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   Spellshop #2 Purchase a copy on Amazon 🖉 Rating:  5/5 🖉 Spice:  0/5 🖉 Plot:  5/5 🖉 Primary Genre:  Cozy Fantasy Romance 🖉 Blurb:  New York Times bestselling author Sarah Beth Durst invites you to her new standalone novel nestled on a far-away island brimming with singing flowers, honey cakes, and honeyed love. The hardcover edition features beautiful sprayed edges. Terlu Perna broke the law because she was lonely. She cast a spell and created a magically sentient spider plant. As punishment, she was turned into a wooden statue and tucked away into an alcove in the North Reading Room of the Great Library of Alyssium. This should have been the end of her story . . . Yet one day, Terlu wakes in the cold of winter on a nearly-deserted island full of hundreds of magical greenhouses. She’s starving and freezing, and the only other human on the island is a grumpy gardener. To her surprise, he offers Terlu a place to sleep, clean clothes, and freshly b...

  Spellshop #1 Buy a copy on Amazon 🖉 Rating: 5/5 🖉 Spice: 0/5 🖉 Plot: 5/5 🖉 Primary Genre: Cozy Fantasy Romance 🖉 Blurb:  Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Readers' Favorite Romantasy (2024) The Spellshop is Sarah Beth Durst’s romantasy debut–a lush cottagecore tale full of stolen spellbooks, unexpected friendships, sweet jams, and even sweeter love. Kiela has always had trouble dealing with people. Thankfully, as a librarian at the Great Library of Alyssium, she and her assistant, Caz—a magically sentient spider plant—have spent the last decade sequestered among the empire’s most precious spellbooks, preserving their magic for the city’s elite. When a revolution begins and the library goes up in flames, she and Caz flee with all the spellbooks they can carry and head to a remote island Kiela never thought she’d see again: her childhood home. Taking refuge there, Kiela discovers, much to her dismay, a nosy—and very handsome—neighbor who can’t take a hint and keeps sho...

  Get Yourself A Copy 🖉 Rating : 5/5 🖉 Spice: 0/5 🖉 Plot : 5/5 🖉 Primary Genre : Contemporary Romance 🖉 Blurb : Goodreads Choice Award  Winner for Readers' Favorite Romance (2023) Harriet and Wyn have been the perfect couple since they met in college—they go together like salt and pepper, honey and tea, lobster and rolls. Except, now—for reasons they’re still not discussing—they don’t. They broke up six months ago. And still haven’t told their best friends. Which is how they find themselves sharing the largest bedroom at the Maine cottage that has been their friend group’s yearly getaway for the last decade. Their annual respite from the world, where for one vibrant, blue week they leave behind their daily lives; have copious amounts of cheese, wine, and seafood; and soak up the salty coastal air with the people who understand them most. Only this year, Harriet and Wyn are lying through their teeth while trying not to notice how desperately they still want each other. Be...

 Assistant To The Villain #2 Get Your Copy On Amazon 🖉 Rating:  5/5 🖉 Spice: 0/5 🖉 Plot: 5 /5 🖉 Primary Genre:  Cozy Romantasy 🖉 Blurb:  Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Readers' Favorite Romantasy (2024) NOTICE TO STAFF: There has been a disturbing increase in cheeriness, sprightly behavior, and overall optimism. Please resume your former dark, ominous terrors at your earliest convenience. -Mgmt Evie Sage has never been happier to be the assistant to The Villain. Who would have thought that working for an outrageously handsome, evil overlord would be so rewarding? Still, the business of being bad is demanding, the forces of good are annoyingly persistent, and said forbidding boss is somewhat . . . out-of-evil-office. But Rennedawn is in trouble, and all signs—Kingsley's included—point to catastrophe. Something peculiar is happening with the kingdom's magic, and it's made The Villain's manor vulnerable to their enemies . . . including their nemesis, the kin...

Purchase on Amazon 🖉 Rating : 5/5 🖉 Spice: 0/5 🖉 Plot : 5/5 🖉 Primary Genre : Contemporary Romance 🖉 Blurb : Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Readers' Favorite Romance (2020) Augustus Everett is an acclaimed author of literary fiction. January Andrews writes bestselling romance. When she pens a happily ever after, he kills off his entire cast. They’re polar opposites. In fact, the only thing they have in common is that for the next three months, they're living in neighboring beach houses, broke, and bogged down with writer's block. Until, one hazy evening, one thing leads to another and they strike a deal designed to force them out of their creative ruts: Augustus will spend the summer writing something happy, and January will pen the next Great American Novel. She’ll take him on field trips worthy of any rom-com montage, and he’ll take her to interview surviving members of a backwoods death cult (obviously). Everyone will finish a book and no one will fall in love....

