#BookReview: Healer to the Broken King (Brides of Myth #1) by Avie Adams

She serves a god. He wears a crown. Their forbidden love could topple his kingdom.

Calliste is a healer moments away from becoming high priestess when the dark, domineering King Theron storms her sanctuary. Abducted and blackmailed, she watches nine years of grueling effort go up in smoke—along with her hopes of safety. He’s dragging her back to the same capital she fled, a glittering city that left her with nightmares and scars.

Theron is a shell of a man with the weight of a crown slowly crushing him. He’ll do anything to save his sleep-cursed son—even capturing a beautiful priestess cherished by the gods. But as Calliste begins to mend his shattered heart, it takes everything he has not to act on his dangerous desires.

Their forbidden passion soon inflames tensions in Theron’s kingdom—and sparks envy in the god Calliste serves. Bound by duty and with destructive secrets lingering between them, can their love survive, or will it doom them both?

Healer to the Broken King is a slow-burn fantasy romance featuring mature protagonists, forbidden romance, tortured heroes, and worlds inspired by Greek mythology.

#BookReview: Captive (Castillo Cartel #1-2) by Bella Ash

Two ruthless brothers. Two stubborn captives. Trapped together in a brutal world. 

VICIOUS HEIR
Angel Castillo is ruthless, reigning over his brutal world with a bloody fist. Forced into his cold become his wife or die, I try to escape, but his claws are buried deep. Trapped in a golden prison, I hate him yet crave his touch. He sees me like no one else. This devil will ruin me. And I want to be ruined.

BRUTAL ENFORCER
Men have always controlled me. First my ruthless father, then my savage fiancé, and now Omar the brutal enforcer. Known as The Beast, he’s locked me up, threatening my life and craving my blood. Despite my filthy thoughts about him, I must escape. Everyone underestimates me, seeing only a pawn. But I’ll burn this island down before I give in.

#Teaser: Ace by Anne Kane @RABTBookTours

Riptide MC (#1)

 

Motorcycle Club Romance

Date Published: 1/3/25

Publisher: Changeling Press

 

Someone took a shot at my Emma – and signed his own death warrant. No one hurts my woman and lives.

 

Emma:

After witnessing a cold-blooded killing, I run to the only person I can think of who can protect me. Ace is my high school fantasy turned big bad biker. Did I mention sizzling, sexy, and hot? He’s everything I know I should stay away from, but his touch makes me melt and when his lips devour mine, I forget why I shouldn’t let him near me. But he’s more than just a one-night stand. He makes me feel safe. Loved. Wanted. All the things I’ve never had -- and that’s addictive as hell. Ace makes it clear he wants to claim me, make me part of his biker family, and keep me by his side. And I want him. Forever.

 

Ace:

I’ve always had a thing for Emma, but back in high school, she dated my little brother. So I moved on. Joined the Navy SEALs. Re-upped a few times, but when that last mission went south, I knew it was time to bail. Feeling lost and adrift, I came home. And patched into the Riptide MC. Finally felt like I had a home and a family. I didn’t think life could get any better. A knock on my door in the middle of the night changed everything. Emma fell into my arms, terrified and wounded. Some asshole shot my Emma. He may not know it yet, but he just signed his own death warrant. Once I’ve taken care of her, I’m going to convince Emma to stay with me. Forever.

@crossroadreview: Jan 5th 3pm ET with Fourth Wing (The Empyrean #1) by Rebecca Yarros

Enter the brutal and elite world of a war college for dragon riders...

Twenty-year-old Violet Sorrengail was supposed to enter the Scribe Quadrant, living a quiet life among books and history. Now, the commanding general—also known as her tough-as-talons mother—has ordered Violet to join the hundreds of candidates striving to become the elite of Navarre: dragon riders.

But when you’re smaller than everyone else and your body is brittle, death is only a heartbeat away...because dragons don’t bond to “fragile” humans. They incinerate them.

With fewer dragons willing to bond than cadets, most would kill Violet to better their own chances of success. The rest would kill her just for being her mother’s daughter—like Xaden Riorson, the most powerful and ruthless wingleader in the Riders Quadrant.

She’ll need every edge her wits can give her just to see the next sunrise.

Yet, with every day that passes, the war outside grows more deadly, the kingdom's protective wards are failing, and the death toll continues to rise. Even worse, Violet begins to suspect leadership is hiding a terrible secret.

Friends, enemies, lovers. Everyone at Basgiath War College has an agenda—because once you enter, there are only two ways out: graduate or die

Wating on: The Warbler by @sarahbethdurst & Recommendation: The Queen of Blood by @sarahbethdurst

Welcome to this weeks Waiting On and a Recommendation!! I hope that you enjoy this post and really check out these books with the links below.  So this week I can not wait to get to The Warbler by Sarah Beth Durst!! I have loved her adult books since I read The Queen of Blood forever ago and the fact that this is another fantasy from her I am hyped!!!  This book comes out March of 2025 so I hope you check it out!!  

So as for the recommendation of course I had to toss in The Queen of Blood!! If you haven't read these you should do that now!!  All of them are out and I hope that this series comes back with vengeance and gets super popular because I need more books set in this world!! So read it and love it!!! PLEASE!!