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Cover of Hunting Adeline by H.D. Carlton
August 21, 2026 · Book Review

Hunting Adeline

by H.D. Carlton

5 / 5

Hunting Adeline is the back half of the Cat and Mouse Duet, and it’s the darker one by a wide margin. Book one ended with Adeline taken. This one opens with her already inside the Society, the trafficking network that has decided she’s worth more sold than free, and already coming apart under it. Zade is tearing the country apart to reach her.

It’s a survival story and a revenge story with a romance running through both, and it never pretends that getting free is the same as being healed. Harrowing on purpose, with a content-warning list it earns every line of.

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Cover of Taunting Tracy by A.M. Wagner
January 11, 2026 · Book Review

Taunting Tracy

by A.M. Wagner

4 / 5

Plot Summary (spoiler-free) Tracy Smith is very good at her job. She talks her way into one of the top real estate brokerages in the city and refuses to take no for…

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Cover of Remnants of Riley by A.M. Wagner
January 11, 2026 · Book Review

Remnants of Riley

by A.M. Wagner

4 / 5

Overview Remnants of Riley is A. M. Wagner’s debut, the first book in the Fractured Souls series, self-published in May 2024. It’s a contemporary dark romance with a stalker at the centre…

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Cover of Praise by Sara Cate
February 26, 2025 · Book Review

Praise

by Sara Cate

4 / 5

Plot Summary (spoiler-free) Charlotte Underwood has just pulled herself out of a relationship that left her convinced she was never quite good enough. She lands a new job almost by accident, working…

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Cover of After Eden by C.L. Kowalchuk
January 16, 2025 · Book Review

After Eden

by C.L. Kowalchuk

4 / 5

Plot Summary (spoiler-free) Lilith was banished from Eden for refusing to submit, and she has spent the long centuries since as a symbol of defiance, hunted by both heaven and hell, neither…

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Cover of Whispers Most Foul by Emma MacDonald
July 26, 2024 · Book Review

Whispers Most Foul

by Emma MacDonald

5 / 5

Plot Summary (spoiler-free) Dunhollow Academy of Witchcraft is where magic and blood combine to make the most elite and powerful stratum of society. Rose is a student there who cannot cast a…

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Cover of Sweet Revenge by Cora Kent
June 22, 2024 · Book Review

Sweet Revenge

by Cora Kent

4 / 5

Plot Summary (spoiler-free) Sweet Revenge is a dark romance that goes straight into taboo territory: a step-mother and step-son. Set at Blackmore University, it follows Carrie, trapped in a loveless marriage, and…

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Cover of Haunting Adeline by H.D. Carlton
January 5, 2024 · Book Review

Haunting Adeline

by H.D. Carlton

5 / 5

Overview Haunting Adeline by H. D. Carlton is book one of the Cat and Mouse Duet, self-published in its second edition in August 2021, with Hunting Adeline finishing the story. It runs…

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Cover of Heart of the Witch by Danielle L. Jensen
January 1, 2024 · Book Review

Heart of the Witch

by Danielle L. Jensen

5 / 5

Plot Summary (spoiler-free) Heart of the Witch is the second book of the Malediction series, picking up after Song of the Witch. Cécile has escaped the dark troll kingdom and become a…

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