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Cover Reveal: Sails and Sirens –  Cynthia Brubaker

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Sails and Sirens

Expected Publication Date: August 27, 2025

Genre: Fantasy Romance/Fairy Tale Retelling

A contemporary Little Mermaid retelling with a Siren Princess and a Sea Hunter against a tempestuous Floridian backdrop.

Tropes/Themes

Forbidden love, Romeo and Juliet vibes, Little Mermaid retelling, fairytale retelling, spice, fake dating (he thinks it’s real), touch him/her and die, family dysfunction, forced proximity, siren x siren hunter, sea monsters, sibling relationships


A Siren Princess on a mission.
A Sea Hunter trying to prove himself.
A love story for the ages

Love grows with the tide–and can destroy like a wrathful wave.

The Seven Kingdoms are under threat. Sea Hunters, descendants of Pirates, are slaughtering sirens and sea creatures alike. Siren Princess Eliana Leilani of Cerulia is tasked with going to the surface with her little sister, Elara, in an attempt to infiltrate the college campus, where the suspected Hunters dwell. Little does Eliana know that uncovering the Sea Hunters responsible for the attacks on her people would change everything she’s ever known, both about her world and herself.

Will Sawyer is a ruthless Sea Hunter, fighting alongside his father and younger brother, Aidan, to protect unsuspecting humans from the wrath of supernatural entities. He holds a dark grudge against sirens–they killed his grandfather in cold blood. Hunting and sailing are his only sources of solace–until he meets Eliana. He is instantly beguiled by her, tumbling head over heels, with disastrous consequences.

Tensions rise when the Siren Kingdoms and Hunter’s Association encounter an even larger threat than they can handle. Family bonds will be tested, beliefs will be challenged, and love will prove to be an unbreakable force–or used as a weapon for revenge.

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Content Warnings

This book contains instances of, or references to, the following material. Content warnings include, but are not limited to: Fantasy violence, physical assault and torture, attempted drowning, blood and gore, SA (thwarted), death of parents, death of grandparents, murder, almost drowning, PTSD and anxiety, coarse language, intimate and explicitly sexual scenes, gouging of eyes and knife/sword torture, weapon use (guns, bows, spears, and more), derogatory language

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Blog Tour: A Desert of Bleeding Sand – Lucia Damisa

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We’re celebrating the newly released romantasy A Desert of Bleeding Sand by Lucia Damisa!

A Desert of Bleeding Sand: A Rivals to Lovers Romantasy

Release Date: March 27, 2025

Genre: Romantasy

🏜️ Elite military academies
🏜️ Found family & witty banter
🏜️ Court intrigue & mythic races
🏜️ Slowww burn rivals-to-lovers
🏜️ Sprawling, desert world

In a glittering Sahara Desert palace, many have come to die…

I am Zair, reviled, half-blooded, and dangerous. Aziza magic coils in my veins like a curse, and for that, they fear me. But I will not stand by while traitors attack my academy and vanish with its students, especially as my sister is targeted.
They sent me to the palace as a student envoy to the king’s coronation, but I know the truth. I’m a weapon, a spy cloaked in silk and suspicion, sent to unmask those behind the disappearances. The air is thick with secrets, and the palace feels alive, pulsing with night magic and silent menace.

Then I meet him. Dathan. A rival spy from another academy—sharp-eyed, clever, cunning, and deadly. I don’t trust him, and I shouldn’t want him. But the pull between us is maddening, dangerous, a flame I cannot smother.
As more students vanish and shadows stir in every corridor, we have no choice but to join forces. Yet every moment spent together fractures my resolve.

In a palace where ambition poisons the air and betrayal hides behind every smile, I must unravel the truth before time runs out—while guarding my heart against the one man who could ruin more than the mission… he could destroy me.

