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Blog Tour: Buried Beneath the Light – Carliann Jean

Welcome to the tour for the second book in The Soul Bound Realms series, Buried Beneath the Light by Carliann Jean!

Buried Beneath the Light (The Soul Bound Realms Book 2)

Release Date: January 2025

Genre: Dark Romantasy

  • Trauma and mental health rep
  • Healers w/ magic
  • Corruption
  • Forced proximity & spice
  • Found family
  • Dystopian & magical realms
  • Fierce feminine power

We’re all just monsters wearing different skins.

Devastated by the monstrous attacks in Rioa, Eira, Nyx, and their soul-bonded friends scramble to heal the newly traumatized souls and discover the source of the attacks. The plague of darkness has unleashed new horrors on Majikaero, and the only way the shattered group of souls will find the answers they seek is if they can shine light on their darkest secrets and remove the masks they hide behind.

Meanwhile, on Earth, the last of Eira’s dearest friends fight for their lives as they navigate a post-apocalyptic nightmare. The remaining people of Earth have sheltered underground and formed new societies—some more corrupt and evil than others. After two years of horrific abuse in an underground cult, Astira and Liv escape and reunite with Jace. But the years of trauma have altered the very essence of these friends, and not all is as it seems in their new underground haven. Plagued by strange dreams and skeptical of the leadership in their city, Astira and Liv struggle to begin their healing journeys.

Buried Beneath the Light is book two in the Soul Bound Realms series, a thrilling fantasy romance that begs the question: how much healing can one soul sacrifice before they’re buried beneath the light?

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Cover Reveal: Oath Betrayal – Ann C. Orlandi

We’re proud to present the gorgeous cover for Oath Betrayal, the next Oathborn installment by Ann C. Orlandi!

Oath Betrayal (Oathborn #2)

Expected Release Date: April 12, 2026

Genre: Gaslamp Romantasy/ Adventure

-Found Family
-Slow Burn Heats Up
-Sword Fighting lessons
-Unique Magic System
-Complex Characters
-Fantasy Ball

Zari Ankmetta traveled to the fae islands to save her father, but destiny had other plans. Now, she’s bound to a magical sword, tangled in court politics, and in incredible danger. If the fae Queen learns her secrets, she’ll be executed. But if she abandons Hazelle and her other friends, there will be no hope for peace between humans and fae.

Across the sea, the human military is preparing a massive offensive maneuver against the fae. To protect those she loves, Zari must decide who she trusts, what she believes, and who she wants to become.

However, the sword has its own agenda. And if Zari waits too long, it may decide for her.

Some destinies are given.
Others are stolen.
Hers will change the world.

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Blog Tour: Leah & Jake Ruin Their Friendship – Amanda Braun-Boe

We’re celebrating the release of Leah & Jake Ruin their Friendship Amanda Braun-Boe, available December 9th!

Leah & Jake Ruin their Friendship

Release Date: December 9, 2025

Genre: Small Town/ Friends-to-Lovers Romcom

-Friends to lovers
-Small town romance
-FMC and MMC over 30
-Mutual pining
-Secret crush
-FMC Afraid to commit
-Golden retriever MMC
-Divorced dad
-Single mom
-Meddling families
-Unleash the banter
-The spice is spicing!

Are best friends, mutual pining, and meddling families the ingredients for true love, or are Leah and Jake a recipe for certain disaster?

Millennial and bad movie junkie Leah Roth didn’t think her life would still be so directionless in her thirties. Not everything’s bad. She’s living in a small town straight out of Gilmore Girls with her eleven-year-old son and her friends and family. But her dating life is another story.

There was the guy who insisted that his pet snake sleep next to them, the cheating ex who was more interested in admiring his muscles than changing diapers, and the amateur magician who tried to see how big he could grow his handlebar mustache. The one person who is always able to listen to her relationship woes is her best friend, Jake Bradley. Between telling him about her love life and taking trips down memory lane, she hopes the one thing they don’t talk about is the crush she’s had on him for years.

