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✍🏻 Cover Reveal + Sierra Simone = Devil ✍🏻

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The Priest Series has a magnetic pull. Any new stories in it are like manna from the heavens. Sierra Simone is gifting us with a new story, Ryan Bell’s story — Devil. 🌿 🍎 😈

Book cover for 'Devil' by Sierra Simone featuring the title prominently in white text, surrounded by vibrant illustrations of pomegranate and leaves on a black background.
Priest (TP)

𝘊𝘩𝘦𝘤𝘬 𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘎𝘖𝘙𝘎𝘌𝘖𝘜𝘚 “𝘨𝘢𝘳𝘥𝘦𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘦𝘥𝘦𝘯-𝘦𝘴𝘲𝘶𝘦” 𝘤𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘪𝘵 𝘕𝘖𝘞!

🔥The Devil Deluxe Edition is available for preorder through all retailers and will feature stunning edges. But don’t fret book collectors, we have matching editions coming for the rest of the series!

😏 And for anyone who is collecting the Sad & Shirtless versions of the covers, do not let your hearts be troubled. Sierra Simone will have good news for you soon…

Book cover for 'Devil' by Sierra Simone featuring vibrant illustrations of flowers and pomegranates against a dark background, with the title prominently displayed.

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𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐃𝐄𝐕𝐈𝐋 𝐢𝐬 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠
July 2026! ➡️ More info: thesierrasimone.com/devil

new release

✍🏻 J.T. Geissinger’s Black Thorn is LIVE! ✍🏻

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Promotional image for 'Blackthorn' by J.T. Geissinger featuring a book cover with a raven and gothic elements, announcing the book's release.

Blackthorn by J.T. Geissinger is now live! 

From the diabolical mind of New York Times bestselling author J.T. Geissinger comes a scorching new enemies-to-lovers romance filled with explosive secrets, nail-biting, gothic suspense, and the dangerous lure of dark magic.

You never forget your first love. Especially when he’s also your worst nightmare.

Book cover of 'Blackthorn' by J.T. Geissinger featuring a raven holding purple flowers, with the title and subtitle prominently displayed.

Twelve years ago, Maven Blackthorn fled her small hometown, leaving behind the wreckage of her mother’s suspicious death. But now, drawn back for her grandmother’s funeral, Maven steps onto Blackthorn soil once more, only to find herself thrust into a fresh nightmare: her grandmother’s body has vanished.

The Blackthorns immediately suspect the Crofts—the ruthless titans of Croft Pharmaceuticals, whose bitter blood feud with the Blackthorns has spanned generations. But when Maven comes face-to-face with Ronan Croft, the son of her mother’s suspected killer and the only man she ever loved, she discovers the forbidden passion they once shared is as alive—and dangerous—as ever.

As long-buried family secrets claw their way to the surface, betrayal lurks behind every whisper, and old vendettas ignite anew. The deeper Maven digs for answers, the more treacherous the game becomes. And the one man she can never seem to escape is hiding a truth that could burn their whole world down.

In a town where the dead won’t stay buried, is love salvation…or the deadliest game of all?

Blackthorn is a page-turning gothic romance with darker themes and scenes that may not be suitable for everyone. Please see the author’s content note at the beginning of the book.

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A deluxe hardback edition featuring stenciled edges, a foil case stamp, exclusive endpapers, and a detailed map.

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This special Walmart-exclusive hardcover features a deluxe edition with a foiled case stamp, unique endpapers, and a detailed map.

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Narrated by: Connor Crais, Tara Langella and Veronica Pace

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✍🏻 Saffron A. Kent’s next Thorne Family book is here with Shepard’s story. Who’s ready for Jupiter and Shepherd’s steamy romance in A Wreck, You Make Me, out NOW? ✍🏻

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Title: A Wreck, You Make Me
Author: Saffron A. Kent
Genre: Dark Forbidden Romance
Tropes: Bully Romance, Blackmail, Forced Proximity
Morally Grey Hero, Praise/Degradation Kink, Soccer
Release Date: August 8, 2025
BLURB
I have been in love with Shepard Thorne since I was twelve.

