Dr. Spencer Reid has spent his entire life being the smartest person in every room. By the age of fourteen, Dr. Amara Baptiste had already learned that intelligence can be just as isolating as it is extraordinary. When the Behavioral Analysis Unit is called to investigate a string of disturbing murders connected to Haitian spiritual traditions, the team finds themselves facing a world none of them fully understand. With the case growing colder by the day, Derek Morgan reaches out to the only person he trusts to help. His little sister in all but blood. A brilliant scholar with multiple doctorates, a sharp tongue, and an expertise in African history, spirituality, and culture that few can rival. Dr. Amara Baptiste. What begins as a professional consultation quickly turns into something neither Amara nor Spencer expects. For the first time in his life, Spencer meets someone who can challenge him intellectually, match him fact for fact, and leave him speechless with a single look. As the investigation uncovers secrets buried beneath generations of history, danger begins closing in from every direction. And while the BAU hunts a killer, Spencer finds himself facing a mystery far more complicated than any case he's ever solved. The woman whose mind feels so much like his own. But sometimes the most extraordinary connections aren't built on similarities. They're built on the differences that make two people whole. A slow-burn romance featuring Spencer Reid x Original Female Character, found family, Haitian culture, genius x genius, mutual pining, protective Morgan, meddling BAU members, and enough intellectual flirting to make even Garcia roll her eyes. 🖤✨📚 ⸻

Virtue and Exodus are brought together by their loved ones. Virtue's best friend, Tarryn is getting married to the love of her life Ephraim. After three years, Ephraim finally proposed to the woman who had his heart from the very beginning. Now a wedding has to be planned! When the wedding plans starts to fall in place, will Virtue gets bitten by the love bug? Will Exodus find a woman he always dreamt of? Read to find out!!

"You are my sister," Louise said. "We share blood," Lucy replied. "That does not change who we are." Cast out by the family who called her mother a mistake and her own existence a burden, Louise has nothing left to lose, until Sebastian Warrington risks everything to prove her wrong. "I know the scars of your past run deep," Sebastian whispered, cupping her face. "But I beg you, grant me the chance to prove I am not like the rest of them." In a world built to keep them apart, is his love enough to undo a lifetime of scars?

[FULL KELS SERIES] When Ande wakes up on the bottom of the ocean with a fish's tail, she's not sure what she did wrong. Getting sacrificed by her island is a likely bet, but why---and why her---is a mystery. Out of her depth in an unfamiliar world, she soon finds herself wrapped up in the society of the Kels, the people who live under the sea. Desperate to get back to her island, she strikes an agreement with a squid-tailed boy whose sunny smile and knowledge of her language are a welcome assistance at first. Soon, though, she begins to sense that he's hiding something. Things take a turn for the worse when her way home gets complicated by the Kels' wars and several eerie myths about her people that may not be myths at all. The history of the Kels goes back farther than her own culture, and the harder she struggles to get back to land, the more the question arises: Does she belong in the water after all? ❖❖❖ Marked mature for darker themes and scenes, not spicy content. Compiled Kels Series: Book 1: Listen to the Water (COMPLETE) Wattys 2022 Shortlister Book 2: Song of the Deep (COMPLETE) Book 3: City of Coral (COMPLETE) Book 4: Sing to the Moon (COMPLETE) Book 5: Water Will Rise (COMPLETE) Comments and critiques are both welcome and appreciated. I write characters from many different backgrounds, with many different experiences. If you share those traits and find that I have misrepresented anything, please let me know! I am feedback-friendly and here to learn :)

|𝟐𝟑𝐱 𝐅𝐄𝐀𝐓𝐔𝐑𝐄𝐃 & 𝐖𝐀𝐓𝐓𝐘𝐒 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟏 𝐒𝐇𝐎𝐑𝐓𝐋𝐈𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐑| This epic werewolf themed fantasy follows a no-nonsense future Luna, 𝐕𝐄𝐍𝐔𝐒 𝐁𝐑𝐈𝐆𝐇𝐓𝐃𝐎𝐎𝐌, as she embarks on a high stakes journey to save her people from extinction. Threatened with genocide and war from the cold-blooded dark witches, Venus finds herself cast in The Propehcy of Lost Hope alongside six other werewolves. Fate dictates that to prevent catastrophe the Seven Stars must complete the tasks set forth in the prophecy before the Winter Equinox. The catch? If they fail then Venus has to sacrifice her Mate to in order to preserve the continuity of her race. Caught in a web of love, lies, and secrets. Venus and her newfound friends must face not only the dangers of the past and present. But the demons that slumber deep within. As time passes and things get more complicated, it becomes clear why the prophecy states they can be the saviors that protect their people. Or the foes that lead to their destruction. 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐬: 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐭𝐞 𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐫𝐞: 𝐖𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐰𝐨𝐥𝐟, 𝐟𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐬𝐲, 𝐫𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞, 𝐝𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐞 𝐥𝐢𝐭 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐝: 𝟎𝟏/𝟏𝟎/𝟐𝟏 𝐅𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐝: 𝟎𝟕/𝟐𝟖/𝟐𝟏 𝐑𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠: 𝟏𝟖+ 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐠𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐄𝐃, 𝐬𝐮𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐝𝐞, 𝐯𝐢𝐨𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞, & 𝐬𝐦𝐮𝐭 𝐂𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫: 𝐂𝐉 𝐃𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐧