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Blog Tour: Frost – Lo Gold

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Frost

Release Date: December 2, 2025

Genre: Monster Romance/ Holiday Novella

❄️Monster x mortal
🔥Primal
❄️Daddy kink
🔥Age gap
❄️Revenge
🔥Temperature play
❄️Fated mates
🔥Double peened monster
❄️Touch my mate and 💀
🔥Forest witchery
❄️Breeding and knotting

Jack

I’m a monster, a beast, a creature of shadow and legend, something children are warned about while they snuggle up by the cozy fire. I am cold, frigid, lifeless death. I’m Jack Frost.

Cursed to an eternity of wandering the woods, reaping the souls of worthless humans once every year, my existence is bathed in blood and isolation. Until her — my litill snær. Her presence in my woods brings light to the dead of Winter for the first time in a long time. But could she truly learn to love a beast?

Elisa

I hate Christmas. All these cheery, happy, nuclear families huddled around the fire make me nauseous. It’s a time to celebrate with the ones you love. But everyone I loved died, leaving me alone. Which is why I decided to travel this year for the holidays. I thought that getting away for a while might help bring some holiday cheer back into my life.

I’ve never been more wrong. Now I’m stranded half way around the world with a man I’ve never met, isolated in a snowed-in cabin. And there’s something out there, something lurking in the shadows of the woods, something watching me.

Frost is a dark Christmas story featuring a monster that falls for a mortal. While the story does end with a sweet HEA, the path there is bathed in blood. Proceed with caution.

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Triggers:

-Drugging

-Murder

-Gore

-Discussion of sexual assault (off page)

-Virgin FMC

-Surprise pregnancy (in epilogue)

-Inappropriate use of icicles

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Blog Tour: The Shadowless – R.J. Garcia

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We’re celebrating the release of The Shadowless this week! Make sure to grab a copy of this beauty right away!

The Shadowless (At the corner of Eden and Darkness Book One)

Release Date: November 26, 2025

Genre: Dark Romantasy

🥀 Modern faery tale vs real-life suspense

🥀 White and black magic

🥀 Family dysfunction

🥀 Hidden realms

🥀 He falls first

🥀 Twists and turns

Mae Dawson returns to her family’s cabin to look for her missing sister. One night, she goes to sleep only to awaken in the depths of the woods surrounded by eerie and indiscernible voices, which lead her to her sister’s grave.

Trying to piece her life back together, Mae juggles college and a romance with her best friend-turned-boyfriend, Benji. Yet, everything unravels when strange late-night calls come from beyond, and a malevolent force begins to invade her friends.
Adding to her unease is the presence of a mysterious stranger, Brandon Sills, who seems to lurk in the shadows, watching her every move. Despite the warning bells ringing in her mind, Mae feels an inexplicable attraction to him.

As mortal and magical forces conspire against her, Mae must trust Brandon to uncover the secrets of the fae—secrets that could change her life forever, if she is able to survive.

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Book Blitz: An Incarnation of Shadow and Light – S.A. Christianson

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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.

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Blog Tour: All the Dark Souls – A.M. Dunnewin

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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.

Triggers: Death and violence

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Book Blitz: Sage Haven – Paige Alexandria

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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.

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TRIGGER WARNINGS

• Physical, emotional, and sexual abuse
• PTSD, depression, anxiety, and dissociation
• Severe degradation and gang abuse (past trauma)
• Descriptive violence and torture
• Stalking & Kidnapping
• Drink Spiking & Drug Use
• Explicit Language & Sexual Content
• BDSM & Power Imbalance
• Coercion & Revenge Schemes
• Victim Blaming & Silencing
• Criminal Activity (Murder & Human Trafficking)
• Erotic Tension & Psychological Warfare

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Cover Reveal: Immortal Connections – Tao Wong

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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.

Triggers: Mild violence and war

COMING SOON!

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Book Blitz: Viridian – Ashley R. O’Donovan

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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.

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Blog Tour: Midnightsong – C.W. Rose

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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.

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Triggers: Violence, Blood, Emotional Abuse (directed at MMC, but not between main couple), Racist Comment (directed at FMC, but not between main couple)

Spice level: 3/5

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Blog Tour: The Whisper of Stars – Cristin Williams

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A frozen island.

A monastery turned political prison.

A cipher inked in blood.

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.

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Blog Tour: Of the Stars and Sea – Brianna Remus

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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.

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CW:

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.

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