Projects
Emma has a number of projects in the works, though most of them are currently unfinished. Her main 'work in progress' is her new-adult adventure fantasy duology Sail By Dawn, which she hopes to be querying by November 2024.
De Terra Ad Infinitum
2023 - Present
DE TERRA AD INFINITUM is a standalone novel Emma will be writing for her creative writing thesis in 2025. More information about it can be found by following her on Twitter!
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Sail By Dawn
National Silver Medal, Scholastic Art & Writing
2017 - Present
In the first book in the Legends of Osades duology, eighteen-year-old merchant captain Lior Holloway is three months into her record-setting journey when disaster strikes. Four days away from land, she gets captured by pirates. Not just any pirates—Captain Andrew Falcon and his crew of merry men.
At first, she expects him to loot her ship, then burn it to the waterline, as he does with all his victims. However, Andrew’s motives are far from the expected, and he makes her a proposition she can’t refuse. Lior accepts the terms, despite the backlash from her crew, and spends the next six months facing attempted mutiny, betrayal, and the realization that she might actually be falling for Andrew.
The tension aboard the Peregrine comes to a head when Lior accidentally sets off a landslide of revelations about Captain Falcon’s true nature, and blood runs hot when they arrive in Dri Roma. A battle breaks out, long-lost rivals return from the deep, and, Captain Falcon does the unexpected to save his crew—and Lior—from being hung for their crimes.
The Blood King's Bane
2016 - Present
There’s a map burned into his arm. Snaking scars trace out a familiar landscape—it’s the continent of Ilagia, his home. Except, there’s a path leading deep through the neighboring country, and into one of the most dangerous places in the world: the Ivory Woods.
Nineteen-year-old Crown Prince Bayolin is his father’s first son, his mother’s pride and joy, and heir to Tilawen, a small but mighty country to the north of Ilagia. His whole life, he’s been raised to fill the role destined for him—a role of leadership and trust, a civil servant to the needs of his people, someone they can turn to in times of hardship.
But, when a catastrophic betrayal causes Bayolin to flee for his life, he discovers that the structure of power in his world is about to be set on its head by a new player in the game—and he’s about to be right in the middle of it.
Bayolin may no longer be heir to Tilawen, but that doesn’t matter—he’s much, much more.
