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Indie Author, LIbrarian, & reader

A.E. Bross

Let's get personal

About Me

I am a writer, librarian, and occasional poet from the Greater New York Area. Currently, I spend my time as an academic, electronic resources librarian for an institute of higher education, as well as a spouse, parent, and all around regular individual attempting to navigate my way through this world (no easy task, as I'm sure you know).One of my biggest loves is writing. I love writing fantasy, science fiction, contemporary (sometimes paranormal) romance, and horror. Currently I'm working on a number of different works, and I can't wait to bring them to you all!

In general, I enjoy reading pretty much anything, though especially science fiction and supernatural adventures, and comfy romance novels. I'm also both a console and tabletop gamer, a frequent member of the #WritingCommunity on BlueSky and Instagram, a consummate introvert, and a nonbinary, genderfluid delight. I'm pronoun neutral, so anything goes, but she/they are what I hear the most.

Books - Pirate Fantasy

The Elysium Proposal (novella)

Kyle Talos, adventurer, privateer, and captain of The Stargazer, wanted to have the perfect romantic evening with the love of her life. Good food, better wine, and then maybe, just maybe, a marriage proposal.Except nothing ever goes as planned.Instead, she received a nighttime chase across rooftops, her ship commandeered, and threats that forced her into sailing herself, her not-yet-fiancé, and the invading enemy towards certain doom. All of this in pursuit of the myth of a spring that could grant eternal life. This otherworldly prize was rumored to be located on the Elysium Cove, a small island far out to sea.An island surrounded by storms so powerful that no vessel has sailed in and returned to tell the tale. More than one fool has tried. None of them survived.Kyle must now keep herself and those she loves safe, but will she be able to change course before the relentless search for eternal life leads them all to their deaths?

Books - Modern Fantasy

Where We Converge

Darius Adair just wants to live in peace. He wakes up, goes to work, does his job, and comes home to a quiet studio apartment in Chicago. As a mage working to protect the magical and the mundane alike, it's as normal a life as he can have. After everything he’s been through, he deserves that much.A call in the dead of night shatters that illusion.Morgan Slavin can’t recall much. His memories are fractured, and his body feels like a thousand bits of broken glass. He only knows one thing: Time travel sucks. After completing a ritual that forced him through the timeline, his mind, body, and magic are twisted and broken. Beyond the pain and mental anguish, there's little he can reach for. He is desperate to find an anchor in this storm. After all, he came back in time to stop...what? Why had he returned?Sent by the late-night call to find the broken Morgan, Darius now must help him find out what he's come back to stop, and soon. If that wasn’t challenging enough, the longer they’re together, the more Darius feels himself drawn to Morgan, and the more willing he is to open old wounds that nearly destroyed him in the past.