We have a fantastic book recommendations for you all today and a chance to win a copy of your own!
An Incarnation of Shadow and Light
Release Date: September 2022
Genre: NA Dark Fantasy/ Gaslamp Fantasy
✨Magic
✨LGBTQ+ Rep
✨Morally Grey Characters
✨Betrayals
✨An Exiled Prince
✨Assassins
✨High-Stakes Fantasy
✨Multiple POVs
✨Political intrigue
Four magicians abuse their magic to gain power in a corrupt Victorian inspired world.
In the Kingdom of Verchiél only a handful of people known as Incarnate can use magic. Equally feared and respected, they are revered as saints and indulged like gods. But the sudden deaths of Verchiél’s rulers unleashes a power struggle between four Incarnate, each seeking power to fulfil their own desires.
Gabriel, a charismatic socialite who takes darker paths to avoid slipping back into powerlessness.
Zoe, the daughter of a disgraced merchant, determined to carve a new path for her life.
Niklas, an exiled prince trying to escape the ghosts of his past.
Silje, an assassin who will stop at nothing until she’s seized the adoration she has always been denied.
Infighting and betrayal run rampant as each becomes worse than their problems in order to solve them.
We’re celebrating the release of All the Dark Souls by A.M. Dunnewin, the first book in a new COMPLETED trilogy!
All the Dark Souls (The Dark Souls Trilogy #1)
Release Date: November 11, 2025
Genre: Dark Gothic Romantasy
Strong FMC
Morally grey MMC
Found family
Slow burn
He falls first
Gothic romance
The first book in a new trilogy set in the same world as The Benighted Saga.
Joss Brevyn is the last heir in a long line of executioners. Although a woman, the same rules still apply: kill the condemned within three tries, or be tortured and killed. Joss has yet to miss her mark, and even though she spends her free time as a healer, the town views her only as a deathsman. So when she and her assistant, Henrik, stumble upon a beaten man on the way home, both are hesitant to reveal who they really are. The only problem is, so is he.
Aric Kayden has seen better days. After failing to assassinate his last victim, he’s left bleeding on the side of the road until he’s found and taken in by Joss and Henrik, two seemingly innocent locals. Healing from his wounds, Aric is still haunted by the target he didn’t kill, especially by those who paid him. Despite the undeniable attraction between him and Joss, Aric can’t bring himself to tell the truth: that the masked figures who hired him knows where he is, and his original target is the mysterious prisoner who was recently sentenced to death. Forced to uphold the deal, Aric’s only job now is to make sure the execution goes as planned and eliminate whoever intervenes.
Bound by their duties, both Joss and Aric assume this next kill will be easy. But then one of them has a change of heart, sparking a chain reaction that could leave one-or both-of them dead.
We’re thrilled to announce the release of Sage Haven by Paige Alexandria! This is the first book in The Black Sigil of Naphal series!
Sage Haven (The Black Sigil of Naphal)
Release Date: November 19, 2025
Genre: Dark Romance
• Dual-POV
• First in a Series
• Forced Proximity
• Forbidden Love
• Secret Pasts/Secret Society
• Trauma Recovery/Mental Health Rep
• Morally Gray MMC
• Captor/Captive Dynamic/Kidnapping
• Dark Romance
• Slow Burn
• BDSM
• Music as a Healing Element
• Redemption Arc
• He Calls Her “Wildflower”
SAGE
I ran to disappear. Providence was supposed to be a quiet and untouched place. A fresh start. But then I met Reich Davidian.
Nothing escapes his gaze. Every word from his lips is a blade. And even as instinct begs me to turn away, something in me keeps finding its way back to him.
But I know that every storm hides a calm at its core. And I think I’ve found his.
The only question is if it will be the end of me.
REICH
I was made to destroy monsters. But she isn’t one of them. Instead, she’s the complication that could ruin everything.
Sage Holquinn is untamed, broken, and reckless enough to trespass on my property without realizing whose territory she’s stepped into. I should’ve turned her away. But distance is no longer an option.
She thinks she’s escaping the darkness.
She doesn’t realize she’s running straight into mine.
We’re thrilled to present the cover for Immortal Connections by Tao Wong! Coming next spring!
Immortal Connections (Celestial Cataclysms Book 1)
Expected Release Date: May 1, 2026
Genre: Epic Asian Fantasy
Demons, dragons and immortals
Multiple dimensions
Celestial hierarchy
Reunited lovers
Multi-realm war
Multiple POVs
A new Immortal has risen… and with him, the fate of all the realms hangs in the balance.
Long Wu Ying has ascended to the Heavens, fulfilling the ultimate dream of all cultivators. However, the heavens are not all that it seems, and his vow to raise his lover to the realms of immortality conflicts with the Jade Palace’s rules.
In the Middle Kingdom, the fracturing of an empire echoes across the kingdoms. As states rush to fill the power vacuum, war-weary armies march with little food, weakened by years of drought. Wu Ying’s mortal friends are caught in the middle of the conflict. As leaders among cultivators and within their sect, they must do what they can to hold the world together and carry on without their closest ally.
