midnightmoon's Followed Works
Salvage - Vol. 1: Nuts and Bolts (Steampunk/ Gaslamp Romantasy - F/M, M/M)
A Steampunk/ Gaslamp Fantasy Romance set in the industrial revolution era of a fictional world.
Magic, mad science, multicultural ambience, and political intrigue all tightly laced up into one corset and powered by the steam of two romances - one F/M and one M/M.
Intended for mature audiences, 18+.
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All creations carry a trace of the maker's ethereal energy, whether deliberately placed in the magical Artifacts made by the Alchemists, or unwittingly left in the handiwork of ordinary people.
Kazia can feel that energy, in both machines and people. She may not be able to do any of the grand magic other Alchemists can, but give her a damaged machine and she can trace its energy to the problem, and know precisely how to repair it. She does have one other ability. One far more dangerous. One she will never acknowledge, and will never use.
Fleeing her villainous father rather than becoming his pawn, Kazia finds a peaceful life on a farm in a neighboring country, where no one knows that she is the daughter of Prince Gorvan Devratha. But with war looming between her birth country of Valesk and her new home in Caedra, how long can that peaceful life last?
She can be safe in the Caedran capital, among the Queen's Alchemists, but will anyone there trust her – especially the handsome but embittered Lord Kelvaran Meratha, who suspects Kazia's father of murdering his family?
Abrizhen is Kazia's older brother. He does his best to play the role of the Prince's good son and heir, but when tasked with retrieving his wayward sister, he must return to the city he'd called home for many of his youthful years. There he'll have to reckon with his past, and finally choose between the life of a dutiful prince, or the welfare of his sister – and the rekindling of an old flame.
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Content/ Mature warnings are on for:
Gore: Nothing terribly extreme. Some bleeding wounds and broken bits, but all limbs remain attached and all innards remain inward.
Sexual Content: It's not all smut all the time, but there is some. I aim for not vague but also not overly lewd. Smut chapters are labeled NSFW. Chapters with very brief smut or just some torrid making out or somesuch are labeled NSFW-ish. All on-screen depictions are consensual, but there are a few passing references to noncon having happened off-screen (not to any MCs).
Strong Language: One character really loves to swear, and could probably construct an entire monologue with just various inflections of the F word. So, yeah, that's on too.
Other CWs: Dark themes (abuse, trauma, ptsd, depression, unhealthy coping mechanisms). Mostly in discussions of past events, but there are a few scenes that may be troubling to some readers.
The Cage
Julian's dream is to become one of the most successful criminal lawyers around, so when a client asks him to venture to The Prison From Hell located on a remote island for an assignment, he jumps at the chance in hopes of a promotion. He's well-aware of the prison's infamous reputation, corrupt laws and peculiar hierarchy, so he already expects to find the baddest of the bad and the foulest of the foul within its concrete walls. Instead, he finds and catches the eye of the most beautiful man he's ever laid eyes on.
When Schneider Cross, the new King of the Prison, offers him a one-in-a-lifetime chance to represent him as his attorney, Julian accepts, but just before he leaves, a riot breaks out and the prison descends into chaos. Julian is unwittingly caught in its midst and is made to defend himself from a group of rapists, forcing him to kill in self-defense.
Angered, the inmates conspire to pin a bogus murder charge on Julian and have him thrown into The Prison from Hell with the intention to finish what they started. Dangerously unprepared and still reeling from the injustice, Julian must now seek the protection of the strongest man in all the prison if he is to survive. Only to ensure the King's protection, Julian must agree to become his 'bitch' and 'serve' him in an entirely different way than the first job entailed.
But how can Julian possibly agree to such a thing when he suspects Schneider of conspiring with the other inmates to get him locked up?
Finding Scarlet
Maya, a poor girl lost her mate at a young age of fifteen and immediately flees her pack for she is not like them, she is a fox.
Alpha Greyson is a ruthless man who is seen as a stone hearted and cold blooded killer, will this two come together and heal all their bleeding wounds?
Read on to find out.
Seeking Lull Tides
An anthology series about the earlier events that surround my main work which is an alternate historical fiction based off the Napoleonic period. Includes speculative works of what if it went diffferently or when it went the way it did in history.
The Devil Inside
Jaesung didn't expect his end to come at the hands of the one he trusted the most.
To help his grandparents' make ends meet, Jeasung dropped out of high school and joined the mafia. Little did he know he would be signing his life away to their cold-hearted heir, Luca.
In reality, his troubles were just beginning. As a Korean-Italian in an American mafia group, Jaesung was already considered the lowest of the low. Now with the young heir having put all his attention on him, his simple life was anything but. Add in a new drug on the scene that is slowly killing their members, and life for Jaesung just got a lot harder.
A story about the dark underbelly of the city, with betrayal, murder, romance, and deceit at every corner.
Will Jaesung fall prey to the devil himself?
Rhythm of Blood and Flesh
From Apprehensive_Fly and Cielo, presenting Cirque of the Damned Series Book I
A New Thrilling Tale of Bloodshed and Sisterhood, Rhythm of Blood and Flesh.
Rhythm Is part of our soul, it creates us, and we feel it, right below the flesh of our very skin.
In this world, dance and music are one with the humans, they have become our power. But corruption formed this sick Circus, creating creatures of false rhythm and unity, which made humans fall to their knees for the Circus Man. But as years pass, the power is coming back, and one of these human coming to hope is Lyra and Myra, the hoop dancers of the Circus. In order to return everything back to normal, the twins must escape the tower of Irrhythmic Melody and trace back the past of their humanity.
Under the Glistening Moon
Michelle was a hopeless romantic, who couldn’t give out her heart away despite being lonely. Light shines her way when Felix comes her way. Everything was going well, until, Felix was sent to war.
Orenda
“You can sacrifice and not love. But you cannot love and not sacrifice.” —Kris Vallotton
Orenda: An Internal summoning of personal strength to change fate; the courage to love someone against the obstacles life has set before you.
When Marigold's life falls into shambles, she runs away from home to follow the screams of her heart, which is to find the orphanage she is from; and learn about the first love she left after being adopted. The story turns into a rollercoaster of emotions as she fight the obstacles life has set to her.
TW: No happy endings