With her father's memory failing and her mother gone, Soraya Thenayu enrolls in distant Darkwood Academy and immediately becomes enemies with the richest kid at school. Between hiding her father's gift of illegally harvested magic, befriending social outcasts, and juggling classes, Soraya's already stressful situation intensifies when an otherworldly foe threatens to possess her. Soraya must choose between keeping her magic a secret or saving herself and her new friends.

Entry for the Open Novella Contest, 2024 Prompt #36: "Fairy tales are real," and there couldn't be anything worse. After the death of her husband, Charlotte seeks a fresh start in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Georgia. She wants to do two things: work her mundane job and spend the evenings at her cabin talking to her husband's ghost. All her hopes and dreams stayed behind in Atlanta. Now, she just wants a quiet place to live alone. Right when she settles into mountain life, she finds a quarter-sized stone outside her door with a black cross etched in its center. She brings it to a library where she learns about the fairies that left it there for her. Her research leads her to an ancient Cherokee hunting trail where winged, fairy-like creatures dance among blue ghost fireflies and sleep in the branches of oak trees centuries old. Charlotte is sure that her discovery is nothing more than a vivid dream. But as her obsession with Appalachian fairy tales grows, she only finds more fairy crosses outside her door, along with startling evidence that the Faye still roam the ancient mountain valleys. This is a story about magic and age-old legends, but even more about how obsession can offer relief from difficult circumstances, although at the price of true healing. Coauthored by Rowan Carver and C.B. Mokedi Cover made by OmletteDanish (SleepDeprivedArt on Etsy) and C.B.Mokedi

[COMPLETE] Casper's got three things: a trash boyfriend, a deadend job, and enough self-destructive habits to ruin his life. So, if Cain - a charming, enigmatic stranger - seems a little too captivated by him, he's not going to question his luck. Except his perfect stranger turns out to be yet another bad decision. Claiming to be Casper's lover from a past life, Cain takes him prisoner. But even if his kidnapper's starting to give him butterflies, Casper can't stay trapped in a cage. He knows how to get out - he's just got to trick Cain into thinking Casper loves him back, but Casper's never been able to stick to a plan. He's drowning in depression, his mental break demon won't leave him alone, and he's struggling to remember what's real and what's the game. Especially now Cain's madness seems just a little too real to feel safe. 🥇 1st Place for Romance in the Autumn Awards🍂 🥇 1st Place for Romance in the Starlight Awards🌟 🥈 2nd Place for Romance/New Adult in Books Got Talent 2020🌍 🥇 1st Place for Romance in the Phoenix Awards🐦 🥇 1st Place for LGBTQ+ in the Golden Wings Awards👼 🥉 3rd Place for Romance in the Soul Writers Award ☁️ 🥉3rd Place for Romance in the Halcyon Awards 💙 🥇 1st Place for Romance & 🥈 2nd Place of All Winners in the Cosmic Rose Awards 🥀 🥇 1st Place for General Fiction in the Carnival Awards🎪 🥈 2nd Place for Best Main Character in the Carnival Awards🎪 🏵️ 4th Place for Romance in the Tricolor Triennial Awards [Phase 3] 🇮🇳 🥇 1st Place for Romance & 🥉 3rd Place of All Winners in the in the Fairy Awards🧚 🥈 2nd Place of All Books in the Shut Up and Write Awards 💬 🥈 2nd Place for Romance in the Blooming Rose Awards 🌹 🥈 2nd Place for New Adult Romance & 🏵️ Honorable Mention Overall in the Lovely Awards 💗 CW: Suicide attempt, heavy mental health, drug abuse & implied sexual abuse/r*pe

The last thing Jenny Adrian needs in her final year of university is to fall for her professor while rekindling her feelings for her childhood crush. Because she shouldn't touch the off-limits. (Previously 'Above & Beyond) ### A peaceful life in a medium-sized city is never enough for Jenny. Even though she can find everything she needs, she wants above and beyond what the place can offer. Just when she's about to enter her final year at university, she discovers her parents' twisted relationship. It changes her view about love and commitment one hundred eighty degrees, making her dead set on the plan to fly as far as her wings can take her. But fate has another plan when a hot professor walks into her life and challenges her stance. At the same time, her childhood crush swings back to her and pokes her buried, unresolved feelings for him. Jenny is now standing at the intersection. A big-city ambition is about to slip through her fingers. =========================== *Disclaimer. This story is intended for mature readers. It contains: Explicit sex scenes ✔ Controversial topic ✔ Strong language & profanities ✔ Please leave this book if you're not comfortable with the content. ===========================

A stubborn prince joins forces with the beautiful son of his enemy to save his kingdom and his life. --- Prince Toom has never questioned the safety and power of his family - until he meets Niako, the cunning, arrogant, and unnervingly beautiful son of the enemy Rakim chief. In Rakim, Toom discovers heinous traditions beyond his imagination, such as Claiming enemies as personal slaves. When Toom returns to Rakim ten years later, Niako proves more enigmatic than ever, and Toom grapples with conflicting feelings and an unsettling attraction. With the throne and his own family's lives at stake, Toom attempts to seduce Niako to unveil Rakim's plots. Niako reveals little but offers foreboding advice: flee Rakim and never return. As political machinations and cruel appetites overtake the land, Toom must work together with Niako to save the nation. To protect those he loves. And to survive. Set forty-four years after "The Claimed: Rashika's Resistance" (also works as a stand-alone novel) |2022 Wattys Shortlist| Trigger warning: This story contains descriptions of abuse and references to sexual assault