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Blog Tour: A Lady’s Lesson in Scandal – Darcy McGuire

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Wallflower at risk of ruin…

Secret femme-fatale in training Millicent Whittenburg needs to escape her unpleasant betrothal.

Taking matters into her own hands, she plans her eventual ruin! Then she can disappear from society to carry out the Queen’s deadly missions. Step 1: seduce the one man who despises marriage more
than her!

However, she hugely underestimates her target. Major General Beaufort Drake. Fearsome private investigator, he’s notoriously cold and visibly battle scarred. But Millie’s scandalously public kiss
awakens a deeply suppressed desire in Drake. Instead of allowing them both to succumb to shame he does the unthinkable, and offers for her hand in a convenient marriage.

Nothing prepares them for the fireworks when a fearless damsel collides with a dangerous Major General! And as their secret missions align they face their hardest test on the glittering battlefield – a
week long wedding house party where there is nowhere to escape…only new and wicked lessons to be learnt!

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Darcy McGuire is a high school counsellor who grew up in the wilds of New Zealand but happily settled in the Pacific Northwest. In between dodging territorial geese, gathering duck eggs, taking the
dog for long walks, Darcy loves writing about fierce female protagonists who may dodge daggers and bullets but never seem to escape Cupid’s Arrow.

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My thoughts: I really like this series, we’re only on book two but it’s just a lot of fun. Queen Victoria’s lady agents have to basically avoid being trapped in a marriage to some miserable sod, as they’ll have to give up their role and play domestic angel instead.

Millie’s ghastly stepmother wants to marry her off to a fossil so Millie decides to go for disgrace and being packed off away from society in order to carry on her vital work as a spy. Only she’s picked the one man who won’t back down.

Major General Beaufort Drake is an agent for the Prime Minister – and they’re investigating the same case from different angles. Can they fall in love, stop bickering and stop the trade in young women?

So much fun, a bit saucy, quite romantic (they face off against the horrible stepmother, his wet blanket of a brother and miserable sister-in-law together) and just very enjoyable. Highly recommend.

*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: To Defend a Bride – Daniela A. Mera

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To Defend a Bride is LIVE! The Entangled with the Enduar series continues with Ra’Sa and Melisa’s story!

To Defend A Bride: An Enemies to Lovers Bodyguard Fantasy Romance (Entangled with the Enduar Series)

Publication Date: October 14, 2024

Genre: Fantasy Romance

  • Bodyguard x Courtesan
  • Epic Angst
  • Secrets
  • True Love Against All Odds
  • She’s Using Him
  • Fated Mates

Bodyguard romantasy meets courtesan turned spy.

Melisa needs a new life for herself and her family. And she finds just that in a troll named Ra’Sa. He’s tall, strong, serious, and unattached.

And yet, he doesn’t fall for her attempts to seduce him. Frustrated, she gives up and crafts a new plan: make herself indispensable.

So far, Ra’Sa is unimpressed with the weak, helpless creatures he escorts across the land. The one with long, silky black hair and a red gown is intriguing, but his crystal doesn’t sing, meaning she’s not his mate. Thus, it doesn’t matter that she’s clever. And beautiful. And strangely hard to stop watching.

However… he is furious when she surprises everyone and offers to return to the giant capital, where she will use her position as a comfort woman to glean information for the trolls.

So he demands to go with her—to watch over and defend her in a land of cruel men.

Her secrets unravel, revealing her true nature. He finds it… breathtaking. Despite the forbidden nature of their relationship, feelings stir within his stony heart.

Will they succeed their mission or let their desire burn them to ashes?

To Defend a Bride is a standalone novel, but it is part of a larger series called Entangled with the Enduar. It can be read by itself but it is recommended to be read after To Steal a Bride and To Ignite a Flame for the best experience.

It is dark monster romantasy featuring a cunning heroine and a brooding hero. This adult fantasy romance is perfect for readers of Sarah J. Maas, Jennifer L. Armentrout, and Danielle L. Jensen.

Note: This story is an adult/new adult novel with mentions of trauma, abuse, and other mature themes.

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Blog Tour: The Goblin King’s Mischief – D. Lieber

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We’re celebrating the release of D. Lieber’s new book The Goblin King’s Mischief! Read on for more details!

The Goblin King’s Mischief

Publication Date: October 15, 2024

Genre: Romantic Fantasy

A promise unkept. A love she can’t forget. This wily human will do anything to reclaim the heart of the Goblin King.

Lady Melody Piobaire never lost faith her first love would come for her when she was forced from his side. That is, until she finds out he doesn’t even know who she really is…doesn’t even know she’s human. To make things worse, she’s the promised mistress of the sidhe king. Rather than bear Tír’s heir, she devises a plan to win back her true love in the most goblin of ways.

