We’re thrilled to be touring award-winning romantasy, Thieves of Time Forgotten by Emilia Ramos.
Thieves of Time Forgotten (The Shadow Heir Trilogy)
Release Date: September 2024
Genre: YA Romantasy
Tropes: Dark magic, romantasy, time travel, slow burn, beautiful fantasy palaces…
A kingdom whose deadliest secrets live only in its memories.
After two years, Naomi Elistaire escapes the dungeons of the very castle where she was once a princess. Exiled in the foreign kingdom of Tashiki, Naomi has one final chance to reclaim the throne and save the empire from her tyrannous mother.
She assembles her crew: two quick-handed thieves and an escaped assassin, along with a mischievous snow monkey. The plan? Cross Tashiki, reach the king-in-waiting before his coronation, and bargain her way to an army—all while hiding the Dark magic that courses through her royal blood.
And then there’s Ez.
The man she once loved… and the traitor whose choice lost her the last war. Rumor has it he’s set to sail for Tashiki too, drawn by a rogue mission and a prophecy lost to time centuries ago.
We’re celebrating the release of Bright Burns the Flame and we are thrilled to introduce you to your new obsession!
Bright Burns the Flame
Release Date: February 28, 2026
Genre: Epic Romantic Fantasy
Badass FMC
Only one horse
Found family
Deadly trials
Brutal academy
He falls first and hard
Fantasy spice
Slow burn romance
Lethal secrets
Mentor/mentee
Forbidden romance
Welcome to the dark and secretive world of Ashthorn Ward, the kingdom’s most brutal military academy—where weapons aren’t forged of steel, but of people.
Nineteen-year-old Lory has spent her life surviving Dunai’s alleys with blades, wits, and an iron will. Now, caught and conscripted, she must endure Ashthorn, where rivals are lethal, failure is fatal, and obedience comes at the cost of herself.
But Lory is not like the others. When the Ward uncovers a dangerous secret in her blood, she’s offered an impossible deal: survive their trials, and she’ll serve the crown as a weapon honed for war. Fail—and she won’t leave Ashthorn alive.
Overseeing her transformation is Captain Khayrivven Falcrest. Cold, ruthless, and utterly untouchable, he’s the last person she should trust—and the only one who seems to see the person beneath the monster the Ward wants her to become.
As war rises beyond the border and rebellion festers in the shadows, Lory must navigate Ashthorn’s deadly games—and her forbidden gift—before both claim her.
Enemies. Rivals. Lovers.
At Ashthorn Ward, trust is a weapon, love is a liability, and the only way out is through blood.
Bright Burns the Flame is the first installment in a darkly romantic fantasyscape, perfect for fans of slow-burn enemies-to-lovers romance, morally gray heroes who fall first and hard, heroines who fight for their own power, and magical academies filled with secrets and danger.
Perfect for fans of Fourth Wing, Quicksilver, and A Court of Mist and Fury.
We’re getting ready for the release of Demons For Breakfast on March 13th, and can’t wait to hear what early readers are saying! Pre-order now!
Demons For Breakfast (Nightshade Hearts)
Expected Release Date: March 13, 2026
Genre: Witchy Urban Fantasy
*Urban Fantasy
*Reluctant Partnership
*Cursed Hero
*She Saves Him
*Witch Romance
*Slow burn
*Herb Based Magic
San Francisco is cracked open by demon portals, but Sorrel Redwood has always known the dead don’t stay quiet. A commune-raised herb witch with a silver mane and lavender-tinted shades, Sorrel makes her living banishing spirits and brewing intention oils. What she really wants, though, is revenge—the kind that only comes when she finds the demons who tore her mother from the world.
But when a botched banishment binds her to Ranth, a centuries-old wizard with more scars than secrets, Sorrel’s witch-for-hire gig turns into a war. Demon hounds are hunting. An ancient cult is watching. And thanks to the curse laced through Ranth’s golden bracelet—now mirrored on Sorrel’s own wrist—if he dies, she dies.
