manuscripts
Shardai’s debut is forthcoming. Below are a list of manuscripts she is currently working on.
Art by @cheesy_cryptid
THE VESTAL ORDER
COMPLETE AT 107,000 * YA CONTEMPORARY FANTASY
Two friends thrown into a quest for the Vestal Flame discover a hidden order of Vestal Virgins (minus the virgin, obvi). The clock is ticking as Phena navigates her love for her BFF & her growing attraction for the spellcasting Briar.
This aged-up Percy Jackson portal fantasy possesses the dark side of being a chosen one found in Veronica Roth’s Chosen Ones, the grumpy x sunshine dynamic of Netflix’s Wednesday, modern day gods and goddesses of Alexandra Bracken’s Lore, and the all-girls magic school of Winx.
Interested? Contact me below!
FONDLE
REVISING * surreal ADULT CONTEMPORARY
An actress longing to be touched hires a professional cuddler and tests the boundaries of what the paid service can provide.
A shorter version of FONDLE was a finalist in the 2025 Clay Reynolds Novella Prize from TRP: The University Press of SHSU (Texas Review Press).
Interested? Contact me below!
IN EVERY LINE I WRITE OUR GRAVES
REVISING * ADULT SOCIAL HORROR
Candyman meets Yellowface in this dark academic horror following a desperate author, the plantation she's forced to return to, and the folklore historian in love with her.
THEY FEED ON THE DARK WE LEAVE BEHIND
DRAFTING * YA FOLK/COSMIC HORROR
After losing his mother, Elijah follows her trail to a small Pennsylvania town preparing for a total solar eclipse. As Elijah learns more about the town, he realizes there is something in the dark woods just beyond the lake.
They Feed on the Dark We Leave Behind follows two teens, one grappling with the unexpected loss of his mother and the other living with her mother’s trauma forced upon her.