A Halloween Surprise!
Oct 25, 2025 4:46 pm
Lovely readers!
I have a new book! And it releases in a week! It's a prequel to my new gaslamp historical romantasy series that starts in December, and I'm SO excited for everyone to read it. For that reason, I've published it wide for a few weeks before I put it in Kindle Unlimited. You can grab it at Barnes and Noble, Kobo, Amazon, and other retailers right now and until the 10th of November. You can even request it through your library! After November 10 it will go into Kindle Unlimited and will no longer be available anywhere except Amazon and libraries.
(Should I do an email about libraries and libby? And how Amazon is now allowing authors with their books exclusively in Kindle Unlimited to also put their books in libraries? As a library girl, it's so exciting!)
Truthfully, this book is a little treat to myself. I wrote it with all the things I love--banter, tension, hijinks, sarcasm, intensely spicy scenes, a hero who falls hard, a heroine with a steel spine, and characters figuring out who they are and their place in the world. It's funny and steamy and emotional, and there's a bathtub. Twice. Three times? Yeah, there's a bathtub three times.
The cover is a treat to myself as well. I commissioned the artwork from a wonderfully fabulous artist (who you can find on Instagram as @balangawa) and the typography from Anna Volkin, who did my original covers for the Art of Love series and who designed my Much Ado About Hating You Cover. I have not yet updated all of my images, so some of them have the typography that I made as a temporary fix. So if you see different things flying about, that's why. I'm still trying to catch them all.
I'll reveal the covers for the full Victorian fantasy romance series next month (which are in a totally different style from the one above)!
Things I ADORE about this cover? Their pose, the moon, the dirt on her gown, HER SHOVEL. Kind of looks like she plans to conk him over the head with it. 😂
So what's Til Death Duke Us Part About? A magical duke who meets a gravedigger with useful hands and *ahem* insists she accompany him to Manchester on a quest for metaphorical gold.
Book Recommendations
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Question for you guys: Would you like me to talk a bit about what gaslamp fantasy is? Do you already read it or have read it in the past? I'm wondering if Victorian romantasy or Victorian fantasy romance are more relatable terms.
I hope everyone is cozy this weekend with the best pile of books nearby!
Happy reading,
Charlie Lane
