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September 8, 2025
A Bewitching Monday
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You reek of darkness, of some evil spirit that’s worked its way under your skin. You don’t talk about it, no. It’s your secret...” Excerpt from The Sister’s Curse by Nicola Solvinic from Berkley Publishing Group. Now available for pre-order: https://bit.ly/4jBXbCc#nicolasolvinic #thesisterscurse #mysteryauthor #crimeauthor #thrillerwriter #criminology #crimefiction #crimethriller #crimenovel #suspensenovel #thrillerbook #murdermystery #mysteryreads #booklovers #bookclub #newrelease #bookreview
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September 5, 2025
A Bewitching Friday
A Round-Up of Daily Virtual Book Tour Stops
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Book Tour: Lakegrave School for Young Women
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Joe Mack is back, solving cold cases and kicking demon butt. Times Change is a non-stop thrill ride full of paranormal action, found family, dark magic, and loyal friends. #bewitchingbooktours http://bit.ly/4nkyUlm
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September 3, 2025
A Bewitching Wednesday
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September 2, 2025
A Bewitching Tuesday
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Trish's double life unravels after a hunt goes wrong. Can she regain control, or will her century of kills end in blood?
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Author Interview- Blood by K.T. Rose #Horror #bewitchingbooktours https://buff.ly/Mxac5wo
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Trish's double life unravels after a hunt goes wrong. Can she regain control, or will her century of kills end in blood?
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September 1, 2025
Author Interview- Blood by K.T. Rose #Horror
1. Do you write in different genres?
I write horror, thrillers, and psychological stories focused on haunted houses, zombies, demons, domestic suspense, and cults.
2. If yes which is your favorite genre to write?
I enjoy writing dark thrillers for their realistic edge and ability to blend horror with suspense. In Trish, I reimagined a vampire as an ordinary person, creating a gripping series.
3. Is there a message in your novel that you want readers to grasp?
Unexpected events can disrupt even the most stable lives, and while you can't always prepare, staying open to unconventional solutions may help.
4. Of all the characters you’ve ever written, who is your favorite and why?
While I cannot disclose my current preference, Riley from The Haunting of Gallagher Hotel has been a notable favorite in the past. She demonstrates boldness and courage, consistently acting for the greater good even when supporting those who have mistreated her. Despite making significant mistakes, Riley accepted responsibility for her actions and pursued personal growth and healing during her time in the hotel.
5. If this book is part of a series…what is the next book? Any details you can share?
Blood is part of the Trish Vampire Horror Thriller series. The next volume, Monster, examines the background of another significant character. Monster is a dark thriller containing scenes of horror and explores themes such as gaslighting, manipulation, death, love, loss, and acceptance. It is the second installment in a three-book series that includes Blood, Monster, and Watcher.
6. What book are you reading now?
I'm currently reading Buried Secrets by A.H. Zamparelli, a crime thriller featuring Detective MacCrey pursuing a killer. As a fan of the genre, I'm finding it intriguing so far.
7. What books are in your to-read pile?
Here are the five books currently at the top of the to-read list: The Psychopath Next Door by Mark Edwards, Rosemear by Quinn Noll, When the Wolf Comes by Nat Cassidy, Sweet Pea by CJ Skuse, and The Good House by Tananarive Due.
8. When you’re not writing what do you do? Do you have any hobbies or guilty pleasures?
Hobbies: I enjoy fishing, working out, playing piano, watching thrillers and horror films, and playing video games—especially horror games like Dying Light—with my partner.
Guilty pleasure: YouTube; I watch a lot of political content as well as videos about music, cooking, and true crime. There is something for everyone on there…
9. What is next for you? Do you have any scheduled upcoming releases or works in progress?
I will either finish a thriller about a grieving family hunted in the woods, or a psychological horror set in Detroit. The latter follows two teen sisters and their mother who move into a former mental hospital haunted by past patients, staff, and an evil neuro-experimenting doctor.
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Blood Trish Vampire Horror Series BookOneK.T. Rose
Genre: thriller/ dark fiction/ horrorPublisher: Kyrobooks LLCDate of Publication: July 1, 2025ISBN: 978-1966857006ASIN: B0DSVNHBY8 Number of pages: 238Word Count: 68000Cover Artist: Cha
Tagline: Hunger. Desperation. Terror. A mother's love knows no bounds - neither does her appetite.
Book Description:
A vampire's existence is a delicate balance between predator and pretense. For Trish, that balance includes a loving husband, an innocent son, and a trail of bloodless corpses. When her latest hunt at Miller University goes awry, leaving a witness in its wake, her carefully maintained double life begins to crumble.
