New Adult Romantasy
The Legend of Zia
Nineteen-year-old Zia knew it was possible for her to fall under a sleeping curse. It’s been passed down through the royal female bloodline, along with magic meant to protect the kingdom of Hanai from its oldest enemy, Togegami. What no-nonsense Zia didn’t expect was for the sleeping curse to drag her touchy-feely knight, Raiden, into the dream realm with her.
Both of them are missing crucial memories from the last year, but Zia and Raiden know three things: Togegami attacked the day the curse took effect, Hanai will fall without Zia, and true love’s kiss is the only way to wake up. After a goddess-awful smooch (just in case), they try to separate to find their pre-sleep lovers, but they quickly realize they’re safer together.
As Zia and Raiden navigate the dream realm’s hazards, including sentient poisonous thorns, hordes of monsters, and Zia’s newly awakened magic, they begin to regain their missing memories—including confusing glimpses of what they were to each other when they fell asleep. But time is against them, and while the dream realm holds the key to defeating Togegami for good, remaining there too long will doom everyone they love. When their supposed loves fail to wake them up, Zia and Raiden must take a leap of faith to break the curse, escape the dream realm, and return to save Hanai.
In Progress
Young Adult Romantasy
Knife and Shell
Seventeen-year-old mermaid Kailani is down to one last, desperate idea to activate her magical Voice before her coronation: a visit to the forbidden human world. The night she swims for the surface, Prince Jonah tries to escape his island after learning of his betrothal to a stranger. It’s treason for a mermaid to help a human, but when a storm wrecks Jonah’s canoe, Kailani can’t stand by and watch him drown.
Unfortunately, Kailani’s calculating aunt witnesses the rescue and blackmails her into an assassination mission to fix her “mistake.” One potion later, Kailani stumbles up the beach and inserts herself into Jonah’s life by impersonating his betrothed. Kailani and Jonah make a prickly couple, but as they bicker their way through planning a wedding, treating sickly soil, and bracing for an invasion, Jonah recognizes that Kailani might be the partner he needs, and Kailani realizes that she’ll do whatever it takes to keep Jonah safe.
Kailani pivots to a new plan to negate her aunt’s blackmail so she can go home. But when she gets unveiled as an imposter and her aunt comes after Jonah herself, Kailani faces an impossible choice: claim her magic and her throne or save the boy she’s come to love.
Querying!
Young Adult Romance
Once Upon A Road Trip
When best friend Rob kisses Tiff, she doesn’t mean to throw up on him and then run away. The kiss caught her off guard, triggering her first-ever anxiety attack. Unfortunately, after the kiss fiasco, Rob doesn't seem to want anything to do with Tiff.
After a lonely summer, a pre-college road trip brings the ex-best friends back together. Tiff tries to tell herself that she’s over Rob, but come on. There’s got to be a reason (other than vomit) that he ended their friendship, and if she can control her anxiety long enough to create the right moment, she can find out why. Maybe even win him back in the process. But when Tiff’s social media-famous cousin crashes the trip and sets her sights on Rob, will Tiff risk rejection (and another attack) to tell Rob how she feels, or will she let her anxiety sentence her to life in the friendzone?
Shelved for now
New Adult Romance
Smiles, Boyfriends, and Other White Lies
Twenty-one-year-old Lauren McCoy is done with dating. She’s determined to study abroad, but her marriage-obsessed mother won't hear of it—or give her access to the trust fund she needs to pay for the trip. Maybe if Lauren were in a relationship, her mother would be easier to sway.
It feels like fate when Conner Hicks enters Lauren's life—he's the perfect cover, a convenient boyfriend who flirts but avoids commitment.
However, when Lauren discovers more to Conner than the casual fling, her escape across the ocean may destroy the relationship she'd planned to throw away.
This book was sold for publication with Cedar Fort in 2018, but Cedar Fort subsequently had financial problems and canceled the contract
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