The Legend of the Scarlet Harbour

Malena must stop avoiding the voices in her head so she can defeat the villain she loves before he finds the Shadowmaster’s Bind and becomes unstoppable.

A mysterious scarlet letter summons Malena to Horadun, a city she once believed to be a children’s horror story. But Horadun is real, and its empty, blood-covered streets scream that something disastrous has happened there. Desperate to return to her family, Malena agrees to help Rainer, a wolfish brute who is searching for the Shadowmaster’s Bind, a supernatural artefact linked to Horadun’s demise. The closer she gets to him, the more the voices in her head clamour that he is a villain. Malena starts spying on the man who makes her heart beat faster—but what happens if she finds proof of his treason? Will she turn him in, or stay quiet? After all, he is the only person capable of getting her home…

The manuscript is complete at 71,000 words. I’m in a developmental revision now to bring it to the 85 to 90k range for adult romantasy, and it will be ready to query by mid-autumn.