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BOOK SPOTLIGHT THURSDAY: The Girl Who Dreamed in Thorns by Rebecca L. Garcia and Dawn Darling

Releasing today, THE GIRL WHO DREAMED IN THORNS by Rebecca L. Garcia and Dawn Darling is in the spotlight! A lovers-to-enemies Peter-Pan-inspired bully romance, set against the grim, death-filled backdrop of Never, where wickedness lurks beneath every fairy-dusted leaf, innocence demands sacrifice, and a broken heart can kill you.

The Girl Who Dreamed in Thorns: And So She Withers (The Never After Duet Book 1)

Release Date: May 21, 2026

Genre: Dark Romance/ Bully Romance/ Dark Fairytale

Featuring
⦁ Bully Romance
⦁ Dark Fairytale
⦁ Lovers to Enemies
⦁ Peter Pan Reimagining
⦁ Villain gets the Girl
⦁ Unhinged MMC
⦁ Found Family to Enemies


One year ago, Holly returned home with no memories, a bloody scar, and a torrent of nightmares.
On the night of her debut into society, a mysterious stranger offers her the answer to the question that has haunted her since her return: What happened to Wendy Darling?
Desperate to find her sister, she goes with him to the thorny island from her dreams. Except, Never has changed. The forest is rotting. The faeries are dying. And Kit, the handsome, brutal Wyard who she once loved, hasn’t forgotten her betrayal.

Caught between the boy who wants to punish her and the pirate begging to save her, Holly begins to suspect that the most dangerous thing on the island was never the magic or the one who controlled it. It was the moment she allowed him to feel anything at all. Because very few lived long enough to break the heart of a Wyard, and none survived it.
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CW: This book contains dark themes and is intended for adults 18 and over, including murder, death of a character, kidnapping, bullying, degradation, torture, death of a child (off-page, mentioned), graphic violence, orgasm denial, profanity, breath play via drowning, and sexual content.

Follow on Instagram: @dawndarlingauthor @rebeccagarciabooks

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BOOK SPOTLIGHT THURSDAY: Vitalia by Eliza Benner

The circus welcomes you, but will you survive?

VITALIA by Eliza Benner is the first book in The Circus of Souls series!

Vitalia (Circus of Souls Book 1)


Release Date: February 2026


Genre: Spicy Fae & Dragon-Shifter Romantasy


Spice Level: 3 Peppers

Features
⦁ Competent FMC
⦁ Morally Grey MMC
⦁ Dragon-shifters
⦁ Fae
⦁ Slow Burn
⦁ Enemies-to-Lovers
⦁ Forced Proximity
⦁ Touch Her and Die
⦁ “Who did this to you?”

Synopsis
The King’s Circus doesn’t come to villages like hers. Or, at least, it didn’t until now. Naevyn just wishes she’d stayed the hell inside. When the performers lock the crowd in place and shift into dragons, ripping souls from bodies to feed an immortal king, Naevyn should be dead alongside everyone else. Instead, she’s dragged into a centuries-old rebellion because her blood does something it shouldn’t—it kills.

She’s supposed to be human. A girl from Xardon who just wants to keep her family safe. But in the fae realm, nothing about her makes sense, and the prophecy everyone whispers about marks her as their salvation. Then there’s Cairos—a dragon-shifter with centuries of blood on his hands and a smirk that makes her want to strangle him. Cursed to collect souls for the very king he used to serve, Cairos is powerful, lethal, and, unfortunately, the only one who can help Naevyn survive. She should hate him for the atrocities he’s committed.

She should definitely fear him. So why does he feel like the one thing she can’t stop wanting? To save her family and shatter the cycle of death, Naevyn will have to trust a monster, face what she really is, and get close enough to a king to destroy him. But the closer she gets to the truth, the more she realizes that everything she thought she knew about herself was a lie.
Love has a price. Prophecies have power. And this one demands blood.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Eliza Benner writes dark-ish romantic fantasy filled with dangerous curses, morally gray heroes, and heroines who refuse to stay powerless. Her stories blend high-stakes adventure with slow-burn tension, fierce loyalty, and enemies-to-lovers romance.

She is the author of the Circus of Souls series, a spicy romantasy featuring fae, dragon-shifters, rebellion, and a heroine who discovers she may be far more than human. She has also authored a young adult urban fantasy series titled Wings of Shade and Starlight featuring angels, demons, and epic adventure. Her books explore power, identity, and what happens when love collides with destiny.

Eliza lives in Minnesota with her husband and their five children, where she spends most of her time writing, reading, and dreaming up new worlds filled with dangerous magic and complicated love stories.

