Cover Reveal for The Veiled Kingdom by Holly Renee

Releasing: March 19, 2024

From USA Today Bestselling Author Holly Renee, author of the Stars and Shadows series, comes a scorching new fantasy romance that ignites the pages with relentless danger, forbidden passion, and the intoxicating allure of enemies to lovers.

Fleeing my father’s cruelty, the wicked king who robbed me of a future, I face death in the streets, caught between a rebellion and a tyrant’s reign.

Captured by those sworn to kill me, the rebels remain blind to my true identity—the missing daughter of the despised king. Faced with an impossible choice, I stand before them: join the rebels or face their blades.

Yet, Dacre, the son of the ruthless rebellion commander, becomes torn between suspicion and a desire that mirrors my own. He allows no one to touch me, tries to protect me, yet threatens me at every turn. 

As secrets are weaved beyond our hidden realm, a fierce battle unfolds within me. As I get closer to the rebels, and their cause, my loyalty to my kingdom clashes with my undeniable devotion to Dacre and the burning connection between us. 

In a world where love and hate are two edges of the same blade, I find myself caught in a delicate dance between forbidden desire and my looming destiny.

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A Fragile Enchantment

In this romantic fantasy of manners from New York Times bestselling author Allison Saft, a magical dressmaker commissioned for a royal wedding finds herself embroiled in scandal when a gossip columnist draws attention to her undeniable chemistry with the groom.

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In this romantic fantasy of manners from New York Times bestselling author Allison Saft, a magical dressmaker commissioned for a royal wedding finds herself embroiled in scandal when a gossip columnist draws attention to her undeniable chemistry with the groom.

Niamh Ó Conchobhair has never let herself long for more. The magic in her blood that lets her stitch emotions and memories into fabric is the same magic that will eventually kill her. Determined to spend the little time she has left guaranteeing a better life for her family, Niamh jumps at the chance to design the wardrobe for a royal wedding in the neighboring kingdom of Avaland.

But Avaland is far from the fairytale that she imagined. While young nobles attend candlelit balls and elegant garden parties, unrest brews amid the working class. The groom himself, Kit Carmine, is prickly, abrasive, and begrudgingly being dragged to the altar as a political pawn. But when Niamh and Kit grow closer, an unlikely friendship blossoms into something more—until an anonymous gossip columnist starts buzzing about their chemistry, promising to leave them alone only if Niamh helps to uncover the royal family’s secrets. The rot at the heart of Avaland runs deep, but exposing it could risk a future she never let herself dream of, and a love she never thought possible.

Transporting readers to a Regency England-inspired fantasy world, A Fragile Enchantment is a sweeping romance threaded with intrigue, unforgettable characters, and a love story for the ages.

Release Date: January 30, 2024

Thank you to Wednesday Books and SMP for sending me an early copy of this book!

A Far Wilder Magic

This instant New York Times bestselling YA fantasy about two people who find themselves competing for glory—and each other’s hearts—in a magical fox hunt is perfect for fans of Erin A. Craig and Margaret Rogerson.

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When Margaret Welty spots the legendary hala, the last living mythical creature, she knows the Halfmoon Hunt will soon follow. Whoever is able to kill the hala will earn fame and riches, and unlock an ancient magical secret. While Margaret is the best sharpshooter in town, only teams of two can register, and she needs an alchemist.

Weston Winters isn’t an alchemist―yet. He’s been fired from every apprenticeship he’s landed, and his last chance hinges on Master Welty taking him in. But when Wes arrives at Welty Manor, he finds only Margaret. She begrudgingly allows him to stay, but on one condition: he must join the hunt with her.

Although they make an unlikely team, they soon find themselves drawn to each other. As the hunt looms closer and tensions rise, Margaret and Wes uncover dark magic that could be the key to winning the hunt―if they survive that long.

In A Far Wilder Magic, Allison Saft has written an achingly tender love story set against a deadly hunt in an atmospheric, rich fantasy world that will sweep you away.

Release Date: January 23, 2024

Thank you to Wednesday Books and SMP for sending me an early copy of this book!

