Fearless Fantasy for Christians with Questions
Do you love dark fantasy, but need real hope?
Are you tired of glib Christian platitudes?
Did you learn more from Avatar: The Last Airbender than God's Not Dead?
You're in the right place.
Hi! I'm Marybeth Davis.
One of my greatest joys as a child was tearing through book after book of a series that spoke to my heart—both as a budding Christian, and as a dramatic kid who just couldn’t get enough of the dangerous adventure.
But as I got older, it became harder to find Christian media that felt real. After battles with mental and physical health, loneliness, church hurt, and more, I was less satisfied than ever with band-aid answers to tough questions. “Just pray and God will fix everything” doesn’t help when betrayal is making trust impossible, or pain from chronic illness is taking your breath away, or the people around you are suffering without justice.
I need something stronger. I want to watch the truth spill out as the lifeblood of a thrilling story, not as a flimsy sermon snuck into the book like a Trojan horse.
That's why I write what I do. If God's truth is really true, then asking only easy questions is a disservice. So I don't hold back in my books–I let my characters really wrestle with the truth, with their pain, with why they believe what they believe. And as a result, the answers they reach will feel earned.
And if they get cool magic mists that leave lightning scars behind, well. I'm not complaining, are you?
Meet a Parentified Street Kid with Mist Magic
Being a street kid with uncontrollable mist powers is tough to begin with.
Raising a spirited seven-year-old is even harder.
After ending up homeless at a young age, Abidan found purpose in caring for a smaller abandoned boy. The child, Matthias, had awful luck too: he was born with mismatched eyes, a bad omen among their people. Splitting food between two may be foolish, but if Abidan can protect this child, he might be able to forgive himself for the years-old failure he'd give anything to forget.
But when Matthias falls ill, Abidan may not be enough to save him. As he struggles to make ends meet while hiding his banned mists, his only chance at help lies in a dangerous noble with unclear motives. Accepting it could spell disaster. For years, Abidan has been the one thing standing between Matthias and threats like the nobles.
But if he makes the wrong decision, he might just be the reason the boy dies.
What readers are saying about
Vow Beneath the Starshards
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Marybeth is a mad genius. Her prose is tight and crisp, her world feels lived in, and her characters... oh my goodness, her characters! The amount of love and pain I felt for these boys in just over 100 pages is astounding. It's rare that an author can win me over so completely with a full novel, let alone a novella.
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VBTS is a restrained but quietly devastating novella... The shocking twist at the end (which I absolutely will not spoil) leaves you hungering for more stories set in this fey and inventive world. Marybeth weaves her Irish heritage into the worldbuilding skillfully providing just the right amount of detail without bogging down the reader... This short epic is a testimony to the fact that you do not need a thousand pages to tell a gripping fantasy tale.
If one could be imprisoned for literature, Marybeth would be behind bars for the rest of her life... every time I see Abidan's love for Matthias, I die a little more inside in an insane, gut-wrenching love and pity for them both. Her writing is spectacular, her emotional connection unparalleled, and her relationships, beautiful. I give this story 11 stars out of 5.