Elli's Scribblings

Aurelia’s days are filled with work. A charming stranger with a voice like soft caramel is a welcome distraction, even though she has more to worry about than the question of whether his lips are as sweet as his words. Someone is trying to put her out of business, and their methods keep escalating.

Laurent is scouting a target for his best friend’s heist when he dives into a candy store to avoid being spotted by the guards. What starts as an attempt to kill some time ends with his heart lost to the store owner’s warm smile. He wants to see her again but returning to the scene of the crime is playing with fire.

Fortunately, Laurent is a fire mage.

Finnian is a wandering healer down on his luck. When one of his patients dies, the village turns against him, beating him half to death and abandoning him for thirst and scavengers to finish what they started.

Eilis lives deep in the forest, hiding from the world. When she finds him, impaled on a tree and barely alive, she can‘t leave him to his fate, even if it means upending the peaceful life she has built for herself.

As Finnian slowly recovers, days filled with quiet companionship make the prospect of him staying less daunting than either of them had expected. But he carries too many scars, and Eilis too many secrets, threatening to destroy their fragile relationship as the shadows of the past draw closer.

Merridy is a pickpocket, trying to survive on the streets of a city that has no place for her. When she is caught and thrown into the dungeons, her life might as well be over. Between the cruelty of the guards and the trial awaiting her, there‘s little chance she‘ll ever see the light of day again.

The last thing she expects is to be freed by the man who rules the city’s underground with an iron fist. Everything Cedric does has a price, and now she owes him her life, wondering what he saved her for. There is no way she could ever be of use to someone like him—or is there?

When Damien—better known as the infamous Nightmare of Raqhar—is given a murderous task, his plan is simple: weave an illusion, kill the ambassador, vanish unseen.

Unfortunately, even the simplest plan can fail, and he finds himself gravely injured and in the hands of his enemies. The punishment for treason is death, if he lives long enough to be brought to trial. Some of his captors hate him even more than he hates himself, and they know what horrible things he has used his magic for.

Between his tormentors’ desire for revenge and the memories of his past haunting him, only one thing is certain: he deserves everything that’s coming for him. Doesn’t he?