Most Ardently Book Tour

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This bittersweet Pride & Prejudice remix follows a trans boy yearning for the freedom to live openly, centering queerness in a well-known story of longing and subverting society’s patriarchal and cisheteronormative expectations.

London, 1812. Oliver Bennet feels trapped. Not just by the endless corsets, petticoats and skirts he’s forced to wear on a daily basis, but also by society’s expectations. The world―and the vast majority of his family and friends―think Oliver is a girl named Elizabeth. He is therefore expected to mingle at balls wearing a pretty dress, entertain suitors regardless of his interest in them, and ultimately become someone’s wife.

But Oliver can’t bear the thought of such a fate. He finds solace in the few times he can sneak out of his family’s home and explore the city rightfully dressed as a young gentleman. It’s during one such excursion when Oliver becomes acquainted with Darcy, a sulky young man who had been rude to “Elizabeth” at a recent social function. But in the comfort of being out of the public eye, Oliver comes to find that Darcy is actually a sweet, intelligent boy with a warm heart. And not to mention incredibly attractive.

As Oliver is able to spend more time as his true self, often with Darcy, part of him dares begin to hope that his dream of love and life as a man could be possible. But suitors are growing bolder―and even threatening―and his mother is growing more desperate to see him settled into an engagement. Oliver will have to choose: Settle for safety, security, and a life of pretending to be something he’s not, or risk it all for a slim chance at freedom, love, and a life that can be truly, honestly his own.

This remix of Pride & Prejudice recasts the iconic romantic pairing as a queer relationship between two boys, one of whom is also trans—a rare, possibly never-before-seen perspective of Regency England.

Release date: January 16, 2024

Other Remixed Classics:

This novel is the ninth book in the Remixed Classics series, wherein authors from marginalized backgrounds take different classics and reinterpret them through their own unique cultural lens. This collection serves YA readers as both a series of fun, engaging reads as well as a subversive overall look at what our society has deemed “classic”—works that are overwhelmingly cishet, white, and male.

A Clash of Steel (Treasure Island)

 So Many Beginnings (Little Women)

 Travelers Along the Way (Robin Hood)

 What Souls Are Made Of (Wuthering Heights)

 Self-Made Boys (Great Gatsby)

 My Dear Henry (Jekyll & Hyde)

 Teach The Torches to Burn (Romeo & Juliet)

 Into the Bright Open (Secret Garden)

 Most Ardently (Pride & Prejudice)

Frankenstein (coming Spring 2024!)

Thank you to @FierceReads, @thegabecole and @storygramtours  for sending me a copy of the book and teaming up with me for this tour!

Recipe for a Charmed Life Book Tour

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After a day of unrivaled disappointments, a promising young chef finds every bite of food suddenly tastes bitter. To save her career, she travels to the Pacific Northwest to reconnect with her estranged mom, and discovers a family legacy she never suspected in this delicious novel from the bestselling author of The Magic of Lemon Drop Pie.

American chef Georgia May Jackson has one goal—to run her own restaurant in Paris. After a grueling decade working in Parisian kitchens, she is on the cusp of success. But in one disastrous night, Georgia loses her sous-chef position, her French boyfriend, and her sense of taste! Renowned for her refined palate and daring use of bold flavors to create remarkable dishes, Georgia is devastated to discover her culinary gift has simply…vanished.

When she receives a surprising invitation from her estranged mother, Georgia flees to a small island near Seattle hoping the visit will help her regain her spark in the kitchen. As she tentatively reconnects with her mom, a free-spirited hippie eager to make up for her past mistakes, Georgia realizes there is something about the enigmatic island she just cannot piece together. Good luck charms start appearing in the oddest places. Her neighbor is a puzzlingly antagonistic (and annoyingly handsome) oyster farmer. And her mom keeps hinting at a mysterious family legacy.

With the clock ticking and time running out to win her dream job in Paris, Georgia begins to unravel some astonishing secrets that make her wonder if the true recipe for a charmed life might look—and taste—very different than she ever imagined.

