Cukoo

 

Title: Cuckoo

Series: Devil's Murder MC #7

Author: Nikki Landis

Genre: Dark MC Paranormal Romantic Suspense

Tropes: Friends to Lovers/Foster Siblings/Found

Family/One Bed/Touch Her & Die/Second Chance

Childhood Trauma/Trauma Bonding

Release Date: June 29, 2025

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Never give up on second chances.

Cuckoo has always been a jokester. He’s the type of guy who sees humor in everything because, at one time, he never thought he’d ever laugh again.

It began in tender years when he found an old trunk full of costumes. A Beggar’s Night filled with candy, secrets, and screams. Cuckoo can still hear the shrill sounds in his dreams.

And then there was her. His foster sister and the little angel he swore to protect. Cuckoo took those beatings for her. He lied for her. He gave up everything. . . for Katrina.

And then she disappeared. A ghost in the darkness. He never saw her again.

Fifteen years later, Cuckoo still has all those costumes. He checks every corner and peers through every open door. Because he knows someday he’ll see his angel again.

He just never expects to collide with her while riding his Harley. Katrina isn’t the little girl from his childhood, but he isn’t the same boy either. They’re both trying to shove the past behind a locked door.

But the funny thing about trauma? It never stays hidden. With Katrina’s life in danger and the clock ticking, Cuckoo must find a way to keep her safe and end the bastard threatening them both.

And this masked vigilante role? It’s one Cuckoo was born to play.

Cuckoo is a full-length, dark romance with a paranormal twist, violence, biker slang, forced proximity, and a protective stalker outlaw in a foster sibling, friends-to-lovers, second chance, suspenseful adventure. For best enjoyment, the series should be read in order since ongoing storylines and characters appear throughout and overlap.

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Nikki Landis is the USA Today & International Bestselling, Multi-Award-Winning Author of over 50 romance novels in the MC, reverse harem, paranormal, dystopian, and science fiction genres. Her books feature deadly reapers, dark alpha heroes, protective shifters, and seductive vampires along with the feisty, independent women they love. There's heart-throbbing action on every page as well as fated mates and soul bonds deep enough to fulfill every desire.

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The Squire and His Magical Library Release Blitz

I am so excited that the prequel to The Castle in Kilkenny: Fairy Tales Book’s, THE SQUIRE AND HIS MAGICAL LIBRARY by Christy Matheson is available now and that I get to share the news!

 

If you haven’t yet heard about this wonderful book, be sure to check out all the details below.

 

This blitz also includes a giveaway for copies of the eBook courtesy of Christy & Rockstar Book Tours. So if you’d like a chance to win, check out the giveaway info below.

 

About The Book:

Title: THE SQUIRE AND HIS MAGICAL LIBRARY (The Castle in Kilkenny: Fairy Tales Book 4)

Author: Christy Matheson

Pub. Date: May 25, 2025

Publisher: Buttercup Books

Formats: eBook

Pages: 188

Find it: Goodreads, https://books2read.com/The-Squire-and-His-Magical-Library

What if he doesn’t have to be a warrior?

What if fate is something he can choose?

Despite the druids’ prediction that Rian would become a great warrior, he hates the king’s training program. After the first year’s Trials, humiliated and angry, Rian flees the other squires to hide in the cellars...where he finds a magical library and a wren-like Fae who explains that he can choose his own fate. Each year, one figurine crumbles and one possible fate disappears because of the choices he's made. He should be able to make the Warrior disappear before he turns eighteen, right?

Meanwhile, Rian helps two very different princesses—one bent on becoming a warrior to seek revenge, and the other imprisoned by blindness. As Rian’s decisions become entangled with his friendships, the figurines vanish one by one. As the years go by, does he have any choice left about his own future?

Read now, to journey back to 3rd-century Ireland with a reluctant young hero! 

With characters based on Irish mythology, this historical fantasy has plenty of action but no gore.  

It takes place in the same world as the other “Castle in Kilkenny” books, but is the earliest book featuring these characters, so is a true stand-alone.

