Bran Wode’s novels are set in a modern world that includes magic, ghosts, faeries, queers and allies, secret societies, and above all else, love.

Bran has written eight urban-romantic fantasy novels. Magus Maximus, the first to be published, was released in January 2023; a second, Breathe… always, was released that May.

Bran lives in the Puget Sound area of Washington State on America’s Left Coast and teaches the craft and art of writing at annual writing retreats on the Sound.

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Magus Maximus
ISBN: 979-8-9875686-6-8

Jaydee Saliba, a third-year Art student and Life Studies model, finds her room haunted by a former occupant, Ashley Bookbinder. Angry that the ghost can’t leave her room and discovering that a Teaching Assistant in a required class won’t teach women, she accidentally sends one wing of the men’s dormitory, including the hated TA’s room and her best friend’s boyfriend, into another dimension.

Nowhere in the known history of The Path is there any record of such powerful magic. The ancient headmaster cannot believe the unremarkable Jaydee could have caused the disaster and won’t accept her help to bring the dorm and the men inside back from the Otherworld.

Can Jaydee learn to trust her own hidden power enough to follow where it leads her?

Magus Maximus can be purchased from

Barnes & Noble
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/magusmaximus-bran-wode/1142912003?ean=9798987568668

Amazon
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C1ZW6ZTX

and ordered at most other bookstores.

Breathe… always
ISBN: 979-8-9875686-2-0

When Evergreen Stem School senior Fina Stefani, an award-winning jazz mezzo-soprano, meets a new senior on the first day of class, her world is knocked askew. There’s something about green-eyed Tilley Jameson, the lesbian goth with a pitch-perfect alto voice, that threatens Fina’s boyfriend, Trevor Labowski.

Once Fina discovers the Jameson family is a safe harbor from her stormy alcoholic mother, Summer Kobayashi, and she spends more and more time with them, Trevor threatens to expose that her new friend’s family has magical powers. Fina must choose between her boyfriend and her new friend before an angry mob of witch hunters destroys the Jamesons and the other magicians in Seattle.

Will her loyalties — and love — cause her to choose Tilley and dump Trevor?

Breathe… always can be purchased from:

Barnes & Noble
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/breathe-bran-wode/1143564525?ean=9798987568620

Amazon
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C6HGP49T

and ordered at most other bookstores.

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Bran’s current work in progress:

Identical twin college juniors Jess and Janis Capulet pull a magical practical joke on Dillon Caillat, a trans-male freshman, only to discover he might have been a good friend if they hadn’t tried the prank. When Virginia-Marie Afonso, Jess’ girlfriend, is seen kissing Janis, Jess has to decide what to do about the person she thought was her soulmate.

But when Janis begins to fall in love with Dillon, it’s only a matter of time before everything Janis values falls apart unless she can convince him she is telling the truth when he won’t speak to her.

The Capulet twins belong to the same magical Group as Tilley Jameson and Fina Stefani from Breathe… always.