Orphaned elf Aodh never forgot what it was like growing up on the mean streets of Goblintown. And now, as Goblin King, he’s dedicated to being the just and attentive ruler the neglected goblins deserve. So when a spoiled human who knows nothing of what it means to be a goblin tricks him into marriage, he’ll do anything to be rid of her.

Melody is certain she can win Aodh’s heart again, so she isn’t prepared for his hot and cold hostility. Aodh is unsettled by the forward human in his home and the way she seems to know just how to get to him.

What can Melody do if her only love no longer wants her, or worse, no longer exists?

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Blog Tour: Rebirth – Agnes Henbane

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We’re celebrating the release of Rebirth by Agnes Henbane all this week. If you would like, you can pre-order the book until October 11th and take advantage of the pre-order incentives (see author’s bio for link)!

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Rebirth (Lost Souls Book 1)

Publication Date: October 11, 2024

Genre: Dark PNR/ Horror Fantasy

• Dark paranormal romance
• Beauty and the Beast
• Horror fantasy
• Angels & demons
• Slow burn enemies to lovers
• Forced proximity
• Revenge plot
• Unique magic system

My first life, my human life, was nothing like the fairy tales. It may have started the same—“Once upon a time, I fell in love…”—but devolved into a nightmare where I was mistreated and eventually discarded by my so-called husband. I quickly learned there are no happily-ever-afters.
Searching for an escape, I find myself faced with a second chance, but one that is more like a gilded cage than a genuine fresh start. I wake in an unknown place with no memory of my old life or awareness of where I am. Relying on two strangers, who just so happen to also be my rivals for his favor, I learn to navigate this supernatural domain and my newfound power.
The man who brought me here showers me with both his magic and cruelty once I’ve proven myself worthy of his attention, shaping me to suit his needs. Despite his ulterior motive, he provides me the knowledge and opportunity to avenge myself for all I have endured, so I play into his hand as a means to my own end. After all, that’s what I am to him.
There is nothing I won’t do to reclaim what’s mine and break free from the bloodred hands that mean to imprison me. I just hope my fragile heart won’t get in the way of my schemes.

Rebirth is a Dark Paranormal Romance, please check TW’s before reading.

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Blog Tour: Vicious Luna – C.J. Primer

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Welcome to the book tour for Vicious Luna by C.J. Primer! Read on for more details!

Vicious Luna: An Enemies to Lovers Wolf Shifter Romance (Shadowed Heirs Book Four)

Publication Date: September 17, 2024

Genre: PNR/ Shifters

  • Fated Mates
  • PNR (Wolf Shifters)
  • Enemies to Lovers
  • Forced Proximity
  • Hostage Situation
  • Strong FMC who takes no shit
  • Morally grey MMC
  • Primal play
  • Secrets & Lies

I usually dance on bars, not find myself waking up behind them.

I’m in a cell, captured by the enemy that has been hunting my kind for the past decade. They’re holding me hostage to use for leverage in their sick extermination effort, forcing me to live through my worst nightmare and subjecting me to unspeakable horrors. While a lesser woman would give up, I’ll stop at nothing to find a way to escape this place, even if it means crossing a few lines.

The guy who’s keeping me under lock and key is stone cold, but there’s no mistaking the way he looks at me. As much as he hates himself for it, he wants me, and that’s something I can work with.

Little by little, I’ll let him get closer. I’ll make him believe I’m playing his game while setting a honey trap he can’t help but get caught in. He’ll think he’s breaking me down, but I’ll just be biding my time, waiting for an opening to shove a knife in his back and set myself free.

There’s only one problem with my plan, though…

There’s a fine line between love and hate.

Vicious Luna is book four in the Shadowed Heirs series, a collection of paranormal romance novels centered around a group of aligned packs of wolf shifters. These books contain mature content (steamy scenes!), frequent use of profanity, and darker themes. While each book in the series concludes with a HEA for the main couple featured, there are some loose ends concerning the overarching storyline that runs throughout the entire five-book series. This book can be enjoyed as a standalone. The first three books in the series are available on KU.

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This book contains darker themes that may be triggering for some readers. Possible triggers include, but are not limited to: bullying, kidnapping, hostage situation, emotional blackmail, manipulation, dubious consent, rough sex, primal play, graphic violence, blood, gore, use of firearms, death, threat of sexual assault (not between MCs), anxiety, depression, and thoughts of self-harm. I have tried to handle all of these with care, and this story WILL have a happy ending. It’s just a rough road to get there, but if anyone can go through hell and come out stronger on the other side, it’s Avery. I hope you enjoy her story.

