Author: Tee Harlowe
Genre: Romantasy
Format: Kindle, eARC
Kindle Unlimited: Yes
Series: Yes, Moonflower Witches Book 1
Pages: 256

Synopsis {via Goodreads}

Witch hates warlock.

Warlock hates witch.

Warlock falls for witch.

. . . Things get very, very complicated.

Elspeth Moonflower just wants to cast a spell. Unfortunately, that’s impossible due to a curse her grandmother cast that forces every witch in her family to marry before using magic. As a result, Elspeth and her sisters are outcasts, helping their mother run her traveling apothecary shop—while she complains that her daughters are all magicless spinsters.

When their cart breaks down and strands them in the charming village of Thistlegrove, Elspeth’s older sister meets a handsome warlock who’s smitten. If only the warlock’s best friend wasn’t completely insufferable. Draven Darkstone is broody, arrogant, wealthy—a perfect example of why Elspeth never wants to marry. But for the sake of her sister, she needs to be nice.

Which is hard when all Draven does is glower at her. It’s even harder when the glowering turns to longing glances. It’s downright impossible when he kisses her.

Little does Elspeth know, the line between love and hate just got thinner.

The low-stakes fantasy of Legends and Lattes meets the romance of Bridgerton in Potions & Prejudice, a spicy cozy fantasy romance with a grumpy sentient cottage, an anxious miniature dragon, and all the cottagecore vibes.

Review:

Mer-May wouldn’t be complete without Oceansong by C.W. Rose! Grab this gorgeous romantasy inspired by The Little Mermaid and Romeo & Juliet for your summer reading list!

Oceansong

Release Date: August 27, 2024

Genre: Adult Contemporary Romantasy

🧜🏼‍♂️Merfolk Mythology
🌊Ocean-based magic
⚔️Enemies-to-lovers
💘Forbidden & Slow Burn Romance
👨‍👩‍👧‍👦Asian family dynamics
🌞Grumpy (female) x sunshine (male)
💞HEAs
🥧Cinnamon roll male LI
🤨Prickly, snarky female MC who’s a softie inside
🏘️Small-town settings (Alaska)

Spice Level: 🌶️🌶️🌶️

OCEANSONG is an Adult Contemporary Romantasy that is an Asian Romeo & Juliet meets The Little Mermaid, set in the grittiness of the real world.

Fish are mysteriously disappearing, starving the people in Angie Song’s Alaskan hometown. Angie, an aspiring marine biologist and dock worker, enthusiastically joins the hunt to find out where the fish are gathering. When her family and the villagers discover that merfolk are responsible, they vow to destroy every last one. In the midst of the conflict, Angie faces off with a merman and fails to pull the trigger.

Inquisitive Mer-Prince Kaden is just as snarky as Angie, but he’s willing to talk and stop the brutal massacring of his people. The two form a cautious alliance to broker peace between the humans and mer before any more of them die.

As tensions clash between the two races fighting to control the sea’s resources, Angie and Kaden’s forbidden relationship ignites. And as she learns about the mer’s mysterious world and the reason why the fish are gone, Angie starts to question who the true monster is, and where her loyalties lie. Taking the wrong side means choosing between family and her job, or the man she’s fallen for and the merfolk she’s come to respect—or losing it all.

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Content Warnings:

Parental death (mentioned), violence, imprisonment and torture (off-screen) of mythical creatures, blood, non-consensual kiss (off-screen, not involving main couple)

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Today EC Garret is launching her Kickstarter campaign for The Home for Wayward Creatures and it looks amazing!

Opens May 16th & goes for 30 days. Kickstarter is for:

• Paperback
• Collector’s Illustrated Hardback
• PR Boxes
• Candle Collection Inspired by The Book

 KICKSTARTER LINK

🩷High Stakes Space Adventure
💜Medium Spice w/ Yearning
💙Cozy, Funny, & Romantic
🩷Aliens? In Kansas?
💜Sibiling Banter
💙Golden Retriever FMC
🩷One Bed on the Spaceship
💜Adult Characters (30+)
💙ADHD Rep
🩷Men in Black x Star Wars & Star Trek

LOVE IS UNIVERSAL

Henrietta ‘Henri’ Laselle lives a quiet life in Kansas City, Missouri—or so it seems. While Henri looks like the average girl next door with an animal hoarding problem. In reality, Henri is half-witch, half-alien who runs the only animal rescue in the galaxy. With a pygmy kraken in her fish tank, a talking bear who hogs the tv, and a quantum portal in her basement, life for Henri is never boring.

Until the day someone steals her pets. Someone not from this Earth. Left with no other choice, Henri leaves Earth and ventures deep into cosmos, searching for answers. A chance encounter leads her to a possible solution. Orion Worldkiller; criminal, murderer, prisoner, out-of-this-world attractive, and a giant Dragon.

