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🖋️ sff indie author 🧁 sweet relationship peddler ♾️🌈♠️ autistic nonbinary aroace ✨ they/them 🚫 No DMs (Ohio) ✦ 🚫🅰️ℹ️ ✦ mostly updates 💎🪐 NOVA RICHE (TBD) 🗡️🍂 ATOWAR (TBD) all links ➡️ cara.ink books ➡️ caranox.com/books avatar ✦ @ashsketchem.bsky.social

Seraphine’s Chosen pride rep - and pairings Book mockups of The Thirteenth Key and The Vault with circular flag icons along the right side for ace, bi, lesbian, poly, and disability pride. ace mmc x bi fmc disabled lesbian side character messy bi+poly side characters caranox.com/seraphines-chosen
FRUITS OF HER LABOUR by Stasia Roze cover with pomegranates resting at the bottom of a purple, starry background and gold moon and star borders. Pomegranates decorate the background behind the cover.
The Thirteenth Key Seraphine’s Chosen - Book One A book cover of The Thirteenth Key by Cara Nox is in the center of the image, surrounded by tropes, rep, and other details. Clockwise, from the upper right, it reads: found family; sweet ace boy x spicy bi girl; slowburn romantic subplots; dying magic thriving tech; futuristic fantasy; traveling heist adventure; disability rep; chaotic chosen one(s); hurt / comfort; persona 5 meets final fantasy 15. caranox.com/t13k
Nox's Pride Month Sale jun 1-13, 2026 Familiar $2.99 The Thirteenth Key $1.99 The Vault $2.99 A Hunt of Blood & Iron $1.99 Trick $1.99 caranox.com/books
Pride Book Fair 2026 Bundle #1: Pride Hard; a black graphic with over thirty-five covers of various LGBTQIA+ fiction books available on itch.io.
Cover reveal for The Howling Dark by Brittany M Willows. Out November 9, 2026. Cover illustration for "The Howling Dark" by Brittany M. Willows (designed and drawn by the author), featuring the book’s protagonist front and center, facing the viewer with a neutral expression. He is crouching amidst leafless, snow-covered branches, a birch spear in his right hand. He wears a green parka and a brown, ribbed, turtleneck sweater. He is fair-skinned and has long wavy half-black half-white hair and a scar over his left eye.
Narratess Sale april 11-13, 2026 - indiebook.sale $1.99 A book cover of Familiar by Cara Nox is off to the left of the image, alongside a blurb on the right that reads: “Jules, the son of a vampire hunter and glorified admin assistant for his father’s crew, is tired of waiting to join their ranks. So when he wakes up with the mark of a familiar, he decides to prove himself by hunting down the vampire responsible. Hopefully this also doesn’t ruin his chance with his crush...". Art by Martina Belli rests at the bottom of the image, featuring two lighter-skinned guys looking at each other and smiling while holding coffee cups.
Trick, a book by Cara Nox, being pulled off the shelf between other books and a bookend resembling a chess piece.
Books by Cara Nox layered on top of one another, fanned out on top of black tray with white star string lights in the background.
Shelf with books by Cara Nox stacked and shelved with a black and gold mug sitting on the hardcover copies.
Copies of The Thirteenth Key and The Vault by Cara Nox. The paperbacks are standing upright against the hardbacks laying down and the gold and black teacup on top of it.
An open copy of A Hunt of Blood & Iron by Cara Nox, with the title "22 Grey" at the top of one of the pages. A black and gold mug sits in the background.
Valentine's Sale; Feb 13-16, 2026; tiled covers of books by Cara Nox with sale pricing sit above "Get Familiar for $3.99, Trick for $0.99, The Thirteenth Key for $1.99, & A Hunt of Blood & Iron for $1.99"; caranox.com/books
A shelf of Cara Nox's paperback books next to notebooks and a fake plant.
Various books by Cara Nox shelved and stacked on a shelf with a fake plant and a mug. Trick and Familiar take up the center.
An image of a book page with the words "You know what to do." in an handwritten font near the bottom.
A stack of books along the top of the image next to a plant overtop of a woven black covering. The Thirteenth Key and The Vault flatlay on the black tray with woven star lights.
Familiar Occult Misadventures - Standalone A book cover of Familiar by Cara Nox is tilted off to the right of the image, alongside a few tropes and details: vampires, werewolves, & witches; errand boy for vampire hunters; coffee shop meet-cute turned disaster; awkward gay mc x goth bi li. Art by Martina Belli rests at the bottom of the image, featuring two lighter-skinned guys looking at each other and smiling while holding coffee cups. caranox.com/familiar
A collection of books by Cara Nox lined up and stacked on a bookshelf alongside a fake plant and with a black and gold mug sitting on top of a hardcover stack.
