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Gwendolyn Doe | High Fantasy | Dragons vs Elves

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🐉I write about power hungry elves fighting dragons
✨Enter Otherworld if you dare
🔮Currently Querying

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A Prophecy of Poison — Game of Thrones mixed with The Cruel Prince meets Dungeons and Dragons

Why SHOULD YOU read A Prophecy of Poison
 🧚🏼‍♀️Otherworld — a realm of glittering courts, deadly politics, and the enigmatic Folk 🐉Dragons as fae + prophecy + a dying dragon empire ☠️A fierce FMC with magic that can destroy and poison 👑Secrets, betrayals, and a hidden revelation that changes everything 🔮Soren — charming, morally grey, and bound by a bargain that keeps him from killing her 🧝‍♀️Shattered identities, stolen memories, and stolen crowns
🔥Fragile alliances forged in blood, fire, and intrigue 📜Prophecies that could burn the world…or save it
💔Slow burn
🗡️Enemies AND lovers

If you love: 
-YEARNING -DEADLY FMCs who claim their power -Dragons + fae courts + forbidden alliances -Glittering courts dripping with danger and deception

#bookstagram #querying #fantasybook #romantasybooks #highfantasybooks by @gwendolyndoeauthor

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Are they lovers? Worse.

She’s the werewolf who can’t stop eating her fiancés.

And she’s the assassin sent to kill her.

Unfortunately, falling in love was never part of the contract. 🩸🐺🦇

A Hunger Beneath Her Smile is my sapphic gothic romantasy featuring a cursed princess, a vampire assassin, forbidden romance, and two monsters who might just be exactly what the other needs.

After all, what’s a little murder between lovers? 🖤

#AHungerBeneathHerSmile #SapphicRomantasy #SapphicFantasy #GothicRomance #VampireRomance WerewolfRomance Bookstagram WritingCommunity RomantasyBooks WritersOfInstagram QueerFantasy by @gwendolyndoeauthor

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2 days ago

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A vampire assassin and a werewolf princess. One was born to rule, the other was trained to kill.

Vivian was supposed to be Elianora’s executioner. Instead, she became her protector, her greatest weakness, and perhaps the only person who has ever loved the monster beneath her skin.

But love is a dangerous thing when one woman has been ordered to spill the other’s blood.

And what happens when the princess discovers that the woman holding her so tenderly was sent to slit her throat?

🦇A Hunger Beneath Her Smile🐺

A sapphic gothic romantasy featuring forbidden love, bloodlust, secret identities, morally gray women, monstrous desires, and the delicious tragedy of falling in love with the person you’re supposed to kill.

Because sometimes the most dangerous place to be is in the arms of someone who loves you.

#romantasy #SapphicRomantasy #SapphicFantasy #GothicRomance #VampireRomance WerewolfRomance QueerBooks Bookstagram Romantasy ForbiddenRomance FantasyRomance SapphicBooks by @gwendolyndoeauthor

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5 days ago

Do you like your love a little kinky? 🩸🖤

Meet Vivian and Elianora, the leading ladies of A Hunger Beneath Her Smile, my sapphic gothic romantasy.

🦇 She’s a vampire assassin sent to kill the princess.

🐺 She’s a werewolf princess with a taste for danger.

One was hired to spill her blood. The other might just *enjoy* having her blood spilled.

Expect forbidden romance, blood drinking, possessive vampires, monstrous desires, stolen kisses, and a whole lot of “I was supposed to kill you, not fall in love with you.”

After all, what’s a little biting between lovers? 🥀

Would you let a vampire girlfriend bite you? 👀

#romantasy #SapphicRomantasy #SapphicBooks #QueerFantasy #GothicRomance VampireRomance WerewolfRomance Bookstagram RomantasyBooks LesbianRomance WritingCommunity WIP by @gwendolyndoeauthor

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5 days ago

There’s something lurking beneath her skin… 🦇🩸

Meet Vivian.

She came to Santok pretending to be a witch.

She is actually a vampire.

And an assassin.

Sent by the Pale Hand with one final assignment, Vivian has been promised the thing she wants more than anything: her freedom.

All she has to do is kill Elianora.

It should be easy.

Vivian has killed before. She knows how to watch a target, learn their routines, find their weaknesses, and disappear before anyone realizes what happened.

She was not supposed to become fascinated by the lonely princess hidden beneath all that perfection.

She definitely was not supposed to discover Elianora’s secret.

And she was never supposed to start protecting the woman she was sent to murder.

🦇 Vivian
🩸 Vampire
🗡️ Assassin of the Pale Hand
🌹 Pretending to be a witch
🕷️ Desperate to escape the woman who owns her freedom
🐺 Unfortunately falling for her target

Vivian knows monsters.

She has spent years believing she is one.

But the closer she gets to Elianora, the harder it becomes to remember which one of them she was sent to save…and which one she was sent to kill.

A HUNGER BENEATH HER SMILE is my sapphic gothic romantasy filled with vampires, werewolves, assassins, secret identities, forbidden romance, blood, betrayal, and women who are a little bit monstrous.

Would you let her bite you? 🩸🦇

#bookstagram #Romantasy #SapphicRomantasy #VampireRomance #QueerFantasy by @gwendolyndoeauthor

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16 days ago

There’s something lurking beneath her skin… 🐺🩸

Meet Elianora, the heir to Santok.

To her court, she is everything a future ruler should be: beautiful, composed, obedient, and promised to a man who will help secure her kingdom’s future.

But beneath all the silk and ceremony, Elianora is hiding something her family can never know.

A wolf.

Every transformation becomes harder to control. Every moment of fear threatens to bring the creature clawing to the surface. And in a kingdom where her bloodline is everything, being discovered could cost Elianora far more than her crown.