Purchase from Amazon 🖉 Rating : 5/5 🖉 Spice: 0/5 🖉 Plot : 5/5 🖉 Primary Genre : Contemporary Romance 🖉 Blurb : Goodreads Choice Award Winner for Readers' Favorite Romance (2022) One summer. Two rivals. A plot twist they didn't see coming....Nora Stephens’ life is books—she’s read them all—and she is not that type of heroine. Not the plucky one, not the laidback dream girl, and especially not the sweetheart. In fact, the only people Nora is a heroine for are her clients, for whom she lands enormous deals as a cutthroat literary agent, and her beloved little sister Libby. Which is why she agrees to go to Sunshine Falls, North Carolina for the month of August when Libby begs her for a sisters’ trip away—with visions of a small-town transformation for Nora, who she’s convinced needs to become the heroine in her own story. But instead of picnics in meadows, or run-ins with a handsome country doctor or bulging-forearmed bartender, Nora keeps bumping into Charlie Lastra, a booki...

Purchase on Amazon Sisters of Light and Shadow #2 🖉 Rating : 3/5  🖉 Spice : 1/5 🖉 Plot : 4/5 🖉 Primary Genre : Romantasy/Fantasy Romance 🖉 Blurb : Dark secrets. Deadly choices. A destiny that can’t be outrun. Welcome to Shadowcraft Academy. Eléa Deniz has dreamed of her home in the French countryside for the last four years after nearly dying in the Forgotten Forest. But when she finally returns, she finds the estate has become host to the Shadowcraft Academy, an elite graduate school where a world of mysteries and power plays await. It’s there she discovers a secret about her magic that’s not just a threat to the established order, but a prophecy that could change everything. What’s worse, her father is the school’s enigmatic and ruthless headmaster with an agenda of his own—one that could tear their world apart if she can’t find a way to stop him. As alliances shift and her power is tested, Eléa becomes torn between Alex, her stoic first love whose loyalties are as murky as ...

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  Purchase on Amazon 🖉 Rating: 5/5 🖉 Spice: 0/5 🖉 Plot: 5/5 🖉 Primary Genre: Contemporary Romance 🖉 Blurb: Goodreads Choice AwardWinner for Readers' Favorite Romance (2024), Winner for Readers' Favorite Audiobook (2024) A shimmering, joyful new novel about a pair of opposites with the wrong thing in common, from #1 New York Times bestselling author Emily Henry.Daphne always loved the way her fiancé, Peter, told their story. How they met (on a blustery day), fell in love (over an errant hat), and moved back to his lakeside hometown to begin their life together. He really was good at telling it... right up until the moment he realized he was actually in love with his childhood best friend Petra. Which is how Daphne begins her new story: stranded in beautiful Waning Bay, Michigan, without friends or family but with a dream job as a children’s librarian (that barely pays the bills), and proposing to be roommates with the only person who could possibly understand her predic...

  Purchase from Amazon 🖉 Rating:  4/5 🖉 Spice:  2/5 🖉 Plot: 5/5 🖉 Primary Genre: Dark Romance 🖉 Blurb:   Shallow Hill is where souls suffer slow and miserable deaths. When River McAllister escaped from Shallow Hill, she left her innocence behind--and some of her sanity, too. Now she's rebuilding her life with her dream man and life couldn't be better. Ryan Fitzgerald is everything you'd want in a man. Attractive, rich, an aspiring lawyer, and would do anything to keep River. But that's not the only thing that attracts her. It's his attentiveness, his possessiveness... maybe not so much his temper. When her relationship takes a dark turn, Ryan's estranged brother, Mako, is the only one who sees it. He knows exactly what Ryan is capable of, and it's not the first time he had to be a knight in shining armor. River came from Shallow Hill, though. She's never needed saving before. What Mako doesn't see, is that River is perfectly capable of taking ...

  Purchase On Amazon Hollow Graves Duet #1 🖉 Rating:  5/5 🖉 Spice:  4/5 🖉 Plot:  5/5 🖉 Primary Genre: Dark Romance 🖉 Blurb:  “My darling, it is you who is dreadful.” Reverie Adams has only one goal in life: to keep her head above water with her father’s sinister legacy weighing on her shoulders. But she’s no stranger to drowning—it’s her very first memory, after all, and if her demons have it their way, it will also be her last. Even with the blood of a serial killer running through her veins, Reverie attempts a normal life at Hollow Canyon University. But there’s a ghost from her past who refuses to set her free, haunting her every waking hour, and he will not rest until he has made her suffer. Dreadful Sharpe has only one goal in life, but it’s not winning gold medals as an Olympic swimmer. The only thing Dread strives for is vengeance against the family who murdered his mother. Determined to make Reverie pay, Dread does everything in his power to ensure...

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Read Here 🖉 Rating:  4/5 🖉 Spice:  4/5 🖉 Plot: 4/5 🖉 Primary Genre:  Dark Horror Romance 🖉 Blurb:  Some people find love in candlelit dinners and gentle touches. Isabella Rossi finds it in the taste of revenge and the watchful eyes of her history professor. When a traumatic night at a college party shatters her fragile world, Harrison Irving is there—her stoic, tailored-suit saviour. He offers comfort, obsession, and a possessive love that feels like a sanctuary from her abusive past. Isabella is drawn into his orbit, a willing captive to his dark intensity. But Harrison has a secret hunger. His devotion isn't just protective; it's consumptive. He eliminates anyone who threatens or touches what he claims as his own, filling his freezer with the consequences. As their twisted bond deepens, Isabella discovers her own capacity for darkness. Shared trauma becomes a perverse language, and the line between victim and accomplice blurs. When outside threats and the ghos...

