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"I've been your enemy before. I can be your enemy again."Clematis and the Queen of the Void continues the Clem & Wist series with a horror-tinged saga of lovers to enemies (and back again). In this slow-burn f/f romance, devoted partners transform into devious adversaries-but opposition only serves to deepen their bond.The best place to take a mage on vacation: a country without magic. As the most powerful mage in eons, Wist never gets much rest. That's why Clematis drags her to an idyllic town in a land where all magic use has been made strictly illegal.Charmed by the rural scenery and unusual wildlife, they initially find little cause for concern. The townspeople are welcoming, if rather eccentric. No one dwells on old rumors of vanishing mages. Or eerie myths about the local caves.On the third day of their stay, Wist disappears without a trace. Impenetrable walls spring up around town. No one can enter, and no one can leave. The locals begin to whisper of an all-powerful and deeply beloved Queen who has ruled them for as long as anyone can remember. A magical Queen who sounds exactly like Wisteria Shien.For reasons of her own, Wist has trapped the entire town in an eternal autumn. She won't let time move forward, and she won't let anyone escape her. Especially not Clem.Yet Wist-now an invincible tyrant-might not realize that Clem needs neither magic nor allies nor even a sliver of hope to ferociously resist her rule. Truth be told, Clem has always loved having a nemesis.The Clem & Wist SeriesPrequel: No One Else Could Heal HerBook 1: The Lowest Healer and the Highest MageBook 2: The Reverse Healer Case FilesBook 3: Clematis and the Queen of the VoidEach novel revolves around the same couple. The prequel can be read either before or after the rest of the series. (The prequel and Book 1 also work as satisfying standalone stories.)

"I've been your enemy before. I can be your enemy again."Clematis and the Queen of the Void continues the Clem & Wist series with a horror-tinged saga of lovers to enemies (and back again). In this slow-burn f/f romance, devoted partners transform into devious adversaries-but opposition only serves to deepen their bond.The best place to take a mage on vacation: a country without magic. As the most powerful mage in eons, Wist never gets much rest. That's why Clematis drags her to an idyllic town in a land where all magic use has been made strictly illegal.Charmed by the rural scenery and unusual wildlife, they initially find little cause for concern. The townspeople are welcoming, if rather eccentric. No one dwells on old rumors of vanishing mages. Or eerie myths about the local caves.On the third day of their stay, Wist disappears without a trace. Impenetrable walls spring up around town. No one can enter, and no one can leave. The locals begin to whisper of an all-powerful and deeply beloved Queen who has ruled them for as long as anyone can remember. A magical Queen who sounds exactly like Wisteria Shien.For reasons of her own, Wist has trapped the entire town in an eternal autumn. She won't let time move forward, and she won't let anyone escape her. Especially not Clem.Yet Wist-now an invincible tyrant-might not realize that Clem needs neither magic nor allies nor even a sliver of hope to ferociously resist her rule. Truth be told, Clem has always loved having a nemesis.The Clem & Wist SeriesPrequel: No One Else Could Heal HerBook 1: The Lowest Healer and the Highest MageBook 2: The Reverse Healer Case FilesBook 3: Clematis and the Queen of the VoidEach novel revolves around the same couple. The prequel can be read either before or after the rest of the series. (The prequel and Book 1 also work as satisfying standalone stories.)

The Forest reveals all: old scars, hidden guilt, and growing love.After years of city life, Tiller is finally ready to revisit the magical forest where she grew up. But the forest has turned deadly, and Tiller has no magic of her own. To survive, she'll need a bodyguard.Tiller finds only one mage willing to escort her. A woman named Carnelian: a soldier with a pretty face and a dodgy reputation. Carnelian loves parties, drinking, flirting, big spending, and taking risks that others would find downright unthinkable. She'll happily lead Tiller to the heart of the Devouring Forest.But she won't do it for free.The two of them live in a country where magic-users like Carnelian labor under lifelong legal restrictions. The fastest ticket to greater liberty: getting married. Which is why Carnelian-known far and wide as the mage who no one would wed-demands Tiller's hand in marriage as her payment.Cautious, reserved Tiller never lets strangers invade her personal space. She's horrified by the prospect of marrying a mischievous gambler. But she still needs Carnelian's magic to overcome the wild monsters blocking the path back to her childhood home.And the deeper they go in the forest, the greater the danger. Tiller will have to learn very quickly how to deal with the darker side of her would-be wife.The Forest at the Heart of Her Mage is a slow-burn f/f romance with two polar-opposite heroines-both hiding enormous secrets-reluctantly engaged to be married for the sake of convenience. This novel takes place in the same contemporary fantasy world as The First and Last Demon and the Clem & Wist series, but can be read and enjoyed as a standalone story.

