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Cover Reveal: Fathomless – Laura Holt

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We’re thrilled to present the brand-new cover for Laura Holt’s fairy tale retelling, Fathomless, which is also available for pre-order!

Fathomless (Star-Crossed Book 5)

Expected Publication Date: October 29, 2024

Genre: Fairy Tale Retelling/ Greek Mythology

  • Enemies to Lovers
  • Lovers to Enemies
  • Star-Crossed Love
  • Fairy Tale Retelling
  • Strong Female Characters
  • Cinderella Didn’t Ask for a Prince
  • Angry Girls with Attitude
  • Greek Mythology

Cather Ganis didn’t ask for power. Now that her star-crossed curse is broken, all she wants is to settle down and live a quiet, normal life with her husband, Peter.
Unfortunately, things are never normal when you’re an immortal goddess, and as the Curse Breaker and Deity Killer of the gods, Cather has one more curse to break: the curse of reincarnation cast on Rhodopis, Cupid’s long-lost Cinderella. She and a bevy of other deities, including her former boyfriend Hermes, have until the clock strikes midnight on Rhodopis’s eighteenth birthday to end her never ending life cycle, or she’ll be doomed to repeat it until the end of time. That is, if Zeus doesn’t kill her first.

Roupie Sole has always been trouble.
Not because she means to be. Trouble just seems to find her no matter where she goes. So, when she moves in with a wealthy foster family a week before her eighteenth birthday, it seems like she’s finally getting a fairy tale ending.
But there’s something a little too perfect about her new school, and a series of near-death experiences soon put her on edge. When she starts having vivid dreams that feel a little too much like memories, she wonders if there’s more to her rags to riches story than good luck. And if so, how can she figure it out before it destroys everything and everyone she cares about, including herself?

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Blog Tour: Song of the Dark Wood – Sheila Masterson

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We are getting ready to celebrate the release of this beauty on September 20th, and what better way to do that than with a book tour!

Song of the Dark Wood

Publication Date: September 20, 2024

Genre: Gothic/Fairy Tale Romance

😍 He falls first
👻 Girls who see ghosts
🙅🏻‍♀️ Bodily Autonomy
😡 Feminine Rage: The Fairy Tale
🌳 Haunted Forest
🩸 Wound Tending
💀 Touch her and dye
🎶 Music based magic system
😠 A grumpy god of death
😈 He can make me worse > i can fix him

For centuries, the people of remote Ballybrine have kept the peace with their gods by sacrificing a Red Maiden to ferry souls from the Mother’s realm of the living, through the Dark Wood, to the Wolf’s realm of the dead. Soon it will be Rowan’s turn.

Ripped from her family as a young girl, Rowan Cleary has been forced into a cloistered life learning to please the wolf and wield her spirit-enchanting voice. Though none of the previous maidens have survived their five-year term, Rowan is determined to beat the odds and protect the women who have become family to her.

When a deathly blight breaks out in the Dark Wood, and the acting maiden is murdered, Rowan vows to strike a new bargain with the god of death to ensure her survival. The Wolf has always been someone to fear—even more so now that the townspeople blame him for the blight—but he’s far from the vengeful death god she expects.

To unravel the mystery, Rowan must seduce the Wolf. Soon, the attraction between them grows into a relentless magical force, threatening to shatter the delicate balance between realms and unleash a darkness eager to swallow their world.

SONG OF THE DARK WOOD is a standalone gothic fairy tale fantasy romance that blends a fractured Red Riding Hood retelling with a hint of Hades and Persephone. This “coming of rage” character-driven romance follows Rowan Cleary as she tries to free herself from an oppressive cultish religion and seduce the grumpy god of death Wolf. This atmospheric, spicy, dark romantasy is perfect for fans of feminine rage, strong female friendships, unique magic systems, angsty romance, and ominous mysteries. This book will appeal to readers who enjoyed Rachel Gillig’s ONE DARK WINDOW, Rebecca Ross’s A RIVER ENCHANTED, and Hannah Whitten’s FOXGLOVE KING.

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Cover Reveal: Even Angels Fall – E.V. Sauvage

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We’re thrilled to present the cover for Even Angels Fall by by E. V. Sauvage! If this sounds good to you, you’re going to want to pre-order this beauty today!

