Carlee Brae

Romantasy Author

Of Songs and Phantoms

As a chorus dancer in the Lutesse City Opera, classically trained soprano Seraphina Dallier does not sing in front of people. That is, until one fateful night, she slips up, and her heretically magical singing voice attracts the attention of a mysterious stranger…and the theocratic authorities.Accused of witchcraft and exiled from everything she has ever known, Seraphina must put her faith in that same stranger, seeking refuge with him in a seductive city of magic hidden beneath Lutesse. But can she trust her heart? Or, will phantoms from her past come back to haunt her, threatening everything she has come to love?

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About Carlee

Carlee Brae is an independent romance and romantasy author, publishing her debut novel in December 2025. While she always dreamt of one day being a novelist, she took a slight detour after studying professional writing in university, and spent 15 years working as a chef instead.Carlee’s first love is dance—she’s spent the better part of the last thirty four years in class, on stage, and more recently, backstage, as a dance mom for her two daughters.Carlee would never be able to write a convincing HEA without her husband—her highschool sweetheart, and her forever happily ever after. They live just north of Toronto with their two highly energetic and chaotic young dancers.Her debut novel, Of Songs and Phantoms, is her love letter to music, dance, and the performing arts.Carlee Brae publishes her work independently under her imprint, Bad Baddie Books.

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© 2025 Carlee Brae. Published by Bad Baddie Books.

Content / Trigger Warnings

Of Songs and Phantoms
  • Religious trauma
  • Authoritarian government that discriminates against women and LGBTQ+ people (the government are the clear villains)
  • Death of a parent (not depicted)
  • Brief mentions of pregnancy loss (not depicted)
  • Explicit sexual content
  • Explicit violence
  • Gun violence
  • Heavy blood and gore
  • Panic attack depicted on the page
  • Some light stalking, done with love

© 2025 Carlee Brae. Published by Bad Baddie Books.

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