Influence: When Desire Bends Reality

By: Steam, Sascha

What would you do if you could suddenly control people's thoughts and actions?

When magic grants your wish, it never comes cheap.
Zara had enough of small-town life, schoolyard cruelty and being the underdog. When a mysterious stranger offers her a potion to become an adult overnight and awaken powers she never knew she had, Zara drinks without a second thought. Impulsiveness has always been her second name. But growing up overnight comes with a price.

Being forced to flee her old life, Zara tumbles into a world of ghosts, werewolves, and sentient magic. Her gifts evolve faster than she can control them, bending reality around her, and of course choices carry consequences.

Recruited into a secretive organisation offering "solutions" to the world's most powerful, Zara becomes their newest operative: an influencer who can bend wills. Her assignments take her across continents and deeper into a shadow world where nothing is what it seems.

When she's sent to retrieve a sentient orb of immense power, the mission unravels. Her perspective changes.
The only person immune to her influence is a hacker posing as a journalist. He may be her greatest threat... or her only chance at survival.

Spanning five years of love, danger, and supernatural intrigue, Influence-a contemporary fast-paced urban fantasy-follows Zara's struggle to master her power and find her place in the world.

This book is written in 3rd person, past tense. Is character driven, original and creative cross-genre, with humour and LGBTQ rep. Slow burn romance, adversaries to lovers, many surprising twists, magic merging with reality, and a powerful dog. It's based in Australia, with travel overseas to Hawaii, Alaska, Italy's Lake Como and Tokyo Japan.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1764221036
• ISBN13: 9781764221030
• Release Date: November 2025
• Publisher: Caffeinated Ghost Press
• Length: 528 Pages
• Weight: 1.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"