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Atheena Maximoff

Atheena Maximoff

When a brilliant, hyper-controlled genetics professor walks into her classroom, an exchange student’s quiet, rule-bound life shatters—plunging her into a dangerous web of corporate espionage, secret games, and a love that could get them both killed.

Kindle
Available now
Paperback
November 23
Hardcover
November 30
Beta readers wanted for the 2027 books
Portrait of Atheena Maximoff smiling, in a black leather jacket

About the author

Atheena Maximoff is a Filipino author who has been telling stories since she was ten years old. Long before her stories found their way into printed pages, they lived online, shared with readers who taught her that perhaps the most beautiful part of writing is finding people willing to stay until the very last page.

She writes because her imagination has always been too full to keep to herself. Her stories revolve around sapphic romance, fierce women, complicated feelings, forbidden attractions, and love that often begins in the most unexpected places. From enemies-to-lovers romances and slow-burning connections to stories woven with mystery, suspense, and unexpected twists, she enjoys exploring the many ways women can fall for each other—and the chaos that comes with it.

English is not her first language, but she has never let that stop her from telling the stories she carries. Every finished book is a quiet reminder that stories need not be written in perfect words to find their way into someone’s heart.

She is the author of Piece of You and Veni, Vidi, Vici, a story she could not stop thinking about long after she first imagined it. She hopes you won’t be able to stop thinking about it either.

Two more stories, coming in 2027

Release dates are still to be announced. Beta readers get to read them first.

Cover of Veni, Vidi, Vici: two women facing each other across an orchid under a glass bell jar

Coming 2027

Veni, Vidi, Vici

A sapphic legal romance

She came. She saw. She was conquered.

Cover of 90 Days With My Rival: a potted sunflower on a windowsill above the Los Angeles skyline

Coming 2027

90 Days With My Rival

A sapphic romantic comedy set in Los Angeles

Read the 2027 books before anyone else

Beta readers receive an early copy of Veni, Vidi, Vici or 90 Days With My Rival and tell Atheena honestly what worked and what didn’t. Sign up and she’ll be in touch when the manuscripts are ready.

Sign up as a beta reader This opens a short sign-up form. Questions? Write to atheenajanec@gmail.com.