The Not As Written Series

She’s not your manic pixie dream girl, and he’s not your book boyfriend.

Paranormal romance built on urban fantasy, with a slow-burn romance and found family. 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.

Reading order: Book 1 is out now, Book 2 arrives December 1, 2026, and Book 3 finishes the trilogy in 2027.


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

Book 1: Not Your Maniac Pixie Dream Girl

Wisteria Creed is a half-Pixie, half-Sidhe Fae with a graveyard-shift radio show, a gift for hearing the music in every living soul, and a very firm policy against being anyone’s idea of harmless.

When a Wendigo tears through her San Diego neighborhood, she calls it in — and gets Detective Trevor Gibson, the one cop in the city willing to take her seriously. It’s the beginning of a reluctant partnership, a slower-burn romance, and a case that keeps getting worse in exactly the ways she should have seen coming.

Because the Wendigo wasn’t a random predator. Someone has been capturing them. Studying them. And the man behind it — methodical, patient, and genuinely brilliant — has just decided that Wisteria herself is the most interesting thing he’s ever found.

She’s spent her whole life being measured against a scale she was never meant to win on. Decorative. Harmless. Not quite Sidhe enough to matter. San Diego was supposed to be the place where nobody knew enough about her to have an opinion either way.

It turns out she’s considerably more than anyone — including herself — gave her credit for. She’s just about to find out exactly how much.

A paranormal romance with urban fantasy bones: slow-burn romance, a found family built in the margins of a city that doesn’t know what it’s looking at, and a protagonist who refuses, at every turn, to be what the story expected her to be. Available now.

Not Your Book Boyfriend, Not As Written Book 2, by W.M. Dawson, book cover

Book 2: Not Your Book Boyfriend

Wisteria Creed has survived the Carter case, a Fae war on her doorstep, and the discovery of what she really is. Now the city wants a task force, the Directorate wants a liaison, and the liaison wants her to feel safe.

Camdan Holtson is tall, polished, perfectly attentive, and perfectly wrong. His song is a flawless scan of a person, every note in place and nobody home. He says all the right things. He remembers how she takes her coffee. He’s exactly the dream boyfriend the Fae Studies Directorate ordered.

Gibson doesn’t trust him. Miller wants to arrest him on principle. And Wisteria, who hears everything, can’t stop listening to the one sound Camdan doesn’t make.

The clock is ticking. The money trail leads to an office that doesn’t officially exist. Eleven names in a sealed archive are all that’s left of the people who came before her. And the one person who could explain what Camdan really is has started to wonder if he wants to know.

Some men are written to be perfect. Some learn to be real.

Available December 1, 2026. Pre-orders are open now.

Book 3: Coming in 2027

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