The Forest reveals all: old scars, hidden guilt, and growing love.After years of city life, Tiller is finally ready to revisit the magical forest where she grew up. But the forest has turned deadly, and Tiller has no magic of her own. To survive, she'll need a bodyguard.Tiller finds only one mage willing to escort her. A woman named Carnelian: a soldier with a pretty face and a dodgy reputation. Carnelian loves parties, drinking, flirting, big spending, and taking risks that others would find downright unthinkable. She'll happily lead Tiller to the heart of the Devouring Forest.But she won't do it for free.The two of them live in a country where magic-users like Carnelian labor under lifelong legal restrictions. The fastest ticket to greater liberty: getting married. Which is why Carnelian-known far and wide as the mage who no one would wed-demands Tiller's hand in marriage as her payment.Cautious, reserved Tiller never lets strangers invade her personal space. She's horrified by the prospect of marrying a mischievous gambler. But she still needs Carnelian's magic to overcome the wild monsters blocking the path back to her childhood home.And the deeper they go in the forest, the greater the danger. Tiller will have to learn very quickly how to deal with the darker side of her would-be wife.The Forest at the Heart of Her Mage is a slow-burn f/f romance with two polar-opposite heroines-both hiding enormous secrets-reluctantly engaged to be married for the sake of convenience. This novel takes place in the same contemporary fantasy world as The First and Last Demon and the Clem & Wist series, but can be read and enjoyed as a standalone story.

Meet Char: a once-renowned human warrior, trapped in an abandoned city with a demon who hates her. A demon who woke her from a fifty-year magical slumber specifically for the sake of tormenting her.The demon's name: Vesper. She and Char go a long, long way back. They used to be partners on the battlefield. National heroes. An unbeatable team bonded by magic. That bond was supposed to last for the rest of their lives.Now Char's memory is full of holes. The sealed city is full of hostile magical beasts. And Vesper, with her sharp teeth and unpredictable moods, is the most vicious of them all. As an ageless demon, she's fully prepared to keep holding Char captive forever.Char struggles to unravel the mystery of why they've ended up pitted against each other, locked in a private war that seems certain to end with one or both of them dead. Does Vesper's senseless cruelty stem from simple demonic bloodlust? From years of suppressed loathing? What else could have driven her past the breaking point-compelled her to suddenly snap and betray her own bondmate?To uncover the truth, Char will have to face her demon as she would any other deadly monster: as an enemy of humanity, the most formidable and vindictive foe she's ever encountered.The First and Last Demon is a dark f/f enemies to lovers story with a heavy emphasis on the enmity-but an indelible slow-burning love at its core. Although it's set in the same contemporary fantasy world as the Clem & Wist series, this novel can be fully enjoyed as a standalone tale.

