Your next read, Out of the Chains
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Your next read, Out of the Chains ⛓
Marked by the gods and raised to serve them, Avara has sacrificed everything for the Council. Until leaving the only world she’s known reveals that her faith may be built on lies. Caught between rebellion, forbidden desire, and the brutal reality around her, she must decide who she is willing to become to finally be free.
LO MELA
Lo Mela has loved magic, science fiction, fantasy, and make-believe for as long as she can remember. From hunting fairies on hikes to daydreaming worlds that don’t yet exist. She is finally putting them on paper and letting you step inside.
An attorney, entrepreneur, mother, and lifelong fantasy lover, Lo brings the curiosity and complexity of the real world into her fiction. Her stories explore power, desire, morality, and the messy space between love and cruelty.
Her debut novel, Out of the Chains, is the beginning of the Ethereal Ties series: a dark fantasy forward romance filled with forbidden magic, monsters, dangerous secrets, complicated characters, and a slow burn worth waiting for.
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OUT OF THE CHAINSreleased October 2026
INTO THE VEIL February 2027
What Readers Are Saying
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Absolutely addictive. The tension, the magic, and that morally gray mentor had me hooked from the first chapter. I’m already desperate for the next book.
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The slow burn is SO worth it. Every interaction feels charged, the world is fascinating, and the mind magic adds this deliciously dangerous edge to everything.
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I came for the romantasy and stayed for the secrets, impossible choices, and chemistry. Out of the Chains feels like the beginning of something huge.
meet loLo is a mother, attorney, entrepreneur, wellness enthusiast, and lifelong sci-fi and fantasy lover who has always been drawn to stories that blur the line between the impossible and what imagination can bring to life.
She is the debut author of Out of the Chains, a dark fantasy forward romance and the first book in the Ethereal Ties series. Her stories are filled with magic, manipulation, mystery, power, yearning, and slow-burn spice that increases with each book in her series. Her stories explore power, identity, desire, and the choices we make when we realize our beliefs are largely crafted by those around us, rather than ourselves.
What started as an idea she couldn't stop thinking about became the world of Ethereal Ties. Book one, Out of the Chains, introduces a morally gray mentor, mind magic that blurs the line between possession and protection, coveted power with devastating consequences, and a ruthless Commander with dangerous secrets, questionable gods, and spice that is earned.
For Lo, fantasy isn't about escaping reality. It's about asking what might be possible when you stop accepting the limits you've been given.