Forthright . Books In Order

Publication Order of Amaranthine Saga Books

Publication Order of Songs of the Amaranthine Books

Publication Order of Amaranthine Interludes Books

Forthright is an anonymous romance, paranormal, and fantasy fiction author that launched her career writing fandom fiction pieces. She now writes her fandom fiction works on her own website at forthwrites.com. It is the place where she also provides updates about her unfinished fiction works, random drabbles, links to fanart, reviews of manga and anime and news on original stories she is writing. Forthright made her publishing debut with “Tsumiko the Enslaved Fox” that she first published in 2018. While she now self publishes her novels, she still posts free pieces of fan fiction on fanfiction websites. It is like she became an adult and moved away but She still goes back to fandom as they are places they consider home.

Forthright learned all about storytelling from fandom as the fiction pieces she wrote while visiting those forums are her beginnings. Even though she has gone on to write self published original works, she still treasures the effort and love she put into her fanfiction. She no longer writes as often on the forums but that is not because she has lost her muse but because she also needs to make a living from her work. Nonetheless, she still posts fanfiction updates from time to time and also promotes her unfinished original works on the forums. Forthright has written a ton of fanfiction for “Inuyasha” and other fandom communities including fanfiction.net where she writes under the name forthrightly.

She also does dabble in fanart and posts the links on her website. She also blogs a lot nowadays in addition to writing random quotes, FAQs, art posts and story news. As a huge lover of social media, she loves the chance to interact with her fans on a variety of platforms apart from her website. She can be found on Goodreads and Bookbub under the name Forthright, on Twitter as Forthwrites, as forthrightly on deviantArt, and forthrightly on Tumblr. The links to her many profiles across the internet can be found on her website’s About page.
In “Tsumiko and the Enslaved Fox” by Forthright the emergence of the Amaranthine, a strange people rocks humanity. They are legends and myths come to life as they are neither animal nor human yet embrace the attributes of both sets. The alien race inspires both fear and awe and every TV newsfeed is full of updates regarding the negotiations of peace. But there are some places that have never been so into such things such as the all girls school where Tsumiko Hajime grew up. Tsumiko gets a letter from an aunt she never knew she had who informs her that she is leaving her an ancestral fortune and estate. But she needs to accept the inheritance in addition with an inhuman butler. Named Argent, he has been with the Hajime family for hundreds of years and to prevent his death Tsumiko needs to renew the generational bond. The butler hates her for the power she has over him but her soul is what he craves more than anything including freedom.
“Forthright’s Kimiko and the Accidental Proposal” is the story of middle child Kimiko who is from a house of reavers that had fallen into obscurity over the years. But her youngest sister has managed to get Kimiko into an elite school where Amaranthine, humans and reavers intermingle and hope to be future leaders. While she cannot count herself among the brightest of the class, her exceptional understanding of the subtle body language of the Amaranthine and her unusual upbringing made her very unique among her classmates. One of these is a runt of the Starmark clan named Eloquence who confides that the responsibilities he has been given make him powerless in determining his future. He has to raise his half brother and be a father to him just like his uncle was to him. It is quite the difficult task given that he has to go to mixed school. But he soon discovers that there is more to his new friends than he had first expected. Kimiko’s warmth and kindness coupled with an adorable pup causes him to make an unexpected marriage proposal to Quin.
“Tamiko and the Two Janitors” by Forthright tells of protest rallies, werewolf scare and conspiracy theories that have made peace impossible to achieve in the US. Political and social unrest have made it hard for most of the Amaranthine to declare their identities. Those that have not gone into seclusion make use of illusions to hide who they really are from the general populace. Tamiko is the newly minted principal of a small school and believes she is doing her best to bring peace in her world. She applies for the school revitalization project ran by Hishoka Twineshaft and also rallies her community to support what they are trying to do. They intend to invite the Amartanthine into their community but what they do not know is that some of her most loyal employees share a dark secret.