#BookReview: Where Golden Feathers Fall by @ryghpedersenwrites

The enemy are at the gates and the heir must be protected at all costs. The only problem is…she has vanished.

Princess Algaia Domonov’s world is turned upside down when she discovers she may not be the daughter of the dryads she always believed herself to be. As she ponders her possible new identity, enemy forces from the North reach the border, and conscription is enacted, calling on one able-bodied person from each family to fight…except for her own. Not seeing her status as a reason for exemption, Algaia flees the safety of the palace to join her subjects at war.
However, life in a military camp isn’t like the one she is used to and it is only her stubborn determination to protect her people and be worthy of the crown she will one day bear, that keeps her from shedding her hidden identity.

Attracting the cruel and uninvited attention of the camp Commander, forces her to form new alliances in order to survive. When the Captain of her scouting team takes on her punishment, feelings begin to brew between the more experienced soldier and the young princess. But no matter how right it feels, Algaia knows it is forbidden for a royal to fall in love with a human.

When training ends abruptly and the real war begins, could her desire to pave her own path mean the downfall of her country and the death of the man she loves? Or, will the hard lessons she has learnt beyond the palace walls, help her to save them all?

#ReleaseBlitz for Rafe by @authornicolejames #GiveMeBooksPR

Title: Rafe: Sins of the Father

Series: Evil Dead MC - Second Generation #7

Author: Nicole James

Genre: MC Romance

Tropes: Forbidden Romance/Secret Crush/Age Gap

Good Girl, Bad Boy/Instant Attraction

Release Date: June 16, 2025

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From USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author, Nicole James, comes a STEAMY, FORBIDDEN MC ROMANCE!

The bad boy and the good girl.

I just started a new job at a lumber mill outside of town.

It’s just a job to me, until I lay eyes on the owner’s daughter.

Then everything changes.

I need this job, and she’s the definition of off-limits—the boss’s daughter.

I should stay away. I know better than to mess with a good girl like her.

The first time she notices me, I’m being handcuffed and put in the back of a squad car.

Fantastic.

After that, she turns her nose up at me, like I’m trash.

Our mutual disdain builds and keeps a needed wall between us.

She stays up the hill at the big house with the pool, and I stay down by the mill.

Until one night tragedy strikes, and I’m the only one left working, the only one there to protect her and take care of her.

Suddenly, our differences aren’t so sharp, and our mutual disdain melts away as we finally see each other more deeply.

Soon a friendship builds, and turns to a secret love that burns hot in the dark of night.

✔ Forbidden Romance

✔ Secret Crush

✔ Good Girl, Bad Boy

✔ Instant Attraction

✔ Slow-Burn Romance

✔ Age Gap

✔ Angst

✔ Secret Baby

#ReleaseBlitz for Taming of a Wolf by @cjravenna @GiveMeBooksPR

Title: Taming of a Wolf

Series: Viking Wolves #2

Author: CJ Ravenna

Genre: Gay Paranormal Romance

Tropes: Time Travel/Villain Redemption Arc

Fated Mates/Found Family/Grumpy x Sunshine

Release Date: June 15, 2025

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Could a grumpy Viking werewolf be the missing piece my broken family needs?

Jamie

Between being a single parent to my little brother and running my late grandma's bookshop, I've got no time for anyone else. I need a guy who will prioritize my brother like I do. If I can't find someone like that, I'd rather be alone forever.

When a time-traveling Viking werewolf flies out of a portal and crash lands at my feet, I get more than I could have asked for! Anders Eriksson takes one sniff and declares me his fated mate and before I know it, our fates and lives become intertwined.

Anders may be a villain in the past but to me, he's sweet, a little awkward, and he fits so perfectly into my little family that it's impossible not to fall for him.

But Anders is determined to return to the past and get revenge against the ones who wronged him.

Will he choose a future with me, or will he leave me behind like everyone else I've ever loved?

Taming of a Wolf is book 2 in the Viking Wolves series featuring a grumpy villain redeemed by his sunshine fated mate, found family, and a happy-ever-after! Though this installment is a standalone, the series is best enjoyed sequentially.

#NewReleaseBlast: Kill Beth by @JonCohnAuthor @RABTBookTours

Horror/Psychological

Date Published: June 12, 2025

Publisher: Deadbolt Books

After a horrific incident fifteen years ago, theater director Mike O’Brien never planned to return to Seattle. But when his estranged best friend sends him a script he can’t ignore, Mike finds himself back in the city with a spotlight on his troubled past.

As rehearsals begin, so do the nightmares. Strange figures keep him up at night, the production is plagued by one horrific accident after another, and everywhere he goes he can’t help but see the same message: Kill Beth. The strange thing is, Mike doesn’t know anyone named Beth, or how he could ever be capable of killing anyone.