With her Scooby-gang of experts, a grumpy cat named Antimony, and every herb in her belt, Sorrel will have to decide how much she’s willing to sacrifice. Because in San Francisco, even the city of fog can’t hide the truth: not all demons wear horns, and not all hearts stay human.
Chasm of Dreams is LIVE! This is the first book in a new series by Dakoda Mazzill!
Chasm Of Dreams(The Fate of Astaran Series Book 1)
Genre: Dark Romantasy
Release Date: March 3, 2026
✨Touch her and die
✨One horse
✨” Who did this to you?”
✨ FMC goes from reluctant hero to BAMF
✨Hurt/Comfort/Consent
✨Mysterious mind link between MCs
✨ Strangers to lovers
✨Yearningggg
✨Non-toxic relationships
✨MMC is a cinnamon roll w/ a tortured soul
✨” The Gods have abandoned us…”
✨ Epic, High Fantasy
✨Psychic abilities
✨Prophecy
✨Revolution
✨” Where you go, I go.”
✨” You have me now. All of me.”
✨Trauma and orphan rep
✨Alchemy magic
✨Multiple POV & couples
✨Found family 🫶🏼
✨Diverse cast
✨Open door spice
More than a thousand years ago, the humans of Astaranwere conquered by a vengeful Fallen Angel named Chemosh a.k.a “The Sovereign”. Through the deception of Hel’s general—the mighty black wolf and demi-God, SkÖll—she betrays the Gods of Lyrath to declare war on a race of humans with powerful psychic abilities. The Gods then exile her to Astaran and sever her black wings. With the help of her acolytes, The Anakaii, she takes control of Astaran.
AIDA is an orphan and nomad whose parents vanished when she was seven. Her gift of Dream Walking allows her to project into anyone’s mind and plant a suggestion that will compel them to comply. When her power leads to deadly consequences, she vows to never use the gift on anyone again. During her time in the wilderness, Aida’s relationships are sparce, except for the mysterious presence that has been linked to her consciousness for as long as she can remember…
When an Astaran Guard and tracker named TYRAN is tasked with finding an escaped prisoner, he finds Aida after she has been captured by four vicious servants of The Sovereign. Upon saving her from a brutal assault, the pair flee into the dangerous depths of The Furian wood, far from the reach of The Sovereign’s stronghold in Opeth city.
As they travel to the bounds of their known world and approach the towering Vazaketh mountain range, they encounter ancient beasts, discover a hidden race of exiles, learn the answers to the secrets of their past and future, and a solidify a soul-bond that may be the key to the liberation of their entire realm.
Chasm of Dreams takes place in a primitive world where only brute strength, cunning and cruelty have enabled its humans to survive. This story contains graphic depictions of violence, death, imprisonment, drugging, suicidal ideation, kidnapping, consensual sex, and threats of SA.
There is also love, courage, kindness and compassion…
We’re proud to present the cover for A Fated Reckoning by Jamye Smith! Pre-order this beauty now!
A Fated Reckoning: An Epic Fae and Vampire Romantasy Standalone Expected Release Date: June 24, 2026 Genre: Dark Romantasy
TROPES:
💔 Hate-to-Love 🔥 Fated Mates/Soul Bond 🗡️ Second Chance Romance 🧛 Vampire x Fae Warrior 🔒 Forbidden Love ⚔️ She’s Mine 🐌 Slow Burn ⛓️ Forced Proximity 💀 Deadly Trials ♾️Immortals (she’s older) ✨High Fantasy world
SPICE: 🌶️🌶️🌶️
Spicy Romance – foreplay & one explicit intimate scene
A FATED RECKONING is a standalone second-chance romantic fantasy between bonded mates. Bryn’s soul is shattered into four fragments after Mikael gets her cursed. They haven’t seen each other in 200 years. And now, Bryn is forced to work with Mikael to break the curse or she’ll die.
I loved him once. Now I measure my hate in the inches of steel I’ve driven into his chest. 200 years ago, Mikael’s betrayal cost me everything. I survived by becoming someone who feels nothing. Then he shows up claiming I’m cursed—my soul shattered into four fragments. To recover them, we must face deadly trials together.
