Darkandbeautiful Stories

*"The year Helena was born, 1823."* Helena was born in the town of Molkie and was considered cursed by her mother, Pamela, from the very moment she came into the world. Her red hair and her stutter, which appeared over time, were enough for Pamela to see her as a bad omen. This fear did not only distance Pamela from her daughter; it darkened her heart enough to make her try to convince her husband to kill Helena. When Jahson refused, Pamela left the house, leaving Helena alone with her father. Jahson worked in the Iron Forge to keep his daughter alive; he took Helena as his apprentice and became both mother and father to her. Despite poverty and loneliness, Helena grew up quietly by her father's side. However, fifteen years later, Jahson's sudden death from a heart attack completely shattered Helena's world. By that time, Pamela had remarried. When she learned of Jahson's death, she took Helena into her home, but this was not an act of love-it was a hidden punishment. In her mother's house, Helena was no longer a daughter, but a servant. For years, she endured insults, humiliation, and silent cruelty, learning to live with pain that pierced her heart every single day. She had nowhere to go and no one to hold on to. Yet even in the deepest darkness, something refused to fade. Every pain Helena endured awakened a hidden power within her, quietly shaping her destiny. And on a day she could not yet imagine, a light would rise from that darkness and change Helena's life forever.

In a gallery filled with paintings, Selene stood, searching for beauty lost among the colors... Yet a mysterious encounter with its owner would lead her to a secret she never expected. A....?

I needed somewhere on my phone to write when I was on the bus, or whenever I was inspired by something.

Book one of The Veil of Danu Series Spice 🌶️ Adventure ⚔️⚔️⚔️ In a world divided by the fragile balance between light and wildness, the Seelie and Unseelie fae have lived in uneasy harmony for centuries, separated from humanity by the magical Veil of Danu. But when an ambitious Seelie usurper seizes the throne and plunges the realms into chaos, the ancient order begins to unravel. The sacred Well of Creation is lost, the World Tree withers, and magic itself begins to fade. Rowan, a young human park ranger, is swept into this unraveling world after a flood pulls her through a hidden fairy ring deep in the Appalachian mountains. Trapped in a medieval fae realm teetering on the brink of destruction, she becomes entangled in the struggle between the warring fae courts and discovers a secret that ties her to their crumbling magic. As monsters rise, fae lands fall into ruin, and humanity faces invasion, Rowan must navigate a dangerous path to uncover the Veil's secrets, heal the broken magic, and choose where her loyalties truly lie. But even as hope flickers, the darkness lurking in her blood threatens to tear her apart-and with it, the fate of both fae and human worlds. A tale of love, betrayal, and the wild power of ancient magic, The Veil of Danu is a journey into the heart of a forgotten myth where heroes are forged, and balance comes at the steepest price. (First Draft- will be revised and edited)