Rae Else

Empathy without boundaries is self-destruction. But I can’t ignore people’s feelings. No, like, I literally can’t.

Hi, I’m Mel, and I’m an empath. My inability to control said magic is about to make me implode. Bad things come in threes, right? I’m a newly qualified magical teacher failing my training year because four tiny vampires keep trying to bite their classmates. My mother’s written me off as magically inadequate and is determined to marry me off. (Because when your power’s a disaster, you’re just an incubator for future greatness.) Oh, and I’m so low I attract a demon feeding off my despair—the kind magical society insists don’t exist.

Then Ash walks into my life. Gorgeous. Charming. A vampire—which means dead tissue, no Aether connection, blissfully zero feelings bleeding into my already-overloaded brain. Perfect fake boyfriend material. This is totally a controllable situation.

Except… remember how I can’t ignore feelings?

Ash

She tastes of self-doubt, disappointment, and melancholy. Exquisite. I’m half-vampire, half-demon. An actor who’s spent seventy years perfecting two performances: feeding on human emotion without them noticing, and hiding the demon half that society would shun me for. Never get close—that’s my one rule.

But when my demon father tells me he’s dying and needs my help to get close to an empathic witch, I break it.

Keeping my distance from Mel should be easy. It isn’t. She’s drowning in everyone’s emotions, barely holding herself together, and somehow still showing up every day with a smile. She asks me to be her fake boyfriend to fool her overbearing mother. Perfect. I can play the role and deliver her to my father.

Instead, I’m falling for the woman I was sent to destroy.

Saving her means betraying my father—but for the first time in seventy years, I believe I can.

In London’s hidden magical world, some demons can’t be overcome. Some are worth falling for anyway.

Perfect for readers who crave: ✦ Dual POV fated mates with impossible stakes ✦ Fake dating that becomes devastatingly real ✦ Morally grey hero fighting his nature ✦ Empath heroine finding her power ✦ Urban fantasy London with demons and witches ✦ Soul pacts and found family ✦ Slow-burn heat with emotional depth

Intended for mature readers.

Aoede Ramos has spent twenty years being the controlled one. As a blood magic lawyer handling demon contracts for a London firm, she is precise, effective, and carefully bounded — the woman who can argue a soul pact clause into dust without flinching. What she cannot do is use her other power: the Aether gift she inherited from the Ramos line, the one that lets witches speak to the dead. She returns to Ramos Abbey, alone, to face the ancestor she has been running from since she was seven years old. She performs the summoning exactly as Lamorna taught her. The man who steps out of the ritual circle is not who she was expecting.

Dev has been inside the trees for a hundred and forty years. He does not remember his real name. He does not remember what he did to deserve the curse. He has seven manifestations left before he fades to permanent shadow, and he is lying about something he hasn’t yet remembered.

Running beneath both stories is a third: a weakened, desperate cambion who has spent six months engineering exactly these circumstances. He needs an Aether witch powerful enough to open a doorway between realms, at a sacred ancestral site, at the right moment — and he did not plan for Dev. The book’s central tension is a triple countdown: Dev’s dwindling lives, Aoede’s growing power, and a deadline that is running out.

Intended for mature readers.

Lamorna Bray spent the last six months doing what she does best: throwing herself into work to forget that her kelpie ex-boyfriend had the fidelity of a tidal wave. The result — a groundbreaking academic paper called Bart’s Law, identifying a mathematical method for detecting Aether-shielded sacred sites — has made her a name in magical academia and is due to be published to the wider magical world in six weeks. She’s taking two weeks’ holiday in her Cornish home village of Porthhelyk before the launch. She has no intention of going anywhere near the sea, or anyone who smells of it.

Then a tall-ship docks in the harbour, her best friend volunteers her for its crew, and a blond, sea-blue-eyed captain named Penrose calls her Tink before she can object.

Penrose has been planning this for six months. He needs Lammy to retract her publication. He is prepared to kidnap her to make that happen. What he is not prepared for is a librarian who fights back with maritime disaster statistics, negotiates library access as a condition of cooperation, and sees through his every deflection in three days flat.

The voyage will take them through the seafox-haunted bay where ancient magic bleeds through the depths — and into a hidden world neither of them is ready to share.

Coming soon. Intended for mature readers.

Jess wakes by a lake, covered in blood, with no memory of how she got there. She’s spent seventeen years in foster care, hiding her rage blackouts from everyone. But when a portal rips open and drags her into a supernatural prison, she learns the truth: she’s a wolf shifter. And she’s been accused of murder.

Trapped in Triodia Penitentiary with paranormals who want her dead, Jess has three choices: Run. Fight. Or unlock the wolf inside her that everyone fears.

But her cellmates have secrets of their own. A vampire with a death wish. A witch who speaks in riddles. And a rival wolf shifter who looks at her like she’s both his enemy and his salvation.

When an ancient blood feud threatens to destroy them all, Jess must decide: escape and stay human, or embrace the monster she was born to be.

For fans of Jennifer L. Armentrout’s FROM BLOOD AND ASH and Sarah J. Maas’s THRONE OF GLASS, LUNA is a dark paranormal romance where forbidden love and deadly secrets collide.

