Dark romantasy · arcane academy · lost kingdoms

Open the gate. Enter the forbidden realm.

Chiara Ferrucci writes collectible romantasy worlds of exiled princes, hidden academies, tarot trials, forbidden books, and ancient gates that always demand a price.

A book. A card. A gate. A crown hidden in the dark. Every Chiara story begins with something beautiful, dangerous, and very unwilling to stay closed.

The Last Prince of Aethermoor symbolic cover
The Chiara Ferrucci worlds

Two realms. One ancient darkness.

This is the home for Chiara's dark and academy romantasy: lyrical, gothic, and built around secret places that feel excavated from a forbidden history rather than invented.

The Last Prince of Aethermoor coverAethermoor

The Last Prince of Aethermoor

A lost fae kingdom, a prince hidden between pages, and a girl who paints a dead realm back to life.

Enter Aethermoor
The House of Arcanas coverTarot academy

The House of Arcanas

A hidden academy, four houses, dangerous trials, and a card that chooses the girl who was never meant to win.

Enter the academy
A forbidden book opening into another realmArcane academy

Gates, books, and trials

The Chiara universe grows through sealed rooms, dangerous lessons, powerful objects, and realms that answer only to those willing to cross the threshold.

The gates open
The first realm

A girl paints a dead kingdom back to life.

Lily has spent years painting scenes from a mysterious book without knowing why. She thinks it is grief. It is not. Each brushstroke restores Aethermoor: a tower, a garden, a corridor, a kingdom that should have stayed burned.

An enchanted book opening into Aethermoor

The refuge between pages

Adrian, the last fae prince of Aethermoor, survived by hiding inside a magical book. For three centuries he has lived between pages. Then Lily starts painting his world back into existence, and every restored room becomes a dangerous signal to the Iron Courts.

Sound worlds

The songs already know the way in.

Chiara's worlds are built for music as much as story. The soundscape can become the doorway: fae atmospheres, academy music, enchanted forest themes, and soft ritual tracks that pull readers back into the realm.

Lily's song

Pages of My Heart

A soft emotional theme for books, paint, memory, and the girl who keeps rebuilding a world she thinks she invented.

Adrian's song

Silver and Ashes

A lonely fae-prince theme: moonlight, ruin, devotion, and the ache of surviving too long between pages.

Future albums

Academy, forest, gate

Music for the tarot houses, the fae courts, and the places where a fairytale starts to breathe.

Realm notes

Little doors around the stories.

This part of the site can grow slowly around the books: character notes, songs, places, spells, seasonal pages, and the kind of fairytale extras that make readers feel they have found a secret room.

Places

Rooms, gates, towers

Aethermoor towers, tarot houses, hidden libraries, and academy corridors where the magic is still listening.

Songs

The worlds in sound

Music inspired by princes, painters, fae gates, academy trials, and enchanted realms.

Secrets

The pages turn

Small reader extras for those who want to linger between books.

The gates are opening

The universe opens door by door.

NowThe first gate is open: Aethermoor and House of Arcanas now share one clear Chiara shelf.
NextEach world will grow with covers, music, character notes, and secret pages.
SoonRelease links and reader extras arrive as each story is ready to step into the world.
Chiara Ferrucci

Romantasy for readers who like beautiful danger.

Chiara Ferrucci is the fairytale-romantasy side of the creative universe: fae realms, magical academies, tarot trials, enchanted books, and stories where beauty is never harmless.