Five years ago, Satori's life changed forever. Now twenty-three, she's spent the past five years surviving in Vancouver-working, writing, trying to convince herself she's okay. But when the words stop coming and the grief starts pressing too close again, she packs up her apartment and drives north to the one place that still feels like hers: her family's old mountain log cabin. It's supposed to be a reset. Time to write. To breathe. To try and remember who she was before grief hollowed her out. Then she wakes one night to find the boy who's haunted her dreams since childhood-standing in her living room. Flesh and blood. He isn't just a mythical character in her book. They shouldn't trust each other. But their going to have to. Because Gods have plans Together, they'll have to survive the chaos tearing through both their worlds-and face a connection that feels older than time and twice as dangerous. A Heart of Ink and Shadow is a slow-burn, forbidden romance, urban fantasy about grief, destiny, and the kind of love that can burn through worlds.

Book One in the Fallen Star Trilogy✨✨✨ In the Solkarra Empire, obedience is survival. Farren is a rising captain in the imperial army, she has spent a lifetime serving a crown built on cruelty while quietly resisting it wherever she could. Until the night her father the High War General binds her future to the empire's future heir, Prince Lysander. So Farren makes a choice and creates a plan. She flees the capital with Kiran, her childhood friend and safest constant, and Riven, a trusted ally with sharp instincts and sharper secrets. Together, they vanish into the fractures of Kalwynn, a continent rotting beneath Solkarra's rule and the slow poison of black magic the empire denies exists. The crown sends her twin brother, Emrsy, after her. Their journey finally carries them to Luarnaris, the once-great city of the Thalari Fae, now reduced to ash and shattered stone. There, amid the wreckage of empire, they cross paths with a shadow wielder bound to secrets older than the throne itself one whose presence unsettles the magic in Farren's blood and draws a line of tension Kiran feels immediately. From that moment on, nothing remains simple. As the truth of Solkarra's corruption surfaces, Farren's magic begins to changewind sharpening into something ancient and star-touched. At the same time, the careful distance she once kept from Kiran unravels, childhood loyalty igniting into a love forged under fire, fear, and impossible choices. To restore balance, Farren must face the empire that shaped her, the brother sent to retrieve her, and the truth of who she is becoming and who she is falling for before the black magic consuming the land claims everything she loves. Because the darkness is already here.