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Blog Tour: A Curse So Wicked – River Ash

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We’re celebrating the beautiful and newly released book by River Ash, A Curse So Wicked!

A Curse so Wicked (Cursed Bloodline Book 1)

Publication Date: October 6, 2024

Genre: Romantic Fantasy

  • Deadly Bites
  • Vampire/Witches
  • Curse Witch
  • Elemental Witch
  • Vampire MMC
  • Witch FMC
  • His Bites Can Restore Her Magic

She’s anxious for a cure. He has the answer. With mutual magical enemies, will their sizzling chemistry survive a dangerous betrayal?

New Orleans. Hailey Knox needs a miracle. Born to a long line of powerful witches, the fire-haired bartender has tried everything to break a curse that stifles her magic. So when a mysterious, sexy bloodsucker claims he can crack the spell, she throws caution to the wind for the sake of her deathly ill granny.

John is frantically pursuing a deeply personal agenda. So the vampire seizes the opportunity to further his desperate aims by offering the despairing green-eyed goddess a deal too sweet to be true. But despite his hunger for the lovely redhead, he refuses to be distracted as he vows to pursue his goal to the treacherous end.

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Blog Tour: Home for Christmas – Heidi Swain

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Bella is living her best life in Wynbridge, with her beloved Spaniel, Tink. She’s found a way to keep the house she inherited from her grandparents while expanding her dream business – Away With the Fairies – and she’s ecstatic that Christmas is on the horizon!

In fact, everything is perfect until family friend, Catherine Connelly asks Bella if she’d be willing to rent part of the house to freelance author, Jude who is researching the history of the Connelly Clan and Wynthorpe Hall ahead of turning his findings into a book. The plan had been for Jude to stay at the hall, but he can’t cope with the chaos and Bella reluctantly agrees to open her door to him.

Initially, the pair clash but then friendlier feelings begin to grow and Bella finds herself wondering if Jude could become more than just another guest before it’s time for him to leave. That is, until he announces he has no time for Christmas!

With her favourite time of the year suddenly in jeopardy, will Bella ever feel like she’s home for Christmas?

Heidi Swain is a Sunday Times Top Ten best-selling author who writes feel good fiction for Simon & Schuster. She releases two books a year (early summer and winter) and the stories all have a strong sense of community, family and friendship. She is currently writing books set in three locations – the Fenland town of Wynbridge, Nightingale Square in Norwich and Wynmouth on the Norfolk coast, as well as summer standalone titles.

Heidi lives in beautiful west Norfolk. She is passionate about gardening, the countryside, collecting vintage paraphernalia and reading. Her tbr pile is always out of control!

Heidi loves to chat with her readers and you can get in touch via her website or on social media.

My thoughts: I do enjoy a Heidi Swain Christmas book and this is really good, fun and charming, and it made me feel all cosy inside.

Bella makes fairies at her business Away With the Fairies, inspired by her love of Cicely Mary Barker’s Flower Fairies (my Nan gave me the whole series as a child, one book per birthday till I had them all) and other fairy related things. She’s good at it, and they sell well, especially in the run up to Christmas, so she’s going to be really busy.

And then she’s asked to take in a temporary guest – a writer called Jude, who’s been staying at the Hall but needs somewhere quiet to put together the history he’s writing. And she can’t really say no, as the Connollys have been so good to her over the years.

Cue chaos, Jude hates Christmas, Bella’s little flat is too small for all the fairy making paraphernalia and her dog, Tink, is disturbing him by barking. 

But as the festive season intensifies, and the pair get to know each other better, there’s a distinct something in the air…

Filled with Heidi’s charming characters and festive fun, this is a terrific cosy, mug of hit chocolate wrapped in a blanket with your favourite festive film (Muppets’ Christmas Carol for me) on the TV read. So get comfy and enjoy!

*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: Undead Gods – Caitlyn Battelle

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We’re celebrating the release of Undead Gods by Caitlyn Battelle this week! This is one you’re going to want to bump up to the top of your TBR list!

Undead Gods (Book 1)

Genre: Romantic Fantasy / Dark Gaslamp Fantasy

Publication Date: October 1st, 2024

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  • Dark, moody gaslamp worldbuilding
  • Strong women
  • secrets and mysteries
  • forbidden magic
  • everyone’s favorite raccoon
  • feminine rage

WELCOME TO KAVA, WHERE THE UNDEAD GODS NEITHER HEAR NOR CARE…

Elysia Parker lives each day in fear it will be her last.

The magic the gods carelessly gifted mortals disappeared years ago, and Elysia Parker is all too familiar with what happens when someone is found to be harboring magic in her land. Death.