When his world descends into chaos, Mike has to ask if he’s being haunted by his past, or if there is some sinister force working behind the curtain to derail his life.

#CoverReveal: Wolfsbane Hall by @hazelstlewis @rrbooktours

This cover is such a vibe!  We're proud to present the cover for Wolfsbane Hall by Hazel St. Lewis. You can pre-order this beauty now!

Wolfsbane Hall 

  Expected Release Date: August 13th, 2025 

  Genre: Adult Romantasy-Thriller -Hidden Identities -Shadow Daddy -Three Villain Daddies -Dueling Phantoms -Love Square -Forced Proximity -Sentient House -Twists 

  An actress at a magical murder mystery party where everything is real—including the murder—is poisoned and must unmask her killer by the end of the show or stay dead forever. Actress Celestine Sinclair works at the infamous Wolfsbane Hall, a 1930s San Francisco murder-mystery nightclub. The shows are designed by the Specter, the cloaked owner of the club and the source of all its magic. His den of nightmares is governed by one rule: every murder must be solved, for then and only then will the dead come back to life. Every night, someone dies and, hopefully, is also resurrected. One night Wolfsbane Hall is taken over by the Specter’s nemesis, who intends to destroy everything the Specter loves—including Celestine. As part of his twisted game, he poisons and challenges Celestine to unmask the Specter’s true identity before the poison destroys her. Only, Wolfsbane Hall has existed for hundreds of years without anyone uncovering its owner’s name. The three prime suspects are all handsome, socialite gentlemen who are just devilish enough to be the Specter or his nemesis. Unfortunately, Celestine cares for all three gentlemen–one is her lover, one is her nemesis, and one is her best friend–but one of them has already betrayed her. Worse, she only has three hours to receive the antidote, or she will die and stay dead forever. 

  WOLFSBANE HALL is an adult romantic fantasy thriller and it will appeal to fans of Butcher and Blackbird’s twisty, dark romance and Belladonna’s manor-house mystery. It is a mash-up between Phantom of the Opera, Moulin Rouge, and Knives Out. If you enjoy books with hidden identities, forced proximity, villain daddies, betrayal, a haunted house, and love squares, you will love this story. 

#BookReview: The Shattered King (The Shattered King, #1) by @cnholmberg

A captive healer and a mysterious prince are drawn to each other in the midst of war and magic in a beguiling dark fantasy by Wall Street Journal bestselling author Charlie N. Holmberg.

The kingdom of Cansere is on the brink of war. Young men are conscripted from their homes, and a royal decree from the queen has made healing the only legal form of craftlock. Nym, a healer and beekeeper, is the sole provider for her family of seven now that her younger brother has been sent to the warfront. But when a letter comes from the queen, summoning Nym to the palace to heal Prince Renn, the kingdom’s ailing shut-in, Nym finds herself making the tumultuous journey from her family’s apiary to the capital city. Nym is determined to fail the queen’s mission and return to her younger siblings as soon as she can.

But escaping the castle’s hold isn’t as easy as failing a simple test. Prince Renn is cold and distant, and his illness is nothing like Nym has ever seen before, nothing she could ever imagine treating. In a moment of connection with Prince Renn, Nym manages to remedy the faintest symptom of his ailment―only to discover that no healer before has made such progress. Forced to become the prince’s official healer and a ward of the castle, and with her only hope of returning to her family hinging on the prince’s recovery, Nym must navigate the castle’s cruel and twisted court and uncover the haunting truth behind Prince Renn’s illness―even as she finds herself irrevocably drawn to him.

#BookBlitz: The Captain’s Crush by @fredaannwriter @XpressoTours 3x $15 Amazon gift cards

The Captain’s Crush
Freda Ann
(A Bliss Cay Novella, #6)
Publication date: June 13th 2025
Genres: Sweet & Clean Romance/Christian Romance/Contemporary Romance

Amelia Marks met her first love, Lewis, on summer vacation twenty-six years ago as a teenager, but their future goals kept them apart once they left Bliss Cay.

Now a successful middle-aged widow, and mother to a teenage daughter, her career brings her back to the island, the same place where she met Lewis. After he pulls her over in his police car, she’s stunned when he insists they’ve never met.

Flat out mad that he’s making her feel like a complete stranger, considering the summer they shared together, Amelia is determined to leave her feelings for him in the past. That was before Amelia discovers she’s now his new boss at the Bliss Cay Police Department and his name is not Lewis, it’s Jesse, who shares a striking resemblance to the boy who stole her heart all those years ago.

This mid-life love story is about heartbreak, family bonds, and some unexpected new beginnings with a happily ever after ending.

(All books in this series are ‘standalone’ beach town love stories with new main characters in each book.)