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Cover Reveal: An Arc of Ash – Hailey Jade

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We’re pleased to share the blurb and cover for An Arc of Ash, a dark academia romantasy by Hailey Jade!



An Arc of Ash (An Arc of Ash Book One)

Expected Release Date: January 11, 2027

Genre: Gothic Dark Academia Romantasy

Tropes:
Obsession
Rivals to lovers
They make each other worse
Morally grey MMC
Ambitious FMC
Deadly trials
Gothic dark academia
Magic academy
Slow burn
Sassy talking cat



When Ashlyn arrives at Delghara she has nothing but ambition and a desperate determination to prove herself. The Dominion’s elite magic wielders hold positions of immense power and influence, and Ash intends to claim a place among them. But first, she has to survive an institution that erodes loyalty, normalises sacrifice, and turns students into weapons.

Then she meets Xave Gable.

He’s brilliant, ruthless, and impossible to shake once he’s decided something is worth his attention. He’s also the first person to recognise the hunger lurking beneath her controlled exterior and seems intent on seeing just how deep it goes.

As deadly trials claim lives around them and Delghara’s secrets begin to surface, rivalry gives way to fascination, then fascination gives way to obsession.

And obsession has a way of demanding more than anyone intended to give.

An Arc of Ash is a dark academia romantasy featuring deadly trials, forbidden magic, buried secrets, a dangerously ambitious heroine, and a slow-burn romance built on rivalry, obsession, and the terrifying experience of being truly seen.


Triggers:
Violence
Gore
Character Death
Self-inflicted Injury
Psychological Themes
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Blog Tour: Once Upon a Midnight Walk – Tetyana Walker

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Welcome to the book tour for Once Upon a Midnight Walk by Tetyana Walker!

Once Upon a Midnight Walk

Release Date: April 24, 2026

Genre: Romantic Fantasy

  • Strong and cunning heroine
  • Forced partnership
  • Slow burn romance
  • Enemies to lovers
  • “Who did this to you”
  • A LOT of bickering & yearning
  • Angst and tension with historical romance undertones

In a kingdom where the sun never sets, and only men are born with magic, Agnes Peregreene had to grow up entirely too soon.

After her mother’s death, Agnes devoted her life to caring for her younger sister. Bound by a vow she refused to break, she ensured no price was too great for Solomia’s well-being. But when Solomia is betrothed to a known wife-killer, Agnes is forced to confront the reality of her own powerlessness.

Before Agnes can find a way to save her sister, she is handed a death sentence of her own.

Desperate to buy time, she strikes a frantic bargain with the Aclanian king—she will venture into Nocturna, the realm of ever-night, and retrieve a long-lost talisman in exchange for her life and her sister’s freedom.

Lost in a realm unlike any other, Agnes must rely on her cunning mind to survive. Determined to return home successful, she sets on a path of discovery, unraveling secrets that a mysterious and wealthy man named Odeon Nox has spent years trying to keep buried.

Secrets that come with a price neither one of them is prepared to pay.

Step into this standalone fantasy romance, set between a realm of sunlight and castles and a world of night and cities rivaling 1920s New York.

Every choice has a price, and every heart hides a secret.

For fans of Jane Austen, Sarah J. Maas and V.E Schwab

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Blog Tour: Cast Off – Enola M. Douglas

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Welcome to the ARC tour for Cast Off by Enola M. Douglas – Available July 10th!

Cast Off (Jewels of the Nine Kingdoms Book 2)
Expected Release Date: July 10, 2026
Genre: Romantasy/ Why Choose

• Arranged marriage
• Omegaverse
• Royalty
• Court Intrigue
• Forced Proximity
• Found Family
• Healer FMC / Warrior MMC
• Mutual pining
• Slow Burn
• Hurt/Comfort
• Touch her & Di3
• Second Chances
• Grovelling
• Chronic Pain/Disability Rep
• Interracial Marriage

An arranged marriage.
A fragile alliance.
A love neither thought possible.

Omega Princess JingYi of Xûen-Sarai has always lived in the shadows—unseen, unwanted, valued only for her skill as a healer. When she’s sent to marry a powerful Alpha lord in a distant kingdom, she sees it as an escape. A chance to reclaim her dignity.

