Christopher Laurence Marquez has always trusted systems more than uncertainty. As an engineering student newly arriving in Texas, he believes in timing, structure, and observable patterns. Life may shift, but most things can still be understood if examined carefully enough. Adjustments can be made. Distance can be managed. Feelings can be kept where they belong. Then orientation week changes direction. What begins as ordinary proximity with Brandon and Blake Hayes, identical twins at the center of Texas football culture, slowly becomes something Christopher cannot organize into logic. Brandon moves through the world with warmth and momentum. Blake with quiet precision. One pulls him into the noise. The other teaches him where stillness can exist inside it. The connection does not arrive dramatically. It builds through repeated conversations, shared routines, quiet reassurance, and the strange comfort of being noticed without being forced open. But as campus life grows louder and football visibility expands around them, Christopher must confront a possibility he has spent most of his life preparing against: that some people do not enter your life to become temporary. Some return. Some remain. And some become familiar long before you are ready to call them home.

Shortlisted in Muse Awards. "He thought he was the hunter. He didn't know she had nothing left to lose." Trapped within the dark, looming walls of Vaelhorst Palace, Aethelgard is a captive surrounded by enemies. Her survival depends entirely on the mercy of Malakor-a ruthless, hyper-vigilant Dark Lord whose very name strikes terror across the kingdoms. Separated from everything she knows by the treacherous, ink-black waters of The Mourning Tides, escape seems completely impossible. But Malakor underestimates the girl in his shadows. Before sending her to the Dark Lord, the sinister witch known as Pale Marrow ripped away Aethelgard's emotions, leaving her completely hollow. Malakor expects a terrified prisoner, but instead, he faces a mind completely untethered by fear, panic, or mercy. As a dangerous, slow-burn game of wit and proximity unfolds between captive and captor, the lines between hatred and curiosity begin to blur. Aethelgard must use her cold, emotionless clarity to dismantle Malakor's court from the inside-before the magic fades and her feelings come rushing back. A dark fantasy romance filled with royal intrigue, psychological tension, and a toxic power dynamic that will burn down an empire.

"Pa join, Tay." When Aeliara left a comment on a camping post, she thought it was nothing more than another one of her reckless jokes. She never imagined that a single comment would cost her her first life. What seemed like an ordinary camping trip became the beginning of an entirely new journey. Soon, she would discover that the world she had always believed existed only as a fantasy to escape reality was, in fact, real-and far more dangerous than she could have ever imagined.