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Title: It Feels Like Home
Author: Ali Lucia Sky
Genre: Contemporary Mature YA/Teen Romance
Tropes: Second Chance Romance, Enemies-to-Lovers, Coming of Age
Cover Designer: Creative Paramita
Release Date: July 05, 2023

Jacelyn Waverly might need a twelve-step program for jerks.

One jerk, in particular, Ky Linley, because even two years apart hasn’t stopped the butterflies from taking flight in her stomach when he’s around.

After humiliating her in her freshman year and starting rumors that dogged her reputation, Ky shouldn’t get a second chance. Still, she’s returned home older and wiser, and everyone seems different now. But with an angry sister, an overworked mom, a father on the opposite side of the country, and a best friend who is just starting to fall in love for the first time, it all seems like a lot.

But sometimes, growing up feels like coming home.

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Featuring Author River Starr

This is an exciting opportunity to bring you River Starr as my Featured Author! LIFEBLOOD is LIVE, the first of a new 5-book slow burn why ch00se series!

Title: Lifeblood (Wife of the Demon Kings #1)
Author: River Starr
Genre: Paranormal Romance & Urban Fantasy
Release Date: June 29, 2023

Here’s a bit about it:
Enemies to Lovers
Fated Mates
Demon/Monster Romance
Touch Her and D!e
“Good girl”
One Virgin MMC
Arthurian Inspiration

I WAS CHOSEN AS THEIR WIFE. BUT I DIDN’T CHOOSE THEM. The Demon Courts reign in darkness over half the world, threatening our very existence. We in the Humanlands send them wives via lottery once a year to appease them, women to ravage and ruin in a lust-filled dance as their darkest desires are fulfilled.

IT’S NEVER ENOUGH. The women never return. The four cursed demon kings are never satisfied. When my best friend is chosen as one of their next wives, I can’t leave her to that fate. I alone can end our suffering—but I’ve been hiding, terrified of death.

BECAUSE I AM A LIFEBLOOD. I’m one of the last true children of the divine. My celestial blood is the key to the kings’ continued immortality and, if prophecy is to be believed, the cure to their curses. As soon as I meet the four achingly sexy monarchs, I can’t deny the intense and immediate attraction—and the pull my magic has on them. Each of the gorgeous kings will try to take me as his wife. I hope they’re ready to fight for it… and that I survive the claiming.

Featuring Author

Featuring Author Elizabeth N. Harris

Spotlighting Author Elizabeth N. Harris and her novel, Rage Of The Phoenix!

Title: Rage Of The Phoenix (Rage MC #1)
Author: Elizabeth N. Harris
Genre: Action & Adventure, Contemporary Romance
Release Date: December 8, 2019

A woman running from her past finally finds safety and a place to call home. A man who has seen and done things no man should.

Two MC’s about to go to war over one woman.

Just when things are finally settled, love hits Phoenix without warning. Her past is dark, and she’s finally in a good place for her and her children. Drake, a man haunted by the things he had to do to get his beloved club clean, finally thinks he may have found beauty.

Someone’s past is going to bite them hard when they aren’t looking for it. Before life can be lived, the dark must be faced. Who will remain standing when the devil comes looking for them?

Author and Reader Events, It Feels Like Home, JUMPER, WIP Wednesday

The Gibberish WIP

Hello, and welcome to my WIP update. It Feels Like Home is going up on Amazon for paperback purchases in the next few days, and it will be up for preorder for e-books until the 4th. It comes out on the 5th of July. You can get it right now if you are an ARC reader through BookSprout or my YA & TEEN ARC Team.

My current project is JUMPER. I’m 13 chapters and 19000 words in. The first few chapters are letters, so there are many chapters at the start. That said, JUMPER is a deep and dark story. I already have TW for sexual torture, sexual sadism, SA, child SA, reference to miscarriage, PTSD by both a primary and side character, and the threat of forced breeding.

So yeah, this is a light, feel-good book you will want to share with the whole family!

It Feels Like Home, Teaser Tuesday

Tease Tease Tease!

I have a It Feels Like Home Tuesday Teaser for you. Actually I have a few things for you. Be excited! First the teaser!

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Featuring Author J.S. Mercier

This week’s feature is the new release, Exhale, by author J.S. Mercier!

Title: Exhale
Author: J.S. Mercier
Genre: Fantasy Romance
Release Date: June 13, 2023

In a world where half of the population possesses magic, Morella Andrews is the first of her kind. Her unique abilities force her to rely on the protection and secrecy of her Union and the federal government to stay safe from people who would seek to use her for their own gain. When their safeguards fail and she’s approached with an offer of employment, no one involved expects her to refuse.

Except she does.

The mysterious “local businessman” won’t take no for an answer, though, so when they resort to a kidnapping attempt her only option is to rely on her new handler, Agent Pierson, to keep her safe. Tall, sexy, and incredibly irritating, Morella can’t figure out if he is disgusted or intrigued by her.

Fate forces them together and the Goddess keeps throwing surprises their way – unfounded judgements and trust issues, old connections, new powers, and the potential for explosive chemistry.

Morella may be a necromancer with unprecedented power, but when death eventually comes for her will she be able to overcome her own?

It Feels Like Home, JUMPER, Somnolence, WIP Wednesday, Writing

The WIP It update.

It Feels Like Home is in the bag. It’s on Amazon for pre-order and on Booksprout for ARC readers. Have at it my wee kiddos.

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Featuring Author J. Ashley-Smith

Byali | On June 09,23 | 0 Comment

Title: The Measure of Sorrow Stories
Author: J. Ashley-Smith
Genre: Collection / Dark Fantasy / Horror
Release Date: June 6, 2023

Shirley Jackson Award-winning author J. Ashley-Smith’s first collection, The Measure of Sorrow, draws together ten new and previously acclaimed stories of dark speculative fiction. In these pages a black reef holds the secret to an interminable coastal limbo; a father struggles to relate to his estranged children in a post-bushfire wilderness; an artist records her last days in conversation with her unborn child; a brother and sister are abandoned to the manifestations of their uncle’s insanity; a suburban neighborhood succumbs to an indescribable malaise; teenage ravers fall in with an eldritch crowd; a sensitive New Age guy commits a terminal act of passive-aggression; a plane crash opens the door to the Garden of Eden; the new boy in the village falls victim to a fatal ruse; and a husband’s unexpressed grief is embodied in the shadows of a crumbling country barn. Intelligent and emotionally complex, the stories in The Measure of Sorrow elude easy classification, lifting the veil on the wonder and horror of a world just out of true.

It Feels Like Home, WIP Wednesday

The Don’t Know How Doors Work WIP

I’m so close to being done with It Feels Like Home I can taste blood, sweat, and tears–mainly sweat and tears, but still, the book is nearly done.

Right now, the beta readers are pouring through it and finding all the weak parts that need bolstering and the witty pieces that I win at. I have had to up my deadline to meet the formatter’s availability. So, the day the betas finish, Bri and I need to tandem our comments and wrap it up because it needs to be off to Author Tree early the following day.

So what sort of errors do we find in my final pass? Well Bri found this where I closed the door and let myself in… I fail the door mechanics boss.

It Feels Like Home, Teaser Tuesday