PERFECT FOR FANS OF:
Quicksilver by Callie Hart – When the Moon Hatched by Sarah A. Parker – Serpent and Wings of Night by Carissa Broadbent – Smoke and Scar by Gretchen Powell Fox – No Rest for the Wicked by Kresley Cole
Standalone with HEA – No cliffhanger – First Person POV. This is Book 1 in an interconnected series of standalones featuring different couples in the world. Each book can be read alone, but characters appear across stories.
We’re thrilled to share another amazing new release from the Starlit Desires Saga! This dark fantasy romance is called The Frost that Burns by Carliann Jean!
The Frost that Burns
Part of: Starlit Desires (6 books)
Release Date: February 10, 2026
Genre: Fantasy Romance/ Why Choose
🥀Gothic underworld vibes
🩸Vampire x demons
🫦MMF romance (queer awakening)
❤️🩹Mental health and disability rep
💃🏼Soulmate festival
🗡️Hate to love you
😏Friends to lovers
✨Dancing under the stars
🔥Spicy spice
🤌🏻So much banter
Misery might be able to dance with love after all.
Finding a soulmate at the Starlit Festival is a dream for most souls. But for Keres, a lethal ruby vampire chained to the demands of a ruthless queen, a week of starry skies and fated love is simply another broken dream. Not all clipped wings can heal in the darkness of the Underworld.
But when her best friend arranges a week off from serving their cruel queen, Keres is content to enjoy feasting on decadent sweets and blood wine while dancing under the stars.
Until she finds her demons.
As the general of Wrath’s army, Ares has spent centuries hiding behind charming smiles and brutality. But when a mission to poison the queen’s prized weapon is thwarted, Ares finds he may be willing to remove his careful mask if it means having more of her.
Tristan, the grumpy royal adviser, knows love isn’t destined for damaged souls like him. Preferring to keep his scowling face buried in his books, Tristan is hesitant to let Ares drag him to the Starlit Festival. Rattled by a shared history of trauma and tragedy, the demons had given up on finding their soulmates.
Until they find their vampire.
As Keres and her demons embrace vulnerability and surrender to their carnal desires under the glittering stars of the festival, Keres begins to hope for an impossible future. With freedom and healing on the line, Keres, Ares, and Tristan must find the courage to love one another, and more importantly, themselves.
The Frost That Burns is an adult dark fantasy romance, where sinful desires and love can heal the darkest of trauma.
We’re thrilled to present the cover for A Curse So Bitter and Broken: The Prince and The Enchantress by N.A. Triptow!
This is the first in a new series of romantasy duologies retelling a different Shakespeare play told from the perspective of one of the three Wyrd Sisters.
A Curse So Bitter and Broken: The Prince and The Enchantress
Expected Release Date: June 19, 2025
Genre: YA Romantasy/ Hamlet Retelling
Cover Designer: @author_n_a_triptow
Three sisters. Four time periods. And an ancient fae secret that threatens to destroy all of life itself. Follow the Florentini sisters from modern-day New York City as they become embroiled in a fae war that spans continents and time.
Seventeen-year-old Ophelia Florentini is as normal as any other high school theatre kid, except for the visions of fae creatures that fill her dreams. When her play rehearsal is interrupted by the same ageless elf who keeps showing up to save her—this time from the very creatures in her dreams—her world implodes. As centaurs, pixies, trolls, and all manner of fae attack her family restaurant in the middle of New York City, she finds herself thrown into a new world and time where the events of Shakespeare’s Hamlet are taking place before her very eyes, but not in the way she expects.
In 13th-century Denmark, Hamlet is plunged into chaos when his father, the king, is murdered. Returning from Oxford, the young prince finds that his beloved home is nigh unrecognizable. The queen blames her husband’s murder on the fae living amongst them, and she’s handing out punishments left and right. Only it might not be her doing, for, unbeknownst to Hamlet, the darkness taking root in the kingdom has been brought on by someone much older and far more bitter than the queen.
Will Ophelia be able to avoid Prince Hamlet and her seemingly inescapable death in order to stop the Harbinger of the End of Days and find her way back home, or will she end up just like her namesake?
