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Book Blitz: His Duchess Under the Mistletoe – Jeanine Englert

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Good tidings…
Of sec

ond chances!

Sullivan MacKay knows destiny’s wicked humor firsthand. At seventeen, Sully’s plans to run away with his orphanage sweetheart, Trudy, were interrupted by a life-changing discovery—he’s a duke’s
lost heir! Knowing his title could give Trudy a better life, he left to claim it, but vowed to return…

Years later Trudy has made a vow of her own: She will never marry, instead dedicating herself to her scientific pursuits. Following an unexpected Christmas reunion with old flame Sully, not even the December chill can disguise the burning embers of their lost love, awakening glimmers of a second chance…

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Jeanine Englert’s love affair with mysteries and romance began with Nancy Drew, Murder She Wrote, and her Grandmother’s bookshelves full of romance novels.

She is a VIVIAN®, Golden Heart®, and Romance Novelists Association Finalist as well as a Silver Falchion, Maggie, and Daphne du Maurier Award Winner in historical romance and mystery. She was also named the 2024 Georgia Author of the Year in romance for A Laird without a Past.

Her Scottish Highland historical, Regency historical, and historical mystery novels revolve around characters seeking self-acceptance and redemption. When she isn’t wrangling with her characters on
the page, she can be found trying to convince her husband to watch her latest Masterpiece or BBC show obsession.

She loves to talk about books, writing, her beloved rescue pups, as well as mysteries
and romance with other readers. Visit her website at http://www.jeaninewrites.com.

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Regency Fairytale Series Giveaway! (Open to US Only)
Enter for the chance to win Jeanine Englert’s last Harlequin Historical series! You can win signed  paperback copies of Cinderella’s Charade with the Duke, Beauty and the Brooding Viscount, and His
Duchess Under the Mistletoe along with a bracelet inspired by the series and book swag!


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Book Blitz: Timeless – Amber Bunch

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We’re thrilled to announce that Timeless is now available!

Timeless: Villainous Retelling Anthology

Release Date: October 16, 2026

Genre: Dark Fairytale Retelling
Cursed magic
He cleans up her messes
Morally grey FMC
Dark fairytale retelling
Monster X Monster
Immortal FMC X Ancient Vampire
Immortality with a price
Vengeance driven
Stalker-ish MMC
Hunger v. Humanity
Love betrayed her. Magic remade her. Hunger keeps her human.

Before she became a whispered nightmare, Gothel was a dreamer, a wife, a mother-to-be. Betrayed by the husband she trusted, she was dragged into the frozen wilderness and left to die. Alone and bleeding in the snow, she lost her unborn child.

She should have died there, too.

Instead, a witch offered her immortality wrapped in a bitter curse: an insatiable need for human life essence. To keep her sanity, her memories, and the last fragile fragments of her humanity, Gothel must feed. If she starves, the monster inside takes over forever.

Emerging from the woods, Gothel delivers a slow, merciless reckoning, draining the life from her traitorous ex-husband. But when she turns to his new bride, Seraphine, she discovers the woman is carrying a child.

Haunted by the echo of her own loss, Gothel spares her, making a single, sinister promise: On the child’s eighteenth birthday, she will return to claim the life she is owed.

For years, Gothel hunts in the shadows, clinging to her fraying control. Then she meets Rowan—a centuries-old vampire intimately acquainted with grief and bloodshed. He sees the feral creature lurking behind her eyes, yet he is drawn to it, quietly sweeping away the chaotic trail of bodies she leaves behind.

Gothel feels the dangerous pull, but she refuses to break. Her oath and her survival must come first…because the only thing more lethal than her hunger is letting a vampire into her heart.

Timeless is a darkly seductive Rapunzel retelling where immortality, vengeance, and forbidden desire collide—and even monsters must decide what they are willing to sacrifice.

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Book 4 of the Villainous Retellings Anthology, because why does the hero always get the happy ending?

Book 1 Incarnate Charlotte Mallory October 5, 2026
Book 2 Feral Cassandra Aston October 9, 2026
Book 3 Darkling Isabella Khalidi October 12, 2026
Book 4 Timeless Amber Bunch October 16, 2026
Book 5 Delirium Dawn Darling October 31, 2026

Charlotte Mallory @cmalloryauthor
Cassandra Aston @cassandra.aston.author
Isabella Khalidi @isabellakhalidiauthor
Amber Bunch @amber.bunch_author
Dawn Darling @dawndarlingauthor


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Book Blitz: The Night Devours Us All – an Anthology

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The Night Devours Us All is an Autumn-themed anthology that is just perfect for the spooky season!

