Vivienne Bellamy writes the kind of romance that leaves lipstick on your collar and fingerprints on your soul. Born in sultry New Orleans to a Cuban bombshell and a jazz pianist, her earliest memories are of bolero melodies, forbidden novels, and the heady perfume of mischief. By twelve, she’d discovered historical romance; by fifteen, she was penning her own torrid tales in spiral notebooks hidden beneath her bed like contraband.
Ever the temptress of reinvention, Vivienne began her career not at a desk, but on the run. She famously abandoned NYU and a thesis on forbidden Gothic love to flee to Tuscany with her married poetry professor—a scandal she coyly refers to as “research.” From there, her path wove through Milan’s catwalks, Cosmopolitan’s horoscope pages, and a stint as L.A.’s midnight “love guru” on radio—despite having just been jilted herself.
Her literary breakthrough came in the form of Whipped Cream & Handcuffs, a Paris-inspired affair turned bestseller that debuted at #2 on the New York Times list and reportedly triggered several divorce proceedings (all amicable, all worth it). Since then, her novels—drenched in desire, steeped in emotional truth, and bound with satin ribbon—have captured hearts worldwide, garnered three RITA Awards, and been translated into over twenty languages. Her works are banned in Singapore and devoured everywhere else.
She draws from the erotic musings of Anaïs Nin, the thrill of vintage romance comics, and the whispered sonnets of a certain British diplomat in a broken elevator. Every character she crafts is stitched from fantasy and memory—heavy on the memory.
Currently residing somewhere between a velvet chaise and an international departure lounge, Vivienne is proof that good girls write sweet stories—but the unforgettable ones? They set their pages, and their readers, on fire.
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Letters From The Velvet Prison
What begins as a misdirected plea becomes an unraveling obsession…
When solitary translator Emilia Gray receives the first letter—velvet paper, crimson ink, no return address—she’s more curious than alarmed. But each week brings a new envelope, a new confession, and a deepening connection with a prisoner who claims to know her far too well. His words are poetic. Haunting. Uncomfortably precise.
As Emilia’s orderly life fractures under the weight of memories she thought long buried, the letters grow darker, more intimate. Who is this man behind the ink? And what did they share that she can’t—or won’t—remember?
A gothic epistolary thriller of psychological suspense, forbidden desire, and truths best left unread, Letters from the Velvet Prison dares you to open the envelope… and discover what waits inside.