Welcome to the tour for When Her Power Awakens and meet Kenna and Zander!
When Her Power Awakens (Saving Taiamen Book 1)
Release Date: October 2025
Genre: Epic Dark Romantasy
– Fantastical beasts
– Elemental powers
– Discovering one’s powers
– Reluctant hero
– Escape into forbidden forest
– Friends to lovers
– Slow-burn romance
– Feminine rage
– Multiple POV
– One bed
In Taiamen, where worth is measured by bloodline, and power is held by the elite, an outsider carries the spark that can shatter an empire built on cruelty and silence.
Kenna has spent her life unseen. Forced to protect her siblings under the violent hand of her adoptive father in the starving district of Madyor, she has learned to trade pieces of herself just to live. One day, a brilliant light erupts from her body, awakening something ancient and terrifying, forcing her and her best friend, Zander, to escape into the world outside the only home they know.
Now hunted by the government, Kenna discovers she’s not just any Conjurer—she’s a Dominum, the first in five hundred years to wield all four elements.
Haunted by fear of what she is and what she must become, Kenna must choose whether to keep running from her power or embrace it—even if it consumes her.
Triggers: poverty, abandonment, adoption abuse, anxiety, self-harm, sex work and sex slavery, child abuse, violence, trauma, death and dying, sexism and misogyny, classism, torture, gambling addiction, starvation and dehydration, disappearance of a loved one, kidnapping, massacres and mass murders, earthquakes, bushfire, tornadoes.
We’re touring Dance of the Asuras this week and if you’re looking for a romantasy read that ticks all these boxes, then we recommend you pick this one up!
Dance of the Asuras
Release Date: February 24, 2026
Genre: Romantasy
Forced Proximity
Morally Grey
Karmic Retribution
Gods & Anti Gods
Hidden Powers
He Falls First
Tension, Banter & Spice
Freedom was her final dance, until the devil stepped onto her stage.
Niya is the most famous dancer in Khoya, bound by a contract to a kingdom that has stolen her independence. With her servitude nearly over, she is closer than ever to gaining safe passage to the revered city of Varnasi—and a life of her choosing.
But when Zehan, the Prince of Hell, witnesses her final performance, he claims her as his Chosen and drags her to the realm of demons.
Now, to gain her freedom, Niya strikes a new bargain: serve in Zehan’s court and use her magic to help him uncover who is stealing the souls of his subjects. The culprit proves elusive, and the more time Niya spends in Zehan’s world, the more her heart betrays her vow to leave.
Whirling between deceitful anti-gods and an unraveling prophecy, Niya finds a surprising source of power as she steps into an unexpected destiny…and an inescapable love.
Dark Vampire Romance/ Slayer x Vampires Why Choose
⛓️ Slayer x Vampires 🩸 Reverse Harem / Why Choose ⛓️ Enemies to Lovers 🩸 Forgotten Past Life ⛓️ Fated Bonds 🩸 Possessive Immortals ⛓️ We@pon play 🩸 Forbidden Desire
Some loves are worth killing for. And some are worth becoming a monster for.
I’m the Council’s best weapon. A slayer born to hunt the darkness.
They lied.
Brielle Thorne has staked more vampires than she can count, but the nightmares won’t stop—visions of blood-soaked victims and three faces she shouldn’t recognize. When the legendary Crimson Veil rises, weakening the barrier between life and death, three ancient vampires emerge from the shadows with a terrifying claim: she belongs to them.
Cazamir, the Primordial. A possessive monster powerful enough to make entire kingdoms kneel.
Dayden, the Shadow Walker. He’s beautiful and broken. And burning with a hatred for her that tastes like obsession.
Sin, the Illusionist. He’s snarky, dangerous, and far too good at making her forget why she should run.
They say she was theirs once, in a life she can’t remember. They say the Council cursed her, stole her, and turned her into their weapon. When the blood moon reaches its peak, she’ll have to choose: remain the hunter or reclaim her throne as their queen.
But as their touch awakens something dark and ravenous inside her, Brielle realizes the most dangerous thing isn’t the curse.
