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Blog Tour: Realm Walker – Bruce Martin

The mortal world and Netherworld collide in a twisted fight for power and freedom.

Still haunted by his fears for Alison and desperate to uncover the truth behind the hospital attack, John digs deeper into a mystery that grows more dangerous by the hour.

Meanwhile, realms away in the shadowed depths of the Netherworld, Alison fights to survive a place that was never meant to claim her, burdened by a destiny she never asked for.

With so much at stake, and mythological forces coming at them from all sides, will the two best friends find their way back to one another, before it’s too late?

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Bruce loves to write about other realms, alternate realities, monsters and mayhem. He likes to make people think about their own lives while getting lost in someone else’s. He loves nothing better than to sit down at his computer and play with his imaginary friends.

He was obsessed with horror and monsters from a very early age, and always knew he was different to everyone else, but never knew why! He never felt like he fitted in.

As a result, Bruce has always strived for perfection in everything he has done, and through working in the leisure industry for many years, he has his own unique take on the human psyche.

Bruce was born and raised in Leeds, West Yorkshire. He graduated from Humberside University with a degree in Exhibition & Museum Design, but soon fell out of love with design, due to him constantly thinking outside the box.

He worked in many fields before finding great success as a multi-award-winning public house manager and brewer.

After the infamous Covid lockdowns and personal tragedy in 2022, Bruce turned his attention to writing, crafting his first eagerly anticipated novel Dream Walker – Somewhere Between Realm and Reality.

He now lives in Lancashire with his daughter.

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My thoughts: Alison continues to lie in a perilous state – her body in a coma, her mind in another realm. Her friend John watches over her and searches for answers so he help her.

Alison and new Netherworld friends are gathering an army to take the fight to the vampire queen and end this struggle. But they will suffer a few losses along the way.

As good and evil gear up for an almighty war, the gods finally begin to pay attention and the police in Alison’s London learn about the other realms.

John finds an ally and a girlfriend in his quest and they meet with the detectives and the berserker keeping watch over Alison’s body. Her mother comes for a visit, realising too late that she left her daughter in danger.

As war begins, Alison must learn her true strength and just how important she is to every realm – and what she could be should she survive.

This series is growing on me, I like Alison, she’s somehow taking this all in her stride and accepting each new group of people she meets, no matter how strange. I like John too, he’s much braver than he realises, as he hunts for answers to help save his friend.

*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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Book Blitz: The Unravelling – Beronika Keres

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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Blog Tour: Dream Walker – Bruce Martin

Between layers of deceit and magic, nothing is as it seems.

Alison Wilde is an ordinary girl in a nearly normal world, until an uncharacteristic turn of events shifts reality, as she knows it, completely upside down. Plunged into the Netherworld, with little memory of her life back on Earth, she is faced with a host of horrifying fantastical creatures, some more familiar than others.

But as her newfound companions attempt to guide her through their unsettling and tumultuous realm, dark forces are at work which threaten the very fabric of the Universe, and who will stop at nothing to prevent Alison from achieving the potential her destiny holds.

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Bruce loves to write about other realms, alternate realities, monsters and mayhem. He likes to make people think about their own lives while getting lost in someone else’s. He loves nothing better than to sit down at his computer and play with his imaginary friends.

He was obsessed with horror and monsters from a very early age, and always knew he was different to everyone else, but never knew why! He never felt like he fitted in.

As a result, Bruce has always strived for perfection in everything he has done, and through working in the leisure industry for many years, he has his own unique take on the human psyche.

Bruce was born and raised in Leeds, West Yorkshire. He graduated from Humberside University with a degree in Exhibition & Museum Design, but soon fell out of love with design, due to him constantly thinking outside the box. He worked in many fields before finding great success as a multi-award-winning public house manager and brewer.

After the infamous Covid lockdowns and personal tragedy in 2022, Bruce turned his attention to writing, crafting his first eagerly anticipated novel Dream Walker – Somewhere Between Realm and Reality. He now lives in Lancashire with his daughter.

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My thoughts: Alison finds herself in a darker, stranger version of Lewis Carroll’s Wonderland, there’s a Hatter and a Rabbit, a Caterpillar and a Queen of Hearts, but she’s also a vampire, the Hatter used to be an assassin, the Rabbit can manipulate time and the Caterpillar’s a gangster.

