✨ VEILED ENCHANTMENTS ✨
status: publishing with Tempest!
Seventeen-year-old Blake has spent her life studying magic at Holtsworth Academy with the hope of joining the ranks of the Royal Corps, an elite infantry comprised of Divine witches descended from the gods. There’s only one problem: Blake isn’t a Divine witch at all, she’s a hedge witch; basically mortal. As niece of the headmistress, she is confined to the role of assistant and silent observer of the extraordinary lessons unfolding around her, her own negligible powers denying her full participation.
A spark of hope arrives during the Corps’ annual visit to the academy, when Blake learns that the Grandwitch has brought along a secret necklace containing a volatile and immeasurable magic. Finally, Blake has a chance of wielding the power she has always longed for. But just as she finds a way to obtain it, the necklace disappears and Blake believes she knows exactly who stole it: Maeve Moram, the irritating but intriguing daughter of Death herself.
What begins as a quest to recover the necklace results in Blake unearthing not only the hidden truth of her fellow hedge witches but also a deeper and darker power that she can’t begin to comprehend. Blake must decide who – and what – she really is before this ancient magic consumes her and the world she knows.
✨ THEMES AND TROPES ✨
sapphic enemies to lovers
dark academia
underdog protagonist
low vs. high magic
godly interference in mortal lives
inherited vs. chosen identity
magic as a metaphor for wealth and status
LEGACY OF BLOOD
status: simmering
🩸 THEMES AND TROPES 🩸
rivals/reluctant allies to lovers
can we escape the crimes of our ancestors?
toxic family dynamics
magical tournaments
court politics
THISTLEWOOD
status: plotting
🍂 THEMES AND TROPES 🍂
sentient house
time loop
sibling devotion
family curses
sapphic romance
SYN’S UNDERWORLD
status: simmering
💀 THEMES AND TROPES 💀
sapphic love triangle between a kingpin, a queen, and a socialite
childhood friends to lovers to enemies
religious comp-het queen
children going missing
magical drugs and their consequences
social class themes
THE GORGON’S DAUGHTER
status: plotting
🐍 THEMES AND TROPES 🐍
what if Medusa had a daughter?
survivor’s guilt
revenge quest
dysfunctional-but-loveable trio
the gods ruin everything
STONESINGER
status: brainstorming
⛏️ THEMES AND TROPES ⛏️
secondary world based on the industrial north
inspired by the north-east’s mining heritage
dormant eldritch horrors
natural vs harvested magic
sapphic enemies to lovers
