Podestaria - Blooming [Wattys2017]

Publishing Announcement!

It's been so many years since I stepped into Wattpad and its community. It gave me an opportunity to polish my writing while finding the suggestions and support I needed to improve. Life got in the way, and I came here less and less as I focused more on getting "Kindling" and "Blooming" on the bookshelves.
It has been a long process (up to 8 major rewrites! Not counting the minor one!), a winding path made of sweat, tears, and rejection letters. Much has changed from what you might have read from the earliest versions here on Wattpad. The most glaring is Vee's name change because we could imagine her mother's lame sense of humour if she was rather an Ingrid "Inga" Bergman. There are also some characters and their relationship with the MC that have taken a U-turn—not an easy one to write since it forced me face some personal issues but it's all for the best!
When the publisher who had shown interest—and wanted the plot to go in a direction I wasn't happy with—gave me a form refusal after reworking the story not once, but twice, I decided to self-publish and two years later here we are!

Kindling, now renamed Hidden Heir will be out next Tuesday, March 14th!

Some family secrets shouldn't be kept, no matter how deadly they are.

Being a not-so-gifted witch, Inga is eager to prove that she is more than Magic. Her mother, however, doesn't believe women have a place in school and wants Inga to give up her studies to work at her tearoom.
When Inga meets the gifted yet mysterious Biagio, who offers her one-on-one lessons to advance her academically AND magically, she is ecstatic.
Her mother does not trust the handsome Biagio, but Inga unexpectedly develops feelings for him as he shows her that she can reach heights higher than she had ever dreamt of.
When long-forgotten family secrets resurface, including a millennia-old sorcerer hunting Inga's powers and young women suddenly disappearing across London, Inga must fight to secure her fate and survival.