🎉Happy New Year🎉

Dear Readers,

We’re standing at the very end of 2025, and my heart is full of gratitude for all of you.

This past year I started sharing my story with you the chapters of The Childhood That Was Taken and you were there: you read, you commented, you held me with your words.

None of this would feel the same without you.

I briefly made Chapter V paid, but this morning I listened to my heart and decided to reverse that decision.

This story has never been about money, and it still isn’t.

In early 2026 and beyond, every chapter and every one of my works will remain completely free for anyone who wants to walk this path with me.

The Arden Tomas Universe will stay fully open for now all my stories and worlds will be accessible to everyone at no cost:

- The Childhood That Was Taken (my autobiographical novel, now with five chapters)

- Hidden Flames (the forbidden love of Lucas and Nathan in Australia)

- Designed by the Signal (sci-fi about a gay spaceship captain and his humanoid AI)

- Quipu of Desire (the rawest, most explicit story of Professor Alex and John in Peru)

A special thank-you to the wonderful queer writer Rowan Thornwell, whose support and warmth have meant so much to me during this time. I’m grateful to be surrounded by people like him.

Thank you for being here, for reading my words, for feeling the pain and the light with me.

You are the ones who give me the strength to keep going.

I wish you all a peaceful, love-filled New Year’s Eve and a 2026 full of hope, healing, and connections that truly matter.

Happy New Year! ❤️

Arden Tomas 🔥