Skye is dead. How she perished is a mystery. All she knows is that she is trapped in After, a makeshift city of souls surrounded by infinite darkness and terrifying monsters that tear ghosts apart. But while all other ghosts accept the eternity of darkness ahead of them, Skye refuses to spend her afterlife in a world without light. She knows there must be some way to escape the monsters that keep them all imprisoned and return to the realm of the living, and she's going to find it...even if she has to face the prince of monsters, himself. Skye risks her existence and escapes the walled city of After in search of the truth. Venturing into the black reveals untold perils, but that's not all. The Dark...and the dark prince, are hiding a terrible secret... 🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻 WATTYS SHORTLIST | 2021 WATTYS BEST COVER SHORTLIST | 2021 AMBYS FAVORITE - HORROR | 2024 Cover art drawn by me.

I was born during a storm that argued with the world and won. The elders still say it in low voices, as if the sky might be listening and take offense; they fold their hands and lean in, and the story grows teeth. They tell it like a hymn: clouds split like a seam, lightning struck the same patch of earth three times, the wind screamed a name no one recognized. They tell it like a warning. They tell a lot of things about me. The truth is smaller and meaner and somehow more ordinary: I don't remember the thunder. I remember the way people look at me afterward, like I am a riddle they forgot how to solve. Like I am a prophecy they didn't order and can't return. Like I am a question they are afraid to answer. Maybe they're right. The first time my veins glowed, I was five and certain of nothing except that foxes are excellent at choosing the right moment to be dramatic. The orchard behind our cottage smelled of crushed apples and damp earth, and the trees leaned in like old women gossiping. I had been chasing a fox - or the fox had been chasing me; memory and mischief blur at that age - when something inside me woke up and decided to try on light. It started as a spark, the kind of small, traitorous thing that promises nothing and then becomes everything. My skin lit from the inside: green first, like new leaves; then gold, like the sun caught in a coin; then a blue so sharp it felt like someone had sharpened the world's edges. The fox stopped mid‑prance and bowed, which is not a thing foxes do unless you are the sort of child who will later be written about in cautionary tales. The shadows froze as if someone had pressed pause on the day. The wind laughed - not a cruel laugh, not a friendly one either, more like the sound of a secret delighted to be true. I didn't understand any of it. I barely understand it now. That was the day my mother stopped pretending I was normal. Briarhold is the kind of village that believes in practical things: good bread, sturdy

Son of the sea... Daughter of magic... Salt & Spells...

This is not a story about what happens. It's about what almost does. At an Ivy League medical school, Isabelle Laurent is known as the Ice Queen-brilliant, distant, untouchable. No one gets close. No one stays. Alexander Whitmore was never supposed to be different. Charming, privileged, and infamous for never staying longer than a few weeks, he understands desire. What he doesn't understand, until Isabelle, is restraint. She believes he doesn't want her. He knows wanting her openly would destroy everything. So they choose the most dangerous thing instead: friendship. "The most dangerous thing about Alexander Whitmore was not his reputation, nor his charm, nor the power he would one day inherit. It was the fact that he never asked for anything from me, and somehow, without realizing it, I had begun to give him everything that mattered." Slow burn • Dual POV • Consent • Emotional intimacy

"Ariella, blind from birth but retaining full memories of her past life, has learned to navigate the world by seeing through auras. Content to live quietly, her plans are disrupted when, at fourteen, she is discovered to possess Dragon energy resistance. Seized by a greedy noble, she is thrust into a dangerous new reality as one of the chosen brides sent to the dragon realm. With her life turned upside down, Ariella must not only adapt to the dragons' world but also contend with ambitious rivals willing to do anything to elevate their status and become the favored of the powerful Dragons. This is a reverse harem story.

