If you like historical AUs, mystery, adventure, necromantic sun goddesses, cults and a found family dynamic, then THE CRYSTAL NECROPOLIS might just be for you!
I'm posting chapters once they are edited, so you may get two in a day or one every few days depending on fatigue and whatever schedule I might have.
As anyone who knows me will know, I thrive on live feedback so if anyone reads this story, I'd love it if you'd leave a comment.
Well…kind of. You remember that Witcher AU I was writing before Covid? Well, I took the urban fantasy idea and turned into an Original.
Metropolitan Unnatural is complete!
and I’ve written…like…two and a half books of this story at this point 🤣
Blurb is below:
Detective Inspector Tristan Locryn has spent centuries hunting monsters.
He’s never become one.
When a string of brutal killings strikes London, the Metropolitan Police’s Unnatural Incidents Response Unit is called in to investigate. The evidence points to something savage, ancient — and dangerously unpredictable.
DC Alexander Pankhurst was never meant to be part of that world. Brilliant, perceptive, and stubbornly human, Alex has a habit of seeing connections no one else does. Working alongside Tristan, he finds himself pulled deeper into a hidden London where magic, monsters, and old bargains still shape the city’s shadows.
But when a long-buried curse is unleashed, the hunt turns personal.
As the body count rises and the truth behind the curse begins to surface, Tristan is forced to confront something far more dangerous than any creature he’s faced before.
Because this time, the monster might be someone he loves.
When a renowned archaeologist and his son disappear on an expedition unlike any before it, fifteen-year-old Iris Lennox refuses to accept the reassurances of men who tell her to wait. Her brother always wrote. Until he didn’t.
Tracing their path from Calderon to the sun-baked ports of Maravel and beyond, Iris teams up with two young private investigators who know what it means to survive on the margins. Together, they uncover a trail leading toward the Sun Queen — a myth woven through the ruins of lost empires, and a power believed safely entombed.
But the deeper they go, the clearer it becomes: this expedition was never just about history.
As ancient forces stir and watchers move in the shadows, Iris must confront the truth of what her father discovered — and what it cost him to leave her behind.
Only 3 more to go! If you like original fic with 1920s archaeology vibes, found family, cross country adventures, a broken white boy and two clever women of colour as leads, plus necromantic sun goddesses and mystery, this this one is for you!
