The Midnight Garden — Chapter 3 of 12. New to the serial? Start with Chapter 1. This is a work of fiction intended for adult readers. Chapter Three: The Tithe October ended, and Elara did not. That was how she had begun to measure things — not in days but in survivals. She had survived…
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Elara returns to the walled garden with an offering — and learns its three rules from the man bound inside it for three hundred years. Chapter 2 of The Midnight Garden, a free dark fantasy serial.
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Botanist Elara Voss inherits a crumbling Highland estate — and finds a walled garden that blooms at midnight, guarded by a man who cannot leave. Chapter 1 of the serialized dark fantasy novella.
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She was offered as tribute to an immortal shadow king. What she did not expect was for him to kneel. A 4,200-word dark fantasy romance. 18+.
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The cauldron was found in a bog in County Roscommon by a farmer named Paddy Coyle, who was digging drainage ditches and expecting to find nothing more interesting than the usual complement of waterlogged timber and Bronze Age butter. What he found instead was a vessel of hammered bronze, three feet across, decorated with figures…
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Niamh Brennan did not believe in the old gods. This was ironic, given that one of them had been following her for the better part of a year. She first noticed the crow in January, perched on the railing of her balcony in Galway, watching her through the glass door with an intelligence that no…
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When Nyx enters the Forbidden Wood to find the nightbloom that could save her dying sister, she encounters the Thornkeeper — an ancient guardian spirit who has watched his boundary alone for centuries. The only way through requires a binding that will let her feel everything he feels, including a loneliness vast enough to drown in.
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In a city without a sun, dreamwalker Hesper Lusk takes on the Nightlord who put the sun out. He wants his nightmare mapped to a blue door, and the map finished. Every walker knows a finished map is a door, and a door always takes someone.
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An elite assassin spends forty-seven days watching his target — a cursed queen who tends shadow roses in a colourless kingdom and waits patiently for her own death. When he cannot bring himself to pull the trigger, he steps out of the shadows and into a quest to break a curse that can only be survived by sharing it.
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The Midnight Queen has won every battle for twenty-two years and is tired of it. The new King of Day comes to the bridge between their courts to look at the woman who killed his brother, drops her peace terms into the gorge, and asks for seven nights. Each of them spends those nights hiding an army.
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