Jake Bradley was ten when his family relocated from Ireland to Minnesota. His world was rocked on day one by his new next-door neighbor, Leah Roth. They became best friends immediately, bonding over Game Boy, terrible films, and his love of baking. But underneath his jokes and self-deprecating personality, Jake has a secret—he’s been in love with Leah for a long time. After letting the chance to be with her slip by years ago, Jake has convinced himself that there is no way that Leah has feelings for him…

When Jake suddenly finds himself single, both friends realize that the timing might be right to

admit their feelings. Will Leah and Jake be brave enough to take a chance on love and each other?

TWs: Cheating, divorce, parental death, an uninvolved parent, strong language, and explicit sexual content.

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My thoughts: This was a really enjoyable rom com about two friends who realise (very slowly) that they’ve been in love with each other for years and that now they’re both single at the same time – it might be the right time. Or not. Because everyone loves an experiment that might ruin your friendship, distress your kids, your parents, the business your families run might suffer.

Leah and Jake are pretty adorable, and so stupid at times, everyone around them knows they’re meant to be, even Leah’s weird brother can see it, even their kids can see it. But they just keep making a mess, mistakes happen, you don’t need to run for the hills!

Anyway, I liked this, I think you might too, so read it and thank me later.


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Book Blitz: Diffidence and the Rift – Amy Crook

We love a good cozy fantasy and we highly recommend you check out Diffidence and the Rift by Amy Crook! You can now find it at your favorite retailer!

Diffidence and the Rift

Release Date: May 29, 2025

Genre: Cozy Fantasy/ MM Romance

  • MM romance
  • Half-orc/human
  • Crushes to lovers
  • Open-door spice
  • Found family
  • Unusual magic
  • Fiber arts
  • Lots of tea, this book will make you hungry

Diffidence Obedience Atonement Smythe is a grad student who prefers to never use his full name. Ever. He’s finishing a Ph.D. in Extemporaneous Magic, and his research project for his dissertation is closing the Rift between worlds that he accidentally opened when he was thirteen. Obviously, caffeine is an important part of his life.

Ergi Thusol-Von Klempt is a half-orc who works in the infamous Goblin Market, selling magical pastries to those who need them – or, in Diff’s case, just want them. He’s got bubblegum-pink hair, lovely lilac skin, and a smile like sunshine, at least if you ask Diff. Ergi is intrigued by his frazzled, but handsome, frequent customer.

The Goblin Market is a magical space that anyone can find if they truly need it, and most people visit once or twice if at all. Diff is there several times a week as he untangles the layered mysteries of the Rift, and has had years to develop his crush on Ergi.

In this cozy urban fantasy, Diff and Ergi find some solutions to life’s problems in the Market, along with the courage to talk to each other.

Diff might even find a future beyond the Rift that has consumed over a decade of his life.

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Blog Tour: Frost – Lo Gold

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

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

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

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: The Fortune Games – Mira Specter

We’re thrilled to announce that The Fortune Games by Mira Specter is now available, perfect for fans of morally grey love interests, rivals with insane chemistry, and high-stakes secrets!

The Fortune Games

Release Date: November 27, 2025

Genre: Romantic Thriller/ New Adult

  • Rivals to lovers
  • Love Triangle
  • Elite university
  • Slow burn tension
  • Toxic attraction
  • Secrets and lies

“Sexy. Unputdownable. Viciously funny.”

A razor-sharp romantic mystery about money, mayhem, and the price of ambition — perfect for fans of Nightshade and Legally Blonde.

They say all fortunes come with a curse. I should’ve believed them.

A few days ago, I was just Vera: law student, scholarship kid, newest intern at the prestigious Saidi firm. I had plans, ambition, and the perfect date lined up with the campus golden boy.
Then I woke up to find a suitcase full of money at the foot of my bed—and a note. I had seventy-two hours to spend it all and leave no trace… or risk losing everything.

