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Book Blitz: American Graveyard – Dale Zawada

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We have something to get you into the spooky spirit! American Graveyard by Dale Zawada is now available!

American Graveyard

Publication Date: September 13, 2024

Genre: Horror/Anthology

American Graveyard is a six-story horror anthology from award-winning screenwriter Dale Zawada.

The six twisted morality tales range in tone and subgenre from supernatural to splatterpunk, and shine a light on the not-so-hidden horrors of suburbia, the American Graveyard.

The Lake Monster: Denny Rose is an actor, at least that’s what he tells people. After his failed Hollywood experiment ends, he returns home to care for his ailing grandfather, who is acting stranger than usual.

When You Wish: This depraved retelling of Pinocchio follows a mourning father suffering a psychotic break over the loss of his son who wants nothing more than his boy back, and he’ll make that happen no matter what.

Cat Scratch Fever: Catherine Martino has always skated through life off her good looks, but when the vain young woman develops a mysterious rash, her comfortable life is altered forever. This skin-crawling morality tale is based on a true story.

Flight Simulator of the Gods: When Tyler learns his flight simulator impacts the reality around him, the high school bully becomes a god overnight, taking revenge on the people he feels wronged him.

Elf Off the Shelf: When six-year-old Jason sneaks downstairs on Christmas morning, the elf on the shelf goes rogue to punish the impatient, naughty child. Will Santa Claus make it in time, or will Jason make the ultimate naughty list?

The Darkest Thoughts: Megan’s life was perfect. She had her dream job and the perfect husband in Luke. Their intense love is tested when a detective from Luke’s past appears, and as his violent history is revealed, Megan must choose between the man she loves and doing what’s right.

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Book Blitz: Vicious Luna – C.J. Primer

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Happy release day and congrats to author C.J. Primer! Get your copy of Vicious Luna and visit our Instagram page for a chance to win a book box!

Vicious Luna: An Enemies to Lovers Wolf Shifter Romance (Shadowed Heirs Book Four)

Publication Date: September 17, 2024

Genre: PNR/ Shifters

  • Fated Mates
  • PNR (Wolf Shifters)
  • Enemies to Lovers
  • Forced Proximity
  • Hostage Situation
  • Strong FMC who takes no shit
  • Morally grey MMC
  • Primal play
  • Secrets & Lies

I usually dance on bars, not find myself waking up behind them.

I’m in a cell, captured by the enemy that has been hunting my kind for the past decade. They’re holding me hostage to use for leverage in their sick extermination effort, forcing me to live through my worst nightmare and subjecting me to unspeakable horrors. While a lesser woman would give up, I’ll stop at nothing to find a way to escape this place, even if it means crossing a few lines.

The guy who’s keeping me under lock and key is stone cold, but there’s no mistaking the way he looks at me. As much as he hates himself for it, he wants me, and that’s something I can work with.

Little by little, I’ll let him get closer. I’ll make him believe I’m playing his game while setting a honey trap he can’t help but get caught in. He’ll think he’s breaking me down, but I’ll just be biding my time, waiting for an opening to shove a knife in his back and set myself free.

There’s only one problem with my plan, though…

There’s a fine line between love and hate.

Vicious Luna is book four in the Shadowed Heirs series, a collection of paranormal romance novels centered around a group of aligned packs of wolf shifters. These books contain mature content (steamy scenes!), frequent use of profanity, and darker themes. While each book in the series concludes with a HEA for the main couple featured, there are some loose ends concerning the overarching storyline that runs throughout the entire five-book series. This book can be enjoyed as a standalone. The first three books in the series are available on KU.

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TRIGGERS:

This book contains darker themes that may be triggering for some readers. Possible triggers include, but are not limited to: bullying, kidnapping, hostage situation, emotional blackmail, manipulation, dubious consent, rough sex, primal play, graphic violence, blood, gore, use of firearms, death, threat of sexual assault (not between MCs), anxiety, depression, and thoughts of self-harm. I have tried to handle all of these with care, and this story WILL have a happy ending. It’s just a rough road to get there, but if anyone can go through hell and come out stronger on the other side, it’s Avery. I hope you enjoy her story.

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Book Blitz: Becoming Carly Klein – Elizabeth Harlan

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This new release will have you wrapped up in the nostalgia of youth! Check out Becoming Carly Klein by Elizabeth Harlan!

Becoming Carly Klein: A Novel

Publication Date: September 17, 2024

Genre: YA/ Contemporary Young Adult/ Coming-of-Age

Fans of contemporary coming-of-age young adult fiction will root for Carly Klein as she fights to find her place in the world—even if she has to lie to everyone in her life to get there.

Neglected by self-absorbed parents who wind up divorcing by the time she’s sixteen, Carly Klein is sustained by her best friend, Lauren. But when Lauren and her family move away, Carly is forced to find new ways to entertain herself. It doesn’t take her long to locate the perfect subject: her therapist mother’s patients.

