Kenzie Graves is a paranormal romance author within the dark, Rejected Mates, and why choose subgenres. While becoming an avid reader during her sophomore year in high school, Kenzie immersed herself in the paranormal and fantasy worlds. It started with Harry Potter when she was ten and became more of an avid reader after reading Patricia Brigg’s Mercy Thompson series. After her first child was born, she dove into the world of an indie author!
Kenzie is a Pittsburgher born and raised. She is married to her best friend and soulmate. They have two beautiful children and two cat familiars.
Kenzie's stance with AI is that it needs to be burned to the ground and never used! She does not use AI. Her art is made by real artists, including her covers. Artist information at the bottom of the page.
A world taken over by a dimension, five princesses are rejected and banished to an island for outcasts. One by one, they overcome betrayals and obstacles to save their kingdoms...and the world.
Tropes: Fated Mates, Rejected Mates, Second Chance Mates, Second Chance Romance, Hidden Power, Last of Her Kind, Badass FMC, Elemental Magic, Reverse Harem
Within the walls of R.I.S.E Academy, every student will reform themselves into a "respectable mate" to heal their broken bond with the one who rejected them.
Step into a reverse harem, academy romance filled with darkness hiding in the corners, hidden enemies, new friendships, and romance.
Tropes: Fated Mates, Rejected Mates, Second Chance Mates & Romance, Found Family, Badass FMC, Protective MMCs, Academy Romance, Reverse Harem
Fairytale Retellings reimagined in a Wolf Shifter world!
After being rejected by their fated mate, these FMCs have to travel to new packs to learn what it means to be cherished and loved by the right mate. A witch steps in and vows to them she will help them fix their timelines before time runs out.
Tropes: Interconnected Standalones, Fairytale Retelling, Fated Mates, Rejected Mates, Second Chance Mate, Wolf Shifters
At the Moonspire Festival, wolves all over America come to court their possible mate. But none of them are prepared to fight tooth and claw for it.
If you like those Facebook Reel Dramas, this series is for you!
Tropes: Wolf Shifter Romance, Chosen Bonds, Festival Antics, Other Woman Drama, Yearning, MF Romance
Cursed Fae:
There's a hidden world no one knows about. Unsuspecting heros are transported to a world designed to kill them... but they all learn they were born here... and it's time for them to rise up with their newfound magic and familiars to save their world from the Unseelie Fae.
Tropes: Portals, Hidden World, Fated Mates, Doesn't Know What She Is, Powerful Magic, Found Family, Magical Companions, Good vs Evil
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In addition to being a fantasy author, Aaron Sher is also a software engineer, a martial artist, a pretty decent cook, a very (very) amateur blacksmith and bladesmith, and—when called upon to serve—expert furniture for his cats. Not necessarily in that order. He lives in Pittsburgh, PA in the United States with his wife and a varying but always-extravagant number of cats, fish, plants, and miscellaneous wildlife.
Applied Leverage:
A little bit of power can get you into a lot of trouble.
Connor Rourke is one of the little people, supernaturally speaking: a psionic in a world of mages. He’s happy being the top—okay, just about the only—supernatural locksmith in the Boston area. He doesn’t aspire to adventure or heroism, but he’s about to get pulled in whether he likes it or not (spoiler: he doesn’t).
When he stumbles across a secret that was never meant to be known, he gets in trouble with forces far beyond him. Mixed up in a conflict between factions he can’t match or understand, he’ll have to find a way to survive for himself and those he loves. Along the way, Connor will learn secrets hidden for centuries, face and defeat threats to his life, and ultimately tackle an enemy who could annihilate him with a thought.
Applied Leverage is a new urban fantasy novel set in an innovative world full of action and vivid characters. For fans of the genre, this is a must-read. Recipient of a Book Excellence Award from the Chrysalis BREW Project, May 2025.
Tropes:
Reluctant hero
found family
class struggle
hidden supernatural world
Mom of two scientists and two cats, also owns two bicycles; isn’t sure when the number 2 started playing such a role in my life. Author of 16 books and counting. Freelance line editor by day. Head of the West of Mars Author Collective. Slightly irreverent. Very intense. Stupidly honest.