Learn more about Eliza and her books, follow her on Instagram @elizabennerwrites

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BOOK SPOTLIGHT THURSDAY: Brake Me by Athena & Marluxia Bliss

This week’s Book Spotlight is spicing up with the very SPICY BRAKE ME by Athena & Marluxia Bliss! Let’s read on! 

Brake Me
Release Date: April 24, 2026
Genre: Very Spicy MM/ BL Romance

Featuring

⦁	Possessive Love Interest
⦁	Only One Who Understands Me
⦁	Slow Burn to Obsession
⦁	Forbidden Love
⦁	Found Family (Garage Edition)
⦁	Touch-Starved Meets Touch-Hungry
⦁	Machine With a Soul
⦁	Love from the first Vroom

Buying a 1992 Fox Body Ford Mustang might have been a terrible idea, but Al loves that damn car so much. He just doesn't expect him to love him back.

Two idiots who can't keep their hands off each other at 100MPH? Sounds like a recipe for distaster.

CONTENT WARNING THIS BOOK IS RATED 18+

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Athena lives in beautiful Gisborne, New Zealand with her husband Marly and their daughter.

Immigrating from Russia to New Zealand in 2001, Athena grew up in a household full of bigotry, racism, and hateful ideology. Given the chance to move out on her own at 18 she leapt for it, putting an ad out on deviantart.com seeking a flatmate to share a house with in Auckland. Her future husband reached out to her on just as much of a whim, and they moved in together a month later.

They began dating the moment they moved in together in 2007, and continued to date even as Marly came to terms with being transgender and began to transition from female to male. Athena supported him every step of the way and they wed in 2014 and welcomed their daughter to the family in 2015.

Despite several attempts to connect across the years Athena has chosen to remove herself from her biological roots and has embraced a found family of misfits and weirdos, and has been embraced as ‘one of us’ by Marly’s mum and siblings.

In her free time, when she isn’t writing, Athena is a talented artist with a unique style that is in high demand. She proudly illustrated every image in The Sons Of Echidna, and her art has been featured in several published works.

Today she celebrates a sense of belonging in a diverse and happy group that love her passion and creativity.

Athena is a proud member of the LGBTQ+ community, is of Ainu descent, and supports a free Ukraine.

Learn more about Athena and her books, as well as the full content warning, visit https://www.athenabliss.com/

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Clean Beauty Gift Ideas For Mother’s Day

Taking a Book Spotlight Break to let you know tomorrow is May, and that means Mother’s Day will soon be upon us! I a mother totally forgot.😓 To help and support small businesses at the same time, I recently published some lovely gift ideas that any mother will adore! All deal in clean beauty and wellness made with clean and natural ingrediants.

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BOOK SPOTLIGHT THURSDAY: Riley Doesn’t Want to Fight Evil by D.R. Mills

Happy Thursday! As I bring you the horror comedy RILEY DOESN’T WANT TO FIGHT EVIL. This book looks hilariously fantastic! A YA comedy horror that you’re gonna like, whether you like it or not. Let’s read on!

Riley Doesn't Want to Fight Evil (Book One)

Release Date: October 2025

Genre: Horror Comedy

Riley Thomas is the main character of this story – whether he likes it or not.
Riley Thomas has always been a normal, regular, average guy. He has a crappy job, a few friends, and a boring homelife–and that’s just fine with him.
Unfortunately for Riley, fate has other plans.

Death gods, immortal psychopaths, haunted dolls, and serial-killer neighbors are only a handful of his problems. So far, he’s managed to sidestep his responsibility as the main character, but all that changes when he finds himself wrapped up in a prophecy that holds the fate of the world in the balance.

An ancient force of Hell is rising up. Reckoning is coming.
The path of a hero is a hard one, but with enough tenacity and quick thinking, Riley might be able to stay completely out of it. Or at least, he’s going to try.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

D. R. Mills is a young-adult horror author who is currently hard at work on his debut series, MONSTERS. He was born and raised in Wyoming, where he’s still lurking around somewhere. When he isn’t writing, he’s playing video games a borderline unhealthy amount or spending time with his beautiful wife.

Follow D.R. Mills and their books at @author_drmills on Instagram

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BOOK SPOTLIGHT THURSDAY: Bride of Ash & Dust by Meredith Hart

Thrusting into the spotlight this week is the newly released BRIDE OF ASH & DUST by Meredith Hart! Featuring tension so thick you can cut it with a knife, let’s read on!

