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Cover of Marking Lila by Salem Sinner
October 12, 2026 · Book Review

Marking Lila

by Salem Sinner

3 / 5

Plot Summary (spoiler-free) Malrek is two hundred years old, rich, bored, and very good at hiding what he is. One night he stakes a vampire who was about to follow a student…

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Cover of Claiming Lila by Salem Sinner
October 12, 2026 · Book Review

Claiming Lila

by Salem Sinner

3 / 5

Plot Summary (spoiler-free) Lila’s deep into something with the man she knows as Kane, warm, attentive, always exactly where she needs him to be, and for the first stretch of this book…

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Cover of Binding Lila by Salem Sinner
October 12, 2026 · Book Review

Binding Lila

by Salem Sinner

3 / 5

Plot Summary (spoiler-free) Lila’s trying to move on from Kane, the intense ex who vanished from her life as suddenly as he arrived, when a violent scare at her apartment throws her…

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Cover of Beyond the Fracture by EJ Bowden
October 4, 2026 · Book Review

Beyond the Fracture

by EJ Bowden

3 / 5

Plot Summary (spoiler-free) Maia Colwyn leaves her coastal village to work as a scribe in Eryssan, a city built almost in the shadow of the Fracture, a centuries-old tear in the world…

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Cover of Ruin Has Sharp Fangs by M. R. Pritchard
October 1, 2026 · Book Review

Ruin Has Sharp Fangs

by M. R. Pritchard

3 / 5

Plot Summary (spoiler-free) Ivy Calder has run her flower shop alone for eight years, and Valentine’s week is the only thing standing between her and losing it for good. Buried in a…

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Cover of Bleed, Monarch by Luna Ars
September 24, 2026 · Book Review

Bleed, Monarch

by Luna Ars

4 / 5

Plot Summary (spoiler-free) Book three picks up right after Maggie judged Lucian in front of his whole organization and spared him anyway, even knowing what he did to her father. She’s still…

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Cover of Ashen Souls by Anastacia V. Davis
September 20, 2026 · Book Review

Ashen Souls

by Anastacia V. Davis

4 / 5

Plot Summary (spoiler-free) Aveline Hart is a literature student in the gothic city of Vesbridge who’s spent years dating men who bore her senseless and telling herself that’s just what adulthood looks…

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Cover of Kiss of the Raven Witch by Ines Gray
September 13, 2026 · Book Review

Kiss of the Raven Witch

by Ines Gray

4 / 5

Plot Summary (spoiler-free) Breezy flies covert missions for a shifter protection outfit, and she’s hiding the one thing that got her exiled from her own coven: she’s a hybrid, half raven shifter…

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