Book cover design for Campbell Thompson's self published dark romance trilogy

Client: Campbell Thompson

Focus: Book cover design

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THE BRIEF​​

 

Campbell Thompson is a self-publishing author of The Eighth Circle, a dark enemies-to-lovers thriller series set in the criminal underworld, available in paperback and on Kindle Unlimited. She needed cover designs that felt genuinely commercial: series-consistent, genre-appropriate and strong enough to stand alongside traditionally published titles on Amazon. She came with a clear creative vision, including a specific brief for metal roses as a recurring design element.

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THE APPROACH

 

I designed covers for all three books, Double Cross, Crossfire and Crosshairs, building a visual identity that carries across the full trilogy. The metal roses Campbell requested became a signature detail woven through each cover, alongside the series' ouroboros symbol, barbed wire and blood-red accents. The colour scheme alternates across the three covers while keeping the same palette, so each book feels distinct but unmistakably part of the same world.

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THE OUTCOME

 

All three books are live on Amazon with five-star reviews, the first book alone has 14 ratings. The covers give the series a polished, professionally published look that holds its own in a competitive genre and reflects the dark, atmospheric tone of Campbell's writing.