Cursed but hiding in plain sight within Kava’s royal court, Elysia has her eyes on the crown and its prince. But an unexpected change in her magic throws her carefully laid plans into chaos. In love with the man who could order her death, she searches for an answer to her curse before it’s too late.

From underground tunnels to pleasure houses and rebels who demand payment of the highest kind, Elysia will journey to the death realm and back to find her answers.

But is she willing to face the harsh demands of the truth?

Inspired by Hades and Persephone, Undead Gods is a dark, moody fantasy filled with magic, danger, and a love that may be the heroine’s downfall. Follow Elysia Parker into the soot drenched world of Kava as she navigates secrets, betrayal, and ultimately, finding herself amidst a world of lies.

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Blog Tour: Of Warriors and Sage – Jenn Lees

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Welcome to the tour for new release, Of Warriors and Sages by Jenn Lees! Read on for more details!

Of Warriors and Sages (Arlan’s Pledge #2)

Publication Date: September 20, 2024

Genre: Portal Fantasy Romance

A dragon egg to obtain and a Quest to win.
A portal to master and a love to retrieve.
A lineage to discover and a high kingship to secure.

Arlan has returned to Dál Gaedhle, taking Rhiannon’s heart with him. Two years have passed since the handsome Dál Gaedhle warrior travelled back through the portal to his own world, but daily Rhiannon waits for him to come and take her to her true home.

Rhiannon has mastered horse riding and martial art, and can now speak Gaelic.

She’s ready.

With the high king of Dál Gaedhle dead, slain by a mage-controlled fire-breathing dragon, Arlan must win the Quest and gain the high kingship to save his land from Ciarán Gallawain’s greedy desires.

The task for this Quest—to find a dragon egg—is the most difficult since the Dragon Wars. For millennia, the beasts have been scarce and the stuff of legend.

But a greater quest still dogs Arlan… to prove Rhiannon’s lineage. For if she is not noble, their relationship will be impossible.

Rhiannon has a mission of her own: to get to Dál Gaedhle, learn to be a warrior, and discover her place in the world of Dál Cruinne.

Frustrated by his master’s unfulfilled promises, Lord Ciarán plans his great and final battle while his mage Bram grows in skill and power.

But Rhiannon’s major challenge will be to keep her true feelings for Arlan in check.

If Arlan cannot beat his banished cousin, Dál Gaedhle will suffer the same fate as the east of Dál Cruinne and any thought of liberty and love be a mere fleeting wish.

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Blog Tour: Doll Face – C. Herbert & D.J. Kimmer

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We’re celebrating the upcoming release of DOLL FACE by C. Hebert and D.J. Krimmer! Pre-order now or get your copy on October 5th!

Doll Face

Publication Date: October 5, 2024

Genre: Dark Romance/ Retelling/ Novella

Shall We Play A Game?

Amid the suffocating embrace of night,
I stumble upon him, a beacon of light.
The Boogeyman, a seductive terror,
Whispers haunting promises, cruel and fair.
Eyes that glint with otherworldly fire,
In his grasp, I’m consumed by dark desire.
A love twisted and sickeningly sweet,
Tangled in the depths of darkness, where nightmares meet.
Should I trust my button eyes,
Or should I doubt them and follow my firefly?

This story is a dark retelling created by two spooky queens who combined the iconic stories of The Nightmare Before Christmas (specifically Oogie Boogie) and Coraline into a mash up of spooky goodness filled with banter, chaos, and lots of spice.

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Mental Abuse, Physical Abuse, Attempted Sexual Assault, Torture, Blood, Biting, Attempted Murder, Murder, Death, Detailed Sexual Scenes, Anxiety, Mention of Child Abduction and Death, Kidnapping, Unprotected Sex, Stalking, Somnophilia, Emotional Abuse, Needles, Sewing of Flesh, Mention of Rape, Sexual Abuse, Trauma, Profanity, Sexual Harassment, Slut Shaming, Violence, Dubious Consent, Desecration of a Corpse, Masturbation, Mention of Blood Orgies, Verbal Abuse, Taxidermy, Light Bondage, Virgin FMC, Sodomy, Rough Sexual Interactions, Removal of Eyes, Emotional Addiction, Intrusive Thoughts, PTSD Characteristics, Sex Addiction, Gambling, Body Modifications, Toxic Relationships, Body Horror, Dead Bodies, Emotional Scars, Emotional Trauma, Attempted Strangulation, Abuse of a Deceased Animal, Sexual Manipulation, Emotional Manipulation, Lying, Shared Trauma, Panic Attacks, and a Cliff Hanger Ending.

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