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Blog Tour: The Dragon Stone – Lauren H. Salisbury

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We’re celebrating the release of The Dragon Stone this week with a tour! If you enjoy fairytale retellings, this is a must read!

The Dragon Stone (Tales of Tyrrath Book 2)

Release Date: February 10, 2026

Genre: Fantasy Romance/ Fairytale Retelling

  • Allies to More
  • Hidden Identities
  • He falls First
  • One Wardrobe
  • Grumpy/Sunshine
  • Banter and Mayhem
  • “I’m Not Going Anywhere”

She’s looking for a cure… but will finding it heal her heart or break it?

Jocelyn Dalbot has spent the last two years supporting her sister’s rule while longing to escape the suffocating confines of palace life. When they discover their father is not ill but under a sleeping curse, she sets out to find a magical dragon stone with the power to restore him to health.
Unfortunately, the stone has been lost to the ages, and only a few scribbled notes in the margins of an ancient text provide a clue to its whereabouts. She ventures south, where she meets Theo, an enigmatic stranger who appears whenever she is most in need and also seems to be searching for the stone.
With war brewing and hidden parties working against them, Jocelyn must decide what she values most before the dragon stone, and her chance at happiness, is lost forever.

The Dragon Stone is a closed door fantasy romance inspired by The Hare and The Tortoise.

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Blog Tour: Reverie – KC Rainey

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We’re celebrating the release of Reverie this week with a tour! Grab your copy today!

Reverie

Release Date: February 10, 2026

Genre: Fairytale Retelling

  • Fated Mates
  • Found Family
  • Fairytale Retelling
  • Banter
  • Star-Crossed Lovers
  • Yearning Tension
  • Slow Burn
  • Hidden Identity

In the quiet, sea-swept town of Mentaria, Lumi runs a cozy apothecary, surrounded by loving friends who’ve become family. Her days are simple, gentle, and full of purpose.

Until the evening she finds the book.
Bound in silver, the book feels wrong.

Its pages are blank to all but her and once Lumi begins to read, the world she knows begins to shift.

Through mist and mysteries no one else seems to notice.
Tremors in the ground. People whispered to be missing, but no one recalls where they went or if they were ever real at all. Lumi believe she is going crazy.

As the veil lifts, Lumi realizes her perfect life may have been nothing more than a beautiful lie, and the book may be the key to unraveling everything…or to trap her somewhere far darker.

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Book Blitz: Souls We Rip – DMR

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While he walks the Earth for centuries, she will be his ripper. While he falls in love with her, she will be his downfall…

Here’s a sneak peak at a soon to be released dark fantasy by author D MR. You’re going to want to add this one to your TBR!

Souls We Rip

Expected Release Date: February 24th

Genre: Dark Fantasy

  • Beauty and the Beast (not a retelling)
  • Redemption Through Love
  • Forced Proximity
  • Deal with the Devil
  • Redemption Arc
  • Romanian folklore/culture
  • Religious themes

Romania, the countryside.

In a small village, where houses are spread, where you talk with your neighbour by yelling over a hill, Ana meets the creature from a long-lost story on the night of The Girls Fair.

When she offers her soul in exchange of her father’s, she signs for more than one year of servitude for the infamous Goat Men.

While he walks the Earth for centuries, she will be his ripper.

While he falls in love with her, she will be his downfall.
Let the ripping begin.

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TW: This book contains scenes where the characters are mentally and physically abused, fighting scenes, mention of blood, death

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Cover Reveal: Rose Red Undead – Vic Sinclair

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We’re thrilled to present the cover for the next installment in the Fablenoir series, Rose Red Undead by Vic Sinclair!

Rose Red Undead (Fablenoir #2)
Expected Release Date: Early 2026
Genre: Dark Fairytale/ Urban Fantasy

Tropes: Morally gray characters, sapphic romance, coming-of-age, antiheroes, dark fairy tale retellings, grimdark undertones, multiple POVs, urban fantasy with epic scope, hidden worlds, found family

After descending into the terrifying underbelly of magickal New York and uncovering unspeakable crimes, Detective Jackson Slade and the fierce outlaw Goldilocks must face a whole new level of death and destruction festering from a strange world below the earth.

Meanwhile in Los Angeles, an orphan nicknamed Snow White reunites with her black-winged guardian angel Lucifer as he appears during her shift in the night cafe. When the archangel convinces Snow her magickal abilities are needed to stop the darkness consuming New York City, harrowing memories are brought to the surface as she’s forced to face the demonic creatures from her past.