Then Vivian arrives.

A mysterious witch summoned to cure the monster inside her.

Except Vivian has secrets of her own.

And she might be the first person to look at Elianora’s wolf and see something other than a curse.

🐺 Elianora
🩸 Heir to Santok
🌹 Blood elf
🌙 Secret werewolf
👑 Trapped between duty and desire
🗡️ Falling for the woman who was supposed to cure her

A HUNGER BENEATH HER SMILE is my sapphic gothic romantasy about vampires, werewolves, assassins, forbidden love, monstrous women, and discovering that being dangerous does not make you a monster.

Would you trust the wolf? 🐺

#bookstagram #Romantasy #SapphicRomantasy #QueerFantasy #GothicRomance by @gwendolyndoeauthor

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16 days ago

Vivian was sent to kill her.

Elianora thinks she was sent to save her.

Unfortunately, they’re both hiding a monster. 🩸🌙

Vivian is a vampire assassin trying to pay off the final debt standing between her and freedom. Elianora is the future High Lady of Alora, hiding the werewolf beneath her skin while preparing for a marriage she never wanted.

One problem: Vivian is starting to like her target a little too much.

And Elianora? Well… she really needs to stop eating her husbands. 🐺

✨ A HUNGER BENEATH HER SMILE ✨

a sapphic gothic romantasy featuring:

🩸 vampire assassin x werewolf heir
🌙 forbidden sapphic romance
🗡️ assassin sent to kill her
🐺 “being dangerous and being monstrous are not the same thing”
💍 unwanted political marriage
🍄 an underground elven kingdom
🖤 two women who were taught to fear the monsters they became

Vivian + Elianora, everyone. What could possibly go wrong?

#sapphicbooks #sapphicfantasy #sapphicfantasybooks #sapphicromantasy #romantasy by @gwendolyndoeauthor

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24 days ago

looking to be a beta reader? 👀🩸🐺

because I’m going to need beta readers VERY soon for my sapphic gothic romantasy, A Hunger Beneath Her Smile 🖤

not sure if it’s for you? you can read an ✨8 CHAPTER SAMPLE✨ right now!

expect:

🩸 a vampire assassin sent to kill a princess
🐺 a princess hiding a monstrous secret
🗡️ assassin x target
🏰 gothic fantasy vibes
💍 an unwanted arranged marriage
🖤 morally questionable women
🌙 monsters falling for monsters
🌈 sapphic romance
✨ slow burn & yearning

click the link in my bio to read the first 8 chapters and see if you might want to join my beta reader team when applications open!! 🖤

#BetaReaders #BetaReader #SapphicFantasy #SapphicBooks #Romantasy by @gwendolyndoeauthor

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a month ago

let’s talk about my current writing WIPs 🗡️📚✨

because apparently having one WIP is not enough 😭

🐺 A Hunger Beneath Her Smile
sapphic dark fantasy • vampire assassin x werewolf princess • arranged marriage • hidden identities • she was hired to cure her… except she was actually hired to kill her

🐉 A Prophecy of Poison
epic fantasy • dragons • poison magic • mistaken identity • deadly court politics • betrayal • a prophecy everyone got very, very wrong

🌊 Where the Drowned Still Dream
dark mermaid fantasy • seven ancient guardians • deadly trials • a ghost with ulterior motives • a sealed Siren Queen • sapphic romance • the world might literally drown

🌙 Daughter of Moonlight
religious fantasy horror • divine horror • faith and corruption • gods and monsters • religious obsession • what happens when the divine becomes something to fear

⚔️ The Chains of War
military academy fantasy • angels vs demons • brutal training • war • rivalries • dangerous friendships • young soldiers being trained to fight a conflict much bigger than themselves

🏇 Pretty Little Rivals
Victorian sapphic romance • 1860s London • Rotten Row • competitive horsewomen • aristocratic scandal • rivals to lovers • pretty dresses and terrible decisions

some are being drafted. some are being revised. some are sitting in my WIP folder whispering “remember me?” every time I start another book 😭

anyway… which one are you reading first? 👀

#amwriting #writingwip #fantasywriter #sapphicbooks #bookstagram by @gwendolyndoeauthor

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a month ago

my book died in the query trenches 🫡⚰️

so naturally, i’m rewriting the entire thing and trying again.

A Prophecy of Poison is going back under the knife 🐉🌿

new structure, stronger characters, more romance, more betrayal, more yearning, and hopefully a version of this story that feels like everything i always wanted it to be.

sometimes the book you love isn’t ready yet. that doesn’t mean you give up on it. you figure out what isn’t working, tear it apart, and build it back better.

and yes… i WILL be needing beta readers when this rewrite is finished 👀📖

so if enemies to lovers to enemies, dragons, deadly magic, forgotten memories, morally questionable love interests, and sisters bound by prophecy sound like your thing… stay tuned 🖤

round two, query trenches. i’m coming back.

#romantasy #writingcommunity #writersofinstagram #authorsofinstagram #fantasyromancebooks by @gwendolyndoeauthor

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are they enemies? ⚔️
friends? 🤝
rivals? 👀

worse.

they’re enemies to friends to lovers to betrayal to enemies again 🫶

because apparently a normal romance was simply not an option.

Ivy and Soren really said:
❌ communication
❌ trust
❌ healthy relationship
✅ yearning
✅ attempted murder
✅ devastating betrayal
✅ making it everyone else’s problem

*A Prophecy of Poison* 🐉🌿☠️

for the readers who like their slow burns with a side of “oh, he is absolutely going to ruin her life” 💚

#Bookstagram #Romantasy #FantasyRomance #EnemiesToLovers #FantasyBooks by @gwendolyndoeauthor

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