Ariana Bates with Michael Anderle
To Dance with Darkness

To Dance with Darkness

He judges the damned. She might be his salvation.

There's something wrong with the man in the expensive coat who haunts Chicago's dying bars. Damien knows things—terrible things—about every desperate soul he meets. Financial ruin. Terminal loneliness. The exact weight of guilt they carry.

Freelance journalist Kora should run. Instead, she makes a deal: his mysterious contacts for her human-interest stories. Every interview brings them closer to people on the brink, and closer to each other.

Some shadows have eyes. Some watchers have agendas. When ethereal strangers begin appearing with messages about "consequences" and "contracts," Kora realizes she's not just documenting human desperation anymore.

She's become part of it.

Because falling for someone like Damien means more than risking her heart. It means gambling with forces that treat love like a weakness and mortality like a punishment. In a world where some beings are built to judge and never feel, what happens when one chooses to fall?

Can a mortal woman's love outweigh eternity itself? Or are some souls too dark to save?

Download now and step into the shadows where redemption comes at an immortal price.

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Ashfall Between Us

Ashfall Between Us

EVERY KISS IS MONITORED. EVERY TOUCH REPORTED.

Ten months of marriage kept at arm's length. Today, Kora and Damien finally move in together. Today, something starts watching.

Kora knew marrying a former Shadow Realm Officer meant complications. She didn't expect their happiness to trigger a tracker. Every moment of joy activates the mark on Damien's hand, reporting their intimacy to entities with unknown agendas. Their love is being catalogued. Studied. Used.

Damien is hiding something darker.

Something beyond reality is reaching for him, pulling him toward a place that shouldn't exist. It's teaching itself through his touch, learning from every connection. Those he once trusted may be orchestrating something he doesn't understand.

They chose each other over eternity. Sacrificed immortality for domesticity, power for partnership. Now unseen forces press in on their fragile new life, and Damien's connection to something vast and hungry grows stronger by the day.

In a city of steel and glass, ancient dimensions are stirring. In a penthouse filled with unpacked boxes and tentative hope, two people must decide how much surveillance their love can survive.

Dive into the second book of The Unweaving Trilogy—where every moment of happiness has a watcher, and love might be the most dangerous experiment of all. Will their bond survive forces beyond human understanding, or will Damien be pulled into the very darkness he once escaped?

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The Hollow Light

The Hollow Light

She was a journalist before the Void took her husband. She's a better one now.

Three months since the Liminal sealed with Damien inside it. Kora still sets out two mugs every morning. She's been told there's nothing to retrieve. She doesn't believe it.

When a grief epidemic moves through Chicago—strangers waking at three in the morning with identical phrases on their lips, crowds syncing into shared sorrow on train platforms—her instincts divide: toward the story, and toward the certainty she won't release. The supernatural membrane is fracturing.

If the Inversus is bleeding through, Damien still exists on the other side.

Cyril has been at her door every week since the Void sealed. Warm meals. Careful reasons she should stop looking. He's the one with his hand on the dial.

Every layer she strips back reveals something colder underneath—something that feeds on unresolved love, that knows exactly where to find her.

Will she reach her husband before the fracture closes—or will trusting the wrong person cost her the only door left open? Grab The Hollow Light and find out.

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