Orion Worldkiller offering to help Henri find her pets is the last thing she expected, but she has no other choice. Stuck in a spaceship at the far reaches of the galaxy, Henri fights both her growing worry and her newfound feelings. The closer they get to saving her pets, the harder she falls for Orion.

When their mission goes haywire, Henri and Orion are taken prisoner and forced to compete in a deadly tournament against vicious monsters. Even worse, they’re cut off from their magic. Henri’s only hope to save her pets is to win the tournament--even if it means risking an intergalactic war.

The fight for survival—and for Henri’s heart—is on, and Dragons do not fight fair.

• THE EBOOK: Available for pre-order on Amazon
• THE PHYSICAL COPIES (paperback + special edition hardback): Will be available exclusively on Kickstarter

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We're thrilled to present the cover for Dance for Demons, the first installment in the Hel's Carnival series!

Author: Susan Renee
Genre: Sports Romance
Format: Kindle
Kindle Unlimited: Yes
Series: Yes, Standalone
Pages: 355

Synopsis: {via GoodReads}

For fans of Tessa Bailey, a laugh-out-loud enemies-to-lovers romance about a professional hockey player who finds himself facing off with the team’s new marketing rep, who might just be his new lucky charm.

Good looks and wads of cash usually get me whatever I desire, unless I desire a box of my favorite cereal at the grocery store right before it closes. As if tonight’s loss wasn’t bad enough, I'm now watching said box of cereal, my literal good luck charm, disappear in some woman’s cart.

The brazen woman denies my cash offer along with my proposal for a more intimate payment. How much loss can a man take in one day?

At this point, who cares how rude I am to her? She’s public enemy number one and chances of seeing her again are slim to none. That is, until she appears at the arena the next morning as the newest marketing rep for the Chicago Red Tails hockey team.

Just my luck.

Carissa Smallson is feisty, outspoken, and boldly confident. She's also funny, down to earth, and…ugh, she’s insanely pretty. Everything about her is both unbelievably annoying and terrifyingly attractive.

As Captain of the team, I’m always laser focused on my job, but lately I can’t stop thinking about her. I lead my team to victory night after night. Hustle, hit, and never quit.

But if I’m not careful, she could knock me off my game.

I really enjoyed this book. I enjoy sports romances in general, and hockey romances are always fun, so this book is right up my alley. I started out a little dubious about whether this is a romance novel because the cover doesn't say romance to me, but it is most certainly a romance novel. 

The story has great romantic tension, there's a villain we don't really meet until the last chapters of the book, and the characters have heat. They're attracted to one another almost from the start of the book, even though they start out enemies over a box of cereal! 

I have to say, at the beginning of this book, I was doubtful that I would like Colby. He starts out kind of mean, but when he comes around what you see about him is that he's protecting himself. He's vulnerable and doesn't necessarily want to want Carissa. 

Carissa is strong and likeable from the start. I liked her and her best friend from the beginning pages to the end. There are some great scenes with her, particularly at the end when she's covered in water. 

The pace of the story is a little bit strange because even though there's a villain, and she's mentioned a few times, we don't see her until almost the end of the story. To me, that feels a little bit rushed. But, the story plays itself out completely with no loose ends. 

The book also doesn't have an epilogue, which I suppose isn't required but is something I always look forward to. I want to see what happened to the characters a few months (or years) later. I want to know things worked out for them and they're living their happily ever after. This book is missing that element. 

Overall, I really enjoyed Off Your Game and would definitely recommend it to other hockey romance readers. It was fun, light in most places, and the characters had great chemistry. 

Rating:

❤❤❤❤ - Delightful!!

We’re celebrating the release of Never Bound by Everly Claire! You can read it now on Kindle Unlimited and grab book one in the series for only $0.99!

Never Bound (The Unchained)

Publication Date: April 25, 2025

Genre: Dark Dystopian/Forbidden Romance

💀Enemies to Lovers
💔 Who did this to you? (Her to HIM!)
🌑 Dark dystopian world
👑 Rich, naive good girl x her dad literally OWNS him!
🔥 Whips & chains & cuffs, oh my (mostly the bad kind 😈)
🕰️ Slow Burn
📇 He has no name, just a number (really!)
❌ They’re literally not allowed to touch!
👊 Touch her & you’re gonna 💀 (twice)
🎭 Plotting, scheming, twists and reversals!

In an alternate 2025, our world is built on the backs of slaves. Louisa is the daughter of the enemy who's become my master, and I'm not even allowed to look at her, let alone touch her.

But I've already done way more than that. By day, they make me scrub floors and weed the garden. By night, I ignite her in dark basements and secret rooms.

