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March 16, 2024
March New Releases
To celebrate my new release of Books 4 & 5 of my witch series, I'm running a special new release book fair featuring other authors with new books. Check out some really great paranormal fantasy/romance NEW books (less than 90 days old or preorder)!
Just click on the link below to check out the books selection:
https://books.bookfunnel.com/newrelea...
Enjoy!
A.L. Hawke
February 26, 2024
Ravens is available on preorder
With the release of Witch Mirror, Book 4, TODAY, I'm making available Ravens (#5) for preorder! (Awesome cover design is by BRoseDesignZ)Witch Mirror is available here:
https://books2read.com/u/mV2oar
Ravens preorder is here:
https://books2read.com/u/mq9nyO
Ravens, Book 4, in Cadence's own words:
While Bryce and I are finally enjoying some quiet time together, a dark, shadowy figure crashes into our door. And it isn’t a small black bird this time. A devil is hurt, asking for my help.
Well, I just have too many problems of my own now. People don’t want to talk to me. And Bryce isn’t touching me. So what’s a witch to do? Haul up my legs, sit on a pentagram in a circle of candles, and murmur to myself.
My best friend Maddie thinks I’m under a curse. But, honestly, I feel like I have to do whatever it takes to save this town, even if it means teaming up with my arch-enemy witch Enora.
Evil empowers me. But this dark spellcasting also intends to drive a stake right through my heart and the heart of Hawthorne University. See, not only am I feeling alone, I’m getting expelled.
Happy reading!
Best regards,
A.L. Hawke
February 3, 2024
Witch Mirror is available for preorder!
Yep, it has been three years since the last novel. How about revisiting the series with a new novel this month? Following right after the release of my Halloween short story, Samhain Witch, is another installment to my Hawthorne University Witch Series, Witch Mirror, Book IV!
Preorder on Amazon, B&N, and Apple now!
https://books2read.com/u/mV2oar
In Cadence's own words:
Bryce and I are trying to revive Alondra’s old metaphysical history class. We’re in college again, this time teaching. But it’s stressful under our former teacher’s shadow. Not only that, there’s a new demon-witch messing with my love life. So I’m going through that again. Well, at least this time I have Alondra’s magic to protect me.
Actually, not only do I have her magic, her spirit is inside me, possessing me. But don’t worry, Alondra’s ghost is a positive force here to help Hawthorne. I mean…are you good, Alondra?
A witch council is gathering at my house to reflect on ways to save us. They’re convinced Alondra is evil, but Alondra and I are unsure they know what they’re doing. Well, if I can’t hold things together—inside and outside of myself—I fear my plans of finishing graduate school at Hawthorne U. and starting a family are going to shatter.
Enjoy!
Best regards,
A.L. Hawke
December 11, 2023
Fantasy & Romance Audiobooks
Happy Holidays! I'm running a special holiday audiobook fair perfect to warm you during this yule time season. Check out some really great fantasy/romance narrations, including my own new witchy audiobook series! Just click on the link below to check out the audiobook selection:
https://books.bookfunnel.com/audioboo...
Enjoy!
A.L. Hawke
November 9, 2023
Alondra Audiobook release
Alondra is available here:
https://books2read.com/u/m0vKvl?forma...
I'm so excited to announce the release of my Alondra audiobook! This audiobook is a prequel to Broomstick and features a dual narration with Preston Geer and Alexa Elmy. This is not only an audiobook, it's a theatrical performance!
In Liam's own words:
I fell in love with a goth, but she’s a witch.
Starting school at Hawthorne University was not going well, until I met my classmate Alondra. Allie was different. She was goth. But she was also mysterious, confident and fun. I was into that. My name’s Liam. My friends call me Lee.
Things got weird after I accompanied her to her haunts. Poltergeists and demons attacked little girls. I watched Alondra help exorcise these ghosts, but some of their evil stuck to me.
Well, being attracted to a witch was one thing; dating one was quite another. It seemed the closer I got to Allie, the more her witchcraft endangered my friends. And my soul. You decide. I chronicled everything here in her book.
Alondra is a prequel to the internationally best-selling Hawthorne University Witch series. The novel takes place 20 years before Broomstick.
Enjoy!
