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Blog Tour: Never Mine – Monique Shepherd

We’re celebrating the release of the highly anticipated sequel in the Never Never duet, Never Mine by Monique Shepherd!

Never Mine: A Forbidden Age-Gap College Romance

Series: The Never Never Duet Book 2

Release Date: November 10, 2025

  • Forbidden age-gap
  • Gothic Academia
  • K!nk exploration
  • Touch her & đź’€
  • A big F-U to the University President
  • Revenge
  • Feminine Rage
  • HEA

Kieran: They tried to take her from me. And I wasn’t there to stop him. I’ve walked through hell. But nothing—nothing—prepared me for the terror of almost losing her.

Now, she’s fighting to recover, and I’m battling the darkness inside of me, the need for revenge. I’ve killed for her once. I’ll do it again. This time, with her by my side.

I am no longer just her professor and she is more than just my student. We’ve crossed every line, broken every rule. But none of it matters now because all I care about is keeping her safe…even if it means becoming a man I don’t even recognize.

Deirdre: He saved me, but I don’t know how to save him from the rage burning in his eyes. He’s angry. Haunted. Ready to burn the world down to find the man who hurt me.

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Content Warning:

Mentions of Parental Loss to Cancer, Flashbacks of DV and SA, PTSD/Depression, Unaliving

Explicit sexual scenes: Edging, Orgasm Denial, Praise kink, Breath play, Kink exploration, Impact play.

Vulgar language is expressed throughout the book and possibly more not mentioned here.

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Cover Reveal: The Scholar’s Gambit – Twyla Menezes

Today we have a title and cover reveal for The Scholar’s Gambit by Twyla Menezes! This debut will blur all kinds of your favorite genres so make sure to add it to your TBR!

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The Scholars Gambit: A Maple Ridge Duet

Genre: Dark Academia/ New Adult

  • Drama
  • High-stakes
  • Betrayal
  • Friendships
  • Banter
  • Growth/healing
  • Academic Rivals
  • Dual POV
  • College town/University setting
  • Set in the 1950’s

SCHOLARS. JOURNALISTS. RIVALS.

At the prestigious Maple Ridge University, journalism majors Sienna Hensley and Dexter Pearce compete for an elusive scholarship that transforms their one-time partnership into a cutthroat academic rivalry. Their futures are on the line, risking everything they’ve worked for to claim the ultimate prize. As tensions rise, so do the stakes, leading to a chaotic spiral of sabotage, fiery arguments, and unexpected consequences. In this gripping tale of ambition and betrayal, the battle for success becomes a high-stakes game with no clear winner.

Who will ascend to the top, and who will be forced back into a life they never desired?

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Blog Tour: A Study in Survival – W.H. Lockwood

Welcome the book tour for the second installment in the Endymion College trilogy, A Study in Survival by W.H. Lockwood!

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A Study in Survival (Endymion College #2)

Expected Publication Date: October 27th 2022

Genre: Cozy Horror Romance/ Dark Academia

She survived the spirit. She survived the demon. She survived term one.

Winter at Endymion College should mean only good things for Anna James: books, best friends, and studying Gothic Literature under the most handsome professor Anna has ever laid eyes on. Unfortunately, just as she prepares to relax and enjoy her very hard-earned place at this coveted university, an impossibly dashing stranger arrives to turn everything upside down.

Suddenly, Anna finds herself caught in a life-or-death struggle against a fiendish new supernatural assailant, and with explosive revelations and closely held secrets forced out into the open, a tragic history comes back to haunt Anna and her friends.

Knife skills and friendships will be put to the test as enemies, both human and paranormal, work to destroy everything Anna has fought to build.

Can Anna get to the bottom of her haunted apartment mystery and resist the eerily familiar charms of a gorgeous new interloper, all while trying to keep herself and her friends alive? Or will she and those she holds dearest be torn apart by a new kind of evil?

Equally as gothic, just as romantic, even more dangerous, packed full of ghost stuff and demon stuff, Endymion College 2: A Study in Survival is the inappropriately-amusing, cosy-horror sequel you’ve been waiting for. It’s time to enrol.

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W.H. Lockwood writes feminist gothic and historical fiction, dark academia and cosy horror, all with a romantic twist.

Raised on a diet of Point books and Pepsi, only willing to leave her den to attend chess club at public school, W.H. Lockwood started writing at a young age and has kept this passion throughout her life.

Always a voracious reader, she obtained an undergraduate degree in literary studies from a gorgeous sandstone university, following that with a master’s degree in publishing and editing, then another master’s degree in astronomy, thus uniting her two great loves of the arts and science, leaving her utterly unqualified to cope with the real world.

These days, W.H. Lockwood works as a professional editor and can often be found aimlessly wandering through the coffee shops and bookstores of the beautiful city she calls home.

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My thoughts: we’re back at Endymion College for a second term, and while Anna is getting to grips with her relationship with Eve and her insane jealousy, making a new friend in Percy and reading a lot of books (oh I remember that from my undergrad days, so many books!) new danger is coming, because of course it is.

Dark, funny, clever and entertaining. I think I actually liked this even more than book 1 as the characters are more rounded and bedded in. They know themselves and each other a bit better but when new horrors show up, Anna needs to depend on her wits and the skills she picked up last time to survive. I think I would have transferred schools by now!

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Book Bargain Today Only!! AUTUMN OF THE GRIMOIRE link in post!!

Autumn of the Grimoire (Sisters Solstice Series #1)

Publication Date: September 22, 2022

Genre: Gothic Fantasy/ Dark Fantasy Romance

Publisher: Phantom House Press

Some witches cast spells. Others slay kings.

A mysterious Grimoire. A marriage full of dark secrets. A History sculpted by a quartet of ancient Sister witches.

For three hundred years, Sister Autumn has incited wars, burnt villages, killed kings, and released plagues at the bidding of the Grimoire. Meanwhile, her Sister Winter, Sister Spring, and Sister Summer have brought forth only peace.

When an Order from the Grimoire sends Agatha to the Kingdom of Merveille, she already anticipates the worst. Unless she wants to face the wrath of the Goddess, Agatha must keep her head down and do as she’s commanded.

But when the Grimoire Orders her to marry a pompous prince and play the role of a peasant “accepted” by vicious aristocrats, she finds herself at the center of a war between the classes and an age-old prophecy.

Within the court, many players harbor dark secrets—including her new husband. With her newfound influence, Agatha joins forces with the city’s Blacklisted in order to blur the lines between the common man and the elite, unravel the mysteries in her marriage, and decide once and for all if she will defy the Grimoire and face the brutal consequences.

As secrets unfold, will Agatha continue to slay on behalf of the Grimoire, or forge an uncharted History with her unlikely allies?

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