The Rave Girls’ circle is never broken. It has claimed dancers for centuries—and will for centuries more.

Prologue: Long Before the Neon
Many centuries before the vibrant glow of glow sticks lit up the night, before the pulsing rhythms of bass music filled the air, and long before the vast warehouses became settings for unforgettable gatherings—there existed the timeless circle.

The start of a hair adventure feeding my lifelong interest in slightly femi hair

© Maeryn Lamonte 2025

Tori’s taken the day off of work again and I’m starting to feel bad about it. Then again, she kind of created this mess, didn’t she? I push the thoughts out of my mind as she chats on the phone with her mom. She’s made a pretty good point of staying in the room with me, occasionally reading, mostly on her laptop, but she’s spent a good amount of time talking to me. She wants to know everything. What my life was like as a kid, favorite color, favorite book, and so on. I’m hesitant to answer at first but she gets easier to talk to the longer I do it.

Demands My Soul

A Transgender Heroine's Journey & Romance Novel

From THE ONE Universe

Chapter 14: Friendship to Fervor

By Ariel Montine Strickland

What will it mean to Delores and Serina that they were so taken with each other that they needed to talke to each other rather than sleep? What does it mean that they could not end the call and instead left the line open all through the night to continue the conversation in the morning?

Copyright 2025 by Ariel Montine Strickland.
All Rights Reserved.

Chapter 10

They went downstairs, knocking on Ted’s door on the way. They were seated at their table by six, and Hugh gave Carlo his credit card for all the meal costs. They were talking about general things when Hazel asked Willow a question.

“How’s the campaign going, Willow?”

“Dad’s been to the office a few times and spoken to them. We spent a morning with the guys at the head office in Whitehall and surprised them when they were showing us around Parliament. Chris Leigh spoke to us and hosted us for lunch in the Lords Dining Room.”

For two thousand years, demons and humans waged war against each other. Twenty-five years ago, that all changed. Now two demon princesses must navigate a world that's been forever altered - and yet they'll soon find that far too much of it remains the same.

This is the story of Mikaela, and Charlotte, twin princesses (born to the protagonists of Demon Queened), forced to become adventurers as a rite of passage. In theory, it'll be easy! They're literally demi-gods after all. It's not like anything can hurt them... but will it really be so simple for two pampered princesses to live the life of adventurers?

From prejudiced humans to old demonic grudges, hidden villages, romance and potential heartbreak, the girls will soon find that there's a lot more to life than they realized.

This is a sequel to Demon Queened, but I'll do my best to make sure you don't need to read the original to make sense of it. I still recommend the original - it was a good series, in my opinion! - but reading it shouldn't be a necessity.