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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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BOOK SPOTLIGHT THURSDAY: Only the Small Bones by C.P. Harris

I deal with a lot of books, and sometimes books get caught in my book web by surprise, which leads us to this Thursday’s Book Spotlight, “ONLY THE SMALL BONES” by C.P. Harris. Only the Small Bones is an MM romance, and book 1 in the standalone series Slow Burns & Tragic Beginnings. This is a deeply dark slow-burn romance story featuring a non-verbal MC with touch aversion and mental health representation. 

Only the Small Bones (Slow Burns & Tragic Beginings #1)

Release Date: February 24, 2026

Genre: Dark MM Romance

Author: @authorcharris

Publisher: @pageandvinebooks

Features
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Non-verbal MC
MC With Touch Aversion
Human Trafficking Survivor
Broken Boys
Mental Health Rep
Interracial Couple
Slow Burn
Delicious Tension
Text Exchanges
Hurt/Comfort
Cameos from Infidelity cast members



“What makes him so special?”
“He reminds me of someone I once knew…”

As the founder of Freedom Fighters, famed music composer, William Mayes, is often the first port of call when the FBI needs assistance with human trafficking victims.
After receiving such a call one night, William abandons everything to catch the next flight home. Arriving at Manhattan Memorial, he finds a beautiful young man restrained to a gurney. His eyes are wild with fear, and blood stains his skin. No one has been successful in getting him to speak.

When even he can’t get the young man to cooperate, William does something he may later come to regret—he extends an invite to his home. The young man is non-verbal, angry, and at times openly hateful. All of which gives him control over William’s emotions.
William slowly begins to spiral from his own struggles with his tormented past. His nightmares return, sleep becomes a lost cause, and the dark voices in his head are out for blood.

Amid their co-dependent isolation, William’s feelings evolve. Lines are blurred and then crossed altogether as they start down a path riddled with secrets and lies of omission.
The only thing that can set them both free is the truth. But maybe some things are better left buried. Because if the ugliest parts of William are ever unearthed, no one will be spared.

*Content Warning*: This book is recommended for 18+ as it deals with human trafficking of adults and children. Flashbacks involving the abuse they face at the hands of their traffickers (i.e., being drugged, bound, and transported). Discussions involving cutting, sexual assault, physical, and emotional abuse. Depression representation. Off-page death of a parent, grandparents, and trafficking victims. Survivor’s guilt.

GET IT NOW ON AMAZON

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

C.P. Harris writes emotionally charged romance with a dark edge. Her stories dive deep into flawed characters, and leaves you with hard-won, happily-ever-afters. When not writing, she’s devouring the same intense, complicated romances she loves to create. If you crave angst, obsession, and endings that hurt before they heal, then C.P. Harris might just be your next favorite author.