Luminary Baths

Luminary Baths is a collection of coming-of-age stories and poems to pull on your heart strings. The Drama, Romance, and Fantasy within these stories will introduce you to new and exciting worlds and characters. The poems written express rawness and vulnerability, allowing readers to feel the emotions behind the words.Moonlit BetrayalLiving on the damned half of The Great Continent, Imid just wants to be free. Free from years of hunting for dinner every night and sleeping in different places every week. Free from constantly evading the Regime that slaughtered her clan. As the draconic refugees flee on dragon back, clan by clan, Imid cannot help but feel like she is delaying her own freedom. Delaying it for love. At first, she hoped to leave with the love of her life, Suli, but on this moonlit night she must decide if love is worth the wait.A Kitten's CrySolisa is a sheltered, love-struck teenage shapeshifter who just wants to feel like a normal girl. While she knows her ability to shift into a cat is something completely out of the norm, and completely a secret, she takes the risk of exposing herself in hopes to impress her crush. Will she impress him? Or will this kitten's curiosity give her other plans for the annual Black Cat Day nightly festivities?Esperanza's TreasureEverything had been taken from Esperanza from the day she was born. After being given a new life by the Infamous Cesaro Negro, Pirate Lord of the Southern Blue Waters, she will never go back to being without. When Cesaro is caught and hung for his Piracy, Esperanza embarks on a mission to find his widely sought out and hunted hidden treasure. A treasure he told only her how to find.Poems.Kaleidoscope of Emotions briefly walks us through just that, and Final Act serves as an introduction to the poems written at the end of a relationship.Wildfire shows us anger, and Cold Night in The City gives us the longing and sadness that comes after it. Moon in Aquarius is about letting go of denial and Descanta walks us through acceptance. And after all that passion and fire the Phoenix Bathing in The Sun rises to let us know that newness and rebirth is always on the horizon.