Thank you to Berkley Publishing and Penguin Random House for sending me an early copy!

The Royal Street Witch Book Tour

Today I’m excited to participate in the Bookstagram & Creative Tour for The Royal
Street Witch by Jenna Walker, book #1 in the Scarlet Eternal Series, hosted by MTMC Tours.

Publication Date: August 28th, 2023
Genres: Paranormal Fantasy
Format: eBook, Paperback
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Aster Wildes is the last true witch of New Orleans.

Behind the walls of a French Quarter speakeasy, Aster sells magic potions to a family of vampires. It’s not a glamorous job and barely pays her mortgage, but Aster knows what her coven expects of her…

Create elixirs that allow vampires to survive, don’t fraternize with said vampires, and never, ever conduct business on the side.

Despising vampires makes these rules easy to follow until Bastian Delacroix reappears. And after years of being absent, does he really have to smile at Aster the way he does? Doesn’t he know he’s supposed to act like the other vampires—exude doom and gloom rather than rakish charm?

With the nerve to propose a secret deal, Bastian requests that Aster concoct a potion that allows vampires to walk in the sun, and in return, she’ll be handsomely rewarded for her crime. Although Aster knows better than to trust vampires, she finds herself giving in to the allure of financial freedom . . . and to him.

The two embark on an illicit journey, allowing Aster to see a new side of Bastian, one that’s charismatic and tender. When business inevitably mixes with pleasure, they find themselves carried away by a romance as forbidden as the potion they’ve created.

But there are stakes in the bayou where witches have burned for treason, and when Aster is in danger of being exposed, she knows she will have to make a choice—Bastian or the coven her blood is tied to.

It’s a predicament no amount of magic can solve.

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The Rosewood Hunt Book Tour

Irresistible intrigue, captivating suspense, a swoony friends-to-rivals-to-lovers romance, and heartbreaking betrayal drive this thrilling debut novel that is perfect for fans of The Inheritance Games and Knives Out.

Lily Rosewood has lived with her grandmother since her dad’s death a year ago. She and Gram have always been close—Gram’s role as chair of their family’s luxury coat business has inspired Lily to love fashion, and Lily hopes to follow in Gram’s footsteps one day.

Then Gram dies suddenly, and Lily’s world is upended. Gram’s quarter of a billion dollar fortune is missing, and Lily has been banned from the manor she and Gram shared.

But Gram has always loved games, and even in death, she still has a few tricks up her couture sleeve. When Lily and three other seemingly random teens get letters from Gram sending them on a treasure hunt around Rosetown, they hope the fortune will be the reward. But they’re not the only ones hunting for Gram’s treasure, and soon the hunt becomes more dangerous than they ever could have imagined.

Thank you to @mackenziemreed, @epicreads, @harperteen and @storygramtours for teaming up with me for this exciting book tour!

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Our Divine Mischief Book Tour

Our Divine Mischief by Hanna C. Howard

Release Date: October 17, 2023

YA | Romance | Fantasy

A sweeping YA fantasy inspired by Scottish history and folklore, Our Divine Mischief takes readers on a journey told in three voices: a determined heroine, an outcast young man, and a wish-granting canine. Their adventure spans an island fishing village to the king’s court in a story about identity, belonging, and the love between a human and her dog.

Our Divine Mischief is:

• A YA fantasy adventure for fans of Rebecca Ross’s A River Enchanted, Garth Nix’s Abhorsen books, and the Outlander series.
• Told from three points of view, one of which is a mysterious, poetic canine.
• Perfect for readers 13 and up.

Thank you to @blinkyabooks for sending me a copy of the book, and to @hannachoward and @storygramtours for teaming up with me for this amazing tour!

Madam by Phoebe Wynne

This darkly feminist, modern gothic tale revolves around Rose, the newly hired Classics teacher at an illustrious Scottish boarding school for young women. But there is more to Caldonbrae Hall than just prestige and academics—behind the school’s elitist veneer lies a traditional culture and dark secrets that Rose never could have imagined.