A.L. Hawke
October 13, 2023
Samhain Witch
Witchy new release just in time for Halloween! Samhain Witch is a Halloween short story now available to all readers subscribing to my newsletter:https://alhawke.com/free-ebook/
OR on sale as a paperback:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1953919502
Samhain Witch is a Short Story from The Hawthorne University Witch Series.
In Cadence's own words:
I absolutely adore Halloween. I love the vibrant fall colors and the fun and revelry. And Samhain (Sa-win) is a major holiday for witches because it represents our new year. It’s the time when the spirit world meets the living.
So I wanted to throw a Halloween party for my students at Hawthorne University. Since the Billington frat house wasn’t available, I planned a party at my place. But as Maddie sat smiling in our circle, planning pumpkin carvings and costume contests, a visitor from my teacher’s past appeared, in tears, beside our bonfire. She said she had been terrorized by a haunted house, and she was looking for the Hawthorne Witch.
And as I discovered more about her haunting, I found that, this time, I was up against more than witches competing for my power or blaspheming with left-sided magic. This was a primal evil. I had met the Samhain Witch.
Cadence Hawthorne returns in this stand-alone short story, which takes place after The Hawthorne Witch (Book III). It first appeared exclusively as a free ebook for subscribers to the author’s monthly newsletter and on A.L. Hawke’s website.
Content Warning: Samhain Witch contains profanity, sex, adult situations and, of course, witchcraft.
Happy Halloween!
Best regards,
A.L. Hawke
September 29, 2023
Beltane Fire Trailer
My short story Beltane Fire is now available for sale in all retailers wide for this Halloween season. To celebrate the story, I'm releasing this trailer! Narrated by Alexa Elmy. Produced by Cinematic Book Trailers.
https://www.goodreads.com/videos/2045...
Beltane Fire is a Short Story taking place a year prior to Broomstick.
It was my freshman year when my best friend introduced me to the spring festival in Hawthorne University. I was studying for finals, but she said everyone, absolutely everyone, goes to Beltane. Because Hawthorne is weird.
Men in red paint jumped flames. Ladies in white dresses with lovely flower garlands awaited the May Queen. But none of that interested me—until I decorated a tree with a super cute guy. We danced around the tree and had so much fun.
But then I saw fire. And within the flames were disturbing images. Even with the spark between me and my new stranger, it had to end. I think that was the day my witchcraft began—you know, the fire that burns in my heart and soul.
Cadence Hawthorne returns in this novelette short story taking place before Broomstick, the first novel in The Hawthorne University Witch Series. This story first appeared exclusively as a free ebook for subscribers of the author's monthly newsletter and on A.L. Hawke's website.
https://www.goodreads.com/videos/2045...
Beltane Fire is a Short Story taking place a year prior to Broomstick.
It was my freshman year when my best friend introduced me to the spring festival in Hawthorne University. I was studying for finals, but she said everyone, absolutely everyone, goes to Beltane. Because Hawthorne is weird.
Men in red paint jumped flames. Ladies in white dresses with lovely flower garlands awaited the May Queen. But none of that interested me—until I decorated a tree with a super cute guy. We danced around the tree and had so much fun.
But then I saw fire. And within the flames were disturbing images. Even with the spark between me and my new stranger, it had to end. I think that was the day my witchcraft began—you know, the fire that burns in my heart and soul.
Cadence Hawthorne returns in this novelette short story taking place before Broomstick, the first novel in The Hawthorne University Witch Series. This story first appeared exclusively as a free ebook for subscribers of the author's monthly newsletter and on A.L. Hawke's website.
September 17, 2023
Harmonia New Release
Available here:
https://books2read.com/u/3yQLwn
My epic fantasy prequel to my Azure Series is out today at the reduced sales price of $0.99 all week! (normal sales price of $5.99).
Amazon women wage war on man.
In the late Bronze Age, the fourteenth century B.C., an Amazon nymph dares steal forbidden fruit from the gods. But Harmonia Ambrosia’s crime is not only the taste of a pomegranate, her offense is far worse when seized within enemy lands.
Greek gods descend from Mount Olympus. Demeter and her daughter Persephone, also known as Cora, look down upon this rebel. But not Hades. Hades becomes enamored with her.
