Eleven years ago, we lost everything—even our memories and magic.
We spent the years that followed fighting to survive a monster who wanted nothing more than to tear the three of us apart. When we finally escaped him in the Mortal Realm, we thought we were safe.
We were wrong.
The Other Realm we were never meant to return to still thrives, and it's calling us home—only nobody there wants us back.
Old friends aren't what they once were. Enemies wear our stolen crowns and false smiles.
And the cruelest trap of all? The people who ignite something in us are made of the worst sorts of poisons.
All we want is to run. Leave, and never look back.
But something is calling to us. Something that wants us to stay.
And maybe we could listen.
Maybe it's time we stopped trying to escape our past, and our mother's legacy. Maybe it's time we lived up to it.
After all, we are the daughters of the most violent queen the Other Realm has seen in centuries.
And there is nothing we won't do to survive.
Damned is the first book in a dark romantasy academy series following the morally gray triplet sisters Kaida, Dari, and Laina Romano—three ordinary women who discover they are anything but. Hidden away in another realm, they eventually discover they are the long-lost daughters of a ruthless former queen who everyone despised.
Thrown back into a magical country they don’t remember, the sisters must navigate hostile new rulers, a magical academy crawling with enemies, and a past that refuses to stay buried. Power struggles, political tension, and classic fantasy-academy chaos ensue.
Each sister’s journey comes with its own flavor of romance:
We spent the years that followed fighting to survive a monster who wanted nothing more than to tear the three of us apart. When we finally escaped him in the Mortal Realm, we thought we were safe.
We were wrong.
The Other Realm we were never meant to return to still thrives, and it's calling us home—only nobody there wants us back.
Old friends aren't what they once were. Enemies wear our stolen crowns and false smiles.
And the cruelest trap of all? The people who ignite something in us are made of the worst sorts of poisons.
All we want is to run. Leave, and never look back.
But something is calling to us. Something that wants us to stay.
And maybe we could listen.
Maybe it's time we stopped trying to escape our past, and our mother's legacy. Maybe it's time we lived up to it.
After all, we are the daughters of the most violent queen the Other Realm has seen in centuries.
And there is nothing we won't do to survive.
Damned is the first book in a dark romantasy academy series following the morally gray triplet sisters Kaida, Dari, and Laina Romano—three ordinary women who discover they are anything but. Hidden away in another realm, they eventually discover they are the long-lost daughters of a ruthless former queen who everyone despised.
Thrown back into a magical country they don’t remember, the sisters must navigate hostile new rulers, a magical academy crawling with enemies, and a past that refuses to stay buried. Power struggles, political tension, and classic fantasy-academy chaos ensue.
Each sister’s journey comes with its own flavor of romance:
- Kaida falls into a deliciously chaotic reverse harem that is slower burning
Dari explores a MF romance with friends to lovers / a mild taboo element
Laina finds love through multiple separate FF romances with one including the star-crossed lovers trope as her HEA
Expect beloved tropes galore—enemies to lovers, friends to lovers, slow burn, fast burn, grumpy/sunshine, and plenty of emotional damage (the fun kind).
This is a re-release of the series that came out in 2021, now polished and adjusted. The original three books I published have been split, and new content has been added, other plot has changed, so a re-read is advised if you read it prior.
This series is full of interconnected standalones, duologies, trilogies, and more — a world of powerful families, deadly rivalries, and unforgettable love stories. Each character in each main family (and the fun side characters) gets their own story with a complete ending but I think it's more fun to read them all and see all the great cameos and shenanigans that occur.
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Genre: Paranormal Romance