Populated:
Delia Ford is Port Kenneth’s newest social media darling, a young woman with a camera and a habit of showcasing what she views as the best of the city’s people in a social media series she calls Populated Portraits.
But Delia Ford is very much alone.
When an art thief breaks into the Woolslayer Art Gallery and steals all of her art—and only her art—and then inexplicably leaves some of it in public places, often with taunting notes attached, Delia fights back the only way she knows how: By engaging her thief in a game of cat and mouse that elevates the entire Port Kenneth art scene, including elementary school artists and knitting bombers.
People flock to Delia’s cause: her parents and brother, her neighbor, city influencer Tess Cartieri, the cop working the case, and one Meter Shaikovsky, her casual man who offers more benefits than friendship—or so it seems.
By the time the art thief is revealed, Delia has become a force for change in Port Kenneth, and her world has become strangely populated.
Populated is women’s fiction with a side of slow-burn romance. Set in a fictional city for urban grit, it also brings small-town vibes.. The second in the Tales from the Sheep Farm series, it is a popular entry point.
Tropes:
slow-burn romance (on the side)
found family
city setting
small town vibes
I write spicy romance and romantic suspense for geeks and nerds. I love feisty heroines and cinnamon roll heroes. And I enjoy taking typical tropes and turning them on their head.
Omegas don’t get called to HR unless they’ve already become a problem.
Apparently, I have.
I’ve spent my whole life being the glue—soothing tempers, smoothing tension, making myself useful before anyone can ask for more. Because useful omegas are loved omegas. Now I’m exactly where I’ve always wanted to be—an intern at Opus Media, working under one of the most powerful alphas in the industry. I should be thriving.
Instead, I’m barely holding it together. I’m overworked, overwhelmed, and one mistake away from proving every assumption about omegas right—that without a pack, without a nest, we don’t belong here.
When a major campaign starts to fall apart—designs leaked, work sabotaged, blame circling—I’m the easiest target. The omega who tries too hard. The omega doesn’t know her place. The omega everyone already thinks is the problem.
The worst part?
The men fate chose for me… believe the lies.
Evander sees a liability he needs to fix. Isaac watches like he’s waiting for the truth to surface. Harlan treats me like a mistake he’s been forced to make. And Silas keeps his distance like getting involved would cost him too much.
But the more they push, the worse everything becomes. Every demand. Every expectation. Every step closer to something I can’t handle. A bond I can’t control. I can’t survive.
And when it finally snaps into place… I don’t fall into their arms. I fall apart.
Fate might have chosen us… but that doesn’t mean we’ll choose each other.
Not when these men are my Reluctant Nest.
A Reluctant Nest is a sweet, emotionally charged standalone reverse harem omegaverse romance featuring a soft, overwhelmed omega, possessive and conflicted alphas, and a beta who sees more than he says. There are no cliffhangers, no unanswered questions—just a hard-fought, deeply earned happily ever after for Cassidy and her men.
You can expect:
A soft omega heroine pushed to her breaking point
Possessive alphas who will fight for her—even when they’re the ones hurting her
A steady, grounding beta who refuses to let her fall alone
Fated mates that feel overwhelming before they feel safe
Workplace tension, sabotage, and forced proximity
Emotional hurt/comfort, found family, and a reluctant bond that builds into something stronger
If you love fated mates, emotional slow-burn tension, protective instincts, and a heroine who has to learn she deserves to be chosen—not just useful—this story is for you.
I’m falling for the forbidden Alpha invading my dreams, and waking up may start a war.
A prophecy says our bond will either unite the realms or drown them in blood.
If I surrender, I could betray my people.
If I walk away, the magic inside me will awaken without him.
Every night, a wolf shifter finds me in the dark.
He touches me like I already belong to him.
He calls me his fated mate.
By morning, I’m burning for a man I’ve never met.
Then he steps out of my dreams and into my world.
He protects me when my magic erupts.
He reveals secrets my mother buried about my bloodline.
And when he risks his life to keep the coven from claiming me, I stop pretending this bond is only a curse.
I’m in love with the Alpha I’m forbidden to choose.
And this time, it won’t be only my heart that burns.
It will be both our worlds.