With enchanted gifts of war from her lover and champion god Hades, Harmonia fights the dwarfs of Napea and the Hinterland tribes of man. Soon she and her daughter, the princess Nefertiti, lead an Amazon army so far south it even threatens the Pharaoh Amenhotep III of Egypt. But as total conquest lies finally within her grasp, only by sacrifice to gods she loathes can there be any hope of reclaiming peace with man.
Happy reading!
Best regards,
A.L. Hawke
July 9, 2023
New Hawthorne Witch Trailer
My 3rd and final book trailer by Cinematic Book Trailer is now available! Created in celebration of my new release audiobooks for my paranormal witch trilogy, narrated by Alexa Elmy.
https://www.goodreads.com/videos/2021...
Sometimes I'd rather shield my eyes than see darkness in light.
It was my senior year at Hawthorne University when everything fell apart. I mean, all my witch friends got along fine—sort of. But I was nervous about my love life. I just had to get into Hawthorne’s graduate program, because my boyfriend was going to be a professor. I didn’t want to lose him. I didn’t want to lose anyone.
And things got weirder. A witch was threatened with sacrificial murder. Another witch spent all day murmuring to herself, in the center of a circle of candles, on a pentagram she painted in her dorm room. It all pointed to the wicked witch of the Abaddon coven. If I was right, it might just take a full-fledged witch showdown to stop her.
So? Bring it on. What did I have to lose? Just everyone I love. And maybe my soul.
https://www.goodreads.com/videos/2021...
Sometimes I'd rather shield my eyes than see darkness in light.
It was my senior year at Hawthorne University when everything fell apart. I mean, all my witch friends got along fine—sort of. But I was nervous about my love life. I just had to get into Hawthorne’s graduate program, because my boyfriend was going to be a professor. I didn’t want to lose him. I didn’t want to lose anyone.
And things got weirder. A witch was threatened with sacrificial murder. Another witch spent all day murmuring to herself, in the center of a circle of candles, on a pentagram she painted in her dorm room. It all pointed to the wicked witch of the Abaddon coven. If I was right, it might just take a full-fledged witch showdown to stop her.
So? Bring it on. What did I have to lose? Just everyone I love. And maybe my soul.
June 25, 2023
Windstorm Trailer
New Windstorm Trailer
To celebrate the release of my new witch series audiobooks, the Broomstick ebook is available at a special discounted price of $0.99 USD this week!
AND another book trailer by Cinematic Book Trailer was created and is available on Goodreads TODAY!
https://www.goodreads.com/videos/2017...
Believe in witches, for sometimes you need magic to ward off the evil in darkness.
It was my junior year at Hawthorne University when Mira dealt me a reversed Lovers card. That meant trouble in paradise. I thought nothing of it until Alondra introduced me to a new witch from outside our coven—Enora. Enora’s precisely the sort of witch you’d call wicked. Even worse, she used to be in love with my boyfriend.
I just wanted a normal year. But as our leader fought illness, I fought with my friends trying to hold the Hawthorne coven together. I felt abandoned. And my loneliness dropped me into trances where I wandered the dark forest alone. These altered states were created by my magic, but I learned that they were spurred on by something far more sinister.
Where did this evil come from? The wicked witch? The old devil? I had to find out because it threatened the people I love.
To celebrate the release of my new witch series audiobooks, the Broomstick ebook is available at a special discounted price of $0.99 USD this week!
AND another book trailer by Cinematic Book Trailer was created and is available on Goodreads TODAY!
https://www.goodreads.com/videos/2017...
Believe in witches, for sometimes you need magic to ward off the evil in darkness.
It was my junior year at Hawthorne University when Mira dealt me a reversed Lovers card. That meant trouble in paradise. I thought nothing of it until Alondra introduced me to a new witch from outside our coven—Enora. Enora’s precisely the sort of witch you’d call wicked. Even worse, she used to be in love with my boyfriend.
I just wanted a normal year. But as our leader fought illness, I fought with my friends trying to hold the Hawthorne coven together. I felt abandoned. And my loneliness dropped me into trances where I wandered the dark forest alone. These altered states were created by my magic, but I learned that they were spurred on by something far more sinister.
Where did this evil come from? The wicked witch? The old devil? I had to find out because it threatened the people I love.
