Every act of defiance steers you into the person you were always meant to become.

After Nimaka’s death and the older selves returning to their own time, Kylie ran from all she’d known and grown up with at North Opal Pines, but she soon learns she can’t run far or fast enough.

She thought she could leave it all behind: go back to being a normal high school student, make new friends, keep her grades up and her mother happy. But Nimaka’s death has only rallied the two others, and now they’ve stalked Kylie to her new school. Even worse, they have a mysterious new leader who no longer seeks to just kill Kylie but all those she knows and loves…. and the body count is rising.

Kylie can’t get by on “just surviving” anymore: to protect herself — let alone those around her — she must become as strong and cunning as Siani was, or everyone she’s ever known and loved will die with her.

Tropes & Misc Info in Riyati Ripple

• Buffy x Persona 4 vibes
• 1st Person PoV through 3 different characters
• Reincarnations
• Intricate elemental magic
• Childhood friends slow burn
• Demisexual fMC
• Multiple ND characters (Autistic, AuHD)
• Found family
• Classism & effects of generational trauma and poverty
• Contemporary & low fantasy with urban fantasy elements
• Dark fantasy (New Adult/Adult)

Spice Level: 🌶️

Representation: demisexual, neurodivergence, sensory sensitivities, PTSD

Length: ~97,000 words (~290 pages)

Content warnings: Alcoholism, blood, body horror, bullying, child abuse, classism, death, decapitation, emotional abuse, emotional manipulation, extreme violence, fear of abandonment, gaslighting, gore, homelessness, human experimentation, kidnapping, misogyny, mass murder, parental neglect, physical abuse, poverty, school attack, self-harm, stalking, strong adult language, substance abuse, suicidal ideation, torture, trauma-induced nightmares, trauma-based responses, and victim blaming

Original Publication Date: November 14, 2025

Cover Art Glyph Illustration: amagren

Cover Art Design: Kai Zeal (author)

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