February 1993 • Milan, Italy ᥫ᭡ Marisa, twenty something, brimming with ambition, is en route to France for work. She works in publishing, and maybe this promotion that's on the horizon will finally be the golden ticket that spirals her into a better life. But the universe makes other plans for her. Plans in the form of airport chaos and a man who looks like he was designed in a lab for the sole purpose of being her next romantic distraction. Decorated with an ambiguous accent and just enough aloofness to be irritating... or maybe just French. And of course, she finds him at the very moment she's trying (and failing) to locate both her inner peace and her passport. Marisa is not the type to fall for foreigners in international terminals. She's a pragmatist with a healthy mistrust of attractive men with high cheekbones and sultry eyes who smell faintly of mystery. And yet, there's something about this stranger, something infuriatingly magnetic, that irremediably pulls her in... until a connection forms. But wait for the moment she realises that maybe he was too good to be true, and that she should've just listened to her gut and not bet a single paper clip on that handsome stranger. What follows is not love at first sight. It's far messier than that. It's stolen glances and shared silences. It's the kind of connection that makes just five minutes apart feel too long. Emotionally constipation at its finest. The kind of thing that's definitely not love... until it inconveniently is. Is it? I don't know. So, sit back. Buckle in. And prepare for turbulence. Not just the kind that rattles the plane, but the kind that stirs something deeper. This isn't just a story about almost missed flights and found people.

BOOK 2 Iris and Stone are back in this emotional story. Their goal: to save their son and themselves. Sequel to The Sire. Started: 03.21.2023 Finished: 12.31.2024

BOOK 1 Chris and Stone both love the same woman, Iris, and are caught up in an emotional love triangle. Chris is a hybrid with extraordinary powers who struggles between his duty to rule and his passion for music. He moves to Seattle to pursue his dream but keeps his true nature hidden from his friends and Iris, who enters his life like a tsunami. Chris is known as The Sire, the future ruler of a vampire world that humans believe to be a figment of their imagination. Stone is a local boy from Seattle and is Iris's entire world. This is a powerful story about the importance of trust and the purity of love. Started: 06.10.2021 Finished: 09.12.2022

She's just the forgotten sister of Chris Cornell, and he's a member of one of the biggest bands in Seattle. Ivy Cornell is an artist and musician who has spent her lifetime being mislabeled at the hands of her brother's success. Due to his bands rise in popularity, Ivy's relationship with Chris becomes strained when she needed him the most. People only approach Ivy in effort to get closer to her brother and his band Soundgarden by virtue of last name. Follow Ivy and her attempts to rise above the labels on a journey of self discovery, belonging, and love- all while befriending the rowdy musicians of the Seattle scene. || started 12/22/2022 ||