// cara_ravelli.reading_room

Choose your obsession.

Psychological romance. Paranormal temptation. Protective slow burn. Gothic curses. Contemporary heat. Love that leaves a mark.

The Sun King by Cara RavelliThe crown was never enough.
// the.cursed.poets · spoken.archive

Some stories refuse to stay buried.

Three books. Three entrances into Byron’s world. Read the history, enter the curse, and hear Gabriel Ashworth speak for himself.

Gabriel Ashworth outside Villa Diodati holding Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage
“Everyone thinks they know my story. They have no idea.”Gabriel Ashworth / the fictional Byron archive
The Dark Lord of Villa Diodati by Cara Ravelli
Novel · The curse awakens

The Dark Lord of Villa Diodati

Mira enters the legendary house. Gabriel discovers that the past has written her name into its final story.

A Note from Lord ByronGabriel Ashworth · Character introduction
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She Was My Darkness by Cara Ravelli
Novel · Where history ends

She Was My Darkness

Byron, Lilith, and the hidden origin of the curse—set beside Cara’s note on what is history and what belongs to fiction.

Author’s NoteCara Ravelli · Fiction and history
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Darkness by Lord Byron, curated by Cara Ravelli
The Secret Library · Vol. 7

Darkness

Byron’s historical poem becomes an intimate, unsettling performance in the voice of Gabriel Ashworth.

DarknessLord Byron, 1816 · Full performance
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Gabriel Ashworth and the supernatural story are fictional. “Darkness” is a historical poem by Lord Byron. Original poems attributed to Gabriel are written by Cara Ravelli and identified as fiction.

// haunted.by.the.king · four.editions

The King. The Ghost. The Curse.

The Sun Edition rules in gold. The Midnight Edition haunts in black. The illustrated Once Upon a Curse Edition reveals the most romantic face of Louis XIV's spell.

Sun, standard and Midnight covers of Haunted by the King

One complete love story. Four cover editions. Choose your king.

// choose.by.world

Dark worlds first. Contemporary obsession after.

Begin with cursed blood, haunted history, and gothic storms. Then step into protection, power games, and second-chance ache.

Hell Touched
Dark Romantasy

Hell Touched

Caius and Amara build New Hell in Hell Is Mine. Then Caius and Chloe rewrite its rules in Crowned in Sin, before Astaroth meets Kira.

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The Cursed Poets
Gothic Romance

The Cursed Poets

Enter The Dark Lord of Villa Diodati: one immortal poet, one storm archive, and a curse waiting behind the myth.

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The Queen’s Spell
Haunted History & Cursed Royals

The Queen’s Spell

Begin with Haunted by the King: Versailles remembers, the Sun King never left, and the crown still asks for blood.

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Vanguard Protection
Protection & Suspense

Vanguard Protection

Bodyguards, celebrity danger, exposed secrets, and slow-burn heat under pressure.

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The Carter Dynasty
Psychological Contemporary Romance

The Carter Dynasty

Begin with Hostile Takeover: revenge, marriage, desire, and the consequences of finally choosing yourself.

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The Burn With Me Collection
Psychological Romance

The Burn With Me Collection

Desire, marriage, memory, loyalty, and the choices we make when love refuses to fit the life we planned.

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The Calix Saga
Christmas Heat & Artificial Intelligence

The Calix Saga

Mason, Sierra and Calix collide in a continuous winter love story about desire, memory, and what makes a heart human.

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The Labyrinth’s Babygirl
Chicago After Dark

The Labyrinth’s Babygirl

A premium escort agency, a dangerous new identity, a Chicago mafia boss, and one rule neither Bambi nor Nate can keep.

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Broken Rules
The Carter Dynasty / Dark Romance

Broken Rules

Vanessa and Mark Monroe: old wounds, a forbidden reunion, and a weekend that changes the rules of surrender.

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The Devil’s Favorite Witch cover
// halloween.release

She became the one rule he broke.

The Devil’s Favorite Witch follows Kira and Astaroth: the demon agrees to help her win back her ex, then discovers that he wants her to stay.

“The magic is easier.”

ReleaseOctober 2026
MoodWitchy, sinful, romantic
DoorwayHell Touched
// soundtrack.experience

Ravelli Sound

Midnight Shadows turns the emotional atmosphere of the books into dark, sensual soundtracks: confession, obsession, grief, control, and the kind of desire that follows you after the chapter ends.

Midnight Shadows music
// meet.cara.ravelli

Hey, I’m Cara.

I write romance because I love stories that stay with you—the kind that make you think about the characters long after you’ve finished the final page.

Contemporary? Psychological? Romantasy? My imagination refuses to choose one lane. Some days I return to a cursed world full of history and magic; other days I’m already halfway into a steamy bodyguard romance. And yes, working on several books at once may explain why my publication dates occasionally develop personalities of their own. 😂

Cara Ravelli, romance and romantasy author
Author / Storyteller / Lake Geneva