The Night Devours Us All

Anthology Tropes:

•Witches, vampires, werewolves, grimn reaper, gothic horror & more
•Autumncore & Fall Based •Lore
•Horror, Romance, & Paranormal
•Haunting Moody, & Gothic
•Psychological Dread
•Sapphic Werewolf Cinderella
•Headless Horseman Inspired
•Unreliable Perception
•Feminine Rage

When the last bit of autumn sunlight fades into nothing but a fleeting memory, and the marigold glow of the harvest moon peaks out from behind twisty clouds the ghouls come out to play. And so do the creatures within these haunting pages.

9 creative authors and 9 unforgettable stories unfold into an eerie ride that will send goosebumps across your arms, cause magical moths to flutter in your stomach, and leave you breathlessly gasping for more. Wolves howl, witches stir, demons trick, and vampires lurk in the darkest shadows waiting for their perfect prey. Would you dare to dance with the devils who cackle after midnight? Or run through the dark, damp forest landscape willingly knowing what chases you plans to keep you for a spectral eternity?

We bet you would.

Because we already know under the autumn sky The Night Devours Us All.



Authors:

@jl_books
@writeranastasia26
@ashxtiff
@hayleypiercewrites
@lilybeth_writes
@sareya_writes
@stevilynn_author
@authorjadenioma

Jennifer L. Linn
Blackthorne House
Genre: Gothic Horror

*Gothic manor
*Unreliable perception
*Story within a story
*Artistic obsession
*Psychological dread
*The uncanny

There are some places you should never enter alone.

S.B Barrett
The Hunt
Genre: Gothic horror

*Feminine power
*Biting and Rough play
*Divine Nature
*Protector of the Wild

Sometimes a walk in the woods turns into running for your life. Things you hold dear become things you need to protect, and sometimes the hunter becomes the prey.

Hayley Pierce
That’s What They Call Dangerous Women
Genre: Paranormal

*Burn the patriarchy (literally) 💅
*Witch hunt
*Feminine rage
*Found family
*Read in your luteal phase

Ashley Peters & Tiffany Amber
Sugar, Spice, and Body Rot
Genre: Psychological Horror

*Ghoul x Human
*One Night Stand
*Body Horror
*Tragic Monster

L.E. Schultz
Shadows Wake
Genre: Gothic Folk Horror

*He’d burn the world for her—and did
*Don’t look at the shadows
*Loved her too hard to let go
*The rules exist for a reason
*Doomed from the first kiss

When a man attempts to defy death on behalf of the woman he loves, he comes face to face with a darkness that won’t let either of them go.

Stevi Lynn
Black Viola’s
Genre: Urban Paranormal Romance

*Demon x Vampire
*Mental Health Rep
*Hurt/Comfort
*Unique Magic
*Biting Is Hot
*He Brushes Her Hair
*She Ties Him Up
*Moody & Haunting
*Always You

Find the person who looks at your monstrous side and smiles at its beauty.

Stevi Lynn
Reaper’s Bar
Genre: Paranormal Comedy

*Grim Reaper Runs A Bar
*Slasher’s & Shots
*Villains Chillin
*Think “Cheers” But With Bad Guys
*Satirical Horror Humor

Even villains need a comfortable place to unwind & good friends who’ll listen to their woes after a hard day of dastardly deeds.

Jade Nioma
Death’s Phantom
Genre: Paranormal Romance

*Seducing the death-raiser
*Headless Horseman Inspired
*Ghostly graveyard spice
*Trading eternity for revenge

Only foolish girls go out when the moon is high on Samhain, searching for the harbinger of death.

Anastasia Arellano
Hunting Shadows
Genre: Dark Fantasy

*Sapphic werewolf Cinderella
*Childhood friends to lovers
*Touch her and die
*She falls for the monster she’s meant to kill

A Queen’s monster hunter must choose whether to betray the crown to save the werewolf she once loved before a deadly royal ball becomes their execution.

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Book Blitz: The Approval of Sheep – Karen Storey

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To celebrate the book’s birthday I’m re-posting my review from its release below, and there’s also a giveaway.


Gordon Slee fears he was never meant to be born. Anxious since childhood after hearing he was an accident, the forty-two-year-old is still struggling to escape the shadow of his high-achieving family.