At first, I thought it was a joke. Then strange things started happening. Secret clubs I was somehow connected to. Questions I couldn’t answer. A high-society family with a dark past. And then there were them:
Bastian Saidi—my boss’s infuriating, dangerously magnetic nephew, whose smile hides more secrets than his family fortune. And Enzo Woods—charming, elusive, and far too good at making trouble look beautiful.

Somewhere between expensive dinners, sleepless nights, and impossible choices, I started to realise the truth: this isn’t a prank. It’s a test—one that could destroy me, or make me into something else entirely.
Because in this world, money is never free, and love might be the most expensive thing of all… after the price we pay for our lies, of course.

This sharp, darkly hilarious romantic thriller is perfect for readers who love morally grey love interests, rivals with insane chemistry, high-stakes secrets, billionaire drama, and heroines who are a little too smart for their own good.

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Blog Tour: Ripples Through Time – Christina Courtenay

A love that will change them forever
A treasure that will bring them home

West Mercia, AD 873 – Merewen’s settlement is on guard against the outside threat of the ‘Heathen’ Norsemen. But for Merewen, the real threats come from within, as her future is cruelly snatched away from her.

Eirik, a Norseman, finds himself abandoned and injured after his uncle’s plunder of Mercian land goes wrong. He thinks his fate is sealed – until Merewen saves his life.

Hereford, Present Day – Left reeling after a huge betrayal, Alix moves to her grandfather’s farm in Hereford to heal her broken heart. There, after being given a family heirloom, she soon finds herself
haunted by memories of a life she never lived, a relationship she never had, and a time in which she never existed.

Local farmer Noah is being hounded by the police to find the Viking hoard that his sister and her criminal boyfriend stole from his farm. Noah must prove his own innocence while struggling to decipher the curious connection he has to newcomer Alix – a bond that seems to transcend their
own reality.

As they search for the lost treasure, Alix and Noah start to feel the whispers of a love they never expected, one powerful enough to echo through history.

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Christina Courtenay writes historical romance, time slip/dual time and time travel stories, and lives in Herefordshire (near the Welsh border) in the UK. Although born in England, she has a Swedish mother and was brought up in Sweden – hence her abiding interest in the Vikings. Christina is a Vice President and former chairman and of the UK’s Romantic Novelists’ Association and has won several
awards, including the RoNA for Best Historical Romantic Novel twice with Highland Storms (2012) and The Gilded Fan (2014) and the RNA Fantasy Romantic Novel of the year 2021 with Echoes of the
Runes. RIPPLES THROUGH TIME (dual time historical romance published by Headline Review 21st November 2025) is her latest novel. Christina is a keen amateur genealogist and loves history and
archaeology (the armchair variety).

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My thoughts: I really enjoy these dual timeline romances, this one set in early Britain during the time of the Saxons and Viking raids and modern day Herefordshire.

As farmer Noah and his neighbour Alix grow closer and search for the missing hoard of gold that his sister and her rubbish boyfriend stole from his land, in 873, Viking raider Eirik is injured and healer Merewen helps him and takes him back to her village, where her father is in charge.

The two couples, separated by hundreds of years, are similar in many ways, they are all good, genuine people who deserve happiness and good fortune. Noah works hard, looks after his sheep and is a good neighbour, Alix has been disappointed in love, and having moved to Hereford to be nearer her grandfather and start again. Eirik is also starting over, having been left for dead by his uncle, Merewen is another hard worker, acting as healer to her community and dealing with her jealous sister.

A necklace Alix’s grandfather gives her seems to connect to the past, both she and Noah have seen glimpses of another life, and are both confused and fascinated by this. Noah’s farm seems to be the same place the Eirik and Merewen meet, the land contains an ancient stone structure, which acts as a conduit between time periods.

*I was kindly gifted a copy of this book in exchange for taking part in this blog tour, but all opinions remain my own.