“One day, you will be old enough to start reading fairytales again.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Chronicles of Narnia
debut novel coming november 2024
Of Stars and Lightning
Love vs Duty
Trust vs Revenge
ALpha Reader Reviews
When Sol Yarrow learns she’s the heiress of a land thought to be only folklore, she finds that everything she thought she knew about her family — and herself —were lies.
Leaving her home behind to solve all the secrets, Sol must race to survive the King’s Marriage Vows, a series of trials meant to identify her best political partner, in order to finish what her mother started and take her birthright as Queen.
But with no magic or knowledge of her future kingdom, Sol must rely on her Court to help her during these tests, learning to trust the strangers that flipped her world around in the first place.
Meanwhile, a sinister species from the deepest pits of Hell is beginning to overtake Erriadin, and Sol might be the last standing member of her bloodline able to send them back to their world.
Of Stars and LIGHTNING features an ENSEMBLE of characters each with their unique experiences and stories, but all with one common goal: save their world before there is nothing of it left worth saving.
About Mel
Melanie Mar is a Social Worker along with being a mother to an incredibly active infant and two equally demanding fur babies. When she is not combating adulthood duties, she enjoys exploring the
outdoors (when it’s cold), watching horror films, reading romantic fantasies until 3am, and spending all the time she can with her family.
Mel lives in Texas and her Bachelor of Science in Psychology gives her a unique perspective on human behaviors, helping her craft three-dimensional, relatable characters with their own ways of overcoming struggles. She participated in AWP’s 19th Season of W2W as a Mentee and was published in her local university's magazine.
She is currently working on her debut romantasy novel and spending all her free time living within its world.
She is currently working on TWO different fantasy series
Alpha Reader Reviews for Of Stars and Lightning
“I never wondered why characters were doing what they were doing. If they behaved strangely, I didn't think, 'this character needs more work' but instead, 'something is up with this character'. Your writing was clear and precise enough that I trusted the words on the page to mean what they said.”
Jasmin W. @jwolffrath on Fivver
“INTRIGUING. MEMORABLE CHARACTERS. UNIQUE. ( I need the next book NOW! )”
Kate @kslove35 on Fivver
