WRITER OF LITERARY FICTION
“NOVELS STITCHED WITH FEMININE MOTIFS, EXPLORING GIRLHOOD, GRIEF AND THE GOTHIC. “
Darkly, through the glass
Love shattered her. Memory buried her. Vengeance awakened her.
Literary Psychological Drama | 55,000 words
After an intimate betrayal, a woman’s identity unravels—sending her on a harrowing journey through heartbreak, memory, and reckoning.
The unnamed 28-year-old protagonist meets the enigmatic Blue-Eyed Boy on a dating app. Their whirlwind romance offers a reprieve from loneliness—until he grows distant, reveals a possible infertility issue, and abruptly disappears. Reeling, she flees to Mexico and Costa Rica with her sister, but grief follows, especially as his ghost lingers through silent surveillance on social media.
Back in London, she begins therapy with Barbara Whitmore, a sharp but elusive practitioner. As the sessions unfold, so do painful truths: the man who abandoned her may have been living a double life—and possibly married.
Trying to rejoin the world, she attends a rooftop bar outing with her best friend, Beverly, and meets a charismatic man named Eliot. Their flirtation ends in public humiliation when his enraged girlfriend, Maeve O’Leary, intervenes. Eliot isn’t Eliot—he’s Julius. And Maeve? No stranger.
Maeve was once her childhood friend and ballet rival. A fellow dancer from the Cotswolds, Maeve arrived in London haunted by her mother’s obsession with thinness. Their friendship was strained, fractured further when both girls fell for Isaac Townsend. The protagonist stepped aside, but Maeve’s miscarriage—and Isaac’s enduring love for someone else—left a wound that festered.
Years later, when Maeve overhears Isaac confiding in his cousin that he still loves the protagonist, her resentment ignites. What unfolds next is not coincidence—it’s coordinated.
But this is not a story of defeat.
Through therapy, solitude, and creative expression, the protagonist begins to reclaim her voice.
Darkly, Through the Glass is a taut, atmospheric meditation on feminine rage, psychological manipulation, and the slow, defiant return to selfhood.
DAISY CHAIN
Three women. One childhood death. A lifetime of beautiful ruin.
Literary Psychological Noir | 61,500 words
At eleven years old, Ava Chen, Lena Ebere, and Freya Miller covered up the accidental death of seven-year-old Isla Thurlow—a tragedy born of jealousy, betrayal, and misunderstood girlhood. What was buried beneath the surface of Blackmere Lake would haunt them for decades.
Now in their thirties, the women have grown into glossy lives — Ava, a high-end escort drifting between cities and clients; Lena, a successful therapist hiding a lifetime of self-erasure; and Freya, a socially conscious artist with a daughter she can’t seem to protect from the very wounds she once inflicted.
But Ava is crumbling. Beneath the luxury and control, she is drowning in guilt, addiction, and unresolved trauma. When she falls for a client who genuinely wants her — a man who sees the bruised girl behind the glossy mask — she runs. Ava cannot accept love. Not after what was taken from her. Not after what she took.
Haunted by the past, she attends Lena’s opulent Sicilian wedding, uninvited. There, following a brutal assault and an encounter with a ghost of her former self, she takes her own life by the sea, her body claimed by waves — leaving behind a wine bottle with her final words inside.
Her death detonates the fragile surface of the other two women’s lives. Secrets resurface. The girls they once were — and the girl they left behind — claw their way back into the light.
Daisy Chain is a lush, harrowing exploration of guilt, memory, and feminine rage. It is a story about what girls are made into — and what becomes of the women they grow up to be. Told through shifting timelines, childhood flashbacks, and fractured intimacy, it asks:
Can you ever really escape the girl you once were? And when flowers rot, what roots remain?
A FAR CRY FROM A LULLABY
A soldier’s guilt. A woman’s love. A legacy that refuses to die—one heartbreak away from the greatest story they never thought they’d finish.
Literary Psychological Romance | 74,000 words
Sophie Harrow’s love story was never supposed to be a war story. At eighteen, she married Benedict Rye—a man whose laughter once filled every corner of her heart. But Benedict’s duty to his country tore him away, leaving behind more than memories. After a betrayal in combat that leaves him broken and blacking out, Benedict returns home with guilt too heavy to share.
One letter—hidden, then found—changes everything. For three nights in Big Sur, they fall in love all over again, but Benedict’s darkness forces him to leave her behind once more, convinced he’s too damaged to love her the way she deserves.
Three weeks later, Sophie learns she’s pregnant with his child. And when Matthew, the man who helped her survive Benedict’s absence, learns the truth, his heart breaks, too. He leaves—but not because he’s weak. Because he loves her enough to let her heal.
Months later, Matthew returns, offering her a life in New York’s West Village, a fresh start. Together, they raise Felix Benedict Rye—a living legacy of the love that refused to die.
A Far Cry from a Lullaby is a raw, breathtaking exploration of love, sacrifice, and the choice to carry on even when the heart wants to give up. A story where every heartbreak is a love story in disguise—and where the legacy of war is measured not just in scars but in the families we build from the wreckage.
LIMBS.
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BOOK FOUR
Literary Psychological Thriller
Coming Soon
PUT TO DEATH, THEREFORE, WHATEVER, BELONGS TO YOUR EARTHLY NATURE
MEET NICOLE
Nicole Opara is a London-based author whose work explores the raw intersections of love, loss, and self-reclamation. With a background in poetry and a master’s in Public Health, she blends lyrical precision with unflinching psychological depth.
She is the author of three completed literary novels—Darkly, Through the Glass, Daisy Chain, and A Far Cry from a Lullaby—each distinct in voice yet united by themes of aftermath, haunted memory, and feminine rage.
Drawing from personal experience, Nicole writes for readers who crave stories that speak to fracture, fire and the quiet return to self-hood. She is currently developing her fourth novel.
When she’s not writing, Nicole is sipping coffee in bookstores, singing (yes, high notes included), or binging the greats—from Studio Ghibli to Scorsese.
Disney will always have an embarrassingly tight grip on her heart.
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NICOLE OPARA
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