The Rites of Passage
Each couple in the Rites of Passage series has their own duet—you can start with any love story.
Series Order:
Titan & Nova’s Duet
Book 1: Ashes to Ashes
Book 2: Dust to Dust
Dash & Mila’s Duet
Book 3: Paper Thin Love
Book 4: Ink Deep Devotion
I believed it all once, the fairytale, that is. When I was a teenager, I was like you, you poor naive thing. Stick around, and I'll show you how to become a better version of yourself. The villain. It's the villain that has all the fun. Corruption, lies, and anarchy are a minefield of excitement!
I believed it all once, the fairytale, that is. When I was a teenager, I was like you, you poor naive thing. Stick around, and I'll show you how to become a better version of yourself. The villain. It's the villain that has all the fun. Corruption, lies, and anarchy are a minefield of excitement!
I believed it all once, the fairytale, that is. When I was a teenager, I was like you, you poor naive thing. Stick around, and I'll show you how to become a better version of yourself. The villain. It's the villain that has all the fun. Corruption, lies, and anarchy are a minefield of excitement!
Boom, boom, baby!
You see, I was the commoner who fell for the handsome king. He promised me a future by his side and handed me a red rose, but the thorns cut me deep when I took it. The fantasy shattered, and the king killed everything in my world, including me...or so he thought.
I became a ghost dragged deep into the underworld that my uncle controlled. No longer human but now a pawn, a possession. For years I suffered the games until one day, my soul slipped free from hell and came back to wander the earth.
The thing about ghosts is they are not truly dead. They are left to linger and, most notably, to haunt. I would flip the roles and seduce the king this time. I'd take his kingdom, his power, and control. I'd crush him into ashes beneath my Prada boots.
Ashes to ashes, they will all fall down because I'm the plague baby, and I'm going to leave nothing but dust in my trail.
He loves me; he loves me not. He tricked me; he tricked me not...
You can't deceive the devil, and you can't fool the king.
I played a game of deception against the king and lost because, in the end, I failed to realize that the king controls the pawns and I was just a pawn.
Titan King took me as his wife. He thought it would be a punishment for my betrayal and games.
Trick or Treat?
Oops, you picked a trick...
You got me, but now you're stuck with me!
But hey, you know me and all the voices in my head, we can't let the men have all the fun. Happy wife, happy life, right?
Insert evil laugh here.
Imagine the anarchy a disgruntled wife and queen can cause… that's more like it.
The king may rule, but the queen has his ear. Can you imagine the seeds I'll plant with my treacherous whispers?
I'll have Titan wrapped around my devious little fingers. I lost the war but guess what? Armageddon has begun. The question is, how much does Titan love me? Is love a good enough reason for Titan to set his world on fire?
The match has been struck, and the flames are coming for you all!
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You can’t beg a spider to stop spinning its web. Sticky lies and silken promises, designed to ensnare, are in its nature.
Dash King, the new guy at school, wasn’t just any spider. He was the deadliest one I’d ever met.
I watched as he spun his traps—because I was in the center of his web. Willingly.
Entangled by his dangerous beauty and devious words, I did as he demanded, believing he would help me escape.
I’d forgotten that spiders don’t just trap you—they savor the slow torment of your fall, stringing you up for the whole school to mock.
But how do you hate a spider for doing what it must to survive?
He took my secrets, uncovered parts of me even I was afraid to face, and made me reach for the stars—only to watch me freefall back to earth without his web to catch me.
I thought he was making me into a spider.
I was wrong. I was his prey all along.
Two tortured souls trapped in an elite boarding school, forced to compete in deadly games. Some survive, but that doesn’t make them winners. A more dangerous rite awaits—and not everyone will make it out alive.
*Paper Thin Love" is part of a two-book series but can be enjoyed as a standalone without reading Ashes to Ashes or Dust to Dust first.
Not all love stories bloom in the light. Some thrive in darkness.
When I first met Mila, she fell for me as effortlessly as a jellyfish surrenders to the current. They don’t fight it.
They can’t.
I was a shark. I schooled Mila, taught her how to bend and flow instead of letting the tide drown her.
I wanted to toughen her up—make her strong enough to survive my world. But I knew I'd have to leave. When the time came, I shoved her away, thinking it would protect her. But the moment she hit the ground, I felt the impact, too.
I landed in hell and was dragged into a secret society that forged me into a weapon. But they didn't know I still felt and dreamed.
For years, Mila was my North Star, the memory that kept me breathing.
But when I finally found her, I realized the truth—stars aren’t what they seem. They’re remnants of anger and forgotten battles. By the time their light reaches you, they’ve already burned out.
Our love was dead. Mila moved on.
But our devotion to our desire? That was still alive—ravenous, relentless, bleeding over our paper-thin love like ink trying to rewrite the past.
Only this time, my little artist wasn’t a jellyfish. She didn’t fall into my current. She slipped free.
She ran from me.
The most deadly monsters don’t lurk in the shadows; they bask in the direct light. They lure you in with a friendly smile and an angelic glow. They force you to come to them. And Mila just walked straight into their trap.
