A.D. Enz

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Ashlee is an author of YA fantasy and romance novels. She was first introduced to Ella Enchanted, which transformed her into a book dragon that cannot hoard enough novels.Ashlee is currently querying WHERE THIEVES BLEED, an 88,000-word YA fantasy romance. This novel combines the strange, sinister forces from What Wakes the Bells by Elle Tesch and the slow-burn, enemies-to-lovers from Dragonhart by Abbie Eaton.If she's not writing, she bookbinds, creating one-of-a-kind special editions you can't find anywhere else.

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YA Dark Fantasy Romance

Where thieves bleed

Dex will do whatever it takes to free her sister from a brothel—even if it means stealing from the wrong people. When a job turns out to be a test from a deadly group of assassins, she’s forced into their ranks and tasked with stealing a forbidden artifact said to awaken the god of shadows. But the artifact holds a dangerous secret: it grants the power to control a god, and if Dex hands it over, the assassins will use it to control the city. With her sister’s life on the line, a people’s fate at stake, and her growing feelings for an infuriatingly charming assassin complicating everything, Dex must choose who she’s willing to betray before she loses everything.

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STATUS: Querying in Progress

NA Horror Fantasy Romance

hidden whispers among spirits

First Lines:"I’ve never seen a spirit build a house from human bones. But I’ve heard the stories—bones stacked into walls, ribs bent into doorways, skulls grinning from the rafters. Rumors whisper that those who cross the border go missing, and don’t come back. Our village keeps to our lands, our gates shut tight, and no one is allowed out after nightfall.But that doesn’t stop the spirits coming for us."

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STATUS: Drafting

YA Fantasy

Dreams of Dark Sands

Cursed and hunted, seventeen-year-old Harlow is running out of time before the darkness under her skin consumes her. When a mysterious nomad named Velho rescues her from execution, he reveals her curse is the key to finding relics that could heal—or destroy—the world.Forced to work together, their uneasy alliance burns into something deeper. But every secret Velho keeps could cost Harlow her brother’s life. With enemies closing in and her curse spreading, she must choose between saving the people she loves or surrendering to the power that’s slowly killing her.

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STATUS: Ready for Querying