We’re thrilled to announce the release of the Beautiful Nightmare deluxe digital edition boxset by L.C. Son!
This digital set comes fully loaded with:
All three books: Beautiful Nightmare, Awaken, Dawn of Descent
Two bonus stories: With Hearts Like Fire & With Clipped Wings of Butterflies
Bonus chapters & dialogue not included in standard retail editions
An exclusive immersive reader website to take you deeper into the universe- see QR code on receipt
Character guides
Beautiful Nightmare – Dark Paranormal Romance
Tropes: love triangle (leads to why choose), runaway bride, dark family secrets, vampires, wolf shifters, fated mates, she saves herself, touch me and d!e
Designer: @coversincolor
It all starts with love. Then it becomes a nightmare. But soon it becomes something quite beautiful.
Damina Nicaud, a beautiful, successful art buyer in Washington, D.C., has been plagued by hauntingly romantic dreams of a mystery man every night. While she knows she shouldn’t consider her dreams to be anything more than anxiety brought on by her upcoming nuptials, she can’t help but be lured into its entreat. Unbeknownst to her, the dreamscape that plagues her mind will be all that carries her through eventual heartbreak and learning the truth of her orphaned lineage.
She is more than human.
Escaping to New Orleans on the heels of her broken heart, she begins to unravel the mystery of her life while discovering a love powerful enough to unleash an ancient power residing within herself. Weaving through a world of artistic passion, vampires, wolves, and the supernatural, Damina Nicaud begins to take hold of her Beautiful Nightmare.
Miss Bennet’s Dragon is the 10th place BBNYA 2025 finalist! About BBNYA
BBNYA is a yearly competition where book bloggers from all over the world read and score books written by indie authors, ending with 15 (17 in 2025) finalists and one overall winner.
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War threatens England, but Elizabeth Bennet’s battles are closer to home. She’s managing the family estate for her ailing father. Insufferable gentlemen keep bursting in to propose marriage. And most dangerous of all, she’s hiding a forbidden skill. Elizabeth can speak to draca, the small, fire-breathing dragons kept by gentry as frivolous status symbols.
When Napoleon’s spies attempt to steal draca, the distant war threatens even cozy Hertfordshire. Elizabeth seeks the aid of Mr. Darcy, the proud man whose proposal she once scorned. Amid the breathtaking halls of Pemberley, she discovers the truth: she is not the first woman to speak with draca. But with her secret revealed, the dark history of Pemberley tears her and Mr. Darcy apart.
One hope remains: her dangerous affinity to draca. But does she dare to trust legends and lost songs? And when a terrible betrayal threatens the man she loves, does she have a choice?
Miss Bennet’s Dragon is the first book in the award-winning Jane Austen Fantasy trilogy. For fans of Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries, Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, and of course Jane Austen.
M. Verant writes noblebright fantasy and sci-fi that’s exciting, romantic, and celebrates diversity and empowerment. His latest work is Emma’s Dragon, book 2 in the award-winning Jane Austen Fantasy series. Dragons of the Great Wyves, book 3 of the trilogy, is next, followed by Tiger Seed, a contemporary fantasy rooted in ancient Indus history. He collects Jane Austen paraphernalia and two-legged dragons while dodging wild turkeys in the San Francisco Bay Area. Follow him on Bluesky @mverant.com.
My thoughts: This was a lot of fun, it’s Pride & Prejudice & Dragons (not Zombies) and since I enjoy both the work of Miss Austen and dragons, right up my street, or should I say, in my library!
Lizzy Bennet discovers she can communicate with the small forms of draca that live in England, no true dragons exist, or so she believes (maybe St George put them off?) but married couples of her social class can bond with a variety of the smaller types, on their wedding night. A lot of the lore is shrouded in mystery, the church rather disapproves and not everyone can make it happen (like Mr Collins and poor Charlotte).
Mr & Mrs Bennet have a firedrake, a dog sized draca that Mrs B is somewhat afraid of, but Lizzy, and to some extent her sisters, are not. Which is handy when Lizzy starts to realise she can talk to them, and some of them talk back.