Months later, Trish sets her sights on a pure-hearted professor, but his death brings unexpected consequences. Captured by the victim's vengeful cousin and her violent friends, Trish faces a harrowing choice. She must either break free to protect her family or watch her perfect life dissolve into chaos. Can she escape before her husband, Randel, discovers the true nature of the monster he married?
Blood introduces K.T. Rose's chilling vampire horror thriller series. If you're drawn to dark supernatural tales, complex characters, and blood-chilling suspense, this story of maternal instinct versus monster nature will leave you breathless.
Chapter 1 – Chad
Trishwasn’t a student at Miller University. In fact, she went to Radcliffe beforewomen were allowed to take Harvard classes. No, she was at Miller with adifferent purpose in mind, and it had nothing to do with studying. She wassitting in some frat boy’s dorm room—Chad was his name—with her fangs deep inhis wrist, sucking on his musky skin and careful to lick up the mess of bloodthat ran from the wound like water leaking from a faucet. She considered themeal subpar; it was a little too sweet for her taste. Chad had certainly eatennothing but cookies and Jello shots all day, skipping protein and salt.Luckily, human blood naturally had enough protein and salt in each sip; Chadwould sustain her for a month. Lightheaded and intertwined in gluttonous bliss,her body swayed with delight as she took him in.
Chadtwitched at the shoulders as he lay on the extra-long twin bed, his body limpand lacking the oxygen needed for consciousness, let alone enough to put up afight. Trish figured that he had been about twenty-one years old. He was tallenough to play sports, and his build was fair with a little weight around hismiddle. His face was empty of wrinkles, young and new, and his smile waspearly. Chad had taken the time to chat her up before they headed to his room.He said something about playing an instrument and liking computers. Hecertainly told the truth about that, judging by the black trombone case leaningagainst a desk with the biggest monitors she’d ever seen sitting on top of it.The room's small size—slightly larger than a walk-in closet—made the computerlook enormous. She was surprised the tiny room possessed a closet. To keep theconversation going, she pretended to be intrigued as she shared some lies aboutherself. She couldn’t remember if she was Julie from the accounting firm orTiffany from the dealership. It didn’t matter. Her meals’ backstories seem torun together anyway, making it hard for her to put hobbies, jobs, and nameswith the faces of the corpses in her wake. As she and Chad stood toe to toe atthe party downstairs, the only thing she thought of was his sweaty pores; thechemical scent of alcohol still wafted from him as he lay on his bed dying.Trish hated the smell, but it signified easy prey, like most college boys,truckers, or, in desperate times, a person down on their luck left to digthrough pub and restaurant dumpsters. They were all so easy to trap and drain.
Trishcaressed the edges of the lacerations on Chad’s arm with her tongue, pushinghis blood to flow into her mouth as the party raged on beneath her feet. Theattendees roared and chanted, yelled for more beer, and demanded someone totake their shirt off. The voices were the familiar sounds of the naïve—toodrunk and high on acid or pot to notice there was a monster upstairs.
Sometimes,Trish wondered if college students’ parents bothered to teach them the basics;namely, not to bring strange women into their rooms. But, no matter how thinand pale she looked in that dark dress, men always fell for her. Her leanfigure and plump lips were effective bait—irresistibly mysterious, she wastold. Still, when the police found their bodies, there was always mourning anda sense of loss for someone so young and talented. Someone that human societyclassified as potentially important. Chad believed that hype, having told herthat he was working on a chemical engineering degree and minoring in music. Hewas so close to graduating and living that life. As he spoke, Trish picturedhim getting married to some nurse, buying a house, and having kids, becausethat’s what humans did. But what Chad didn’t know—a tidbit that she decided tokeep to herself— was that he was doomed to become an unhappy, overworked middlemanager who flirted with the idea of sticking a barrel in his mouth. She’d seenmany people like him over the last one hundred and thirty-seven years. Chad wasa cliché; there was nothing special about his dreams because he wouldn’t livelong enough to loathe them. In fact, Chad had done Trish a favor by curing hercramps and insufferable hunger pains, and for that, she was grateful.
Chadstopped jerking, and her belly was full. She slowly withdrew her fangs,allowing blood to drip onto her lap. She used one hand to get a tight grip onhis arm, forming a tourniquet. There was no pulse, just as she expected. Withher free hand, she pulled the pocketknife from her leather tote, which layagainst her thigh.