Carly soon becomes obsessed with one patient in particular—Daniel, a blind junior at Columbia College—and, desperate to become part of his life and knowing he’ll never go for a high school girl, gets close to him by pretending to be a student at neighboring Barnard College. Becoming Carly Klein follows Carly on a roller coaster romp through the exhilaration and disappointment of first love—and the unintended consequences of disguise, deception, and discovery.

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Book Blitz: The Book of Cin  – H.M. Wolfe

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We’re celebrating the upcoming release of the stunning romantic fantasy, The Book of Cin by H.M. Wolfe! 

The Book of Cin

Expected Publication Date: September 14, 2024

Genre: Romantic Fantasy

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  • Touch her and die
  • Found family
  • Lovers to enemies
  • Forced proximity
  • Secret identity
  • Hidden magic
  • Orphans
  • Dragons
  • Real politics
  • Mental health & PTSD representation
  • Slow burn
  • Open door spice

IF YOU BELIEVE IN THE GODS, PRAY NOW. THEIR PROTECTION ENDS HERE.

At Asrai’s Academy for Orphans, Hyacinth stands at a crossroads. Torn between the safety of the only home she has ever known and leaving it all behind for a chance at a new life—for freedom. But when a mysterious messenger appears, whispering rumors of a God among Fae, everything Hyacinth thought she knew about the Realms comes crashing down.

Thrust into a deadly game of power and greed, Hyacinth discovers dormant magic within her that may hold the key to survival—or mark her for death. With her friends beside her, Hyacinth must navigate through murderous realms of vicious creatures, lethal betrayals and prophecies of old.

Secrets unravel, bonds are tested, and romance decays and blossoms amidst the looming promise of war. As alliances shift and enemies close in, her only hope lies in reaching the fabled safe haven of Locdragoon—but reaching it may cost her everything she loves.

“The Book of Cin” is a high fantasy tale of love, loss, and the enduring power of friendship. Embark on an epic adventure where courage meets destiny—and magic, sacrifice, and hope are the threads that bind us.

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Book Blitz: All Shook Up – Enid Langbert

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This YA debut speaks to the continued interest in the teen culture of the 1950s—Elvis Presley, teenage rebellion—with a young girl embarking on adventure and music, ultimately uncovering family secrets.

All Shook Up: A Novel

Publication Date: September 10, 2024

Genre: Young Adult

Being fourteen is especially hard in 1956, when the world is changing around you. Honor student Paula Levy was born into a family of historical victims: her mother’s youth was lost in the Depression and her father’s was destroyed in the Holocaust, an as-yet-unnamed event about which no one speaks. But Paula has heard the new music taking hold of the nation—rock and roll—and it has given her hope. And she has two friends to get her through life’s ups and downs: Holden Caulfield, hero of Catcher in the Rye, who shares her view of the world, and Barbara, a “cool” girl in her high school who unexpectedly shares Paula’s view of Holden.

Paula’s mother is not a fan of Barbara, and she prohibits her daughter from associating with her. Paula manages to get around her mother’s rule and see Barbara anyway—but when Paula asks the wrong questions about her father’s past and Barbara is caught with her “boyfriend,” their private world of Holden, rock, and Elvis Presley crumbles. Angry with the adults in their lives, the two girls run away to find Barbara’s real father, a jazz musician. Disappointingly, he does not live in a mansion or socialize with Elvis—but Paula and Barbara may find something even better.

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Book Blitz: Secrets of the Unborn – CH Lyn

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Secrets of the Unborn: The Leader & the Rebel Duology by CH Lyn & Tracey Barski is now available!

Secrets of the Unborn: The Leader & the Rebel Duology by CH Lyn & Tracey Barski

War of the Unborn by C.H. Lyn
They were created to end the decades-long war. But what happens when the war is over?

Tropes:

  • One-bed
  • Nightmares
  • Revenge arc
  • Found family.
  • Animosity to lovers
  • Badass FMC
  • Second-chance romance

The war is over.

Decades of strife and ruin brought to a close through the use of Unborn—super soldiers created with more strength and stamina than the average man could fathom.
For Jamie, life after the war is mundane: fight nights in the evenings bloodying her knuckles against the jaws of fellow Unborn, and construction work during the day clearing out ruined sections of a once-great city.

There’s not much to complain about. She has a roof over her head, a sister by her side, and sometimes enough food to fill her belly.
So when Oliver, an old flame and a fellow Unborn, arrives with devastating news about their people, Jamie is reluctant to get involved. This darkness, this plague of horror affecting the engineered soldiers, has nothing to do with her.

Until it does.

Jamie has always known loss, but not like this.
With a shadow looming over her people, and her sister’s life on the line, she joins Oliver on a trek across a crumbling country that neither trusts them as people nor accepts them as citizens.