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Book Blitz: The Third Ring – A.N. Horton

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<strong>We’re celebrating the release of A.N. Horton’s new release called The Third Ring! Available now!</strong>
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<strong>The Third Ring (The Sanctum Series Book 1)</strong>

<strong>Release Date: April 15, 2025</strong>

<strong>Genre: Dark Romantasy</strong>
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<li>Spicy</li>
<li>Enemies to lovers</li>
<li>Trials</li>
<li>Strong FMC</li>
<li>Brooding MMC</li>
<li>Forced proximity</li>
<li>Gods and mythology</li>
</ul>
<strong>Ten Trials. Two Oaths. One Chance.</strong>

To Adrian, the gods were never anything to be worshipped, just tolerated. But in the walled city of Sanctuary, whether through the religious fervor of the elite or the quaking fear of the poor, the Geist have always been served. And now it’s Adrian’s turn.

Born into power and raised for greatness, Dante stands for everything Adrian has come to despise, but he may be her only hope of survival. When the two of them are bonded against their will and forced to compete together in the Trials, the god’s ancient gauntlet of physical brutality and psychological torture, they have no choice but to set aside old prejudices and work together. Navigating religious zealots, a patriarch intent on breeding the pair for power, and the increasingly obvious cruelty of the gods, Adrian must come to terms with the fact that, whether Culled or Championed, we all serve the gods in the end. And, for her, betrayal has always been waiting just around the corner.

<strong>TWs: Open Door Intimacy, Violence, Amputation, Suicide, Religious Trauma</strong>

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Cover Reveal: A Scottish Lighthouse Escape – Julie Shackman

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Get ready to fall in love with the brand new romance in the Scottish Escapes series from bestselling author, Julie Shackman.

When romance author Rosie Winters’s own fairytale romance ends with a bang, she’s determined to get away from everything. Packing up her belongings she sets off for the furthest place she can think of: Scotland.

Rosie spent her summers at her late grandmother’s coastal cottage in the Highlands and knows it’ll be the perfect place to wallow for a while. Even better that there’s a gorgeous lighthouse and dolphins in the bay.

What Rosie didn’t expect was to bump into the new lighthouse keeper, Mitch. Despite her recent heartbreak, Rosie finds herself fascinated by the mysterious Mitch. As they spend more time together, is it possible that he needs Rosie every bit as she needs him…

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Publication Date: 30th July 2025

Author Bio – Julie Shackman is a feel-good romance author from Scotland and is published by the HarperCollins imprint One More Chapter. When not writing or reading, Julie loves to take her Romanian rescue pup Cooper for long walks, working out, watching romcoms and indulging her love of music. A Scottish Lighthouse Escape is her thirteenth novel.

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Blog Tour: Tusks, Tails & Teacakes – T.L. Stone

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We’re celebrating the release of Tusks, Tails & Teacakes by T.L. Stone! If you like your romantic fantasy cozy with a healthy sprinkle of cottagecore, you’re going to love this!

Tusks, Tails & Teacakes: A Slice-of-Life Cozy Romantic Fantasy (Tales from the Tavern Book 1)

Publication Date: April 4, 2025

Genre: Cozy Romantic Fantasy
High fantasy
He falls first
Cinnamon roll hero
Low stakes
Slow-burn romance
Found family
Cozy vibes
Tavern makeover
Coming home
Mythical creatures
Neurodivergent orc

A scoop of high fantasy, a spoonful of Hallmark rom-com, and a generous sprinkle of cottagecore coziness.

Welcome to The Tusk & Tail Tavern where the fire is always crackling, the meat pies are rich and savory, the air is filled with laughter and bard-song, and friends are like family. At least, it used to be…

Half-elf Lira is eager to return to The Tusk & Tail Tavern, where she and her companions set off on their adventures many years ago. But the rundown tavern is no longer the bustling hub where dwarf mercenaries and halfling farmers shared pints over a friendly game of dice. More crucially, what Lira came back for—what she buried in the tavern’s basement—is now bricked over.

What better way to stay close to her hidden treasure—and figure out a way to retrieve it—than to offer to restore the tavern? After all, her grandmother taught her to bake, and she still remembers the recipes—for the most part.

She doesn’t count on having to partner with a dwarf warrior named Sassy or have a surprisingly clever, winged ermine take up residence in her kitchen. And she’s grateful for the shy orc soldier who offers to fix her stove and everything else that keeps breaking in the tavern, but why does he seem afraid to talk to her?

