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Blog Tour: Ink Witch – Brogan Thomas

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We’re touring the August release Ink Witch this week! If you love a good witchy book with a fierce FMC, you need to read this one!

Ink Witch (Arcane Magic Book One)

Release Date: August 27, 2026

Genre: Urban Fantasy Stand-Alone

  • Fierce Heroine
  • Magical Mysteries
  • Runes & Sigils
  • No Spice, Slow-Burn Romance
  • Magical Worlds
  • Loyal Dog

Branded a failure. Buried in shame. Then they steal her dog.

Once, Elenora “Elmo” Morris was the pride of Ink District. Chosen as Champion for the Immortality Trials, she carried a city’s hopes on her shoulders — until it all went wrong and she crawled home in disgrace.

Now Elmo works as a bounty hunter in a city ruled by immortals. Her only friend is Mina, her beloved dog. When enforcers snatch Mina and drag her to the immortal commander’s compound, Elmo has only hours before her dog disappears for good.

Breaking in should be a death sentence. Instead, ink power flares back to life, and Elmo discovers the Trials weren’t just rigged — they were a lie.

To save her dog and face the family who cast her out, this ink witch must stop running from the past and become the spark that burns the lies down.

Ink Witch is the spellbinding first standalone in the Arcane Magic urban fantasy series. If you love fierce middle-aged heroines, slow-burn romance, loyal dogs, and magic-soaked suspense, you’ll adore this magical rollercoaster ride.

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Book Blitz: Tethered – Elayna R. Gallea

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Tethered (The Binding Chronicles Book One)

Release Date: September 8, 2026

Genre: Vampire Romantasy

Publisher: @randomhouseca

  • Arranged marriage
  • Extreme forced proximity
  • Morally grey vampire shadow daddy
  • He falls first
  • “My wife” are two of his favourite words
  • World’s worst MIL
  • Only one bed
  • Touch her and d1e

The first book in The Binding Chronicles, Tethered is a darkly seductive romantasy for fans of A Court of Thorns and Roses and The Serpent and the Wings of Night, blending forbidden love, dangerous magic and a bond that defies fate.

What could be worse than an arranged marriage to a vampire prince?

When Luna is sold into marriage to the vampire Prince of Darkness, she expects cruelty, not temptation. Prince Sebastian was made to obey his queen, even if that means binding himself to a mortal he doesn’t want and burying every trace of the humanity he lost centuries ago. But the moment their blood mingles during the Binding Ceremony, something ancient and forbidden ignites between them.

Now bound by a magic neither understands and incapable of going more than thirty feet apart, Luna and Sebastian are trapped in each other’s orbit—tethered but unwilling to surrender. As political schemes twist into betrayal and war brews on the horizon, desire becomes their greatest danger. Loving each other could cost them their crowns, their kingdoms and their lives.

Steeped in dark magic, aching passion and impossible choices, Tethered is a sweeping gothic romantasy about two enemies bound by fate and undone by love.

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Cover Reveal: The Wild Daughter – Jesikah Sundin

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The Wild Daughter (Last Greenwood Wilds Duet #1)

Expected Release Date: January 19. 2027

Genre: Romantasy

Tropes:

•Character driven romantasy

•Interconnected standalones

•High stakes fantasy romcoms

•Dark-around-the-edges romance

•Enemy families to lovers

•Spy games

•Fated mates

•Wound tending

•Reluctant allies

•Found family

•He falls first

•Cat shenanigans

•Midnight snacks

An undercover operative on the run

A wild fae with a vendetta against her family

And an entangled plot to retake the faerie wilds

Nothing good ever happens in a back alley, I’ve learned. Except for when taking down a shadow market man for the rebel order. Truly, an exhilarating experience.

But when a motherly elf appears after a mission and declares I must leave if I wish to survive—and leave with Kalen Kelly, no less, a former wild fae Seren thief and suspected smuggler—I start to question my once very sound mind. More so when she adds that my fate also belongs in the last Greenwood Wilds of Carran.

Laughable, really. Wild fae do not return to the Greenwood. Not if they wish to survive, that is.

Naturally, I dismiss the encounter . . . until the soldier hunting me, the one I faked my own death to escape, finds me in the tavern where I work undercover. The tavern Kalen just happens to walk into minutes later. And now I have two options:

1) Seduce Kalen, then drug him to sneak onto his boat with my cat.

2) Run to the next big town and, once more, hide the government documents I stole.

Against all my training, I choose the thief. And saints, Kalen Kelly is the most infuriating, outrageously flirtatious, strategic game I have ever played.

The elf in the back alley lied.

My heart most certainly will not survive the dangerous rhythm of his. I’m starting to fear I may not survive crossing into the Greenwood either.

