Xantheus Stories

In Nyxia Eloise Valerius's world, men are the storm-chaotic, disruptive, and ultimately, a destructive force to be avoided. To her, male attention is not a compliment, but a threat, and she has built her life around a fierce, uncomplicated dedication to her studies and her solitary peace. But peace is a luxury she can no longer afford when Xantheus Mori, the effortlessly charming and highly respected Student Council President, enters her orbit. Xantheus, with his quiet confidence and unwavering determination, is the single, frustrating note in her carefully ordered, man-free existence. She hates him for making things confusing. While others fits into her simple, negative equation for men, Xantheus doesn't. His presence is not chaotic; It's a quiet, infuriating truth-and it comes from a source she's determined to reject. What happens when the woman who lives to calm the storm realizes that the sound she's running from is the one thing that can calm her own? The war for Nyxia's heart has just begun, and it seems the person making all the noise is her.

Aysel has always wondered what matters more: first love or true love. She's seen people break, choose, and lose themselves because of it. She never expected to face the answer herself-until she meets Xantheus, the reckless boy who challenges everything she thought she knew about love.