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A little Bacchanalia update.

I’ve made the difficult decision to take Summer Maiden: Persephone’s Fall out of active publication for now.

I wrote the original novella more than ten years ago as a short erotic retelling. I’m still grateful for the story it began, and especially for every reader who found it, read it, reviewed it, and helped bring me back to this world.

But Bacchanalia has changed since then. And boy howdy, so have I.

Writing Bound Maiden, and now Dream Maiden, has shown me what I...

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I'm SO excited to share that BOUND MAIDEN: DAPHNE'S CHASE was released Monday!
It is a strange and wonderful feeling to finally have my Daphne and Apollo out in the world after spending so much time with them.

I especially want to thank all of the ARC readers who took a chance on the book, read it early, and shared their thoughts. Seeing readers understand Daphne and her fierceness has meant more to me than I can say. Plus, a lot of you seem to share my weakness for Apollo's obnoxious charms.
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One of my favourite parts of writing mythological retellings is discovering that the myths still have secrets left to tell.

When I started Dream Maiden, I thought I knew what Psyche's story was about: Beauty, trust and love. (How could it not be about love!?) Those things are certainly there, but as I advance in this draft, I am realizing they are only a part of the heart of the novel.
Instead, the book has become about seeing. And what it means to truly see someone and be seen.

Psyche is the...

I’m now accepting ARC readers for BOUND MAIDEN: DAPHNE's CHASE , my dark erotic retelling of the myth of Daphne and Apollo.

The book releases on September 1, and I’m looking for readers who genuinely enjoy spicy, dark myth retellings, erotic romance, morally complicated gods, strong heroines, bondage, power exchange, and who embrace the complicated choices between desire and surrender.

The digital ARC is available on:

NetGalley

BookSirens

BookSprout

There are also a small number of physical ARC's...

I’m delighted to share that BOUND MAIDEN: DAPHNE'S CHASE is finally finished and officially scheduled for release on September 1.

This is the second standalone story in my Bacchanalia cycle, following SUMMER MAIDEN: PERSEPHONE'S FALL. This time, I’m turning to the myth of Daphne and Apollo. (Who you might remember from SUMMER MAIDEN.)

In the story most of us have read, Apollo is struck by Cupid's arrow and desires Daphne, but she runs from him, and in an attempt to preserve her chastity, she is...