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Urbantasm Book Three The Darkest Road by Connor Coyne #YA #MagicalRealism #TeenNoir

Urbantasm Book ThreeThe Darkest RoadConnor Coyne
Genre: General Fiction / Young AdultSubgenres: Magical Realism, Teen Noir, Edgy YAPublisher: Gothic Funk PressDate of Publication: 9/22/2021ISBN: 978-0989920292 (Print)Page Count 639Word Count: About 230,000Cover Artist: Sam Perkins-Harbin
Urbantasm: The Empty Room is the third book in the magical teen noir serial novel inspired by the author’s experiences growing up in and around Flint, Michigan. It will be published in September, 2021.
Junior high was hard. John Bridge has made and lost friends, experienced and forsaken love, and discovered his true passions. But after his harrowing experience on the roof of St. Christopher’s hospital, John has decided to turn the page of his own life and plan for his future. Now he has new friends, a new girlfriend, and a powerful new goal: to get into Chicago and leave Akawe forever.
But Akawe might not want to let John go. The city is full of memories and ghosts — urbantasms, according his former friend Selby — and they leave traces of questions that John cannot easily escape: What happened to his abducted classmate Cora Braille? How does the Chalks street gang keep replenishing its stock of O-Sugar, a drug with seemingly magical properties? And why is Selby suddenly hanging out with a notorious drug dealer? Does it have anything to do with a man with a knife or some mysterious blue sunglasses?
John has a feeling that the dreadful answers to these questions might take him to a place that he does not want to go: a dark road in a forgotten corner of his dying city. Possibly the darkest road of all.

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As a serial novel,  Urbantasm  has to be read in order. New readers will want to start with  Book One The Dying City .

 

Excerpt Book 3:

The summer dusk gave way to interstitial twilight. There was no sense in riding an hour back home in the dark just to turn around and come back the next morning. Instead, my friends and I bummed our way back to Camp Jellystone, where we got to camp in tents on the gravel and weeds off of the RV lot for five dollars a night. We sat around a fire and drank pop while the older actors – our mentors – went through six-packs of beer and homilized on their atheist Bibles. They quoted SNL routines, Monty Python, GURPS, Cthulhu, and the Digital Underground until we were all too tired to see straight. We all said goodnight and made our way back to our tents. But my tent had flooded during the week, and inside I found dead earwigs floating in slow circles.            I didn’t mind.            I was glad that this had happened.            I gathered up my sleeping bag, which Eddie had dropped off in the morning before heading back to Akawe, and stumbled back through the purple dark to Omara’s tent.            “Knock knock,” I said.            I heard her sigh. “You got your own tent, John.”            “Not tonight,” I said. “It’s flooded. Will you let me stay here?”            “Fine,” she said. “If this ever gets back to my dad, he’ll murder you.”            “I don’t think he will. I don’t think he’d murder a fly.”            She didn’t argue. She knew that I was right. She unzipped the tent and beckoned me inside.            In more than a year of going out, Omara and I hadn’t had sex. We hadn’t even been naked together. The driving thirst and curiosity that I had felt in seventh grade had been quenched by my confusing tumbles with Crystal. By my guilty nescience with Lucy. Still, here I was, sleeping bag in hand, stooped under the slope of the tent roof, wearing soccer shorts and a too-small t-shirt, and Omara stood before me, more stooped because she was taller than I was, her white panties and tank top bright against her dark skin. We unzipped our sleeping bags, made a bed between them, and lay down. Omara turned away from me, and I pressed into her back. I put my arm around her waist with my palm against her bare stomach. I could feel her shapes against mine, though there was still cloth between us.            “It was a long day today,” she said.            “Uh-huh,” I said.            “We’d better get some sleep. It’s gonna be a long weekend. We got two more days to go. Then school. You know I got that job at the Olan Farm? It’s gonna be almost like this. I mean, I guess I’ll dress up like a milkmaid, like The Little House on the Prairie or something. But it’ll be acting, you know?”            I sighed.            “I’m not tired,” I said.            “Me neither,” she said. And then, in a burst: “I can’t stop thinking about that woman on your block. Who murdered her baby.”            I pushed myself against her. I held my breath. I said, “I can’t think about that. I mean. There’s nothing I can do about that. It makes me sick, but what does that even accomplish?”            “But doesn’t it just stick with you? The idea of it? How awful it –”            “I don’t want it to, okay? Anyway, it’s far away. We’re here now. Let’s stay here.”            “We can’t stay here.” I felt the tenseness in Omara’s back.