Writing Wrapped 2025 Stats Overlapping book cover mockups for A TRIAL OF WRATH & RUIN, SPIRITS, DEVOUR YOUR HEART, and NOVA RICHE alongside the cover for FAMILIAR. ✦ published FAMILIAR 🎉🖤🩸 ✦ wrote >50k in NOVA RICHE ✦ wrote >50k in DEVOUR YOUR HEART ✦ made it ~50% way through SPIRITS ✦ finished the first draft of A TRIAL OF WRATH & RUIN ✦ wrote >20k in A TITHE OF SOULS & DREAMS I’m happy to see how much progress I’ve made, things I’ve tried, and cool new ideas I’ve jotted down for the future. Here’s to writing and publishing more next year. 🖤
An opened copy of The Thirteenth Key by Cara Nox with woven star lights overlapping the corner of the book on a dark background.
A gold and black mug sitting on top of a stack of hardcovers, featuring A Hunt of Blood & Iron, The Thirteenth Key, and The Vault, all by Cara Nox.
Familiar Occult Misadventures - Standalone A book cover of Familiar by Cara Nox is off to the left of the image, alongside a blurb on the right that reads: “Jules, the son of a vampire hunter and glorified admin assistant for his father’s crew, is tired of waiting to join their ranks. So when he wakes up with the mark of a familiar, he decides to prove himself by hunting down the vampire responsible. Hopefully this also doesn’t ruin his chance with his crush...". Art by Martina Belli rests at the bottom of the image, featuring two lighter-skinned guys looking at each other and smiling while holding coffee cups. caranox.com/familiar
End of Year Sale Smashwords - 2025 50% off Graphical book covers of Trick, The Thirteenth Key, and A Hunt of Blood & Iron, all by Cara Nox, tiled across the image. Get TRICK, THE THIRTEENTH KEY, & A HUNT OF BLOOD & IRON for 50% off! caranox.com/smashwords
Nox's Books caranox.com/books A faintly patterned black background with a vector white sword surrounded by stars in the center.
A paperback copy of A HUNT OF BLOOD & IRON lays face-up overtop of a hardcover copy flipped over that reads, "Nothing comes without sacrifice". Both copies rest on a black tray with white, woven starlights along the top.
User emilyandherindies posted: Checking threads today after the new pricing sheet dropped... I can't say anything yet, but good news is coming. [gif of guy walking into a chaotic apartment with pizza]. Follow up thread post: All I'm saying is there's a reason revision fees aren't listed on there anymore.
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An open copy of The Thirteenth Key with a grimoire pin by Emily Cheeseman resting between the pages.
Nox's Books caranox.com/books A faintly patterned black background with a vector white sword surrounded by stars in the center.
Cyber Weekend nov 28 - dec 1, 2025 | caranox.com/links Arrows point from $0.99 to graphical covers of The Thirteenth Key, Trick, and A Hunt of Blood & Iron, all by Cara Nox. Another arrow points from $2.99 to The Vault by Cara Nox.
Nov 2025 New LGBTQ+ Book Releases (including Familiar!) Graphic has a neon light rainbow background over various designs spelling out "love". The foreground has the above text and an arrow pointing to a graphic cover of Familiar.
A stack of books by Cara Nox, including (from top to bottom) Trick, A Hunt of Blood & Iron, The Thirteenth Key, and The Vault. All of the books are stacked along the wall next to a fake plant with a woven star light in the foreground.
Nox's Books caranox.com/books A faintly patterned black background with a vector white sword surrounded by stars in the center.
A paperback copy of Trick by Cara Nox held over a black tray with white woven star lights on a black textured cloth. A fake plant and hardback copies of other Cara Nox books at the top of the image.
Nov 2025 New LGBTQ+ Book Releases (including Familiar!) Graphic has a neon light rainbow background over various designs spelling out "love". The foreground has the above text and an arrow pointing to a graphic cover of Familiar.
Devour Your Heart Max pushed on the door, putting nearly all his weight into it as the heavy slab groaned inward. His eyes adjusted to the dim light, and his heart swelled with wonder as he started for the platform, staring up at the patchwork of distorted shapes.
