W.M. Dawson Books

Paranormal romance and academy fantasy with shifters, Fae, elemental magic, and slow-burn love stories.

Series

Trial by Fire, Richmond Academy Series Book 1, by W.M. Dawson, book cover

The Richmond Academy Series

Paranormal academy fantasy · 5 books · Complete December 15, 2026

Phoenix shifter Shayla Montgomery faces five elemental trials at the Richmond Academy of Magic, with a slow-burn romance with Georgios running through all five.

Not Your Maniac Pixie Dream Girl, Not As Written Book 1, by W.M. Dawson, book cover

The Not As Written Series

Paranormal romance · Trilogy · Book 2 out December 1

Wisteria Creed is half-Pixie, half-Sidhe Fae, hosts a graveyard-shift radio show, and refuses at every turn to be what the story expects her to be.

Seasons of Magic: Ostara – Beltane, a collection of paranormal fantasy tales, book cover with a raven on a glowing blue spellbook

Anthologies

Seasons of Magic · Once Upon A Fairytale · The Call of the Sea

Witches, dark fairytales, and sirens, with a story from me in each collection.


Find Your Power

Born This Way by W.M. Dawson, book cover with a woman and a wolf beneath a full moon

Born This Way

The prequel to Brax

She carries the gene. She cannot shift. And the pack wants both.

Elle Hayward has never transformed under the full moon—but her blood is pure, and to her pack, that makes her more valuable than any wolf. When the elders declare she will serve their breeding program, Elle does the only thing she can: she refuses. Quietly. Fiercely. At enormous cost.

With a newborn son tucked in her arms and a dangerous man at her door, Elle must outmaneuver a pack that sees her as property, a rival who will stop at nothing to claim her child, and a world that has no place for someone who belongs to neither the human world nor the wild one.

Born This Way is a story about what it costs to stand your ground when everything—bloodline, tradition, and sheer numbers—is stacked against you.

For fans of raw, character-driven paranormal fiction with a heroine who doesn’t wait to be saved. Available now and in Kindle Unlimited.

Brax by W.M. Dawson, book cover with a man in a dark jacket and a glowing gold claw mark

Brax

A grumpy badger shifter. A wolf who can’t shift. And a child trapped in the middle of a deadly pack war.

She was wolf-born and couldn’t shift. Her pack called it a defect. Gareth called it a reason to take her son.

Elle isn’t asking for sympathy. She’s asking for a badger shifter with nothing to lose and a very specific set of skills. Brax has kept to himself for years. He’s about to find out that’s not the same as being free.

Together, they’re going up against an alpha who’s stopped pretending his ideology is about tradition. Gareth wants a pure wolf city. He’ll start with Quebec and he’ll call what he does to everyone else necessary.

One woman who’s been told she’s nothing. One man who’s been alone long enough to forget why. One child caught between them. And an enemy who thinks mercy is a weakness.

A gritty, slow-burn paranormal romance for readers who want their shifter fiction to mean something. Available now and in Kindle Unlimited.

Brax full book page: tropes, spice, reviews & content notes →


More from W.M. Dawson

Jason & Ariel, a Rightly Swept romance by W.M. Dawson, book cover showing a couple embracing inside a phone screen

Jason & Ariel

A Rightly Swept romance

Can you find your true love on a simple dating app?

Jason McCoy has had the worst luck in dating. He’s funny, friendly, and outgoing, and great at turning his dates into great friends. Instead of finding true love, he ends up becoming their buddy, then shows up at their weddings as an usher, a groomsman, and even a male bridesmaid. Jason is getting desperate to find love when his best friend’s girlfriend suggests the newest dating app, Rightly Swept. He gives it a try.

Ariel Shephard keeps getting judged on dating sites for her looks and her job as a YouTube personality. She joined the app partly to promote it on her channel, but also to find someone different from the one-night flings she kept getting stuck with. Finally, the app sorted through the rabble and connected her with someone honest, with a sense of humor that matched hers.

Can Jason and Ariel make a real go of a relationship when neither believes in the luck of a dating app?

Carter: Krampus Brothers in Las Vegas by W.M. Dawson, book cover with a bearded man in a blazer beneath a red Las Vegas skyline title

Carter

The Krampus Brothers in Las Vegas · part of a multi-author series

He’s watched her die eight times. He’ll do it again.

Carter is half-Krampus, half-Winter Fae, and the kind of dangerous that’s learned to look like patience. He enforces contracts in supernatural Las Vegas. He loves one person across every fire and every body and every name, and he is very clear-eyed about what that means: he would burn down anything that came for her. He has. He will.

When a collector engineers his partner’s death-and-rebirth to acquire what she becomes — a Phoenix with the power to close dimensional rifts from the inside — Carter doesn’t negotiate. He hunts.

But the woman who comes back from the fire isn’t who she was. She’s sharper, angrier, unwilling to be loved as an echo of someone he already knew. She wants to be wanted on her own terms or not at all.

He’ll figure out the difference. He has time.

Possessive, dark, and achingly human underneath it all, a paranormal romance about the specific insanity of loving something that keeps burning — and choosing it anyway, every single time.

Welcome to the Jungle, Dark Leopards MC Texas Chapter, by W.M. Dawson, book cover with a woman beside a motorcycle and a leopard's face in the sky

Welcome to the Jungle

Dark Leopards MC · Texas Chapter

Seraphina Cortez didn’t choose the life of a shifter—but she claimed it anyway.

After a brutal transformation changed everything, Seraphina found her place with the Dark Leopards MC, rising to Sergeant-at-Arms and fiercely protecting the pride that became her family. Loyalty is everything. Weakness gets you killed.

So when the man she once loved shows up bleeding on her doorstep, she should slam the door.

Caleb Anders is trouble—always has been. But now he’s running for his life, hunted by powerful enemies who want the rare magic in his blood. Walking away should be easy. It isn’t.

Protecting Caleb means dragging danger straight into Dark Leopards territory. Old feelings ignite, secrets surface, and the enemies chasing him might spark a war that could destroy everything she’s fought to build.

Seraphina has two choices: save the man who once broke her heart… or protect the pride that gave her a new one. Either way, someone’s going to bleed.

A fast-paced paranormal MC romance novella featuring shifters, magic, danger, and a second-chance love that refuses to die.

Last Rock Standing by W.M. Dawson, book cover with a couple silhouetted on a truck against a desert sunset

Last Rock Standing

On a routine geological dig for her company, Layla Black didn’t expect to witness a murder—as the only witness.

Alone in the desert and on the run from a serial killer, she must use her wits and skills to outrun a dangerous man. Help arrives in the form of FBI agent Alex Douglass, who just wanted to enjoy his vacation.

Together they must survive the harsh Nevada desert in the middle of summer, caught between the government’s needs and a killer who hates to lose. Counting on one another draws them together. Can they depend on each other through a danger they barely understand and a rising passion they aren’t prepared for?

A novella-length contemporary romance with a slight paranormal twist.


About W.M. Dawson

W.M. Dawson writes from a desert writing cave, mostly to avoid combusting as a redhead in the sun. Her stories live in the space between paranormal, academy fantasy, and romance — magic with rules, monsters with manners, and characters who almost always make the worse decision. She shares her house (and her plotting sessions) with her husband and a small committee of tailless cats who are, by unanimous vote, in charge.