“Yeah. But someday, we’ll leave Akawe for good. And anyway. We aren’t there now.”            “Aren’t you afraid your dad’s gonna lose his job?”            “My father? Yeah. He’s already driving two hours each day ever since they transferred him to Canton. Ever since that strike ended last year, it seems like X is closing everything fast as they can. You know? I mean, they closed the Benedict Main. Most of the Old Benedict. Probably RAN, too. ‘Course, my aunt says they were going to close them all anyway.”            Omara laughed. A slight untensing. “Sounds like you have thought about it.”            “I think about lots of things a lot. Some things I don’t want to think about and some things I do. I mean, I think about you a lot.”            I was trying to move toward her. In, you know, ways. But she wasn’t taking the bait.            “Aren’t you afraid they won’t be able to pay for college?”            She’d finally succeeded. Omara’s fears had become my fears.            “No,” I said. “I mean, my mother is working at that new job at XAI. And even if my father gets laid off, he’s got options. Right? Transfer to other plants. Stuff like that. What about you? Why are you worried? Didn’t your grandparents get you a savings bond or something?”            “Yeah. But I keep thinking someone’s gonna open a trapdoor beneath me or something. I guess ... I guess I keep thinking I’ll believe in college when I get there. And not before. It just seems a bad idea to get my hopes up, you know?”            “You don’t have to worry about it for a while. It’s still years off. I mean, we just have to keep working, don’t we? It’ll happen. We just need to be patient or some shit, you know?”            The wind buffeted the tent over our heads. I could hear low talking outside. Low chuckles. Through the tent wall, I could see the embers of the fire flickering faintly. Some of the older actors would be slouching in their folding chairs until the sky started to gray with dawn. That was still several hours away. I listened to it for a long, slow minute.            “I do worry,” I confided. “I worry that something will happen that I don’t expect, and I’ll get stuck. That I’ll fail a class, fail a test I need to pass ... and I won’t get into college in Chicago, or I won’t get into college anywhere. I worry that my parents are lying about everything, and they can’t pay for shit. I worry that I’m just being set up to fail. I even worry ...” I caught my breath. Saying this all out loud was hard. Trusting a human being was hard. But at least I wasn’t looking into her eyes. At least the darkness of a September tent wrapped us and kept our secrets from everyone else.            “I worry,” I whispered, “that you’ll go away to college in Chicago, and I’ll be stuck in Akawe, and I’ll never get out.”            I heard a deep breath from Omara. I felt her belly raise beneath my cupped palm. She had fallen asleep, and I was grateful.

Urbantasm Book Two

The Empty Room

Connor Coyne

Publisher: Gothic Funk Press

Date of Publication: September 2019      

Number of pages:Word Count: 175,000      

Cover Artist: Sam Perkins-Harbin, Forge22 Design
Book Description:  
Urbantasm: The Empty Room is the second book in the magical teen noir serial novel inspired by the author’s experiences growing up in and around Flint, Michigan.

John Bridge is only two months into junior high and his previously boring life has already been turned upside-down. His best friend has gone missing, his father has been laid-off from the factory, and John keeps looking over his shoulder for a mysterious adversary: a man with a knife and some perfect blue sunglasses.