 Start your journey with the prequel and then grab the rest of the series here!

 

Excerpt:

I guess I can’t get much more lonely and shameful than I already am.

The door swings smoothly at my touch, and warmth hits me as the light makes me blink.

No one’s here. And it still feels welcoming.

I hobble to the fire and sink onto the soft chair. Whoever owns it isn’t using it, and I’ll leave soon. After a long moment, I open my eyes. At my fingertips is a steaming cup and a jar of salve.

I sniff them both. The castle policy is that anyone is allowed appropriate supplies. I’m a warrior, even a junior one. I am definitely allowed to take medicine.

I rub the salve on the worst of my injuries. It works even faster than usual, the pain fading right away.

So by the time I drink the tea, I’m feeling well enough to look around. Carefully.

I warm my hands against my tea, feeling more alert with each sip. The patterns on the rugs seem familiar, but the construction is softer and denser than anything else in the castle. I understand what the furniture is for, but the shapes and materials are like nothing I’ve ever seen. The mantle is constructed of absolutely smooth stone, gray and red veins swirling against the white, and the ironwork for the fireplace is more delicate and complicated than anything the king’s smithy could produce. The light is coming from tall vases with colored glass hats, and the hats are glowing. I examine one closely, and find a little toggle that makes the flame go on and off. Definitely magic. Besides, even a king couldn’t afford that much glass, and he wouldn’t put it in the basement if he did.

I’m not sure if that’s better or worse. Are there fae living underneath the castle?

Well, I’m here now, and I’ve already drank and used their medicine—so if it’s a magical trap, I’m already caught.

 

About Christy Matheson:

Christy writes romantic Regency fiction about friendship, family, and finding one's place in an ever-changing world.

Christy is an embroidery artist, classically trained pianist, and sews all of her own clothes. She lives in Oregon, on a country property that fondly reminds her of a Regency estate (except with a swing set instead of faux Greek ruins), with her five children, two Shelties, a bunny, and an improbable amount of art supplies.

She is a co-editor for the short story anthology, Feisty Deeds: Historical Fictions of Daring Women, and her novels are represented by Kristina Sutton Lennon of Focused Artists. She is also an award-winning spoken-word poet.

She has degrees from Smith College and Lesley University, and is a member of the Women's Fiction Writers Association, Historical Novel Society, and Regency Fiction Writers.

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Losing Austin Blog Tour

 

I am thrilled to be hosting a spot on the LOSING AUSTIN by Michael J. Bowler Blog Tour hosted by Rockstar Book Tours. Check out my post and make sure to enter the giveaway!

 

About The Book:

Title: LOSING AUSTIN

Author: Michael J. Bowler

Pub. Date: June 10, 2025

Publisher: Michael J. Bowler Publishing

Formats: Paperback, eBook

Pages: 213

Find it:  Goodreads, https://books2read.com/LOSING-AUSTIN

Fifteen-year-old Austin Bowman vanishes off the face of the earth. Was he kidnapped, abducted by aliens, or murdered by his hotheaded brother, Colton? Despite the rumors and his troubled kid reputation, only Colton knows he didn’t kill Austin. He also knows what drove his brother from the house that rainy day. Or does he?

Riddled with guilt, Colton spends every waking moment trying to find Austin. Searching online for similar missing kids, he meets Keilani, a girl from Hawaii whose younger brother vanished the same day as Austin. Internet explorations reveal other kids who also disappeared, always on rainy days. Since none of these kids have been heard from since, alien abduction seems the most likely answer.

Colton endures years of frustrating dead ends and high school graduation beckons. Then something so shocking occurs that the world descends on the Bowman home in the form of media, law enforcement, even Homeland Security, and Colton’s life will never be the same.

 

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Michael J. Bowler

 

The day my brother disappeared was a rainy Saturday, and Casey—one of the few friends I still had—was hanging out at my house. He was in my grade, about the same size as me, with blond hair and blue eyes. He played soccer, but sports—except the video game kind—pretty much bored me.

