Teutonic Sneak Peeks Fade Away With The Equinox 🍂🌹
Sep 22, 2025 9:31 pm
If you read the email I sent earlier this month, then you're aware this author 'royally screwed up' her publication of Hunted by the Undead, Book 2 in This Earthen Cage saga. I'd scheduled it to appear everywhere online on September 10th, but a vicious creative slump compounded with health issues and the world at large resulted in a major let down for all of us. 😔
For the past twelve days, the incomplete version of Book 2 in Helena's saga with Konstantin has been hiding in obscurity on most retailers. This version includes Chapters 1-22. You can still find that version HERE.
Some readers bought Hunted already, and if that was you, I seriously wish we could go out for coffee. Or tea. Or a Wawa sub. (Just buttonholed myself as a South Jersey girl right there. 😜) To my dedicated readers, I love you from the depths of my weirdo black heart. I hope you've enjoyed browsing the bonus content lurking on my website...especially that sweet character artwork by @artsyerra. It's it awesome???
Good news if you haven't grabbed your copy of Hunted yet. Right now I'm tying off some loose ends in the background, so for another day or two you should be able to download the incomplete book and seize that link to the bonus content.
But later this week? That bonus content is going bye-bye.
And Hunted by the Undead will be at its full length of 35 chapters.
Including several twists this author was NOT expecting 👀
Some implied sex (it happens off page) 🤭
A rather grisly (deserved) murder 💀
Helena discovering that she does, in fact, get seasick 🤢
Aaaaaaaand a scene with Konstantin meeting a tabby cat 😺
If you want to nab the partial version of Hunted and peek at the bonus content, now's the time to do it. You can get it at my book shop and all other retailers by clicking the button below. It's not available at libraries yet, since I don't want to send libraries a partial book. BUT you can definitely binge the first 22 chapters on Kobo Plus (and grab that link to the bonus content before it's gone)!
Since obviously I'll be sending another email once I'm certain the complete version of Hunted has hit all the retailers, I'm keeping this one fairly short. Got a bunch of itch.io bundles to share, plus some BookFunnel events and a pair of newsletter freebies I found that might interest you. Let's start with itch!
Itch.io Book Bundles
I've got books in two bundles this week. Magical Gift is hanging out in a collection of cozy stories and games, all for a super low price. Are you a gamer along with being a reader? Then this bundle's for you.
Claimed by the Undead is a part of a spooky-themed bundle for readers seeking creepy or dark tales as we approach Halloween season. The Spooky Bundle is at an extremely discounted price (less than 99¢ per book). Take a look!
I've seen several other bundles floating around the interwebs in recent days, and while I don't have any books involved in these, I figured you might like a variety of options to browse. Each of these bundles is ENDING in less than one day, so if you open this email a bit late and miss out, I apologize.
Ends in 9 hours...ahoy, matee!
Ends in 14 hours...these books are FREE!
Ends in 1 day: support your favorite bi/pan authors!
Other Bookish Events In September
Here's the rest of the bookish events I'm involved in this month. Browse a plethora of fantasy reads in Kobo Plus (including Hunted by the Undead) at the first graphic. Then explore more reads at Kobo and other retailers, plus a bunch more sci-fi and fantasy sagas, some with romance and some without!
Other Books You Might Like
I've got two newsletter freebies for you to add to your TBR today. One fabulous adventure in Scotland, and one wolf shifter with a ripped chest. 😅 Check out whichever one floats your boat...or better, get both books!
High in the hills of Scotland, an ancient evil has returned. One young woman struggling to master her magic is the only hope to stop it...
On the cusp of womanhood, Georjie longs to unlock the full force of her fae-given powers. So when she’s invited to Scotland, she’s eager to explore the Highlands’ famed fairy realm hoping to find a mentor. But instead of unearthing a teacher, she discovers a mummified body within the walls of a seventeenth-century ruin.
Teaming up with a handsome amateur historian, she uses her earth-elemental gift to overturn the secrets hidden deep in the soil. But never far from the trail of clues lurks a shadowy creature on the hunt for prey. And Georjie fears it may have found its first target when a local girl vanishes, only to be discovered in an open grave with her life slipping away…
Can Georjie break the curse before ancient evil claims an innocent victim?
Despite the picture perfect adoptive family that took me in as a young pup, I never felt I fit in with them. Then the day my birth wolf pack pounded on our door, demanding I return to them, didn't change a thing.
To them, I'm a nameless wolf in the pack meant to enforce their rules. I don't belong here… or anywhere.
Then Maggie barged into our pack's bar, and into my life. As my fated mate, she's the one female wolf legend deems my perfect soulmate. Except we can't stand each other. She insists my need to mate with her is wrong.
But I know she's hiding something. My Alpha declares that she's a risk to the entire pack. She can't be trusted. I don't care what any of them say. Maggie is my fated mate, and I'll eliminate anyone who threatens her.
All right, I need to scurry back over to my laptop so I can finish polishing the complete and final version of Hunted by the Undead so YOU can enjoy it later this week! Don't forget to grab the version that's floating on the retailers right now if you want to check out bonus content and character artwork. 💖
I'm probably going to do a general ARC call once Hunted is fully finished, so keep an eye on your inbox for the details.
Have a wonderfully weird week, and happy reading!
Talk to you soon,
C.L. Carhart
Get Hunted by the Undead:
https://bf.clcarhart.com/h3rjjdnaj6
Start the series with Claimed by the Undead:
https://bf.clcarhart.com/fd9deoy799
Cozy Bundle (books and games):
https://itch.io/b/3282/cozy-equinox-bundle
Spooky Bundle (all books):