Angela Em

fantasy author, co-working streamer, & professional death evader

Writing her novels & vibing live on Twitch every Sunday at 11:00 am EST

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We Are Nothing but Alone

A romantic portal fantasy with epic elements.

After being transported to a new world, Camille finds out the magic she never knew she had could end the suffering of millions, but it would mean her death, and it would be the prince she fell for who would kill her.

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Before he left his house that morning, his wife said she loved him. Forever. That’s what they always said. Now, Jayce looked at his best friend slouched deep in her seat, mindlessly gazing out the window as he drove through the middle of Virginia, and he couldn’t help but love her. Still forever, but different.Jayce and Camille had been best friends since birth. Inseparable and insufferable. It was really their charm. But as they grew older, the ties holding their lives together loosened one day at a time. A missed dinner, a phone call returned too late. They stopped eating lunch together. It was the simple inhales and exhales of life taking their toll on the pair.It all started when they thought it never could—the moment he married her sister. The moment they’ve waited all their lives for. It should’ve been a relief, but it became a snowball slowly rolling, collecting single flakes, and no matter how big the issue got, or how much space it put between them, neither said a word. How could they? There shouldn’t have been anything wrong.Their friendship never required constant noise to find peace between them, but during the last forty minutes, as he drove down thin, winding roads they’ve never seen and passed places they’d never go, the cabin of his car was heavy. Inside the pouch of her hoodie, her bones clicked in and out of place as she clenched her hand to cope with the stress that bound her, the stress she accumulated after moving to Virginia, after her hand was broken and never fully healed.Sunrays broke through the canopy, the road and the sky opening before them at the same time. He leaned over, flipping her visor down before she could move. “Emily and I are worried. You’re not acting like yourself,” he said, waiting through the silence for what felt like the right amount of time before swallowing the concern flooding his voice. “I don’t want to give you an entire list of things, but you don’t seem fine.”