Of Petals, Blood, and Ash - Colleen Cummings
Hey, I’m Colleen. Story addict, serial world-builder, professional overthinker—take your pick, I guess. My happy place? Dreaming up worlds where magic’s a messy tangle in people’s lives, monsters look suspiciously like your neighbor, and, honestly, love is never as straightforward as anyone pretends. Power? Yeah, sometimes. Complicated? Always. Honestly, I can’t pick a lane to save my life. One day it’s romantasy, next day I’m knee-deep in contemporary romance, and sometimes I’ll crank out something dark and weird that makes you feel like you’re listening to a lullaby with a twist—those are my favorites, if I’m being real. If a story smashes your heart into glittery shards and then patches it up with a little magic? That’s my jam. My characters? Oh, they’re all over the place—soft, stubborn, delightfully broken, and way too relatable. I am writing to people who’ve seen some things, you know? The ones who hoard hope and pain like secret treasures, who never really lost that flicker of defiance. When I’m not writing (which, let’s be honest, is rare), you’ll find me cradling my fifth coffee, scribbling ideas at 2 a.m. to some moody playlist, or staring at my book stack—still lying to myself about tackling it soon. Dive into my worlds and you’ll trip over character art, get lost in playlists, and probably stumble into a corner of my brain I turned into a fantasy realm. So, if you vibe with morally gray disaster love interests, slow-burns that make you want to scream into a pillow, found families that make you wish you could move in, and prose that gets annoyingly poetic when feelings hit? Yeah, we’ll get along. Totally. My first book is "Of Petals, Blood, and Ash" also known as the Celestial Ruins Saga! I will be making so many more books in the future!
GENRE: Romance Fantasy
Blurb:
In a land cloaked in a purple mist and scarred by ancient battles, there is a place called Veyrith Prime. Here, emotions can be as powerful as weapons, and hope is as fragile as the light from the stars. Valara is a Lumenari Celestial Sorcerer. Her touch has the magical power to heal both body and soul, and she carries much sorrow in her glowing hands.