Alpha Lord Alexander Wulfbane expects a flawless bride to restore his disgraced House—but the Omega who arrives is nothing like he imagined. The moment their eyes meet, disappointment lingers, and their fragile alliance begins to fray.

But beyond the cold marriage bed and strained diplomacy, a darker plot is brewing. Across the realm, Omegas are vanishing—and whispers of a forbidden substance threaten to destabilize the Nine Kingdoms. To survive, JingYi and Alexander must become more than a political match.

She’s not the bride he wants.
And she never asks him to be her hero.
But when the storm comes, they’ll have to choose—
stand together or be swept away.

Cast Off can be read as a standalone—but for the fullest plunge into the Nine Kingdoms, start with WHISKED AWAY. It’s the gateway that sets up the world, politics, and payoffs you’ll feel even harder in Book Two.

Note: Cast Off is an Omegaverse fantasy romance. It is Book Two in Jewels of the Nine Kingdoms—a series of interconnected stories, each following different main characters or pairings, all bound by a shared world and a central conflict. This book can be read on its own—but Whisked Away (Book 1) offers deeper context and emotional resonance within the overarching plot.

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TRIGGER WARNINGS:

• Emotional & physical abuse
• Gaslighting & societal control
• Human trafficking
• Death of parents
• Grief
• Descriptions of torture & execution
• Medical trauma, coercion, and bodily autonomy violations
• Physical & psychological trauma
• Heat/Rut dynamics
• Attempted rape (past event, non-graphic)
• Pregnancy & birth scenes (side characters, not FMC)

 

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Cover Reveal: The Unraveling – 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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Blog Tour: The Silver Thread – Kate Lord Brown

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THREE CITIES. TWO WOMEN. A STORY OF ONE HUNDRED YEARS . . .

London, 1875. Bel has secured a design job at the newly opened Liberty store, where Japonisme is all the rage. When Hiro, a fellow designer, travels with her to Tokyo to source silks and inspiration, little does she know it will be the start of an unforgettable love story.

Paris, 1985. Mira, a recently qualified art curator, is hired to catalogue the contents of an apartment which has been closed for decades. As she works through the treasures it reveals, she longs to discover what happened to famed designer Isobel Bright – and why her apartment has been locked for so many years. . .

Crossing oceans, cultures, and timelines, this is a sweeping story of a patient and everlasting love – and the moments that tie people together forever.

Kate Lord Brown was a finalist in ITV’s The People’s Author contest, and her novel The Perfume Garden, which has been published in nine languages, was shortlisted for the Romantic Novel of the Year 2014. In 2020 she was highly commended in the RNA Elizabeth Goudge Trophy.

Kate has also written editorial, reviews and regular columns for Traveller, Conde Nast, Good Housekeeping, Writers’ News, Arts Business, Gulf Times, Woman, the Daily Telegraph, Sunday Express and others. She wrote the first book club column in the Middle East for two years, introducing a host of writers to the region through the pages of Ahlan! After many years living overseas, she has returned to the wild and beautiful southwest of England, where she grew up.

My thoughts: This was a fantastic read about a pioneer in fashion, sadly fictional, who created her own fashion house in Paris and every time things went sour, somehow found a way to rise again.

It’s also a beautiful story about love, a love that spans the globe and decades, hidden away in the apartments and ateliers of Paris and the quiet life of a silk merchant in Japan. Brought to the light by a researcher years later, who wants to solve the mystery of Isobel Bright and her disappearance from the fashion world.

Just a lovely read, bringing to life the development of fashion and the truly delightful bond between Bel and Hiro, who even though they both marry others, and spend decades apart, never stop loving one another and communicate in letters and fabric, shipped between Japan and France.

*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: Of Fate and Fury – Amy Woodruff

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We’re celebrating the release of Of Fate and Fury by Amy Woodruff!

If you need to catch up on the Blood and Curses series… book one, Of Kingdom and Curses is available on KU!

Of Fate and Fury (Blood and Curses Book Two)

Release Date: June 2, 2026

Genre: Romantasy

  • Cursed romance
  • Powerful artifacts
  • Found family
  • Memory magic
  • Star-crossed love
  • “I’d burn the world for you” energy

Escaping Elyria was only the beginning. Some curses never truly break.

