She thought the portal led somewhere else. It led to herself.
A story that blends magical realism and romance with a deeply personal exploration of identity, creativity, love, and self-discovery.
Serena Cassidy has a life that looks fine from the outside. A house. A husband. A mother she tends to with quiet devotion.
What she doesn't have is any sense that the woman living that life is actually her.
Then a carnival magician presses a glowing crystal amulet into her palm, and everything changes.
The amulet opens a portal to an enchanted realm, a world of impossible color, carnival lights, and a dark-haired artist named Ignazio who sees her in a way no one ever has. She returns again and again, falling deeper into the magic, into him, into a version of herself she had almost stopped believing existed.
But the real world doesn't pause for magic. Her mother is fading. Her marriage is fracturing. And the life she has been quietly abandoning is beginning to demand she choose.
The Enchanted Realm is a novel about what happens when a woman stops running from her own creativity and starts running toward it. About the loves we build from the best of ourselves. About the portals we find when we finally decide we deserve to walk through them.
Lush, sensual, and quietly devastating, this is magical realism romance for readers who believe that the most extraordinary worlds are the ones we make ourselves.
Some doors only open when you're finally ready to walk through them.