By Kelly K. Branyik

Dark Stars Book Series

Dark Stars is a sci-fi dystopian book series featuring sapphic main characters navigating love, loss, and rebellion in a world where bodily autonomy has been outlawed. Blending the emotional intensity of dystopian romance books with the imaginative scope of speculative fiction, the series explores what happens when women are forced to fight back against systems that seek to own them. Perfect for readers drawn to sapphic sci-fi books, LGBTQ books for adults, and dark, character-driven dystopian futures.

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Book One (OUT NOW)

Shadows in Dream Stone

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Grieving and broken, Abaddon Ordell is sentenced to the brutal Dream Stone prison for the crime of miscarrying her child. Amid violence and despair, she discovers unexpected allies—and a purpose worth surviving for, if she can learn to trust again.

Dark, lyrical, and defiant, Shadows in Dream Stone is a story of rage, resilience, and tenderness. It’s a sapphic dystopian sci-fi tale about what it means to reclaim your body, your story, and your freedom.

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Book Two (Coming in 2027)

Reaper of Daymares

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The revolution isn’t over. Kelly K. Branyik returns to the unflinching world of Shadows in Dream Stone with a second novel that picks up where the fight for justice began. Fans of feminist dystopian fiction and sapphic rage-and-resistance stories won’t want to miss this fierce, timely sequel.

In this world, surviving Dream Stone was never the end of the story.

Abaddon Ordell’s fight against the regime that imprisoned her is far from finished. Grief, love, and rage collide once again as she faces new dangers and impossible choices, and discovers that breaking a system may demand more from her than she ever imagined.

With everything she loves on the line, Abaddon must decide how far she’s willing to go, and what she’s willing to lose, in the name of justice.

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