As paths of chaos cross and uncertain alliances are tested, the reanimated sorceress known as Rose Red stands at the center of a decaying world, leaving utter destruction in her wake.

With the wolves closing in and the butchered bodies piling high, it’s up to Jack, Goldilocks, and Snow to try and put an end to this nightmare of a fairy tale.

Read Fablenoir while you wait! Get it on Amazon!

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Book one – blog tour coming soon…


Triggers: Drug addiction, kidnapping, allusion to sexual assault, themes of human trafficking, body horror, injury detail, alcoholism, emotional abuse


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Cover Reveal: Reverie – K.C. Rainey

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How beautiful is this cover?

We’re thrilled to present Reverie by, a stunning fairytale retelling by K.C. Rainey!

You can pre-order now for only $0.99 (only till release day)!

Reverie

Expected Release Date: February 10, 2026

Genre: Fairytale Retelling

Cover designer: @moridi_art

  • Fated Mates
  • Found Family
  • Fairytale Retelling
  • Banter
  • Star-Crossed Lovers
  • Yearning Tension
  • Slow Burn
  • Hidden Identity

In the quiet, sea-swept town of Mentaria, Lumi runs a cozy apothecary, surrounded by loving friends who’ve become family. Her days are simple, gentle, and full of purpose.

Until the evening she finds the book.
Bound in silver, the book feels wrong.

It’s pages are blank to all but her and once Lumi begins to read, the world she knows begins to shift.

Through mist and mysteries no one else seems to notice.
Tremors in the ground. People whispered to be missing, but no one recalls where they went or if they were ever real at all. Lumi believe she is going crazy.

As the veil lifts, Lumi realizes her perfect life may have been nothing more than a beautiful lie, and the book may be the key to unraveling everything…or to trap her somewhere far darker.

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Blog Tour: Beyond the Border Forest – Molly Haniszewski

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Welcome to the tour for Beyond the Border Forest by Molly Haniszewski. Read on for more deets on this gorgeous Snow White retelling!

Beyond the Border Forest: Into the Prawdziwy Las

Series: The Immortal Seasons Cycle Book 1

Expected Release Date: September 30, 2025

Genre: LGBTQIA+ Snow White Retelling

🍄 Fairytale retelling
🌈 Queer Rep
❤ Plus Size Heroine
🌲 Enchanted Forest
💙 Trans Love Interest
😂 Hilarious Banter
🦌 Slavic Folklore
☕ Studio Ghibli Vibes
💪🏻 Unlikely Heroes
🩷 Sapphic Romance
🌟 Riddles
❄ Seasonal/Elemental Magic

Two kings rule the ancient woods—the Oak King in summer, the Holly King in winter—and no mortal may cross into their realm without leave. But when eighteen-year-old Rowan Gwózdek’s sister vanishes, Rowan defies the old laws and enters the forbidden forest, desperate to find her. She isn’t alone for long. Keziah, a trans (and very handsome) hunter with a shadowy tie to the Oak King, offers his help—and a perilous path to the Bear Maiden, a creature said to grant wishes. Together, Rowan and Keziah face mossmen, a wood dragon, and other servants of the forest kings.

But danger lurks deeper still. Caught between the warring Oak and Holly Kings, Rowan is forced to take sides in a battle far older and fiercer than she ever imagined. Saving her sister could cost her everything—including her way home.

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Content warnings:

  • Queerphobia
  • Transphobia
  • Child abuse (emotional, light physical to adult child)
  • Fantasy violence

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Cover Reveal: Beneath the Silvern Pond – M.A. Brown

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We’re proud to present the cover for Beneath The Silvern Pond, a dark Frog Prince reimagining by M.A. Brown!

Beneath The Silvern Pond (A Pennies Worth Of Dread Book 2)

Expected Release Date: November 28, 2025

Genre: Dark Fantasy/ Novella/ Fairy Tales

Cover Artist: @julsiji

Beneath the Silvern Pond is a dark summer Frog Prince, reimagining that is eerie, sweet and slightly spicy.

Lucrecia is expected to attract a wealthy suitor whose money can save her family from ruin… but what happens when she becomes obsessed with the creature living in the pond instead?

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Book Blitz: Unseen – Christy Healy

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Happy publication day to author Christy Healy and congratulations on the release of Unseen!

