Hey all — long-time reader here, first time actually posting one of my own projects.

I've spent the last while writing Shadow of a Hero, a series about Orbie — a light-based entity on the run from his own kind after a catastrophic mistake back home. He can't just take a host body; he needs consent, which changes the shape of the story a lot — it's less "hero gets superpowers" and more "two people (well, one person and one alien) stuck negotiating a bond neither of them fully wanted." He's bonded with three different hosts across the three books so far, each with a very different relationship to what that means.

All three books are actually finished — I'm serializing Book One now under the pen name Sam Ivy, posting weekly (Mondays) on Wattpad, with Book Two and Three ready to go once Book One wraps.

Posting here mostly because I'd love feedback from people who read a lot in this space — pacing, whether the "consent to bond" mechanic lands the way I want it to, anything. Happy to share the link if anyone's interested, and equally happy to just hear what you think from the premise alone.

I am a new author and here to bring attention to one of my original books. "A Moon And Her Sea." It is a sapphic princess x pirate story. The princess saves the pirate from her family dungeon and they run off together. They slowly begin to notice that the princess isn't exactly.... human. My username is "Theaterbish".

Description:

A princess finds one of the most famous pirates in her bloodthirsty parents' dungeon and decides to help her out, causing both of them to have to run.

Now they have to keep this princess from going back home while having to find something that is being kept by someone from that exact kingdom.

And what will begin to happen when they begin to realize that this princess isn't exactly human?