As she and her new friends attempt to evade the queen’s guards and not get drained of their blood, Alison’s friends back home are desperate for her to wake up from the coma she’s in.

With werewolves, berserker bears, and other strange creatures who might aid her or kill her, Alison must survive the Netherworld to return home to her friends and her life, before someone snuffs it out.

An interesting take on Carroll, Alison is an adult not a child and the battles she faces are of the sword and sorcery kind, the familiar characters have been reworked and danger lurks everywhere. 

*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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Blog Tour: Fated to the Frozen Prince – Ciara Hartford

Here’s your sneak peak at Fated to the Frozen Prince by Ciara Hartford!

Follow along this week for early reviews and pre-order a copy now!

FATED TO THE FROZEN PRINCE is one of nine books in the Fated to the Enemy series, a set of steamy romantasy standalones, brimming with epic adventure, sizzling banter, and angsty yearning between enemies who have no desire to fall in love.

Fated to the Frozen Prince

Expected Release Date: Sept 29, 2026

Genre: Romantasy

  • Enemies to lovers
  • Fated mates
  • Forbidden love
  • Super slow burn
  • He falls first and so hard
  • Touch her/him and bye
  • Opposites attract (ice vs fire)
  • Only one “horse”
  • Animal companions
  • “Tell me you hate me”
  • Political intrigue

Every winter must have a summer.

Yet eternal winter sweeps across the continent, freezing everything in its path.

Unfortunately, there’s nothing Wrenora hates more than the cold, other than Prince Callan Vostbain, whose magic is rumored to be the cause of the winter blight. As a human prisoner of war, she tries to keep out of his way to avoid punishment, but when Callan learns she’s an imbuing mage, capable of creating a gem that can harness his power, he offers Wrenora freedom in exchange for her help.

But Wrenora hasn’t used her imbuing magic since before the war. She’s not sure she can help him. And she’s certainly not prepared for the man she finds hidden beneath the icy mask, much less the real reason Callan wishes to control his magic.

As more assassins are sent to kill him and rumors of an uprising grow, Callan struggles to keep the fiery human from melting the armor he’s carefully frozen around his heart. Or to focus on controlling his magic and stopping the winter blight before the entire continent is solid ice.

The cure for the winter blight may be at his fingertips, if only he can keep from freezing his only hope with a single touch.

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Triggers:

  • Profanity
  • Death of a parent (on page)
  • Mention of grooming (not on page)
  • Mention of physical child abuse (on page as flashbacks)
  • Mention of rape/sexual assault (not on page)
  • On page sexual content
  • Suicidal thoughts
  • Themes of slavery and prisoners of war
  • Descriptions of blood and gore
  • Graphic sword and magical violence including: evisceration, decapitation, and dismemberment

 

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Blog Tour: A Mortal Attachment – Melissa Baron

We’re celebrating the newly released dark academia romance, A Mortal Attachment and can’t think of a better book to curl up with during the ‘Ber months!

A Mortal Attachment (The Aeternvm Book One)

Release Date: September 17, 2026

Genre: Dark Academia Vampire Romance

  • He falls first
  • Slow burn
  • Rivals to lovers
  • Forced proximity
  • Forbidden love
  • Touch her/him and die
  • Black cat FMC and Doberman MMC

Gwendolyn University, prestigious and notoriously private, conceals itself in the remote mountains of northeastern Vermont. It provides a world class education and only asks for a few things return:

Work hard. Surrender your personal devices. Stay inside after midnight.

Attending Gwendolyn is an unrealized dream for Astra Corrigan. She turned them down and, years later, finds herself at the gates as an independent journalist, invited to stay on campus to do an exclusive feature on the murder of five students at the hands of a professor they never caught.

Astra expected to have rules of engagement to follow. She didn’t expect a handler-the aloof and captivating Professor Dane Morgensen. Despite him thwarting her research efforts at every turn, she can’t fight her growing attraction to the astronomy professor.

After two more students die and Astra’s evidence vanishes, she discovers that something more sinister-and supernatural-might be at play with Gwendolyn and its cryptic faculty. She doesn’t know if she can trust the man she shouldn’t be falling in love with, either, but she must uncover the truth about Gwendolyn before she becomes a pawn in a battle of supernatural proportions.