When chaos consumes the realms above and below, even the greatest cultivators must surrender to the winds of fate.
Immortal Connections is the first book in Celestial Cataclysms, the new epic xianxia fantasy series by Tao Wong. Taking place in the same world as A Thousand Li, it delves into realms old and new, making it perfect for longtime fans and first-time readers alike.
We’re thrilled to announce the release of Viridian by Ashley R. O’Donovan! Get your copy today!
Viridian: The Demon and the Savior Book Two
Release Date: November 18, 2025
Genre: Dystopian Romantasy
Forbidden love
Russian mob vibes
Reluctant heroine
Ghost puppy sidekick
Supernatural abilities
Shatter Me meets Divergent but with ghosts
The dead don’t scare me.
But seeing my first love alive? That terrifies me.
The plan was simple. Kill Marco, rescue the Avids, and disappear with Malachi forever. Then Cade stepped back into my life and shattered everything I thought I knew.
He’s been part of Solace all along, working for the Syndicate, searching for me for years. But I’m not the girl he once loved. Marco’s pretty prison turned me into something darker, something that speaks to ghosts and has a hunger for revenge.
The Volkovs are planning something big, the Syndicate is crumbling from betrayal, and someone is playing both sides. With Aurora at my side and the Avids rising in rebellion, we have one chance to strike back.
Then a century-old secret surfaces that changes everything and has me questioning who to trust, what I’m fighting for, and who I even am. What if every choice brings me closer to becoming exactly what Marco wanted me to be—the demon they all fear?
Now I need help from the dead … before I end up joining them.
We’re celebrating the release of Midnightsong by C.W. Rose this week! This is a complete duet and we can’t recommend it enough!
Midnightsong (Oceansong Duet #2)
Release Date: November 18, 2025
Genre: Romantasy
Forbidden Romance
Who Did This to You?
Reluctant Hero & Heroine
Undersea Politics
Fairytale & Mythology Retelling
Mer-Queen Serapha has been murdered. The already fragile human-merfolk truce is shattered. And as Angie and Kaden find themselves on opposite sides of a rapidly escalating conflict, their loyalties to their families, their people, and each other will be tested.
When news of the merfolk becomes widespread in Angie’s Pacific Northwest town, she fights to protect the mer from those who wish them harm. But as vicious seas consume coastal cities and tragedy strikes her town and her family, she’ll need to decide whether to save her family and her people, or her relationship with Kaden and the mer.
In Mer-Prince Kaden’s queendom, an unlikely family member takes the throne, sowing dissent among the already fractured queendom and further straining their deteriorating relationship with humans. Branded a traitor for loving a human, he must make a choice between plunging the mer into all-out war, or fighting for the throne to unite his people, but leave Angie behind, as he can never take a human queen.
A cataclysmic war between humans and mer looms, and if Angie and Kaden cannot find a way to bring peace between their people, they’ll find the fragile mer-human truce shattered beyond repair, and the sea-crossed lovers will find themselves separated forever.
Join them in this romance and action-soaked sequel to Oceansong as they fight to save their relationship and their people while tensions between humans and merfolk reach a breaking point. That is, if the mer don’t drown the world in their rage and sorrow first.
Triggers: Violence, Blood, Emotional Abuse (directed at MMC, but not between main couple), Racist Comment (directed at FMC, but not between main couple)
When anarchist poet Katya Efremova is transferred to the prison colony on Solovetsky Island, she finds an enigma among her returned possessions – a blood-stained book containing a cipher left by her murdered mother, written on the day she died.
Following her mother’s clues, Katya begins to unravel a centuries-old mystery woven into the history of Solovetsky Island. Finding the island’s legendary power might be the key to overthrowing the Bolshevik regime, but Katya wasn’t sent to Solovetsky by chance. The head of the government’s spy network is watching, and there will be no hope of a free Russia if he takes hold of the magic hidden beneath the White Sea snow.
My thoughts: mixing history and real figures with fantasy and Russian folklore, this is a magical, heartbreaking and mystical book about secrets, power and the Russian revolution.
I studied Russian history and am fascinated by the folklore and mythology of this vast country. The history is often bloody and brutal, and the period following the Bolahevik revolution in 1917-18 especially so.
Solovetsky island was home to a monastery, but turned into a prison, and it is here our story takes place. Katya is the daughter of an anarchist revolutionary, now deceased, while Dima comes from an aristocratic family, both are considered enemies of the new regime.
Sentenced to hard labour in this frozen and miserable place, they are under the watchful eye of Commissar Boky (a real person, obsessed with magic and mysticism), who believes they can lead him to a magical item with the power to make him unstoppable.
Katya’s mother left clues that only her daughter can decipher, Katya has special powers, gifts from her parents’ bloodlines, as does Dima. As the two natural enemies grow closer, and unravel the clues to this mysterious item, their lives are in danger more than ever before. Will love win out or will the forces ranged against them defeat the two young people?