As if all this wasn’t bad enough, John must now confront his complicated feelings for a classmate who has helped him out of one scrape after another, although he knows little about who she is and what she wants. What does it mean to want somebody? How can you want them if you don’t understand them? Does anybody understand anyone, ever? These are hard questions made harder in the struggling city of Akawe, where the factories are closing, the schools are closing, the schools are crumbling, and even the streetlights can’t be kept on all night.

John and his friends are only thirteen, but they are fighting for their lives and futures. Will they save Akawe, will they escape, or are they doomed? They might find their answers in an empty room… in a city with ten thousand abandoned houses, there will be plenty to choose from.

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Urbantasm Book One

The Dying CityConnor Coyne

            

Genre: YA, Magical Realism, New Adult, Teen Noir, Lit Fic

Publisher: Gothic Funk PressDate of Publication: September 6, 2018

ISBN: 978-0989920230ASIN: 0989920232

Number of pages: 450 pagesWord Count: 85,000
Cover Artist: Sam Perkins-Harbin,Forge22 Design

Book Description:

Urbantasm is a magical teen noir serial novel inspired by the author’s experiences growing up in and around Flint, Michigan.

Thirteen-year-old John Bridge’s plans include hooking up with an eighth-grade girl and becoming one of the most popular kids at Radcliffe Junior High, but when he steals a pair of strange blue sunglasses from a homeless person, it drops him into the middle of a gang war overwhelming the once-great Rust Belt town of Akawe.

John doesn’t understand why the sunglasses are such a big deal, but everything, it seems, is on the table. Perhaps he accidentally offended the Chalks, a white supremacist gang trying to expand across the city. Maybe the feud involves his friend Selby, whose father died under mysterious circumstances. It could even have something to do with O-Sugar, a homegrown drug with the seeming ability to distort space. On the night before school began, a group of teenagers took O-Sugar and leapt to their deaths from an abandoned hospital.

John struggles to untangle these mysteries while adjusting to his new school, even as his parents confront looming unemployment and as his city fractures and burns.

 “A novel of wonder and horror.”— William Shunn, author of The Accidental Terrorist

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About the Author:

Connor Coyne is a writer living and working in Flint, Michigan.

His serial novel Urbantasm is winner of numerous awards. Hugo- and Nebula-nominee William Shunn has praised Urbantasm as “a novel of wonder and horror.”
Connor has also authored two other celebrated novels, Hungry Rats and Shattering Glass, as well as Atlas, a collection of short stories.

Connor’s essay “Bathtime” was included in the Picador anthology Voices from the Rust Belt. His work has been published by Vox.com, Belt Magazine, Santa Clara Review, and elsewhere. 

Connor is Director of Gothic Funk Press.  He has served on the planning committee for the Flint Festival of Writers and represented Flint’s 7th Ward as its artist-in-residence for the National Endowment for the Arts’ Our Town grant. In 2007, he earned his Masters of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from the New School.

Connor lives in Flint, Michigan less than a mile from the house where he grew up.

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Urbantasm The Darkest Road

Urbantasm: The Darkest Road is the third book in the magical teen noir serial novel inspired by the author’s experiences growing up in and around Flint, Michigan.

Urbantasm Book Three
The Darkest Road
Connor Coyne

Genre: General Fiction / Young Adult
Subgenres: Magical Realism, Teen Noir, Edgy YA
Publisher: Gothic Funk Press
Date of Publication: 9/22/2021
ISBN: 978-0989920292 (Print)
Page Count 639
Word Count: About 230,000
Cover Artist: Sam Perkins-Harbin

Junior high was hard. John Bridge has made and lost friends, experienced and forsaken love, and discovered his true passions. But after his harrowing experience on the roof of St. Christopher’s hospital, John has decided to turn the page of his own life and plan for his future. Now he has new friends, a new girlfriend, and a powerful new goal: to get into Chicago and leave Akawe forever.

