ADULT FANTASY AUTHOR

MENAKA RAY

Menaka was born in India and adopted to an Australian family when she was young. The Divine Lies We Weave will be her first published novel, but not her first book ever written. She has always been a dreamer and writing fictitious worlds to escape ones that make her feel emotional damage and she blames her neurodivergence on being able to hyper-fixate for hours on the worlds she creates.When she is not reading or writing, Menaka is listening to bands like Bad Omens, Sleep Token, Bring Me The Horizon, playing games, both board games and online, or playing with her dog, Rosie.

ADULT ROMANTASY

The Divine Lies We Weave

IMMORTAL LIES BOOK ONEWhen the gods crave vengeance, love becomes a weapon.Leela has spent six years chasing the monster that destroyed her family and her future with Rajesh, the man she was meant to marry. Now, her only chance at justice lies in an ancient relic said to slay monsters. But the path to revenge is never simple, especially when it leads her straight into the hands of a secretive order binding dead gods to mortal bodies.Leela becomes the unwilling host to the Viper, a ruthless goddess with a single obsession—kill her immortal ex-lover. If Leela does not comply, the goddess will take her body and do it herself. With no choice but to obey, Leela ventures deep into the desert, only to stumble upon the last person she ever expected to see. Rajesh is alive and well, leading the monster-hunting guild. And worse still? He’s the vessel for the god the Viper wants dead.To save herself, Leela must choose: kill the man she once loved or risk the goddess doing it for her. But with tensions high, old wounds reopen and sparks reignite. As they scour monster-infested dunes, they must race toward the ancient relic that might free them both, and Leela and Rajesh must confront the truth about the night everything fell apart. Because in a world where gods wear mortal skins and monsters are born from emotions, love might be the deadliest curse of all.COMING 30th August 2026
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ADULT HORROMANTASY

Soulburn

SOULBURN is a gothic fairytale reimagining of THE TWELVE DANCING PRINCESSES, perfect for fans who love a little horror with their romantasy.SHE IS THE WORLD’S SALVATION. HE IS THEIR DEMISE. AND THE VAMPIRIC MONSTERS WILL BE THEIR UNDOING.BOOK ONE OF OUR BURNING SOULSEvery night, Kira and her star-fallen sisters venture into the haunting netherworld to charge their skin with lust to close the rift, a giant split in the sky unleashing vampiric beings into the mortal realm. But when one of her sisters dies, and another disappears days later with a note about a mythical soulburn stone capable of collapsing the rift, Kira must venture further than she’s ever gone into the netherworld to save her.Except the palace secrets are daunting, and Kira doesn’t know whom to turn to for help. So, when the last-known-surviving necromancer, Levi Silver, shows up at her sister’s wake promising he knows how to survive the daunting depths, she eventually agrees to accept his help—just as long as he gets to rest his ghostly form in the end. But the netherworld demands justice by absorbing people’s emotions and creating five unsettling trials to conquer—or succumb to the depths forever. Overcome each trial, and Kira and her unlikely crew are one step closer to finding her sister and the stone. But it’s hard to control one’s emotions when someone keeps vexing her.Thrown into otherworldly settings full of haunted houses, botanical eating monsters, and harsh deserts, Kira must overcome not only them but also the unexplainable desire she has for Levi whose murderous past she can’t seem to understand—or shake. The deeper they go, the deeper the secrets, and Kira must decide how far she’s willing to go to save her sister and the world—even if it might mean giving up her soul to someone she least expected.TW: Strong language, gore, blood, vomiting, PTSD flashbacks, mention of child loss (not explicit, not main character), helplessness, depression and anxiety, blood-sucking, consensual sex, manipulation, possessiveness, horror themes, violence, mentions of abuse (emotional and physical to MMC), murder (own family), childhood trauma, spiders, flesh-eating monsters, suicidal ideation, hallucinations, emotional manipulation, alcohol consumption, dark forests, claustrophobia, horror themes, fantasy themes

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