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The Case of Elmwood Ranch
Deanna Grey
Elmwood Ranch is Octavia Daniel’s dream. A safe place to land after years on the road. But once she signs the paperwork and receives the keys, the nightmare begins.
Shadows move on their own, strange accidents become the norm, and injured ranch hands refuse to work a second longer. Octavia doesn’t believe in ghosts, but she can’t deny something’s wrong with the land she’s sunk her entire savings into.
Rae Jones is in the business of ending nightmares. She comes from a family of successful paranormal investigators. But she’s set herself apart from the Jones sisters by making their legacy into a commercial success.
After years of enjoying said success, she’s hit a wall. Whether it’s burnout or a full-blown existential crisis, she doesn’t know. One way to try to avoid a downward spiral? Take every interesting job she can get. And that includes one from a very stand-offish, nonbelieving horse rancher who thinks she’s a scam artist and the things she hunts don’t exist.
Octavia and Rae must figure out how to work together if they have any hope of solving what’s truly going on at Elmwood. As they build trust, they begin to build something more. Something that could either help or harm their chances of making it out of this haunting alive.
The Case of Elmwood Ranch is a sapphic paranormal romance featuring bisexual leads. This book is intended for 18+ readers.
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The Thorns We Wear Inside
Amy Avery
For fans of For the Wolf and Nettle & Bone comes a dark, romantic fantasy about a witch, a monster, and the two parasitic demons who’ll stop at nothing to keep them apart.
Raye is cursed. Living things crumble at her touch, drained by the demon who clings to her like a shadow. No wonder the townsfolk want her dead. Tormented and pursued, she seeks shelter in a mysterious castle.
The castle is an eerie place. Its residents lie trapped in time like flies in amber, all save one. Mir has a demon of her own, one that forces her to seek blood. When the two women begin to unravel their curses with the castle’s trove of magic, their demons unite, refusing to let their hosts escape. Perhaps even more dangerously, Mir can bear Raye’s poisonous touch: the first caress either of them has felt in years.
As monster hunters close in on the castle, Raye and Mir will have to break the binds of their twisted quadrangle before the past catches up with them.
Seductive and cinematic, this dark fantasy has teeth. Step into the castle. If you dare.
Featuring our favorite romantasy tropes: “will kill anyone but you,” love quadrangle, morally grey, forbidden love, villain romance, forced proximity, poisonous touch, dark allure, redemption through love.
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Your Lips on Mine
Emma R. Alban
A sapphic body-swap Regency romance in which two ex-best friends inadvertently switch lives, then must navigate the marriage mart and their increasingly confusing feelings for each other (and their own faces) while trying to swap back, from the USA Today bestselling author of Don’t Want You Like a Best Friend.
It’s the London 1835 Season, and former best friends Lady Isabel Warls and Miss Lila Hall cannot stand the sight of one another. Unfortunately, they’re constantly thrust together by their friends, family, and the gossiping ton. And even worse, each must find a husband before summer’s end, or else.
Their first explosive argument at the opening night ball sends Isabel and Lila out into the rain-soaked garden. Lightning strikes the nearby fountain, and the girls are blasted apart. When they stand up, what was complicated before becomes flat-out incomprehensible: they’ve swapped bodies.
To keep up appearances—and not end up in an asylum—a panicked Lila goes home with Isabel’s family, and Isabel home with Lila’s. Trapped in each other’s lives, they slowly confront their separate realities, and why their friendship ended so abruptly. Frustration, hurt, and longing soon give way to an intimacy that neither could have predicted.
But even as their relationship deepens, the season rushes on around them. So what do you do when you wind up in your childhood best friend’s body, courting a man you’re no longer sure you want, and falling steadily in love with the woman…wearing your own face?
Isabel and Lila are about to find out, and London might never be the same.
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A Different Kind of Murder
Racquel Marie
When a murder of crows begins wreaking havoc on a small town, a girl with OCD must come to terms with what it means to be a “good” person in order to stop the crows from enacting the worst of her intrusive thoughts, in this YA horror for fans of Don’t Let the Forest In and The Spirit Bares Its Teeth!
On the surface, seventeen-year-old Paloma O’Hare is gentle, well-behaved, and balanced, especially compared to the troublesome step-sister taking up most of her parents’ attention. But Paloma’s anxiety and OCD have been worsening since her ex-boyfriend and ex-best friend found the journal that she’d been using to detail her disturbing intrusive thoughts. It feels inevitable that soon, everyone else will discover what she’s always feared most: she’s actually a terrible person.
For months, Paloma left the journal untouched and instead spent all her free time birding in the forest surrounding her small town, befriending the crows there and convincing herself things might be okay. That is, until dead animals start showing up with page scraps from her journal stuffed inside them, preceding violent attacks by the crows . . . attacks that are making her worst intrusive thoughts come true. Horrified, Paloma knows this is all her fault.
Teaming up with an unlikely ally, town loner Alise Cordova, Paloma tries to find a way to stop the crows before they take things too far. But unless she can reconcile with the cruelest parts of her brain and accept her own imperfections, there may be no way of stopping the murder.