But Akawe might not want to let John go. The city is full of memories and ghosts — urbantasms, according his former friend Selby — and they leave traces of questions that John cannot easily escape: What happened to his abducted classmate Cora Braille? How does the Chalks street gang keep replenishing its stock of O-Sugar, a drug with seemingly magical properties? And why is Selby suddenly hanging out with a notorious drug dealer? Does it have anything to do with a man with a knife or some mysterious blue sunglasses?


John has a feeling that the dreadful answers to these questions might take him to a place that he does not want to go: a dark road in a forgotten corner of his dying city. Possibly the darkest road of all.

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Happy Halloween Month, Everyone! For Halloween every year, I like to share my favorite spooky story from my family’s arsenal of tales about the Fae. In this one, my Irish grandmother recounts her personal encounter with a Banshee when she was a teenager. 
Enjoy!
Bumped by the Bansheeby Celia Breslin
… I lived in a large two-story house with my parents, younger sister, and grandmother. It was a cold, winter evening, nothing special or out of the ordinary.
My family dined together, then my sister and I cleaned up while our parents and grandmother drank tea. We joined them at the dining table to do our homework, but my grandmother said she was tired and went upstairs to bed. My parents followed shortly after that, but my father paused on the landing.
“Maeve, it’s going to be a cold night. Fetch us some coal, please.”
I abandoned my homework, grabbed the empty coal bucket from the kitchen, and went down into the cellar. I filled my bucket and returned to the stairs. I had one foot on the first step when the temperature in the cellar, already cold, dropped dramatically. Chills ran down my back. Behind me, someone moaned.
But how could that be? I was alone...
Terror rooted me to the spot. The keening grew louder. I dropped my bucket and covered my ears. A cold wind bumped against my back. I stumbled forward as the shrieking wind rushed over me and up the stairs.
But how could that be? The cellar had no windows...
Above me, the cellar door slammed shut. The sound broke me from my stupor. I screamed and ran up the stairs and out of the cellar, through the kitchen and dining room, and up the stairs to my room. My parents and sister found me under my bed, shaking like a puppy lost in a snowstorm.
“Maeve! Maeve! What is it? What’s wrong?” They asked me, while pulling me from my hiding place.
“I heard the Banshee wail.”
We stared at each other in silence, all of us reaching the same conclusion moments later. We hurried to my grandmother’s room.
She was dead.
(Copyright 2021, Celia Breslin. All rights reserved.)

Eva’s HomecomingHeartland Fae Book OneCelia Breslin
Genre: Paranormal RomancePublisher: Celia Breslin Date of Publication: February 2022 ISBN: 9798201153793Number of pages: 79 Word Count: 21K Cover Artist: VWZDesigns 
Tagline: A curse stole her away. Can true love lead her home?
Book Description:
After several years away for school and work, Eva O’Reilly is finally home. The West coast was fine, but her heart belongs to the Heartland and the town she grew up in. Sadly, with her mother’s sudden passing and no other living relatives, Eva is alone. And hurting.
Angus of the Tuatha Dé Danaan is elated his one true love has finally returned, and he’s determined to win her heart all over again. There are just two problems: she can’t see him or remember the Fae folk even exist.
As Eva mourns, Angus fights to dispel the veil keeping them apart. With the aid of a gang of flower fairies and the kindly elderly Wiccan next door, these cursed lovers may well receive a second chance at their happily forever after…
Currently appears in the anthology Flip The Trope: Romance Gone Wild
Novella Release February 2022

Anthology available at Books to Read  

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Excerpt

Angus stood in the center of the garden, throat tight and burning, a huge gulp of air trapped in his lungs.

Around him, a dozen diminutive flower fairies cavorted among the flora, chortling with glee. “She’s here, she’s here, our Eva is here!”

His gaze targeted the back door, body taut as he awaited his first glimpse of the female he loved. The only one he would ever love. Mo chroí, my heart. My heart walks the world, outside my body. “Come back to me.”

His voice was barely audible above the incessant chatter of the flower fairies. “We sang to her. She heard us! She liked it.”

“Hush,” he commanded, and they fell silent, vibrating with gleeful anticipation.

