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Book Blitz: The Unravelling – Beronika Keres

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Title: The Unraveling

Author: Beronika Keres

Release date: October 2, 2026

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Genre: Gothic vampire horror, romantic tragedy

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Vampires do not get sick.

Thirty years ago, that was the promise Dr. Victor Todd made when he gifted Isla Davis the antidote to mortality, trading her terminal human life for an undying eternity at his side. But when Isla wakes disoriented and bloody beside a corpse she doesn’t recognize, their Victorian home becomes the stage for a claustrophobic nightmare.

Isla’s preserved body is now wracked by the violent return of human frailty. Her mind, once a fortress, is crumbling—weeks as Victor’s patient and decades as his wife collapsing into a fractured, bleeding present. And for the first time in over a century, Dr. Victor Todd has become a patient too.

Trapped in the maze of their own unraveling, as their memories slip through their fingers and the clock they thought they’d conquered begins to tick once more, Isla and Victor are left to face a devastating truth:
Eternity is fading one agonizing heartbeat at a time.

Tropes:
Gothic & Medical Horror
Romantic Tragedy
Victorian Vampire Doctor
Amnesia & Memory Loss
Doctor x Patient
Established Couple
Found Family

Triggers:
Graphic depictions of body horror, medical distress, violence, death and dying
Grief
Terminal Illness and Cancer

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Cover Reveal: Dreaming of a Scottish Summer – Julie Shackman

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Brooke never intended to return to her native Scotland. That is until she’s offered a job with legendary literary agent, Levi Hudson, who just happens to represent her favourite author, Petra Swan.

Petra’s books helped her find hope again after her heart was broken, and Brooke will do anything to meet her. Even if it means working with the formidable Levi.

Not only is he grumpy, he’s also infuriatingly handsome. Yet as his frosty exterior slowly begins to melt, Brooke realises that moving back to the highlands might be the best decision she’s ever made…

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Publication Date: 31st January 2027

Julie Shackman is a former journalist from Scotland, who has always wanted to write feel-good romance. As well as being an author, Julie also writes verses and captions for greetings card companies. Julie admits to having an obsession with stationery and handbags. She has two sons and an adopted Romanian rescue pup, Cooper. Dreaming of a Scottish Summer is Julie’s sixteenth novel.

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Blog Tour: Fated to the Frozen Prince – Ciara Hartford

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Here’s your sneak peak at Fated to the Frozen Prince by Ciara Hartford!

Follow along this week for early reviews and pre-order a copy now!

FATED TO THE FROZEN PRINCE is one of nine books in the Fated to the Enemy series, a set of steamy romantasy standalones, brimming with epic adventure, sizzling banter, and angsty yearning between enemies who have no desire to fall in love.

Fated to the Frozen Prince

Expected Release Date: Sept 29, 2026

Genre: Romantasy

  • Enemies to lovers
  • Fated mates
  • Forbidden love
  • Super slow burn
  • He falls first and so hard
  • Touch her/him and bye
  • Opposites attract (ice vs fire)
  • Only one “horse”
  • Animal companions
  • “Tell me you hate me”
  • Political intrigue

Every winter must have a summer.

Yet eternal winter sweeps across the continent, freezing everything in its path.

Unfortunately, there’s nothing Wrenora hates more than the cold, other than Prince Callan Vostbain, whose magic is rumored to be the cause of the winter blight. As a human prisoner of war, she tries to keep out of his way to avoid punishment, but when Callan learns she’s an imbuing mage, capable of creating a gem that can harness his power, he offers Wrenora freedom in exchange for her help.

But Wrenora hasn’t used her imbuing magic since before the war. She’s not sure she can help him. And she’s certainly not prepared for the man she finds hidden beneath the icy mask, much less the real reason Callan wishes to control his magic.

As more assassins are sent to kill him and rumors of an uprising grow, Callan struggles to keep the fiery human from melting the armor he’s carefully frozen around his heart. Or to focus on controlling his magic and stopping the winter blight before the entire continent is solid ice.

The cure for the winter blight may be at his fingertips, if only he can keep from freezing his only hope with a single touch.

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Triggers:

  • Profanity
  • Death of a parent (on page)
  • Mention of grooming (not on page)
  • Mention of physical child abuse (on page as flashbacks)
  • Mention of rape/sexual assault (not on page)
  • On page sexual content
  • Suicidal thoughts
  • Themes of slavery and prisoners of war
  • Descriptions of blood and gore
  • Graphic sword and magical violence including: evisceration, decapitation, and dismemberment

 

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Blog Tour: A Mortal Attachment – Melissa Baron

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We’re celebrating the newly released dark academia romance, A Mortal Attachment and can’t think of a better book to curl up with during the ‘Ber months!

A Mortal Attachment (The Aeternvm Book One)

Release Date: September 17, 2026

Genre: Dark Academia Vampire Romance

  • He falls first
  • Slow burn
  • Rivals to lovers
  • Forced proximity
  • Forbidden love
  • Touch her/him and die
  • Black cat FMC and Doberman MMC

Gwendolyn University, prestigious and notoriously private, conceals itself in the remote mountains of northeastern Vermont. It provides a world class education and only asks for a few things return:

Work hard. Surrender your personal devices. Stay inside after midnight.