Casey and I battled each other on my X-Box and ate junk food. My mom wouldn’t let me play the really violent games, but I had a few T-rated ones and that day everything was going pretty well until midafternoon when Austin started screeching.

“The hell is that?” Casey stared at me with his mouth hanging open.

I realized that all the other times Casey had been over, Austin had stayed quiet in his room.

Not this time.

My whole body tensed up and I felt my ears burn. “Uh, my brother.”

Casey’s eyes bulged. “Your big brother?”

I nodded, anger surging through me. Once again, Austin was embarrassing me in front of a friend.

The screeching increased.

“Jeez,” Casey muttered. “Sounds like somebody choking a cat.”

It was a joke. I knew it was a joke. But the “troubled kid” part of me rose to the surface. “Shut your mouth!”

Casey looked at me like I was “different,” too. “Dude, I know he’s weird, but wow, that screaming is crazy. Your brother is a retard.”

I dropped my game controller, and Casey barely had a moment to cover his face with his hands before I landed the first punch. It glanced off his raised arms and I tackled him off the chair, completely out of control. All he could do was keep his arms up and curl into a ball while I pummeled him.

Next thing I knew, my mother was dragging me backward and yelling in my ear, “Colton, stop! You’re hurting him!”

My fists struck empty air, but I kept swinging until Casey lowered his arms and gave me such a stunned look that my anger deflated.

What the hell had just happened?

Mom was pretty strong for a small woman, but then she’d had lots of experience restraining me over the years. She let go and stepped between us.

“What’s going on in here?” Mom demanded, hands to her hips, mouth turned downward in an angry frown.

“He went psycho on me, Mrs. Bowman.”

“Is that true, Colton?” Mom glared at me.

I could see she believed him.

Casey pulled himself together, wiped his bloody nose with a sleeve, and stood behind Mom, glowering at me. I knew he wasn’t going to admit what he’d said. I could’ve snitched, but what for?

“Yeah, it’s true,” I mumbled, lowering my gaze to my bare feet. “I don’t know what happened.”

Mom sighed loudly, exasperated. Every time I’d been in a fight since first grade, I’d told her it was because the other kid was mocking Austin. She complained to the school the first few times, but they always told her they couldn’t control what other kids said, and since Austin wasn’t even a student at that school, they were under no obligation to take action. I, however, was a student there and apparently—according to the administration—had an obligation to keep my fists to myself, no matter what the other kids said to me.

After numerous failed attempts to get action from my school, Mom’s standard response became, “Just ignore them.”

Easy for you to say, Mom.

By this time, Austin had stopped screeching. It was almost as though he'd acted out on purpose just to ruin my day. Sometimes I hated him so much I couldn’t even think straight. And then I’d hate myself for those feelings. Yeah, I was troubled, all right, but I was about to get a whole lot worse.

Devious

 

Title: Devious

Series: Villain #1

Author: J.M. Stoneback

Genre: Dark Mafia Romance

Tropes: Forced Marriage/Beauty and the Beast Vibes

Enemies to Lovers

Re-release Date: April 24, 2025

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It’s time to pay my father’s debt.

Nobody crosses Cayden Vitali and walks away unscathed. They call him Devious for a reason—he doesn’t forget, and he never forgives.

Lex Bartoli should’ve known better. He stole from the most dangerous man in the city. And now, he has nothing left to give... except me.

Lex's daughter.

The payment.

The bride.

Devious wants me as his wife. Not out of love. Out of revenge. If I don’t agree to marry him, he’ll take what he’s owed in blood.

The choice is mine:

Marry the enemy... or watch my father die.

The book was previously published and has been updated and changed. This is the 2nd edition of Devious.

Devious is a dark mafia romance, and the tropes are forced marriage, beauty and the beast, and enemies to lovers. The hero is morally gray, and OTT possessive and obsessive over the FMC with touch her and die vibes. It’s a complete standalone that ends with a HEA.

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