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Writer, Artist, Guitarist, Veteran, Folklorist
Schriftsteller, Künstler, Musiker, Handwerker Extraordinaire
Melissa A. I. Murray
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New series in the works!
Secrets in Amber 1: The Night Chemist
Back in May 2025, I had a random dream about a love triangle between a princess, a widowed prince, and the sexy male nanny looking after the prince's children. I told a few friends about it, and they encouraged me to turn that random dream into a book. Many rewrites and edits later, now I'm querying a 109k-word adult romantasy novel rooted in Turkic mythology. It makes use of my doctoral dissertation.
A princess by birth but an academic at heart, all Aylin Aga (26) wants is to play with her potions in peace, until her childhood sweetheart, Ender Volkan (29), now a widowed khan with three young sons, comes calling. For the sake of their khanates’ alliance, Aylin puts aside her resentment at his decade of silence in hopes the boy she knew survived inside the man he became. But then, her grandmother sends her a charmed ring and a warning: He’s not who you think he is. As a university-trained chemist, Aylin knows magic isn’t real, yet she can’t shake the suspicion that Ender is hiding a dangerous secret.
I spent a LOT of time world-building (no surprise there; character psychology and deep world-building are my favorite parts, after all)...which, naturally, includes a map. We've got khanates, caliphates, and kingdoms, but since Aylin is the daughter of a khan (and, later, engaged to another khan), the khanates are where the action takes place. So, if you're interested, I've got a high-res map of the world of Karanlik you can download below! Probably most helpful for my fearless and fabulous beta readers, but I thought I'd put it here for anyone else who might be curious.
Click the map and it will link you to a zip file you can download that includes the map AND a hand pronunciation guide & glossary!
Click the map to download the high-res version plus a handy pronunciation guide & glossary for The Night Chemist!
Destined (Circle, Buch 1)
Die erste Folge der Circle- Reihe und Murrays Debütroman Destined
entführt Sie in eine andere Welt, in der sich Magie und Wissenschaft vermischen und die Grenze zwischen Realität und Traum verschwindet.
Nehmen Sie an den Abenteuern von vier Freunden teil, die durch einen harmlosen Pilzkreis treten und in das Land Aorea stolpern. Mit nur wenigen halb erinnerten Träumen, die sie führen, führt Mari die Gruppe auf einer Suche durch unbekannte Länder in einem Rennen gegen die Uhr. Auf dem Weg begegnen sie Verbündeten und Feinden, darunter eine Gruppe eifersüchtiger Leshii, mehrere abgehakte Gottheiten und ein Drache, dessen Abendessen sie versehentlich gestohlen haben. Wenn sie das Heiligtum nicht rechtzeitig erreichen, bedroht das Chaos nicht nur Aorea, sondern auch die Welt, die sie verlassen haben: die Erde.
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