Even Angels Fall (The Even Ever After Series)

Expected Publication Date: November 28, 2024

Genre: Fantasy Romance/ Shifters

  • Enemies to lovers
  • Marriage of convenience
  • He falls first
  • She’s badass
  • Found family
  • Shapeshifters (she’s a crow/he’s a dragon)

300 years ago, my world collided with Earth.

My kind has been ruling over the world ever since, passing as archangels.

Doves, swans, cockatoo, their white wings in half shifted form are the sign of their power.

I should have been the next in line.

I should have been the new archangel Michaël.

But my wings aren’t white.

So instead I have to stay hidden. Instead, I’ve been trained my whole life. Instead, I’m their weapon.

Because who would be best suited to kill the dragon shifter living inside of Notre Dame than a fallen angel?

My name is Angélique. I’m a crow-shifter, and my mission is to marry Elhyor and to kill him on our wedding night.

But nothing is the way it seems, and the dragon might be harder to kill than I thought.

He might also be my only chance at freedom…

Do I have any chance of surviving unscathed?

Only time will tell…

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Book Blitz: Vicious Luna – C.J. Primer

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Happy release day and congrats to author C.J. Primer! Get your copy of Vicious Luna and visit our Instagram page for a chance to win a book box!

Vicious Luna: An Enemies to Lovers Wolf Shifter Romance (Shadowed Heirs Book Four)

Publication Date: September 17, 2024

Genre: PNR/ Shifters

  • Fated Mates
  • PNR (Wolf Shifters)
  • Enemies to Lovers
  • Forced Proximity
  • Hostage Situation
  • Strong FMC who takes no shit
  • Morally grey MMC
  • Primal play
  • Secrets & Lies

I usually dance on bars, not find myself waking up behind them.

I’m in a cell, captured by the enemy that has been hunting my kind for the past decade. They’re holding me hostage to use for leverage in their sick extermination effort, forcing me to live through my worst nightmare and subjecting me to unspeakable horrors. While a lesser woman would give up, I’ll stop at nothing to find a way to escape this place, even if it means crossing a few lines.

The guy who’s keeping me under lock and key is stone cold, but there’s no mistaking the way he looks at me. As much as he hates himself for it, he wants me, and that’s something I can work with.

Little by little, I’ll let him get closer. I’ll make him believe I’m playing his game while setting a honey trap he can’t help but get caught in. He’ll think he’s breaking me down, but I’ll just be biding my time, waiting for an opening to shove a knife in his back and set myself free.

There’s only one problem with my plan, though…

There’s a fine line between love and hate.

Vicious Luna is book four in the Shadowed Heirs series, a collection of paranormal romance novels centered around a group of aligned packs of wolf shifters. These books contain mature content (steamy scenes!), frequent use of profanity, and darker themes. While each book in the series concludes with a HEA for the main couple featured, there are some loose ends concerning the overarching storyline that runs throughout the entire five-book series. This book can be enjoyed as a standalone. The first three books in the series are available on KU.

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This book contains darker themes that may be triggering for some readers. Possible triggers include, but are not limited to: bullying, kidnapping, hostage situation, emotional blackmail, manipulation, dubious consent, rough sex, primal play, graphic violence, blood, gore, use of firearms, death, threat of sexual assault (not between MCs), anxiety, depression, and thoughts of self-harm. I have tried to handle all of these with care, and this story WILL have a happy ending. It’s just a rough road to get there, but if anyone can go through hell and come out stronger on the other side, it’s Avery. I hope you enjoy her story.

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Book Blitz: The Book of Cin  – H.M. Wolfe

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We’re celebrating the upcoming release of the stunning romantic fantasy, The Book of Cin by H.M. Wolfe! 

The Book of Cin

Expected Publication Date: September 14, 2024

Genre: Romantic Fantasy

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  • Touch her and die
  • Found family
  • Lovers to enemies
  • Forced proximity
  • Secret identity
  • Hidden magic
  • Orphans
  • Dragons
  • Real politics
  • Mental health & PTSD representation
  • Slow burn
  • Open door spice

IF YOU BELIEVE IN THE GODS, PRAY NOW. THEIR PROTECTION ENDS HERE.

At Asrai’s Academy for Orphans, Hyacinth stands at a crossroads. Torn between the safety of the only home she has ever known and leaving it all behind for a chance at a new life—for freedom. But when a mysterious messenger appears, whispering rumors of a God among Fae, everything Hyacinth thought she knew about the Realms comes crashing down.

