kat Blackthorne

demons

About this book

Raised as the golden child of the Lady of Sorrows Church, Selah was destined to be a beacon of faith. But when her forbidden thoughts spiral into open defiance, she is cast out by her own father and sent to a decaying, seaside sanctuary. Her punishment is Father Dante Amorth, a cold and enigmatic exorcist tasked with scouring the impurities from her soul. What begins as a ritual of penance quickly descends into a harrowing dance of obsession, where the line between holy salvation and demonic possession blurs until it is unrecognizable.

This is a masterclass in gothic dark romance, blending suffocating religious dread with the visceral, pulse-pounding tension of supernatural horror. As Selah and Dante peel back the layers of their own twisted morality, they discover that the demons hiding within are far more intoxicating than any sermon could ever promise. The atmosphere is thick with blasphemy, shadow, and a seductive, soul-crushing intensity that refuses to let go.

If you crave stories where the sacred meets the profane and the villain is the only one who truly understands your darkness, this is your next obsession. It is a haunting, unapologetically spicy descent into the occult that will leave you questioning everything you thought you knew about sin.

Publication Date: May 25, 2026
ASIN: B0CZJ1WTXH

Reader Reviews

Soul Changing and Beautiful Darkness

November 27, 2024

First, this cover?! Are you kidding me? I discovered this gem when I was starting to get into more Dark Romance/Gothic books. I have always loved horror, the occult, witchy, dark, soul crushing books. I finally found an author who BREATHES Halloween. She has me in a damn chokehold. Kat Blackthorne puts all of your haunted thoughts down in her books. Thank you, beautiful soul. Story of a girl who is locked away for her thoughts by her father, a priest. She is shipped away to an island to be...

deliciously dark and twisted

June 26, 2024

I cannot get enough of Selah and Dante! This story was woven together beautifully and wickedly. I would recommend this read to anyone that wants something out dark, gothic, and spicy. )

Brilliantly dark and gorgeous

March 31, 2024

Selah Gothic is the book my convent school teachers would burn, and me along with it. It is blasphemous, dark, sacrilegious, and has two of the most compelling main characters I have read in a long time. Selah is the Holy Virgin Daughter of the leader of a cult church, the kind that claims to help others while torturing and tormenting many within, including her. When she is sent to be exorcised by the infamous Father Dante Amorth, two powerful forces collide - one of evil masquerading as good,...

Needed more pages

April 24, 2024

I liked the book but the climax and the ending was heavily rushed. It threw me off. Wish there was more detail in the design of the churches. But yea I really liked it.Selah was a very likeable character. I would have loved the whole book in her point of view tbh or 3rd person limited. I feel dante pov was jarring in not a good way. It was too crass and vulgar in not a sexy way. Just took me out of it at times tbh..I just wished that when people do dual pov they don't always make the male...

Hauntingly Beautiful

April 3, 2024

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE check the trigger warnings and take them serious. Your mental health is important!!!! You are important!!!!! With that being said… I will start this with this….I felt so freaking seen. I am a survivor of childhood SA and to see certain quotes said by Father Dante Amorth….my heart. “No one should ever violate your privacy in such a way.” “Your body is yours. Not your future husband, not your father’s, not god’s, it is yours.” “I hoped she’d begin to believe that it belonged...