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It's going to be an eventful winter at Astor Academy this year. The Student Council President and a mafia princeling have exactly 100 days to break a centuries-old curse before it quite literally breaks their hearts.
Black & Bloom is an original adaptation based on the Harry Potter Dramione fanfiction, 'The Dragon's Bride'.
SYNOPSIS
Anabel
Anabel Bloom has worked hard to earn a full ride to Astor Academy, a private business school where graduates are recruited by top companies even before the ink dries on their testamurs. Sure, there are rumours about the school being popular with the mafia elite, but Anabel doesn't pay attention to gossip. At least, not until she meets Étienne Blackburn. Heir to the scandal-plagued Blackburn Group, Étienne is the unabashed product of nepotism and corruption. He is the living embodiment of everything Anabel loathes, which makes it inconceivable when she wakes up in bed next to him one morning, naked, hungover and tattooed. Neither can remember how they got there. ​
Étienne
One minute, Yenn Blackburn is hurtling down the side of a mountain on his snowboard. The next minute, he wakes up in a seedy motel room to discover he's shagged Anabel 'Boner-Killer' Bloom for forty-eight hours straight, with no memory of the event. Anabel is equally clueless and twice as horrified. The only logical explanation is that someone is trying to implicate Yenn in a scandal serious enough to get him kicked out of Astor Academy. What is less easily explained, are the elaborate tattoos Yenn and Anabel managed to acquire over their drunken weekend. There's also the minor complication of the tattoos being a little...magical. They serve as a conduit through which the pair experience each other’s more intense emotions.
Something otherworldly is going on and with Anabel's help, Yenn is determined to get to the bottom of it. Now, all he has to do is complete his final year project, thwart a mafia recruitment drive at Astor, and somehow convince his father not to murder Anabel.
As Yenn and Anabel spend more time together, it becomes difficult to separate the enthralling effects of their tattoos from their genuine feelings towards each other. They begin to suspect that the gaps in their memories encompass much more than the events of a single weekend. ​
Original charater art by Yumira, 2024.
​GENRES, THEMES, TROPES
Supernatural romantasy, mystery, college students, alpine setting.
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RATING
Adult​​
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LENGTH
tbc
Two strangers find themselves trapped together in a cell. Succumbing to the cold, thirst and hunger are all distinct possibilities...provided they survive the next full moon.
SYNOPSIS
Local librarian Sam is quite content with his boring, utterly ordinary life, thank you very much. Unfortunately, his sedate world is about to get a lot more interesting when he’s kidnapped and locked up in a subterranean, steel-barred cell. Sam is not alone in the darkness, however. His kidnappers have provided him with a companion – a young woman who would sooner scratch his eyes out than tell him her name. She’s right to be afraid of him. Whether she knows it or not, she’s trapped with a literal monster.​​ ​​Time is running out. The full moon is exactly 24 hours away. If Sam cannot find a way to escape, he’s going to shed his mild-mannered skin and kill the one person he now thinks he cannot live without.
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GENRES, THEMES, TROPES
Supernatural romantasy, horror, werewolves, mating bonds, shapeshifters, demons, kidnapping, captivity, hurt/comfort, angst.
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RATING
Adult​​
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LENGTH
~85k words, 27-30 chapters
A broken genius and her eclectic team of minders are tasked with cracking the riddle of the century in order to prevent an all-out war from erupting between two powerful, feuding families.
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The Enforcer
Thanks to the unexpected assistance of a very unusual little girl, 10-year-old Jacques-Pierre Severin becomes the lone survivor of his family’s brutal assassination. Years later, ‘Jack’ rises through the ranks of the Aegis organised crime syndicate to become the youngest division chief in the syndicate's 100-year history. After a busy year of strategic menacing, Jack is looking forward to a well-earned break. However, his vacation plans are scuttled when he's tasked to retrieve a stolen hard drive suspected to contain information that could destroy the syndicate's tenuous alliances. While the hard drive is easily recovered, deciphering its contents proves to be the real challenge. Only one cryptographer has come close.
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The Codebreaker
After years of captivity, isolation and abuse, Dahlia Otagawa manages to escape her sadistic keeper. Constantly on the move, she spends her days in hiding, enjoying bad TV, teaching herself how to cook and how to pass for normal in a world she doesn't recognise any more. Just when she thinks she's safe, Dahlia is kidnapped by the Aegis syndicate. Her new captors present her with a unique proposition. In exchange for solving a puzzle, the syndicate will kill the man who is still hunting her. Dahlia accepts the offer, though she wishes her assigned handler was anyone other than Jack Severin, a man she finds terrifying and oddly familiar. After months of confinement on a private island, working with Jack and his team of colourful mafioso, Dahlia feels like she can breathe again. However, there are powerful others determined to ensure that some secrets stay buried, even if it means burying Dahlia with them.
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GENRES, THEMES, TROPES
Mafia romantasy, thriller, BAMFs, forced collaboration, abduction, captivity, ​organised crime, mystery, hurt/comfort, angst, cryptography.
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RATING
Adult​​
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LENGTH
~95k words, 30-33 chapters
