Ruined Realms · Book One

Of Wards and Wi-Fi

A Witch. A nine-hundred-year-old Vampire. A Lisbon where ancient magic has found the Wi‑Fi.

Not every door between worlds is made of stone. Some are hidden in plain sight—and the keys are waiting inside the book.

Ebook on Kindle and Kindle Unlimited · Paperback 31 October
Em Portugal? O ebook está na Amazon.com

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The Serpent’s Dance and Of Wards and Wi-Fi, ebooks available now; Of Wards and Wi-Fi paperback 31 October 2026.

Crumbling Gods. Messy love. Dangerous magic.

Ruined Realms is a dark romantasy series set between Lisbon and worlds that should have stayed closed. It began with a fable—The Serpent’s Dance—and broke open in Of Wards and Wi-Fi.

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Teresa Ribeiro in a pastel dress among colourful, graffiti-covered ruins.

The person behind the realms

I’m Teresa—a Lisbon author who writes dark romantasy, draws the people in my head, and apparently builds whole languages for fun. I’m a bit of a Witch myself.

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