Lorelei Matthews
Lorelei Matthews is a new adult fantasy and supernatural author, living in the blurred spaces between light and dark, where grief is a love language, power always comes at a cost, and no one is ever purely hero or villain (because honestly, what’s the fun in that?).
With a BA in Creative Writing and English in her back pocket, Lorelei is the author of nightmare coda, featured in the dreamcaught anthology, with additional works to come.
When she’s not dismantling fictional souls, she can be found spending time with her husband and children in the wilds of Colorado, obsessing over Doctor Who, vampires, video & board games, and loving the fictional villains she shouldn't.
She can be found on her website: www.loreleimatthews.com - Insta & Threads: @loreleimatthewswrites - Bluesky: @loreleimatthews.com
The Gates of Destiny
Cambria knows relatively little about herself or her life.
After being rescued from beneath a pile of burned bodies by Jorian and Lynnsey Raviers at sixteen, she quickly learns she has no memory of her past and an ability not seen in generations—water casting.
Fearing for her safety, she is forbidden from using her casting outside the walls of her home. Cambria grows up in the throes of a noble household, falling in love with both her new friend Kasami and the prince of Erindel, Lucan, along the way. Her life is calm, if not frustrating, until the Earth God, Soleth, takes mortal form to warn her of a prophecy hinged around her.
On the eve of a plan to run away with the prince, the water goddess Lesya steps in and saves Cambria as her family is slaughtered. Imprisoned falsely for their deaths, Cambria must learn to survive a fate worse than death, hoping to escape her prison and fleeing to Payora to thwart the evil that is threatening to not just take over her world, but all worlds.
DESICCATE, Book 1 of GATES OF DESTINY, will be released
from Shadow Spark Publishing
on June 23, 2026
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