Unseen

Release Date: Aug 26, 2025

Genre: Dark Fantasy/ Fairy Tale Retelling

Fans of For the Throne and Vespertine will love this dark fairy-tale retelling of the Irish fable of ‘The Snow, The Crow, and the Blood,’ about a desperate young queen who makes a dangerous alliance with the dangerous lord of death in order to protect the one she loves, even if it means damning herself.

Riona Ó Conchúir has known death her whole life. The mysterious lord of death has tormented her for years, stealing away the souls of all those she has loved since childhood, demanding that she come and serve him in his shadowy realm, but she has always resisted – until now.

When her daughter falls ill with an incurable disease, Riona at last answers the lord of death’s call and ventures into the hidden realm of the sídhe to offer herself as a servant to him in exchange for her daughter’s life. But when he demands that she use the divine magic of her blood to find three legendary objects of power that were once wielded by the gone gods themselves, Riona soon realizes that she will be forced to make an impossible choice:

Her daughter’s life, or the realm of Éire itself.

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Unseen is an adult fantasy novel that deals with mature themes and issues, including:

  • Frequent depictions of death/loss of loved one
  • Violence and descriptions of blood
  • Chronic illness of child/threatened death of a child
  • Discussions of grief and depression

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Cover Reveal: Slumber Nevermore – R.J. Garcia

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Unravel seven suspenseful and chilling tales of mystery, fantasy, and murder. Pre-order Slumber Nevermore today!

Slumber Nevermore

Expected Publication Date: December 4, 2024

Genre: Short Stories/ Supernatural/ Horror/ Dark Fiction

Publisher: @midnighttidepublishing

In ‘The Stolen Child,’ Mae returns to her family’s cabin in a mysterious forest to search for her sister, who vanished without a trace. One night, she drifts to sleep in bed only to awaken in the depths of the woods, surrounded by eerie, indiscernible voices. She now faces the daunting task of finding her missing sister while struggling to escape the forest’s grasp.

A young man unexpectedly inherits his estranged grandfather’s secluded house in ‘Ping.’ Eager to make the place his own, he installs a doorbell camera for security. However, instead of peace of mind, he finds himself bombarded with unsettling notifications from unwelcome and ominous visitors.

‘The Axeman Among Us’ takes us back to 1918 and is inspired by true events. Two young Italian boys catch a chilling glimpse of the infamous Axeman of New Orleans fleeing a neighbor’s home following a brutal attack. In a desperate bid to prevent further bloodshed, the boys delve into the mystique of Voodoo in the French Quarter.

From murder to cannibalistic clans, immortal beings who siphon youth, and even a fairy or two, Slumber Nevermore is a collection of dark and twisty tales sure to keep you up at night.

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Cover Reveal: Fathomless – Laura Holt

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We’re thrilled to present the brand-new cover for Laura Holt’s fairy tale retelling, Fathomless, which is also available for pre-order!

Fathomless (Star-Crossed Book 5)

Expected Publication Date: October 29, 2024

Genre: Fairy Tale Retelling/ Greek Mythology

  • Enemies to Lovers
  • Lovers to Enemies
  • Star-Crossed Love
  • Fairy Tale Retelling
  • Strong Female Characters
  • Cinderella Didn’t Ask for a Prince
  • Angry Girls with Attitude
  • Greek Mythology

Cather Ganis didn’t ask for power. Now that her star-crossed curse is broken, all she wants is to settle down and live a quiet, normal life with her husband, Peter.
Unfortunately, things are never normal when you’re an immortal goddess, and as the Curse Breaker and Deity Killer of the gods, Cather has one more curse to break: the curse of reincarnation cast on Rhodopis, Cupid’s long-lost Cinderella. She and a bevy of other deities, including her former boyfriend Hermes, have until the clock strikes midnight on Rhodopis’s eighteenth birthday to end her never ending life cycle, or she’ll be doomed to repeat it until the end of time. That is, if Zeus doesn’t kill her first.

Roupie Sole has always been trouble.
Not because she means to be. Trouble just seems to find her no matter where she goes. So, when she moves in with a wealthy foster family a week before her eighteenth birthday, it seems like she’s finally getting a fairy tale ending.
But there’s something a little too perfect about her new school, and a series of near-death experiences soon put her on edge. When she starts having vivid dreams that feel a little too much like memories, she wonders if there’s more to her rags to riches story than good luck. And if so, how can she figure it out before it destroys everything and everyone she cares about, including herself?

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