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The Ash Dancer
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Ongoing, First published Jul 08, 2025
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They called her a weapon and a solider.
They forgot she was still a girl.

Reborn from the ashes of a dying world, Lyra was trained to kill demons-and taught to bury the parts of herself that remembered softness. Once a prodigy of the Demon Slayer ranks, she now walks a knife's edge between light and darkness, haunted by a truth no one dares speak: one of not just darkness nor light, she is the in between

When a mission unearths a figure from her fractured past-a mysterious hybrid who sees the parts of her she tries to hide-Lyra is forced to question everything she was raised to believe. Loyalties crack. Secrets burn. And the deeper she dances into the war between realms, the more she must decide:

Will she become the savior they fear?
Or the monster they're created her to be?
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Bound in Shadow

48 parts Complete Mature

Book 1 in the Song of the Shadowborn series - Book 2 complete, book 3 in progress (check my profile) Lyra has lived her whole life on the edges of her village, known only as the healer's daughter. When she stumbles upon a wounded stranger in the woods, she should leave him to die. Everyone knows what the shadow-marked are: cursed, dangerous, untouchable. But against her better judgment, she saves him. Daemon has long since stopped believing in mercy. Marked by shadows and hunted for what runs in his veins, he trusts no one, least of all a stubborn healer who dares to touch the darkness written on his skin. He wants to hate her. Needs to. Yet with every moment spent in her presence, the lines between enemy and savior blur. As soldiers close in and secrets unravel, Lyra and Daemon are forced into a fragile alliance. Hatred burns into longing, and longing into something neither of them can deny. But love may be the most dangerous curse of all. *also published/posted on RoyalRoad*

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