Seven years without her. The longest, loneliest bloody years of his basically eternal existence…

[…]

Eva stared out at the yard with haunted, brown eyes. Dark circles like the ones she’d sported months ago at the wake and funeral marred the perfection of her milky skin. He wanted to lay gentle kisses on her eyelids, nip the tip of her nose with its light dusting of freckles, lave her lips with his tongue then push it between those perfect lips…

“See me, Eva,” he whispered.

“See us,” Rosina echoed.

Eva cocked her head and touched her ear as if in response to their words. The incessant giggling of the flower fairies ceased, an expectant hush falling over the garden.

Though consumed with sorrow, Eva surveyed the yard with appreciation. Angus and the flower fairies had been tending to the yard and garden since she’d left. There was little to be done in the winter months but in the Fall, they’d trimmed and raked, then planted, pruned, and watered in Spring and Summer. Jasmine, lavender, and other blooming plants scented the air, and he watched his female take a deep breath.

Her shoulders seemed to lose some tension as she took in the neatly trimmed yard and carefully curated garden. “It’s perfect,” she said.

Angus’s heart swelled with pride at a job well done only to stutter in agony when her lovely brown eyes lingered on the central spot where he stood yet looked right through him.

“No. No, no, no,” he whispered. See me this time, Eva. Let the curse be gone.

Mrs. Murphy joined Eva near the door. “He tended it for you. From the moment you went off to school.”

“What?” Eva scanned the yard, then returned her attention to the spot where he stood surrounded by the flower fairies, all of them quivering with excitement.

“The garden, girl. He looked after it for you.”

Lines formed in Eva’s forehead, and her attention shifted to Mrs. Murphy. “I don’t understand, who did?”

He bowed his head and rubbed his brow. Each time she returns she still cannot See. My fault. All of this. Mine.

About the Author:
Celia lives in California with her husband, daughter, and two feisty cats. She writes urban fantasy and paranormal romance, and has a particular fondness for werewolves, vampires, and the Fae. When not writing, you’ll find Celia exercising, reading a good book, hanging with her family, or indulging her addiction to fantasy TV shows and movies.
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Untamed Isles: The Path Awakens Untamed Isles Book One by Aaron Hodges #bewitchingbooktours http://ow.ly/tVJ350GyeLf

The Wantland Files #bewitchingbooktours http://ow.ly/e1hy50GyeJe

Urbantasm The Darkest Road by Connor Coyne
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Untamed Isles: The Path Awakens by Aaron Hodge #bewitchingbooktours http://ow.ly/g6c150GyeN4

Check Out "Honour’s Rest", The Rite Way, Book 1, by Judith Crow #bewitchingbooktours http://ow.ly/kWHC50Gyeyr

Witch's Brew Cocktail Recipe with Maria DeBlassie #HauntedHalloweenSpooktacular #CocktailRecipe #bewitchingbooktours http://ow.ly/SPRN50GyeuF

Do you have a fear of Halloween? #HauntedHalloweenSpooktacular #bewitchingbooktours http://ow.ly/Gau850GyewC

5 Scary Movies for the Not-So-Scary Watcher - Sea Mage by Louisa Bacio #HauntedHalloweenSpooktacular #bewitchingbooktours http://ow.ly/LjhW50GyetC

Halloween Flash Fiction with Celia Breslin #HauntedHalloweenSpooktacular #PNR #bewitchingbooktours http://ow.ly/rmXP50GyehV

Witch of the Cards Catherine Stine - paranormal historical suspense - Fiera was born a sea witch with no inkling of her power. And now it might be too late. #bewitchingbooktours http://ow.ly/n3VT50Gyemt

Halloween Flash Fiction by Megan Speece #HauntedHalloweenSpooktacular
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Eliza: The Awakening Book One by Eileen Sheehan - Paranormal Shifter Series - "The Awakening" begins the saga of a female shifter named, Eliza. #bewitchingbooktours http://ow.ly/wm6550GyenF