He’s my best friend’s hot older brother, and I am the weird redhead who low-key follows him everywhere. He’s soccer’s bad boy, and I am stuck in a dead end job, serving drinks at the local strip club.
Our paths aren’t meant to cross.
Until one day I catch him getting a lap dance at the club and jealousy makes me ruin his fun.
Now he’s made it his mission to make my life hell and no matter what I do, there is no escape.
Everywhere I turn, there he is, waiting for his payback.
He threatens to kiss me one second, and choke me the next.
He promises to bring me to my knees and make me beg.
What started as a little harmless prank turns into a twisted game of blackmail that’s toxic but oh-so-good.
But it has to end.
Because I have a secret…
That ties me to my tormentor in an irrevocable way, and if he ever finds out, it will wreck everything I now crave.
Even his revenge.
Note: This is a STANDALONE set in the world of Bardstown
PURCHASE LINKS
AMAZON US / UK / CA / AU
Free in Kindle Unlimited
AUTHOR BIO
Saffron A. Kent is a USA Today Bestselling Author of Contemporary and New Adult romance.
She has an MFA in Creative Writing and she lives in New York City with her nerdy and supportive husband, along with a million and one books.
Cover Reveal

✍🏻 When one of your favorite authors writes a gothic romance…check out this cover for J.T. Geissinger’s Blackthorn, coming in November 2025. ✍🏻

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Cover reveal for 'Blackthorn' by J.T. Geissinger featuring the book covers of the novel and a digital tablet displaying the cover. The background is dark with gold lettering.
J.T. Geissinger has revealed the gorgeous cover for Blackthorn!

Releasing: November 4, 2025

Blackthorn is a brand-new, tautly written, deliciously dark gothic romance by New York Times bestselling author J.T. Geissinger.

You never forget your first love.

Twelve years ago, Maven Blackthorn fled her small hometown, leaving behind the wreckage of her mother’s suspicious death. In New York City, she built a new life—one without the shadows of the past and the whispers of “witch” that always haunted her. But now, drawn back for her grandmother’s funeral, Maven and her daughter, Bea, step onto Blackthorn soil once more, only to find themselves thrust into a fresh nightmare: her grandmother’s body has vanished.

The Blackthorns immediately suspect the Crofts—the ruthless titans of Croft Pharmaceuticals, whose bitter blood feud with the Blackthorns has spanned generations. But when Maven comes face-to-face with Ronan Croft, the son of her mother’s suspected killer and the only man she ever loved, the past and present collide with explosive consequences.

As long-buried family secrets claw their way to the surface, betrayal lurks behind every whisper, and old vendettas ignite anew. The deeper Maven digs for answers, the more dangerous the game becomes. And in a town where the dead won’t stay buried, neither will the truth—no matter who it destroys.

Blackthorn is a page-turning gothic romance with darker themes and scenes that may not be suitable for everyone. Please see the author’s content note at the beginning of the book.

Blackthorn
*Revenge
*Touch her and die
*Shadier than shade hero
*Forbidden romance
*Grumpy/grumpy
*Plot twists galore
*Beauty and the Beast
*Enemies to lovers to enemies to…?

Pre-order today!
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new release

✍🏻 The second book of Skye Warren’s Tanglewood Trilogy, The Student, is HERE! ✍🏻

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THE STUDENT by Skye Warren

Release date: August 26th

Series: Tanglewood University Book 2

Genre/Tropes: Student / Professor / Ex-Boyfriend’s Father / Forbidden Romance / “Good girl” / Secret Society / One Night Stand / Sex for money

THE STUDENT, book 2 in the Tanglewood University Trilogy, by Skye Warren is NOW LIVE!!

Get ready to dive into the seductive world of the Tanglewood University!

NOW AVAILABLE!

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BLURB:

William Stratford is more than my professor.

He’s my one-night stand. My secret. And my enemy.

I have a plan for fighting him, along with the secret society that threatens the college. Despite his knowledge and his power, despite the sensual thrall he holds over me, when the bell rings, he’s the one who’s going to learn a lesson.

At least that’s the plan.

But Professor Stratford is older and wiser.

He makes the rules, and I’m forced to follow them.

THE STUDENT is book two in the forbidden romance trilogy Tanglewood University. It’s a tale of redemption and comeuppance for a professor walking the line of right and wrong–and the student who will push him over the brink.

About the Author

Skye Warren is the New York Times bestselling author of dangerous romance. Her books have sold over one million copies. She makes her home in Texas with her loving family, sweet dogs, and evil cat.

