Thursday, 18 September 2025

Cover Reveal - Paragon by Sybil Bartel



Title: Paragon
 A Paragon Operations Series Prequel
Author: Sybil Bartel
Genres: Romantic Suspense
Tropes: Kidnap, Navy Royalty/SEAL
Enemies to Lovers, Age Gap, Billionaire
Cover Design: Clarise Tan, CT Creations
Release Date: October 16, 2025


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I didn’t get to covet.
I bled duty and honor, and my mission was singular—eliminate.

So when I saw her, I didn’t think twice.
She was trespassing.
I was trained to kill.
I drew.

But I didn’t pull the trigger.

I gave her an order… to kneel.


PARAGON is your first taste of the heart-pounding Paragon Operations Series by USA Today bestselling author, Sybil Bartel! If you’re ready to step into a whole new world of romantic suspense, come meet Phoenix and the darkly dominant Tier One Operators at Paragon Operations. But prepare to brace, because these alpha heroes are going to make your e-reader combust!







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Sybil Bartel is a USA Today bestselling author of unapologetic alpha heroes. Whether you're reading her deliciously dominant Alpha Elite mercenaries or her protector hero Alpha Bodyguards, her page-turning romantic suspense and heart-stopping military romance all have unwavering alpha heroes.

Sybil resides in South Florida, and she is forever Oliver’s mom.

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Chapter Reveal - Unapologetic Obsession by Drethi A.



Title: Unapologetic Obsession
A Twisted Titanic Story
Series: Tales of Obsession #3
Author: Drethi A.
Genre: Dark Romance
Tropes: Student/Professor, Amnesia, Stalker Hero
Shy Heroine, Interracial Romance
Release Date: October 1, 2025


BLURB

Tabula Rasa—A clean slate.
Everyone deserves one, no?

Whether I want it or not, that’s exactly what I receive—a reset.
My name is Rose.
No last name.
No family to anchor me.
No one to claim me as their own.
I woke up behind a dumpster with no memories, just nightmares featuring a faceless man. My life has been erased like chalk dusted on a blackboard. Desperate and hungry, I sneak onto a boat, only for the owner to catch me red-handed.
His name is Dr. Caledon Maxwell.
He looks as regal as his name suggests.
Arrogant.
Unattainable.
Drop dead gorgeous.
Drop dead rich.

I am both terrified and fascinated by the man. I tell him I set out to uncover my past, but Dr. Maxwell has other ideas.
Forget the past.
Look forward to the future.

With each passing day, I'm losing control around him. As the boat sails further away, I stop caring about the past as long as I have a future with him.
That is until my past comes crashing back, and I realize the man from my nightmares might be closer than I thought.
Unapologetic Obsession is part of an interconnected series but can be read as a standalone.
For optimal enjoyment, read the first two books in the Tales of Obsession Series.

Caden Maxwell isn’t a typical romance hero. This is a dark romance with dubious situations. Some readers might find the contents of this book offensive or triggering.





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“I know what you’re doing, and it’s not going to work,” Shelby said snidely after we returned to our stations. The tone of her voice gave her away. She didn’t believe the narrative spun by her teammates and wanted to uncover the truth about what was between me and the professor.
I gave her my back and kept measuring the supplies. Nothing good would come from engaging with Shelby. Clearly, she had a thing for Professor Maxwell and planned on making my life hell for catching his attention.
She huffed with irritation when I ignored her. “Just so you know, you’re not the first girl to deliver food to him in tight clothes.”
My heart began racing. It wasn’t Shelby making me nervous, but Professor Maxwell’s whole package. He couldn’t do anything without being watched or revered. It meant anyone in his orbit would also be under a constant microscope.
“You look like a smart girl, Rose,” she continued. “You should know Professor Maxwell sees right through people’s shit. He’ll be livid if he finds out that you made it seem like he encouraged your advances.”
I glanced at her, perplexed.
Her lips pursed as she rolled her eyes. “You obviously ate some of that cake, then stuffed it in the fridge to make it look like he tried out your baking.”
Seriously? She thought I ate a quarter of a cake just to make everyone believe Professor Maxwell hadn’t spurned my efforts. I had to admit, the insight into her thoughts was fascinating. It would be a great way to save face. If only I possessed such a diabolical mind.
Normally, I could barely make eye contact with people or speak at will, but her words made me defensive enough to mutter, “He ate the cake.”
She scoffed. “I’m not falling for your innocent act. I know you’re a liar.”
My spine straightened at the accusation. She noticed the tense posture.
“I don’t mean to be harsh, Rose. But you can’t go around making up stories about a teacher with a reputation to uphold. I’m saying this for your own good. Tell the other research assistants the truth before anyone gets the wrong idea and thinks Dr. Maxwell is entertaining your little crush.”
“I’m not lying.” I shouldn’t engage, especially since I didn’t care what she thought of me. For some reason, her insistence that Professor Maxwell thwarted my efforts got under my skin.
“Cut the crap. I know for a fact that Professor Maxwell didn’t try your cake. I know everything about him, and he’s allergic to strawberries.”
What!?
I didn’t concoct what happened last night in my mind; I was sure of it. I saw it. I saw him eat the cake with my own eyes.
Would Professor Maxwell eat something that could kill him just to indulge me? Was that the reason he looked like hell this morning?
Impossible.
Shelby returned to her station after finishing her spiel. As soon as she stopped glaring at me, I dashed to the biohazard trash. If a person ate something poisonous but was alive to tell the tale, there must be evidence of the anecdote, and I doubt anyone had the chance to discard the waste, given the time of night I left.
I peeked inside the biohazard dispenser. There was only one item inside. Sure enough, it was an EpiPen, and even from here, I could make out the inscription.
Prescribed to Caden Maxwell.







