I'm a witch and an ex-management consultant, and I wrote a vampire House-of-Cards weird lit with female rage and body horror based on my experience in the corporate world
I've always been fascinated with vampires but I HATE how it's pretty much always about romanticizing abusive relationships or worshipping Eurocentric aesthetics.
Then the more I thought about it, the more I found vampirism to be a fascinating vessel for exploring a lot of relevant topics for today, with its nature being parasitic, insatiable, and yet so glamorized by pop culture. It began to feel personal after my own fallout and disillusionment with the European business world as a white-collar immigrant. This is where the book came from essentially. Here's the blurb:
Rebecca—a Thai-British analyst climbing London's corporate ladder—believes she's found a future in her enigmatic mentor, Frederick. Instead, she's violently remade into a deformed Tumulari vampire, and thrust into a hidden world ruled by the ironclad Pax Sanguinis.
Promised restoration through the alchemical elixir Azoth's Kiss, she enters a dazzling but toxic covenant, the Children of Luke—only to learn her "salvation" is another form of captivity.
As she flees and uncovers a scheme that culls mortals and immortals alike through one unassuming supplement, her struggle shifts from survival to rebellion. But every act of defiance is shadowed by Frederick's obsession, and the weight of futility grows with each sacrifice.
Rebecca must choose: accept salvation on her abuser's terms—or step into the storm and become a force no one can control.
As you can see, it pretty much flips all the popular tropes: being a vampire is not pretty for Rebecca; the "benevolent powerful vampire daddy love interest" is a disgusting villain (he's very Patrick Bateman from American Psycho, but with a posh British vampy twist).
I try to use Rebecca's vampiric deformity to make a point about how political beauty is, like it's always been tied to patriarchy, but there are also racism and classism elements as well. She's also a very unconventional protagonist: someone who started out as a keep-your-head-down grinder, then gradually radicalised by one trauma after another, then committed what polite society would consider political terrorism, then got trapped as a canary in a cage again, then... Well you will have to read to find out :))))) I would say she fits the female rage category, but not in the "crazy psycho woman" way. Her rage is a lot more political/ideological, and revolutionary in my opinion.
Links where you can get the book:
https://books2read.com/u/4j6y5l
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GB5VR8FT
https://bookshop.org/p/books/rubedo-leona-caelestis/185b22ffb3a33817?ean=9798227118301
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/rubedo-leona-caelestis/1148948358?ean=2940181854185
Happy to answer any questions you might have too! :)))