This week i am pleased to say i found not one AI Cover (at least that i know pf by my schrew measurements). So Yay!!! taking a small moment to celebrate this as i have been feeling rather disheartened and infuriated by the amount of authors I see using AI in their promo art and covers.

Moving on however - We have had MANY WONDERFUL Releases this week that i encourage all who read this to check out and support the authors.

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The third and final installment in The Gideon Testaments!

Saint, Sorrow, Sinner (The Gideon Testaments Book 3)

By: Freydis Moon

Genre: Paranormal Romance / Folk Horror

An exploration of religious mythos, Brujería, and spiritual ascension…

Sophia De’voreaux never expected to escape Haven, but after a bloody confrontation in the Gideon Preserve, she finds herself under the protection of a rogue witch, her menacing guard, and their cautious friends.

Crumbling beneath an onslaught of ancient power, Sophia must put her reservations aside, because the Breath of Judas is no ordinary relic, and trusting the strange, dysfunctional group might be her only chance at ridding her body of its dangerous magic.

Before it’s too late.

Guided by Colin, Bishop, Tehlor, and Lincoln, Sophia leaves Colorado, seeking help from a mysterious mystic, Juniper Castle, and enters a race against time, chasing salvation, redemption, and a second chance at freedom.

CW: mention of rape, animal death, gore, body horror, religious, emotional and familial abuse, explicit sexual content, death by drowning, jumpscares

Learn to Howl

By: Jennifer R. Donohue

Genre: Horror

When a football player follows her home from an illicit party, preacher's daughter Allie unmasks a secret her mama has been trying to pray away for almost seventeen years. The women in their family are werewolves. All except for Allie's mama.

To protect her normal life, Allie's mama dumps her off in the wilderness with three aunts she's never heard of, let alone met. But Allie hardly has a chance to find her bearings among these strangers who are family before somebody kidnaps them and burns down their ancestral home.

Allie has one high-speed road trip with her wolfier-than-thou cousin, Morgan, to learn how to make her way in a world she never knew existed.

CW: maternal abandonment, kidnapping, sexual assault (threat of)

A Girl, Stuck: contemporary romantic crime fiction (Found Families Series Book 3)

By: Kelly Elizabeth Huston

Genre: Female PI crime with romantic elements

She wants in. He needs out. Found Families series book #3 just might break your heart.

Moments from her small but pivotal role in A Very Crowded House, Harriet "Harry" Smith begins her own story where an Ivy League education, her wit, and talented two hands make no promises, least of all the promise of a happily-ever-after.

A typically tough private investigator and criminology professor, Harry Smith distracts herself from heartbreak by diving headlong into her latest surveillance job. On a steamy New York City night, she sets out on foot, cocksure and reckless, landing face to face with Trey Popov, a serious rising star in the Trubetzkoy crime family whose eyelashes just might be worth killing for. She escapes the verboten interaction but when the two meet again, Harry plunges undercover as a wholesome schoolteacher who turns Trey's head despite his compulsion to climb the criminal ladder.

Harry's unconventional, clandestine scheme and forbidden attraction combust in a violent disaster. All she can do is work toward justice for her murdered police detective-dad. Along the way, she hopes to rescue the good, bad guy too far down the wrong road to be saved. For Harry, doing the right thing is also the hardest thing, but crossing some lines isn’t in your DNA when you bleed blue. Devastated by heartache, goaded by ambition, and blinded by attraction, Harry's allegiances falter, and the differences between academic theory and real-life prove that no one makes it out unchanged. Hell, some don't make it out at all.

CONTENT GUIDANCE: This novel explores law enforcement and mafia crime and all that comes with it, including brief violence on the page.

A standalone romantic crime story with a smidge of humor for fans of Harlan Coben. The story takes place in the same universe and is the third in the Found Families series. Reading them in order isn't necessary but might be more fun for those who enjoy Easter eggs and being "in the know" with some background details or an off-the-cuff mention.

CW: Brief violence on the page

Smoke and Light (Rulers and Rebels Book 1)

By: Kristin Ardis

Genre: YA Romantic Fantasy

A kingdom at war. A search for missing memories. And a tangled web of love, loss, loyalty, and lies.

