Books with author Analeigh Ford

No one leaves Ashford Asylum. Or so I’ve been told. I grew up near the asylum. My brother Kemper and I used to sneak through the woods to try and catch a glimpse of the inmates on the other side of its high brick walls. Sometimes we would see them flicker by, dressed all in ghostly white. Sometimes we would hear them scream.But never once did we venture inside the walls.Until now.I hear voices one time at my parents’ funeral, and suddenly I’m no longer suited to exist in the outside world. I’m a danger to myself and others —or so they say. The only person I’m a danger to is my brother Kemper for putting me in here in the first place. Or, at least, until I get to know the other inmates.This isn’t your ordinary asylum, and these aren’t your ordinary patients. Ashford isn't the sort of place you’re sent to get better, it’s the sort of place you’re sent to be forgotten…something I’m frequently reminded of from the moment I arrive. Long abandoned by the families who put them in here and left to run amok by incompetent orderlies, this place has had to develop its own sort of hierarchy to keep from falling apart.And it all starts with Price, Ives, and Kingsley—the self-proclaimed kings of Ashford Asylum as untouchable as they are cruel. They think they can bully me into submission, force me to bow to their reign…but there’s one little problem. I don’t run from chaos. I embrace it.I’m no victim. I’ve dealt with bullies like them all my life. Anything they do to me, I’ll do ten times worse. Let them try to bruise me, I’ll break them. There is one thing I didn’t count on, however. The longer I’m stuck here inside the asylum, the more I start to wonder what’s really going on with the inmates. Is it just me, or does Price’s shadow sometimes look like it has a forked tail? My roommate, Adelaide, kind of has a point about drinking her own blood. And Ives…why does everyone look so scared when he starts to lose his temper?I should be focused on getting out of here, on proving I’m not insane like the rest of them before it’s too late. But that doesn’t mean I’m going to roll over and play dead in the meantime. Especially when the voices are telling me otherwise. Asylum Bound is a reverse harem paranormal/supernatural prison romance. It is the first part of the Ashford Asylum duology.

Earth. Psychic. Ritual. The three magical affinities. No mage has ever been chosen by all three…until now. My name is Octavia Hadley, and I am the mage who broke the affinity ritual. I have been at the New York Academy of Mages for less than one day and the school board already wants to strip me of my powers.It would be a whole lot simpler if it didn’t also mean giving up on them—the four mages that I got paired up with: Kendall, my best friend’s twin brother, Draven, the leather-clad ritual mage, Cedric, the principal’s son, and Flynn, the only other mage who also has more than one affinity. The school board tells me I am mistake, but I know that isn’t right. This magic is mine, and I will find a way to keep it. My paired mages will fight beside me even if it means losing everything—so long as it means they don’t have to lose me too. ABSORB is a young adult/new adult paranormal reverse harem romance novel. It is the first in the Forgotten Affinities series.

I thought I was going to lose everything, but I’ve been given a second chance. I have three months to prove I can control my powers. This time, I am going to have to do it alone. The…incident…at Homecoming left the New York Academy of Mages reeling. I don’t mind that Whitney fears me, so long as it means she leaves me alone. But I don’t like the feeling that my best friend might be beginning to become afraid of me as well.They aren’t the only ones acting strangely.The principal is suddenly acting on my behalf even though he was the one to try and get my powers stripped in the first place. Draven says he’s out of the mage crime syndicate for good, but even I know that those kinds of organizations don’t let mages like him go. Not really, not ever. I want to believe that the affection Flynn is showing me is genuine, but instead I get the feeling that he’s keeping a secret from me.Even Kendall is acting distant and brooding, and I don’t know why. Cedric is the only one among them who’s acting normal—until I suggest his father’s uncharacteristic kindness might be rooted in something sinister. There are plans at work here that I am only beginning to understand. Even now, with everything I know, it may already be too late.ADAPT is a young adult/new adult paranormal reverse harem romance novel. It is the second in the Forgotten Affinities series.

If you’d told me six months ago that I would end up at the Academy for the Dark Arts, I never would’ve believed you. But I wouldn’t have believed I was a Dark Witch either...and look how that turned out.Being a Highborne Witch was simple. Maybe I wasn’t allowed to cast curses or summon demons, but I was okay with that. And sure, sometimes we burned each other at the stake. But only when someone really deserved it.I was content. Happy, even. And then the initiation rites go so very wrong. Suddenly, I’m not a Highborne Witch anymore. Witch Law forbids me to stay so I’m given two choices—burn at the stake or attend the Academy of the Dark Arts. It’s a choice that seems simple enough until I arrive at my new school only to find the witches there don’t trust me either. I’m instantly branded an outsider. An outcast among outcasts.Well joke’s on them. They can whisk me off to another city and send me to a school full of zombified servants and half-spider people, but I’m not going to just sit back and take it. This is all some kind of horrible mistake. I’m determined to prove it.At least, until three handsome Dark Witches make me question everything. Merlin, Puck, and Nicholas. The more time we spend together, the more I wonder if Dark Witches are really so different after all. Even if they are…would it really be so bad if I turn out to be one of them? DARK WITCH is an upper YA/NA reverse harem romance, complete at over 100,000 words and one *very* steamy love scene. It’s the first book in the Academy of the Dark Arts series.

There is no escape from The Underground. The most notorious crime syndicate in New York City has its reputation for a reason. When I traded my powers for protection, I didn’t understand the stipulations that came with it. If I had, I never would have made this choice.I finally found something worse than losing my powers, and it’s losing the reason I have them in the first place. I stole from my paired mages when I brought them here. For Kendall, I took his twin. From Cedric, his wealth. From Flynn, his studies. From Draven, I took his freedom.The Underground is changing us. Whether or not we make it out alive, we’ll never be the same mages we were when we went in. Change can be a good thing, but not when it threatens the very fiber that once defined me. There are things you can’t come back from, and I’m afraid this is one of them.ABANDON is a young adult/new adult paranormal reverse harem romance novel. It is the third in the Forgotten Affinities series.

There's something wrong with the inmates at Ashford Asylum, that much was clear from the beginning. But then Bentley showed me something more...something...indescribable. It's more than madness that haunts these walls.In fact, it might not be madness at all, but something darker.And ever since I got here, I've felt it rise up in me as well.No one leaves the asylum. That's what I keep getting told.But I have to. I have to at least try before it's too late. Before I become one of them.Asylum Break is Part II of Asylum Bound, a Paranormal/Supernatural reverse harem prison romance. It features dark themes and sensitive subjects like mental health, grief, and suggestive situations.