Apollo and Hyacinthus

"Apollo and Hyacinthus."

First book in my Plot Twist series.

Available June 1, 2026 through

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Forty-year-old LA Bennett lives alone on her rural acreage, determined to keep the world at bay after her mother’s death years earlier. That isolation ends when Hyacinthus, an ancient Spartan prince, appears in her driveway, drawing LA into the investigation of a centuries-old murder rooted in myth. To survive the chaos, and herself, LA must uncover the truth behind the crime she never asked to inherit.

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Set against a deceptively ordinary town filled with disguised gods, fates, and legends, the story follows LA as she is forced out of isolation and into purpose. Each visitor reveals not only their own pain, but fragments of LA herself—her power, her past, and her responsibility. As myths from Greek traditions expand to include Nordic, Egyptian, Celtic, and Asian beings, LA must decide whether she can continue hiding from who she is, or finally step into her destiny—even if it means she can never return to the quiet life she craves.

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Keeping it real

 Went to Sam's today.

Came home and ate a third of the rotisserie chicken while it was still toasty.

Then "cleaned" strawberries over the sink. Hulled and ate probably a third of those. Over the sink. Like a hedonistic creature never schooled in manners.

It was fucking great.

There's no bigger excitement than a new release

I love what I do. Editing still sucks all the butt, but I enjoy the rest. Even banging my head on the keyboard occasionally when creating book covers. It's exhilarating. Kind of like giving birth, but over a period of a month or two, not a day or two. With no drugs. No doctor. You're free-balling this bitch. 

But that's part of the magic. 

You.

You created something no one else did. You brought a story into existence with only your mind. It's sounds all Science Fictiony when you break it down. And yes, there are growing pains. Bad-tempered characters. Bad-tempered you. Hardships. (Now I want to quote Labyrinth again.) But you did it.

You. Fucking. Did. It.

I used to take three or so days to bask, wallow?, in my finished works. But there's no time for that these days. I usually finish one book and start another, or continue with one, immediately. It's shifting gears but in a different car.

And I love the view.

Are there days I turn the air blue with all my aggravation? Of course. Murphy would agree. Are there days I laugh aloud at what I've written? Yep. Have I made myself cry? Well, fuck. I have. But it's all part of the process, and writers need to embrace every bit of it. 

It's magical and maddening in the same second. Exhilarating and exhausting. 

And I will do this until I draw my last breath.

I've set my release schedule for my Plot Twist series.

Apollo and Hyacinthus   JUNE 2026

The Morrigan   AUGUST 2026

Ace   OCTOBER 2026

Macaria   DECEMBER 2026

The Gordons  FEBRUARY 2027

The first four are finished, and I'm a third of the way through The Gordons. 

I'd like to squeeze in at least one or two erotic and maybe a contemporary romance, but we'll see. 

OH!

And, I can't remember if I already posted this or not, but you can order through me, autographed and I pay shipping, through my Beventi Order Form.

Prices are listed, but I'll run deals several times a year for followers.

Thanks!

Crystal*

Begets begets begets

I like knowing what I have to do the following day. Kudos if I actually put in Notes on my iphone. A lot of times I'll leave my OneNote and manuscript up that shows exactly my next step. I should be killing it on the daily.

Yesterday damn near killed me.

I started out only needing to edit A&H. Doing 100 pages or so at a time and then recombing a couple more times. It's nearly 400 pages.

But I realize I needed to research the tiniest bit on one part. Give myself some more credibility. Then I needed to grab from a later book in the series to make sure I described a character fluently throughout.

Please explain why I have fourteen tabs open in G and am glaring at OneNote like it did me dirty. Then, take into account I actually had 4 fucking manuscripts open at the same time. 

And my short forgetful self often puts tabs on the wrong stories. 

That's a hoot. 😒  

It was like some horrible magician pulling colorful fabric after colorful fabric out of their pocket. 

Stop! STOP!!!

Quit before I wanted, but it was heavy med day, and I was done. 

Told myself I would take it up again today.

🥳🎉

The fun, or some twisted version of it, never ends. 

You guessed it...

...I'm indie publishing my mythological retelling series. I was going to pitch at Romancelahoma this year, but I don't want to wait that long. I feel strongly that the mythological retelling trope is in its infancy. I have 4 1/2 books ready. 

I'm not waiting. 🤷

Worked on book cover. NOT AI. You should have seen my ass discovering new things on Canva. There's a fucking "style" button that can recreate the style from an element to another element. 

I nearly cried.

It was 🥹.

Going for a countdown to cover reveal. 

Available June 1, 2026.

Apollo and Hyacinthus

Plot Twist Book 1

Stay tuned!

Big reveal and availability June 1st! 🥳🎉

Stranger things have happened in the unlikeliest of places

The Honey and I go and drop her car off at the butt crack of dawn for oil change, etc. I offer to have breakfast with her. This is a rare occasion. I loathe mornings. Catch me at 10.

We go to Black Bear Diner. I have this amazing egg scramble something or other with avocado, spinach, peppers, and onion. Pass the tic-tacs. She always gets the pancakes.

We're checking out, and she has one box of leftovers but wants something from the dessert case. The lovely cashier asks if we'd like a bag. 

WE would. 

Honey says "no" at the same time.

I ask who will be carrying, and she says we'll take a bag. 🤨

That's what I thought.

And I make some remark about carrying the bag whilst the Honey does something.

The cashier looks at me and says she's never heard anyone use the actual word "whilst" in a sentence. 

I don't have time to describe the multiplicity of my oddities, but the Honey chimes in that I'm a writer.

😊

This woman is a reader. A fantasy reader. 🥳

She asks for my name; I give her my card. 

She said, "Are you my girl?" 

And I respond, "I might be."

We grin at each other. 💖

A rolling stone gathers no moss

I did it. Took me two days and found another setting on Canva that I love. But I mocked up a book cover for book one in my mythological retelling series.

Because, of course I did. 

I can either wait, or I can plunge my ass directly into the fire. 

Flames, here I come. 🔥

I should be able to have two books of the series in print before I hit Romancelahoma and the Red Dirt Book Sale.

THIS...makes me happy.

Because I can turn around and take them to Book Me Romance 2026 a couple weeks later.

All the woots!

This series will be a new take on old mythologies with an irascible protagonist finding her own way through the absolute chaos.

I love mayhem.

Sorry, LA.

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