But a glimmer of hope is on the horizon – a huge promotion within his hotel group is up for grabs, and he is sure that his time has come to make a mark on the world.
However, within his own department, redundancies are afoot. He may lose his job before he gets the chance. Until he learns of a historic covenant that preserves the right for sheep to run through the company’s top London hotel. Could he convince his boss that he’s the man to save the hotel from catastrophe?

Up in Bryn Nefyn, North Wales, live the descendants of the covenant owner. The elderly sheep farmer and his aging hippy brother could use the money the hotel might offer. But along with their strong-willed American shepherdess, they laugh at Gordon’s attempts to negotiate a deal. Surely, they couldn’t use a covenant that’s been forgotten about for over a hundred years.

Or could they?

For lovers of upmarket commercial fiction with a touch of romance and comedy, The Approval of Sheep is an uplifting story about family and love, overcoming adversity and discovering our reason
for our place in this world.

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Karen Storey is an award-winning fiction writer, featured on the acclaimed book podcast The Bestseller Experiment. Her short stories have been placed in several international competitions, and her memoir pieces published within The New York Times bestselling Chicken Soup for the Soul series.
Originally from New York, Karen lives in Warwickshire and has written articles for American in Britain magazine. She lives with her husband, whose surname Storey was the perfect wedding gift. They share their home with a snarky cat who writes Karen’s monthly author newsletters and a crazy dog who barks at the wind.
The Approval of Sheep, a quirky uplifting book club read, is her first novel. You can find Karen on her website. 

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My thoughts: This was very entertaining, and features lots of sheep. Gordon wants to impress his boss and secure a promotion by buying off a Welsh sheep farmer whose family own an ancient right to drive sheep through the hotel where he works. Obviously this is a bit of a peculiar thing, and Gordon heads off to Wales to attempt to do a deal that will satisfy his boss, stop the farmer complaining and secure his future.

While in Wales he gets to know the family, the sheep and the land. He discovers that some things are more important than money and job titles, and that perhaps that world isn’t for him anymore. 

I liked Gordon, he’s a pretty nice man and just a bit lost in his own life, his relationships with the Priddys and their sheep, and especially his growing love affair with shepherdess Jenna is a delight and the moment when he bonds with sheep Molly and solves the issue of her head butting is sweet.

It’s a funny, heartwarming book with a sweet romance and a protagonist that deserves nice things.

Giveaway to Win a signed copy of The Approval of Sheep with bookmark (Open INT)


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Book Blitz: Darkling – Isabella Khalidi

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Darkling:  A Dark Arabian Romantasy Inspired by Aladdin

Author: Isabella Khalidi

Release Date: October 12, 2026
Arranged Marriage
Forced Proximity
Age Gap (he’s 45, she’s 28)
Only One Bed
He’s Very Possessive (she might kinda like it)
Desert Daddy with Desert Magic
Slowest of Slow Burns with a Big Payoff
“My Wife”
Touch Her & 💀
Burn the World for Her
Once upon a time, the Grand Vizier fell in love.

I have never believed in fate.

Fate is merely a convenient excuse used by people too weak to admit that they have surrendered control of their own lives. I built mine with cold precision. Kingdoms have fallen because I deemed them inconvenient. Men who once commanded armies learned to lower their eyes in my presence. Even the Sultan of Idris has long since forgotten the difference between ruling a kingdom and sitting upon its throne.

I was not given power. I took it.
And I have never regretted taking anything.

Until Nasrin.

The Sultan’s daughter was supposed to be nothing more than a useful piece on a board I had already mastered: a sheltered princess with a pretty face, a useless title, a nobody who lacked the understanding of the machinery of the court that surrounded her.

A wife in name.
A servant in practice.
A problem I would solve in time.

But I was wrong.

There is more to Nasrin than I first assumed. Beneath her composure lies a mind that refuses to bend, an inner strength I cannot break, and something else I cannot explain—something that awakens the ancient currents beneath the desert whenever she is near. The more I try to understand her, the less certain I become of anything.

My magic answers to her.
My instincts react to her.
And, most dangerously of all, I begin to want things that were never part of my plans.

Her loyalty.
Her presence beside me.
Her body beneath mine.

Her.

I have spent my life eliminating every weakness before it has the chance to become one. Yet Nasrin is no weakness I can simply remove.

She is the first thing I have ever wanted badly enough to destroy the world to keep.

And when my enemies discover exactly what she has become to me, they will learn a truth far more terrible than any legend ever told about the Grand Vizier of Idris:

I can survive the loss of a kingdom.
I can survive the loss of power.

But if anyone takes my wife from me, there will be nothing left for me to rule when I am finished with them.