Attending Gwendolyn is an unrealized dream for Astra Corrigan. She turned them down and, years later, finds herself at the gates as an independent journalist, invited to stay on campus to do an exclusive feature on the murder of five students at the hands of a professor they never caught.

Astra expected to have rules of engagement to follow. She didn’t expect a handler-the aloof and captivating Professor Dane Morgensen. Despite him thwarting her research efforts at every turn, she can’t fight her growing attraction to the astronomy professor.

After two more students die and Astra’s evidence vanishes, she discovers that something more sinister-and supernatural-might be at play with Gwendolyn and its cryptic faculty. She doesn’t know if she can trust the man she shouldn’t be falling in love with, either, but she must uncover the truth about Gwendolyn before she becomes a pawn in a battle of supernatural proportions.

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Triggers

  • Domestic abuse (talked about)
  • Physical violence (not in relation to the main couple)
  • Kidnapping
  • Death

 

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Blog Tour: The Earl’s Bride – Fenella J Miller

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Bath, 1810.

Lord James Brotherton, the charismatic Earl of Avon, is wealthy, intelligent—and marked for death.
His own cousin believes him an imposter and has enlisted corrupt lawyers and treacherous servants to remove him permanently.

Enter Sofia Brotherton.
Unconventional, outspoken, and entirely irresistible, Sofia turns James’s ordered world upside down.
He falls for her instantly. She follows a week later.

As danger closes in, their growing attraction becomes both a refuge and a risk. With enemies plotting murder and passions running high, James and Sofia must fight for love—and survival.

A witty, action-packed Regency romance filled with intrigue, danger, and deliciously sensuous tension.

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Fenella J. Miller is a bestselling historical fiction author, known for her emotionally rich World War II family sagas, sweeping Regency romances, and Jane Austen-inspired variations. With over 100 novels published, she continues to captivate readers who love strong heroines, resilient communities, and heartfelt historical storytelling.

Fenella currently writes for Boldwood Books, where she has launched several beloved WWII series,
including:

  • The Goodwill House series, beginning with The War Girls at Goodwill House
  • The Army Girls series, starting with Army Girls – Reporting for Duty
  • The Harbour House series, introduced with Wartime Arrivals at Harbour House

She is also the author of the popular six-book Regency romance series, The Duke’s Alliance, which begins with A Suitable Bride. Her novels are praised for their authentic period detail, compelling
characters, and uplifting themes of courage and love during turbulent times.

Born on the Isle of Man to a Yorkshire father and a mother of Anglo-Indian descent, Fenella brings depth and diversity to her storytelling. She previously worked as a nanny, chef, hotelier, and teacher—experiences that inspire her vivid, grounded characters.

Now writing full-time, Fenella lives in a peaceful village in Essex with her British Shorthair cat. She enjoys a close relationship with her son, daughter-in-law, and grandson, and continues to share
powerful stories of women facing challenges with strength and hope.

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My thoughts: With their father dead, Sofia Brotherton and her sisters decide to find jobs, she as companion to a young woman who has angered her father, her sister as a governess, while the youngest remains at home with their great-aunt.

Then their distant cousin the Earl of Avon discovers he is now guardian to these three young women. He takes his responsibilities seriously and brings the sisters, their Aunt Jemima and new friend Annabel to his home. He also invites his widowed sister and her children to join them. His grandmother lives in the other wing, but they don’t get on so he doesn’t see her.

Unfortunately a cousin has decided that James must be an imposter and is determined to seize the title and estate for himself, with the aid of some rather unscrupulous servants in Avon House.

James and Sofia must stop this in order to protect their household as they fall in love and plan to get married as soon as possible. James is determined to take the fight to this cousin and his acolytes.

I liked Sofia, she’s a fiesty, determined young woman, ready to make her own way in the world, until James swoops in and offers her and her sisters a better life than they could ever have imagined. 

*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: Stained in Blood – Ava Tenney

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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+.

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Content Warnings

Death of a spouse, pregnancy loss, blood rituals, blood play, murder, attempted rape, assault, stalking, graphic sexual situations, degradation, non-consent, somnophilia, consensual non-consent.

 

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Blog Tour: The Way We Are Now – Julie Houston

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BRAND NEW from bestselling author Julie Houston comes a powerful story of first love, long-hidden secrets and second chances. Perfect for fans of Jojo Moyes, Marian Keyes, David Nichols and Ruth Jones.

First love, long-hidden secrets and second chances.

Anna Piasecki thought she had left her university heartbreak behind. After spending decades building a successful life, she arrives at sixty with everything as she wants it – a glittering career, a devoted
partner and brightest star of all, her brilliant son Noah, the apple of her eye.

Theo Mandeville is trapped. Bound by aristocratic duty to his sprawling Yorkshire estate, he has spent
decades living the life that was expected of him while regretting the star-crossed romance he walked away from.