Tragic, moving and utterly beautiful, I was captivated and transported to the frozen tundra by this book. It reminded me of some of the Russian fairy tales I love, though thankfully no Baba Yaga, and the dark, bitter days after the overthrow of the last Tsars, a period I know a fair bit about. But you could read this knowing nothing about Russia and still be swept up in its love story and the epic quest Dima and Katya are on.
*I was kindly gifted a copy of this book in exchange for taking part in this blog tour, but all opinions remain my own.
Of the Stars and Sea is a bingeable rivals-to-lovers Romantasy with sharp-witted banter, page-turning adventure and delectable spicy romance, and we’re touring all week! Read now on Kindle Unlimited!
Of the Stars and Sea (A Divine Trinity Book 1)
🏴☠️Rivals to lovers
🏴☠️Morally grey MMC
🏴☠️Stäbby FMC
🏴☠️Slow burn
🏴☠️“I’ll be your villain”
🏴☠️Touch her and dïe
🏴☠️All the banter
🏴☠️He’s her awakening
🏴☠️“She’s mine”
🏴☠️”Who did this to you?”
🏴☠️Allies forged in darkness
🏴☠️Haunted pasts
🏴☠️Gothic world
🏴☠️Found family
🏴☠️Race to escape enemies
Of the Stars and Sea is a bingeable rivals-to-lovers Romantasy with sharp-witted banter, page-turning adventure and delectable spicy romance.
A traitorous pirate lord. A bounty hunter with a score to settle. And an epic treasure that will grant them both the freedom they desire…unless they destroy each other first.
Rowenya Stone is captain of the once fearsome pirate ship, the Trinity. Bound to her father’s old debts, Rowenya has been forced to break the Pirates’ Code by capturing her own kind in exchange for money. Tired of being shackled to her father’s past, Rowenya hatches a plan to steal an ancient artifact, said to unveil a map to the greatest treasure ever known to man.
But the plan goes awry when Grayson Tyde, the most ruthless and feared pirate lord in the Southern Realm, intercepts them. When Grayson discovers Rowenya has one thing he does not—knowledge of the old gods’ language inscribed upon the artifact—he forces her onto his ship.
However, they are not the only ones in search of the artifact, and as the threat of their enemies looms, Rowenya must trust the one person she’s always feared. But what terrifies her more is her perilous attraction to Grayson.
In a world where love is a traitorous thing and danger lurks around every corner, Rowenya must decide if finding the treasure is worth losing her heart.
This book contains content only suitable for adults. Such content includes explicit depictions of violence and sexual encounters. Additional content includes mentions of sex trafficking, child abuse and loss of parents.
We’re thrilled to announce the audio release of The Curse of the Siren by S.E. Nielsen, narrated by Stefanie Kay!
The Curse of the Siren
Release Date: November 11, 2025
Genre: Dark Romantasy
Narrator: @stefaniekaysays
Dark, gritty fantasy
Fast pace
Love triangle
Meddling deities
Anti-hero FMC
One tent
She’s still learning her powers
There is but one lesson humans are slow to learn and quick to forget: the fae lie . . .
When half-fae Bronwyn is caught fleeing the scene of a robbery, a Crusader arrow finds its mark. But as her roguish partner-in-crime Eoin tends to her wounds, a spark between them replenishes Bronwyn’s magic—revealing her as part-Siren. And quite possibly cursed.
Meanwhile, word is spreading of the two thieves and the illegal magic they left behind them. To escape discovery, Bronwyn and Eoin accept a dangerous yet tempting job: a wedding heist that leads them into the depths of the fae realm.
But August, the merciless vampire lord of the Selene Court, is used to getting what—and who—he wants.
In a land of deception, seduction, and meddling gods, Bronwyn puts her life on the line, only to discover temptation may be her undoing. And time is running out for her to make a choice, before she’s stuck on the wrong side of a looming war.
The Curse of the Siren is a steamy, plot-driven romantasy with magic, political intrigue, and two tempting MMCs.
We’re celebrating the newly release dark romantasy A Fate Drawn to Flame by Skylark Melody!
A Fate Drawn to Flame (Realm of The Halo Book 1)
Release Date: October 30, 2025
Genre: Dark Romantasy
A dark, slow burn epic fantasy romance and a bit of spice.
A unique premise and delicious angst with a genre-blending, multi-layered plot.
A soft but confident FMC and a strong but conflicted MMC.
MORE TO LOVE:
Found family
Fated mates
She falls first/he falls harder
A Fate Drawn to Flame is the first book of the Realm of The Halo series and ends with a satisfying cliffhanger.
Is their love fated in forever, or will it be the beginning of the end?
Marked by a life of tragedy and sorrow, Araxia Arevin’s search for a new start begins with a harrowing accident in a place filled with old memories and ancient mysteries.
While she recovers, Arax meets the mercurial Konstantine. Cold and harsh, he wants nothing to do with her, but she is drawn to him.
Who is this man? What is this place? And why, of all things, does she feel most at peace by his touch?
An alpha meant to rule since birth, Konstantine has had a life filled with political turmoil, betrayal, and loss. To deny himself almost everything for the sake of duty means survival, including keeping the one destined for him from being dragged into the uncertainty of his world
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