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Influence: When Desire Bends Reality

Sascha Steam

Format(s)

Ebook

Applications Close

Oct 30, 2025

Est. Publication Date

Oct 30, 2025

Fantasy, Thriller, LGBTQ+

Description

When magic grants your wish, it never comes cheap.

Zara's had enough of small-town life and schoolyard cruelty. So when a mysterious stranger offers her a potion to become an adult overnight--and awaken powers she never knew she had--Zara drinks without a second thought. Impulsiveness has always been her second name.

But growing up overnight comes with a price.

Fleeing her old life, Zara tumbles into a world of ghosts, werewolves, and sentient magic. Her gifts evolve faster than she can control them, bending reality around her--and her choices carry consequences that refuse to stay buried.

Recruited into a secretive organisation offering "solutions" to the world's most powerful, Zara becomes their newest operative: an influencer who can bend wills. Her assignments take her across continents and deeper into a shadow world where nothing is what it seems.

When she's sent to retrieve a sentient orb of immense power, the mission unravels. Everything changes. The only person immune to her influence is a hacker posing as a journalist. He may be her greatest threat . . . or her only chance at survival.

This is the story of a girl who wished to grow up too soon--and what happens when the universe decides to grant that wish.

Spanning five years of love, danger, and supernatural intrigue, Influence—a contemporary fast-paced urban fantasy—follows Zara’s struggle to master her power and find her place in a world that was never built for her.

Tropes

Life-based with magical elements, enemies to lovers, werewolves, ghosts, magic potion, burn down the world vibes, British English, LGBTQ rep

Content Warnings

Spice Level

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Details

Caffeinated Ghost Press

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Length:

382 pages

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