❝Come. Kiss me godless.❞ Beauty. Terror. Chaos. We are creatures of song and sin. Blessed with destruction. Cursed with allure. Born with the blood of humanity, Heaven and Hell scorching through our veins. The blood of angels. The blood of demons. The blood of merciful mortality. Divinities swathed in man's finite chains. copyright © Kael Mari | -godling 2020

❝ beware of those who enter the forest. ❞ They are creatures that born from the sublime and haunt those who wrongs them. It was the written rule the Nascherein was built upon, but to Leon Kiesinger, it was much greater than the imperial soldiers could hold. Sheltered away from the war and its decaying matter, he finds himself unable to avoid death, his haunting dreams told him to follow it, to see where it would lead him to. But it comes with a price, something that calls for a ghost among trees. © arden reni 2017 ― Featured as 'Hot Off the Press' | 04.18.18 ― Wattys Longlist | 08.31.18

Being the Chosen One is the only thing Six ever knew to be. Now, at thirteen years old, she is called upon by the Goddess of Destiny, to complete the divine quest centuries in the making: venture into the Ever-Changing Forest and slay the last of the Cursed Beasts, demons who once thought to usurp the rule of the gods. Her death is as certain as her victory. But Six owes her life to Destiny, it seems only fitting that she dies by it too. The strange man in the Forest, however, disagrees. (The voices inside her head agree with him, even when they want to be as far from him as possible.

Irina would give her heart and soul to hunt a snow bear. The massive, ancient beings live only on the farthest reaches of the endless snows, near to the end of the world-so when she finds one in her father's favorite valley, hunting for game before winter sets in, she drags her brother up a tree to wait it out. Except the bear isn't alone; she has cubs, and when Irina kills one of them, she has trespassed against one of the oldest laws of nature. She's punished for her crime when the Prince of Always Night, ruler of the endless snows, snatches her brother from her side and into the dark. But he doesn't expect Irina to leash up her dogs and follow after him. When she comes knocking at his door, there's little he can do but hope this heartless hunter is willing to change-or else she and her brother will be stuck on the snow until the end of time.