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A Charm Before Dawn

Daisy Evans has always known something about her was different. She sees magic before she understands it: colors around people, threads in the air, warmth in places no one else notices. Her twin sister, Lily, is bold enough to chase answers. Daisy is quieter, stranger, and far less certain of where she belongs. When their Hogwarts letters arrive, everything they've hidden from becomes real. Magic. Wands. Houses. Secrets. A world beneath their own. But Hogwarts is not the dream Daisy expected. Lily is sorted into Gryffindor. Severus Snape into Slytherin. Daisy into Hufflepuff. For the first time in their lives, the Evans twins are separated. As Lily is pulled toward new friends and old loyalties, Daisy begins noticing the things everyone else misses: the bruised magic around a quiet boy named Remus Lupin, the shadows clinging to Sirius Black, the dangerous hunger for belonging growing in Severus, and the strange secrets adults keep behind locked doors. Hogwarts is full of magic. But Daisy is beginning to learn that magic is not always safe, not always kind, and not always meant to be seen. And some secrets bite back.

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A Charm Before Dawn

Beyond the Sunrise

Julip Hawthorne has always seen the world in color. Because of her synesthesia, every person has a shade only she can see-voices shimmer, personalities glow. Her older sister Georgia burned the brightest of them all, a warm sunset orange that lit up everything around her. Georgia was the one who understood Julip's strange way of seeing the world and encouraged her to paint the colors she saw in people. But when Georgia dies suddenly in a car accident, the colors disappear, draining into dull browns and grays. At the funeral, overwhelmed by grief, Julip runs-literally. As she struggles to navigate life without her sister, Julip begins to wonder if the colors she lost are gone forever... or if she might still find them again.

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Beyond the Sunrise

A Charm Before Dawn

I AM DOING A REWRITE. PLEASE MAKE YOUR WAY TO THE OTHER BOOK WITH THE SAME NAME ON MY PAGE!

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A Charm Before Dawn

Small Town Static

(Still posting but planning major rewrite) At twenty-two, Paisley James is holding her family together by the seams-barely. Between her gas station night shifts, a sick father, and a younger sister who's slipping away, there's no room for dreams. Or herself. Then Jude Bennett arrives in town with a camera and grief of his own. What begins as a documentary turns into something more intimate-an unflinching look at a life quietly unraveling. As the winter deepens, so does their connection. But healing isn't simple, and love doesn't erase the past. The Weight of Quiet Things is a story about care, exhaustion, and the slow return to hope.

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Small Town Static