Content Warnings:
Mature language, violence, some explicit sexual content, physical humiliation, heavy trauma and grief, sexual assault
Lyra Izacalli does not clutch onto the jagged remnants of her past—she buries them deep beneath her skin.
To feel is to give power to the past—to let grief and memory carve through her like a blade. But Lyra refuses to let them win. She will not let the sharpened words of men who call themselves nobles and kings cut deeper than they deserve. If they cannot wound her, they cannot control her. And if they cannot control her, then freedom is hers to claim—despite her feeling anything but free. But when an unexpected opportunity arises, Lyra is thrust into the deadly entrance exams of an elite academy, where only nobility thrive. But first, she must strike a blood wager with a capricious king—one that could win Lyra her freedom or cost her life… if the exams don’t kill her first.
A world that rejects her. A forgotten journal that will redefine her. A band of dangerous wielders that hunt her. And then there is him—the one who found her, who should have been nothing more than a mentor—the person to unravel her.
But Lyra is not here for love. She is here to win. And as the walls she has spent years fortifying begin to fracture as truth after daunting truth break free—
The world will come to understand…
A girl who refuses to lose does not break.
She erupts.
A Requiem for Fallen Stars is a fast-paced, emotionally charged fantasy romance where power is a game, freedom comes at a price, and love is the most dangerous risk of all. With unique trials, forgotten knowledge, and a heroine who refuses to break, this novel is perfect for fans of high-stakes political intrigue, slow-burning tension, found family, and the kind of sharp-edged romance that lingers long after the final page.
A Requiem for Fallen Stars (Cadence of the Fallen, Book 1)
A Composition of Scars (Cadence of the Fallen, Book 1.5)
Coming 3.24.26
Before Draven was the feared captain over one of Bathara’s revered aggregates, he was simply a teenager learning how to better his magic, better his combat, and better himself. With his brothers by his side, Draven, Finlay, and Kiran battle against a world that has carved out their identities with ruthless blades—despite the wrath Tynan Dalmar brings down on Draven each time he rebels. But after a particularly cruel interaction where the thin chords holding his family together officially snap, his mother whisks Draven away in the middle of the night to put distance between them and his savage father.
So, it is in the unsuspecting city of Príth—where colors dance and streets thrum with a living heartbeat—that Draven’s world expands far broader than he could ever imagine. And as he watches his mother’s smile return while confronting his deepest fears, Draven believes he has finally found his place in the world. Has discovered the true warmth of a family at last.
Until his father shatters that illusion into a million, serrated pieces.
A Composition of Scars is a novella in the Cadence of the Fallen series that tells the tale of how Draven received his deepest scars. The ones that always remain, alive and bleeding beneath his skin. It should be read after A Requiem for Fallen Stars.
A Ballad for the Broken (Cadence of the Fallen, Book 2)
Coming 6.9.26
Lyra is gone. Draven is desperate. Bathara must rebuild in the ashes of its ruin.