"I want to see you cry. I want to see you destroyed."No One Else Could Heal Her (a prequel to the Clem & Wist series) marks the contentious beginning of a lifelong f/f romance. Their slow-burn relationship deepens in a stratified magical academy packed with rules designed to keep them apart. They're opposites in every way. Their feelings for each other are stifled, unfamiliar, charged with resentment. And impossible to deny.In this modern-era fantasy world, mages get all the magic and glory. Mages run the nation. Healers shuffle around in their shadow.Clematis is a talented healer. That's what traps her at a prestigious boarding school for high-class mages and the healers being trained to serve them. Her only goal: keep her head down. Pretend to be mediocre. Avoid catching the interest of any mages whatsoever.Tall, dark-haired Wist is a quiet loner, despite being the strongest mage student in the entire academy. She seems just as determined as Clematis to cover up her true gifts. Yet every once in a while, she cracks and shows more glimpses of her power. For some reason, those moments usually have something to do with Clematis.Clematis can't begin to understand why a top-tier mage would try to avoid the spotlight. The sheer infuriating mystery of Wist keeps dragging her in closer. Even if they're supposed to be enemies. Even if it means making herself a target for envious classmates. Even if every step she takes toward Wist puts her at risk of expulsion. Once Clematis would've been thrilled to escape the academy. Now-confronted with a cold, secretive, long-suffering mage unlike any other-she finds herself scrambling for excuses to stay. The Clem & Wist SeriesPrequel: No One Else Could Heal HerBook 1: The Lowest Healer and the Highest MageBook 2: The Reverse Healer Case FilesEach novel revolves around the same couple. The prequel can be read either before or after the rest of the series. (The prequel and Book 1 also work as satisfying standalone stories.)

"I never forgot the sound of you calling for me. Not for a second."The Lowest Healer and the Highest Mage is a slow-burn f/f romance set in an original modern-era fantasy world, featuring a magical tower with countless curious rooms. It's a story of friends to enemies to reluctant allies, guilty secrets, love mixed inextricably with hate, fragile second chances, and the true price of boundless magical power.In a country where mages have all the power and healers supposedly only exist to support them, Clematis-a talented healer-is despised for her past attempts to defy the mageocracy. In her early thirties, she's already on year seven of a life sentence for treason.But when the most powerful mage in the nation suddenly loses all her magic, the government wants unconventional Clematis to help get it back.The mage is a tall, distant woman called Wist, and Clematis knows her all too well. They used to be classmates. Best friends. Perhaps more. Wist is also the person who reported Clematis for leaking state secrets. She's the reason Clematis spent the last seven years in prison.Clematis wants revenge for her betrayal, but she wants freedom even more. She's got thirty days to recover Wist's magic: miss the deadline, and she'll be shunted back to prison for the rest of her life. Yet attempting to resurrect Wist's lost magic will force her to face the real reason why Wist betrayed her-and to face her unresolved, unspoken feelings for the mage who stabbed her in the back and walked away.The Clem & Wist SeriesPrequel: No One Else Could Heal HerBook 1: The Lowest Healer and the Highest MageBook 2: The Reverse Healer Case FilesEach novel revolves around the same couple. The prequel can be read either before or after the rest of the series. (The prequel and Book 1 also work as satisfying standalone stories.)

"I never thought I would be the one to hurt you like this."The Reverse Healer Case Files picks up right where The Lowest Healer and the Highest Mage left off, delving ever deeper into Clematis and Wist's tangled relationship and the complex, modern-era fantasy world that surrounds them. It's a direct sequel with more slow-burn f/f romance. More mystery. More enemies. More tender moments and more pain. And much more magebreaking.Mages rule the country. Healers are legally required to serve them. As a rebellious-minded healer, Clematis loathes the mageocracy. She only makes an exception for her own mage, Wist, who is difficult to read yet deeply devoted-and who just so happens to be the most powerful magic-user in the entire world.With Wist there to back her up, Clematis discovers new ways to furtively help desperate healers. Yet though Wist's magic remains in high demand, she's still far weaker than she used to be. And her self-sacrificial instincts soon threaten to put her in direct opposition to Clematis.So much for living quietly. Clematis can't use magic. She can't even throw a solid punch. Her only weapons are her wits and dirty tricks. But she'll fight tooth and nail to defend her happy ending. She'll keep fighting no matter who stands in her way-be it Wist's ultra-influential family of mages, international spies and assassins, or even Wist herself.The Clem & Wist SeriesPrequel: No One Else Could Heal HerBook 1: The Lowest Healer and the Highest MageBook 2: The Reverse Healer Case FilesEach novel revolves around the same couple. The prequel can be read either before or after the rest of the series. (The prequel and Book 1 also work as satisfying standalone stories.)