Saturday and Sunday this event page will be filled with free ebooks you can download
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Jasper: The Beginning by Eileen Sheehan
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A Bewitching Monday

A Round-Up of Daily Tour Stops

Real Haunted Locations- Monte Cristo at Junee in Australia by E. J. Dawson #GothicSuspense #bewitchingbooktours http://ow.ly/6tT350GxgbS

Natalie Johanson's Top 10 Favorite Vampires #bewitchingbooktours http://ow.ly/BYeh50Gxg23

Author Interview- That Magic Mischief by Susanna Allen #PNR #bewitchingbooktours http://ow.ly/hAak50Gxg6H

9 Things You Didn’t Know About Becoming a Published Author with Aaron Hodges
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INTERVIEW - YA MAGICAL REALISM - HONOUR'S REST by Judith Crow #bewitchingbooktours http://ow.ly/zTeq50Gxgp4

Interview with author Zach Adams
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Interview with author Madison Wentworth
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Aaron Hodges Top Ten Fantasy TV Shows #bewitchingbooktours http://ow.ly/US6u50Gxg5c

URBANTASM: THE DARKEST ROAD (3) by CONNOR COYNE #bewitchingbooktours http://ow.ly/3xYa50GxgOx

Halloween TV Viewing Picks with Celia Breslin #HauntedHalloweenSpooktacular #PNR #bewitchingbooktours http://ow.ly/eAkH50Gxga1

Demon Shadow by Timothy Patrick Means
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The Wantland Files by Lara Bernhardt #bewitchingbooktours http://ow.ly/rRfj50GxgL7

Heavenly Desire by J.L. Sheppard - Book Tour + Giveaway
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Shadow's Past by Natalie Johanson - Book Tour
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Dead Man Walking by Zach Adams - Book Tour + Giveaway
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Excerpt & Giveaway - Smoke & Mirrors: A Vampire Romance by Elise Nelson #bewitchingbooktours http://ow.ly/Tb6R50GxgIT

Book Spotlight & #Giveaway ~ Smoke and Mirrors: A Vampire Romance by Elise Nelson ~ PNR, Gothic Romance, Vampire Romance #bewitchingbooktours http://ow.ly/gIeN50GxgHM

Haunted Halloween Spooktacular ~ Celia’s 2021 Halloween Viewing Picks ~ #Giveaway & #Review ~ Eva’s Homecoming: Heartland Fae, Book One by Celia Breslin @CeliaBreslin #PNR #bewitchingbooktours http://ow.ly/tqzt50Gxgic

Jasper: The Beginning by Eileen Sheehan #HauntedHalloweenSpooktacular #bewitchingbooktours http://ow.ly/APzT50Gxgs8

Book Spotlight & #Giveaway ~ Shadow Slayer: Shadow Series, Book Two by Laura A.H. Elliott @Laurawriting ~ #YA #PNR ~ YA Paranormal Romance #bewitchingbooktours http://ow.ly/qcY250Gxgzc

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5 Unusual Halloween Activities with Vanessa Morgan & Evil Seeds: The Ultimate Movie Guide to Villainous Children
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The Story Behind the Story: How to Nightwalk like a pro + giveaway #bewitchingbooktours http://ow.ly/yp7a50Gw139

Witch's Brew Cocktail Recipe with Maria DeBlassie #HauntedHalloweenSpooktacular #CocktailRecipe #bewitchingbooktours http://ow.ly/PHHZ50Gw13Z

