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Blog Tour: The Unknown Daemon – MM Parks

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We’re celebrating the release of The Unknown Daemon by MM Parks this week!

The Unknown Daemon (Omnis Book 2)

Release Date: January 25, 2026

Genre: Dark Romantasy

✨️ Witches & Daemons
✨️ Forbidden love
✨️ Morally grey MMC
✨️ Touch her and die
✨️ Good girl goes bad
✨️ Found family + Non-binary rep
✨️ Mysterious Gods

A new path…

After Ena’s bold decision to join Ty in the Underworld, she must navigate her status as the only witch in a society of daemons. Charged with posing as his witch-slave for her own safety, she learns to embrace her dark side, all while grappling with the guilt of her decision to leave her sister and Coven behind.

A growing love…

After waiting for nine years, Ty finally has what he’s always wanted—Ena. As their trust and bond grows, Ty must grapple with his many conflicting responsibilities to his people, to Ena, and to himself. Can he have everything he wants or is hope for the future only a delusion?

An unknown future…

As Ena and Ty work together with daemon and witch allies alike, they must find a way to break the bond to Iblis, setting right that which the witches broke centuries ago. But as they uncover more about the amulet, the ritual, and the very Gods they worship, they find that everything is not as simple as it once seemed. Together, can they forge a new future, for their peoples and themselves, or will their differences forever keep them apart?

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Trigger Warnings:

– Animal death in childbirth

– Animal stillbirth

– Violence

– Explicit sexual content (including Dom/sub dynamics)

– Death

– Grief/loss

– Emotional abuse from a parent

– Drug use

– Pregnancy

 

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Book Blitz: In the Name of Pride – Courtney & Clark Collins

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We’re thrilled to announce the release of In the Name of Pride! We’re also gifting a lucky reader a PR box!

In the Name of Pride (Vows & Valor #2)

Release Date: January 27, 2026

Genre: Adult Fantasy w/ Romance

  • Mental health rep
  • Wounded MMC
  • Princess/knight slow burn
  • Mild spice
  • Mr. Darcy hand flex
  • Fueled by spite
  • Unsexy forced proximity
  • Chaotic cousins
  • Genderfluid rep
  • Quid pro quo coercion
  • Sinister magic

What happens when the Happily Ever After comes with consequences?

After a lifetime of separation, Kaleela now reconnects with her elven family inside the Sun’Din Forest as a beloved member of the royal family. But not everyone supports a greater union between the elven and human lands, and a fission enters the great forest.

Dimitar now serves as a knight in the city of Blackburn, his life’s dream come true. Everyone he cares about thrives, yet his life darkens with the weight of failure. All he wants is Kaleela’s nearness, their growing love a beacon in his shadows.

When extremist exiles overtake the elven kingdom, Kaleela doesn’t hesitate to return to the forest. She must ensure her family’s safety, and Dimitar insists on protecting her. An unthinkable threat rises from within, and an exile sets his special attention on Kaleela. Dimitar must overcome his inner demons and find a way to reach Kaleela before her greatest wish becomes their worst nightmare.

IN THE NAME OF PRIDE is the highly anticipated sequel in the award-winning Vows & Valor adult fantasy trilogy. What happens when the Happily Ever After comes with consequences? Intense yearning, a battle of the wills, the most hate-able villain, and an unhealthy amount of stakes await readers in this page-turning, emotionally devastating sequel to IN THE NAME OF HONOR.

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Book Blitz: Visions of Eterna – Samara Kalz

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We’re thrilled to announce that Visions of Eterna by Samara Kalz in now available! This will appeal to readers who enjoyed The Inheritance Games, The Cruel Prince, and Six of Crows.

Visions of Eterna

Release Date: January 21, 2026

Genre: Dark Portal Fantasy/ Mature YA

  • Rivals to Lovers
  • He falls first
  • Found family
  • Slow burn
  • Forced proximity
  • Self Discovery
  • Adventure
  • Prophecy
  • Portals
  • Elemental Magic
  • Banter
  • Grumpy and overprotective MMC

Mia has always sensed something just out of reach, like a word on the tip of her tongue, or a dream forgotten too soon.

