About me
Suhan Y. Lorentz is a Turkish-American with a love for all things fantastical. Like a good first-born daughter of immigrant parents, she took a career in healthcare, but her passion for writing only grew stronger over the years.
Suhan participates in short-story contests and attends writers’ conferences. Beta readers have described her works as engaging and conversational with immersive worlds and excellent dialogue. Suhan writes primarily fantasy fiction with a subplot of romance as she is a sucker for a love story. She has completed her manuscript for her adult fantasy novel, “The Last Leaves.”
When she is not working, Suhan can be found spending time with her husband, their two cats, and their English bulldog. She enjoys getting lost in a good book, painting dragons, going on walks with her friends, and playing TTRPGs.
Favorite Books:
“The Stormlight Archive” series - Brandon Sanderson
“The Dresden Files” series- Jim Butcher
“The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue” - V.E. Schwab
“Ninth House” - Leigh Bardugo
“The House of the Spirits” - Isabel Allende
Anything by Grady Hendrix (“How To Sell A Haunted House” brought out the tears)
“Anxious People” - Fredrik Backman
“Hello Beautiful” - Anna Napolitano
“Sharkheart” - Emily Habeck
“Tastes Like War” - Grace M. Cho
“The Good Sister” - Sally Hepworth
Completed Manuscript
The Last Leaves
Genre: High Fantasy
A gentle-mannered apothecary rediscovers her powers of witchcraft to save her step-sister from transforming into a devil.
Summary
In the market town of Sidda, magic bleeds into the Mortal Realm from realms adjacent. Lynne, a young woman with the innate ability to channel power from the Fae, is often regarded as a thieving heretic. It is believed that this power should remain within the Faerie Realm, not in the hands of mere mortals. Displaced as a child when her village was attacked, Lynne suppresses her use of this magic to live a peaceful life with the family who adopted her. Though she has the power to control the elements and alter people’s emotions, Lynne instead serves as an apothecary. When an unexpected summons to live at Sidda’s noble estate, Whitehaven, yanks Lynne and her guardian family away from the comfort of their life, Lynne is faced with a destabilizing family secret: Margau, the girl she loves as her own sister, is not entirely of this realm. Mixed inside her human blood is something sinister, unyielding, and waiting to be released. Until Margau can control her powers bestowed upon her from the Darkness Realm, she is bound to destroy those around her. Lynne is forced to acknowledge her heritage to save her sister from losing herself, all the while gaining the attention and tutelage from an unlikely mentor.
Vignette
Loves Knows No Bounds: The bond shared between chosen family
Self-Discovery and Transformation: The tangled roots between bloodlines and societal pressures
Herbs and Hexes: An apothecary’s dance between witchcraft and medicine
The Witch’s Garden: A landscape of cottage-core imagery that is both sanctuary and battleground
Dancing Shadows: A witch’s power can ignite hope or consume everything she holds dear
Where Hearts May Fly: Budding romances between kindred spirits
Works in Progress
Working Title: When The Howling Whispers
Genre: Urban Fantasy
When a talented tattoo artist accidentally marks a member of a clandestine werewolf clan, she finds herself entangled in a dark underworld where ink becomes power and survival means crafting a curse-breaking tattoo that can either bind or break the beast within.
Sirens’ Cove
“What words will muses bring when something so sweet to the ears can create an ethereal encounter.”
Music Composition by: Cody Harmon
@codyharmonmusic
Social
Follow me on Instagram!
Musings
Daily Life
Writing Journey