#CoverReveal: Bargains with Benefits by @author.jillianwitt @rrbooktours

Bargains with Benefits (Fae by the Bay Book 1)

Expected Publication Date: June 3, 2025

Genre: Cozy Romantasy

- Opposites attract

- Fae bargains

- His magic is obsessed with her

- Darcy & Elizabeth vibes

- Wound tending

- Cozy romantasy

 

When Luna bargained with an arrogant fae journalist to save her inn, the last thing she expected was to fall for him.

Half-fae Luna Pierce is getting what she’s always wanted: to run the Cliff House Inn. Except, it hasn’t had a visitor in months, one of the rooms is magically locked, and the owner, her estranged fae father, is threatening to sell. She has until Long Night, when fae from across the continent travel to the city of Sandrin, to change his mind.

Writing a recommendation column for the Bayside Times isn’t exactly what Vincent Andiveron pictured doing with his life. His pieces, telling the fae of Sandrin where to see and be seen, are fun but frivolous. Now, the best tip of his career, an investigation that could set him on a path to serious journalism, fell into his lap–and he just met the perfect source.

When the handsome fae Luna accidentally throws a drink at ends up being the city's taste-maker, she must decide if she can shelve her family baggage and make a bargain that could benefit them both. But this is no simple transaction. Vincent needs to turn the wild and warm Luna into a proprietor pleasing to the stodgy old fae. And Luna hasn’t been to her father’s house—well-–ever, so getting Vincent access for his article might be tricky.

Their mutual attraction muddies the waters of their ambitions. What’s worse, all this time together might make Luna realize Vincent is not as snobby as he seemed, and Vincent might realize he doesn’t want to change a thing about Luna—she’s enchanting just the way she is.

Bargains with Benefits is a cozy standalone romantasy with spice in the Fae by the Bay series. Every book in this interconnected series ends with a HEA. If you like fae bargains, opposites attract, and half-fae heroines finding their place to belong, you’ll love this sweet and spicy story.

The Fae by the Bay series is set in the same world as Compass Points. Enjoy new characters in this favorite fantasy world, or dive in for the first time.

#BookReview: Half-Blood (Covenant, #1) by Jennifer L. Armentrout

The Hematoi descend from the unions of gods and mortals, and the children of two Hematoi pure bloods have godlike powers. Children of Hematoi and mortals--well, not so much. Half-bloods only have two options: become trained Sentinels who hunt and kill daimons or become servants in the homes of the pures.

Seventeen-year-old Alexandria would rather risk her life fighting than waste it scrubbing toilets, but she may end up slumming it anyway. There are several rules that students at the Covenant must follow. Alex has problems with them all, but especially rule #1:Relationships between pures and halfs are forbidden. Unfortunately, she's crushing hard on the totally hot pure-blood Aiden. But falling for Aiden isn't her biggest problem--staying alive long enough to graduate the Covenant and become a Sentinel is.

If she fails in her duty, she faces a future worse than death or slavery: being turned into a daimon, and being hunted by Aiden. And that would kind of suck.

#ReleaseBlitz: Music Box Mystery by @joanne_pence @RABTBookTours

 

(The Cook and Inspector Mysteries Book 8)

Cozy Mystery

Date Published: April 8, 2025

 

A music box, a murder, and a message from the grave...

When would-be gourmet cook Angie Amalfi takes a seemingly ordinary music box to be repaired, a series of grisly murders begins, each one inching closer to her and her fiancé, San Francisco Homicide Inspector Paavo Smith. As she and Paavo race to uncover the truth, they discover the music box isn’t just a relic—it’s a key to unraveling secrets that someone is willing to kill to protect. The discovery leads to dark, emotional chapters from the past—chapters that everyone believed would be buried forever.

For readers of the Inspector Rebecca Mayfield mystery series, this story takes place soon after Rebecca and Angie's cousin Richie meet (in the novella, The Thirteenth Santa). Richie has a minor role in this story.

NOTE: The main characters in this story appear in an early mystery series by the author which is being completely reimagined and updated.

#ReleaseBlitz for Pack Rage by @merribright @GiveMeBooksPR

Title: Pack Rage

Series: The Splintered Bond #4

Author: Merri Bright

Genre: Paranormal Romance

Tropes: Why Choose/Reverse Harem, Wolf Shifters

Soulmates/Fated Mates, Morally Grey MMC

Release Date: April 8, 2025

BLURB

I’m on the run again.

My mates are gone, the packs are fractured, and our world teeters on the edge of ruin. If the corrupt Eastern leaders keep their stranglehold on the Council, there’ll be nothing left worth fighting for.

I know what I have to do: run. This time, though, I’m running straight into the heart of danger. And I’m not alone.

But our allies and our bonds may not be enough when we discover the secrets that have festered in the heart of one final pack.

The battle will take the lives of shifters on both sides. When the ones left standing turn to me, the pack reject, I have to choose to punish the evil, or save the innocent.

Is it time to rage, or to rule?

Pack Rage is the final book in The Splintered Bond, a medium-dark paranormal wolf shifter slow build, slow burn, why choose series from Amazon top 50 author Merri Bright.

Content warnings are at www.merribright.com

#ReleaseBlitz for Always Salty by @lanilynnvale @GiveMeBooksPR

Title: Always Salty

Series: Semyonov Bratva #4

Author: Lani Lynn Vale

Genre: Mafia Romance

Tropes: Anti Hero/Stalker Hero/Walking Red Flag

Release Date: April 8, 2025

BLURB

Was it considered stalking if the woman you were stalking liked the idea of being stalked?

It started out like any other job.

My brother, the head of the Russian Mafia, wanted me to delete an opponent. Like the good brother I was, I decided to give him what he wanted.

In doing so, I ended up finding a woman that made my cold, dead heart start to beat again.

One day while doing some reconnaissance on my target, I happen to overhear Keely telling her friend one of her darkest fantasies, and I decide that I’d be the one fulfilling that particular craving for her.

I tell myself that it’s only once. I’d give in to that darkness inside of me once, and I’ll leave her alone from then on.

Except, once turns into twice. And twice turns into way too many to count.

Just when I plan to cut all ties so she doesn’t start to develop feelings for a killer, I find out that Keely doesn’t have just one stalker. She has two. And the one that wasn’t me wanted her dead, and I couldn’t allow that to happen.

Not to her.

Not to the woman that not only chased my demons away, but also didn’t care that I had them in the first place.