If every story ends the same way, it stops being a story and starts being a formula.
If every story ends the same way, it stops being a story and starts being a formula.
Written for readers drawn to dark fantasy grounded in folklore, slow-burn danger, and monsters who remember being human.
For fans of:
Anne Rice · Leigh Bardugo · Holly Black · V. E. Schwab · Madeline Miller
I am an author of dark fantasy and supernatural realism, writing in the space where folklore becomes flesh—and monsters tell their own stories.
My work is built on the belief that legends endure because they once felt true. Every creature, transformation, hierarchy, and myth within my worlds is shaped by years of research into folklore, mythology, historical belief systems, and ancient storytelling traditions. I do not use monsters as ornamentation or metaphor alone; I treat them as cultures with lineage, biology, instinct, and consequence. These are ancient legends reimagined through a grounded, lived-in lens—where the supernatural obeys rules, and power always has a cost.
At the heart of my writing is restraint. The tension between instinct and control. Between what a being is capable of—and what it chooses to protect. My stories explore identity, fate, loyalty, and survival, often through characters who exist on the edge of themselves: monsters who remember being human, and humans forced to face the monster not only before them, but within.
Romance in my work is dark, intimate, and dangerous by design. Love is not gentle or safe—it is forged under pressure, shaped by fear, trust, devotion, and vulnerability. Touch can be terrifying. Bonds are hard-won, protective, and often irreversible. This is love with fangs: consuming, fierce, and powerful enough to become both salvation and threat.
I write dark fantasy rooted in myth, restraint, and dangerous love—stories where brutality and beauty coexist, where ancient instincts clash with modern emotion, and where the line between humanity and monstrosity is intentionally thin. My goal is not to soften monsters, but to give them voice—without diminishing their danger.
These stories are written for readers who want their fantasy immersive and uncompromising, their lore deep and deliberate, and their romance earned through fire, loyalty, and sacrifice.
I didn’t just learn the lore—I listened to it. My book doesn’t just use folklore. It treats folklore like it mattered.
I approached mythology the way historians and anthropologists do—by paying attention to what the stories were trying to say, not just how cool they looked.
I didn’t write monsters to be worshiped.
I wrote them to be understood.
And that’s what gives them their dignity back.
I am the author who saw people in history be remembered, not because they were evil, but because evil needed a name.
I gave those names back their humanity.
Bella Ann
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