Some stories call for a different name...
Zoe Kalo emerged from a desire to explore wilder, more mythologically charged worlds — tales that move faster, burn brighter, and lean into romance and desire alongside the darkness. Where Mayra Calvani leans toward the literary and the introspective, Zoe is drawn to ancient gods, secret societies, haunted convents, and heroines who are only just discovering the full measure of their power.
At the heart of every Zoe Kalo story is a young woman on the edge of transformation — searching for identity, confronting forces larger than herself, and refusing to be simply a victim of them. The genres shift, the settings change, but that heroine remains: fierce, impulsive, and still becoming.
CHAMELEON
Shortlisted for the Dante Rossetti Awards for Young Adult Fiction
She only wanted to speak to her dead father. She may have awakened something far worse.
In the sweltering rainforests of 1970s Puerto Rico, seventeen-year-old Paloma arrives at a secluded convent—and is drawn into a strange, tight-knit group of girls who know more than they should. After a séance gone wrong, whispers turn to visions and reality begins to fracture.
Because something has awakened inside the convent. And it wants her.
A haunting Young Adult gothic thriller blending dark academia, psychological suspense, and the supernatural.
TWO GRAVES
ScreenCraft Cinematic Story Competition Finalist
A terrible crime. A shattered life. It’s time for payback.
Seven years ago, he destroyed her life. The town moved on. Angelica didn’t.
Now a gifted violin student, she has spent years preparing for one thing: revenge. And tonight, at a masquerade ball, every piece is finally in place.
Behind a mask, Angelica begins a carefully orchestrated descent into a dark, decadent world—where justice blurs into obsession, and nothing will unfold as planned.
A noir-tinged New Adult novella of vengeance, obsession, and a night that changes everything.
DAUGHTER OF THE SUN
EGYPTOLOGY. MAGIC. ROMANCE. AND CATS—LOTS OF CATS.
Left at a convent with a torn piece of ancient papyrus, sixteen-year-old Trinity is summoned to the Island of Cats—only to lose the grandmother who might have explained everything. All she inherits is a strange ring… and a thousand grieving cats.
As she uncovers a prophecy, ancient curses, and powers awakening within her, Trinity is drawn to the enigmatic Seth—pulling her closer to a truth she can’t escape: the gods may not be dead.
A contemporary mythological YA romantasy of destiny, danger, and forbidden attraction.