Bride of Ash & Dust
Book one in the Snake & Crown series

Published: April 10th, 2026

Genre: Romantic Fantasy

Features
*Arranged marriage
*Forced proximity
*Political intrigue
*He falls first… and harder
*Morally gray MMC
*They meet on their wedding day
*Sleeping in the same bed… but not touching
*Emotional support weapons

Princess Lilias has one day to pack her life into trunks before her wedding to a man she's never met. They call him the Snake of Vsenrog: assassin, spy, and the foster son of a ruthless king. Everyone tells her to be terrified. They're right. But not for the reasons they think.

Because Zarek isn't cruel. He's careful. He sleeps with daggers strapped to his body but refuses to touch her when she's drunk. He climbs through windows but asks permission before his fingers brush her thigh. He walks through palaces and slums like he owns them, but avoids their bedchamber. Keeping her safe, he claims, means keeping his distance.
And Lilias learns that the worst torture isn't fear. It's wanting.

But when their honeymoon tour becomes a trap, staying apart is no longer an option. As Vsenrog's armies gather, Lilias and Zarek realize their forced marriage might be the opening move in a war neither of them saw coming. And in a palace where mirrors are windows and lovers are spies, falling in love isn't romantic. It's a weapon.
And someone's waiting to use it against them.


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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Raised by wolves in the mountains of Colorado, Meredith Hart traveled the world to seek her fortune, fell in love with a half-elf ranger, and now lives in a cabin deep in the Maine woods where she writes steamy fantasy romance with snarky, reluctant heroes and the warrior women who love them. She also writes Loki-inspired paranormal romance under the pen name Samantha MacLeod.

Learn more about Hart at https://writermeredithhart.com/

And follow her on Instagram and TikTok @writermeredithhart

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BOOK SPOTLIGHT THURSDAY: Chasm Of Dreams by Dakoda Mazzii

I am back with another Book Spotlight Thursday! Shining this Thursday is Chasm of Dreams, a dark fantasy romance by Dakoda Mazzii! Chasm of Dreams takes place in a primitive world where only brute strength, cunning, and cruelty have enabled its humans to survive. Let’s read on!

Chasm Of Dreams (The Fate of Astaran Series Book 1)

Genre: Dark Fantasy Romance

Release Date: March 3, 2026

Features

✨Touch her and die
✨One horse
✨” Who did this to you?”
✨ FMC goes from reluctant hero to BAMF
✨Hurt/Comfort/Consent
✨Mysterious mind link between MCs
✨ Strangers to lovers
✨Yearningggg


More than a thousand years ago, the humans of Astaranwere conquered by a vengeful Fallen Angel named Chemosh a.k.a “The Sovereign”. Through the deception of Hel’s general---the mighty black wolf and demi-God, SkÖll---she betrays the Gods of Lyrath to declare war on a race of humans with powerful psychic abilities. The Gods then exile her to Astaran and sever her black wings. With the help of her acolytes, The Anakaii, she takes control of Astaran.

AIDA is an orphan and nomad whose parents vanished when she was seven. Her gift of Dream Walking allows her to project into anyone’s mind and plant a suggestion that will compel them to comply. When her power leads to deadly consequences, she vows to never use the gift on anyone again. During her time in the wilderness, Aida’s relationships are sparce, except for the mysterious presence that has been linked to her consciousness for as long as she can remember…

When an Astaran Guard and tracker named TYRAN is tasked with finding an escaped prisoner, he finds Aida after she has been captured by four vicious servants of The Sovereign. Upon saving her from a brutal assault, the pair flee into the dangerous depths of The Furian wood, far from the reach of The Sovereign’s stronghold in Opeth city.
As they travel to the bounds of their known world and approach the towering Vazaketh mountain range, they encounter ancient beasts, discover a hidden race of exiles, learn the answers to the secrets of their past and future, and a solidify a soul-bond that may be the key to the liberation of their entire realm.


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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Dakoda Mazzii is an author-in-bloom from the great state of Texas. Always a lover of creative writing and fiction novels, she received her Arts degree from Florida Keys Community College in 2014. Her debut Romantasy novel, CHASM OF DREAMS, was crafted to satisfy her craving for a gut-wrenching, bone-crunching, and swoon-worthy story with a supernatural twist. When not reading or writing, you can find her enjoying a coffee at the park with her daughter and husband.

Follow Mazzi on INSTAGRAM @dakodamazziiauthor TIKTOK: @dakodamazziiauthor

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Death – A Poem From Me

2026 was going to be the year I got back into creative writing. I’ve been so busy helping market and promote other writers that I forget I am a writer myself. Not just a freelance writer, but a creative writer as well. I was kind of like, naw, but then my good friend George Raymond at Trefology mentioned he’d like to see more of my own work on my site. My poetry background has been coming to the forefront lately, so here I share my latest piece. I am nervous. It’s been so long. Our family had lost a loved one recently. It’s dark. Truthful, and I kind of like it.