As she and her rag-tag group breathe life back into The Tusk & Tail Tavern, Lira remembers the joy in an evening by the fire, the value of a true friend, and what it’s like to fight as hard for the quiet moments in life as the ones marked by glory and treasure.

But leaving your past in the past isn’t always so easy. Danger has a way of finding Lira no matter how far she runs, but now she has more to protect than herself. And if she wants to leave her days of deception behind her, she’ll have to reveal the truth to those she’s grown to love.

Tusks, Tails & Teacakes is a wholesome, low-stakes, slice-of-life cozy fantasy chock full of mythical creatures and magic. It features no kingdoms to be saved, no epic journeys or warring armies. Only gentle intrigue, the power of unexpected friendship, and the hope that you can make the world a better place one buttery teacake and warm cup of chai at a time.

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My thoughts: If you’re like me and you’re waiting for the next Legends & Lattes, read this. I loved it. It’s a sweet and charming story of friendship, found family and falling in love.

Lira leaves her crew and returns to the village she grew up in, hoping to retrieve something she hid there. Unfortunately someone has concreted over it, in the cellar of the inn, the Tusk & Tail.

Things have gone downhill since the inn keeper’s wife died, and he longer serves food. Teaming up with dwarf Sassy, Lira sets to work cleaning up the inn and baking her grandmother’s recipes.

As the duo make changes, the customers come, including members of the town’s guards, an orc Lira remembers from her childhood. A few old friends make their way there too and soon Lira is building a new crew to help her retrieve her grandmother’s recipe book from under the inn.

This was so lovely and cute and I can’t wait to read book two!



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*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: The Marigold Trail – Stefani Tanner

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Welcome to the tour for The Marigold Trail by Stefani Tanner. Read on for more details!

The Marigold Trail

Publication Date: February 13, 2025

Genre: Time Travel Romance/ Romance

  • Best friend’s brother
  • Childhood best friends to lovers
  • High Stakes
  • Agent MCs
  • Romantic Comedy
  • Secret Pining
  • Friends to Rivals to Lovers

13 Going on 30 meets Miss Congeniality in this time travel romantic comedy about an FBI agent trying to navigate her way through betrayal, love, and time.

Atta Suarez’s life consists of crossword puzzles and sampling appetizers while obliterating her friend group every couple of weeks in a battle of board game wits. That’s on top of being knee-deep in criminal cases at the Denver Bureau trying her best to keep up with Agent Ben Brown, her best friend’s brother.

Ben’s been around since elementary school, but for the last five years they’ve been working the same hours, living in the same apartment complex, and sharing the same FBI agent lifestyle. Their close connection is undeniable. Atta only wishes they could take it one step further. Because with Ben, it’s always been a romantic connection that she’s craved.

But when Atta finds herself under perplexing circumstances and becomes threatened by her own FBI department after stumbling upon a gruesome crime, Atta is separated from Ben by time. She finds herself in 1987 where helpful clues litter the mountains and streets of Colorado.

Navigating 1987 brings answers for the future and—by some miraculous twist of fate—an unexpected chance at love. With an opportunity to pursue her ‘perfect match’ and potentially take down the FBI threat from the past, Atta might be able to get everything she wants. But time is in her way and every decision has its consequences. And then there’s also the question of whether or not the rules of this alternate 1987 universe will even allow it.

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Cover Reveal: Signing Off For The Summer – Alysse Delle Palme

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Signing Off for the Summer

Author: Alyssa Delle Palme

Publisher: Evernight Publishing

Tropes include friends to lovers, lake setting, family secrets, and small-town charm.

Signing Off for the Summer is a romance novel about an overwhelmed radio journalist who withdraws from her toxic workplace, a bad relationship, and city life and escapes to her family’s cottage for the summer where she rediscovers her voice and the magic of falling in love.

When Maggie Taylor, an up-and-coming journalist, suddenly quits a prestigious radio internship at 880 News in Toronto, she infuriates her close-knit family. Unbeknownst to her overbearing parents and controlling boyfriend, Maggie suffered a traumatic abuse of power when her boss propositioned her, and she is too ashamed to talk about it. She escapes to her grandmother’s cottage on Cedar Lake for the summer.

