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COVER REVEAL DATE: August 25, 2023
RELEASE DATE: September 22, 2023
TITLE: The Poisoned Princess
SERIES TITLE: The Skazka Fairytales, Book 3 (complete standalone)
AUTHOR: Valia Lind
COVER DESIGNER: @bookcoverforyou
MAP DESIGNER: @hannasandvig
CHARACTER ARTIST: @valialind
GENRE: YA Romantic Fantasy
TROPES: Grumpy/Sunshine, Found family, Magical animal sidekicks, Russian fairytales/folklore, Cozy vibes, Secret Identity, Letter correspondence, Sweet romance, Dual POV
STEAM/HEAT LEVEL: Mild
TRIGGER / CONTENT WARNINGS: Fantasy violence
SYNOPSIS:
Princess Ivanna Sergeevna has been a captive in her own castle for most of her life. Her every move watched by her cruel stepmother, her father gone without a trace, she spends her days sneaking down to the kitchens and dreaming of the day her arranged marriage becomes reality. After all, the letters she and the prince have been exchanging make him seem like someone she can call a friend and she can use one of those.
But when her stepmother tries to kill her, Ivanna has no choice but to flee, finding a refuge in an out-of-the-way cottage in the magical forest, occupied by seven rugged bogatyrs—mysterious knights she’s only heard whispers of within the castle gossip mill.
The most mysterious—and annoyingly handsome—Dimitri, seems to have a bone to pick with her, and she has her own misgivings about the so-called hero. But Ivanna isn’t just a damsel in distress and has a plan. It involves getting back to her prince and taking the queen off the throne, once and for all.
But with the close proximity to the knight, a magical bunny, and the whole band of brothers, everything Ivanna has thought about the world is put to the test. When the time comes, she’ll have to choose between her duty to the kingdom and her heart.
Is she strong enough to make the choice that can cost her her happily every after?
***The Poisoned Princess is a complete standalone set in the world of Russian fairytales. Journey back to Skazka or begin your adventure for the first time with this enchanting tale. Each book in the Skazka Fairy Tales series can be read on its own and in any order. Happily ever after guaranteed!
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COMPARABLE AUTHORS/TITLES: KM Shea’s fairytale retellings, Melanie Cellier The Four Kingdom’s series, Marissa Meyer’s Lunar Chronicles, Brigid Kemmerer’s A Curse So Dark and Lovely trilogy
NEW RELEASE TOUR DATES: August 28th – September 17th, 2023
RELEASE DATE: August 22nd, 2023
TITLE: The Water Outlaws
AUTHOR: S.L. Huang
SYNOPSIS:
Inspired by a classic of martial arts literature, S. L. Huang’s The Water Outlaws are bandits of devastating ruthlessness, unseemly femininity, dangerous philosophies, and ungovernable gender who are ready to make history—or tear it apart.
In the jianghu, you break the law to make it your own.
Lin Chong is an expert arms instructor, training the Emperor’s soldiers in sword and truncheon, battle axe and spear, lance and crossbow. Unlike bolder friends who flirt with challenging the unequal hierarchies and values of Imperial society, she believes in keeping her head down and doing her job.
Until a powerful man with a vendetta rips that carefully-built life away.
Disgraced, tattooed as a criminal, and on the run from an Imperial Marshall who will stop at nothing to see her dead, Lin Chong is recruited by the Bandits of Liangshan. Mountain outlaws on the margins of society, the Liangshan Bandits proclaim a belief in justice—for women, for the downtrodden, for progressive thinkers a corrupt Empire would imprison or destroy. They’re also murderers, thieves, smugglers, and cutthroats.
Apart, they love like demons and fight like tigers. Together, they could bring down an empire.
COVER REVEAL DATE: September 5th, 2023
RELEASE DATE: November 8th, 2023
TITLE: Call of Death
AUTHOR: RJ Garcia
GENRE: Ya Contemporary Paranormal Romance
STEAM LEVEL: Romance but no sex
TRIGGER / CONTENT WARNINGS: Death & Murder
SYNOPSIS:
I didn’t toy with any of the usual teenage dangers—not bulimia, not drugs, not even alcohol. Yet I talked my friends into going with me to a serial killer’s house.
Hannah Priestly is an obsessive-compulsive California girl attending an English boarding school with the usual teen problems. She doesn’t fit in at school and is falling in love with her best friend. But when she wakes up knowing the name of a notorious serial killer at large, Norman Biggs, her life goes from complicated to scary, and her visions only grow darker. Rory Veer is Hannah’s easy-going, romantically challenged friend, and school crush. When Norman Biggs unexpectedly appears in Rory’s reality, terror is set in motion. It is Rory who must acknowledge a past he has denied if the mystery is to be unraveled. Thrust into a terrifying future, they must find a way to change fate before it catches up with them.
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COMPARABLE AUTHORS/TITLES: Down a Dark Hall
NEW RELEASE TOUR DATES: August 31 – September 7, 2023
RELEASE DATE: August 31, 2023
TITLE: Ice & Ivy
SERIES TITLE: Mages of the Wheel, Book 4
AUTHOR: J.D. Evans
COVER LAYOUT: @eric_c_wilder
COVER ARTIST: @justanorart
GENRE: Fantasy Romance
TROPES: feminist, slow burn, political, beauty and the beast meets Everafter vibes, grumpy/sunshine, arranged marriage, ice magic, secret identity
STEAM/HEAT LEVEL: Mild / Medium
TRIGGER / CONTENT WARNINGS: PTSD, burn victim trauma and scarring, some blood and mild gore, some violence
SYNOPSIS:
She is a void, the empty balance of magic.
When the Grand Vizier seeks to humiliate a man who has crossed him, a woman of the humblest origins is entangled in political webs far beyond her understanding, and bound into a marriage she cannot escape. She does not know who is an ally, and who is an enemy. But she does know she is drawn to the man whose dreams and heart seem made of ice.
He is a mage broken, whose magic has been warped.
The Blight ravages both Tamar and Sarkum, and their people, and armies are starving. Violence and protests in Narfour have the city on the brink of rebellion. When Ihsan sees a chance to gain an ally with the only productive land left in Tamar for his cousin, the Princess Sultana, he takes it. But nothing is as it seems when the Grand Vizier is involved. Ihsan knows he should not trust the woman who has upended his life, even if she is the first warmth he has felt since fire stole everything from him.
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COMPARABLE AUTHORS: Grace Draven, Barbara Kloss, Jacqueline Carey