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In a world where some men become dragons at will, and some become dragons only at night to kill, twenty-five-year-old slayer CAJSA despises both, even if killing the latter, the Rogues, doesn’t feel right, and she owes her people’s overall safety to the former—the dragons of the sky kingdom. While her people are safe and many adore their protectors, that protection comes at a hefty price: Cajsa and women like her are expected to bear offspring for them—or die by way of banishment to the Realm of Rogues if they don’t comply—and Cajsa never wanted her battlefield to be the birthing bed. So when she kills the dragon shifter who intended to mate with her after he discovers her using a contraceptive, Cajsa’s only way to survive is to pin his death on OZIAS, the charismatic, handsome Rogue dragon leader. Following him to his lands, Cajsa feigns her own kidnapping to gain time to plot her escape from all the dragons for good. 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STEAL THE SKY is an adult fantasy-romance with the feminist exploration of agency and feminine rage in THE HANDMAID’S TALE by Margaret Atwood, the layered dragons and complicated romance of FOURTH WING by Rebecca Yarros, the hidden lore of UPROOTED by Naomi Novik, and the complex world building of the MISTBORN trilogy by Brandon Sanderson, set in a world based on the ancient civilizations of the Eurasian Steppes. https://www.marinamassino.com/as-dark-as-you-like daily 0.75 2023-07-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bff0ea375f9eef407780ed7/ab0b784c-e7c5-4b15-beff-35223e0f8e10/ADAYL_+Neon+City_Aesthetic.png As Dark As You Like - As Dark As You Like Urban Fantasy/Contemporary Fantasy Status: DRAFTING Sin-eating isn’t hard; it’s just a little awkward. This is something sixteen-year-old Val has known for as long as she can remember. For generations, Val’s family and families like hers have been responsible for keeping the sin of the world in check and slurping down sin is all part of the fun. Except now there are less sin-eaters and far too much sin—and the sinners want to keep it that way. When Val eats the sin off of devilishly-cute-boy Harris’s soul, and immediately falls ill, she knows something isn’t right, and Harris doesn’t know much of anything at all, because one big side-effect of having your sin-eaten is your memory gets a bit foggy. With his newly squeaky clean soul, Harris wants to help, and Val, who can hardly stand on her own two feet, is in no shape to refuse, but help can’t be found in a hospital—only in another sin-eater, in other words, Val’s father. He takes the cursed sin out of Val, claiming he knows the cure, but fathers will do what they have to do to keep their children safe, and Val learns too late that Harris’s cursed sin will kill her father in three days unless she figures out the root of it and the cure. The problem is, her only clues are with Harris and he has some major secrets of his own. https://www.marinamassino.com/the-magicians-eyes daily 0.75 2023-07-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bff0ea375f9eef407780ed7/a7e84f26-4d7f-44e9-85df-d4c797e74d9f/TME_AESTHETIC-board.png The Magician's Eyes - The Magician’s Eyes MG Fantasy Status: Complete & Shelved Everyone knows to watch out for Magicians. They’re manipulative, cut-throat-tricksters, and as a newly-orphaned, former kidnapping victim, twelve-year-old Rossi knows danger when she sees it better than most. When she meets an intriguing kaleidoscope-eyed man who holds startling evidence that her parents are alive, he says can tell her where they are in exchange for a bit of “sense.” Rossi agrees with fistfuls of coin, but she’s misunderstood exactly what he meant. Now Rossi is blind, and despite her missing sense of sight, she knows what she saw and that the kaleidoscope-eyed man, a Magician, knows where her parents are. With her future before her and no way to see it, Rossi must put aside her fears and accept help from Mona, the mysterious daughter of the wealthiest family in Venice, whose information on children inexplicably going blind may be her key to finding the Magician, her parents, and her eyes. As they discover the Magician’s true motives and the disaster it could bring to their world, and those beyond, Rossi’s simple plan to reunite with her parents gets a lot more complicated. https://www.marinamassino.com/as-dark-as-you-like-copy daily 0.75 2024-02-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bff0ea375f9eef407780ed7/65bd5ae3-ae10-4b1c-b0fb-4431e1132728/AFSSAB.png A Sharp and Brutal Fate - A Sharp & Brutal Fate Fantasy Romance Status: DRAFTING Trapped beneath the earth with a magic dampening iron crown lashed over her head, twenty-seven-year-old Bryn’s perfect life was stolen from her. A life where she was set to marry King Cyrus Loreto, where she used her unbridled nature magic only to make beautiful things grow, and where the monsters rising from the ground were far beyond her worry. Now, with her body dying beneath the soil, waiting for her king to come save her is no longer an option. An unexpected burst of energy gives her what she needs to split the earth and crawl free, only to find her body laced with strange, black veining and face to face with Knave of the Body Breakers, the one to blame from the creatures ravaging their lands and who Bryn believes is responsible for sealing her underground. In the clutches of her king’s enemy, Knave tries to convince Bryn that her perfect life was a set up and the king was using her and her rare magic to create a well of immortality. When Bryn refuses to relent to his ravings, Knave allows her to return to her life with Cyrus, only to find that the three years that passed while she was underground reveals a home she no longer knows and a lover who’s become a dangerous stranger. Trapped in a prison of another kind, Cyrus now wants to use Bryn to seduce Knave to capture and use him for his plan, and Bryn must decide whether to truly follow along with his ambitious mania or find another path to life and love. 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Inspired by the classic fairy tale Sleeping Beauty, A SHARP AND BRUTAL FATE is a standalone fantasy romance with the aesthetic feel of a Tim Burton film, the accessible magic system of FALLING KINGDOMS by Morgan Rhodes, and the romance of UPROOTED by Naomi Novik with a steamy edge. https://www.marinamassino.com/about daily 0.75 2026-01-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bff0ea375f9eef407780ed7/e4f0d7f8-e8a1-41c9-b896-7ae6671e42fe/Marina+Massino-Author+Photo.jpeg About - Marina Massino As one might expect of an author, I love words and I love stories. I love capturing human emotions, both the basic and the chaotic, and wrestling them into a fictional, fantastical existence. My novels are predominately adult fantasy romance, though I also write literary short fiction that I sometimes attempt to get published in creative writing journals, though mostly I forget by the time the deadlines roll around. 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