Oh no luv',
no one escapes from Variska.
A Dark Gothic Fantasy Novel
Books
Curse of Nohvan
Welcome to Variska
Dark Gothic Fantasy
A simple escort mission.
A cursed valley.
A stranger he was never meant to protect — and now can't abandon.
They came for coin and pies; now this cursed land may very well eat them alive.
Nohvan, a talented hunter, and his companions—a quiet paladin, a volatile mage, an earnest bard and a feathered wanderer—are trapped in Variska after a simple escort mission turns into a demon hunt. When Aurelia arrives like a mirror of someone Nohvan loves, he must protect her from the vampire ruling the valley and find a way out of this hell.
Between the hungry creatures lurking in the night and dangerous alliances, protection comes at a cost and not every bargain is worth taking... Nohvan must decide what he will give—their trust or the only kind of family he has left.
About Chloe
Chloe Mandel is a London-based software engineer by day and an architect of dark, monster-infested worlds by night.
She has always been drawn to places that sit just slightly sideways from reality. What began in childhood as strange, imaginative tales told aloud to her younger brother eventually evolved into much darker territory. Before publishing her debut, Chloe spent years cutting her teeth on RPG forums, writing short stories about the mechanics of interdimensional travel, and penning an entire unreleased season of an animated series. These chaotic sandboxes taught her everything she knows about sharp character voices, ensemble casts, and what makes a group of mismatched strangers worth following into danger.
Outside of her speculative worlds, she plays TTRPGs, gets emotionally attached to story-driven games, plays the accordion, and makes her own clothes. She maintains that the last two are entirely distinct skills, though both require a fundamental willingness to commit to decisions that may later seem unwise. She is currently hard at work on the next instalments in her series.