Wren Brae London’s novels are set in a modern world that includes queers and allies, secret societies, magic, and above all else, love.
Wren has written eight queer urban-romantic fantasy novels.
Wren lives in the Puget Sound area of North America’s Left Coast and when they aren’t writing, they are reading – more than 700 books in the last 2 years alone.
I Am Not Who You Think I Am
When university junior Janis meets Dillon, a frosh trans-male, he rubs her the wrong way. She convinces her identical twin, Jessica, to play a switch-the-twin prank on him. Jessica has her own problems with her girlfriend Virginia-Marie, who she caught kissing Janis.
While Jessica has second doubts about the prank her sister insists she play, a confused Virginia-Marie drops into a dangerously deep depression.
The girl Dillon knows is causing his head to spin. Each time he sees her he gets a different vibe from her. She’s hot and cold, fire and ice, and way too attractive to ignore. Janis’s original idea of purposefully breaking Dillon’s heart backfires when she catches feelings, and both Jessica and Virginia-Marie are heartbroken over their failed relationship.
Meanwhile, Rashie, the fourth roommate in the girls’s apartment, is caught amongst the on-and-off stage drama, spending hours trying to console everyone, including her friend Dillon, without taking sides. All she wants is a peaceful home with her best-friends, and if that’s not possible, at least détente among the warring parties.
Can the five of them rebuild the relationships they all want, or will it all go up in flames?
Scar Tissue
Lorelei Dowling is still reeling from the death of her best friend, Mike, 3 weeks earlier when she delivers dinner to a new patient, the last one on her commissary route. The young woman seems vaguely familiar, but neither of them knows why. Mick’s first attempt to sit up and eat results in a scream of pain, which brings the charge nurse running, who accuses Lorelei of interfering with patient care. After Mick uses magic to defend Lorelei, the two young women form an intimate bond.
As the swelling in Mick’s face subsides, Lorelei recognizes that Mick and Mike are mirror-clones. Is it possible that Mike is Mick’s long-lost brother? How that happen if both of Mick’s siblings died at birth, Mick’s mother is very much alive and verbally kicking Mick, and Mike’s mother died fifteen years ago? Will the mystery tear Mick’s family further apart or bring it closer together?
And, can Mick and Lorelei’s growing attraction to each other withstand the pressure of grief, years of neglect, the impossible odds of multiple near-death experiences, the threat of homelessness, a newly permanent handicap, and the mirror-clone mystery of Mike?
Foreheads, Noses, & Hearts
In seventh grade, Kelsey saved Chandra from a ninth grade bully and solemnly promised that she would always protect and help Chandra. Newly houseless Chandra had nothing to offer in return, so she offered Kelsey all she had: a vow to do whatever Kelsey asked of her.
After thirteen years of no communication, Kelsey accidentally shows up at the cafe where Chandra works to find out that not only is she eight-months pregnant, she’s nearly penniless, and about to lose her housing, again. Kelsey makes a rash decision and invites Chandra to live with her; she has a solemn promise to keep after all. Chandra agrees; she has a vow to fulfil.
As their friendship rekindles, Chandra confesses that she wants nothing more than to have a family. She’s out of resources and she needs someone to help her raise her child. More than anything, she wants that person to be Kelsey. But Chandra is aro, and love is out of the question.
Kelsey wants Chandra in her life, again, but knows that if she agrees to raise the baby alongside Chandra, she will end up loving the baby, too. Kelsey grew up in a large, loving family, and has always wanted children of her own. She also knows that Chandra could leave at any time. She did it before; she could do it again. And this time, Chandra could take her child with her, leaving Kelsey bereft of a family and her best friend again.
Kelsey has a plan to solve all the issues: it will give Chandra and the baby a place to live, a steady income, and the family they both want. It’s easy – it’s called marriage. But Kelsey’s demisexual and Chandra has had many partners.
But Chandra learned to survive on the streets from the time she aged out of foster care, and has her own conditions and expectations about raising her child and maintaining her independence.
Is there any chance for a relationship between partners with such different expectations about love and marriage? Does a seventh-grade magical troth have an expiration date? Or do such different life experiences nullify old magic?
Each of these three stand-alone novels take place in the same magical universe. They can be read in any order.