On her twenty-first birthday, she wakes with no memory of the night before. It isn’t the first time. Blackouts. Visions. A growing feeling that she doesn’t fully belong in the life she’s living. When her parents confess she’s adopted, with no record of where she came from, the unease sharpens into something else, a pull she can’t ignore.

Then she meets a stranger, and everything begins to unravel—a history Mia never knew, a city hidden from the world, and a journey that will take her beyond the world she thought she belonged to.

Eterna was once a place of wonder, a city that never stopped blooming. Now, the magic that sustained it is fading. The land is cracking. And Mia may be more entangled in its fate than anyone is prepared to admit.

With her best friend by her side, and resentment simmering among those she meets—especially a man whose bitterness runs deeper than she understands—Mia must now navigate a world that remembers her, even if she doesn’t remember it.

Some answers come looking for you.
Some places never let you go.
And some destinies are written long before you’re ready to claim them.

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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; Swallowed by Night – Jeremy Harrison

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We’re thrilled to present the cover for Swallowed by Night, a MM vampire romance by Jeremey Harrison!

Swallowed by Night

Genre: MM Vampire Dystopian Romance

Expected Release Date: April 14, 2026

  • Enemies to Lovers
  • Why Choose
  • Chosen One
  • Forbidden Love
  • Dystopian
  • Love Triangle
  • Golden Retriever Boyfriend Energy
  • “Touch Him and 💀”

In a world ravaged by war and a plague that threatened to end humankind,

Deliverance came with an unexpected consequence:

Vampires.

Vincent Asposito lives a life of luxury, locked in a gilded cage by his father. Longing to break free, Vinny devises a daring plan to sneak out, only to have his first taste of freedom end in being kidnapped by Jude, the human son of the resistance leader.

On the surface, Jude embodies everything Vincent should despise: a sworn enemy determined to destroy the only world he knows, yet he can’t help his attraction to the infuriatingly handsome man. Forced into a reluctant alliance, the two embark on a risky mission that could tip the scales of war between humans and vampires.

As their bond deepens, dangerous revelations come to light, forcing Vincent to decide where his loyalties lie—and who he’s willing to sacrifice.

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Triggers – Sexual Content, Foul Language, Alcohol Use, Abduction, Use of Weapons (guns, knives, bombs), Descriptions of Blood, Injury, and Violence, Manipulation and Gaslighting, Death

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Book Blitz: Poison Amidst Blooms – Cassandra Aston

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The Deadly Fae duology is complete and to celebrate you can get Poison Amidst Blooms for only $0.99 today!

Poison Amidst Blooms (Deadly Fae Duology #2)

Genre: Dark Romantasy

Release Date: Jan 15, 2026

⚔️Found Family
❤️Morally Grey FMC
⚔️He Falls First
❤️Reluctant Chosen One
⚔️Reverse Age Gap
❤️Hidden Magic
⚔️Fae & Humans
❤️Feminine Rage
⚔️Multi-POV
❤️Portal Fantasy
⚔️Open Door Spice
❤️HEA
⚔️”I’ll Always Find You ”

There’s only one weapon your enemy covets. Your true name. Surrender it and die.

Jack is a prisoner. To save him, Sav Briar did the unthinkable: wed Kaspar—kelpie prince, once her safest harbor—and reclaimed the magic her sister stole.

Jack would burn the world to keep Sav breathing; captivity only sharpens the promise in his eyes. But love means nothing if Mab’s first law stands. Never fall in love with a human, and Jack is the one thing she can never have. But is he human?

When Kaspar learns where Sav’s heart truly lies, will he be ally or foe? Once the only fae Sav could trust, now Kaspar holds her true name, and with it the power to turn vows into chains.

