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If you like your fantasy with real heat, real stakes, and characters who have been through the war —

SHADOWS OF DESIRE was written for you.

Jay is a mercenary who has survived everything the war has thrown at him. Lysse is the enemy spy he captures — and cannot stop thinking about. Between them: loyalty, fire, and an immortal empress who cannot be killed.

Dark fantasy. Fierce action. Unapologetic heat. For mature readers 18+.

📖 By Oberd Jay Read now: payhip.com/b/nQCD9 — $4.99

Imagine if your social media score floated above your head — visible to everyone, always.

That is Zero City. And Cedrick Osei-Barnes has the worst number in his district.

When a stranger slips him a note with three words that should not exist, he is pulled into a world beyond the city walls — where the score means nothing, and the truth is more dangerous than any number.

"The system feeds on human hope. And the only thing it cannot process is the one thing it was never designed to contain."

📖 ZERO CITY by Oberd Jay

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Two worlds. Two stories. Both available now.

ZERO CITY — A dystopian YA about a world where your worth is a number, and two young people who discover the number is a lie. 📖 payhip.com/b/FP0zf — $4.99

SHADOWS OF DESIRE — Dark fantasy for adults: a mercenary, a spy, an immortal empress, and a war that turns into something neither expected. 📖 payhip.com/b/nQCD9 — $4.99

Both by Oberd Jay. Indie fiction. Real stories. No filler.

The war had taken everything from Jay except the one thing that had kept him useful: his indifference. That ended the night he looked across a dying fire at the woman he was supposed to deliver to his commander — and chose, for the first time in years, to feel something instead.

SHADOWS OF DESIRE — dark fantasy for adults who want their action with heat.

Jay. Lysse. The Iron Veil. An immortal empress who cannot be killed. And the one thing the war never prepared them for: each other.

⚔️ Dark fantasy | Fierce action | Unapologetic heat | 18+ only

"The number is nothing. You are not nothing."

— Cedrick Osei-Barnes, ZERO CITY

In Zero City, every citizen wears their social score projected above their head in nanodust. Blue scores are invisible. Cedrick is sixteen and has nothing — until a slip of paper, a girl named Rachael, and a truth the system cannot contain change everything.

Dystopian fiction for the age of algorithms.

SHADOWS OF DESIRE -- Now Available

In the war-torn land of Aeloria, a young mercenary named Jay has nothing left to lose.

He signs with the Iron Veil -- the last force standing between civilization and Serevane the Undying, an immortal empress whose army does not stop.

When a mission goes sideways, Jay captures Lysse: a Dusk Hand spy carrying intelligence that could end the war. What begins as a mission becomes a collision of desire, loyalty, and the rare courage it takes to choose someone in a world that keeps burning.

Dark fantasy. Fierce action. Unapologetic heat. For mature readers 18+.

By Oberd Jay

ZERO CITY -- Now Available

In Zero City, your worth is a number -- projected above your head in nanodust for every citizen to see.

Cedrick is sixteen, blue-scored, and invisible. Then his upstairs neighbour slips a piece of paper into his hand with three words on it. Everything he thought was real begins to ring like a bell he can never un-hear.

Outside the city walls he meets Rachael -- sharp, fearless, and four months ahead of him in every way that matters. Together they uncover the truth: the score is backed by nothing. The system feeds on human hope.

"The number is nothing. You are not nothing." -- Cedrick Osei-Barnes

A dystopian story about two young people who discover that waking up is the most dangerous -- and most human -- thing you can do.

By Oberd Jay