Shya’s Novels
Earlier Works
Before Honey Drops, before Rememberings, before I stood in rooms and read the truth out loud—
I wrote novels.
Fiction, technically.
But I’ve never believed the best stories are fully made up.
I think some stories arrive because they are trying to remember themselves through you.
These books were my first witnessing.
My first way of telling the truth sideways.
Girls surviving their shadows.
Women learning what love costs.
Bodies carrying what the mouth could not yet say.
Lives changing the moment denial could no longer hold.
I wrote these stories before I had language for everything I know now.
But even then, I was circling the same rooms.
Dignity.
Desire.
Survival.
Disappearance.
Return.
These novels are part of that lineage.
They are not separate from this work.
They are the earlier doors.
The first places Honey learned how to speak.
So if one of these books calls your name—
follow it.
Read it as a mirror.
Read it as a warning.
Read it as a confession.
Read it as a door.
Because stories like these do not call for nothing.
— Shya
✨ The Given Name of Sunshyne Carter
The girl who learned her light by surviving the ones who tried to dim it.
Sunshyne is sixteen and drowning inside a house that should have protected her. A hostile mother. A stepfather who crosses lines that should never be crossed. And a body that keeps all her secrets.
Then Randy appears — a boy who sees the pain no one else wants to name. Their connection forces her to face the truth she’s been cutting away from.
This book is a descent. It’s is a story of shadow, shame, and the first flicker of self-rescue.
Running from home becomes the doorway into her becoming.
When BriElle runs, she thinks she’s escaping chaos. Instead, she steps into a new kind of danger — older men, darker motives, and a path she never meant to walk.
But the real question becomes: Will she go back to save the sister who never stopped loving her?
This book is a reckoning. A story about flight, consequence, and the thin line between freedom and risk.
✨ The Undoing of Kimayah’s Karma
Anger can be an armor — but it can also be a curse.
Kimayah has always felt out of place in her own family. Too loud. Too much. Too red-haired. Too angry. Her diagnosis of Intermittent Explosive Disorder becomes another label she never asked for.
Then a betrayal shatters what little trust she had left — and she decides someone has to pay.
She turns to Dontae, a man too old and too dangerous, to help her get even… and the price he asks reshapes everything.
This book is the storm. This is a story about rage, revenge, and the cost of choosing the shadow.
(It’s also the one most people cannot handle. Its job is to filter, not to comfort.)
✨ The Unraveling of Savannah: Her Story
Survival teaches her everything — except how to trust the hand that saves her.
Savannah is seventeen and homeless after her mother kicks her out.
Kyrie — feared, respected, and known for saving girls no one else sees — takes her in.
He offers her a room. Not affection. Not promises. Just safety.
But safety has a price. Trauma has a voice.
And in the tension between them rises something neither of them expected.
This story is heat and shadow. A dark romance about power, protection, and the slow thaw of a wounded girl’s heart.