Approachable fantasy with heart and cuss words.

Chaotic fantasy romcoms fueled by a love of nature and a desperate desire to escape to a more magical world.

A woman with long hair, wearing a denim jacket, a black skirt, and sandals, walking through a park with fallen leaves on the ground, near a large tree with drooping branches.

“An utterly charming cozy fantasy! Whimsical, heartfelt, and impossible not to fall in love with.”

- Breanne Randall, NYT Best Selling Author

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Embracing the Druid

Dungeons and Dragons meets Tangled in this fantasy romcom featuring a sentient traveling tavern, a Flynn Rider coded bard and one woman with the choice to embrace the druid within or risk losing the life she's been longing for.

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Sabrina Plumb DeCastra

Sabrina Plumb DeCastra has always had a love of fantasy, nature and writing but it was only recently that she gave herself permission to embrace it.

When she finally stopped ignoring the nagging sensation that “there has to be more to life than this” she wrote down those words and Embracing the Druid was created. She is actively working on the second and third books in this introductory trilogy to the collection of interconnected stories in the Tales of the Traveling Troglodyte.

Inspired by the worlds and captivating characters her and her friends create when they play Dungeons and Dragons, Sabrina envisions this collection like the Marvel Cinematic Universe of fantasy.

Sabrina lives in Northeast Ohio with her husband and deaf pit bull where she spends her days exploring their backyard woods in search of barred owls, mushrooms and anything she can add to the world of Forellessence.

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