The clock is ticking, the secret behind the darkness is unfolding, and Jamie’s staunch refusal to care about Oliver again is put to the test.

Unborn Rising by Tracey Barski

They were created to end the decades-long war. But what happens when the war is over?

Tropes:

  • Grumpy/grumpy
  • Slow-burn romance
  • Man vs machine
  • Animosity to lovers
  • Kick ass FMC
  • Found family

Victoria has only ever been one thing: a warrior. Scientifically designed to be perfect in every way, she was enhanced for optimal precision in war, the model Silver—a leader until the end.
But after the war, Vic and her people, the Unborn, return to a society that’s in shambles, and the last thing the worn-out population wants is more mouths to feed.

As tensions and prejudices mount, the effort to carve out a life for themselves becomes a fight for survival when Vic’s entire village is annihilated and she’s the only one to make it out.
She seeks shelter from an old war buddy, discovering that trust is hard-won among the group of Unborn and Organics she finds—for her and her new community. Especially with the safe haven’s enigmatic leader. Feelings surface despite their mutual suspicion, putting Vic’s staunch adherence to protocol on shaky ground.

When she learns a secret that changes everything about who she is and what is happening to her people, she and her new allies work to find the key to freeing her fellow Unborn before they become victims to their programming.

Corruption is revealed, lives are put in danger, and everything comes down to one question: what does it mean to be human?

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Book Blitz: If I Had a Heart – Ariella Isabella

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If you like you romance on the dark side, then you are going to want to read If I had a Heart by Ariella Isabella! Read the content warnings carefully before diving in!

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If I Had a Heart (Hawthorne Duology #1)

Publication Date: August 13, 2024

Genre: Dark Romance

“For fans of Haunting Adeline, Silence of the Lambs and Dexter”

  • Age-Gap
  • Serial Unaliver
  • Stalker
  • Terminal Illness
  • City Life in Boston
  • Guaranteed HEA at End of Duology

“How long have you been running, little rabbit?”

Ever Knight had been racing towards death her entire life, her feet pounding against the floors of psychiatric institutes and hospitals across Boston. From a very young age, she was haunted by depression, and despite numerous attempts to escape its grip, it always pulled her back. When her doctor delivers the news that she has less than a year to live, the allure of death begins to fade. To make matters worse, her history of substance abuse and depression disqualifies her from the transplant list for a new heart. Poetic, in a darkly ironic way, but Ever preferred thrillers to tragedies. She never expected to be cornered by a dark-eyed doctor on a cold Boston night, offering her a chance at life, but at what cost?

Doctor Theron Hawthorne, a renowned surgeon by day and a black-market organ harvester by night, leads a double life. As a member of a lineage of hunters, he takes criminals off the streets and gives their organs to patients denied transplants, free of charge. Why? It satiates his bloodlust, for one. When Theron finds Ever outside the hospital, consumed by self-grief, he sees something he has been searching for his entire life—a voice to call back to him in the void.

If I Had a Heart is the first book in the Hawthorne Duology, a Harvester novel. Fans of Haunting Adeline, Silence of the Lambs and Dexter might also enjoy this dark stalker romance.

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CWs:
  • Assault
  • Binding
  • Self-Harm
  • Attempted Suicide
  • Substance Abuse
  • Psychiatric Institutes / Institutionalization
  • Somnophilia (Nonconsensual)
  • Spreading of Bodily Fluids
  • Dubious Consent
  • Alluding to Past Sexual Assault while underaged
  • Description of Past Domestic Violence
  • Mentions of Past Child Abuse and Assault
  • Attempted Sexual Assault (Not between FMC & MMC)
  • Improper Use of Medical Equipment
  • Stalking
  • Chronic Illness
  • Terminal Illness
  • Abuse of a Cadaver
  • Forced Self-Cannibalization
  • Drugging
  • Prey Play
  • Kidnapping
  • Organ Harvesting
  • Knife Play
  • Blood Play
  • Tasting Blood
  • Breeding Kink
  • Masturbation
  • Consensual Marking with a Knife

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Book Blitz: The Book of Lost Enchantments – Jessica Dodge

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The Book of Lost Enchantments by Jessica Dodge is now available for pre-order. When you do purchase a copy early, you’ll receive all kinds of bookish swag!

The Book of Lost Enchantments

Expected Publication Date: October 8, 2024

Genre: NA Fantasy/ Magic

At twenty-nine, Nora Cameron’s life feels adrift, her days are spent working in her parents’ bakery, and her nights are spent alone watching Hallmark movies. She yearns for something beyond her predictable existence, though she has no idea what that might be. That is, until fate intervenes, and Nora is swept into an unforeseen adventure to Scotland.