Trishlearned a long time ago that a murder could be hidden in plain sight. By thetime prey was found, their bodies would bleed out from the wrist or the neck.It could be suicide. It could be murder. The police never really knew. Eventhough she had to leave Chad in his bed for everyone to find, she preferredgetting rid of the corpse by burying it somewhere massive like the ocean, thelake, a construction site…a dump. She’d make the authorities look for months,years, decades, then wash her hands of the situation, because if they did findthe body, there was no DNA—the biological code they used to match a crime witha killer.
Shepulled the blade up Chad’s wrist, along her fang marks. The knife tore his skinin half and flooded the wound with his leftover liquids. His blood had gonesyrupy and thick, tempting her to lick it dry. But it was close to clotting; itwould taste bitter and have all the consistency of old, clumpy cottage cheese.
Trishlaid Chad’s arm on his bed and considered his pale face. He was a differentperson from the man she made out with and strangled before she went in for thekill. His eyelids were at half-mast and he seemed peaceful.
Sheunclenched his fingers and dipped them into the new gash. Then she slid theknife into his palm, staging his body.
Thenshe listened. She listened hard and kicked herself for not doing so sooner. Shedidn’t think straight, or at all, when she was hungry, and Chad seemedreserved—she was sure that his room was empty and that no one knew about thewoman that he allowed upstairs. He’d even locked the door behind them. Duringher quick survey upon entry, she didn’t see anything. As they huffed and madeout, swapped tongues and giggled, she didn’t hear anything alarming. And as shesubdued him and slurped his blood, she didn’t smell anyone.
Butright then was the crucial time to listen and engross herself in herenvironment because she was done eating. It was time to leave unnoticed becauseanything could happen around them. Them, meaning humans. Them, meaning bloodbags. Them, meaning food…
Trishheard a young girl vomiting outside, just below the window. She imagined itsmelled like cheap vodka and tapas. The boys just beneath her feet slammedshots of what smelled like pure ethanol. A girl bawled her eyes out just nextdoor as she yelled about how someone was a horrible boyfriend.
Andthen Trish heard heavy breathing in the closet. The hairs on her neck rose.
About the Author:
K.T. Rose is a horror, thriller, supernatural, paranormal, and suspense author based in Detroit, Michigan. She shares her passion for spine-chilling stories with readers through flash fiction on her blog. Her works include Trinity of Horror, The Haunting of Gallagher Hotel, the Netted Series, and the Trish Vampire Horror and Serial Killer Thriller Series.
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August 27, 2025
A Bewitching Wednesday
Cover Reveal: YOU’RE DEAD TO ME, REED WALKER by Gwenyth Reitz #CoverReveal #YAPRN #PNR #RomCom
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“Heinrich offers an engrossing metaphysical excursion through the quantum realm to discover the meaning of life in this contemplative debut...[His] rich, multilayered backdrop of existential food for thought propel this story to a truly transcendental experience.”
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YOU’RE DEAD TO ME, REED WALKERGwenyth Reitz
Genre: YA supernatural romcom/ YA PNRPublisher: Macmillan / Roaring Brook PressISBN: 9781250404176Kindle ISBN: 9781250404169Number of pages: 368Word Count: 85,000Cover Artist: Jacqueline Li
Tagline: They’d kill each other…if they weren’t already dead
Book Description:
A swoonworthy YA supernatural romcom where two academic rivals are trapped as ghosts to haunt the same house.
They'd kill each other...if they weren't already dead.
Tessa Sinclair is a winner. Winner of spelling bees, science fairs, and scholarships. So when she finds herself unexpectedly dead in an abandoned mansion graduation party, she's none too pleased.
What's worse, her academic rival—the Harvard-bound, Mr. Perfect Reed Walker—is there too, deceased, smug, and annoying as hell. Being a ghost is hard enough, but it's a thousand times worse having to haunt the same house with your nemesis.
But as Tessa and Reed retreat to R.I.P in their respective corners of the mansion, a mystery begins to unfurl about the exact cause of their deaths. Though they'd rather die (again) than work together, they'll need to find a way to overcome their differences in order to hunt down a murderer on the loose.
And should they happen to fall for each other along the way...Who ever said you can't find love after death?
About the Author:Gwenyth Reitz was born in Sri Lanka, and has since lived and worked in California, Washington, Alaska, Montana, Japan, and Mongolia. When not intrepidly exploring, she writes genre-blending young adult stories with swoony romance, mystery, humor, and heart. Gwenyth now lives with her husband and two kids in New York City, where she can often be found scribbling late into the night on her rooftop like the caffeine-obsessed night owl she is. You're Dead to Me, Reed Walker is her debut novel.