When their children meet at college, Anna and Theo suddenly find their carefully constructed lives colliding. With a devastating forty-year-old secret hanging over them, can their families survive the
truth and do they dare to trust that fate has other plans for them?

Spanning decades, The Way We Are Now is a sweeping, heartwarming and life-affirming tale of first love, friendship and second chances perfect for fans of Jojo Moyes, Marian Keyes, David Nichols and
Ruth Jones.

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Julie Houston is the author of 17 best-selling Women’s contemporary/Romantic Comedy novels.
Represented by Anne Williams at KHLA Literary Agency, she was previously published by Aria/Head of Zeus but now writes for Boldwood. She has had UK top 100 selling books and Looking for Lucy hit
the number 1 spot in Australia. Sing me a Secret was shortlisted for, and won, the Popular Romantic Fiction Award in 2021.

Julie is Yorkshire born and bred and lives in Huddersfield where her novels are set.

After University, where she studied Education and English Literature, she taught for many years as a junior
schoolteacher. After teaching for a few years, she decided to go to New Zealand to work and taught in Auckland for a year before coming back to this country. She now teaches when the phone rings to
cover absent colleagues and still loves the buzz of teaching junior-aged children.
Julie is married with a son and daughter, both in their twenties and now living in London. She has been a magistrate on the West Yorkshire bench for the last twenty-four years.

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My thoughts: Julie Houston knows how to write a story with real emotion. Anna and Theo meet at university, in a very funny and memorable way.

Then something really awful happens that sours any possibility of them even being friends.

Fast forward a year – and they bump into each again. Things are different, they’re different. And sparks fly. 

But as everything seems perfect, something that changes everything happens. There’s a bit of a pattern here, whenever their relationship seems to be delightful and forever, something throws a wrench in.

And as their lives continue in this fashion, it seems like they will never finally be together. And then their children meet at university….

I loved this, complicated, messy romance, with its awful, painful moments and the wonderful highs of young love, the opportunity of mid life and then the chance of finally being together, if they can unravel the situation their children are in.

*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: Red – Izzy Barry

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Red (The Myth That Burns Book 1)

Release Date: September 16, 2026

Genre: Shifter Romance

– 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.

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Blog Tour: Black Ledger – Hazel St. Lewis

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We’re celebrating the upcoming release of Black Ledger by Hazel St. Lewis! Read on for more details!

Black Ledger (Furyverse: Volume 1)

Expected Release Date: September 24, 2026

Genre: Dark Romance/ Mafia

*Childhood Friends to Lovers to Enemies to Lovers
*Second-Chance Romance
*Female Serial Killer
*Ruthless Mafia Boss
*Cat & Mouse
*He’s Hunting Her—She’s Hunting Him
*She kidnaps him
*Obsessive MMC

They destroyed me, and they will die.

Ten years ago, members of a powerful cult carved their sins into my body and called it holy. They thought I would disappear.

Instead, I learned how to break them.

I study my targets until I know how they breathe, whom they love, and what keeps them awake at night. Then I begin—quietly dismantling their lives until paranoia replaces sleep and fear replaces air. By the time I strike, they’re grateful to die. Every name goes into my black ledger. One name is saved for last.

Severin Volkov.

My ex. The heir to the Russian mafia and the man who betrayed me. When his turn comes, I won’t be merciful.

For years, powerful men in the Russian underworld have been disappearing without a trace. It looks random—until I inherit my father’s empire and uncover a pattern.

Someone is hunting us.

Whoever is behind it knows our secrets—and how to destroy us from the inside. I will find her. And when I do, she will learn exactly what kind of man I am. I expect resistance. I don’t expect obsession.

As the truth unravels about my father, my empire… and her, one thing becomes clear:

This war won’t end in surrender. It will end with one of us on our knees.

BLACK LEDGER is a dark romance featuring a female serial killer hunting the men who destroyed her life. This is an episodic series with five shorter books that combine to tell one larger story. Perfect for readers who loved the psychological intensity of the Mindfck Series* and the dark mafia power dynamics of the Dark Verse series.

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Content Warnings/Triggers:

Explicit sex, BDSM/dom-sub dynamics, rough sex, choking, toys, light stalking (the fun kind), sexy obsessive MMC, sexy obsessive FMC, hunter/prey, serial killer protagonist.

Kidnapping/captivity, confinement, restraint (not the fun kind), deprivation, rape/sexual assault (mentions, flashbacks and mostly fade to black, not by MMC), Torture (physical and psychological), severe trauma and PTSD, murder, embroidery (not the pretty kind), physical abuse, most of the sexual violence is backstory/flashback, not the main present-day plot.

Revenge Driven Triggers: murder/attempted murder, dismemberment, mutilation, gore, amateur surgery, actual surgery, multiple dick dismemberments, and gun, knife, and weapon violence.

 

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Blog Tour: Captured by the Werewolf Highwaymen – Eva Leigh

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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.

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Triggers: parental death (off screen), violence, spousal emotional abuse

 

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