ABOUT THE AUTHOR
ABOUT AVA
Ava Do is a Asian American producer in the gaming industry based in Southern California, and video games are among her greatest sources of inspiration.
Ava is drawn to gothic dark romantasy because she loves reading and writing the things we're not supposed to talk about—female rage, revenge, and more insidious topics with teeth. She loves to write women who might be the villains in someone else's story, but are absolutely the heroes in hers.
WRITING INSPIRATION
Ava writes because it’s one of the rare activities that refills her. She's spent most of her life being measured by what others can see — being good at things, being recognized for them, being useful. Writing doesn't ask any of that of her. She doesn't need anyone to tell her she's doing it well. She doesn't even need anyone to read it. She just needs to get the daydream out of her head and onto the page so she can move on to the next one.
It's the most cathartic thing she does. She's processed traumas through writing. She's come to terms with hard truths she couldn't otherwise face head-on. It's the only activity she's ever found that feels both completely hers and completely sufficient on its own. That's rare. So she keeps writing..
"She was asking to be killed."
Ksenia is executed for forging illegal blades—one of which costs her soul. To reclaim it, she strikes a blood pact with a vengeful goddess and is resurrected in a new body with a rage-driven mission: infiltrate the castle and destroy the man who stole her soul.
The first step? Win the king's deadly trials to become his next spymaster. She's assigned to work with Bohdan, the bastard prince and captain of the royal guard, to expose and address any threats to the crown before the enemy can find them. And lately, there's been a serial killer tearing through the kingdom.
The problem? She IS the killer. And the king is her next target.
HELLBOUND
