#BookReview: Lost Elawn: An Elk Riders Legend by @therealauthortedneill

A lost tale. A familiar voyage. A new path with different friends and a host of enemies.

Revisit Gabriela and Daven Carlyle in an Elk Riders Legend. Adapted from an alternative manuscript for the award winning In the Darkness Visible and Voyage of the Elawn, think of this story as a multiverse version of a voyage you think you knew.

Be prepared to be surprised. A ship full of pirates. A poisoned Gabriela. A race to find the cure wherein her brother Daven must step up like never before.

If you enjoyed the Elk Rider series, now you have your chance to return.

Elk Riders is high fantasy at its best. It’s a story of underestimated misfits caught up in a fight on a scale they never expected. Beyond the numerous comparisons to Lord of the Rings and Chronicles of Narnia, Elk Riders sits in a pantheon of classic and contemporary Ursula K. Leguin’s, Earthsea series; Madeleine L'Engle’s, A Wrinkle in Time; Garth Nix’s, Old Kingdom-Abhorsen Series; Joe Abercrombie’s, Shattered Sea; NK Jemisin’s, The Broken Earth; and a plethora of television gems from Willow to the Dragon Prince and Last Airbender.

#BookReview: Binding 13 (Boys of Tommen #1) by Chloe Walsh

He wants to save her. She wants to hide. She's damaged. He's determined. Fate brought them together. Love binds them. Johnny Kavanagh has everything going for him. On the rugby pitch, he's a force to be reckoned with, even plagued with a hidden injury. Everyone knows he's heading straight for the top—but that means there's no room for mistakes or distractions. Not even the shy new girl at Tommen College, the one with the sad eyes and hidden bruises. He needs to stay focused, keep his cool, and not let anything get in the way of the bigger picture.  Except before he knows it, this lonely girl has become his only picture. Life has never been easy for Shannon Lynch. Bullied and tortured, she arrives at Tommen College mid-way through the school year praying for a fresh start and desperate to shake off the demons that plague her. But when she meets the notorious Johnny Kavanagh on her first day, her plans to keep a low profile are at serious risk. As they fall into a complicated friendship and grapple with their undeniable chemistry, hidden pain and complicated secrets threaten to be their undoing—but Johnny won't give up on Shannon. No matter what it might cost them both.

#BookReview: Tell Them You Lied by @laura.leffler @hyperionavebooks

Anna had never met anyone like Willow. Entering art school with lofty ideas about Art and her role in it, Anna was wholly unprepared for someone as mysterious, moody—and cool—as Willow. Here was Anna’s muse and collaborator all in one, ready to bring her in on Art’s great secrets.

Now, five years later, Anna is weary. Where art school was boundless creativity and collaboration, the New York art scene is all about survival. Worse: Willow’s true nature as a muse only to herself has become nakedly apparent, as has her cruelty.

So the mugging Anna has staged for Willow this morning? It’s supposed to send Willow running back to her true friend. The knife is supposed to be a mirror in which this ‘artist’ can finally see the monster she’s become. It’s supposed to give Anna her power back.

But this morning isn’t just any Tuesday. It’s September 11, 2001. And as the city reels from the seismic events of that day, Willow never returns home. Anna keeps quiet about the prank and her growing panic that she’s to blame for Willow’s disappearance. But as the hours and days tick by, Anna begins to question whether she’s the mastermind she thought she was, or the pawn.

Alternating between the friends' art school tenure and their lives in 2001 New York, Tell Them You Lied reveals how difficult the search for answers is when you'd rather have anything but the truth.

This title will be released on May 27, 2025.

#ReleaseBlitz: Dancing With Darkness by @taniyahussain4 @RABTBookTours #Giveaway

 

Non Fiction, Healing

Date Published: April 26, 2025

 

 

DANCING WITH DARKNESS is a guide for healers, practitioners, leaders and professionals who have been successfully supporting their clients finding light whilst struggling with their own darkness. Too often, we forget our own needs whilst helping others. This book, which combines personal experiences, channeling and practical work, is a useful tool to help you find the light, while dancing with your darkness.

#ReleaseBlitz for The Marriage Contract by Selena Sanders @GiveMeBooksPR

Title: The Marriage Contract

Series: Azure Ridge #2

Author: Selena Sanders

Genre: Contemporary Romance

Tropes: Small Town/Marriage of Convenience

Misunderstanding/Arranged Marriage

Release Date: April 25, 2025

BLURB

Trace Miller

I had one ticket out of the suffocating expectations of my powerful Montana ranching family: an escape from the arranged marriage my father had decreed.

But my rebellion takes an unexpected turn when my younger brother steps in to take my place at the altar.

It's my freedom – until tragedy strikes, and the weight of responsibility crashes down harder than ever.

Katie Brown

I was raised knowing my future wasn't my own. Promised to a Miller to unite two land-rich dynasties, I steel myself for a loveless union. A stolen night of anonymity offers a fleeting taste of my own freedom before I'm expected to say "I do."

In the close-knit world of Azure Ridge, Montana, fate has a twisted sense of humor. The land merger demands a marriage, and now, amidst grief and family pressure, Trace finds himself bound to me, the very woman he shares a scorching secret with.

Our marriage is anything but convenient, fraught with unspoken desires, family secrets, and the undeniable chemistry that ignites whenever we're together.

Can this marriage of necessity blossom into a genuine connection, or will the weight of our families' expectations and our own tangled pasts tear us apart?

#CoverReveal: Heart of Montana by @authorisabellawhite @XpressoTours

Heart of Montana
Isabella White
(Shadow River Ranch, #1)
Publication date: May 26th 2025
Genres: Adult, Contemporary, Romance

Emily Mulberry’s life is in shambles.
Her father’s suicide shatters the last threads of her old world—but in the wreckage, she discovers a new path. One filled with horses, healing, and hard-bodied ranchers who make her heart race. Emily has always believed her ability to hear horses was a sign of madness, but what if it’s a gift? A gift that might just help her reclaim the horse she lost—and heal herself in the process.

Gadrienne Jemmerson has already lost it all.
Six years ago, a tragic accident stole his wife and left his heart closed off for good. Women? Too complicated. Love? Too painful. He’s kept his promise to never go there again. Until Emily walks into his life—a beautiful, broken woman with a strange connection to the most dangerous stallion in his barn.

Neither of them planned on falling.
But maybe love shows up when you stop looking.
Maybe healing comes when two broken souls finally find each other.

Will Emily and Gadrienne take a chance on love, or will the weight of their pasts keep them apart?

#BookReview: Januaries by @olivieblake

Januaries is a collection of new and iconic short stories and novellas from New York Times bestselling author Olivie Blake.

Once upon a time in a land far, far away, the tutelary spirit to a magical bridge rapidly approaches burnout. Meanwhile, congress enacts a complex auditing system designed to un-waste your youth, a banished fairy answers a Craigslist ad, a Victorian orphan gains literacy for her occult situationship, and a multiverse assassin contemplates the one who got away. Escape the slow trudge of mortality with these magical ruminations on life, death, and the love (or revenge) that outlasts both, featuring modified fairytales, contemporary heists, absurdist poetry, and at least one set of actual wedding vows.