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August 21, 2025
Release Day Blitz Oaths and Vengeance by Susan Illene #Romantasy
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Oaths and VengeanceRealm of Zadrya Book OneSusan Illene
Genre: RomantasyDate of Publication: August 22nd, 2025ISBN: 979-8-9876902-3-9ASIN: B0F6D6566BNumber of pages: 505Word Count: 148,000Cover Artist: Hannah Sternjakob
Book Description:
Darrow has so many secrets that even those closest to him don't know them all, but she's about to become his favorite. He is powerful, ruthless, and her sworn enemy. The wickedly good-looking elf is also cursed never to love.
Aella should stay far away from him, especially considering he could kill her from a distance with little effort. Except that someone close to her is dying, and he is the only person in the realm with the means to help. She has strong powers of her own to offer in exchange, but to her dismay, Darrow wants a secret marriage as part of the bargain.
Fae marriages are forever, so she'd always be his.
With other factors pushing her toward it, she agrees to a private wedding that the king himself officiates while hiding the ceremony from her disapproving family. Aella suspects there is far more to Darrow’s motives if Zadrya's monarch is involved. It isn't long before she discovers that dark forces are circling, and it’s her rare magic they want to use or eradicate by any means necessary. Her new husband has drawn her into a dangerous conflict started centuries ago that could either end in the salvation or destruction of their world. If she wants to survive, she’ll need to trust Darrow with her body, but never her heart.
Note- This novel is an enemies-to-lovers, slow-burn romantasy. It contains adult content, including violence, foul language, spicy scenes, torture, and ruthless plants and creatures. Read at your own discretion.
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I’d barely started working on my garden the followingday when a servant in a crisp black uniform appeared at the archway entrance.Parzival cleared his throat, unwilling to risk the ire of my plants. Ten yearsago, a new groundskeeper from a distant village made the mistake of entering mysanctuary without knowing the dangers. He’d brushed against one of thecrunchertraps and lost a chunk of his thigh.
As he howled in pain, the other one snapped at hisrear end. I heard the screams from above in my room and looked out my window tofind several species of my flora had de-rooted to chase the poor man. It tookme an hour to wrestle them back into their places. Once blood spilled withinthe garden walls, some of my plants became opportunistic and vicious.
I’d worried my uncle would be angry about his newgroundskeeper getting maimed, but I should have known better. He found itamusing. It was one of the rare times he’d even seemed pleased with me, whichnearly made me want to do away with the whole garden, but I loved it too muchand couldn’t do that. I’d brought Briauna to heal the injured man. Feelinghorrible about the incident, we found safer employment for him in a locationfar from here. Ever since, though, no one had dared enter the walled enclosurewithout my permission. That was exactly the way I wanted it.
“Yes?” I asked, setting my trimming shears down.
The tractvine I was tending primarily grew undergroundas it should, but the coiled top with a single yellow bloom could take over thegarden if I didn’t keep it under control. If anyone upset it, the vines underthe soil would shoot out and wrap around a person’s body, squeezing them todeath and then slowly consuming them like a snake. All the while, it secretedtoxins to break down the body faster.
It was a gruesome way to go. The plant typically grewin the thickest forests to the north and wasn’t easy to acquire. Thankfully, Ihad a natural affinity for flora, so I could coax the seedlings to leave theirhome. I also offered mice to keep them busy and content during transport.
“Lord Morgunn has requested your presence in hisoffice.” The stuffy butler looked me up and down scornfully. “I advise you towash and change into something presentable first, but do hurry. He does notwish to be kept waiting long.”
This was one elf I wouldn’t have minded tossing intomy garden to feed my plants. Parzival wasn’t only a butler but also a closeconfidant to my uncle. More than once over the years, he’d caught me doingsomething “questionable” and snitched on me. Lord Morgunn was especially cruelin his punishment if his favorite servant told him about the offense.
One time, when I was fifteen, Parzival caught mesneaking out of my room at night. He had my ankle chained to a tree in thenortheast orchard. The whole night, I had to fend off vicious night creaturesby throwing stones and using my wind magic, which I wasn’t very adept at usingthen. While most fae parents used creative punishments to keep their offspringin line, my uncle was brutal.
“I’ll hurry,” I said, taking the trimmers to a lockbox at the far end of the garden.
If I left them out, some of the plants couldn’t betrusted, and bad things might happen to my passive varieties that couldn’t moveor fight back. I didn’t need another massacre to clean up after leaving out theshears last time.
About the Author:Susan Illene served in the U.S. Army for eleven years, working first as a human resources specialist and later as an Arabic linguist. She served primarily in Airborne units and did two deployments to Iraq. After leaving the army, she studied history at the University of Oklahoma. She currently lives with her husband and two sons.
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