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Your Lips on Mine
Emma R. Alban
A sapphic body-swap Regency romance in which two ex-best friends inadvertently switch lives, then must navigate the marriage mart and their increasingly confusing feelings for each other (and their own faces) while trying to swap back, from the USA Today bestselling author of Don’t Want You Like a Best Friend.
It’s the London 1835 Season, and former best friends Lady Isabel Warls and Miss Lila Hall cannot stand the sight of one another. Unfortunately, they’re constantly thrust together by their friends, family, and the gossiping ton. And even worse, each must find a husband before summer’s end, or else.
Their first explosive argument at the opening night ball sends Isabel and Lila out into the rain-soaked garden. Lightning strikes the nearby fountain, and the girls are blasted apart. When they stand up, what was complicated before becomes flat-out incomprehensible: they’ve swapped bodies.
To keep up appearances—and not end up in an asylum—a panicked Lila goes home with Isabel’s family, and Isabel home with Lila’s. Trapped in each other’s lives, they slowly confront their separate realities, and why their friendship ended so abruptly. Frustration, hurt, and longing soon give way to an intimacy that neither could have predicted.
But even as their relationship deepens, the season rushes on around them. So what do you do when you wind up in your childhood best friend’s body, courting a man you’re no longer sure you want, and falling steadily in love with the woman…wearing your own face?
Isabel and Lila are about to find out, and London might never be the same.
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What a bewitching good time this book was! Very much enjoyed the world of the supernatural and the witches! Priscilla’s love of pranks and darkness while also being someone who when they love someone they’d do anything for them was my favorite! She did have some growing up to do and I think she did by the end! I also really loved bright and optimistic Agatha! How she used fun facts that she had memorized to help her calm down! I might have to borrow that one from her! I always love a good fake dating troupe along with enemies to lovers and this delivered! I did see who the one trying to take down Agatha from a mile away but it was still entertaining! A fun read and is perfect for the October release
Thankful to have received an eARC from Atria Books and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. All thoughts and opinions are my own
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Vengefully Matched: A Novel (Hallowcross)
Audrey Goldberg Ruoff
From the author of Hopelessly Teavoted comes a witchy, sapphic rom-com about a mischievous runaway bride and her prim-and-proper Witchery Council rival that must fake-date in order to catch a would-be murderer—and accidentally fall in love. Priscilla Hart does not do regret—except maybe for the small matter of fleeing her own wedding in a cloud of magical fireworks. Now the town’s most infamous runaway witch, she’s determined to rebuild her reputation on the Witchery Council and prove she’s more than a scandal in heels. Agatha Vanderbilt Voisin, the newly elected council president, is everything Priscilla can’t composed, proper, and infuriatingly perfect. But when a string of dangerous magical explosions points to Priscilla as the culprit, Agatha makes an impulsive move—announcing that they’re dating—to save her from exile. Faking a relationship in public should be simple…until late-night arguments turn into slow-burn attraction, and the two discover that something wicked is brewing in Hallowcross. To survive the magic—and their feelings—they’ll have to stop pretending and risk falling for real.
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Vengefully Matched: A Novel (Hallowcross)
Audrey Goldberg Ruoff
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Vengefully Matched: A Novel (Hallowcross)
Audrey Goldberg Ruoff
From the author of Hopelessly Teavoted comes a witchy, sapphic rom-com about a mischievous runaway bride and her prim-and-proper Witchery Council rival that must fake-date in order to catch a would-be murderer—and accidentally fall in love. Priscilla Hart does not do regret—except maybe for the small matter of fleeing her own wedding in a cloud of magical fireworks. Now the town’s most infamous runaway witch, she’s determined to rebuild her reputation on the Witchery Council and prove she’s more than a scandal in heels. Agatha Vanderbilt Voisin, the newly elected council president, is everything Priscilla can’t composed, proper, and infuriatingly perfect. But when a string of dangerous magical explosions points to Priscilla as the culprit, Agatha makes an impulsive move—announcing that they’re dating—to save her from exile. Faking a relationship in public should be simple…until late-night arguments turn into slow-burn attraction, and the two discover that something wicked is brewing in Hallowcross. To survive the magic—and their feelings—they’ll have to stop pretending and risk falling for real.
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Your Lips on Mine
Emma R. Alban
A sapphic body-swap Regency romance in which two ex-best friends inadvertently switch lives, then must navigate the marriage mart and their increasingly confusing feelings for each other (and their own faces) while trying to swap back, from the USA Today bestselling author of Don’t Want You Like a Best Friend.
It’s the London 1835 Season, and former best friends Lady Isabel Warls and Miss Lila Hall cannot stand the sight of one another. Unfortunately, they’re constantly thrust together by their friends, family, and the gossiping ton. And even worse, each must find a husband before summer’s end, or else.