Nox's Books caranox.com/books A faintly patterned black background with a vector white sword surrounded by stars in the center.
An open copy of A Hunt of Blood & Iron to chapter 18, Grey's POV, with the starting like "Don't step foot into a single forest, and don't reply to anything you can't see." with a white, woven star light against the opposite page.
Nov 2025 New LGBTQ+ Book Releases (including Familiar!) Graphic has a neon light rainbow background over various designs spelling out "love". The foreground has the above text and an arrow pointing to a graphic cover of Familiar.
Nova Riche When Roux was a boy, sitting on the edge of a wealthy now-dead relative’s swimming pool and listening to hissed threats from his mother about taking him inside if he got a single drop of water on his freshly-laundered trousers, he recalled his uncle giving a toast at the nearby outdoor bar: “To the bold.” It was the man’s most infamous phrase, despite a young Roux always pondering what made the great Flint Kingston actually bold after learning the full reference to that favorite toast. Fortune favors the bold. link icon - caranox.com/links bluesky icon - @cara.ink instagram icon - @cara.nox threads icon - @cara.nox
Nox's Books caranox.com/books A faintly patterned black background with a vector white sword surrounded by stars in the center.
An open copy of Familiar with the chapter title that reads, "Shop of Horrors". The book is sitting on a black tray, next to a woven star light, and by a black mug with gold designs.
Devour Your Heart Cam’s pulse quickened as they scrambled to their feet, the room swaying as they turned to find a dozen rows of chapel pews between them and the wide set of doors at the end of the aisle. They stumbled down the shallow steps from the raised platform and bumped against the first bench, clinging to the backing to steady themself. Their knees trembled while they gulped down lungfuls of air. You’re okay, Cam told themself. It wasn’t real. It was just in your mind.
Indie Ink Awards 2025 possible nomination category suggestions Cover of Familiar is in the center, next to a skewed Indie Ink Awards logo. - best book cover & artist - best use of tropes - side character mvp - this book made me hungry/thirsty - wittiest character - gay or lesbian rep - lgbtq+ rep - trans or nonbinary rep indiestorygeek.comm
Nov 2025 New LGBTQ+ Book Releases (including Familiar!) Graphic has a neon light rainbow background over various designs spelling out "love". The foreground has the above text and an arrow pointing to a graphic cover of Familiar.
A pile of paperback books, including Familiar by Cara Nox, on a black tray with white woven star lights and a stack of hardcovers off to the side, next to a fake plant.
Familiar (An Occult Misadventure) by Cara Nox—a book with a spilled coffee cup on a small black portion, pouring out red and filling the red of the cover with the title that looks like vampire teeth, complete with a black blood drop—sits in the center of the image. It’s surrounded by tropes, rep, and teasers on a black background. Clockwise, it reads: errand boy for vampire hunters, awkward gay mc x goth bi li, coffee shop meet-cute turned disaster, mistakes™ were made, hunters with ulterior motives, don't be suspicious, chaotic first person narration, vampires, werewolves, & witches. At the bottom, it reads: Familiar, Urban Fantasy, caranox.com/familiar
DEVOUR YOUR HEART Panic clawed its way into Cam’s throat, choking them when one more blink pulled back that hazy filter to reveal a solid red mask. Instead of pupils, silver stars were painted onto where the eyes should be. A carefully-sculpted nose sloped down toward a pair of molded lips, set in an expression of neutrality with the exception of that thin line painted through the part with the slightest upward curve at the corners. Like that would somehow make this thing look more friendly. It wasn’t working. Not with how wildly Cam’s heart pounded in their chest and the slow-donning realization that they weren’t at home in their apartment or back in the room in the inn or at that hotel with the shadows that’d kept them up all night because they’d convinced their stupid little pea-sized brain that a person was watching them from a corner. caranox.com/links bluesky @cara.ink insta @cara.nox threads @cara.nox
Familiar, a book with a red cover from a spilled vector coffee cup in the corner with the title lettering resembling simplistic fangs dripping blood, on a black wooden tray with white woven star lights and a black and gold mug.