Most of the plot is familiar to fans of P&P but there are changes, the war against Napoleon is more important to this version than the original, and indeed a certain Arthur Wellesley shows up, turns out he and Darcy are old friends. There’s also a rather horrible change in one of the Bennet sisters, but Lizzy is still a remarkable, funny, intelligent heroine.
I really enjoyed this and now I’m off to read book two, which features a Miss Emma Woodhouse….
*I was kindly gifted a copy of this book in exchange for taking part in this blog tour, but all opinions remain my own.
We’re celebrating the release of the next book in the Blakewell Mages series, Ghost Curse by Brittany Arden!
Ghost Curse: Blakewell Mages Book Two
Release Date: March 20, 2026
Genre: Urban Romantasy
Morally Gray Love Interest
Obsessive / Possessive MMC
“Touch Her and D!e” Energy
He Fell First (and harder)
Love Triangle (Shifting Allegiances)
Slow Burn → To Spice
Secrets Within Secrets
Power Awakening
Urban Romantasy
Sonia never expected her Ghost Whisperer powers to unravel a conspiracy buried beneath the Blakewell Mages—or to bind the ancient being of Death himself to her soul. But the bloodline curse hunting her is accelerating, draining her magic and fraying her mortality thread by thread.
When the mist that shields Blakewell shatters and chaos erupts, Sonia is pulled into a deadly battle: Blakewell is beginning to fracture—its magic failing, its people turning desperate—Sonia uncovers secrets in her mother’s ledger that the Black House would kill to keep buried.
Her only allies are the two men she shouldn’t crave.
McDara, the detective who keeps choosing grief over his own heart.
And Death—the immortal who would raze worlds rather than lose her.
But Death’s price presses her closer to him than she’s ever dared—and surrendering to it might break her in ways even magic can’t fix.
As Sonia’s magic burns unstable and a faceless ghost stalks her every step, she discovers a haunting warning: something beneath Blakewell is waking—and it is hungry.
To survive her twenty-fifth birthday, Sonia must face a realm built of shadows, lies, and the dangers that come wrapped in trust… even if doing so costs her the memory of the one person she was never meant to forget.
A dark, addictive romantasy full of devastating choices, breathtaking magic, and a love that defies life and death.
We’re thrilled to present the cover of What Darkness Brings by Jenna Wolfhart!
Pre-order this beauty today!
What Darkness Brings
Expected Release Date: May 29, 2026
Genre: Epic Romantasy
Morally gray characters
Slow burn
Enemies to lovers
Forced proximity
Found family
The gods are dead. The stars have vanished. And the Order controls all magic.
Angharad Morgan has served them for as long as she can remember. She raises the recently dead to steal their secrets, a skill that has earned her a coveted place within the castle walls and the trust of the inner circle. Until she reveals a hidden power no one knew she had: she can kill by touch.
Now they see her as a threat.
To earn back their favor, Angharad travels to the windswept coast to hunt a dangerous exile, learn his secrets, and use her power against him. But he’s seen her in his dreams, and he’s been expecting her.
He takes her captive in his tower just as it comes under attack.
Bound by mysterious magic, they’re forced to work together against an unknown enemy, racing to find a relic that could heal the broken sky and awaken the dead gods.
She wants to trust him—and surrender to the irresistible pull between them—but believing him might be the most dangerous choice she can make.
Now the Order is coming for them both. Angharad must choose between the only world she’s ever known…and the man who makes her want to break it.
What Darkness Brings is the first book in a slow-burn, high-stakes romantasy duology that’s perfect for readers who crave morally gray characters and heroines forced to choose between loyalty and love.
We’re celebrating the March release of Return of Atlantis by Amy Cip! Read on for more details!
Return of Atlantis (Atlantis Rising Book 2)
Release Date: March 3, 2026
Genre: Fantasy/ Space Pirates/ Dragons
Ember Weathers and her friends successfully returned the lost city of Atlantis to the ground after it was cursed to the sky – you’d think that meant their troubles were over.