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Cover Reveal: The Eldritch Queen – Jacquelyn Gilmore

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It’s an absolute privilege to share the cover reveal of the final book in The Plot of the Six Saint Series, The Eldritch Queen, available for pre-order now!

The Eldritch Queen (The Plot of the Six Saint Series Book 4)

Expected Release Date: December 18, 2026


Genre: Dark Fantasy Romance

Final book in the series
Fated mate emotional ruin
Hard-earned HEA
Epic battle w/ dragons

Pulled into a war older than gods, the queen hunts the power at the heart of creation—and risks becoming the very thing it was meant to unleash.

Some truths are buried for a reason.

After Fabric instability rocks her kingdom, Imani descends into the Under with Esa, searching for the one piece of the Fabric that could change everything.

The Source.

A force at the center of creation—and the reason the Upper and the Under have been at war for tens of thousands of years.

But the deeper Imani goes, the more the truth unravels.

Ancient powers rise. The Six Saints step out of legend. And the father she was never meant to meet forces her to question everything she thought she was.

Then Niflheim strikes.

As war explodes across Essenheim, Imani is pulled back into the fight—where magic fractures, loyalties shift, and Kiran stands at the center of the battlefield.

Ally. Enemy. Something far more dangerous.

Because the closer Imani gets to the Source, the more it feels as if it has been waiting for her.

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Blog Tour: The Peddler – Elyssa S. Schwendy

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Every now and then we get to share something special with you all and The Peddler is a fantasy anthology which is the very definition!

The Peddler

Release Date: January 2026

Genre: Fantasy Short Stories/ Fantasy Anthology

A traveling peddler enters a tavern on a stormy night.

She takes a seat at a table, opens her sailcloth bag, and removes a number of trinkets, ready to weave tales from her travels to her rapt audience… But where to begin?

…a mermaid seeking to walk on land to avenge a murder.
…a daughter of powerful nobles battling how she was raised and what she believes.
…a lighthouse keeper holding vigil for her long-lost love across the sea.
…a petty thief scamming the rich to help the poor.
…or perhaps something else to keep her audience on the edge of their seats.

This collection of fairytale retellings will introduce you to familiar characters you may no longer recognize. Perfect for fans of shadowy plots, criminals with hearts of gold, star-crossed lovers, and happily-ever-afters, The Peddler is sure to entertain you as much as her captive audience.

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Triggers: General violence/murder, mental illness (depression and body dysmorphic disorder), pandemic-level plague, verbal/emotional parental abuse

 

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Cover Reveal: Josie’s Guide to Necromancy – Rachel Menard

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Josie’s Guide to Necromancy

Expected Release Date: March 2027

Genre: Horrormance

Cover Artist: @barryenlightening

Tropes:

• He falls first

• Unlikely pairing

• Thrown together

• Opposites attract

• He’s dead but I can make it work

• Type A eldest sister

• Witchcraft and Necromancy

• A story told in journal form

• Battling the undead

Emily Wilde’s Encyclopedia of Faeries meets The Mummy in this fantastical jazz age horror romance where a debutante and a thief have to stop a witch and her army of the undead from claiming the city.

Triggers: Death, murder, violence

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Audiobook Tour: Twisted Bond – Katlyn DeRouen

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We’re celebrating the August release of the audiobook edition of Twisted Bond by Katlyn DeRouen!

Twisted Bond (Twisted Bond Series #1)

Release Date: August 4, 2026

Genre: Portal Fantasy

Narrators: Monica Cannon & Dallin Bradford

  • Found family
  • Enemies to lovers
  • Hidden identities
  • Royalty
  • Closed door
  • Prophecies
  • Fae
  • Portal to another world
  • Enemies to friends to lovers
  • Good vs. Evil

Three Girls.

Three Lives.

One Bond.

After almost a decade apart, Cammie, Hannah, and Sabina never expected their paths to cross again so suddenly. But when Cammie is plagued by memories of a person she has never met, she has no choice but to reach out to the friends she lost touch with years ago.

A charismatic stranger—by the name of Caelan—claims he holds the answers to her mounting list of questions. Instead, Cammie winds up in a comatose state. With Caelan’s help, Sabina races against time to find the man in Cammie’s memories who holds the key to an unseen world… before her friend is lost within her own mind forever.

Meanwhile, Hannah finds herself fighting for her life after being thrust into the middle of a war between beings rumored to be myth. In the midst of the chaos, one element holds true… fate pulled them back together for a reason. Will the trio uncover the truth they seek? Or run from an answer they fear will shatter their world as they know it?

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Trigger warnings in this book include kidnapping, minor descriptions of blood, a few on screen character deaths, and characters you will love/hate to root for.

