Malphas: A Southern Charms Novella | ONC2022

Once the golden girl of Black Brier, Harmony has spent the last three years paying for the consequences of her involvement with Luis Goodwin's plans for revenge, and a trip to a magical, tropical resort is just what she needs to rid herself of the negativity surrounding her on a daily basis. But her plans to relax and celebrate her twenty-first birthday in style are shattered when she stumbles upon a dangerous truth one evening, and now, in order to stay alive, she must seek help from the one person she might despise even more than she hates herself: the sorcerer Malphas.

Malphas has spent the majority of his life seeking revenge. After destroying the man who betrayed him, he struggled to fit into the strange, modern world, and he threw himself into the search for Luis Goodwin, desperate to find him before he could release the prisoners from the bottle and doom humanity.

But now that journey is over, and he flees to the only place he found any solace during his travels-the Bewitching Isles. Unfortunately, Rose's spoiled older sister, Harmony, intrudes upon his paradise, and when she comes to him claiming everyone is in danger, he has to decide if he will help her and give her the one thing he still hasn't given himself: forgiveness.

ONC2022 prompts #2 and #39