After months of recovery, Khara Laveya is desperate to leave the medical wing and restore the memories she lost in a brutal rebel attack. Her responsibility to her kingdom as future Sovereigna is a looming distraction from reclaiming them.

Torn between duty and desperation, Khara is haunted by a mysterious grove that calls to her in her dreams. Finding the grove may lead to her missing memories, but venturing beyond the city walls is an act of treason. Worse, it risks another encounter with the ruthless rebel forces.

To enter the forest could mean death … or something far more sinister.

The secrets lurking in the shadows could destroy the life Khara has sacrificed so much to rebuild and unravel the kingdom itself.

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Smoke and Light is the first romantic fantasy book in the thrilling Rulers and Rebels trilogy, perfect for fans of Shadow and Bone and Shatter Me. If you love YA fantasy full of complex characters, royalty and rebellion, elemental magic, secrets and lies, magical forests, and no spice romance, you’ll love Smoke and Light!

CW: See full list here

Enemy Colours (The Devil and the Dark Book 3)

By: R.M. Olson

Genre: Naval military sci-fi, LGBTQ+ sci-fi

The enemy of my enemy … Captain Hollis Ives has sworn to take down the infamous pirate captain Mad Dog, or die trying. But when their ships runs across an unexpected enemy in deep space—a war fleet out to destroy the Level itself—she’ll have to either form an alliance with the pirates, or watch her ship, her crew, and possibly the Level itself, burn. Silas Hunt thought he’d left the navy behind forever when he joined up with Mad Dog. But now, forced to either work with the naval captain he’d been ready to kill, or see his crew members killed and his captain tortured, Silas will have to use every scrap of skill and ingenuity he learned from both the navy and the pirate crew to keep himself and Mad Dog alive long enough to escape. Treasure Island meets Master and Commander with a science-fiction twist in R.M. Olson’s thrilling new space opera series, The Devil and the Dark.

CW: Blood, gore, alcohol consumption, mild/moderate violence

A Shot for Death: An Exiled Grim Reaper Urban Fantasy (Red City Reaper Book 1)

By: C. Thomas Lafollette

Genre: Urban Fantasy

If you try to assassinate the Grim Reaper… Don’t miss.

Dax used to be the Grim Reaper. Until he was banished to Earth to live as a human. Exiled to Redemption City, he’s doing his best to keep his head down and run his shabby dive bar. But when an assassin puts a bullet in his chest, his quiet life dies a bloody death.

Red City is a corrupt and decaying metropolis. Finding out who wants Dax dead could be a long twisted road. He’ll have to test the boundaries of his suppressed magic if he hopes to survive.

But if he presses his power too hard, the death gods who allied against him will do more than just exile him to earth. They’ll obliterate him from existence…

CW: Death, kidnapping, assisted suicide

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A Conclave of Crimson Book One: A Queer Vampire Romance

by: Beverly Lee and Nichole Eigener

Genre: MLM romance, dark vampire romance,

What do you do when love threatens to destroy?

Seven vampires gather under the roof of Vauquelin’s palatial dwelling in the heart of Paris. A meeting to gain an understanding of each other, to grow closer; a meeting of masters and vampire youth, an education perhaps for them all.

But nothing can prepare them for the events that follow. It is not any outside influence that threatens to tear them apart, but a fierce, kindling flame within: a flame that may burn it all down to the ground.

Loves that were once thought infallible and truths once steadfast come crumbling down in this dark, tragic romance where immortal souls question everything they once held as true.

With opulent, descriptive detail and an off-the-charts spice level, be ready for these vampires to take you on a journey where high passions and high heat lead to even higher stakes.

Be ready (you’ll never be ready).

A Conclave of Crimson is a sequel to two book series (Gabriel Davenport and Beguiled by Night) from both authors, but can be read as a standalone.

Note: This book is not YA and is intended for mature audiences.

An emotional, dark vampire romance about conflict, jealousy, and the power of true love.

CW: Blood (both descriptive and consumptive), bones and catacombs/crypts, on-page sex between male vampires, anal sex, rimming, ingestion of bodily fluids, fellatio, insertion of foreign objects, allusions to vampire suicide and self-harm, vampire abuse (past), slight mention of non consensual touching (past), on-page death by vampires, action/violence, blood gore, body horror/abuse, mentions of abandonment, arson.