Sparks & Shadows

<p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Stay hidden. Stay safe. Stay alive.</strong></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Mikaela Prescott knows how to survive-it's practically her middle name.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>(Okay it's Grace. But still.)</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>She's lived a life on the run: from her mother's disappearance from a past that refuses to stay buried and from a volatile magic she never asked for. Hiding in Seattle as a mortal with her very mortal family was supposed to be the answer. Photography classes by day. Bar shifts by night. A dog the size of a small bear guarding her six. Safe. Simple. Almost normal.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Until one violent night shatters the illusion.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Her carefully constructed life begins to unravel when a fire-eyed stranger barges into it (rude)-and he definitely knows more than he's saying. Miki is forced back into the world she fought so hard to escape: a world of magic built on the pillars of order before truth where those who can't be controlled wind up broken.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>And as that world starts pressing closer the danger stops feeling distant-and starts closing in on the people Miki would burn everything to protect.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The price of survival has always been a steep one.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>But this time the cost might be more than Miki's ready to pay.</span></p><p></p><p><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Sparks & Shadows</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> is a gritty slow-burn trauma-informed urban fantasy exploring grief resilience found family and the fight to reclaim autonomy and hope in a world built to take it away. Dark emotionally rich and fiercely character-driven it blends magic with modern horror-and centers mouthy girls who refuse to stay down and characters who survive when the world says they shouldn't. </span></p><p></p>