I write about quietly fierce women backed into corners, trapped in places where love may be either prison or freedom, where heroes are not merciless, but intense; troubled, but their hearts still beat despite agony. I love immersing readers in places of beauty in darkness, in the genres spanning epic dark fantasies, fairytale gothics, or dystopian love stories.
Sometimes, the love interest is the author of the heroine’s entrapment; other times, he fights by her side to help her fly free.
Always, his heart opens only for her. Always, he is an equal counterpart to the heroine, secretly vulnerable and ever devoted.
Always, the characters contend with trauma.
And, always, there is a happy ending… eventually, if not in every book.
Woven through my stories is the theme of love thriving despite darkness, each heroine never losing her compassion even when forces condemn the desires of her heart.
I lean toward prose that is fraught with poetic and desperate emotions, and worlds where morals warp. Expect kisses in every plot line, phantasmagoria and unspeakable danger, undertones of torment, and an abundance of perilous smiles.
My stories are often dark, but richly layered and complex.
If you must, blame my obsession with empathy and moral ambiguity on my upbringing in the eighties, which exposed me both to Mr. Rogers (empathy embodied) and to movies where psychotic villains were kissing the heroines before they met their end–by being slain either by the real hero or by the woman herself.
These concepts lodged in little Sonya’s fertile mind, eventually exploding into curiosity: what if an empathic heroine not only accepted the villain, but loved him? How would he react? Would she sway him, or would he stay his course?
Fortunately, I’ve grown out of psychopathic heroes, but my books still teem with love interests who navigate by unclear moral compasses. Almost all my books also follow the female perspective because I grew up at a time when the genres I preferred–fantasy and sci-fi–skewed predominantly toward being told by male heroes, and I was like: WHERE ARE ALL THE LADIES? Why aren’t they telling us their adventures?
So I wrote them, long before romantasy was a glimmer in Sarah J. Maas’s eye. I’ve been writing stories since I was seven years old, where woman are compassionate when they shouldn’t be, and embittered men fall in love in spite of torment.
Join me for stories that celebrate the triumph of unity and love over division and hate. Let us believe that we should seek to understand, not judge. And let us do no harm, but, rather, live with unrestrained joy.
Every life has intrinsic worth, even when the world can’t see it.
If you are ready to be ensnared, choose your trap–er, book–below.
Interesting facts about me:
- I was born in Houston, Texas and, once upon a time, I played the double bass in the orchestra.
- I ran away to Prague when I was twenty-two, and I’ve lived here over half my life.
- I eat chocolate for breakfast.
- I sing to my black cat every night.
- I have lemon tarts every Thursday.
- I’ve been a translator, editor, proofreader, and software tester.
- I was married in a castle but had my heart broken in a city of spires, meaning I am single, divorced, and childless.
- I’m officially diagnosed with anxiety (high-functioning), OCD (since I was 13), and now depression, (yay… not really).
- My icks in books: misunderstandings and lack of communication (ugh, ugh, ugh!), problems that could be resolved if the characters actually behaved like adults and simply asked the other person; cheating (if cheating is in a book of mine, it’s not with the end-game love interest).
Time to choose your poison… but weigh each one prudently…
For adult epic fantasies featuring heroines of all ages, from 13 to 46 years, with multiple POVs and love story subplots in every story line, with only faintly epic echoes of Game of Thrones without the gore, try my Heiress of the Seven Cities series. The most recent one, about a spurned queen and her peace-loving daughter (and with a mute dog that still manages to be yappy) is Heiress of Secrets.
For gothic/cozy fantasy & darkish fairy tales, try my short story Roses and Bruises and Love about a cursed girl finding a boy under her roses every day, or my whimsical and only slightly darkish novella Wishes and Whispers and Sibilant Hisses about a lonely princess whose castle is breached by a sinister stranger who offers her companionship, the gothic novella The Assassin: A Love Story about a girl who sings a dying assassin back to life in a kingdom ruled by an undying king, or try the gothic romance anthology Slightly Sweetly, Slightly Creepy. Or, for an ongoing alternately facetious, gothic, and fun fairy tale, check out the Proud Princess tale I add onto in my blog every few weeks or so… or I would if I were consistent).
For an alternately beautiful, alternately smutty orc-princess-elf romance, try The Wicked Orc.
For dark fantasy where no love interest is safe, try my Ever Spirits series.
For something utterly light-hearted, try Never Trust a Prince, where two ex-princesses get into shenanigans with dragons and trolls and love.
I once wrote some NA Dystopians that are currently unpublished but might fly to life again (my Wingscape series). THEY MIGHT BE FLYING IN NOW, Y’ALL! ONE MIGHT BE COMING SUMMER 2026!!! STAY TUNED!
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