Connect w/Skye

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✍🏻 Kink Level 100, Some Suspense, and An Emotional Rollercoaster – this is the creative mind of Sierra Simone. And this reader wants to LIVE there. Honey Cut, book 2 of her Lyonesse Trilogy, is LIVE! ✍🏻

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HONEY CUT BY SIERRA SIMONE

Release Date: June 18th

HONEY CUT, book 2 in the Lyonesse Trilogy by Sierra Simone is NOW LIVE!!

Welcome to a world of desire, temptation, and irresistible attraction in this scintillating MMF romance that will leave you breathless.

Get your copy now and experience a romance that’s as forbidden as it is irresistible:

https://www.thesierrasimone.com/honey-cut

Blurb:

I have one job in this arranged marriage, and that’s to seduce my husband.

It should be easy; I’m the heiress to a transatlantic fortune, bred and raised to make a good match. I’ve spent a lifetime building up my endurance, my discipline, my dedication to my god and my church. The danger lies in falling for the devil who put his ring on my finger—a mistake I made years ago, and can’t afford to make again.

There is one more danger: handsome and green-eyed, emotionally wounded. Tristan Thomas, former soldier and my new husband’s bodyguard. A hero who stole my heart with salt-soaked kisses on the sea.

But Lyonesse is not like other places, and this isn’t like other marriages. Soon Tristan, Mark, and I are tangled in a knot of vicious jealousy and gorgeous wickedness, where suspicion is an aphrodisiac and secrets and vows are one and the same.

And there is something far darker at play than my real purpose, than the machinations of the Church I serve. Darker even than the twisted longings of my own heart. Because my husband has secrets of his own, and the reason he’ll stop at nothing to possess me could slice my soul deeper than the honeysuckle-hilted knife he gave me once upon a time.

Because when it comes to Mark Trevena and his games, the first cut is more than the deepest—it’s the sweetest.

And he always leaves you begging for more…

Read the Lyonesse Prequel, Salt in the Wound, for FREE

Tropes: Anti-hero. Age gap. Arranged marriage

https://www.thesierrasimone.com/saltinthewound

About the Author:

Sierra Simone is a USA Today Bestselling former librarian (who spent too much time reading romance novels at the information desk.) She lives with her husband and family in Kansas City.

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Cover Reveal

✍🏻 Love a vampire mafia dark romance? I’ve got JUST the book for you. Check out the cover and blurb for CD Reiss’s BLOOD BRIDE! 🩸✍🏻

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The release is on KICKSTARTER.

The campaign launches on June 13th, but you should FOLLOW until then so you get notified.

𝐇𝐞𝐫𝐞’𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐤 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭: https://cdreiss.com/BBcovrevmine

The Kickstarter will have a bunch of regular-priced items. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐛𝐞 $𝟔, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝟏𝟒-𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐦𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐢-𝐜𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝐚𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐨 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐛𝐞 $𝟐𝟎.

The book will be released on Amazon in September.

The audio will NOT be on Audible, sorry.

Blurb:
𝐂𝐚𝐫𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐌𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐟𝐢𝐨𝐫𝐞, 𝐌𝐚𝐟𝐢𝐚 𝐂𝐚𝐩𝐨 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐊𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐟 𝐕𝐚𝐦𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐬, 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞.
𝐋𝐮𝐧𝐚 𝐁𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐞 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐞, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐡𝐞’𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐨𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝐰𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐬𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐡𝐢𝐦.

When Luna gets a letter revealing a long lost family in Italy and a life-changing inheritance, she doesn’t hesitate to board a private plane to escape her dead-end life, inadvertently running into the arms of a dead man.

Carmine Montefiore, capo di capo of a secret vampire mafia, was sired five hundred years ago, during the second sack of Rome. But for the last fifty years, his people believed him dead…as any normal vampire would be after getting staked.

But Carmine is far from normal.

Now he’s back to search for a bride. He needs the blood of a Strega witch to restore his power, but they’ve become increasingly rare in the years he’s been gone.

Then he scents Luna…

Tropes:
𐫱 Mafia
🩸Vampires
𐫱 Single dad
🩸Forced marriage
𐫱 Chosen One
🩸Edging
𐫱 Found family
🩸He falls first
𐫱 Captive
🩸Praise

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✍🏻 Oh, Skye Warren, how I missed Tanglewood. The Professor is dirty and suspenseful and everything you LOVE about Skye Warren and her stories. Grab it TODAY! ✍🏻

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The Professor by Skye Warren is now live! 

New York Times bestselling author Skye Warren, delivers the sizzling first book in a brand new trilogy, The Professor, a forbidden, student/professor, ex-boyfriend’s dad romance.