Guided by her grandmother’s cherished photo album from the 1940s, which documents her time spent as a medic-nurse in Scotland during World War II, Nora stumbles upon a mysterious old bookstore in Edinburgh. There, amidst the smell of old books and shelves lined with relics of forgotten lore, Nora’s eyes fall upon a peculiar little red book. As she delves into its pages, strange and unexplainable events unfold, including a sudden snowstorm that strands her in the Highlands with a handsome but surly journalist named Alistair.

Snowed in and at odds with one another, Nora and Alistair struggle to get along. With little else to do but tend the fire, Nora immerses herself in the red book’s tale of a young woman from centuries past, on a quest to save her grandmother and resist the pull she feels toward a dashing but aloof son of a Scottish Duke.

As the days pass, stranded in the cabin, Nora discovers a box of letters with an eerie connection to her grandmother’s past, uncovering a family secret buried deep in time. As the weather worsens and their supplies dwindle, bizarre events begin to escalate. With Alistair’s help, Nora starts to unravel the mystery, but what she uncovers not only threatens to fracture her idea of reality but may place her and Alistair in mortal danger.

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Book Blitz: Rise Tomorrow Girl – Cara Martin

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This one ticks all the boxes for readers who love dystopian tales about cryogenics, killer viruses, and radical invaders! Check out Rise, Tomorrow Girl by Cara Martin!

Rise, Tomorrow Girl

Genre: Science Fiction/ Dystopian

Publication Date: June 21, 2024

In the near future seventeen-year-old Canadian Leanne Khoury watches a second twenty-first century global pandemic—this one highly fatal in young adults—steal the life of her best friend. When Leanne is stricken ill too her affluent parents have her cryogenically frozen in a facility performing experimental procedures. Reanimated and cured of virus years later, Leanne isn’t the same. Her awareness intermittently ‘disconnects’, stalling her body and mind. But it’s more than that. Snatches of memories from evolutionary ancestors bleed through her consciousness, leaving her feeling as unnatural as Frankenstein’s monster on the inside.

Over a billion people perished during the pandemic, decimating a generation, and when Leanne’s released from the cryo facility she struggles to integrate into a Canada and world that has technologically and socially moved on without her. Although the virus is no longer a threat, Leanne is far from safe. In the United States organized extremists threaten legitimate government, regularly committing attacks on U.S. soil. Then radical American expansionist soldiers invade parts of Canada and Leanne, along with others not accepted by the radical invaders, must fight for her survival.

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About the Author

Cara Martin is the author of several acclaimed novels for young people published under the name C. K. Kelly Martin, including a middle grade sci-fi, multiple contemporary YAs, a sci-fi duology set in 2063 and the 1980s, and an emotionally-charged ghost story. Four of these books received starred reviews and two were shortlisted for the Canadian Library Association’s Young Adult Book Award. Her young adult horror, Shantallow, published under the name Cara Martin, was long-listed for the 2020 Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic and was an Ottawa Book Awards fiction finalist. Booklist described Shantallow as “serious, literary and very scary” and Kirkus called it “gut-wrenching on various levels.”

A graduate of the Film Studies program at York University, Cara has lived in the Greater Toronto Area and Dublin, Ireland. Within the space of 3500 miles she’s worked a collection of quirky jobs at multiple pubs and video stores, an electricity company, a division of the Irish post office, a London toyshop, and an advertising analytics company. She’s also been an image editor for a dot-com startup that didn’t survive the 90s, and a credit note clerk for Canada’s largest national distributor of General Merchandise.

These days Cara’s busy writing fiction about malicious hauntings and the mysterious future, wondering what if . . . She currently resides in Ottawa with her husband and is still afraid of the Child Catcher from the film adaptation of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.

CARA MARTIN

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Book Blitz: Viper’s Bloodline Awakened – Winnifred Talaw

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Looking for a new series?

We’re celebrating the release of The Viper’s Bloodline which is the final book in the The Gods’ Scion series! No waiting. Read them all now!

The Viper’s Bloodline Awakened (Completed Series)

Now Available

Genre: Fantasy

  • The chosen one (in this case, 4)
  • Dark lord
  • Magic
  • The anti-hero
  • The Secret heir

In the thrilling 5th installment of the Gods’ Scion series, brace yourself for Rodrick’s and Arcelia’s new journey that will leave you breathless and yearning for more!

Snakes slither into the forefront as betrayals and curses unravel long-held family mysteries. The battle between Rodrick and Arcelia’s royal families reaches new heights, with struggles of power, magic, and, hopefully, loss. More of Rodrick’s family secrets rise to the surface and begin to shake the very foundations of loyalty he and his siblings once held.

And with every new revelation, Arcelia begins to doubt who she can trust and believe more and more. She will now have to delve deeper into the darkness that lurks within mortals and deities alike to save the ones she holds dear–even if it kills her.

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