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Intended for readers 18+. Dark themes, morally gray characters, and spice that earns every bit of the “vicious” in the series title.

Feral is part of The Vicious Villains Anthology, a shared-world series featuring interconnected stories by multiple authors.

Books in the Series:

Incarnate by Charlotte Mallory @cmalloryauthor
Feral by Cassandra Aston @cassandra.aston.author
Darkling by Isabella Khalidi @isabellakhalidiauthor
Timeless by Amber Bunch @amber.bunch_author
Delirium by Dawn Darling @dawndarlingauthor


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Book Blitz: Feral – Cassandra Aston

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Who’s ready for a dark, yearning-filled, fated-mates version of Little Red Riding Hood?

Feral by @cassandra.aston.author

Release Date: Oct 9th

Genre: Dark Fairytale Retelling
One sided enemies-to-lovers / captor-captive romance
Fated mate bond neither of them asked for
Possessive, unhinged reluctant alpha hero
Sharp-tongued fae princess with a secret bloodline
Forced proximity, one-bed tension, a blood oath he can’t break
Fairytale reimagining (Red Riding Hood)
Dark fantasy world of fae courts and shifter packs
Fully standalone HEA, with a door left open for more

Red was my prisoner.

Oh, I know. The irony isn’t lost on me.

It all began with an apple, a murdered queen, and a blood oath neither of us should have made.

Her grandmother is dead, and I got her out before whoever did it came back to finish the job. She doesn’t see it that way. She’s convinced I’m the killer, that I stole her the night I saved her life, and every proof I offer just makes her trust me less.

She thought I’d stolen her to claim her the way every man in her life eventually tries. I swore an oath to prove I hadn’t: I won’t touch her unless she asks.

I didn’t plan on the bond. I didn’t plan on falling for the one person in the kingdom who thinks I’m a murderer.

She was raised to be a crown, not a woman. I was raised to be a weapon, not a mate. She still thinks I’m the monster in this story. I’m not going anywhere until she stops believing it.

FERAL is a dark, fae-shifter romance: one-sided enemies-to-lovers, forced proximity, one bed, one bargain, and a hero who doesn’t ask twice. Interconnected standalone with a HEA you won’t stop thinking about.

Intended for readers 18+. Dark themes, morally gray characters, and spice that earns every bit of the “vicious” in the series title.

Feral is part of The Vicious Villains Anthology, a shared-world series featuring interconnected stories by multiple authors.

Books in the Series:

Incarnate by Charlotte Mallory
Feral by Cassandra Aston
Darkling by Isabella Khalidi
Timeless by Amber Bunch
Delirium by Dawn Darling

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Book Blitz: Incarnate – Charlotte Malory

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When the Villain has a Happy Ever After…

Incarnate (Vicious Villains Anthology Book One)

Author: Charlotte Mallory

Release Date: October 5, 2026

Tropes:
Clingy Demon King
Fated Mates
Gothic Underworld
Obsession/Yearning
Reincarnation Romance
What if demon kings had a heart, somewhere deep within? What if they were obsessive, possessive, and yearnful? Once upon a time, there existed such an entity, and he was not one to share what he deemed his…

My name is Penelope, and upon my death, I awoke in the Otherworld. I was processed as normal. Introduced to my new life. Told that I’d slowly forget my earthly memories… until I saw his painting. Kallúm, the demon king that we owe allegiance to.

His eyes followed me.

It was easy to ignore, assuming it was a facet of this world. Until I’m led to a deeply subterranean statue of him, where every newcomer makes an obligatory offering of fruit. His carved figure was surrounded by small, sweet, colorful signs of devotion–markings of every soul that had pledged allegiance before me, whether by reverence or by force. I placed mine at his feet, and his stone lids opened.

I can feel that he saw me.

Apparently, my soul has been here before, and he was hungry to catch me then. Now I’ve returned, except as far as I know, I’m just Penelope.

Come to me, tempest…


Book 1 of the Villainous Retellings Anthology, because why does the hero always get the happy ending?

Book 1 Incarnate Charlotte Mallory October 5, 2026
Book 2 Feral Cassandra Aston October 9, 2026
Book 3 Darkling Isabella Khalidi October 12, 2026
Book 4 Timeless Amber Bunch October 16, 2026
Book 5 Delirium Dawn Darling October 19, 2026

FULL STANDALONE, guaranteed HEA.

Please visit http://www.charlottemallory.com for trigger warnings… it does contain spice, graphic language, graphic depictions of battle, and being captured.

