once, in a turbulent bucovina, a girl and her wolf had many adventures, ones that made them both heroes…and villains

So Scheherazade began

An aunt must earn her bed and board in a great castle by telling its children amazing tales.

but her story well has run dry, so she must create anew. and so we meet narcisa, a smart, brave and blundering nincompoop, her big silver silly — the giant wolf Fenrir, and a cast of fairies, fiends, friends, and a lot of liars — most of which, we discover, are not even remotely as they seem

Narcisa before Narcisa

Misheard and Misrepresented Tales of Witches, Revolutions, and Other Unbecoming Acts.

Completion Status

Part of a multiple book series, 90,000 words of Book One (roughly 50%) has been completed as draft with first edit.

Expected completion: end August 2025.

Genre & Style

A literary gothic fantasy with folkloric depth and postmodern flair. Narrated through shifting voices, memory palaces, and courtroom confessions.

If you like…

For fans of Angela Carter, The Secret History, Pan’s Labyrinth, and Titus Groan.

Themes & Hook

Explores power, storytelling, and inherited memory through the eyes of a teenage witch in 18th-century Bucovina, but told not just by her, but by many narrators. What begins as a coming-of-age becomes a cultural reckoning wrapped in myth, revolution, and black comedy.

positioning & potential

A richly layered debut with series or companion novel potential. Ideal for readers of literary speculative fiction and perfect for adaptation with its visual, polyphonic storytelling and powerful female leads.

  • Stupidstupidstupid. Stupid girl.

    Narcisa

  • So then, I think it all happened something like this

    The Aunt

  • Narcisa, she thinks. The girl’s name is Narcisa.

    The Aunt

  • My arse is wet! No! Soaked! And my dress! And my boots! My arse. My dress. My boots. All soaked

    Narcisa

  • Oh no, no, no, no no. What will I do?

    The Aunt

  • Humans…however was I one of them?

    Fenrir

  • But also rejoice. rejoice then, for this was a great farewell

    Itzyu as Highwayman

  • In which we find out much more about the great silver silly and how he was once the most fearsome warrior in all the land

    Fenrir Before Fenrir

  • They called it witchcraft. I called it remembering what they tried to make us forget.

    Queen Seraphina

  • Some spells are made of language. Some are made of silence. The best are made of both.

    The Weird Sisters

  • So yes and yes and yes and yes. Nikolai would have given her everything she would ever want, and they had killed him for it.

    The Aunt

  • So Narcisa did something you would not expect, but of course if you thought about it, and knew her even slightly, you completely would.

    Narcisa’s Trial

  • Laughing, I put my head full back and joined in too. For what am I, truly, if not just another wolf from the wild?

    Narcisa

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