BOOK FEATURE FRIDAY: Damiana by Lilly Manning

  DAMINANA is the newly released book by Lilly Manning and is book one in what is said to be 'The Sigils Series'! So we are celebrating with a book feature!

 Damiana (The Sigils Series)

Release Date: October 22, 2026

Genre: Gothic Horrormance

Featuring:

⦁ Gothic dread at a luxury wellness retreat

⦁ Female friendship with teeth

⦁ A high-heat romance where the hero isn’t the threat

⦁ Coven politics, bad contracts, and worse cacao

⦁ A guaranteed HEA, earned rather than manifested

THE RETREAT PROMISED THE OTHER HALF OF HER SOUL.

It was a promise with a waitlist: black-sand beaches, redwood fog, luxury glamping, ceremonial cacao, and a bonfire where every guest casts a sigil for the kind of love she's been waiting her whole life to find.

DRAW THE SYMBOL. FEED IT TO THE FLAMES. HE'LL COME.

Marlowe only attends because her boss pays for her to go. It's all nonsense, she tells herself. An evening of designer spirituality for women desperate enough to believe the lie.

Then every woman's wish starts coming true. Including hers.

Damian is everything she asked for—patient, devoted, ruinously handsome—and the only person trying to convince her not to sign up for the next retreat.

Because the fire wasn't symbolic. The women didn't manifest anything. Every wish was answered by design.

Now the retreat's charismatic founder and the secretive sisterhood behind her wellness empire expect Marlowe to honor a bargain she never knew she made.

And walking away has never been part of the program.

THE FIRE DOESN'T FORGET WHAT WAS PROMISED.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Lilly Manning writes romance and romantic suspense—stories where the tension isn't just between the sheets. Her stories are built on sharp heroines, guarded heroes, and worlds where secrets are currency and trust has to be earned.

A ghostwriter for years, Lilly spent a long time putting her words into other people's names. The Alias Series is her first work published as herself.

"Earned", Book I of The Alias Series, is available now on Amazon.

Learn more and follow Lilly @lillymanningwrites on Instagram

BOOK FEATURE: Broken Hymn by Tuesday James

After the Reckoning, the South didn’t die. It turned holy...

The Broken Hymn (Savage Saints Book One)

Release Date: October 6, 2026

Genre: Post-Apocalyptic Dark Romance

Cover Artist: @violet.book.design

 Filled WITH

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Post-apocalyptic dark romance
Southern Gothic horror
Religious cult rot
Enemies to lovers
Forced proximity
A morally black MMC
A forbidden FMC marked by the cult
Dead boyfriend’s older brother
Monsters with teeth
Obsessive devotion
“Touch her and die” energy

A man who doesn’t kneel for God, but will kneel for her

The world ended in fire, ash, and scripture. What crawled out of it wasn’t civilization. It was enclaves, trailer-kingdoms, and cults that learned how to turn fear into law. Selah Crow has spent her whole life behind a fence she thought was built to keep monsters out. She was wrong.

It was built to show them exactly where to find her. When the Iron Gospel comes for her, they don’t come screaming. They come like a sermon. Quiet. Certain. Hungry. By morning, Selah’s life is soaked in blood, her sister is gone, and the only man dangerous enough to help her is the one every ruined thing in the South knows to fear.

Malek Vane. The Crownless Wrath.

The monster the cult raised and the man who doesn’t kneel for God, scripture, or saints.

Malek knows what the Iron Gospel wants from Selah. He knows why the Hollowborn listen when she screams. And he knows saving her might mean dragging them both back into the holy rot that made him.

Selah should run from him. From his violence. From his secrets. From the way he looks at her like devotion was always meant to have teeth.

But in a world where prayers rot, monsters hunt, and men call cruelty salvation, Selah learns the most dangerous thing left isn’t the end of the world.

It’s being wanted by the man who survived it.

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This looks so good!