(c) copyrights reserved

Thank you for your kind inspiration, Trefy.

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BOOK SPOTLIGHT THURSDAY: Filthy Royals by Kahley Burwell

Welp, the title earned this week’s spotlight as we dive into FILTHY ROYALS by Kahley Burwell! A spicy dark academia romantasy!

Filthy Royals

Release Date: October 2025

Genre: Dark Academia Romantasy

Featuring

⦁	3rd person POV
⦁	Dislike to lovers
⦁	Love triangle between a set of twins
⦁	Forbidden romance
⦁	Bodyguard x princess
⦁	Dark academia
⦁	Supernatural college
⦁	Multiple fantasy creatures
⦁	Found family/sisterhood

In the United Realms, five young queens, born to rule but raised in chaos, are more than just heirs. They’re warriors, schemers, and monsters wrapped in silk and crowned in gold. Magic is forbidden to mix, love is a dangerous luxury, and betrayal is woven into the very fabric of their world.

When their reckless reputations catch up to them, they’re banished to New Charms University, a cutthroat academy where only the strongest survive. Stripped of their crowns, Bella, Diana, Naomi, Reina, and Selene must prove they deserve their thrones. 
But enduring the academy’s punishments is only the beginning.

Dark forces lurk in the shadows, and the halls of New Charms are steeped in secrets, lies, and blood. When students start turning up dead, the queens realize their exile isn’t just a punishment—it’s a trap. Someone wants them powerless. Someone wants them dead.
To reclaim their crowns, they’ll have to master forbidden magic, forge dangerous alliances, and uncover the truth behind the murders. 
Because in this game of power, you either rule…or you bleed like the roses at your feet.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Kahley Burwell is a current third year college student at Loyola Marymount University, pursuing a BFA in Screenwriting with a minor in English. Aspiring to write, produce, and act in her own projects, she specializes in adapting literary works for the screen. She has previously interned at CatchLight Studio and The Jackson Agency, gaining hands-on experience in development and production.

Originally from Philadelphia, Kahley Burwell now studies in California but plans to move soon to pursue her creative ambitions. In her free time, she loves reading, binge-watching TV, traveling, and hanging out with friends at Yogurtland.

Follow Kahley and her book:@kahleybookwell on Instagram.

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BOOK SPOTLIGHT THURSDAY: Desolate by Kelli Storm

Helping the authors get some shine on their books this Thursday, DESOLATE by Kelli Storm shines bright in the spotlight! Desolate is a witchy urban YA fantasy with LGBTQ+ heroines, character-driven plots, neurodivergent representation, and bewitching twists. Let’s read on!

Desolate

Release Date: October 2025

Genre: YA Urban Fantasy

Featuring
⦁	Accidental Time Travel
⦁	Forbidden Love
⦁	Fish Out of Water
⦁	Who Done It
⦁	Neurodivergent Heroine
⦁	Sapphic Romance

A time-bending mishap forces a witch to navigate a new reality and an unexpected romance. Can Mia find her way back home, all while stopping a killer?
Being a witch with ADHD has its challenges. When Mia gets distracted while performing a spell, she becomes an accidental time-traveler.
Waking up in 1992, she comes across supernatural creatures attacking a young woman, and she taps into strange, unknown powers to save her. But as Mia starts falling for the enchanting near-victim, she discovers the girl will soon die.
She might be the only person who can stop her killer, yet everyone knows messing with time can have dire consequences.
As she works on finding a way back to her timeline, Mia quickly realizes she needs to make a choice. Let history happen or stop this dark destiny from coming to pass.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

When the 2008 recession hit, KELLI STORM found herself without a job and with too much time on her hands. To fill the void, she began writing fan fiction. She soon developed a following, and her readers encouraged her to write an original story. Kelli’s debut book, HIS SMALL-TOWN CHALLENGE (Harlequin Special Edition, 2025), is an ode to her love of boy bands.

​Kelli earned her bachelor’s from Grand Valley State University. She’s the author of the Challenge Accepted series for Harlequin Special Edition and the young adult fantasy series, The Assembly Hearts, which includes DESOLATE (Tiny Fox Press, 2025). She lives in the Great Lake State with three rescue dogs and a fifteen-year-old fish named Henry O’Malley.

Learn more about Kelli and her books at: @authorkellistorm on INSTAGRAM and TIKTOK: @authorkellistorm