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COVER REVEAL: Pumpkin Spice & Mr. Right Café: The Beginning – A Raven’s Point Fantasy Romance Novella
Some stories linger, some characters refuse to let you forget them, and then there are the ones who never truly leave your heart. Today, I finally get to share the cover of Pumpkin Spice & Mr. Right Café: The Beginning – A Raven’s Point Fantasy Novella with you. This is my challenge-story-turned novella. A story… Continue reading
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Book Review: Auctioned to the Mountain Men (Mountain Men Why Choose) by Brooklyn Cox
Indie published in January 2025, the book is available for free on Kindle Unlimited or in Kindle and audiobook formats. Grace lost her job in the city and is about to be evicted from her apartment. Unable to ask her parents for help, she does the unthinkable. She goes to the underground auction a friend… Continue reading
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Magic, Betrayal, and the Woman Who Undid Him: A New Romantasy Novella Coming Soon
She is the one wound I never healed. Now she’s back: cursed, hunted, unraveling.The Council is circling. The bond between us refuses to stay buried. I can walk away. Or I can risk everything.Again. Continue reading
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The No‑Spice Challenge That Became a Novella
Last fall, a friend issued a challenge: write a short story without sex. To me, the erotica writer who uses intimacy has a storytelling language for exploring vulnerability, power, and connection. Stripping it away terrified me. I wrote about the struggle this posed in previous posts. How difficult I found it not to let my… Continue reading
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A Second-Chance Romantasy with Bite: Thorns, Magic, and a Love That Still Burns
Salem Springs ran to protect him Now she has to choose to stay. The bond between them still hums—undeniably alive. Her magic is unraveling, dark thorns coiling within, and the High Council is demanding judgment. The man who might save her… Is the one whose heart she shattered. Coming Soon… Pumpkin Spice & Mr. Right… Continue reading
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Book Review: The Seven Rings, The Lost Bride Trilogy book 3 by Nora Roberts
The conclusion of the Lost Bride Trilogy, The Seven Rings, published by St-Martin’s Press and Macmillan Audio in November 2025, is available on Amazon in hardcover, paperback, Kindle, or audiobook, and at your local library or through the Libby App. The audiobook, read by Brittany Pressley, provides a wonderful listening experience as she brings the… Continue reading
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Book Review: Bad Summer People by Emma Rosenblum
Published in 2023 by Flatiron Books and Macmillan Audio, the book is available on Amazon in hardcover, paperback, Kindle, and audiobook, as well as at your local library and through the Libby App. The audiobook, narrated by January LaVoy, explores infidelity, backstabbing, and murderous intrigue in the exclusive setting of Salcombe, Fire Island. Even in… Continue reading
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Book Review: Seatmate, Love Lines #3 by Cara Bastone
Seatmate, the third book in the Love Lines series and an Audible original published in 2022, is available on Amazon in audiobook, Kindle, and paperback. The story features multiple points of view, primarily from the lead female and male characters, as well as other bus passengers, family, and friends. In the audiobook, each character has… Continue reading
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Book Review: Sweet Talk, Love Lines #2 by Cara Bastone
The second installment in the Love Lines series, Sweet Talk, an Audible original published in 2021, is available on Amazon in audiobook, Kindle, and paperback formats. Bastone’s dual perspectives from the female and male main characters are reflected in the audiobook narration by Lidia Dornet and Chris Brinkley. Their voices flow naturally and sound authentic,… Continue reading
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Book Review: Call Me Maybe by Cara Bastone
An Audible original published in 2020, Call Me Maybe is available on Amazon in audiobook, Kindle, and paperback formats. Bastone wrote the book with dual perspectives from the female and male main characters, so it’s nice that the audiobook reflects that with its choice of narrators: Luci Christian and Neil Hellegers. The book has an… Continue reading
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