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Daughter of the Rowan ❤️
          
          Chapter 38: A Trial by Fabric
          
          Coira endures getting fitted for a very special outfit. Mary surprises Euan with something he’d thought lost. 
          
          Well, this is the final official chapter—there’s just the epilogue left now. I say “just” but that’s going to be epic in length. And in heat level! I’m hoping to have that ready by the weekend. Until then, please enjoy this one ❤️
          
          Teaser:
          
          She buried her face in her palms and chuckled into them as he gripped her shoulder and squeezed.
          
          "I've fought monsters. Killed people," she said and dropped her hands to her lap. "I've looked death in the eye. I've never faced that."
          
          He knelt beside her, taking her hand, as the heat from the fire washed over them and the smell of bannocks baking infused his nose. "You're braver than me. I'd have folded hours ago."
          
          "I was trapped. Bravery didn't come into it."
          
          I’m not ready to say goodbye, but I’ll see you soon with exactly that❤️
          
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Dead on Revival ❤️
          
          The first five chapters are here! Fable and Tamsin are yours. They’re inspired by the toxic, obsessive, ‘I hate you but I’d die for you’ energy of Maddy and Cassie from Euphoria. But it’s a romantic, magic love here. 
          
          I’ll have more to publish soon. But for now, I’ll let these five chapters settle in! 
          
          Hope you enjoy ❤️
          
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Daughter of the Rowan ❤️
          
          Chapter 37: One of Us 
          
          The town does something for Coira that makes Euan realise how far they’ve come. How much good they’ve got to look forward to now. It’s a sweet and warm, lovely little chapter. They’re so cute, bless them. 
          
          Teaser:
          
          "Do you regret it?"
          
          She blinked and inclined her head.
          "What do you mean? Regret what?"
          
          "Binding yourself to me. To spend centuries with a man who burns toast and has nightmares and debt. I can't—"
          She surged up and kissed him hard, as if to suffocate the words before they could spill out of him.
          
          "Euan, I've spent that amount of time completely alone." She spoke against his parted mouth and his heart raced as if he'd spent years running towards this woman. "A few hundred more years with you sounds like heaven."
          
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Daughter of the Rowan❤️
          
          Chapter 36: Like It or Lump It 
          
          The quiet, humorous, but emotional aftermath of dealing with the Reverend and the Nuckelavee.
          
          I cried writing this one. I’ve cried so much writing this story, but there’s a small, monumental moment in this that just…love it. 
          
          Text in image: 
          
          "Mary, it's only been—" Euan tried, an incredulous tone to his cut-off words.
          
          "Aye. That's my name. Let me in. I've got news."
          
          A sigh shuddered for a second, then Mary came bustling into the kitchen, her basket dangling on her arm, her knowing eyes bright. She took one look at Coira's tear-streaked face and the toast in her hand, and the old woman smiled.
          
          "He mastered the toast? Finally," Mary said. "The boy can cook. He just forgets about it around you."
          
          Hope you enjoy ❤️
          
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 Introducing, Fable and Tamsin “Sin” 
          
          She remembers every death. She is cold, cruel, calculating, and brooding. For three hundred years, she’s had to bury the same woman repeatedly. 
          
          Fable’s most important astrological placements:
          
          Sun: Capricorn | Moon: Scorpio | Rising: Virgo
          Mars & Venus: Aries—she loves how she fights. With everything she’s got. 
          
          She doesn’t remember a thing. She keeps dying and coming back. Somehow, she always finds her way to Fable’s door. Guided by the same eternal cat. 
          
          Tamsin’s most important astrological placements: 
          
          Sun: Cancer | Moon: Libra | Rising: Sagittarius 
          Venus: Taurus—she loves steadily and deeply. Mars: Scorpio. Her dark side is as sharp as Fables when provoked. Until then, she’s a softie. 
          
          Fable and Tamsin are inspired by the toxic, obsessive, “I hate you but I’d die for you” soulmate energy of Maddy and Cassie from Euphoria. Except it’s gothic. It’s 1977 New York. It’s a very opinionated cat, and a band of vampire misfits. And make it sapphic. 
          