There, she finds solace and healing and begins to develop a close friendship with her cottage neighbour, Thomas.

Everything takes a turn for the worse when Maggie’s aunt shows up with surprising news. More trouble follows when her former boss makes an unexpected return to her life, threatening everything Maggie has built with Thomas. In order to move forward, Maggie must face her past and learn to use her voice.

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Blog Tour: Even Vampires Bleed – F.V. Sauvage

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We’re celebrating the release of Even Vampires Bleed with a tour! This is the next book in The Even After series and if you enjoy paranormal/ shifter romance, you are going to want to read it!

Even Vampires Bleed (The Even Ever After Series Book 2)

Expected Publication Date: March 28, 2025

Genre: Paranormal Fantasy

🦇She is a bat-shifter/he is a cockatoo
🦇Forced proximity
🦇One bed
🦇Who did this to you?
🦇Grumpy/sunshine
🦇Amnesia
🦇Female rage

They have deceived the humans, led them to believe they’re archangels, ruling over the world for far too long.

But the bird shifters have nothing angelic or good.

They maim, they torture, they kill.

When they don’t toy with people’s brains…

That’s what happened to my father. That’s what happened to my other half, Léandre.

I found the first, his skull open on an operation table, after he was taken prisoner, and the second still has a chip in his brain, ready to blow up his mind.

My world is one thread away from unraveling.

But I won’t let them win.

My name is Cassiopé. I’m a bat-shifter, a vampire, as humans like to call us, and those birds are going to pay for what they’ve done to the men I love.

Do I have what it takes to avenge them?

Only time will tell…

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This book contains detailed sex scenes, violence, mentions of torture, murder and a heavy dose of heartbreak.

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Book Blitz: The Viscount’s Forbidden Flirtation – Sarah Rodi

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Lieutenant Colonel Ezra Hart finds himself in urgent need of a wife—inheriting the viscountcy relies on it!

But while he’s dutifully spinning the Season’s jewels around Society’s ballrooms he finds himself desiring the one woman he shouldn’t covet…

French émigrée Seraphine Mounier is as beguiling as she is vivacious, but Ezra knows she has no interest in the marriage mart. What’s worse, she represents the very enemy he fought at Waterloo.
As an undeniable connection sparks, resisting Seraphine seems one battle Ezra’s destined to lose!

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Sarah Rodi has always been a hopeless romantic. She grew up watching old, romantic movies recommended by her grandad, or devouring love stories from the local library.

Sarah lives in the village of Cookham in Berkshire, where she enjoys walking along the River Thames with her husband, her two daughters and their dog. She has been a magazine journalist for over 20 years, but it has been her lifelong dream to write romance for Mills & Boon. Sarah believes everyone deserves to find their happy ever after.

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Book Blitz: A Trial of Fate – J.E. Larson

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We have a book that you’re going to want to bump to the top of your TBR list. The best part? The next book in the series is already out!

A Trial of Fate (Valdor Series Book 1)

Publication Date: May 24, 2024

Genre: Epic Romantic Fantasy

  • Found Family
  • Trauma rep
  • Strong FMC
  • Slow burn romance/ tension
  • Dying world
  • Shifters, fae, humans with magic.
  • Our world is dying.

Skylar Cathal is a twenty-two-year-old half-human, half-shifter with a curious mind and knack for bending the rules. Gilen Warrick, Skylar’s childhood friend and the next Alpha of the Solace pack, wants more than just her friendship– but fate has a will of its own.

When Skylar is marked as the shifter champion, she must overcome her darkest fears to leave her home and those she loves behind. Daxton Aegaeon, High Fae Prince of Silver Meadows, has sworn to protect Skylar as his ward, but only she can protect her heart.

One night can change your life… one decision can change everything.

A Trial of Fate is the first book in the Valdor Series, an epic romantic fantasy that follows a “spitfire” heroine who defies her darkest fears in order to save those she loves. This book will appeal to fans of character-driven adventurous romantasy tails such as Throne of Glass, From Blood and Ash, and A Ruin of Roses.

TW: Torture

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