Thrust into a deadly game of power and greed, Hyacinth discovers dormant magic within her that may hold the key to survival—or mark her for death. With her friends beside her, Hyacinth must navigate through murderous realms of vicious creatures, lethal betrayals and prophecies of old.

Secrets unravel, bonds are tested, and romance decays and blossoms amidst the looming promise of war. As alliances shift and enemies close in, her only hope lies in reaching the fabled safe haven of Locdragoon—but reaching it may cost her everything she loves.

“The Book of Cin” is a high fantasy tale of love, loss, and the enduring power of friendship. Embark on an epic adventure where courage meets destiny—and magic, sacrifice, and hope are the threads that bind us.

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Blog Tour: Plea to a Frozen God – C.M. Skiera

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Welcome to the tour for C.M. Skiera’s epic fantasy, Plea to a Frozen God! Read on for more details!

Plea to a Frozen God

Publication Date: August 22, 2024

Genre: Epic Fantasy

Prince Ligo endured a troubled engagement. Betrothed to a foreigner to save a realm abandoned by their god, the prince suffers a seizure during a sacred hunt, and awakens to see his fiancée’s family usurp the volcano-menaced realm. Indeed, Prince Ligo has seen better days.

When the enigmatic Mystic Riggan rescues Prince Ligo from the deadly coup, she leads him on a pilgrimage to the cryptic God of Death’s secret sanctum. Fugitives in the frigid wilds, the beleaguered duo conscripts a badly wounded soldier to help them survive. Pursuing answers to what truly ails the realm, the misfit trio discovers more ancient mysteries at their journey’s end. They also find the beginnings of a home and family like none they’d ever known.

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Blog Tour: Secrets of Thorns – Fleur Devillainy

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We’re celebrating the release of Secrets of Thorns with a tour this week! Make sure you follow along for great content and early reviews!

Secrets of Thorns (The Vandeleur Trilogy Book 2)

Publication Date: August 19, 2023

Genre: Romantic Fantasy

✨Romantic fantasy
✨Morally gray MMC
✨Slow Burn Spice
✨Unicorn shifter FMC
✨Fated Mates
✨One Tent
✨The Chosen One
✨Magical Library
✨The Last Unicorn Meets ACOTAR

What is the price of freedom?
Sybil Vandeleur, the last known unicorn shifter, is free from the queen’s grasp, but trapped under the mountain of Aldervora, searching for the lost library and white witches in a desperate attempt to save her kind.
Aramis, Prince of Shadowvale, finds himself powerless and without a throne after making a bargain to rescue her with the rebels who he’s spent his whole life hunting down.
Will love and determination be enough to overcome the obstacles that stand in their way? Or will they be torn apart, destined to be enemies forever?

From author Fleur DeVillainy, comes a captivating, magical book that blends romance and adventure into a tantalizing read.

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Book Blitz: Secrets of the Unborn – CH Lyn

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Secrets of the Unborn: The Leader & the Rebel Duology by CH Lyn & Tracey Barski is now available!

Secrets of the Unborn: The Leader & the Rebel Duology by CH Lyn & Tracey Barski

War of the Unborn by C.H. Lyn
They were created to end the decades-long war. But what happens when the war is over?

Tropes:

  • One-bed
  • Nightmares
  • Revenge arc
  • Found family.
  • Animosity to lovers
  • Badass FMC
  • Second-chance romance

The war is over.

Decades of strife and ruin brought to a close through the use of Unborn—super soldiers created with more strength and stamina than the average man could fathom.
For Jamie, life after the war is mundane: fight nights in the evenings bloodying her knuckles against the jaws of fellow Unborn, and construction work during the day clearing out ruined sections of a once-great city.

There’s not much to complain about. She has a roof over her head, a sister by her side, and sometimes enough food to fill her belly.
So when Oliver, an old flame and a fellow Unborn, arrives with devastating news about their people, Jamie is reluctant to get involved. This darkness, this plague of horror affecting the engineered soldiers, has nothing to do with her.

Until it does.

Jamie has always known loss, but not like this.
With a shadow looming over her people, and her sister’s life on the line, she joins Oliver on a trek across a crumbling country that neither trusts them as people nor accepts them as citizens.

