Ciel Essel

An anime-style fantasy character with dark skin, long flowing silver hair, and glowing blue eyes, adorned with gold jewelry and blue gemstones. She has antlers decorated with flowers and gold chains, and wears a white dress with gold accents and sheer cape-like sleeves. There are glowing blue flowers and sparkles around her, with a starry background.

Ciel Essel writes haunting, high-stakes fantasy that explores power, legacy, and the bonds that unravel us. Her stories are built for readers who crave brutal worlds, emotionally complex heroines, and plots that burn slow but cut deep. Though Bonds Beyond Blood is her debut novel, she has been writing stories since childhood and shaping worlds long before her first release.

When she is not crafting empire-shifting conflicts or unraveling the line between control and connection, she is building toward a full-time career in storytelling, one relentless chapter at a time.