✨Wattys 2024 Winner: Most Engaging World✨ Witches and demons have hated each other for thousands of years. At least that's what the young witch, Meredith Huang, has been told all her life. She's never met a demon, but the stark difference between demoncraft and witchcraft is enough to prove that demons are vile creatures who can't be trusted. Then Meredith meets the dashing Onyx Castle, a woman who makes her heart flutter for the first time. There's just one tiny problem; Onyx is a demon. Unraveling their growing feelings for each other is the easy part. Together, they must overcome enemies who will do anything to tear them apart, figuratively and literally.

Alera lost her mother early in life and was raised by a strict king for a father and the many nursemaids who crossed themselves before touching her. It wasn't until she was of marrying age that she learned why the people feared her. She was canny... like her forest mother. Canny and feared to be fae. The only person besides her father who didn't seem to fear her was the handsome stable boy. He knew what she was and didn't cross himself before letting his hands touch hers longer than needed for helping her to her mount. And on her 18th birthday, neither could deny the bond that dragged them together. But her father had her sold off to make an advantageous match with the neighboring king's sullen and cruel son. Even a kingdom over, the whispers of the canny princess the people feared as fae reached royal ears. But they thought to use her to their advantage...to put fear in their own people's hearts and make them bend the knee. Now with the kingdom at war with the prince she would have married, Alera must save the people who feared her from an unspeakable fate brought to their door by the sullen prince wielding a dark unknown power. -------------------- Cover by Tina Glasneck ©2022 M.Dalto Published to Wattpad 06.01.2022 Completed 03/30/2023