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Favorite books
- The Silence of the Girls
- Jane Eyre
- Grimm's Complete Fairytales
- The Odyssey
- A Song of Ice and Fire
A light is moving through the stacks
Lantern is setting out the next page.
LanternHow it was earned: Published work that helped Lantern reach its first one million story words.
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Every enchanting fairytale casts a shadow.
Behind the byline
Well hello there, beautiful reader, and welcome to my bio. My name is C.F. Abbott. I am a twenty-something-year-old author with a lifelong love of the magical and macabre. The genres I dabble in are romantasy, historical fantasy, and contemporary fantasy... though folklore, fairytales, and Greek mythology have a habit of sneaking into everything I write. Like a cook with salt, I believe every good romance deserves a dash of magic and a pinch of something spooky.
⌖ Somewhere in the sleepy foothills of Appalachia
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Dark Romantasy
Camelot is burning the old world to ash.
Once a princess of Oléron, Tryamour has watched human conquest reduce her homeland to ruin, leaving her family dead and her people scattered. Now a healer for the Resistance, she has little left but her hatred for Camelot and a willingness to do whatever it takes to see the kingdom fall.
Even if it means walking willingly into the heart of it.
Disguised as a servant within Castle Pendragon, Tryamour intends to poison the court and disappear before anyone discovers what she is. Instead, she crosses paths with Lanval, a peasant born knight whose loyalty to Camelot has earned him everything he once dreamed of, and whose growing doubts threaten to cost him all of it.
He should be her enemy.
She should be nothing more than a traitor.
But when bloodshed forces them together, hatred gives way to something far more dangerous: an ancient bond neither of them can easily escape.
Beyond Lantern
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When calamity strikes, memories fade. Perrie Adams narrowly survived the accident that almost took her life, but it would seem death claimed her long ago. Not that she remembers him. Suffering from trauma induced amnesia, she doesn’t even remember herself. As suspicious clues and lost recollections begin to surface, Perrie is left reeling from revelations too fantastical to be true. But if they aren’t, then why does he stir up feelings she doesn’t recall ever experiencing? There is something magnetic about Haden, something that calls to her very soul. When whispers of fate claim that he is the king of the Underworld and she is his lost queen, Perrie must dig deep into her elusive past. Can she rediscover her history and step into her role as Goddess of Spring in time to save her forgotten husband? Or will the shackles of her false life prove too strong to escape?
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