Under festival lights and summer heat, it feels like fate.
Two strangers collide in a world where nothing is real for long—music, bodies, time itself blurring into something intoxicating. What starts as a moment becomes something harder to walk away from.
But euphoria doesn’t last.
When the music fades and distance sets in, what they found...
Apollo has loved mortals before. He was never supposed to keep one.
Cael lives a quiet life—bound to the land, the river, and a future already decided for him. When a god steps into his world, nothing is meant to change.
But it does.
What begins as something fleeting becomes something dangerous. Because gods can visit. They can take. They can...
Detective Matt Connelly knows how to disappear. From the women he keeps at a distance. From the man he only allows himself to love in the dark. From anything that might force him to stay.
Until something starts watching him back.
When a string of deaths lands on his desk—locked rooms, the same mark carved into every victim—Matt recognises the...
Luke J. Vale writes dark, emotionally driven fiction that explores love, identity, and the consequences of the choices we try to outrun. His work blends contemporary and myth-inspired storytelling, often centring on relationships that are intense, fleeting, and impossible to ignore. From gods who fall for mortals to connections that burn bright and don’t always survive, his stories focus on what happens when desire, secrecy, and truth collide. The Zodiac Series reimagines each sign through a different lens—romance, mythology, and psychological tension—where no connection is without cost. . You can sign up to get updates about their writing here.
Luke J. Vale writes dark, emotionally driven fiction that explores love, identity, and the consequences of the choices we try to outrun. His work blends contemporary and myth-inspired storytelling, often centring on relationships that are intense, fleeting, and impossible to ignore. From gods who fall for mortals to connections that burn bright and don’t always survive, his stories focus on what happens when desire, secrecy, and truth...