She used to think slaves weren't people, but I’ve opened her eyes to the horror of her world, and there’s no going back.

But I’m here on a mission to find my sister. And Louisa is about to discover that when I charmed my way into her bed, it wasn’t just because I wanted her. It was because I wanted something from her.

But now? I do want her. Forever, preferably. But the world thinks I belong in a cage, and I’ve got new enemies determined to put me in one. They’re plotting to blow our secret right out of the water. In this snake pit, neither of us knows who to trust.

But when they go after Louisa, I'll prove that even though I’m a slave, she belongs to me in every way that matters -- even if it costs me everything I've fought for.

NEVER BOUND, book 2 in a dark dystopian forbidden romance series THE UNCHAINED, picks up where Never Broken left off. The books must be read in order. Never Bound ends on a hard cliffhanger and picks up in Never Lost, scheduled for release in summer 2025. Together, all three books form a complete arc with a guaranteed HEA.

Never Broken: books2read.com/u/3yJBwV

Never Bound: books2read.com/u/mdx2v5

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Welcome to the ARC tour for When the Wicked Sing by S.L. DeBois - Available May 28, 2025!

Tropes/Micro-tropes:

• Enemies to Lovers
• Slow Burn
• Touch Her/Him and 💀
• Strong FMC
• Hidden Villain
• Betrayal
• Closed Door Love Scene
• Only One Bed
• Only One Tub
• The Chosen One
• Queer Rep
• Family Secrets and Lies
• Hidden Power
• Rising Hero
• High Stakes (Good vs Evil)
• Light vs Darkness
• Sun and Moon
• The Rescue
• Powerful Artifact
• He Pins Her Down
• She Tries Biting Him
• Deadly Power/Magic
• Multiple Magic Systems
• Gods/Goddesses/Spirits

Banished from the fae realm, the last surviving sirens hidden deep within the underwater city of Salus face death at every turn. They dream in the darkness of seeing the light of their homeland, Sirenia, once more. With a missing sister's life at stake, Mariana, heir to the siren throne, must fight to save everyone she loves, or watch the last of her kind vanish from the world. After battling arcane forces, the dominating fae sovereign, and even her own heart, what will happen when the wicked sing?

Triggers:

This book explores themes of death, grief, and trauma. While these elements are integral to the story, they may be emotionally challenging for some readers. Please proceed with care and prioritize your well-being.

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🖤Masked stalker
🖤Secret identity
🖤Plot twists
🖤FFM/FMF
🖤Obsessed MMC
🖤Threesomes
🖤Dom/Sub
🖤Primal
🖤OTT Obsessive MMC
🖤Captive x captor
🖤Beauty and the beast vibes
🖤Found family
🖤Breeding k!nk
🖤Mirror k!nk
🖤🔪 and 🔫 play
🖤She pierces him
🖤Somno
🖤✊ing
🖤Touch her and ☠️

Do you know how to file a missing persons report? Do you actually have to wait a certain number of days? Can only a family member file the report? What happens if the police don’t believe you; or worse, what if they don’t care?

Unfortunately, I know the answers to all those questions.

My best friend went to work on Halloween and then disappeared into thin air. At the same time, strange things started happening to me. The feeling of eyes watching me is persistent. And the dreams—no, the nightmares that plague my unconscious mind have left me feeling completely out of control of my own life. I’m fairly certain I’m being haunted. Haunted by the same demon that stole my best friend from me.

Sirens lure men to watery graves, enticing them to leave their journey and fall into the chaos of destructive desire. That’s what she is to me. Olivia Lennox has completely consumed me with a destructive obsession. I’m obsessed with her. I need her as much as I need to breathe. And I will do anything to prove to her just how deeply my obsession runs.

She’s mine. She just doesn’t know it yet.

AVAILABLE ON AMAZON

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We're celebrating the release of Ruthless Bonds by Dani Antoinette. This beauty is the first in a new dark romance series called Hearts of Mayhem!

READ THE PREQUEL RUTHLESS HEARTS FOR FREE HERE

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Magic, history, ancient artifacts, and yes, romance. You'll find it all in S.C. Grayson's new release, Monsters in the Museum!

Monsters in the Museum: A Contemporary Fantasy Romance (Defenders of the Light Book 1) 

Publication Date: March 4, 2025 

Genre: Contemporary Fantasy Romance 

• Secret Societies
• Cinnamon Roll MMC
• Dual Timeline
• Star-crossed Lovers
• Magical Artifacts
• Greek mythology 
• Academia Setting 

A hidden world of magic lurks in the shadows of history.

Nora is gunning for a promotion at The Chicago Field Museum. The discovery of two ancient Greek weapons unlike any she’s seen before might be her big break—but the artifacts are more than they seem, and the secrets they hold could upend Nora’s world completely.