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The Resonance Series, Book 1: Forgotten, But Not Gone

He begged for forever. But eternity costs everything.

To survive the transformation into a vampire, a human must feel true love for the one turning them, or the Price of Immortality wipes their mind clean. Milo believed Jude when he swore their love was real.

He was wrong.

Jude wakes with no memory of Milo, the years they shared, or even his own name. Milo is left rebuilding a life with a stranger.

Bound together by the Resonance — a forced-truth bond neither can lie through — Milo tries to keep his distance and protect the man who no longer knows him. But the new Jude isn’t the gentle human Milo loved.

As ugly secrets from Jude’s human life begin to surface, a rogue vampire cuts a bloody trail toward Aspen Grove. With threats closing in from every direction, Milo is forced to let go of the ghost of the man he lost, and protect the stranger claiming him.

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ReleaseNovember 18, 2026
GenreDark MM paranormal romance
PaceSlow burn
Content warnings

This is a dark romance. Please read with care.

  • Graphic violence and gore
  • Blood drinking
  • Murder
  • References to suicide and depression
  • Implied childhood trauma
  • Emotional manipulation and coercive control
  • Non-consensual turning and mind control
  • Explicit sex
  • Mentions of historical slavery
  • Strong language
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The Resonance Series

Welcome to Aspen Grove

In the mountain town of Aspen Grove, Colorado, a clan of vampires lives by old laws and older secrets. Every turning comes with a price, and every sire is bound to their fledgling by the Resonance, a tie of blood that won’t let them lie to each other.

The Resonance series is a four-book paranormal romance about memory, loyalty, and what love costs when forever is on the table. Each book follows one of the clan’s couples as they fall in love, fall apart, and fight to hold on, while the clan around them fights to survive.

  • Book 1: Forgotten, But Not Gone
  • The Resonance Series Book 2, title hidden, coming early 2027 (temporary cover)
  • Book 3Coming soon
  • Book 4Coming soon
About the author

A queer woman in my twenties who has been a reader long before I was ever a writer. Romance has always been my home genre; I don’t think there’s anything more human than watching two people choose each other, especially when the world (or the plot) is doing everything it can to make that hard.

Somewhere along the way, reading turned into writing, and now I write dark MM paranormal romance: vampires, found family, the kind of love that survives things it probably shouldn’t have to.

I’m drawn to stories that don’t look away from grief, mental health, the messy and unglamorous work of loving someone while you’re still figuring out who you are.

I am a Black Congolese, queer author, and my identity informs every word I put on the page. I stand firmly for collective liberation—from the freedom of Congo, Sudan, and Palestine to trans rights and global queer survival. Human dignity isn’t up for debate.

If you want a copy of my book and money is what’s standing in your way, please just message me on my socials. I will always find a way to get it to you. That matters more to me than a sale ever will.

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