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Drethi lives close to DC with her husband and runs a wedding planning business. She loves to travel and tries to visit multiple countries per year.
When she’s not traveling or busy planning a special day, she can be found plotting ways to put her characters through hell. She is all about angst and dark themes in her romance. Drethi loves to put her flawed and disturbed characters through the wringer before giving them their Happily Ever After.
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Tuesday, 16 September 2025

Cover Reveal - Through the Five-Hole by S.L. Sterling



Title: Through the Five-Hole
Series: The Vancouver Dominators #5
Author: S.L. Sterling
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Tropes: Hockey Romance/Forced Proximity
Friends to Enemies to Lovers/He Falls First
Cover Design: Thunderstruck Cover Design
Release Date: October 14, 2025


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She loved him first. He disappeared out of her life. Now he’s a star hockey player in need of an image rebuild, and she is the only PR genius who can help him.

I’d based my career in hockey on true talent and strength, but the life of a public figure comes with illusions and temptations, and somehow, I lost myself to those temptations. Over the years I’d learned to thrive from the attention, and the press seemed to thrive from me, especially after I got arrested.
Suspended from the team and with my reputation on the line for good this time, my agent decides to hire some PR genius to spend time with me and rehabilitate my public persona. With rumours building, I reluctantly agree, and that is when Emma Hart walks into the room. It’s been fifteen years since I last laid eyes on her, yet she pretends she doesn’t know me.

She quickly and quietly makes it clear to me that I shouldn’t get my hopes up because there will never be anything between us. According to her she is happily involved with someone else. Emma’s confident she can fix my image and dives right in navigating the scandal hungry media. While I love that she is coming to my rescue, the difficult side of me continues to push her, but she seems unfazed.
While things begin looking better for me, things start spiraling out of control for Emma. Her so called happy private life isn’t as perfect as she’s made it out to be.

I should have known better than to comfort her.
I should have known better than to kiss her.
This whole thing was about fixing my image, not about rewriting the story of us.








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USA Today Bestselling Author S.L. Sterling was born and raised in southern Ontario. She now lives in Northern Ontario Canada and is married to her best friend and soul mate and their two dogs.

An avid reader all her life, S.L. Sterling dreamt of becoming an author. She decided to give writing a try after one of her favorite authors launched a course on how to write your novel. This course gave her the push she needed to put pen to paper and her debut novel "It Was Always You" was born.

When S.L. Sterling isn't writing or plotting her next novel she can be found curled up with a cup of coffee, blanket and the newest romance novel from one of her favorite authors.

In her spare time, she enjoys camping, hiking, sunny destinations, spending quality time with family and friends and of course reading.


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Release Blitz - Something Resembling Love by Elizabeth Standish



Title: Something Resembling Love
Series: Something Resembling #1
Author: Elizabeth Standish
Genres: Contemporary Women's Fiction
with Romance Elements
Tropes: Found Family/STEM Background
Medically Child-free/Chronic Illness Rep
Release Date: September 16, 2025


BLURB

Life has a way of uprooting us when we least expect it.

Jane Davenport has been shattered twice—once by the tragic loss of both her parents, and again by her own life-threatening diagnosis. She’s learned relying on people is risky, and the only thing she can count on is the scientific method.

Dr. Peter Livingston has always sought validation through achievement and professional success, masking self-doubt behind the expected uncertainty of his cancer research. Despite his dedication, Peter can’t shake the restless sense that life could offer something more. Even if he’s never stopped long enough to consider what more might be.

When Jane and Peter cross paths at Thanksgiving dinner, their shared fascination with scientific puzzles sparks a passion that’s as physical as it is intellectual. Sharing about her illness has always left Jane feeling like she’s on the outside, but with Peter, it seems she’s found someone who speaks a common language. Yet as their relationship deepens, the boundaries Jane has built to protect her heart and her life are challenged, and Peter begins to unearth the truth about his own desires.

