my stories
My current project WHAT THE TREE TOLD is an adult fantasy romance complete at 81 000 words.
The plot is set up for a duology.
Book 1 – currently at the querying stage
Book 2 – currently at the drafting stage
Shinju will die.
As is tradition in her homeland, someone cast a spell on Shinju as a young girl, making her unable to have children unless she marries the man chosen for her. But she worries she won’t survive long enough to think about a family, knowing that most runaways wither and die around their twentieth birthdays.
Shinju escaped her arranged marriage more than two years ago, setting out to find freedom and true love—and a spellcaster capable of liberating her from her spell. But after being tricked by imposters, she learned to fear magic and almost gave up.
When the handsome half-elven musician Oleander catches her attention, she can’t get his song and careless laughter off her mind. Past trauma makes it hard for her to open up to him and, putting life before love, she prioritises gaining the trust of the spellcaster travelling at his side.
Shinju and her new friends encounter a mythical tree, and it allows each of them a glimpse of their future. And while she considers the truth in what the tree told, a spark of new hope grows within her and she redoubles her efforts to remove the spell and find the love she wants.