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Triggers

  • Domestic abuse (talked about)
  • Physical violence (not in relation to the main couple)
  • Kidnapping
  • Death

 

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Blog Tour: Stained in Blood – Ava Tenney

We’re gearing up for the September 29th release of Stained in Blood by Ava Tenney!

Stained in Blood

Expected Release Date: Sept 29, 2026

Genre: Southern Gothic Vampire Romance (MMF)

Cover Designed by Mikki (art.bymikki on IG)

  • Paranormal
  • Vampires
  • Southern Gothic
  • Forced Proximity
  • Emotional Healing
  • Revenge

It was supposed to be a brand-new start for world-renowned archaeologist, Dr. Eden Ryan.

During the dig of her career, tragedy shatters Eden’s life and future. Refusing to return to the field, she’s determined to pick up the pieces—by finally fulfilling her late grandmother’s wish to move back to her childhood home and accept a teaching job at the local college.

She soon meets the enigmatic Professor Shiloh Moore. It’s the first time since her loss she’s felt anything other than searing grief and loneliness. His presence unnerves and awakens something in her she long thought extinguished.

Shiloh is a man haunted by the veiled supernatural world he inhabits. He has all but given up on his decades-long search for a way to rescue his lost love, Cameron Ashley. When he meets Eden, they get off on the wrong foot. Their unexpected encounter disrupts Shiloh’s quiet existence when he discovers Eden unknowingly holds the answers to his secret pursuit and buried desires.

If Shiloh wants Cameron back, he’ll need to seduce Eden into overcoming the shadow of her past and to embrace her hidden family history.

Shiloh is left with a stark choice.

Break the bonds of silence surrounding the mysterious and obscured world of vampires to save the man he loves or be forced to let go of the woman he’s falling for. Because if he lets her into their dark world, there’s no way he can ever let her go.

Stained in Blood is a Southern Gothic, paranormal vampire romance intended for audiences 18+.

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Content Warnings

Death of a spouse, pregnancy loss, blood rituals, blood play, murder, attempted rape, assault, stalking, graphic sexual situations, degradation, non-consent, somnophilia, consensual non-consent.

 

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Blog Tour: The Crooked Medium’s Guide to Terror – Stephen Cox

True terror is a murderer you can’t stop.

London 1882. A carpenter is killed by a train – an eerie, brutal crime. Flamboyant medium Mrs Ashton and her sapphic partner Braddie seek justice for the widow.

A charismatic new medium takes London by storm. Dock-lass Maisie sees her frightening prophesy of vengeance. A noble family is devastated, but worse is to come.

Outgunned and bewildered, the three confront a deadly conspiracy. They risk losing everything.

A reckoning from beyond the grave.

Praise for Book 1: The Crooked Medium’s Guide To Murder
“witty, atmospheric and queer-hearted”
“humour, mystery and a wonderfully crooked sense of morality… delivered with charm.”

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My grandmother told me I read too much. I remember walking in the garden when I
was small, telling myself stories. It was over thirty years of wanting to be a novelist before I tried… and succeeded.

The Crooked Medium’s Guide to Murder was much loved. It arose because I wanted to write about Britishness and specifically about Englishness; about our complex relationship with the past; I wanted leads who were morally grayer but still capable of kindness. Personally, it was time for a
novel with queer leads. And these difficult times I needed to write something with some uplift. I always intended more than two books. The Crooked Medium’s Guide to Terror is spookier, and more dangerous. It throws all three women out of their comfort zone.

I spent nearly all my childhood in Bristol, and I’m now an adoptive Londoner. I live with my partner, and it’s lovely my two adult children come back from time to time. Our garden rages wild.

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Prize includes – Our Child of the Stars, Our Child of Two Worlds, The Crooked Medium’s Guide to Murder and the Crooked Medium’s Guide to Terror.

My thoughts: Mrs Ashton and Braddie have returned to London, one definitely more reluctantly than the other. But it’s good that they have as their boxer friend Samson needs their help – his sometime employee has been murdered and his death has been dismissed as suicide or an accident. The man leaves behind a fiancée who insists that he would never do such a thing just before their wedding.

Is it somehow connected with a mysterious new medium in town who hosts a seance at the home of a noble family where they are threatened with retribution? Maisie is present at this event and swears something was very off about it. As Mrs Ashton is investigating, the heir to the family is kidnapped. Could something in Lord Hanbury’s past be responsible for the terrors his family are suffering?