The clock is ticking, the secret behind the darkness is unfolding, and Jamie’s staunch refusal to care about Oliver again is put to the test.

Unborn Rising by Tracey Barski

They were created to end the decades-long war. But what happens when the war is over?

Tropes:

  • Grumpy/grumpy
  • Slow-burn romance
  • Man vs machine
  • Animosity to lovers
  • Kick ass FMC
  • Found family

Victoria has only ever been one thing: a warrior. Scientifically designed to be perfect in every way, she was enhanced for optimal precision in war, the model Silver—a leader until the end.
But after the war, Vic and her people, the Unborn, return to a society that’s in shambles, and the last thing the worn-out population wants is more mouths to feed.

As tensions and prejudices mount, the effort to carve out a life for themselves becomes a fight for survival when Vic’s entire village is annihilated and she’s the only one to make it out.
She seeks shelter from an old war buddy, discovering that trust is hard-won among the group of Unborn and Organics she finds—for her and her new community. Especially with the safe haven’s enigmatic leader. Feelings surface despite their mutual suspicion, putting Vic’s staunch adherence to protocol on shaky ground.

When she learns a secret that changes everything about who she is and what is happening to her people, she and her new allies work to find the key to freeing her fellow Unborn before they become victims to their programming.

Corruption is revealed, lives are put in danger, and everything comes down to one question: what does it mean to be human?

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Blog Tour: Violence in the Void – Alice Stanco

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Have your read Violence in the Void by Alice Stanco yet? We highly recommend you do!

Violence in the Void

Publication Date: November 2023

Genre: Dark Romantic Fantasy

  • Multiple dialects
  • Mental health rep
  • Life & love after trauma
  • Hidden realm
  • Elemental magic
  • Phantom hands daddy
  • Tall, dark, & brazen MMC
  • Feisty, resilient, & powerful FMC
  • Morally grey everyone
  • “Mine”
  • “You’re safe with me”
  • Forced proximity
  • He cooks for her
  • Quest-centered plot

The Void is encroaching, threatening to take over…
Will his Violence set me free, or push me further into Its grasp?

That day at the Armantrea market was the same as any other, until a tall, beautiful stranger appeared and snapped his fingers.

In an instant, my world disappeared, replaced by his strange land. I’m suddenly surrounded by foreign accents, mysterious, magic-wielding Astrales like Xander, and powers I never knew existed.

Except, in Xander’s eyes, I belong here. Fate’s unfathomable hand guided mine to unknowingly create a replica of an ancient Astrale relic—one with the power to upend society as we know it. Months later, I am responsible for tracking down this lost replica through an unfamiliar world, with Xander as my guide.

But the Astrales are playing with powers far beyond my comprehension, and have political agendas I can’t begin to understand.

Despite his barbaric and controlling demeanor, I find myself drawn to Xander, and something shifts as I begin to rely on him for my safety. When threats from this new world circle in, truths from my past begin to surface, and I am forced to question everything I know.

Xander does what he can to protect me, but I soon realize that even he can’t stop the Void that threatens to swallow me whole…

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Blog Tour: A Conduit of Light – Chelsey Ann Tompkins

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To prepare for the December release of A Blightress of Wrath, we’re touring A Conduit of Light this week!

A Conduit of Light (A Conduit of Light Series Book 1)

Genre: Romantic Fantasy

✨He falls first
🌲Powerful women
✨Forced proximity
🌲Secrets & lies
✨Enchanted library
🌲Magic forest
✨Haunting betrayal
🌲Enduring love

“You cannot go through your life thinking no one has loved you. Thinking no one has seen your soul because I have. I see it. And I love you for it.”

As a deadly disease courses through her city, twenty-year-old Ash’Arah is selected as the magic wielder who will be taken as payment for the cure. Chosen by the Baron of Felgren to come train her power in the forest which fuels it, Ash attempts to return to her former life by proving herself both weak and useless.

She is neither.

And as she finds friendship, a home, and love, the dark truth about what consumes the forest comes to light, leaving her with the inescapable destiny to save it or fall to a darker fate.

This is book one of three in a multiple POV romantic fantasy with enchanting magic and very little violence. With some adult language and light spice, you will find themes of self-discovery, feminine rage, and the endurance of love. The slow suspense and intrigue will grip you with twists that will keep you guessing until the very end.

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