Book Feature: CINDERS BURNS AT MIDNIGHT by Kara M. Zone

 A dark fantasy filled with magic and romance lures you to Cinders Burns At Midnight by Kara M. Zone! Cinders Burns at Midnight is a gripping romantasy filled with portal magic, buried secrets, and a love written in lightning! 

Cinders Burn at Midnight (Trium Perfectum #1)

Release Date: January 2025

Genre: Dark Romantasy

Features

⚜️Mental Health rep

🗝️Portal Magic

⚜️Bad Ass FMC

🗝️Protective Heroes

⚜️Shifters

🗝️Secrets & Lies

⚜️Brother’s Best Friend

🗝️Stolen Memories

⚜️Found Family

🗝️Real-World/Fae Crossover

⚜️LGBTQ

🗝️Fated Bond

She doesn’t know she’s a murderer.

From the moment she steps on campus, Kaitlin Gilbert enters a world she never knew existed—one where magic is hidden, and her power has been subdued. Trapped in a fog of blackouts, she quickly learns that dark family secrets refuse to stay buried.

When Kaitlin meets Finn, her brother’s best friend, lightning strikes and everything else explodes.

Finn Avery has always known about magic, but his dueling powers demand control.

When his connection to Kaitlin becomes impossible to ignore, he realizes she’s the other half of his Trium Perfectum, a fated bond that amplifies their strength, but could destroy them both.

With her brother at her side and a dangerous connection growing between her and Finn, Kaitlin must uncover the truth before her mother returns to finish what she started. Because if she doesn’t master the lightning inside her, someone else will—and it could destroy everything she loves.

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Book Feature Friday: SHADOW OF THE GHOST LIGHT by TF Johnson and Imogen Elvis

 Releasing tomorrow (February 28th), SHADOW OF THE GHOST LIGHT is a gorgeous romantasy reimagining of The Phantom of the Opera with romance, magic, and murder! LET'S READ ON!

Shadow of the Ghost Light (The Calicas Chronicles #1)

Release Date: February 28, 2026

Genre: Gaslamp Romantasy

Inspired by Phantom of the Opera Featuring:

⦁ Underworld Dealings

⦁ Black Cat MMC & Golden Retriever FMC

⦁ Boss x Employee

⦁ Everyone has Trauma

When the theatre burned down, it left behind more than ghosts ...

Best friends Carina and Mae are ecstatic to be performing at the newly rebuilt Angel Theatre. But disaster haunts the opening season: in a twist of fate, Mae is unable to take the stage, while Carina is elevated to the lead.

The new manager of the theatre, Rhett, is determined to prove himself to his distinguished family - by any means necessary. And Erik, emotionally and physically scarred from the fires of the past, desperately searches for meaning through his music.

Alongside a string of deaths at the theatre, friendships will be tested and love lost and found as the cast and crew race to discover the killer.

    

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A Valentines Day Book Feature: Unmasking Aurelio by S.T. Fernandez

 It's Valentine's Day, so what better book to feature than Unmasking Aurelio! It is part of the Starlit Desires collaboration—a collection of six fantasy romance novellas releasing this Valentine’s season! 

Featuring stories by:

S.T. Fernandez (@stfernandezwrites) — Unmasking Aurelio

G.W. Prouse (@gwprouse.books) — Dancing with Death

Sarah Adina (@sarah.adina.author) — Cupid's Arrow

E.V. Sauvage (@e.v.sauvage_books) — Even Cupids Love

Carliann Jean (@carliannjean) — The Frost that Burns

GM Katz (@gracielamkatz) — Everlasting Love

 

Set in  S.T. Fernandez's world of The Heir of Atlantis, Unmasking Aurelio is a spicy MM romantasy novella filled with longing glances, spicy encounters, and the kind of love that dares to unmask itself. Perfect for Valentine’s Day and anyone who’s ever fallen for the one they thought they couldn’t have. This novella can be read as a standalone and requires no prior knowledge of the series. 

Unmasking Aurelio

Release Date: February 10, 2026

Genre: MM Romantasy

Features

⦁ MM Valentine’s Novella

⦁ Atlantis Setting

⦁ Masquerade Ball

⦁ Hidden Identities

⦁ Opposites Attract

⦁ Palace Intrigue

⦁ Bondmates

⦁ Water Fae

⦁ Spicy

He only sees him once a year—at a masquerade where names are forbidden and masks never come off.

Decades ago, Aurelio fell under the spell of a masked lover at the infamous Starlit Masquerade, a sensual evening where the rules of propriety seem to bend. Their nights were wild, unforgettable, and entirely anonymous—just how the enchanted Valentine’s ball was designed to be. Since then, Aurelio has returned year after year, aching for another night in the arms of the Fae who left him breathless.

But this year, something shifts.

Enter Myles Anthysius—the Secretary of the Sovereign and everything Aurelio never knew he wanted: poised, kind, disarmingly charming. As Myles begins to chip away at the walls around his heart, Aurelio must face a choice between an untouchable fantasy and the very real, very unmasked male who sees him for who he is.

Will he cling to the past, or finally allow himself to be known?

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*Intended for readers aged 18 and older

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

S.T. Fernandez (a.k.a. Stephanie) is a Latinx, award-winning author originally from Orlando, Florida. She now lives in the charming beach town of Ventura, California, with her husband and their two spirited wiener dogs.

Stephanie holds a Bachelor’s degree in English Literature from Saint Leo University and has been a lifelong fan of romantic fiction, particularly fantasy and paranormal romance. As a proud BookFest Award winner, she crafts immersive stories that transport readers to vivid, emotional worlds filled with magic, passion, and heart.

When she’s not writing or marketing like a mad woman, you’ll likely find her on the patio soaking up the California sun, a glass of red wine in one hand and a book in the other—probably one with a swoon-worthy shadow daddy and a strong, unforgettable heroine.

COVER REVEAL: Red's Hood by Esmerelda F

 What if instead of heeding the warnings, Red Riding Hood learned to run with the wolves?

BEHOLD

Red's Hood

Expected Release Date: March 24, 2026

Genre: PNR/ Red Riding Hood Inspired 

Featuring

⦁ Forced proximity

⦁ One bed

⦁ Small town

⦁ Werewolves

⦁ Who did this to you?

Hoping to provide a better life for her family, Roan Brown took a loan from the wrong crew. When they come to collect and she’s short, the thing she cares about most is taken as collateral. Desperate and willing to do whatever it takes to get it back, she turns to Obol Reed—the town’s newest resident.

Little does she know, he has an agenda of his own.

Obol Reed is traveling the country, on a mission to cut loose ends from his past. It’s no coincidence his journey includes only small-towns with one thing in common—werewolves. During his latest stop, rather than unearth the answers he seeks, he finds a new mystery in Roan Brown—beautiful, sassy, and in over her head.

To save Roan from herself, Obol will make a choice that’ll change their lives forever.

In a town where secrets have claws and ignorance is deadly, can a cynic who believes magic is "ridiculous" and an outcast with a dark secret—or two—trust each other enough to survive? As stakes rise, revelations will threaten to shatter everything they know about themselves.

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