Bridget Adams has returned to the human world—alive, but changed. Her memories of Elyria remain intact, though they shouldn’t. Haunted by visions she can’t explain and the ache of missing Cade, she begins to fear the price of magic is her sanity. Then a familiar face appears, shattering everything she thought she knew about herself… and about Cade.

In Elyria, Cassia watches her brother unravel, uncertain whether Bridget survived the crossing. With the reluctant help of the man she once loved, she begins to awaken powers buried deep within her… powers that could alter the fate of the kingdom. But with Quinn still missing and the stolen Bloodstone in her possession, the fragile peace holding their world together is close to breaking.

Because the Bloodstone is more than a relic. It’s the key to freeing Vega from her prison in Iegorus, and it’s bound to Bridget and Cade by a curse centuries in the making. With war brewing and magic demanding a price, Bridget and Cassia must face their destinies — or see everything they love consumed by a fate they’ve both been trying to outrun.

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Blog Tour: Grace – Nicole Sallak Anderson

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<strong>It’s time for Grace’s side of the story!</strong>

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<strong>Grace (Justice &amp; Grace #2)</strong>

<strong>Release Date: May 25, 2026</strong>

<strong>Genre: Contemporary Romance</strong>

Thirty years ago, Justice Sloan abandoned Grace Watson, pregnant and in a time of need. After a lifetime apart, Justice re-enters Grace’s life, determined to meet his son Tyler. While her young adult children launch their own lives and her parents grow old, Grace discovers that love writes truth with crooked lines, and only the refiner’s fire can bring broken hearts to union.

Grace is an intergenerational story about a family as they navigate Chicago in the 2020s with all its ups and downs—from betrayal and redemption to birth and death—and discover in the end, the only thing that matters is love.

<em><strong>“On family trials and redemptive love, Sallak Anderson delivers characters who will live rent-free in your head.”</strong></em>

<strong>~Lindy Vogel, founder @swearyparentsmedia</strong>

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<strong>Trigger warnings: some foul language, a few sex scenes but not graphic, suicide.</strong>

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Book Blitz: The Ninth Realm – Julia Silverwood

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We’re thrilled to announce that the first book in The Norse Realms Saga is now available! Get The Ninth Realm by Julia Silverwood today!

The Ninth Realm (The Norse Realms Saga Book 1)

Release Date: May 21

Genre: Norse Romantasy

Cover Designer: @trifbookdesign

Character Artist: @lulybot

  • Lethal trials
  • Ruthless gods
  • Norse legends
  • Companion beasts
  • Star-crossed romance
  • Forbidden love
  • Bonded mates
  • Political intrigue
  • Mythological creatures
  • Forced proximity

A high-stakes romantasy where The Hunger Games meets Norse mythology, packed with deadly trials, dangerous intrigue, and a slow-burn romance where your greatest enemy may be your only ally.

Nine realms. One bond. No escape.

For ten thousand years, a Keeper has stood between Earth and the chaos of the Norse realms, holding back cunning gods, legendary creatures, and beautifully wicked fae. But Saga knows nothing of this until her dying father calls her home to Iceland and leaves her his title, his secrets, and a fate she can’t refuse.

She discovers she’s bound by magic to Kalen, a mysterious fae who despises her fragile humanity because when she dies, so does he. So when the Norse gods resurrect the Tournament of Realms, a brutal contest where champions fight for the role of Keeper, Saga must obey the call, and Kalen becomes wholly infested.

To survive the trials, Saga must master her fighting skills and tether with her companion beast while navigating the intrigue of the gods. Yet her greatest challenge may be resisting Kalen, who could either save her heart or shatter the world she’s fighting for because desire is as lethal as the gods’ games.

A must-read for readers who love plot twists, dangerous trials, Norse legends, companion beasts, and star-crossed romance. Perfect for fans of Demi Winters and Danielle Jensen.

