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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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TRIGGERS:

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

Readers are loving the…

  • 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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TRIGGERS:

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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Cover Reveal: Of Hearts and Hunters – Cynthia Brubaker

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We’re proud to present the gorgeous cover for Of Hearts and Hunters by Cynthia Brubaker! Pre-orders are open now!

Of Hearts and Hunters (Fallen Crowns Duet Book 1)

Expected Publication Date: February 5, 2025

Genre: Urban Fantasy/Vampire & Werewolf Romance

Cover Designer: @asterielly

Publisher: @midnighttidepublishing

PRE-ORDER INCENTIVES

1. First 20 orders get a discount (from there, it goes up)
2. 30 orders: free art print
3. 50 orders: paperback giveaway
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He’s a Vampyr.
I’m a Korama.
And I love him.

Tough-as-nails Verity ‘Veri’ Eadaoin has never trusted Vampyrs. They’ve killed everyone she loves. She finally gets an opportunity for revenge after a deadly Vampyr raid against her pack. Her new mission: retaliate against the Vampyr Queen by killing her newly-minted Prince. Simple enough. But Verity is unprepared for her encounter with the unsuspecting Vampyr.

Still reeling from his murder in Saguenay, Darren Pierce-Crané is freshly-turned and reluctant. He’s barely begun to adjust to his unlife when there’s a wolf at his door. Darren barters for his survival, resulting in a precarious pact with Verity. This deal uncovers sinister secrets that could spell the undoing of the entire city.

War is on the horizon, and time is of the essence. Verity and Darren will have to decide what is most important to them: their faction or each other.

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Trigger warnings include but are not limited to: Fantasy violence, gore, death, blood, decapitation, homicide, physical assault, drowning, family dysfunction and violence, grief, anxiety/PTSD, SA (on page but attacker is thwarted), suicidal thoughts, survivor’s guilt, profanity, bullying, explicit sexual content, references to sexual activity, discrimination/fantasy racism, drinking/drug use, drunken assault.

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Book Blitz: Wings of Destiny – V..M. Pire

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The time has come…and there’s nowhere to hide…

Happy publication day to author V.M. Pire and congratulations on the release of Wings of Destiny! For a chance to win a signed paperback copy, visit our Instagram page!

Wings of Destiny : Embrace Your Wings, Beware Your Heart (The Erin Snow Series #1)

Publication Date: October 1, 2024

Genre: Spicy Urban Fantasy

⭐️ FEISTY FMC
⭐️ FOUND FAMILY
⭐️ FATED MATES
⭐️ TOUCH THEM AND D!3
⭐️ MORALLY GREY

The time has come…and there’s nowhere to hide

Erin Snow, your average twenty-three year old book-obsessed college student, has her world turned upside down when people begin disappearing. Nightmares begin to stalk her day and night. Replaying bits of her past, bringing forward things that might’ve been better left unknown.

Will she discover the truth about what is happening to her, who she can trust?

And…who is secretly plotting her downfall?

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Book Blitz: Second Chances at the Little Bookshop – Katie Ginger

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Nora’s city life isn’t exactly working out how she planned. She’s stuck in her best friend’s tiny boxroom and hasn’t yet found that dream bookish job. But when she’s forced to return to her hometown of Little Harbour, Nora’s life takes an unexpected plot twist. Her estranged sister needs
her help and the beloved family bookshop of her first love, Alex, is about to go out of business.

Alex knows a trip home to his dad and The Book Nook is long overdue. If only his own life wasn’t such a complete and utter mess he’d have visited by now. But then he hears Nora Bell is back in town and it’s the push he needs to change everything.
When the two meet again it’s clear the spark of attraction still burns bright, but their unresolved past overshadows any possible future. Can they work together to save the bookshop and find their
fairytale ever after, or will hidden secrets and surprising truths keep them apart?

Perfect for fans of second chance romances, dreamy bookshops and escapist seaside settings!

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Katie Ginger writes romantic comedies as Annabel French for Avon, HarperCollins and historical fiction as Emma Royal for Century, Penguin Random House. When she’s not writing she spends her time reading, looking after her family and volunteering as Vice Chair or the Romantic
Novelists’ Association.

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Book Blitz: Queen of Ever – Lorelai Johnson & Hailey Jade

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We’re happy to announce that the next book in the Curse of Fate and Fae series, Queen of Ever by Lorelei Johnson and Hailey Jade is now available!

Queen of Ever (Curse of Fate and Fae Book 2)

Publication Date: September 30, 2024

Genre: Fantasy Romance

Fate is weaving her webs, and she won’t be denied…

Betrayed and heartbroken, Imogen retreats to the safety of the Seelie Palace, seeking refuge where Tarian can’t reach her. Yet, within the palace’s gilded walls, she finds her freedom more limited than ever. As she replays painful memories and stares at her shattered dreams, she begins to wonder if she hasn’t jumped out of the frying pan and into the fire—because the Seelie king isn’t what he seems.

Across the border, Tarian prowls the boundaries of his limitations, tormented by his inability to reach Imogen. He watches from afar, driven by a relentless need to reclaim what he’s lost. As tensions rise within the Fae Realm, Tarian sees an opportunity in the chaos. If he can find a way to her, he will—he’s already lost her once. She won’t get away from him again.

As hidden agendas come to light and conflict looms, can Tarian and Imogen overcome their differences and navigate the treacherous political waters they find themselves in, or will the prophecy’s curse prove too powerful for their love to endure?

Queen of Ever is the highly anticipated second book in the Curse of Fate and Fae series. Dive into this gripping sequel to Prince of Never—a tale of love, loss, and destiny that will leave you laughing, crying, and fanning your blushing cheeks.

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