 

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Book Release Blitz: The Duchess Curse – Charlie Lane

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The Duchess Curse: A Spicy Historical Romantasy

Series: Alchemy of Desire

Release Date: August 31, 2026

  • Gaslamp fantasy
  • Hints of steampunk and witchery
  • Marriage in trouble
  • Spicy open door scenes
  • Love potion revenge
  • All the groveling
  • Women in magical STEM
  • Bridgerton meets magic
  • Standalone 

Shadows rule the darkness. She must embrace them to find the light.

A transcendent daughter’s life should be carefree, but Guinevere’s life has always been a curse. Loving any man could kill him, so she swears to remain a spinster. And when her parents force her into an arranged marriage, she knows the only way to save the mysterious duke she could love, is to break his heart by leaving.

No matter how much Guinevere pushes him away, the Duke of Braxton knows she’s the only woman for him. His magic allows him to hide his identity and follow her wherever she goes. As she cultivates the reputation of the most notorious potion maker in England, he abandons the role of duke for that of Guinevere’s bodyguard Bran.

Years later, a Queen’s command forces them to meet once more as man and wife, duke and duchess. But he can’t keep his secrets forever, and when Guinevere finds out Braxton and Bran are the same man…

He’ll do anything to atone.

And she’ll do anything to keep him safe, even break her own heart.

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  • Discussion of death
  • On-page emotional neglect of child
  • Discussion of child marriage
  • Discussion of substance abuse

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Blog Tour: Dungeons & Dimwits – James Mascia

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Dungeons & Dimwits is a fantasy comedy series about a group of gamers trapped inside their own tabletop role-playing campaign. This first volume begins their journey as they discover that their imaginary world is now very real―and very dangerous. The series follows the party as they face monsters, magic, rival adventurers, impossible quests, and the consequences of their own chaotic

storytelling. Readers should begin with Volume 1, which introduces the characters, the world, and the hilarious disaster that launches the adventure.


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James Mascia is the founder and publisher of Dren Productions, where he creates sci-fi, horror, and fantasy comics and novels packed with imagination, humor, and thrills. He is the author of titles including Flesh-Eating Cheerleaders, Dungeons & Dimwits, The Poe Murders, and High School Heroes. When he’s not writing strange and exciting stories, James works as a high school English teacher in Maryland. A lifelong fan of Comic Cons, cheesy sci-fi and horror movies, and Dungeons & Dragons, he brings his love of genre storytelling into everything he writes.

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My thoughts: Sucked into the role playing tabletop game (rptg) that shares it’s initials with this book’s title, a group of friends discover that things have just got very real. And that two of them are apparently girls now.

Trying to find a way out of the fantasy world where everything is trying to kill them only seems to make things worse. They’re not powerful to escape and they need to level up and also defeat a sorceress who seems to be the reason they’re stuck. So side quests it is. Once they escape the dwarf dungeons they’re currently stuck in and stay alive long enough to get home.

It’s funny, silly and perfect for anyone you know who likes D&D or other role playing games. You don’t need to know all the ins and outs of the games to enjoy it though, I have beginner’s knowledge gleaned from having friends who play these games, and I found it very entertaining.

*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: Flesh Endures – Sue C. Bentley

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Lord Karolan, endowed with an arcane knowledge of alchemy, knows immortality comes at a price, for any lover perishes at his touch. His only companion is his ‘familiar’ – a greedy, wanton spirit that attached itself to him during his transformation and feasts on his fleshly desires as it yearns to become human.

Karolan saves Garnetta from the plague sweeping through early gothic Europe, by bestowing the ‘dark gift’ upon her, but without her permission. A bond of desire develops between the two, and a future for them seems possible. Until Garnetta learns the shocking truth about what Karolan’s laboratory holds, and what he has done to her.

Fleeing in horror, she unwittingly falls into the hands of the inquisition. Found guilty of heresy, she is to be subject to a fate even she cannot survive. Dare she open her heart to Karolan now she knows what he is? All while risking attracting his ‘familiar’ – now attached to her also and eager to inhabit her enticing female form.
Karolan is desperate to find the woman he has grown to love, knowing that only a leap of faith can lead him to her, before time runs out.

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Publication Date: 28th October 2026

Sue’s first love is gothic fiction, both to read and to write. Her books for adults are inspired by classics like Frankenstein, Dracula, the paintings of Hieronymus Bosch and William Blake, Victoriana,and the dark fairy tales and folklore of the British Isles.

She has published a number of novels using pen names, notably for Virgin Publishing’s Black Lace imprint – erotic fiction for women, written by women. And for Little, Brown’s, XLibris list. She is also the author of a Sunday Times, worldwide bestselling children’s series for Penguin Random House.

During recent years she has returned to writing for adults, exploring her favourite themes with two dark fantasy novels for Joffe Books. Her short stories have also been published in a number of anthologies. 

Flesh Endures is the product of her latest journey into the dark underworld of her imagination.

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