Halloween Dance Party Playlist with Megan Speece #HauntedHalloweenSpooktacular

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Tranquil HeightsBook OneMegan Speece
Genre: Paranormal SuspensePublisher: Megan SpeeceDate of Publication: 10/15/2021ISBN: 978-1-7374715-0-9ASIN: B09B8WZDW1Number of pages: 228Word Count: 42,767Cover Artist: Megan Speece
Book Description: 
Katie Edgecomb is questioning everything she thought she knew. 
She thought the family curse was fake, just a scary story her mom told her to keep her from misbehaving. The first-born daughters in each of the last three generations lost their lives on their twenty-fifth birthdays, a series of tragic accidents sending shock waves of grief through multiple generations. 
It isn't until Katie is faced with the real-time impacts of the curse that she starts to believe it may be more than a story and she sets out to discover the origins of the family's fabled curse. Her only clue lies in an exclusive girls' preparatory academy in Washington that was once an asylum. There, she must face heart-break, ugly truths, and events so terrifying that they threaten to sever her very ties to reality. 
She has no choice.
Katie is pregnant, and she won't let her child become another life claimed by the curse.
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About the Author:

Megan is a thriller author, horror buff, and dog person. She is currently writing books and helping authors navigate self publishing. She lives in the beautiful Pacific Northwest with her husband and two dogs, and can be found spending her weekends at the beach, exploring everything Washington has to offer, or settling in with a good horror movie.
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Need by Madison Wentworth #ParanormalEroticRomance

NeedMadison Wentworth
Genre: Paranormal Erotic RomancePublisher: Madison CrestDate of Publication: Aug. 30, 2021ISBN: 979-8468157046ASIN: B09F3WVDZCNumber of pages: 165Word Count: 24,000Cover Artist: Bookcoverzone.com
Tagline: Sometimes you crave what’s good for you. Sometimes he craves you too.
Book Description:
Cherie just met the love of her life, but there’s a catch: He’s dead.
It’s not every day you find true love on an adult website, but that’s the most normal thing about Cherie’s new boyfriend, Evan.
To start with, he isn’t actually new. They’re engaged, or so he says. But she has no memory of planning their wedding, or even meeting him, for that matter, because for her, it hasn’t happened yet.
The bond is there, though. She can feel it. As a vampire of the soul, she can taste it, and she needs to taste more of it. It’s a bond so strong that it awakened his spirit in order to find her. Now, she must save him in order to free him from death... so she can have all of him. She needs that.
Need isn’t a word she uses lightly. She’s never truly needed anyone before. But she’s discovering she needs him now, even as their time together appears fated to be cut tragically short. And he needs her, too, more than she knows.
Yet their mutual craving is only just awakening. Can they find a way to cheat the fates and find a future together?
Time alone will tell.
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How are you supposed to feel when you find out the man you’ve fallen in love with, who you’ve never even met in person, reveals that the two of you were once engaged, and that you were—inadvertently or not—the cause of his death?

I try to plan for every contingency, but even super-prepared Cher hadn’t seen that one coming.

“Does that mean the whole thing has to happen all over again the same way?” I asked.

“I don’t know.”

“Does it mean we’ll get to meet, after all? Or do I meet another version of you instead?”

“I don’t know.”

This was exasperating. The odd thing was, I found it almost impossible to be mad at him. It wasn’t his fault, anyway. He had no idea how to get out of the place where he was, wherever or whenever that might be, or what would happen if he did. I had no idea how to get him out, either, but I did know I had to find a way—and without him getting run over by a car again. I’d strap him to the bed if I had to.

“If we were engaged before, does that mean we still are?” I asked.

“I think so, unless you want to break it off. Do you?”

“No, I like being your fiancée.”

“Good. Because I like it, too.”

I still didn’t feel comfortable telling anyone else about Evan, or telling Layla anything more about him, because now it was even weirder than before. So, the only person I was left with as counselor was my inner voice.

I need to get him back here again. I need to see him.

Need. It was a word I’d hardly ever used before, and certainly not in connection with myself. But I seemed to be using it more and more with Even.

How do you think you’re going to do that if he’s dead?

It was a good question.

I could call my ghost-hunter friends.

You don’t need to hunt him. You already know where he is: In that smartphone screen of yours! You drew him to you through the internet. Now you just need to bring him the rest of the way.

How?

By being yourself. He hungers for you and can’t resist you. He will come.

