Sunshine Moonbeam is Aubrey Knight's planned official debut, a slow-burn contemporary paranormal romance set in Portland, Maine, with a spicy finish and beautiful magical worldbuilding. This book is a work in progress, in draft 1 stage.

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Sunshine Moonbeam is written in a cathartic “healing-fiction” style, full of positive character development, finding purpose, healing from the past, love and care, home-cooked meals, and green-flag spice. 

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The main characters are Nora, Evan, David, and Cat. Book 1 of the intended duet is MFM. You might call this a witchy werewolf paranormal romance. 

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A Not-So-Concise Summary:

Nora is a just-turned-30 veterinarian, single, and (thankfully) living alone in her cozy apartment in Portland, Maine. The only luck she’s had in love has been in escaping it; the ‘love’ she knew was not synonymous with care, respect, or safety. She wishes the romance of her fictional literary men could be her reality, but she’s surrounded by walking red flags and she doesn’t know what it’s like to be truly loved. Until she finds love like in her books, Nora won’t be dating, but is still looking for friendship and connection. At the urging of her best and only friend, Nora reaches out across the world to a random pen pal, not knowing she’s playing into the hands of Fate.

Evan and David are twin brothers with an entwined destiny, written by the Fates in an old Scottish prophecy. Evan has been fighting his predetermined future, because he knows it won’t end well for his prophesized mate, or, possibly, the magical world. He recently pivoted his method of avoidance, from being an uncommitted playboy jet-setter, to an unavailable Catholic Priest-in-training; seeking a sense of purpose while still running from the path laid out for him.

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Evan begins receiving beautifully calligraphed letters from a stranger. Their words are honest, relatable, and quirky, and also prove her untouchable by the prophecy, so there’s no harm in opening up to her, and becoming pen pals. When her last letter reveals she’s in a dangerous situation, he surprises her by flying to her side. But when they meet, he feels an alarming and compelling pull toward her. He finds himself physically unable to leave her side, but also unable to tell her the truth he fears.

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Evan might have made himself romantically unavailable to her, as a ‘Priest’, a friend, and now a roommate… but they grow unavoidably closer in the small apartment, while Evan secretly searches for a different interpretation of the prophecy’s translations.

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When David tracks down his twin who has gone AWOL, he realizes Evan has been becoming a ‘better person’ without him, and that he’s hiding something about this woman he’s living with, Nora. Unlike his brother, David has no such reservations about flirting with Nora, being with Nora, and letting Fate just happen. Why fight it? When Nora confidently and playfully enforces boundaries around his flirting while also encouraging his interest in her, David learns how a relationship playing by Her rules can be hot as Hell. Evan learns that playing the role of a celibate Priest who is ‘just a friend’ was a terrible mistake.

Cat is an orange tabby, for now, who finds himself stuck in a tiny American apartment with 2 lovesick puppies, 1 oblivious human, and never enough treats, catnip, or praise, to satisfy him. Bored to death, he decides to stir up the pot, or, you might say, stir the cauldron.

As their past and the parallel magical world follow these men into Nora’s life, it becomes harder for Evan to keep her safely in the dark. David, Cat, magical forces, and even his own sleeping mind, aren’t exactly helping him, either.

 

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Tropes & What to Expect: Pen pals, Friends-to-Lovers, Slow-Burn, Fate & Fated Mates, Cohabitation, Two-Sided Love Triangle to Why Choose?, Playboy Redemption Arc, Magic & Kitchen Witchery, Baking, Cooking, Gardening, Foraging, & a ton of Tea, Rivalry, Creative Revenge Against An Ex, Secrets, Can't Be With Her - Can't Be Without Her, Sexy Consent, Healing. HFN ending (this will be a duet).

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Microtropes: “Who hurt you,” “It’s always been you,” wet white t-shirt in the rain, mutual pining, rolling up sleeves/forearms, ‘cat’ dad, the wall lean, irreverent senior side character commentary, MMC’s who cook, FMC with niche hobby, only 1 bed-room/only 1 couch, name play, meaningful gifts, gardening/foraging, cooking/baking, meddling families and friends and neighbors, tattoos, wealthy MMC’s, ‘Priest’ crush, sworn off love/afraid to commit, kitchen witchery, MMC POV thoughts.

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Spice:  It is a work in progress and may be updated later.

Explicit & Open-Door. MFM, so both men are physically with the one woman but not with each other (they are brothers). ​