Winner, The 2026 Passionate Plume for Erotic Fiction Pencraft 2026 Winner, Romance/Erotica, Spring The Hawthorne Prize - 2026 Finalist Indies Today Awards - 2026 Semi-Finalist Second Place: Literary Fiction; Second Place: Visionary Fiction; Best Unconventional Love Story - The Firebird Book Awards, 2025 Third Place: LGBTQ; Honorable Mention, Romance, Best Characters, Hottest Character - The Outstanding Creator Awards, Spring 2026 Literary Titan - Gold Award An Author Shout Top Pick, Winter 2025 * An age gap and a forbidden, slow-burning mentor-student relationship, in an academic occult setting. The conservative early 1990's in decaying rust-belt Ohio sets the stage... She had it all - riches, a college honors program scholarship, a girlfriend - until her conservative, hyper-religious parents discovered the sapphistry and forced her to choose between conversion therapy and disownment. That choice marked the end of her academic career and everything she thought she knew. Now, three years later, she is starting her life over when she meets a shy public librarian in a bookstore. He has been waiting his whole life for her. What unfolds between the two lovers feels almost like magic. Given that he is about to become her tutor in the magickal and erotic arts, perhaps that should come as no surprise. But at what cost? The mysterious older man may be everything she has ever longed for, yet she may be forced to choose between her developing identity and the most profound love she has ever known. Ancilla is a study of hunger. It is a dark, philosophical tale exploring forbidden passion, power, devotion, trauma, sacrifice, and the complicated path toward becoming oneself. * “Magic and philosophy sandwiched in between some of the hottest scenes I've read in recent years... Loved it!” - Hannah Gonzalez, Reedsy Discovery “A singular tale, braided with blood, mystery, and intellect, that dares to fuse the sacred and the profane” - The Prairies Book Review “Uncompromising, dense, and erotically charged” - Bookview Review “Love is brutal, bloody, and ecstatic in this passionate romance... BDSM aficionados will love it... A richly imagined, lurid love story that's not for the faint of heart.” - Kirkus Reviews