Could it possibly be as simple as that? It couldn’t be. I remembered the voice had asked me once before who I was, and I’d answered that I was just me. But I was only that person when I was alone. Otherwise, I was always pretending—except when I was with Evan. I could be myself with him, too. So maybe it really was as simple as that, after all. It had to be, because I couldn’t think of anything else. But how could I be my true self, my vampire self, when the world was watching?

You can’t. You need to go someplace.

It didn’t help that I was having this conversation with myself at work.

“Cher, can you come over here for a sec?” Joy motioned toward me. “This customer needs his frames adjusted.”

“Coming.”

Fortunately for the eye clinic, and for my own job security, I was great at multitasking. I was able to keep brainstorming about how to get some privacy even while I was adjusting Mr. Thompson’s new glasses to fit him perfectly without pinching the bridge of his nose or pulling down too much behind the ear.

“Thank you,” he said. “You’re very good at that.”

I laughed easily. “I should be. I’ve been doing this long enough. But you’re very good at being a patient patient, and that makes all the difference.”

He nodded slightly and... was he blushing? So often, I found that the smallest kind word or gesture was appreciated beyond what I’d expected. People didn’t treat each other with kindness enough anymore. It had become rare enough that, when it happened, it was unexpected.

And they were grateful. It was sad that common courtesy had fallen so far out of style.

But being nice to people was how I’d been raised; it was part of who I was.

Vampires are known for their courtesy. They only enter where they’re invited.

That was it!

I had to be myself—my vampire self—to draw Evan back to the land of the living, but I had to invite him, too. That was the one thing I’d been missing. He might be dead, but he was also a vampire, and if I invited him, he would have no choice but to accept.

About the Author:
Madison Wentworth grew up on syndicated reruns of Dark Shadows and The Twilight Zone, coming of age not far from the Malibu surf. A job as a reporter for a small-town newspaper meant digging through police reports, gossip, rumor, and innuendo. And that led to more work as a writer, and a move east and northward to the opposite coast, a venue far more conducive to night-owl vampires and their felines.
An interest in cinema — and outings to see movies such as Ghost and The Sixth Sense — reignited a fascination with the paranormal, and stirred an interest in blending the mystical with the sensual.
The result is NEED, the author’s debut novella.
Amazon Page: https://www.amazon.com/Madison-Wentworth/e/B09F5RH3LT/


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New Release - Shifting Summer: Mane Shift Book 2 by Laura Bickle #UrbanFantasy #Shifters #Witches

She’s a mediocre witch…and an even worse shifter.

Shifting SummerMane ShiftBook 2Laura Bickle
Genre: Urban FantasyPublisher: Syrenka Publishing LLCDate of Publication: 10/20/21ASIN: B09HBHM37PWord Count: 50093Cover Artist: Danielle Fine
Book Description:
Luna Summerwood, eldest of the Summerwood witches, always thought she was the least powerful one in her family. Her magical gift is the ability to talk to animals, which keeps the chaos in her veterinary clinic down to a dull roar. But a bite from handsome shifter Renan has turned her into a shifter, too…and that’s one power she doesn’t want.
Luna can’t control when she shifts into a maned wolf, and those unexpected transformations wreak havoc on her professional and personal life. Renan does his best to help, but he just found out some very bad news: A shadowy cult of sorcerers put a curse on the Summerwoods' house. Now, Luna and her sisters are being haunted by an ancient spirit that will stop at nothing to destroy them.
To make things worse, the Summerwoods are being investigated by local law enforcement. Luna’s ex-boyfriend, Dalton, lost control of his shifter powers and killed someone. As a result, Dalton’s a wanted man hiding from the law in Luna’s attic. He can’t control his wolf, and anyone in proximity to him is a potential target. Even Luna.
When Luna’s sister, Halley, disappears, the witches know that they’re losing the fight. Running on four feet and no sleep, Luna must find her voice as a shifter in order to protect all she holds dear.
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