Hi Fantastic Fantasy Reader!
Another weekday here. The weather is sunny and warm here in Southern California, but the heatwave seems to have broken. What's the weather like where you are?
I have some book-related news to share! Falling for the Leonidas, The Faerin Book 2 is now up for preorder (it's a re-release, so see the italicized bolded info below)! The story's set to release in December, but I might move the date up a bit if I can light a bit of fire under myself and get some things done. Here are the cover and blurb:)
When Riley Robbins has a run-in with businessman Ivander Northland, his cold personality chills her to the core. But that soon changes as he pursues her with an ardor she's never known. Some things are too good to be true, and she's scared that he falls under that category.
Businessman Ivander Northland doesn't care for many people other than his family and extended clan. But when he meets his fated bondmate, who happens to be the all-too-human Riley, he scrambles to court her. Even though she thaws the ice encasing his heart, he fears she'll take off once she discovers who and what he is.
This story is the second in The Faerin series but can be read as a standalone. Also previously published as Claiming Riley in the anthologies Adamant Spirits and Like a Firework. This novella contains adult content and is perfect for fans of Tasha Black, Sarah J. Maas, C.N. Crawford, and Alessa Thorn.
Now onto featured books and group promotions!
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This Week's Featured Book!
She refuses to be bound to anyone; he’s trying to find freedom.
Aileana is the king’s pet. She has lived her entire life in a tower, waiting for the day she will be forced to marry his son.
When that day arrives, she has a plan. Armed with her daggers and her desire for freedom, she runs from the king and his deadly power.
Xander has spent his entire life on the run. He doesn’t need anyone or anything, certainly not a mate. But when his path crosses with a feisty elf, nothing will ever be the same again.
He has secrets to keep. She wants to leave Ithenmyr behind and not look back.
Fate has other plans for them both.
This Rapunzel retelling is a slow burn, enemies-to-lovers romantic fantasy and is filled with banter, fated mates, fake marriage, and world-building. Of Earth and Flame is book 1/5 in The Ithenmyr Chronicles.
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Mirror, mirror in my abyss, who is truly the Darkest Fae in our midst? Renaud may taste my blood on his lips, but I have his son’s blood on my hands.
The time for secrets is coming to a close. We must both step onto another killing field—far from Everenne—but fields soaked in lies turn into mines to destroy us all.
Perhaps resistance is futile. . .I have never heard of a halfling who repudiated a bond of a High Fae Lord, especially a mad Prince who is willing to kill to keep.
But I will brace my feet in the sand and hold my weight. I will not be swept away in the storm between the Old One at my back and the Ancient approaching my front.
Resistance may be futile, but my mother’s strength forms the marrow in my bones. I am the blood of an Ancient, after all.
You will not tame me easily, my Prince.
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$0.99 cent for a limited time on Amazon/free in KU.
A human princess. A dark-elf prince. A kiss of fire and powder…
After a failed courtship in an ally kingdom, Princess Alessandra returns home to a land torn apart by mutual hatred between the humans and the dark-elves. Her chronic condition makes her an undesirable bride, unlike her beautiful, favored younger sister, Bianca, who’s in love with a handsome general. When their father decides to end the war with the monstrous dark-elves by offering Bianca’s hand in marriage to their enemies, Aless can’t allow her sister’s heart to be broken and sacrificed. She takes Bianca’s place.
Prince Veron has been raised knowing his life is not his own, but to be bargained away by his mother, the ruler of their dark-elf queendom. When she tells him he is to marry a self-absorbed, vile human, he is determined to do his duty regardless of his personal feelings. After arriving at the human capital, he finds his human bride rebellious and untamed—and not to be trusted.
Aless and Veron face opposition at every turn, with humans and dark-elves alike opposing the union violently, as well as their own feelings of dissonance toward each other. Can two people from cultures that despise one another fall in love? Can a marriage between them bond two opposing worlds together, or will it tear them apart for good?
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Her mother's people want her dead, her father's kind would kill to have her; only he can protect her from both - but can he save her from herself?
All Evie had ever wanted was a family, someone who loved her for who she was. But as an Infernal – a half celestial demon – that wasn’t always as easy, since most judged first and questioned later. When a fallen star’s magic ripped her from her found family and revealed fragments of the secrets of her past, she must face the darkness within and find a way to her real family or risk dying at the hands of her mother’s people, or worse, be taken by her father’s. Does she have the strength to reach them in time, or will her growing power destroy her before she even has a chance?
Cain thrived in darkness. As a demonkin – a half-demon – the world hated him, and that suited him just fine. Violence followed hate and Cain entered each encounter knowing it would strengthen him for the day he finally came face to face with the man who hurt his mother. Living every day with no care for connections or love until Evie entered his dark world. Being with her may mean not getting his vengeance against the man he had sworn to kill. And when a goddess he’s turned his back on interferes, he must make the ultimate choice between the woman who’s brought light into his world or let the shadows consume him again.
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Group Promos!
Get Your Fantasy Romance on in September!
Magical Entanglements and Free Fantasy Romance!
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Happy Reading!
~Lisa
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