Raya's Followed Works
The Last Wish
{{Censored}} An exciting Fantasy Western boy's love tale of a lawman sent out West and a bandit king who won't give up. Follow Federal Officer Lucas Solomon as he braves the Western Frontier to take down the Angband Gang and their leader, Malachite Fury. When Lucas comes face to face with Malachite for the first time, he'll realize he's bitten off more than he can chew. But will pride be his undoing?
Myths, Legends, & Dreams
Protective dragons. Conniving succubi, and desperate thieves. Fierce battles and talking marionettes. Inside the covers you will find stories with unique worldbuilding and gripping characters.
Myths, Legends, and Dreams is a Speculative Fiction anthology featuring the works of the members of the Worldsmyths writing community. Founded in 2016, we wanted to do something BIG to celebrate our fifth anniversary, and this anthology was born!
Sixteen stories feature fresh new ideas from budding authors. Inside you will get to know the work of Ryan Gale, Michael Epanchin, Sean Kane, Allusir, Freya Bell, Ally Kelly, Emma Schouten, JC Farnham, Caitlin Donovan, CP Mills, Alex Harvey, Natalie J. Holden, Odessa Silver, and Nicole L. Soper Gorden.
Thrall of the Dark Wood
Young mother Ilse arrived in Forst village seven years ago with an infant in her arms and another little one on the way. Secretive about her previous life, most assumed Ilse to be an unwed harlot, driven from her home by her family’s shame. Ilse is especially tight-lipped about the most pressing question: who the father of her children is.
Ilse bore the burden of their rumors with ease, and for seven years lived in relative peace in a small house just outside of the Dark Wood – a forest that many believed was home to inhuman creatures. None but Ilse had ever dared to live that close, fearing that they would be lured into the Wood, never to return.
When Ilse and her children disappear, seemingly out of thin air, the village assumes the Dark Wood has claimed their lives. What they don’t know is that the father of Ilse’s children, who most assumed to be some nobody from Ilse’s home village, is actually much closer than they thought. He comes from the Dark Wood – and he wants his family back.
The School of The Unknown
A dark fae attends a school filled with magical beings, but is hated by them all except one. Outcast and seen as a threat, the dark fae spends most of his time alone. What will happen when the person who hates him the most finds out about the dark fae's obsession with him? What will happen when an dark fae loves an angel? Will the angel love him back?
Not So Ordinary
This story revolves around the life of 4 different people:
Sara: a high schooler with a conservative personality who’s good at only one thing; studying, but she studies well only to maintain her reputation as “the genius one” with no aim in life. Till now when the SAT is just around the corner, she doesn’t know which path to take because nothing interests her.
Next comes the heartbreaker, Elijah: a college dropout, during his first year in college he changed his major 5 times and then finally left college; his father being a very laidback person wasn’t affected by his son’s antics. Now he’s 24 with a high school degree doing random jobs because he must support himself overall. His good looks get him all the girls, but he can’t stay with a girl longer than a month because after a month they start to get clingy, wanting attention whereas all he wants in a relationship is physical intimacy.
Then comes Charlotte: age 33, a doctor, she had spent all her 20s paying her student loans but is still in debt because of his father’s health condition. Because of this reason, all man who approaches her run away; no one wants a woman whose 70% pay is used to pay off her debt monthly. So, she’s called “The pitiful doctor/spinster” by her relatives.
And in the end, comes Mr. William: a schoolteacher, who had been teaching the same subject at the same school for the past 10 years. He’s a very intellectual person and could do much better with his life but one thing that he had never done is to take a risk, although his monotonous routine bores him still he keeps living the same repetitive life.
These 4 people who are living in different worlds have something in common, their lives are repetitive with no challenges_ in simple words they are ORDINARY.
These 4 Ordinary people don’t know what is waiting for them, entangled in a world of murder, crime, trafficking, mafias, politics, and everything bad; wait and see how their lives will get connected.
tango of everchanging facades
Irene, once a princess of cecilly, now forced to be the bride of Ceaser the most powerful and ruthless emperor of all the realms throughout the land. he has taken eveyerything from her in his quest of making her completely his and yet Irene is forced to play along the role of perfect wife while plotting to get her vengence. will she succeed in this game and taking everything as he has, as he has done to her? or will she fail or-- fall to deep into the act?.
Trapped, Shattered
Lev, a rogue werewolf turned hitman, makes a rare mistake on an otherwise clean job: there’s one extra person in the building. Rather than spend the extra bullet however, he’s inclined to take the young man home.
Otto knows this isn’t mercy, but he can’t say no. As a submissive wolf, he can’t fight back, especially against a dominant one with a blood-splattered face and sadistic smile. Now he’s to become a plaything and must do whatever it takes to sate the beast.
Inspired by Call of the Void by VVBG (https://www.vvbgcomics.com/cotv/)
Content Warning: Abuse, blood, explicit sex, firearms, kidnapping, illicit drug use, implied torture, murder, non-consent/dubious consent/coercion, Stockholm syndrome, violence
When Lament Finds Love
Can you really feel the music? Can we really hear the same sound, and interpret it in different ways? A blind violinist and a writer meets one fateful morning to find out exactly that. What could these two unlikely lovers discover in themselves and in one another?
Touch of Lightning (Lightning Touch Book 1) - Excerpt: First 4 Chapters
*** This is the first 4 chapters as a sample to see if you like the story and my writing style before committing to paying for it. ***
A dangerous job. A mining disaster. A declaration of love that may have come too late.
Her job in a space station requires nerves of steel and a cold heart, but Lennina is paralyzed with fear for the life of her work partner each time there’s an earthquake on the planet’s surface. Her jealous boyfriend accuses her of having an affair with him and turns to violence when she denies it.
Bruised and broken, she ends the relationship. Then when a quake traps miners underground, she discovers her work partner means more to her than life itself.
As a new telepathic ability manifests itself, can Lennina use it to save the man she loves?
TOUCH OF LIGHTNING is an exciting first book in the Lightning Touch Series that will transport sci-fi and paranormal fans to a distant space station, filled with suspense, danger, and romance. If you like reading stories about healthy relationships with a slow burn forbidden love and sassy witty banter, you’ll love this friends-to-lovers sci-fi adventure with a HEA.
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