While Atlantis is a city built on magic and love, not everyone was happy to see it returned. Immediately surrounded by enemies – both from this world and Atlantis – now is their time to fight for peace. That’s not as easy as it sounds. As soon as Atlantis falls from the sky, it’s people are cursed with a sleeping sickness. Queen Aura binds the gates closed with a magical ward, and they’re just as trapped as they were in the sky. In order to break the curse and broker peace, Ember and her boyfriend, Shepherd, will need more than the help of their friends. They must find old and trapped magical beings, and travel through time to unravel the problems from the beginning.
But will this help things, or will it trap them forever?
Fans of Holly Black, Rebecca Ross, Sarah J. Maas, Lauren Roberts, Kiera Cass, Tracy Wolff, and Jennifer L. Armentrout will enjoy Amy Cip.
We’re proud to present the cover for The Truth-Teller’s Bargain by Camille Wolfewood!
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The Truth-Teller’s Bargain (The Oracle’s Duet #1)
Expected Release Date: June 2, 2026
Genre: Epic Romantasy
Cover Designer: Lin Romanov @rlinarts
Enemies-to-allies-to-lovers
Slow burn
Found family
Touch her and die
Bargain magic
Alethea has never been free.
Born an Oracle with the power to speak the truth, she has spent her life in a gilded cage, her gift abused by her mother, the Queen of Lenorea, to maintain her rule and silence opposition. When Alethea speaks a prophecy that threatens the crown, she flees…
And falls right into the hands of Nakir Hasan, the cursed and exiled heir leading the rebellion against Lenorea’s throne. He takes her captive, expecting a loyal weapon of the crown, only to discover a young woman desperate to escape the very life she’s been forced to serve.
So they strike a bargain.
Alethea will help Nakir reclaim the crown, and in return, he’ll grant her the freedom she was never allowed.
But what begins as an alliance between enemies slowly becomes something far more dangerous. As war approaches and prophecy closes in, their unlikely pull to each other grows stronger, and soon, Alethea and Nakir are faced with a damning realization…
What if the greatest threat to the bargain they made isn’t the prophecy Alethea spoke… but the freedom she seeks, and what—or who—it will cost her to claim it?
Violence, death, implied torture, references to domestic violence, captivity, emotional abuse, substance use, and profanity. The Truth-Teller’s Bargain also contains explicit, open-door sexual content.
We’re proud to present the gorgeous cover for the next Moonshine Hollow book, Must Love Lavender and Little Lies!
Must Love Lavender and Little Lies (Moonshine Hollow Book 3)
Expected Release Date: April 14, 2026
Genre: Cozy Fantasy Romance
Fake Fiancée
Friends to Lovers
Orc MMC
Magical Spring Festival
Enchanting Small Town
Shrieking Goats
Farmcore & Cottagecore Aesthetics
Orcish Shenanigans
Forced Proximity
Guaranteed HEA
Medium Spice 🌶️🌶️🌶️
She’s his bestie. He’s her rock. And now? They’re accidentally engaged.
Juniper runs the village apothecary, and Granik grows lavender on his farm. These two plant lovers have always had each other’s backs. When orcish custom demands Granik get married, Juniper does the only logical thing to save her best friend: she proposes a fake engagement. Brilliant plan, right? The only trouble is that in orcish customs, engagements are binding and there’s no such thing as fake. Now they have to find their way out of a major mess. That proves harder than anticipated when Granik’s family comes to celebrate the spring Greening festival. Juniper and Granik must convince everyone they’re madly in love. But the longer they pretend to be a couple, the harder it becomes to remember why they were faking it in the first place.
Must Love Lavender and Little Lies is a spicy cozy fantasy romance full of farmcore vibes, gentle magic, mischievous shrieking goats, and a love story that will warm your heart.
Must Love Lavender and Little Lies is book 3 in the enchanting Moonshine Hollow series. Each novel in the series can be read as a standalone. Different couples and storylines
Perfect for lovers of wholesome spice and cozy romantasy! Fans of Kimberly Lemming, Heather Fawcett, J Penner, and Tee Harlowe will devour this perfectly cozy and deliciously passionate tale of magic, friendship, and learning what you really want in life.
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