S. A. HOLLOWAY

The room felt charged, the air thick with unspoken hunger as Cassian's dark eyes locked onto mine. His presence filled the space, tall and unyielding, his commanding voice cutting through the silence like a whip. "Now, on your knees, Elara." I hesitated, my heart pounding in my chest, but that piercing gaze of his broke any resistance. My legs buckled, and I dropped to the hard floor, knees hitting with a thud that sent a shiver up my spine. Trembling with anticipation, I looked up at him, my cheeks already flushing hot. "Touch yourself," he commanded, his voice firm, leaving no room for argument. "Let me see how much you want this." --- When Elara Ashdown journeys alone to the remote valley of Ravenwell in search of her mother’s buried past, she expects forgotten records and family secrets. Not a castle that seems to breathe her name. Within its ancient walls lives Cassian de Varnesse, a man bound by shadow and a history he refuses to speak aloud. Drawn together by an attraction neither dares name, Elara and Cassian stand at the edge of truths that could destroy them both. With a masquerade looming and whispers of a woman long dead echoing through the halls, Elara must decide how far she is willing to follow into the shadows. A gothic romance of slow-burning desire, haunted legacy, and love entwined with darkness, Shadows of Ravenwell is a story where the past is never truly gone. TRIGGER/CONTENT WARNING: This story contains mature themes and content intended for adult audiences (18+) Reader discretion is advised. It includes moments of sexual content and dark erotic elements, manipulation, emotional power dynamics, consensual-but-complicated intimacy, and suicide (referenced).

Behind velvet curtains and gilded balconies, the opera is more than a performance. It's a hunting ground, a court of monsters disguised as patrons and benefactors. When a masked nobleman claims her talent as his own, Lyria is drawn into a world where music is power, restraint is survival, and desire is the most dangerous temptation of all. The longer Lyria remains under his protection, the more she awakens. Her body responds to hungers she does not yet understand and her are dreams invaded by a silver-eyed predator who promises freedom instead of restraint. As the opera’s beauty curdles into something predatory, Lyria must decide what she is willing to become to survive it. The stage is watching. The city is listening. And once the blood sings, it cannot be silenced. TRIGGER/CONTENT WARNING: This story contains mature themes and content intended for adult audiences (18+) Reader discretion is advised. It includes moments of violence, sexual content and dark erotic elements, manipulation, obsession, and emotional power dynamics.

BOOK 1 MUST BE READ BEFORE READING. Lyria left the Opera believing she was choosing herself. What she did not know was that every step away from it pulled something else loose. In a city that watches her more closely than it should, Lyria learns to live with what she is. The world responds to her now: streets part, voices lower, strangers linger too long without understanding why. But blood remembers. And so does the Opera. Across borders and months, Avel feels the pull she leaves behind: a bond stretched thin but unbroken. He follows its echo through silence and stone. Each attempt to reach her costs him more than the last, unraveling the careful control that once defined him. When Lyria finally returns to the Opera House, she does not come back as the woman who fled. As Caelan’s influence tightens, Lyria is forced to confront the truth she has avoided: Power always demands a final performance. Love, when bound to blood, rarely survives its last note. TRIGGER/CONTENT WARNING: This story contains mature themes and content intended for adult audiences (18+) Reader discretion is advised. It includes moments of violence, sexual content and dark erotic elements, manipulation, obsession, and emotional power dynamics.

During the height of the plague, Elizabeth is known for touching the dying without fear and for surviving longer than anyone should. The village calls her witch. Death calls her interesting. Malachor is a demon bound to plague and passing souls, ancient and cruel, intrigued by a healer who refuses to beg. When Elizabeth is condemned, thrown into a plague pit, and left to die, she calls out, not to God, but to the darkness watching her. He answers. Bound to a demon of death, Elizabeth survives and is slowly claimed. Desire becomes devotion. Mercy becomes sin. A dark historical fantasy romance of plague, power, and forbidden surrender where love corrupts, salvation fails, and Hell is the only vow kept. TRIGGER/CONTENT WARNING: This story contains mature themes and content intended for adult audiences (18+) Reader discretion is advised. It includes moments of violence, coercion and domination themes, sexual content and dark erotic elements, emotional trauma and moral corruption, blasphemous themes involving demons, faith, and damnation.