Ace Pride Week itch.io mega bundle Oct 19 - 25 | 50+ books for $50! Book covers for the following books are listed top left to bottom right: Non-player Character - Veo Corva A Dragon’s Treasure - Elis Madsen The Blood Divide - Zan Lowell The Grand Duke’s Masseur Child of the Forest - Audrey Simmons Wherever the Stars Call - S. Jean How Six Saved the Grogs - Blaine D. Arden City of Strike - Claudie Arseneault In Spite of the Inevitable - Morgan Biscup Structural Integrity - Tabitha O’Connell Of Spells and Love - Odessa Silver Inarora’s Excursion - Astrid E. Abell Puppetry - Nina Waters Sidetracked - S. K. Kelley Lost Blades - Liz Sauco Claimed by the Undead - C. L. Carhart The Star-Crossed Empire - Maya Darjani Triple Strike Threads of Fate - G. M. Grey Curse of Souls - Niranjan Courtly Love - T. D. Cloud Song of the Wolf - T. C. Smith Blood - D. C. Hart Chai and Cat-tales - Lynn Strong The Thirteenth Key - Cara Nox The Dragon Next Door - Vanessa Ricci-Thode Walking the Knife’s Edge - Elise Carlson Yours Celestically - Al Hess Pet - H. S. Kallinger The One He Brought Home - Skye Kilaen Junk Junction - Sara Codair Secondhand Origin Storie - Lee Brontido Riyati Rebirth - Kai Zeal Bridges of Smoke - Julie March The Whisperer in White - Y. R. Liu In the Eye of the Beholder - Beverly Anne Michel Peace in the Sky - Caye Marsh A Spark in Space - Janina Franck Journey Home - May Barros Doce Drosera - Anita The Audacity - Carmen Loup Bloody Space - Brittany M. Willows Enemies to Enemies - Ash Kreider Devil’s Deal - Tessa Hastjarjanto Merchants of Knowledge and Magic - Erika McCorkle A Life in Too Many Margins - S. E. Thomson Where We Converge - A. E. Bross Lantern - Burgundy Athena Pendragon A Designer Magick - Fox N. Locke The Harmony of Falling Snow - Andora Brohaw The Thread That Binds - Cedar McCloud Towers of Nine - Alyssa Louttit All books by ace authors and/or ft. ace characters across a variety of genres! riyati.ink/acepride2025
Ace Pride Week itch.io mega bundle Oct 19 - 25 | 50+ books for $50! Book covers for the following books are listed top left to bottom right: Non-player Character - Veo Corva A Dragon’s Treasure - Elis Madsen The Blood Divide - Zan Lowell The Grand Duke’s Masseur Child of the Forest - Audrey Simmons Wherever the Stars Call - S. Jean How Six Saved the Grogs - Blaine D. Arden City of Strike - Claudie Arseneault In Spite of the Inevitable - Morgan Biscup Structural Integrity - Tabitha O’Connell Of Spells and Love - Odessa Silver Inarora’s Excursion - Astrid E. Abell Puppetry - Nina Waters Sidetracked - S. K. Kelley Lost Blades - Liz Sauco Claimed by the Undead - C. L. Carhart The Star-Crossed Empire - Maya Darjani Triple Strike Threads of Fate - G. M. Grey Curse of Souls - Niranjan Courtly Love - T. D. Cloud Song of the Wolf - T. C. Smith Blood - D. C. Hart Chai and Cat-tales - Lynn Strong The Thirteenth Key - Cara Nox The Dragon Next Door - Vanessa Ricci-Thode Walking the Knife’s Edge - Elise Carlson Yours Celestically - Al Hess Pet - H. S. Kallinger The One He Brought Home - Skye Kilaen Junk Junction - Sara Codair Secondhand Origin Storie - Lee Brontido Riyati Rebirth - Kai Zeal Bridges of Smoke - Julie March The Whisperer in White - Y. R. Liu In the Eye of the Beholder - Beverly Anne Michel Peace in the Sky - Caye Marsh A Spark in Space - Janina Franck Journey Home - May Barros Doce Drosera - Anita The Audacity - Carmen Loup Bloody Space - Brittany M. Willows Enemies to Enemies - Ash Kreider Devil’s Deal - Tessa Hastjarjanto Merchants of Knowledge and Magic - Erika McCorkle A Life in Too Many Margins - S. E. Thomson Where We Converge - A. E. Bross Lantern - Burgundy Athena Pendragon A Designer Magick - Fox N. Locke The Harmony of Falling Snow - Andora Brohaw The Thread That Binds - Cedar McCloud Towers of Nine - Alyssa Louttit All books by ace authors and/or ft. ace characters across a variety of genres! riyati.ink/acepride2025
FAMILIAR Saint set the bag in front of him, all the drinks tucked neatly inside except for one. The damned hot chocolate. I tried my best not to shake the hell out of it as I reached to take it from his hand, immediately telling myself to get a grip when our fingers brushed.
