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Book One in the Counterpart Academy Series, Coming 26 July 2025!
Some secrets are worth risking everything for. Others will kill you first. A secret society murdered my father and left me for dead. Well, I've got news for them - I'm not just his daughter, I'm his vengeance.
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'I read once that empathy can be the most dangerous emotion. We humans are so fast to react, to rally to the call. We are all too quick to perpetrate violence in the name of those we love.
Today, I felt that fire again.'
They took my father. Now all I have left is a pendant—and a storm brewing in my chest. My search for answers leads me to a secret academy in Wellington that has become a battlefield. There, in the wreckage, I find Jupiter: a wounded giant tiger who carries secrets of his own. His past is tangled in the very war that took my father—and unless I can learn to trust him, we may both be swallowed by the darkness rising again.
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HOW IT STARTED.... AND HOW IT'S GOING
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I grew up in Auckland, New Zealand—land of flat whites, beaches and weather as changeable as a mood-ring. When I was nine, I started telling bedtime stories to my godsister (because apparently I was born with a full writer’s room in my brain).
These stories were about mysterious creatures from another world called Shadows. The twist? Everyone on Earth had a Shadow of their own—a cosmic counterpart they didn’t even know they were missing. Cute, right? Also slightly terrifying. You're welcome.
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Fast-forward to now and—boom—those bedtime stories turned into the Shadows Series, a six-book saga of magical mayhem, emotional trauma (the fun kind), and characters who will absolutely ruin your day in the best way. Readers all over the world have devoured them like dragon snacks.
I’ve run school talks, writing workshops, and book launches where people draw their own Shadows—because if you can’t emotionally bond with your interdimensional alter-ego at a literary event, why even go?
Basically: I tell stories. I ruin lives (fictionally). And I help people find their monsters—and maybe love them a little.
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✨Ever feel like something’s missing? Like your vibe is 99% main character energy but there’s a weird little gap you can’t explain? It’s time to meet your Shadow.
✨Join the gloriously unhinged, emotionally damaged, magic-obsessed cult—ahem, community—of readers devouring the Shadows Series: urban fantasy with bite, banter, and just enough heartbreak and one-liners sharp enough to cut through your TBR pile. This isn’t just a book series. It’s a movement. It’s therapy with fangs.