AVAILABLE ON AMAZON & OTHER FINE RETAILERS

 

Content Warnings:

  • On-page death
  • Battle violence and gore
  • Death of a parent
  • 1 spicy scene

 

 

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Book Blitz: A Game of Cat and Witch – Ruby Rune

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We’re celebrating the release of A Game of Cat and Witch by Ruby Rune!

This beauty is already an Amazon Bestseller and we’re gifting one lucky ready a paperback copy on Instagram!

A Game of Cat and Witch (Monstrous Shifters)

Genre: A Spicy Witch & Shifter Paranormal Academy Romance

Cover Artist: Kage, illustration by Alilyushka

  • Forced Proximity
  • Just one dorm/bed
  • Enemies to lovers
  • Touch her and die
  • Academy setting
  • Witch + Cat Shifter
  • Fated Mates
  • Literal Black Cat MMC
  • Underlying Mystery Plot

Avery Alarch has always been the worst witch at Caerwyn University. Now she’s got twenty-four hours to conjure a familiar or get kicked out for good—a fate that means losing her magic forever and being stuck on a dreary island with nothing but regrets.

Desperate times call for desperate spells. So when Avery stumbles on a forbidden grimoire, she decides to risk it all. One little summoning later, she’s expecting a cute magical cat. Instead? She gets Felix, a six-foot-six cat shifter with a bad attitude and a knack for trouble. He’s her mortal enemy, magically bound to her by an illegal spell, and very much not purring.

He wants her dead. She wants him gone. Neither of them gets a choice.

The only way out? Solve a string of enchanted riddles before their magical link destroys them both. Of course, that’s easier said than done when Felix keeps tying Avery up in shadows, and their bickering is starting to feel a little less hostile and a lot more heated.

As they unravel puzzles and secrets, Avery and Felix find themselves at the heart of a conspiracy that could upend the supernatural world. And despite every rule and reason, sparks are flying in all the wrong (or right?) ways.

Get ready for claws, curses, and cat-astrophic chemistry in A Game of Cat and Witch, the first laugh-out-loud installment in the Monstrous Shifters series. Perfect for fans of My Funny Demon Valentine and Assistant to the Villain, Ruby Rune’s debut is a magical, banter-filled paranormal rom-com you won’t want to miss.

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Triggers:

  • Dub con/non con
  • Graphic sexual scenes
  • Sexual assault (on page)
  • Physical violence
  • Anxiety/Panic attacks
  • Dismembered bodies
  • Trauma
  • Death of a loved one (not on page)
  • Death of a parent (not on page)
  • Graphic violence
  • Slut shaming
  • Excessive drinking
  • Murder and attempted murder

 

 

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Book Blitz: The Timeless Victor – A.C. Guess

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We’re celebrating the release of The Timeless Victor by A.C. Guess!

We’re also gifting one lucky reader a special edition copy of the first book The Timeless Trials!

The Timeless Victor (The Timeless Series Book 2)

Release Date: May 14, 2026

Genre: Romantasy

  • Amnesia
  • Fated mates
  • Morally grey
  • Dragons
  • Time as currency
  • Forbidden romance

He rewrote her mind. He can’t rewrite her heart.

Rae survived the Trials only to wake in a gilded cage. Betrothed to High Prince Flint and haunted by memories she can’t trust, she’s been reshaped to play the perfect future queen. But truth stirs beneath the surface—whispers of a man her mind fears and her soul refuses to release.

When fragments of truth break through, Rae discovers Flint has been rewriting her memories. And the fallen prince she’s been taught to fear—the one cursed to kill her—is the only one fighting to save her.

With the High King hunting her and Flint tightening his control, Rae must shatter the lies that bind her—or lose herself forever to the prince who’ll erase her, piece by piece, until nothing remains except the queen he designed.

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Special edition preorders only at acguess.com

(Special edition edge design by Etheric Designs and character art by Magdalena Chervenyakova)

 

This book is intended for adults and contains material that some readers may find distressing. It includes mind manipulation, forced memory loss (central to plot—both antagonist and love interest in different contexts), psychological abuse, gaslighting, domestic abuse dynamics, coercive control, grief, sexual content (explicit), on-page violence and executions, physical assault, animal cruelty (dragons), substance abuse and addiction, and chronic pain.

 

 

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