 The steely glint in those eyes made my world fall away for a fraction of a second before he said, “Text me if you want to hang out sometime.” 
Text? Wait, what? 
My eyes snapped to my cup, soaking in the black marker pen scrawled on there. A phone number. When I looked up again, still pretty much stun-locked, I found Saint smirking at me as he turned around to start cleaning the equipment. caranox.com/links bluesky @cara.ink insta @cara.nox threads @cara.nox
A paperback copy of The Thirteenth Key by Cara Nox overlapping a copy of a hardcover that reads "Downward into an abyss of silvery stars." on the back with blurbs from other authors. Both books are laying on a black tray with woven star lights along the top of the photo.
Ace Pride Week itch.io mega bundle Oct 19 - 25 | 50+ books for $50! Book covers for the following books are listed top left to bottom right: Non-player Character - Veo Corva A Dragon’s Treasure - Elis Madsen The Blood Divide - Zan Lowell The Grand Duke’s Masseur Child of the Forest - Audrey Simmons Wherever the Stars Call - S. Jean How Six Saved the Grogs - Blaine D. Arden City of Strike - Claudie Arseneault In Spite of the Inevitable - Morgan Biscup Structural Integrity - Tabitha O’Connell Of Spells and Love - Odessa Silver Inarora’s Excursion - Astrid E. Abell Puppetry - Nina Waters Sidetracked - S. K. Kelley Lost Blades - Liz Sauco Claimed by the Undead - C. L. Carhart The Star-Crossed Empire - Maya Darjani Triple Strike Threads of Fate - G. M. Grey Curse of Souls - Niranjan Courtly Love - T. D. Cloud Song of the Wolf - T. C. Smith Blood - D. C. Hart Chai and Cat-tales - Lynn Strong The Thirteenth Key - Cara Nox The Dragon Next Door - Vanessa Ricci-Thode Walking the Knife’s Edge - Elise Carlson Yours Celestically - Al Hess Pet - H. S. Kallinger The One He Brought Home - Skye Kilaen Junk Junction - Sara Codair Secondhand Origin Storie - Lee Brontido Riyati Rebirth - Kai Zeal Bridges of Smoke - Julie March The Whisperer in White - Y. R. Liu In the Eye of the Beholder - Beverly Anne Michel Peace in the Sky - Caye Marsh A Spark in Space - Janina Franck Journey Home - May Barros Doce Drosera - Anita The Audacity - Carmen Loup Bloody Space - Brittany M. Willows Enemies to Enemies - Ash Kreider Devil’s Deal - Tessa Hastjarjanto Merchants of Knowledge and Magic - Erika McCorkle A Life in Too Many Margins - S. E. Thomson Where We Converge - A. E. Bross Lantern - Burgundy Athena Pendragon A Designer Magick - Fox N. Locke The Harmony of Falling Snow - Andora Brohaw The Thread That Binds - Cedar McCloud Towers of Nine - Alyssa Louttit All books by ace authors and/or ft. ace characters across a variety of genres! riyati.ink/acepride2025
DEVOUR YOUR HEART The inn was far creepier in the dark. Then again, Cam had found the hotel room unsettling in the pitch-black and turned on the TV in the early hours of the morning. Volume down, subtitles on, letting that flickering screen drive away the darkness. Except in those far reaches where they imagined someone crouching in the corner, watching them. When the sun had finally filtered through the thin curtains, they’d felt stupid. Max had thrown his bag on the office chair tucked into the corner by the desk. But now, standing in a hallway of countless pale faces set into metallic frames, they shivered. caranox.com/links bluesky @cara.ink insta @cara.nox threads @cara.nox
Open book with black page that has a city grid map pattern under the title "Seven - Evie" and cut off text at the bottom of the frame. There's a woven star light and a translucent cable on a black surface in the background of the upper corner.
Oct 2025 - Fantasy + Sci fi on Kobo Plus with a lit book in the background and covers for The Thirteenth Key, Trick, and A Hunt of Blood & Iron, all by Cara Nox, at the bottom.
An open copy of the book "The Thirteenth Key" by Cara Nox with a rapier pin between the pages as it rests on a black tray with woven white star lights in the background.
A picture of FAMILIAR, a book with a red cover and while text with a black droplet that reads "An Occult Misadventure" along the top by the spilled coffee cup. The background features a black tray on a black blanket with star lights, a fake plant, and a stack of books along the wall.