K. W. Bernard

@kwbernard.bsky.social

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Spicy dark fantasy full of monsters, magic, and mayhem. 🖤⚔️🖤 Author of DRAINED and BLACKENED. Intertidal creature stranded in the woods. https://kwbernard.com/ https://linktr.ee/kwbernard

Sunrise at the beach
Japanese beetle with a tachinid egg on its thorax
Cover of Drained, a dark monster fantasy novel.
Pileated woodpecker on a fir trunk.
Word document find results for ‘that’ 609.
Clear lake with blue sky above.
A small dog photobombing a shot of daisies and the afternoon sun.
Pink sweet William flowers
“Don’t go far, foolish girl.” His bellow ripped through the air with the whoosh of an igniting blaze. “Together we can bring so much destruction.”
Close up of a dragon hunter dragonfly
Daisy on a still river bank.
Cover of Drained.
Green-eyed cat with bright green foliage in the background.
Pink peony.
Flat Penobscot river with a big snapping turtle just under the surface.
Four leaf clover
A spelling award with the spelling error.
4 tiger swallowtails eating shit
Starflower with 3 blossoms
Mountain over a lake.
Tiger swallowtail on purple lilac flowers.
Fire pit.
Tuxedo cat looking annoyed while a bald dude plays guitar for it.
Flowering magnolia against a blue sky.
Hickory and elm trunks against a bright blue sky at night.
Sweat bee (I think) on a dandelion.
Unflattering cat close up blocking the keyboard.
Wild violets in the late afternoon sun.
Dew drops sparkling on the grass.
Bumble bee flying away from a dandelion
An early winter and conflicts with the Drurga force Dagmar and her brothers to do what they do best—slaughter and pillage in southern lands. But an insidious monster guards the village they raid. One who drains his victims’ strength with a caress. A single touch brings Dagmar to her knees, and instead of granting her an honorable death, he gifts her a collar—then tethers her to his bed. Fortunately, it takes more than a leash to tame a Northland warrior. The infuriating monster will regret making her his pet. Because she’s not about to sate his wicked appetites willingly—no matter how willing he is to sate hers.
Tropes: captive captor, warrior princess FMC, shadow Grampy MMC, touch me and die, feminine rabies, naughty girl
Daughter of the Northern cover featuring a battle axe and icicles.
Tiny stream reflecting the trees.
Green clouds looking like a cartoon skull.
Big old white pine in the woods.
Sun rising above a creek.
Cat chewing the top of a vodka nip.
A wooden cutout of F U C K
A bloody axe held by a muscular arm against a wintry background.
Towering white pines in a semicircle against a blue sky.
Trout lily from below with the sun shining in the background.
Sun shining through a hemlock tree in early spring.
Wood frog eggs in a ditch.
Woman holding her book and shooting writers’ tears whiskey.
Lopsided white pine against a blue sky.
Sun peeking through the treetops.
Cat on a roof.
Her daughter was in a little oak box... It took all Dagmar's focus to picture the young woman as anything but a burning, shrieking husk. To see her face, soft and smiling, eyes sparkling like the sea. Dagmar had stolen so many smiles from her.
Ice-lined stream.
Big white pine towering over trees.
Mood board with electric fingertips, longship beached in a fjord, seal baring its teeth, chain, battle axe, warrior with a glowing eye, bloody growing woman.
Cat chewing on an Easter basket.
Cranky cat licked by a dog.
Sleet on a railing
He smoothed her hair. “Be still, naughty girl. No more fighting.” Thrashing and growling like a trapped wildcat, she tried to sink her bloodied teeth into him a second time. “Get off me, demon!” “My name is Glaucus. And I’ve told you what I am.” Hells spawn. She bucked, strained, clawed, kicked—rabid for escape. Until his fingertips found her bare skin again. Then she stilled for him. Softened. A tingling warmth rippled from his touch, filling her with sweetness. Momentarily tamed, she leaked a groan.
Maple trunk against a moonlit sky.
Sun shining through the trees mid morning with snow on the ground and some fluffy white clouds above.