Drawn into a dark world of evil spirits and vengeful women with hidden faces, the three investigators must keep their wits about them. Mrs Ashton seems to be losing some of her extraordinary powers, but her mind remains sharp, Braddie ready at her side and Maisie digging into things in her own way. With a little help, they just might tame the beast and solve the case.

Another clever, twisting and twisted adventure for some of my new favourite characters, this time battling a creature only one of them can see, and a woman who claims to not want to be an adversary, yet at times seems to intend harm.

*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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Blog Tour: Red – Izzy Barry

Red (The Myth That Burns Book 1)

Release Date: September 16, 2026

Genre: Shifter Romance

– Werewolf shifters
– Hidden identity
– Forced proximity
– Found family
– Slow burn
– Touch-and-d!e energy (both ways)
– Pack politics

Forced into the home of an unyielding Alpha, a grieving girl bent on revenge ignites a slow-burn werewolf romance where loyalty is law—and legends burn.

Her brother is dead.
Her freedom stolen.
And her greatest danger may be the Alpha werewolf sworn to guard her.

Aloka Tutten never asked to live among the pack. To them, she’s just a human girl—too small, too fragile, an unwanted liability. Her unwilling protector, Stark Lamont, makes no effort to hide that he doesn’t want her in his territory.

But the walls between them aren’t as strong as they should be. His quiet strength pulls her closer. His touch lingers too long. And beneath the heat of his gaze, the truth inside her threatens to break free.

Aloka isn’t what they believe.
And as war looms, her secret will rise—either to save them all…or set their world on fire, even if it burns her too.

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Blog Tour: Captured by the Werewolf Highwaymen – Eva Leigh

We’re celebrating the release of Captured by the Werewolf Highwaymen by Eva Leigh all week long!

Captured by the Werewolf Highwaymen (Den of Thieves Book 2)

Release Date: September 9, 2026

Genre: Spicy Paranormal Why Choose Romance

  • Werewolves
  • Spicy
  • Why choose
  • MFMMMMM
  • Widow
  • Monsters

In USA TODAY bestselling author Eva Leigh’s sensuous tale, a lonely widow finds unexpected desire with a band of werewolf highwaymen…

When a gang of highwaymen show up at Clara Ballantine’s door in the middle of the night, taking over her house, she has no choice but to obey. Shy and widowed, Clara is at first terrified of these dangerous men holding her captive.

Yet Clara can’t help herself from being drawn to handsome, roguish Des…and gentle Gideon…and playful Hugh. Is it possible for her to strip away a lifetime of shoulds and should nots, and allow herself to desire more than one man?

But these are no ordinary men. They’re werewolves. And as tensions erupt within the gang, Clara finds herself in the middle of a supernatural battle for supremacy, one that could claim her heart…and her life…

Captured by the Werewolf Highwaymen is a spicy paranormal why choose romance, and Book 2 in the Den of Thieves series.

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Triggers: parental death (off screen), violence, spousal emotional abuse

 

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Blog Tour: When Realms Fall – Paytyn Veil

Welcome to the tour for When Realms Fall, a spicy, dark romantasy by Paytyn Veil!

When Realms Fall

Release Date: June 12, 2026

Genre: Dark Romantasy

Spice Level 🌶️🌶️🌶️(More plot though)

  • Morally gray leads
  • Yearning
  • Who did this to you
  • Fated Mates (or enemies)
  • Found family/banter
  • Obsessive MMC
  • Powerful FMC
  • Touch her and parish
  • Rivaling Courts
  • Monster INSIDE the MMC
  • Blood magic
  • Corrupt gods

Evric Drosworn has spent centuries protecting a world that fears him.

Every day is a battle against the monster in his soul.

Every victory costs another piece of himself.

Elannah Veyne is the only one capable of saving him.

The only one capable of killing him.

The first one to see the man beneath the monster.

As darker forces close in and the scales of balance begin to sway, she’ll be faced with an impossible question.

If freeing the man she loves means risking the fate of the realms…

How much of the world is she willing to burn?

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TWs

  • Violence and death
  • Emotional and psychological trauma
  • Abusive relationships
  • Non-graphic depiction of sexual assault
  • Dark and disturbing imagery
  • Explicit content

 

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