Faerie frays at the edges, whole villages disappearing, and Sav must decide whether she’s willing to sacrifice herself and those she loves to save her world.

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Dark, political, and brimming with open-door spice, Poison Amidst Blooms delivers fated mates, hidden identities, a reluctant chosen one, portal peril, and a found family. Perfect for readers of Crescent City and The Cruel Prince.

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Blog Tour: When Everything was Fresh & Green – Bethany Tap

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When Everything Was Fresh & Green is An LGBTQ+ urban fantasy novel with magic, found family, an unlikely hero, and a touch of romance!

When Everything Was Fresh and Green

Expected Release Date: May 5, 2025

Genre: Urban Fantasy (+ LGBTQ)

  • Found Family
  • Band of Heroes (AKA Queeroes)
  • A Prophecy (Kinda, sorta, maybe)
  • Unlikely Hero (middle-aged mama)
  • Good vs Evil (But make it messy and grey)
  • Sapphic Romance (No spice

Magic is real. And so is anti-magic.

When Tessa, a single foster mom, is tasked with the care of Astrid, an abandoned teen witch, the mundane world as she knew it disappears. Discovering secrets about her lost foster child Theo, Tessa follows Astrid and her aunt, a fabulous witch named Cece, to a magical house. There, she joins the ranks of Magix, including a burly siren, a snake-charming ogress, a morbid little vampire, a pair of wild werewolf toddlers, and a coven of ice fairies, all of whom are in hiding from a murderous organization hell-bent on destroying the magical and non-magical worlds alike.

Interwoven with Tessa’s journey is the story of three friends: Val, Tish, and Gunner. Letters between the three outline their work to prevent a looming climate crisis at all costs. As their story collides with Tessa’s, it becomes clear that Tessa, Astrid, Cece, and even sweet Theo are mixed up in something far more sinister than they realized. Tessa must set aside her disbelief, fear, grief, self-doubt, and even her growing infatuation with Cece to join Astrid on a journey to find her family, finding her own family and the truth about herself along the way.

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Cover Reveal: Cast Off – Enola M. Douglas

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We’re proud to present the cover for the next book in the Nine Kingdoms series, Cast Off. Pre-orders open today!

Cast Off (Jewels of the Nine Kingdoms Book 2)

Expected Release Date: July 10, 2026

Genre: Romantasy/ Why Choose

Cover: @david_gardias_designs

Cast Off can be read as a standalone—but for the fullest plunge into the Nine Kingdoms, start with WHISKED AWAY. It’s the gateway that sets up the world, politics, and payoffs you’ll feel even harder in Book Two.

✨Why choose? (M/F/M)
✨Royalty romance
✨Court intrigue
✨Slow burn
✨Reluctant Hero
✨Damaged Hero
✨He falls first
✨Found family
✨Protective Heroes
✨Forced Proximity

An arranged marriage.
A fragile alliance.
A love neither thought possible.

Omega Princess JingYi of Xûen-Sarai has always lived in the shadows—unseen, unwanted, valued only for her skill as a healer. When she’s sent to marry a powerful Alpha lord in a distant kingdom, she sees it as an escape. A chance to reclaim her dignity.

Alpha Lord Alexander Wulfbane expects a flawless bride to restore his disgraced House—but the Omega who arrives is nothing like he imagined. The moment their eyes meet, disappointment lingers, and their fragile alliance begins to fray.

But beyond the cold marriage bed and strained diplomacy, a darker plot is brewing. Across the realm, Omegas are vanishing—and whispers of a forbidden substance threaten to destabilize the Nine Kingdoms. To survive, JingYi and Alexander must become more than a political match.

She’s not the bride he wants.
And she never asks him to be her hero.
But when the storm comes, they’ll have to choose—
stand together, or be swept away.

Note: Cast Off is an Omegaverse fantasy romance. It is Book Two in Jewels of the Nine Kingdoms—a series of interconnected stories, each following different main characters or pairings, all bound by a shared world and a central conflict. This book can be read on its own—but Whisked Away (Book 1) offers deeper context and emotional resonance within the overarching plot.