She escaped the prison. She killed the Alpha. Now Jess has to decide what monster she’ll become.

Jess thought freedom would feel different. Instead, she’s haunted by a death omen that won’t let her go. The witches who sheltered her want her to claim the wolf pack she inherited through blood and violence. But Jess feels drawn to her enemies—the rival pack who should want her dead.

Two men hold the answers she needs: Matteo, the paranormal officer who knows the truth about her past; Rune, the vampire who makes her forget she’s supposed to choose a side.

But in a world where wolf packs, witch covens, and fae courts are on the brink of war, choosing wrong could destroy them all.

When ancient secrets surface and loyalties shatter, Jess faces an impossible question: What if the truth doesn’t set you free? What if it steals your future?

NOX is Book 2 in THE DARK BETWEEN series. A darker, grittier paranormal romance where wolf shifters become gods and vampires guard your heart. Perfect for fans who devoured THRONE OF GLASS and FROM BLOOD AND ASH.

She claimed the wolf pack. Now she’s leading them straight into the realm of the fae—and Rune thinks it’s going to kill her.

Jess has an army of iron-clawed wolves and a mission: rescue the death spirits from the Unseelie queen before she uses them to destroy two worlds. Simple, except for three problems: The fae realm of Umbra isn’t like Earth. The shadows have teeth. The mountains hold buried gods. And the queen who rules it all has been waiting centuries for someone exactly like Jess.

Rune would die for her in a heartbeat. But he can’t follow where she’s going—into her own past, into the truths that will shatter everything she thought she knew about herself.

And the cost of saving the world? It might be their love. Or their lives. Or something worse—their souls.

UMBRA is Book 3 in THE DARK BETWEEN series, where wolf shifters storm the fae realm and vampires face impossible choices. For readers who crave Sarah J. Maas’s world-building and Laini Taylor’s lyrical darkness.

They became gods. Now they have to save two worlds—or watch them burn.

Jess and Rune have the power of gods, an army at their backs, and an enemy that feeds on destruction itself. Queen Mara has unleashed the ancient darkness, and this time, it’s not just Umbra at stake—it’s Earth.

To unite the wolf packs, witch covens, and fae courts, they’ll have to reveal the truth about where the darkness came from. But some secrets were buried for a reason. Some allies can’t be trusted. And some wounds run too deep to heal.

And when the deep magic of the Between finally reveals a way to stop the darkness, the cost is unthinkable: One of them has to make the ultimate sacrifice.

Even gods bleed. And someone has to pay the price.

LUX is the epic conclusion to THE DARK BETWEEN series. Gods, wolves, vampires, and fae collide in a battle that will decide the fate of two worlds. For fans of R.F. Kuang’s THE POPPY WAR and the brutal choices of THRONE OF GLASS.

El loses control during a museum tour, and injures a man. He survives. Barely. But the Order doesn’t care—they’re hunting her now. They know she’s descended from beings cursed by the gods. Medusa. Monsters who became legend.

They drag her into a hidden world beneath London, where others like her live in the shadows. They call themselves the Arete. And they’re at war.

One faction wants to stay hidden. The other wants to claim their power—and destroy the Order that’s kept them secret for centuries. El is caught in the middle.

The only way to survive is to discover the truth about her bloodline. Before her power kills someone for real.

Descendants is the first book in The Arete series, a Greek mythology urban fantasy perfect for fans of Alexandra Bracken’s LORE and Percy Jackson.

El survived the Order. Now they want her to join them—to train with the most powerful Arete in the world. Her own family. The Carrases.

There’s just one problem: they’ve been lying to her since birth.

Guided by a seer, El travels to Greece to claim her inheritance. But the deeper she goes into the Arete world, the more she realizes her family’s power comes with a price. Blood magic. Ancient enemies. And secrets that should have stayed buried.

The seer’s visions show two paths: one where El masters her power, and one where it consumes her. To survive, El must navigate a maze of agendas and impossible choices. Trust the family who abandoned her, or forge her own path—even if it means becoming the monster they’ve always feared.

In Greece, myth still lives. And it’s hungry.

THE ALL-SEEING EYE is the second book in THE ARETE SERIES. Perfect for fans of prophecy, blood magic, and Greek mythology with brutal twists.

El used the full power. Now she’s paying the price.

Rosa, the ancient vampire—the enemy she killed—is inside her mind. Sharing her body. Fighting for control.

El has no choice but to make a deal with the monster in her head: work together, or they both die. But every moment Rosa stays, El loses more of herself. Memories that aren’t hers. Desires she didn’t choose. A hunger she can’t control.

The only way to fight back is to travel to the Mountain of the Gods—the birthplace of the Arete’s power. But the deeper El goes, the more she realises: Rosa isn’t just a passenger. She’s becoming El.

And when Seth summons the monsters of the ancient world to destroy the Arete, El faces an impossible choice: surrender to Rosa and lose herself forever—or let the world burn.

Some sacrifices can’t be undone.

RITES OF PASSAGE is the explosive final book in THE ARETE SERIES. Perfect for fans of body horror, impossible choices, and Greek mythology with brutal stakes.