Read Here L.O.R.D.S. #5 🖉 Rating: 4/5 🖉 Spice: 5/5 🖉 Plot: 5/5 🖉 Primary Genre: Secret Society Dark Romance 🖉 Blurb:  A PUPPET The men in the secret society known as the Lords think they rule the world. And in a way, they do. Each has sold their soul to the devil at a young age in exchange for power and wealth. Like anything else, they have different levels of success. The more they’re willing to serve, the more power they have. Among them are the Spade brothers, who run Carnage. It’s where the Lords who have not held up their oath go to live out the rest of their lives in shackles. Tucked away from the world as if they never existed. I VOW. YOU VOW. WE VOW. I once belonged to a Lord—Saint Beckham Carter. Although nothing was holy about him, I still kneeled as if he could grant me eternity in a world where only evil existed. At the time, I willingly vowed to be his and allowed him to share me with his “brothers.” But things changed. And what I thought couldn’t get any be...

Puchase Here  Once Upon A Broken Heart #2 🖉 Rating:  4/5 🖉 Spice:  0/5 🖉 Plot: 4 /5 🖉 Primary Genre:  YA Romantasy 🖉 Blurb:  Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Readers' Favorite Young Adult Fantasy & Science Fiction (2022) Not every love is meant to be. After Jacks, the Prince of Hearts, betrays her, Evangeline Fox swears she'll never trust him again. Now that she’s discovered her own magic, Evangeline believes she can use it to restore the chance at happily ever after that Jacks stole away. But when a new terrifying curse is revealed, Evangeline finds herself entering into a tenuous partnership with the Prince of Hearts again. Only this time, the rules have changed. Jacks isn’t the only force Evangeline needs to be wary of. In fact, he might be the only one she can trust, despite her desire to despise him. Instead of a love spell wreaking havoc on Evangeline’s life, a murderous spell has been cast. To break it, Evangeline and Jacks will have to do bat...

  Purchase here Once Upon A Broken Heart #1 🖉 Rating:  4/5 🖉 Spice:  0/5 🖉 Plot: 0/5 🖉 Primary Genre:  YA Romantasy 🖉 Blurb:  Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Readers' Favorite Young Adult Fantasy & Science Fiction (2021) How far would you go for happily ever after? For as long as she can remember, Evangeline Fox has believed in true love and happy endings... until she learns that the love of her life will marry another. Desperate to stop the wedding and to heal her wounded heart, Evangeline strikes a deal with the charismatic but wicked Prince of Hearts. In exchange for his help, he asks for three kisses, to be given at the time and place of his choosing. But after Evangeline’s first promised kiss, she learns that bargaining with an immortal is a dangerous game—and that the Prince of Hearts wants far more from her than she’d pledged. He has plans for Evangeline, plans that will either end in the greatest happily ever after or the most exquisite trag...

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Purchase Finale by Stephanie Garber Caraval #3 🖉 Rating:  4/5 🖉 Spice:  0/5 🖉 Plot: 5/5 🖉 Primary Genre:  YA   Romantasy 🖉 Blurb:  Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Readers' Favorite Young Adult Fantasy & Science Fiction (2019) Welcome, welcome to  Finale , the third and final book in the #1  New York Times  bestselling Caraval series! A ll games must come to an end... It’s been two months since the last Caraval concluded, two months since the Fates were freed from an enchanted deck of cards, two months since Tella saw Legend, and two months since Legend claimed the empire’s throne as his own. Now, Legend is preparing for his official coronation and Tella is determined to stop it. She believes her own mother, who still remains in an enchanted sleep, is the rightful heir to the throne. Meanwhile, Scarlett has started a game of her own. She’s challenged Julian and her former fiancé, Count Nicolas d’Arcy, to a competition where the winner ...

Buy Legendary on Amazon Caraval #2 🖉 Rating:  4/5 🖉 Spice:  0/5 🖉 Plot:  5/5 🖉 Primary Genre:  YA   Romantasy 🖉 Blurb:  Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Readers' Favorite Young Adult Fantasy & Science Fiction (2018) A heart to protect. A debt to repay. A game to win. After being swept up in the magical world of Caraval, Donatella Dragna has finally escaped her father and saved her sister, Scarlett, from a disastrous arranged marriage. The girls should be celebrating, but Tella isn’t yet free. She made a desperate bargain with a mysterious criminal, and what Tella owes him no one has ever been able to deliver: Caraval Master Legend’s true name. The only chance of uncovering Legend’s identity is to win Caraval, so Tella throws herself into the legendary competition once more—and into the path of the murderous heir to the throne, a doomed love story, and a web of secrets…including her sister's. Caraval has always demanded bravery, cunning, and sacr...