Megan Spelbrink was raised in Missouri on a steady diet of fairytales, mythology, old school Star Wars novels, and making up stories for her brother’s Lego battles. Her love of fantasy must be genetic because her parents named her after a Terry Brooks character (her real name!), and she named her son after a Sarah J. Maas hero. She now lives in California, is a stay-at-home mom to a feisty three-year-old, wife to a wonderfully nerdy virologist, and a dog-mom to an ornery rescue.
She is an award winning writer (The Emily 2025), President of the Bay Area Romance Writers, and holds BAs in English Literature and Secondary Education from William Jewell College and an MFA in Writing Popular Fiction from Seton Hill University.
She writes heroine's journey stories about magic, love, hope, feminism, found family, overcoming adversity, making tough choice, and earning happily-ever-afters..
When the brutal assassination of the king leaves Karop without a male heir to the throne, his daughter steps up to take her place as the nocturnal desert nation’s first ruling queen. But Sapina’s fiancé and his ambitious father betray her and propose a contest to choose a new king, leaving her to marry the winner and continue the bloodline: Powerless. Tame. A good little consort.
Filled with righteous indignation, she disguises herself as a man to compete. Her ruse works until she meets Howen, a fellow contestant whose disarming banter and charm pit her desire to win against her longing for true connection. Too bad she isn’t the only one in this competition who isn’t what they seem.
As the trials begin, a long-forgotten magic manifests, plunging the contestants into a mystery they never anticipated. Sapina uncovers a suppressed history, a possessed dynasty, and an immortal war that threatens her kingdom even more than human prejudice. Can Sapina lean on her small band of allies to save it, or is it better to trust her enemies?
HEIR OF NIGHT - Target Audience
Female NA and Adult readers of the aforementioned comp titles who like a little spice and sass with their immersive fantasy worlds. Readers who prefer a Heroine’s Journey structure, love to ship characters in anything they read or watch, show off sprayed edges, and might cosplay at a fantasy ball. 😉
HEIR OF NIGHT - Tropes!
💖 NA/A Romantasy
👩❤️👨 Dual POV
🖤 Rivals to lovers
🫂 Found family
🏠 Forced proximity
📖 Buried history
🤬 Feminine rage
👑 Royalty in disguise
🔥 Touch her and die
🦅 Side characters with MC energy
🐦🔥 Mythology
✨ Lost magic
☠️ A deadly competition
🏜️ Non-Euro-style setting
🌶️🌶️ Fade to Black
💍 HEA
HEIR OF NIGHT - Comp Titles
A Song of Wraiths and Ruin series (Roseanne A. Brown)
📚 Desert setting, trials for a consort, and demon antagonist
We Hunt the Flame series (Hafsah Faizal)
📚 Woman in man's world, male disguise, rewritten history
Dance of Thieves series (Mary E. Pearson)
📚 Lies, cross purposes, rivals to lovers romance
A Tribute of Fire series (Sariah Wilson)
📚 Trials, feminine rage, hidden royalty, gods at work
Damsel (Netflix 2024)
📚 Feminine rage, trope-flipping
"The Man" by Taylor Swift
"Sit Still, Look Pretty" by Daya
"Speechless" by Naomi Scott
📚 FMC's mindset and attitude
HEIR OF NIGHT - Pitch
A princess disguised as a man competes for her stolen throne to defeat a demon possessing the dynasty of kings, while fighting against monsters, societal conventions, and her own growing feelings for a competitor.
It doesn't have a mood board or title yet, but this story is like Criminal Minds but Romantic Urban Fantasy with a Guardians of the Galaxy-esque magical crime fighting gang and some enemies to lovers goodness. More to come!