It was supposed to be one night with a handsome stranger. I never thought I would see him again. Until the first day of class.

He’s my new professor.

And my ex-boyfriend’s father.

He has a world of secrets in his eyes and the weight of the world on his shoulders. I should stay away from him, but the more I try, the more consumed he gets.

His possessiveness is rivaled only by his secretive nature. He knows everything about me, but mystery surrounds him. Shadows threaten the entire university…and our forbidden love.

“Every page of THE PROFESSOR shines with poetry and eroticism. If you love forbidden romances, secret societies and age gap, this book is for you!” – USA Today bestselling author Saffron A. Kent

  Download today on Amazon, Apple Books, Barnes & Noble, Google Play, and Kobo!

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Meet Skye

Skye Warren is the New York Times bestselling author of dangerous romance such as the Endgame trilogy. Her books have been featured in Jezebel, Buzzfeed, USA Today Happily Ever After, Glamour, and Elle Magazine. Her books have sold over ​two million copies.​ She makes her home in Texas with her loving family, sweet dogs, and evil cat.

Connect with Skye

Website: http://www.skyewarren.com

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✍🏻 Professor Romance’s Review: Skye Warren’s Blue Moon, a Smoke and Mirrors novella ✍🏻

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Overall Grade: B-

If you’ve invested any time in Skye Warren’s Smoke and Mirrors (Cirque des Miroirs) trilogy, take a moment and read Blue Moon, a nibble of a novella based on the enigmatic and charismatic showman, Emerson. As the “villain” of the trilogy (or seemingly so), Warren situates him in a more morally gray position in Blue Moon. He’s responsible for finding a new act for Circque des Miroirs as penance, and he finds it with Luna, a gorgeous acrobat. Throughout the novella, Emerson shows the complications of his character as he saves Luna from an abusive situation while wanting to covet her for himself. There is definite chemistry and team between Emerson and Luna, a cornerstone of a Skye Warren story.

However, Emerson’s novella is wildly underdeveloped, leaving us with questions at the end of Blue Moon. Maybe it’s because Emerson is an important character in the Smoke and Mirrors trilogy, but I was hoping for more from his story. Warren may have more for him in store later, but Blue Moon feels like mostly a start, not an end for Luna and Emerson. I know that 1001 Dark Nights and Blue Box Press stories are short-form; however, I’ve read several of them to know that I wanted more from Warren for this story.

In love and romance,

Professor A

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✍🏻 Blue Moon by Skye Warren is LIVE! This novella adds some spice to the already steamy world of the Cirque des Miroirs universe. Grab this little nibble TODAY! ✍🏻

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A dangerous ringmaster claims his rebellious acrobat for a sensual show you cannot miss.

Blue Moon, a Smoke and Mirrors novella from New York Times bestselling author Skye Warren is now live!

Charismatic. Devious. Secretive. Emerson Durand is the ringmaster for the illustrious Cirque des Miroirs. In each city he finds a new woman to command for the night. Until he finds the one woman who doesn’t bow to his demands.

Luna Rider soars through the air as an aerial acrobat. She’s determined to provide for herself and her sister, but she doesn’t count on being gambled away. Or the secrets that hover under the striped tent.

Grab your copy today, exclusively on Amazon!
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Keep reading for a look inside Blue Moon!

Instead, the person who opens it is none other than the stranger from earlier.
He is surprisingly not black and blue, not beaten to bits. In fact, he looks healthy and haughty. His dark eyes twinkle like he has a secret with me. “Luna,” he says as if we’re old friends, which is not a good thing. It’s just another reason for my father to hate me later. Because whatever happens between this man and I, whether it’s sexual or not, dangerous or not, there’s no way I’m leaving Blue Moon Circus. “Come on in.”
I step cautiously into the room.
I’ve stepped foot into this trailer thousands of times, maybe millions of times, I don’t even know. This was my family home, my childhood home, if the word home could be applied to such a place of terror. But the scene is unlike anything I’ve ever seen before.
Instead of my father’s poker game or a few of the female performers passed out on his lumpy couch for him to use whenever he wants, there are two men I don’t recognize with guns. Pointing them at my father and a couple of his buddies who usually play poker with him.
Chips are scattered all around the room.
The card table is upended. Something bad happened here though you couldn’t tell by looking at Emerson, he smiles. “We had a slight disagreement at the end of our card game. However, the results stand. I won, which means that you come with me.”

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