Sascha Steam is an Australian author, former international model, and photographer whose work explores identity, power, and challenges the fine line between illusion and reality.

Her writing draws from a life lived on the edge. She’s survived enough ridiculous adventures to count as her own genre. Apparently, it’s called “research.”

Autistic, queer, and allergic to normalcy, Sascha spends her downtime alternating between lifting heavy weights, spoiling her cat and discussing philosophy with her dog.

She regularly attempts enlightenment and overthinks life in her sauna, while debating whether an ice bath counts as character development.

She wakes up for coffee and lives for sunsets. Books are her favourite form of escapism—often reading two or three at a time—so it was inevitable she’d start writing a few herself. 

When magic grants your wish, it never comes cheap.

What would you do if you suddenly had the ability to control people’s thoughts?

Zara had enough of small-town life, schoolyard cruelty and being the underdog. When a mysterious girl offers her a potion to become an adult overnight and awaken her hidden powers, 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, all while contemplating morality, the good and the evil that comes with her choices.

This book is written in 3rd person, past tense. Its character driven, original and creative cross-genre, with humour and LGBTQ rep. Slow burn romance, enemies to lovers, with 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.