A.D. Enz

author | editor | bookbinder

Ashlee is an author of YA and adult fantasy and romance novels. She was first introduced to Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine, which transformed her into a book dragon that cannot hoard enough novels.Ashlee is currently querying WHISPERS AMONG SPIRITS, an 90,000-word horror romantasy. This novel evokes the atmospheric forest magic of North is the Night by Emily Rath, lush folklore from Nettle & Bone by T. Kingfisher, and the Norse-inspired worldbuilding from the show Vikings.If she's not writing, she bookbinds, creating one-of-a-kind special editions you can't find anywhere else.

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Horror Romantasy |
Dark Fantasy

Whispers Among Spirits

Elin is determined to stop the skogsrå spirits from dragging her people into the woods, but when they claim her brother and hunger for more human bones, her defiance awakens a poisoned skogsrå named Mörker. After it marks her with its claws and attacks her village, Elin flees into the wilds, where she meets Dalrik, a cursed slave who knows Mörker can only be stopped by a forbidden spell hidden in a tower no one has ever escaped alive. He offers to guide and protect her in exchange for help breaking his curse, a bargain he refuses to fully explain. As they battle creatures of exposed bone and rotting flesh, their uneasy alliance deepens into an undeniable attraction, even as the poison inside Elin begins to change her, drawing her toward the forest’s cold shadows. When she learns Dalrik’s curse is bound to Mörker, Elin must choose whether to save the man she’s falling for at the cost of herself—or stop the spirit and embrace the monster she fears becoming.

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STATUS: querying

YA Dark Fantasy Romance

Where thieves bleed

Dex will do whatever it takes to free her sister from a brothel—even if it means stealing from the wrong people. When a job turns out to be a test from a deadly group of assassins, she’s forced into their ranks and tasked with stealing a forbidden artifact said to awaken the god of shadows. But the artifact holds a dangerous secret: it grants the power to control a god, and if Dex hands it over, the assassins will use it to control the city. With her sister’s life on the line, a people’s fate at stake, and her growing feelings for an infuriatingly charming assassin complicating everything, Dex must choose who she’s willing to betray before she loses everything.

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STATUS: Editing

YA Fantasy Romance

Dreams of Dark Sands

Cursed and hunted, seventeen-year-old Harlow is running out of time before the darkness under her skin consumes her. When a mysterious nomad named Velho rescues her from execution, he reveals her curse is the key to finding relics that could heal—or destroy—the world.Forced to work together, their uneasy alliance burns into something deeper. But every secret Velho keeps could cost Harlow her brother’s life. With enemies closing in and her curse spreading, she must choose between saving the people she loves or surrendering to the power that’s slowly killing her.

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STATUS: Ready for Querying