As Rose struggles to reconcile her modernist beliefs to the darkly outdated practices at Caldonbrae, she is forced to confront the true extent of the school’s nefarious purpose, and her own role in perpetuating it.

𝙈𝙪𝙨𝙩 𝙧𝙚𝙙 𝙞𝙛 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙡𝙞𝙠𝙚:
•Dark Academia vibes
•Greek Mythology references
•Feminism
•Mysteries & Thrillers

The Witches of Holloway Road

Here is another rec if you are looking for a quick and cozy witchy fantasy book to read! This was everything I expect from Cozy Fantasy: beautiful world building, lyrical language, strong symbolism and a powerful magic system made this one of of the best witchy fictions I have read in a long time.

I absolutely loved this sweet & simple storyline and I can’t wait to read more by this author! I already ordered a few of her Myrtlewood Mysteries books, and I’m so excited to dive deeper into the world of Accidental Magic

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The Invocations

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From the author of New York Times bestseller House of Hollow comes a darkly seductive witchy thriller where, though both men and demons lurk in shadows, girls refuse to go quietly into the night.

Three girls, one supernatural killer on the loose . . .

Zara Jones believes in magic because the alternative is too painful to consider—that her murdered sister is gone forever and there is nothing she can do about it. Rather than grieving and moving on, Zara decides she will do whatever it takes to claw her sister back from the grave—even trading in the occult.

Jude Wolf may be the daughter of a billionaire, but she is also undeniably cursed. After a deal with a demon went horribly wrong, her soul has been slowly turning necrotic. It’s a miserable existence marred by pain, sickness, and monstrous things that taunt her in the night. Now that she’s glimpsed what’s beyond the veil, Jude’s desperate to find someone to undo the damage she’s done to herself.

Enter Emer Byrne, an orphaned witch with a dark past and a deadly power, a.k.a. the solution to both Zara’s and Jude’s problems. Though Emer lives a hardscrabble life, she gives away her most valuable asset—her invocations—to women in desperate situations who are willing to sacrifice a piece of their soul in exchange for a scrap of power. Zara and Jude are willing, but they first have to find Emer.

When Emer’s clients start turning up dead all over London, a vital clue leads Zara and Jude right to her. If a serial killer is targeting her clients, Emer wants to know why—and to stop them. She strikes a tenuous alliance with Zara and Jude to hunt a killer before they are next on his list, even if she can’t give them in return what Zara and Jude want most: a sister and a soul.

Releases January 30, 2024 📖 Preorder your copy today!

Thank you to @km_sutherland, @penguinteen, and @barnesandnoble for sending me such a great rep package!

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After The Forest Book Tour

A house. A witch. An oven, fiery hot.

After the Forest is a dark and enchanting fantasy debut from Kell Woods that explores the repercussions of a childhood filled with magic and a young woman contending with the truth of “happily ever after.” It follows Greta and Hans twenty years after the gingerbread house. Their mother and stepmother are long dead, Hans is deep in debt from gambling, and the countryside lies in ruin after a brutal war. Greta’s secret weapon is the witch’s grimoire, hidden away but whispering in Greta’s ear for the past two years, allowing her to keep her small family afloat with the book’s mysteriously addictive gingerbread recipe. But when dark magic returns to the woods, Greta’s magic—magic she is still trying to understand—may be the only thing that can save her. If it doesn’t kill her first.

This retelling of Hansel and Gretel takes an old favorite with familiar tropes from the Brothers Grimm and weaves them into an exciting new historical fantasy. It is the perfect story for lovers of fairytales and retellings!

Thank you to @torbooks for sending me a copy of the book and teaming up with me for a great giveaway! Check out how to enter below:

GIVEAWAY
Enter to win a copy of After the Forest!

TO ENTER
– follow me (@rosesandreviews), @torbooks, @kellinthewoods and @storygramtours on Instagram
– tag a friend you think will be interested

RULES
– Giveaway will end October 16th at midnight EST
– US ONLY
– not affiliated with Instagram
-must be 18 or have parents permission
-must be a public account so I can verify entries

Book Link: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250852489/aftertheforest