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Charlotte Mallory @cmalloryauthor
Cassandra Aston @cassandra.aston.author
Isabella Khalidi @isabellakhalidiauthor

Amber Bunch @amber.bunch_author
Dawn Darling @dawndarlingauthor

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Book Blitz: The Unravelling – Beronika Keres

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Title: The Unraveling

Author: Beronika Keres

Release date: October 2, 2026

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Genre: Gothic vampire horror, romantic tragedy

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Vampires do not get sick.

Thirty years ago, that was the promise Dr. Victor Todd made when he gifted Isla Davis the antidote to mortality, trading her terminal human life for an undying eternity at his side. But when Isla wakes disoriented and bloody beside a corpse she doesn’t recognize, their Victorian home becomes the stage for a claustrophobic nightmare.

Isla’s preserved body is now wracked by the violent return of human frailty. Her mind, once a fortress, is crumbling—weeks as Victor’s patient and decades as his wife collapsing into a fractured, bleeding present. And for the first time in over a century, Dr. Victor Todd has become a patient too.

Trapped in the maze of their own unraveling, as their memories slip through their fingers and the clock they thought they’d conquered begins to tick once more, Isla and Victor are left to face a devastating truth:
Eternity is fading one agonizing heartbeat at a time.

Tropes:
Gothic & Medical Horror
Romantic Tragedy
Victorian Vampire Doctor
Amnesia & Memory Loss
Doctor x Patient
Established Couple
Found Family

Triggers:
Graphic depictions of body horror, medical distress, violence, death and dying
Grief
Terminal Illness and Cancer

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Book Blitz: Tethered – Elayna R. Gallea

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Tethered (The Binding Chronicles Book One)

Release Date: September 8, 2026

Genre: Vampire Romantasy

Publisher: @randomhouseca

  • Arranged marriage
  • Extreme forced proximity
  • Morally grey vampire shadow daddy
  • He falls first
  • “My wife” are two of his favourite words
  • World’s worst MIL
  • Only one bed
  • Touch her and d1e

The first book in The Binding Chronicles, Tethered is a darkly seductive romantasy for fans of A Court of Thorns and Roses and The Serpent and the Wings of Night, blending forbidden love, dangerous magic and a bond that defies fate.

What could be worse than an arranged marriage to a vampire prince?

When Luna is sold into marriage to the vampire Prince of Darkness, she expects cruelty, not temptation. Prince Sebastian was made to obey his queen, even if that means binding himself to a mortal he doesn’t want and burying every trace of the humanity he lost centuries ago. But the moment their blood mingles during the Binding Ceremony, something ancient and forbidden ignites between them.

Now bound by a magic neither understands and incapable of going more than thirty feet apart, Luna and Sebastian are trapped in each other’s orbit—tethered but unwilling to surrender. As political schemes twist into betrayal and war brews on the horizon, desire becomes their greatest danger. Loving each other could cost them their crowns, their kingdoms and their lives.

Steeped in dark magic, aching passion and impossible choices, Tethered is a sweeping gothic romantasy about two enemies bound by fate and undone by love.

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Book Release Blitz: The Duchess Curse – Charlie Lane

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The Duchess Curse: A Spicy Historical Romantasy

Series: Alchemy of Desire

Release Date: August 31, 2026

  • Gaslamp fantasy
  • Hints of steampunk and witchery
  • Marriage in trouble
  • Spicy open door scenes
  • Love potion revenge
  • All the groveling
  • Women in magical STEM
  • Bridgerton meets magic
  • Standalone 

Shadows rule the darkness. She must embrace them to find the light.

A transcendent daughter’s life should be carefree, but Guinevere’s life has always been a curse. Loving any man could kill him, so she swears to remain a spinster. And when her parents force her into an arranged marriage, she knows the only way to save the mysterious duke she could love, is to break his heart by leaving.

No matter how much Guinevere pushes him away, the Duke of Braxton knows she’s the only woman for him. His magic allows him to hide his identity and follow her wherever she goes. As she cultivates the reputation of the most notorious potion maker in England, he abandons the role of duke for that of Guinevere’s bodyguard Bran.

Years later, a Queen’s command forces them to meet once more as man and wife, duke and duchess. But he can’t keep his secrets forever, and when Guinevere finds out Braxton and Bran are the same man…

He’ll do anything to atone.

And she’ll do anything to keep him safe, even break her own heart.

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  • On-page physical violence
  • Discussion of death
  • On-page emotional neglect of child
  • Discussion of child marriage
  • Discussion of substance abuse

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