ASTARI

Dark romantasy. Southern gothic horror. Dream-soaked obsession.

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PHANTASMAGORIC
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Dark Romantasy. Southern Gothic Horror. Dream-Soaked Obsession.

Some dreams save you. Some nightmares refuse to let you go.

After a childhood accident leaves Aisling changed forever, she wakes with impossible eyes and a connection to a realm no mortal should ever see. For years, she tries to live a quiet life beneath the weight of grief, guilt, and her father’s judgment until the line between waking and dreaming begins to fracture.

In Elysium, she finds Dream: gentle, beautiful, protective, and full of secrets. He offers her safety, wonder, and a world made of starlight.

But in Dreadmere, the realm of nightmares, awaits Torin.

Dark, dangerous, and impossible to resist, Torin is everything Aisling has been warned against. He terrifies her. Tempts her. Saves her. And somehow, he sees the parts of her everyone else tries to keep innocent.

As Aisling is pulled deeper into the world of gods, desire, betrayal, and ancient rivalries, she must decide who she can trust before the realms tear apart and before the darkness inside her becomes something no one can control.

Phantasmagoric is a dark romantic fantasy filled with gods, nightmares, forbidden desire, emotional tension, and a heroine discovering that being “good” may not be enough to survive the dreamworld.

divine fixation, taboo love, gothic horror

Format: Hardcover / Paperback

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About Astari

Dark romantasy born in the hollows, written toward the stars.

Astari is an author of dark romancy who has woven her personal trauma experiences into dark romances of divine fixation, southern gothic horror, and taboo love stories. Astari gives voice to suffering through mythology and survival through magic, turning pain into legend and worshiping the scars of people who are broken. Astari writes for people who seek beauty within the dark, the moon, and the terrifying act of knowing oneself by deities that could be left as fable.

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