The Wayward Chronicles is a series of romantasy duologies each retelling a different Shakespeare play told from the perspective of one of the three Wyrd Sisters from Shakespeare’s Macbeth. Perfect for fans of Marissa Meyer’s Gilded, Erin A. Craig’s House of Salt and Sorrows, and Lydia Sherrer’s Love, Lies, and Hocus Pocus. A Curse So Bitter and Broken 1: The Prince and the Enchantress is a dual point of view romantic fantasy retelling of Shakespeare’s Hamlet, where the romance is integral to the story but the magic and high-stakes adventure take center stage.
Happy release day to N. Patel Baxi and congratulations on the release of Dance of the Asuras!
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.
Epheria is a land divided by war and mistrust. The High Lords of the South squabble and fight, only kept in check by the Dragonguard, traitors of a time long past, who serve the empire of the North.
In the remote villages of southern Epheria, still reeling from thetragic loss of his brother, Calen Bryer prepares for The Proving – a test of courage and skill that not all survive.
But when three strangers arrive in the village of Milltown, with a secret they are willing to die for, Calen’s world is ripped from under him and he is thrust headfirst into a war that has been raging for centuries.
There is no prophecy. His coming was not foretold.
He bleeds like any man, and bleed he will.
Ryan Cahill is the award-winning author of the bestselling epic fantasy series, The Bound and The Broken.
Born and raised in Ireland, Ryan now resides amongst the rolling hills and hobbit holes of Middle-Earth, New Zealand. He does not own enough swords, would sell his left kidney for a dragon egg, and despises mushrooms in all their eldritch forms.
There are three things Ryan has always told himself about writing. Write the books you want to read. Write the books that your younger self would be proud of you for reading. Make sure they have dragons.
My thoughts: This is the first book in an epic new fantasy series, complete with dragons. I really like dragons.
Calen and his friends have been sent to drop off an order by his father, when they get involved in a fight with some imperial soldiers and find themselves in an adventure that will change their lives and their world.
Joining a struggle four hundred years old, and meeting the first dragon hatched since then. Calen and that dragon bond and become part of something he can’t fully understand yet. He will lose people he loves, but find allies amongst the dwarves, giants, elves and humans who want to fight back against the empire’s attempts to control the world.
I loved this, I have wanted some new epic fantasy, and dragons. Did I mention I like dragons? The dragon Calen bonds with is not quite what he expects, small and greedy, but brave and their bond helps keep him alive. I can’t wait to read the next book, which I think is out later this year.
*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 newly released romantasy, Obsidian Sky! If you love training academies and dragon riders, this is a must read for you!
Obsidian Sky (Riftborn Series Book 1)
Release Date: February 2, 2026
Genre: Romantasy/ Dragons
🔥Enemies to lovers
🔥Trainer to trainee
🔥Morally gray protector
🔥Fated bond
🔥Deadly training academy trials
🔥Hidden lineage
🔥Dragon-rider fantasy
🔥Forbidden romance
🔥Love and destruction
🔥High-stakes political intrigue
🔥Destiny/prophecy
🔥Elemental magic system
🔥Immersive fantasy world-building
Thaelyn Marren enters the Asgar Training Academy wanting nothing more than to prove herself amongst the other cadets, where she must endure life-threatening trials in the hope of manifesting air, water, fire, or earth magic. Not to mention, a lucky few will pair with dragons who select their riders with ancient instinct, answering only to those whose souls burn bright enough to match their own.
When Thaelyn’s power stirs in ways no instructor can explain, she draws the attention of the crown, particularly Prince Thorne Dareth, a renowned warrior and a dragon rider. Hardened by discipline and haunted by a kingdom he was born to serve, Thorne sees Thaelyn as a danger to the realm and yet is charged with her training. And amidst clashing personalities, an undeniable pull forms between them, potent enough to awaken dark forces that once tore the world apart.
Now rift-born creatures thought to exist only in nightmares are slipping through the cracks of their reality. And as they push the realm toward open war, Thaelyn may be the only one able to stop what’s coming. That is, only if Thorne can choose between loyalty to his crown or the girl whose power could either save their world or bring it to ruin.
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