"Her icy-cold crimson eyes lock onto mine-sending a shiver racing down my spine. And before I can stop myself... I fall in love." Clodette, a reclusive vampire has spent centuries in isolating herself from the world, burdened by a past imbued in grief and guilt! She once stained her own hands with the blood of the one she loved most-an unforgivable sin that left her heart frozen in sorrow. But fate stirs once again! A mysterious boy appears, bearing the same azure eyes as her long-lost beloved-and harboring a secret as heavy as her own. A twisted fate had intertwined between them, sudden emotions she thought she had buried begin to awaken. Will Clodette be able to accept the truth behind the boy's secret? Or will history repeat itself, dragging her into tragedy once more? 🥀COMPLETED.

Life ended quietly. Rebirth? Not so much. I'd lived a perfectly normal nerd-life: a family, a career, too many hobbies, and a purse full of "just-in-case" items. Gardening, old crafting techniques, reading, manga, animé-especially the alternate-world kind. If I had one regret, it was not traveling as much as I'd wanted. But all things end eventually. I expected nothingness... or whatever reward awaited after a long, fulfilling life. Instead, I woke up to the very real problem of a massive creature trying to eat me. I'd been reborn into another world. I should have been thrilled, right? With very little to go on-aside from the fact that magic existed here-I decided the smartest approach was to keep a low profile and train like crazy. Survive first. Explore later. My new family seemed pleasantly surprised (and occasionally alarmed) by my dedication to both physical and magical training. And once I started attending school, I made fast friends... then accidentally convinced them to apprentice under my father. The more the merrier, I figured. But hiding my abilities is proving harder than expected, and the more I grow, the more certain people seem unsettled by my existence. Surviving to adulthood may be the real challenge. *This is a slow-burn, coming-of-age story with early magic training. It is not a romance-yet. **This series is marked Mature not for explicit content in this volume, but because later books will include heavier themes. I prefer to err on the side of caution. ***I am a Canadian author. English spelling follows Canadian usage. ****Note about the cover image and banners: The cover and banners were created with AI assistance in Canva.

She didn't know him. She had never seen him before. And yet somehow, she had been the center of his world long before she even learned his name. Tulia Tacitus wants nothing more than an ordinary life. She finds comfort in books, music, and art, believing the distance between herself and her parents is nothing more than the price of their demanding careers. She has no idea the business her parents conduct behind closed doors is far from ordinary. Lucius Romanov is a man who lives by discipline. Every decision is calculated. Every move serves a purpose. So, when his search for answers leads him to the daughter of the family that shattered his world, he convinces himself she's nothing more than a means to an end. At first, that's exactly what she is. A way to uncover the truth. A pawn in a game years in the making. But the closer he gets, the harder it becomes to remember why he sought her out in the first place, and the harder it gets to hate her in the way he vowed he would. Lucius doesn't chase. He claims. And for the first time in his life, he's no longer certain who's hunting whom.

Curses and monsters abound in a sea full of secrets and dark temptations. A war of the gods leaves mortals and hunters at their command in a small port town of Maine. Lulled to the sea by a curse that killed her mother and has haunted her since birth, Ceria longs to change her fate. Felix is the coward of his kind and a disgrace as future king. He longs to be up on the surface. To be with the mortals and away from his destiny.