Boy With No Name: Abandon the City of Nightmares

When you’re nothing, you have to grab everything you can and hang onto it with everything you’ve got.

Cast-off scion and shadow prince of the austere tower of Refuge, Ravel fought for years to carve out a glittering stronghold of decadence from the detritus and decay abandoned below the monster-infested floodwaters of the City of Nightmares.

He seized every rotten fruit of "ruling in hell" with both hands, spurning the binding misery of serving in his mother-creator's rigid idea of "heaven." But, having shaped himself and the endless labyrinthine carnival of his realm into a force to be reckoned with, he finds his hunger...unfulfilled.

When the defiant young threadwitch Ravel has been obsessed with since boyhood vanishes from both worlds, he throws away everything he's sacrificed, fought, and bled for to bring her back. But on a desperately lonely road trip through the monster-infested wilderness, he's forced to peel back his own mask and grapple with the dark truths behind all the glitter.

Will he find the right thread to pull and win back his love, or will the conscience this puppetmaster has been running from all his life finally cut his strings?

Tragic pasts and twisted futures collide in Boy With No Name, a novelette-length dystopian romantic tragedy/villain romance for upper YA to NA/Adult audiences. (No spice, off-screen trauma, full content warnings at author site.) A Threads of Dreams tale that can be read as a standalone or following book 2: Black the Tides, this novelette-length dark romance is also available as part of the Fiction-Atlas Press anti-hero anthology The Devil You Know.

Dive into the haunted darkness with Ravel today!