The Scars He Doesn't Show
Thomas de Montrevaux's life was predictable. He had the moves down. He could slide through his life with very little notice, hiding in the shadows from his father's reach and everyone else's pity. It was lonely, but it was his.
Until the night an infuriatingly unflappable giant, Caleb, showed up in his chambers, claiming he was some sort of god of fate. Thomas didn't believe in any gods, or if he did, he knew they'd abandoned him long ago. With a dagger and his wit, he makes sure Caleb knows he is no god's pawn.
Thomas's entire world becomes a cruel dance with fate as the day repeats, with no sign of release. Worse still, he finds himself drawn to Caleb and the man beneath the warrior sent to protect him.
Everything changes when Thomas discovers the terrible secret behind Caleb's power and learns just what it costs to be loved in a world where that love spells certain death.
The Scars He Doesn't Show is a novella that asks: Just how far would you go to keep the memory of the only person you've ever loved when fate is trying to take it from you?
The Storm Beneath Their Skins
There is a Balance to all things, and it must be maintained. That work falls to the Guardians — stewards of fate, shaping our world from the inside. Always watching. Always adjusting. Always bleeding.
Sol has guarded humanity for centuries, and he hasn’t wanted anything since the day his twin died. Now the Balance has bound him to a single repeating day in a small seaside town, circling a baker with a metal bat behind her counter and storm-blue eyes he’s seen in dreams. Each dawn, the town resets. Rae doesn’t — his power shields her, making her the only soul awake inside the loop with him.
Rae rebuilt her life from wreckage once already. She knows better than to trust the beautiful stranger her repeating day arrived with. But he keeps the tea ready before she asks. He keeps his distance like a promise. And every day they keep is borrowed — because when the mission ends, the rules say her memory of all of it goes. Including him.
The rules against loving a human are absolute. Sol wrote them himself. But the day that keeps repeating is hiding a reason, shadows are gathering at its edges, and this is a story of humans who — forged by pain, never defined by it — lend their strength to the beings meant to save us all.
Thomas was strong enough.
Rae was.
Ben was.
Are you?