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Blog Tour: Fablenoir – Vic Sinclair

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Welcome to the tour for Vic Sinclair’s Grimdark fairytale, Fablenoir. The next book Rose Read Undead comes out early this year!

Fablenoir

Release Date: September 2024

Genre: Dark Fairytale/ Urban Fantasy/ Grimdark

  • Morally gray characters
  • Antiheroes
  • Dark fairy tale retellings
  • Grimdark undertones
  • First-person detective novel
  • Urban fantasy with epic scope
  • Hidden worlds

Fifteen years after climbing the beanstalk, giants are the least of Jack’s concerns…

Twisted fairy tale figures roam our world in this deliciously dark, exhilarating new Urban Fantasy series, featuring familiar characters from mythology and fables clashing and conniving in a metropolitan cesspit that runs on chaos.

Amid rumors of necromantic cults, children vanishing from the city’s streets and men crying werewolf, down-and-out Detective Jackson Slade of the NYPD is at his lowest. Blacklisted by the corrupt department he works for, he finds himself winding up in the same grimy bars every night, nearly drinking himself to death and relying on mysterious magick beans to pick himself back up.

Until, one night, he stumbles upon a gruesome crime scene that will change the course of his life dramatically. When he finds the shattered corpse of egg-shaped billionaire media mogul Dick Dumpty, Jack finds himself reluctantly teaming up with the notoriously cold-blooded outlaw Goldilocks, and together they spiral into the horrifying magickal underbelly of New York City, caught in the middle of a war between the corrupt and the even more corrupt.

Coming up against forces such as the grizzly gang leader Papa Bear and the crooked giant-descendant head of the NYPD Chief Cole, Jack and Goldilocks set in motion an explosive chain of events that will change the world, for better or for so much worse…

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

My thoughts: What do you get if fairy tale and nursery rhyme characters are real, live in New York and a lot of them are serious criminals? Fablenoir.

Jack Slade (once slew a giant, there was a beanstalk, he doesn’t like to talk about it) is a detective falling apart, he’s an alcoholic, addicted to mind altering magic beans, his boss Captain Cole is corrupt, he’s about to be fired, oh and a giant egg almost landed on him.

Dumpty’s dead, Goldilocks needs Jack’s help to take down Papa Bear and his drug empire. A lot of women and children have been going missing, Cole doesn’t want to know and Jack’s in serious trouble.

It’s a fast paced, high octane, race against time, corruption and Jack’s high in order to try to unravel the chaos in New York. There’s a secret cabal of officers trying to bring down Cole, a Charming governor who seems powerless to stop the rot and a Mad Hatter performing really disturbing experiments in his basement.

If you like your fairy tales dark and creepy, you’re in the right place.

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*I was kindly gifted a copy of this book in exchange for taking part in this blog tour, but all opinions remain my own.

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Cover Reveal: From the Depths – Emily Renk Hawthorne

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We are so thrilled to share this beautiful cover with you all today. From the Depths is the next book in the Of Mountains and Seas series and it will be available June 9th!

From The Depths (Of Mountains and Seas #2

Expected Release Date: June 9, 2026

Genre: Multigenerational Urban Fantasy

In the wake of a failed coup, peace comes at a cost.

A new regime enforces order by erasing the memories of every Shifter.
But Nivi remembers everything.

Immune to the memory-wiping tincture that silenced her kind, Nivi carries the weight of the past alone. Her powers set her apart, but so does the truth she can’t forget. Once again, Nivi finds herself isolated from her family and friends, and something begins to fracture, within herself and within the forest of her hometown Yuras.

Strange happenings are accumulating. A road of abandoned homes in Yuras. A missing crabbing crew in Alaska. A student abduction at the local Shifter school.
With danger creeping closer and reality unraveling for both Shifters and Statics, will the fight for what’s been lost be worth unearthing truths they fear?

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