Their first explosive argument at the opening night ball sends Isabel and Lila out into the rain-soaked garden. Lightning strikes the nearby fountain, and the girls are blasted apart. When they stand up, what was complicated before becomes flat-out incomprehensible: they’ve swapped bodies.
To keep up appearances—and not end up in an asylum—a panicked Lila goes home with Isabel’s family, and Isabel home with Lila’s. Trapped in each other’s lives, they slowly confront their separate realities, and why their friendship ended so abruptly. Frustration, hurt, and longing soon give way to an intimacy that neither could have predicted.
But even as their relationship deepens, the season rushes on around them. So what do you do when you wind up in your childhood best friend’s body, courting a man you’re no longer sure you want, and falling steadily in love with the woman…wearing your own face?
Isabel and Lila are about to find out, and London might never be the same.
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The Thorns We Wear Inside
Amy Avery
For fans of For the Wolf and Nettle & Bone comes a dark, romantic fantasy about a witch, a monster, and the two parasitic demons who’ll stop at nothing to keep them apart.
Raye is cursed. Living things crumble at her touch, drained by the demon who clings to her like a shadow. No wonder the townsfolk want her dead. Tormented and pursued, she seeks shelter in a mysterious castle.
The castle is an eerie place. Its residents lie trapped in time like flies in amber, all save one. Mir has a demon of her own, one that forces her to seek blood. When the two women begin to unravel their curses with the castle’s trove of magic, their demons unite, refusing to let their hosts escape. Perhaps even more dangerously, Mir can bear Raye’s poisonous touch: the first caress either of them has felt in years.
As monster hunters close in on the castle, Raye and Mir will have to break the binds of their twisted quadrangle before the past catches up with them.
Seductive and cinematic, this dark fantasy has teeth. Step into the castle. If you dare.
Featuring our favorite romantasy tropes: “will kill anyone but you,” love quadrangle, morally grey, forbidden love, villain romance, forced proximity, poisonous touch, dark allure, redemption through love.
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The Bluff is one of the most unique books I’ve read! I’ve never read one where we were in so many different characters thoughts! This family was such a mess and it was so entertaining to read everything they were going through and how they would react to all the drama going on! I definitely was crying at some parts seeing the growth that many of the characters had and disappointed but not surprised about the lack of growth from some others! I now want to take a trip to Mackinac Island cause it sounds so enchanting! Loved the Christmas setting and it makes me long for the next few months to fly by so we can be at the season again so I can be with my own dysfunctional family! Definitely one to pick up and read this holiday
Thankful to have received an eARC from Harper Collins and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. All thoughts and opinions are my own
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The Bluff: A Novel
Wade Rouse
Succession meets The Family Stone in bestselling author Wade Rouse’s humorous and sharply observant look at a family teetering on the edge of merry mayhem.
The Chapmans do Christmas the way they do everything: impeccably, expensively, and with the unshakable belief that good lighting can conceal bad blood. Their annual Christmas card may look picture-perfect, but behind the polite smiles there’s a storm brewing. This year, at their grand lakefront cottage on Mackinac Island, a snowstorm traps generations of Chapmans—and their schemes—under one roof.
Chris Chapman is on the verge of losing everything: his father’s trust, his role at the helm of the family business, and his wife’s respect. Kat Chapman is already fed up with hosting her critical, stuck-up in-laws and their impossibly inflexible holiday traditions. Her solution? Invite her working-class parents – born and bred Islanders – for Christmas, much to the horror of the Chapmans, whose rule that “We do not share Christmas with other people” is about to be broken.
As the snow piles up, so do the grievances: their children—fiercely liberal Leah and conservative golden-boy Chip—are locked in a battle of wits, Chris’s vaguely corrupt brother Cormac and his calculating trophy wife are stirring the pot, and Kat’s mother is holding onto a secret that could upend the entire game.
Deliciously messy and surprisingly tender, The Bluff is a feisty festive family drama about money, marriage, power, and all the things we bring to the holiday table besides the turkey.
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Creative Differences
Annabel Paulsen
Propulsive and sexy, Creative Differences is a sapphic second-chance romance for fans of Here We Go Again and Daisy Jones & The Six.
Swanboat was your favorite band's favorite band. But after one perfect record and one fraught, intimate tour, the confessional–indie rock trio—lead singer Amelia Wells, guitarist Ramona Sloane, and bassist Bea Fink—suddenly broke up.
Five years later, Amelia is a star: She's transitioned into mainstream pop music, performing sold-out shows for obsessed fans. It's everything she's convinced herself she should want . . . even though her fame has started to feel less like success and more like loneliness.
Ramona hasn't spoken to Amelia since the last night of the tour. She's content playing small crowds and avoiding Amelia's inescapable hit single, "Emergency Contact," during her slot at the local indie radio station.
When Amelia's record label suggests a Swanboat reunion tour, she and Ramona each have their own reasons for agreeing. And they'd both do anything for Bea, who still doesn't know about the kiss that broke their band apart. All Ramona and Amelia have to do is get through two months of playing the songs that made them fall in love in the first place . . . and try not to do it all over again.
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