Works by Vesper Choi
Published, forthcoming, and still being written.
Series One
Stillwater I · Current title
Every Saturday, Father Sebastian Marre listens to the same woman confess to murder. He has never seen her face. Somehow, that has never stopped him from knowing when something is wrong. In the dark, she is simply Dove.
THE CONFESSION is a gothic slow-burn romance about what can happen between two people when being heard becomes more intimate than being touched.
Stillwater II · In development
After assassinating the Vice President, Pearl disappears into Maryland’s Eastern Shore beneath a borrowed identity and a story convincing enough to keep everyone from looking twice. Everyone except Clay. He hears the lie before he knows what it means, and the closer he gets to the woman hiding behind it, the more her crime begins to tangle with the buried history of his own home. Among marshland, wild horses, and families who have spent generations deciding who belongs and who does not, Pearl has every reason to keep running. Clay may be the first person reckless enough to run with her.
Series Two
Forthcoming nine-book epic fantasy
The Ninth Thread is a nine-book epic fantasy about what happens when people begin pulling against the fate the gods have written for them. What starts as individual acts of defiance slowly becomes something far larger, carrying across generations until the world itself begins to change beneath them. At its heart is a question the gods never expected humanity to ask: if destiny demands your obedience, what happens when you refuse?
There is spice here, but love comes first; the yearning, the choosing, and everything that makes the intimacy matter.
I
Planned
Seren has spent her life inside a world that already knows what she owes it. When death fractures the order around her, duty becomes harder to distinguish from captivity—and the first threads of an older design begin to show.
II
Planned
The crown may have survived, but certainty has not. As Seren and Ramolt draw closer to truths meant to remain hidden, loyalty to the lives they inherited begins demanding sacrifices neither of them expected to make.
III
Planned
Some duties survive long after anyone remembers why they began. With a kingdom changing beneath them and the influence of the gods becoming harder to ignore, Seren and Ramolt must decide what deserves preserving—and what was only ever sacred because no one dared question it.
IV
Planned
Wilda knows better than to mistake trust for safety. But an alliance with Adonis draws her into a world where loyalty can purchase protection, invite ruin, or become something far more dangerous than either of them intended.
V
Planned
What began as necessity has grown roots. As Wilda and Adonis build something neither expected to want, the world around them becomes increasingly determined to discover what they would destroy to keep it.
VI
Planned
There are promises death is supposed to end. When the boundary between mortality and something older begins to break, love and loyalty leave consequences that neither the living nor the gods can easily contain.
VII
Planned
The children of an older war have grown into weapons of their own. Ianto and Gideon know how to kill what others worship, but the gods are no longer the only danger waiting for them—and some enemies wear faces they once knew.
VIII
Planned
The old order is collapsing, and what lies beneath it is worse than anyone understood. As the distance between gods and mortals narrows, those left standing are forced toward places where devotion alone may no longer be enough to bring them home.
IX
Planned
At the end of nine lives' worth of prophecy, blood, and defiance, the final battle is no longer simply over who will rule. It is over whether humanity will ever belong to itself—and what remains worth choosing when even fate begins to unravel.
Companion Works
Stories from the world of The Ninth Thread
Forthcoming short works
The Unspun are short works and stand alone stories set within the world of Vesper Choi’s forthcoming nine-book epic fantasy series. Long before the first thread is pulled, there were other lives, other choices, and stories the world has nearly forgotten. These tales step into those forgotten corners, revealing pieces of the history, mythology, and people that shaped the world The Ninth Thread will inherit.
The Unspun features adult romance and explicit intimacy, but its stories are built first on yearning, character, and the slow work of falling in love.
In Development
Rowena never wanted a crown. She was a shepherdess in Slifia before King Aerick Lundán arrived in search of a queen and found the one woman who had no interest in becoming one. Their courtship leads to a secret marriage only days before war pulls Aerick away. When he disappears in battle, Rowena is left in Liheim carrying his child while a kingdom already suspicious of her begins to close in. Then, weeks later, the king comes home. He has Aerick’s face and Aerick’s memories. He is still wearing the braid Rowena tied around his wrist before he left. But Rowena knows something is wrong. As pressure builds around the throne, she is forced to confront what returned from the battlefield and what it means for the life she thought she had lost. The man wearing her husband’s crown may remember loving her, but memory is not the same as love. And when the court decides Rowena’s future should be settled by ancient law, royal blood, and a tournament of champions, the king who came home from death must decide what he is willing to become for her. The Deathless King and the Twice-Crowned Queen is an adult high fantasy romance set in the world of The Ninth Thread, blending dark romantasy, court intrigue, ancient magic, and a love story shaped by grief, identity, and choice.
Planned
A prince falls from a shooting star carrying only one certainty: somewhere in this strange world is the person who bears the same crescent mark over their heart. His search carries him across a kingdom that will one day place a crown upon his head and remember him as the Wishing King, a ruler famous for granting the desires of others while chasing the only wish he has ever made for himself. But finding the person fate promised him is only the beginning of their story—and some promises must survive far more than a single lifetime.
Planned
A shepherd girl haunted by visions is told that her virgin blood will help a forgotten God-King ascend. Deep within an ancient labyrinth, she finds not the monster her village fears, but a king bound to the maze he was condemned to keep—and a bond neither of them expected. When a single drop of her blood transforms his prison into a castle, she becomes the bride of a realm awakening around them. But the man who once sought her hand refuses to believe she chose this life willingly, and his determination to reclaim her may bring war to the gates of a kingdom that has only just begun.
Planned
Dying far from home, a mother asks the gods for only two things: let her save the man she loves, and let her remain with her children a little longer. Her body cannot survive the journey, but something hears her plea. She wakes changed into a great hound strong enough to carry her wounded mate home and fierce enough to guard the family she refused to leave behind. What begins as one final act of love becomes something far older, as generations pass and the creature once known only as a grieving mother learns that some promises do not end with death.
More Unspun tales to come.