          

Daughter of the Rowan ❤️
          
          Chapter 35: The Battle at the Ford 
          
          Coira and Euan face down the Nuckelavee. 
          
          We are only like three chapters away from the end. How did that happen, lol. I received my cover for the new story that I’ll start sharing soon today. I’m so excited. It’s beautiful. It looks like a real book! Haha. And it only cost me £30. No AI! Madness. 
          
          Teaser:
          
          Heat flashed through her, eyes narrowing, and hands shaking as fury took over. The feeling of fiery blood trickling down her side honed her vision.
          
          "Coira-"
          
          "I'm fine."
          
          She didn't dare look at his face as he said, "you're absolutely not fine."
          
          A laugh like shattered glass left her as her muscles corded and tensed, hands burning to fight as her dagger warmed in her hand. "I've been worse."
          
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Three funerals. Two graves. One last chance. A cycle that’s spun for centuries. 
          
          The Devil. Seven of Coins. Eight of Coins. 
          I asked the cards about this book. They said: obsession, patience, complete mastery. 
          
          I’m trusting them. They’ve never led me wrong. 
          
          This is the darkly gothic, decaying, sapphic, and magic world Este—a cat who is sick and tired of both FMC’s—despises, but keeps coming back to. 
          
          “I led her across three disgusting boroughs. The least you could do is offer her a glass of water.” —Este, sick of their shit. 
          
          Welcome to 1977 New York… 
          
          More info coming soon!
          
          

Daughter of the Rowan ❤️
          
          Chapter 34: A Cold Wind Blows
          
          Totally not inspired by the Eminem song I’ve listened to constantly these past few days, lol. The rumours spread. The townsfolk choose their sides. And the reverend finally slithers out of his kirk.
          
          Teaser:
          
          The note she sang kept ringing as the hair on Euan's nape lifted and his heart shivered behind his ribs.
          
          "I can freeze your blood," Coira said, crooning almost. "Stop your heart. I can make you forget your own name, your own children, your own God." 
          
          She stepped right up to the gate, her hand rising to the latch, toying with it. "But I won't give you what you want. I won't let you make me the monster you've been preaching about. You want to be right. And I won't give you the satisfaction."
          
          The holy man's eyes widened to a point Euan worried they'd stay that way.
          
          Hope you enjoy!
          
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Daughter of the Rowan ❤️
          
          Chapter 33: Home
          
          Coira and Euan meet with new allies to plan the battles they’ve still to face. 
          
          It’s quite a heavy chapter, but in a good way. Lots of thematic stuff woven together through the dialogue and emotional parts. Coira gets to see what it’s like taking up space in Euan’s world. 
          
          Teaser:
          
          Coira laughed quietly, drawing every eye to her, making her cheeks flush.
          
          “I am dangerous,” she said, voice a flat whisper. “It’s not a lie either. I’ve killed men.” Her head drooped like a wilting flower, snapping up again as Euan let go of her hand and wound his arm around her shoulders. “I’ve drowned them, frozen them from the inside out, sung them into the water and ripped the air from their lungs. They’re right to be wary.  I’m not harmless. I’ve never been harmless.”
          
          Hope you enjoy it! See you soon with the next one. Around 4-6 chapters are left to go. But it’s me. Brevity is not my gift. That count might rise, lol. 
          
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Two updates ❤️
          
          One: Daughter of the Rowan chapter 32 is now available. 
          
          Saor Coira (Free Coira). Testing the limits of their new reality. 
          
          A short and sweet chapter because the next one is coming very soon after it. Had to split it. 
          
          Two: I’ve submitted A Vow in Venom to the Watty’s! I submitted Ice, Ice Maybe? last year. While I never made it past the submission stage, I won in the end because Wattpad liked the book enough to promote it over Christmas. Netting it 25k reads it never would’ve gotten if they hadn’t. 
          
          I have no clue how Venom will do. But I know what I made. I love it. It’s beautiful and dark and ugly and intense everything in between. The book killed and remade me a thousand times. If entering the awards brings even one reader to it that needs it—I’ve won ❤️
          
          See you soon with the next chapter!
          
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