You have chosen tales of epic scope, with epic loves. Imagine Game of Thrones with less politicking, less war and gore, and greater likelihood that the characters will survive. Darkness dwells here, but love lives in greater measure. Each can be read as a standalone.
Heiress to a Court of Nothing
In malicious courts, soft-hearted girls end up with poisoned hearts.
She walks with a scream in her soul and a smile on her face, her dreams rotting in her pocket like undrunk nectar.
If young noblewoman Trista ever revealed her wish for a meaningful life, one profound and free, the lords and ladies of her gilded court would crush her beneath their slippered toes.
But when her father arranges a foul betrothal for her in another city, she craves at least one taste of freedom before she is boxed up into nothingness.
For one night, she escapes to the honeyed radiance of the carnival, where she sneaks behind one of the rides and finds…
An open door.
In a small room, on time-eroded planks, kneels a boy scarcely older than she, and as the wind brushes sand across her slippers, the boy glances up.
Unlike anyone she’s ever known, he is beautiful and mute, and he speaks only with his heart.
With him, she seizes secret joys.
But her spiteful father would rather snap her neck than set her free.
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In a viperous court, can a single sweet bird fly her cage?
Especially with the cryptic heir to the kingdom always one step behind her, inscrutable with his own unspoken intent.
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Heiress of Secrets
My world is silken, jeweled, filled with gold and cakes, and I want to slit its throat.
If my cur of a king hadn’t commanded a spell to bind me to this despised life, I would end it without remorse.
His resolve to hold me here confounds me, for I am a queen reviled, the only one in centuries to fail at my task. Instead of seven heirs, I have birthed only a single girl, and without the seven future monarchs, our world is doomed.
My odious king, however, shirks his duty to sire them. Spurning my bed, he slithers sordidly into those of other women.
What solace is left to me? I dispatch assassins after our daughter, but even that fails to bestir me anymore. I would like nothing more than to fold my decrepit, unwanted body on the altar of defeat and have done with these tiresome hours.
At last, beset with sorrow and despair, I flee into the night.
I enter the dumpheap of our city, and there, through a shard of glass, a sharp-toothed enemy offers me a bargain.
He swears that I will bear the seven kings, and he vows that he will spare me after his kind invade our city, provided I promise him some unspecified future request.
I agree, and as a gift, he bestows upon me the magic to spy.
It lets me slink into minds.
Suddenly, every nook and cranny and cabinet of our kingdom falls open to my will. I track my daughter’s fiery duel of survival with the rebel she loves–the man who has sworn a vow of vengeance to end her. I follow the court healer as her bleeding compassion battles a smiling but sinister mage–her own lover. I spy on nobles, shapechangers, fops—even children.
Abruptly, after decades of knowing only loathing, estrangement, and isolation, I am vicariously alive… feeling the beating of others’ hearts, the heaving of their breath: in passion, in trepidation, in combat–and in love.
They all hope so ardently.
But hope was not in the monster’s bargain.
Venture into a bitter queen’s glittering court, where the innocent dream and the wicked scheme.
You get multiple points of view, including a main character who is 46 and others aged 12 to 44.
Content warnings: mentions of miscarriage, death of unborn children, one brief mention of someone’s past abuse, threat of SA (not carried through)
COMFORT WARNING: There is a very cute dog. I am not a dog person, yet here we are. My cat is Very Put Out at this situation.
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Heiress of Healing
“Her magic reached… like glowing hands… into his ruined heart.”
Gifted with boundless compassion, Iminique loves even when she shouldn’t. She heals those who possibly don’t deserve it. But her generous heart demands she dispel all the ills that she can.
And thus, in secret, she defies her father’s edict that she never use her magic.
At her first royal ball, however, when she’s only thirteen summers old, a single mistake sends repercussions across her entire life: she pits her pitiful, untrained, untried, and loving magic against a nameless, faceless mage who is trying to steal the life of a royal infant.
Without mercy, the wizard unravels her magic and seizes her soul. As she blunders inside his magical prison, though, she experiences an agony that is not hers.
It’s his.
In her final moments, her healing reaches into him, into the soul of this wrecked man, and she patches up what damage she can.
Abruptly, the mage lets her go, leaving both her and the royal babe alive.
Nothing is ever the same again.
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Heiress of Magic
In a city of mages, three women dream…
Every day, Lysium dances with magic, dispersing potentially dangerous spells into her rapt audience.
Every evening, her beautiful husband comes to her bed, his touches marred by breathless and unfathomable melancholy.
Every night, after he leaves, she chronicles her most beautiful moments–moments stolen with her best friend, a fire mage–before a shadow in the night steals these memories away.
She endures, until the day the guildmaster gives her to the ruler of their city.
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Every day, Essence walks the world as one shunned because of her bone-white hair, her blood-red eyes, and her incredible power.
Every evening, she renews the magical boundaries that protect the city from an outside foe.
Every night, haunted by loneliness, she exchanges missives with a mage from another demesne, a man who does impossible magic.
She endures, until the day he arrives in the city of mages to meet her–and claim her.
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Every day, Melynda walks the city as a mediocre sorceress trying to protect everyone she knows.
Every evening, she checks on her secret children, whose souls are captive of the guildmaster.
Every night, she spends with her lover, her children’s father, an assassin who knows nothing of his past.
She endures, until an entire contingent of visiting mages vanishes.
But she must contend first with the guildmaster who possesses the souls of her children.
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Unbeknownst to all three, an enemy to the south plots their downfall.
Content Warnings: Some of the male characters are morally questionable. One female character is tricked into sleeping with someone else without knowing who that person really is. An unborn baby is stolen from one character’s womb.
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Heiress of Shadow (coming who knooooows :-D)
For a peek at the first chapter, click here. SUBJECT TO CHANGE!
