Brandi Hayes is an indie author of dark, romantic fiction that cuts deep and lingers long after the last page.

From brutal fairytales and horror-laced love stories to scorching smut that leaves no emotion untouched, Brandi writes across the spectrum of desire and destruction. Her heroines are fierce and defiant, their hearts battle-scarred but still beating. Her monsters ache, burn, and break-and you'll want them to. Every book is a dance between beauty and ruin, obsession and tenderness, lust and love.

Raised on library shelves and midnight dreams, Brandi's work is stitched with longing, rebellion, and the dangerous magic of connection. Whether it's a bloody curse or a filthy rendezvous, she never flinches from the raw, the messy, or the devastatingly intimate.

When she's not writing, you can find her haunting used bookstores, bingeing dark romances, or plotting her next beautiful heartbreak-usually with a cat curled up in her lap.
  • JoinedOctober 2, 2020



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moonlit_melancholyx moonlit_melancholyx Aug 12, 2025 01:52PM
Hi friends! I’m excited to let you know that Written in Stars and Ink and Ash and Bloom are now live with fresh chapters for you to explore! These stories are very close to my heart, full of magic...
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Stories by Brandi
Written in Stars and Ink by moonlit_melancholyx
Written in Stars and Ink
They met in a Discord server at 2:14 a.m. a girl bleeding from heartbreak, and a boy half a world away who di...
Ash & Bloom by moonlit_melancholyx
Ash & Bloom
Book One of the Courts of Neravell In a kingdom divided by elemental courts, where magic is trained from chil...
Medusa's Flower (Book One of the Threads Between Duology) by moonlit_melancholyx
Medusa's Flower (Book One of the T...
A dark romantic fantasy where myth bleeds into moonlit forests, and love dares to grow where curses take root...