Both must confront the fragile, often painful truth of what it means to truly love: that choosing themselves might mean letting go of each other.

Told from both Jane and Peter's perspectives, Something Resembling Love is a tender exploration of the ways love can both heal and hurt, how the choices we make echo throughout our lives, and how sometimes, the most significant love story we write is the one we create for ourselves.



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Elizabeth Standish is an attorney based in Denver, Colorado who has: had a solo practice, presented criminal appeals to the Colorado Court of Appeals, worked in-house in biotechnology. When she finally got tired of telling other people's stories in her legal briefs, and telling happy endings only to herself, she wrote her first novel. Just like her first heroine, Emmalyn, she too grew up showing horses. She shares her home with a chaotic yellow lab, a cat who likes to sleep in her bathtub, and an assortment of wildlife that like to eat the vegetables that escape the confines of her garden.

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Monday, 15 September 2025

Cover Reveal - Victorious: Part 3 by K E Osborn



Title: Victorious: Part 3
Series: LA Defiance MC #7
Author: K E Osborn
Genre: MC Romance
Tropes: Trauma Bonding/Road Trip/Slow Burn
Forbidden Attraction/Redemption Arc
Tragic Past/Alpha Hero/Angsty/Assassins
Cover Design: Designs by Dana
Models: Jonny James and Amanda
Release Date: October 20, 2025


BLURB

Everything has been leading to this.
All that we’ve fought for has been for this very moment.
The Rojas Cartel is making their final move.
And now it’s time for Defiance to answer.

The heart of the Cartel conspiracy reaches into the highest levels of government. Women are being used like lab rats, children stolen and trained as weapons, and an empire of suffering built on their broken bodies. This isn’t just about the trauma the Rojas empire built on my personal suffering. This is about every soul they’ve destroyed.

The Defiance offense will cost us everything we have to give.
I don’t know if all of us will make it home.

But we’re not going in alone. Stealthy figures with deadly skills are emerging from the darkness, and old alliances are being called upon. When the dust settles, either the Cartel’s reign of terror ends forever, or Defiance will crumble trying to stop them.

I’ve been fighting this Cartel since they stole my daughter from me. They took my ex-wife, and they’re trying to infiltrate something much bigger than I can even comprehend. It was personal, but now they’re making this monumental. But there’s a reason my club is called Defiance, and this Cartel is about to find out why.

From USA Today Bestselling Author K E Osborn comes the explosive final book in the LA Defiance MC Series.
This is a high-intensity, found family romance featuring government conspiracies, underground operations, and the ultimate fight for freedom. This is the final part of the Victorious trilogy and the epic conclusion to the LA Defiance MC Series.



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With a flair for all things creative, USA Today Bestselling Author K E Osborn, is drawn to the written word. Exciting worlds and characters flow through her veins, coming to life on the page as she laughs, cries, and becomes enveloped in the storyline right along with you. She's entirely at home when writing sassy heroines and alpha males that rise from the ashes of their pasts.

K E Osborn comforts herself with tea and Netflix, after all, who doesn't love a good binge?

Explosive. Addictive. Romance. at www.keosbornauthor.com


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Wednesday, 10 September 2025

Release Blitz - Eldritch by Keri Lake



Title: Eldritch
Series: The Eating Woods Trilogy #2
Author: Keri Lake
Genre: Dark Fantasy
Tropes: Morally Grey Characters/Fated Mates
Elements of Horror/Forced Proximity
Release Date: September 9, 2025


BLURB

An eldritch magic has awakened, turning the mortal world darker. Colder. Famished. With flesh-eating monsters and a sinister curse spreading like a plague, the last glimmer of humanity in Foxglove Parish has long-since faded.

For Maevyth and Zevander, the only chance of escape is through The Eating Woods. But fate has woven a new web, tangling the threads of destiny, and crossing the mystical boundary to Aethyria might not be so simple.

As the bones of Maevyth’s past are unearthed, and truths unravel with unsettling clarity, the possibility of never leaving Mortasia is becoming more of a reality. Unfortunately for Zevander, time is running out. The longer he stays in the mortal lands, deprived of essential vivicantem, the more he succumbs to the encroaching specter of madness.

Or maybe those chasing shadows are someone hunting him. A wretched evil closing in, threatening to pull him into the darkest corners of his mind.

Only, this time, Maevyth may not have the power to save him.







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Keri Lake is a dark romance writer who specializes in demon wrangling, vengeance dealing and wicked twists. Her stories are gritty, with antiheroes that walk the line of good and bad, and feisty heroines who bring them to their knees. When not penning books, she enjoys spending time with her husband, daughters, and their rebellious Labrador (who doesn’t retrieve a damn thing). She runs on strong coffee and alternative music, loves a good red wine, and has a slight addiction to dark chocolate.


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