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+.
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.”
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.
Giveaway to Win 4 x Signed Books by Stephen Cox (Open to UK Only)
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.
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– 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