☆ a completed slow-burn, enemies-to-lovers, high school romance ☆ Eighteen-year-old Lena Hart is invisible at school. But online, she is NoFilter: the anonymous writer behind Midnight Confessions, a blog where she exposes the ugly truth about high school life, popularity, heartbreak, and the people everyone pretends not to see. The blog explodes overnight after a post goes viral about a guy who "makes girls fall in love just to prove he can." That guy? Noah Reed. Charming, reckless, impossible to ignore, and exactly the kind of guy Lena wants nothing to do with. The problem? Noah finds out she is NoFilter. Instead of exposing her, he makes a deal. Lena has to spend the next few weeks with him so he can fix his bad-boy reputation before college applications. In return, he keeps her secret. But the more time Lena spends with Noah, the harder it becomes to hate him. Your favorite weekend read 💕 [© viatrixafina 2025]

I do not remember the first time the dragon came to me in my sleep. Mama says dreams are like rivers that wind through the land, carrying leaves and secrets and sometimes stones you cannot see until you step into the water. Papa says dreams are only dreams and that the world is made of things you can touch. I have learned to listen to both of them and to trust neither completely. What I remember is the moment the dragon said my name. It was not a whisper. It was not a voice like the wind through the trees or the creak of the castle doors. It was a sound that lived behind my teeth and in the hollow of my chest. It said my name like it had been waiting a very long time to say it, and when it did the whole room smelled like rain on hot stone. "Aurelia." I woke with my heart pounding so hard I thought it would break the ribs in my small body. The moon was still a pale coin in the window and the tapestries on the wall were shadows. I lay very still because sometimes if you pretend you are still, the things that visit you will go away. But the dragon did not go away. I sat up and pressed my palms to my eyes. The dream was still there, like a smear of color on my hands. I could feel the dragon's breath on my face, warm and old. I could feel the ache in its wing, the way it folded like a broken fan. I could feel the way it wanted something from me and did not know how to ask. I am six. Six is not old enough to be brave by myself, but it is old enough to know when something is wrong. I padded down the corridor in my slippers, the stone cool under my feet. The castle was quiet in the way a sleeping animal is quiet, all soft breaths and the occasional creak. I found Papa in the armory, polishing a sword that had seen more battles than I have had birthdays. He looked up when I came in, and his face softened the way the sea softens when the wind dies. "You're awake," he said.

Zelda Runs Away AU - Before the Calamity, Zelda escapes the castle to avoid her destiny. Link is sent to retrieve her... and ends up joining her.

|Book One of The Soul-Bound Chronicles| Classic J-RPG and anime elements collide with the Young Adult fiction writing style in this modern fantasy book following Josh Davidson, a teenage boy whose life flips upside down when he becomes soul-bound to a dragon ✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧ Magic, heroes, dragons. Josh Davidson has seen it all-in video games and movies, of course, because they would never be anything but fiction. Yet his dreams are slipping into reality, he is experiencing sudden energy surges, and a persistent voice is taking residency in his head. All of the insanity explodes when his bully goes on a murderous rampage, and the only one who can stop him is a beautiful girl wielding a bow and shooting magical ice arrows. The experience leads Josh to the truth: he's a Paladin, someone soul-bound to a dragon. Not only does he now have a dragon reaching into his thoughts, but the new status comes with magical powers meant to help him in his fight against the forces of darkness. Josh is more than eager to hone his new skills and help the Paladins in their fight, but the darkness they face is rising from its slumber, intent on destroying the Paladins and everything they stand for. Josh will have to learn fast, because the most important decisions are those he cannot escape. Decisions that risk not only the war which the Paladins fight, but the very people he holds dear. ➢ Word Count: 130,000 - 135,000 ➢ Amazing cover made by Dayisdemigod ➢ Featured in Fantasy account's Young Adult Fantasy Reading List ➢ Featured in YASciFantasy account's Quests & Queens - Fantasy Adventure Reading List ➢ The Fiction Awards 2019 Best Fantasy Winner ➢ Editor's Pick Featured January 2021