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Title: The Shrike

Series: Standalone

Trope Reveal: August 26, 2026

Release Date: July 13, 2027

Author: Cora Reilly

Genre: Dark Romantic Thriller

Cover Designer: Ervin Serrano 

Tropes: Criminal Profilers, Game of Cat and Mouse, But Daddy I Love Him,  He's Obsessed with Her, Obsessed MMC,  Stalking as a Love Language, Romance with A Slice of Murder,  If He Touches Her, She Actually Might Die,  Age-Gap, She Will Be His Undoing, Professor/Student, Obscenely Dark Workplace Romance, Morally Gray Characters

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𝗖𝗿𝗶𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗠𝗶𝗻𝗱𝘀 𝗺𝗲𝗲𝘁𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗠𝗶𝗻𝗱𝗳*𝗰𝗸 𝘀𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗱𝗮𝗿𝗸 𝗿𝗼𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘀𝗶𝗻𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘀𝘂𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗲 𝗯𝘆 𝗨𝗦𝗔 𝗧𝗼𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝗯𝗲𝘀𝘁𝘀𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗻𝗱 #𝗕𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗳𝗕𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗧𝗼𝗸 𝗮𝘂𝘁𝗵𝗼𝗿 𝗖𝗼𝗿𝗮 𝗥𝗲𝗶𝗹𝗹𝘆.

𝗧𝗛𝗘𝗬 𝗖𝗔𝗟𝗟 𝗛𝗜𝗠 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗦𝗛𝗥𝗜𝗞𝗘…

Violet has one goal in mind: to be the city’s top criminal profiler. She’s smart. She’s hungry. She wants to stop killers almost as much as she wants to forget the twisted obsession she feels for Dr. Nathan Caster.

Nathan has never met a fellow criminologist he couldn’t best. Not until Violet arrived in his world as a student four years ago, with her sharp questions and even sharper eyes. He’s waited four years for her to graduate and it killed him every day not to touch her. Now she’s no longer his student, and they can both have what they’ve been waiting for.

Then the Shrike takes his first victim. Then the next. And then the next. Each body, pierced with thorns and dripping blood as birds sing in his wake. He kills without remorse. He’s impossible to catch. And Violet must hunt him down.

𝘐𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘩𝘶𝘯𝘵 𝘥𝘰𝘦𝘴𝘯’𝘵 𝘥𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘺 𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘧𝘪𝘳𝘴𝘵.

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Cora Reilly is the author of the Born in Blood Mafia Series, The Camorra Chronicles and many other books, most of them featuring dangerously sexy bad boys. Before she found her passion in romance books, she was a traditionally published author of young adult literature.

Cora lives in Germany with a cute but crazy Bearded Collie, as well as the cute but crazy man at her side. When she doesn't spend her days dreaming up sexy books, she plans her next travel adventure or cooks too spicy dishes from all over the world.

 

 

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RELEASE BLITZ - Red Wine Lover

 

Title: Red Wine Lover

A Small Town Romance Perfect

for Lovers of Growly Guys and Kissing K9s

Series: Tales from the Chocolate Lab Café #2

Author: Kristin Jeffries

Genre: Small Town Romantic Comedy

Tropes: Golden Retriever/Black Cat, Love at First Sight

Found Family, OTT Protective MMC, Meddling Fur Babies

He Falls First, Forced Proximity, Later in Life Love

Release Date: August 21, 2026

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Their dogs tricked them into one bed, but will their secrets kick them out?

Lauren escaped to Dogwood to start over, taking her Papillon dog, Baby, and her secrets with her. Running from her toxic ex and those who said she was too poor, too weak, too good-girl to make it at her age.

She’s ready to stand on her own two feet—well, her own two red, high heel, De Luxe Chucks. And she found the perfect place to launch her dream French bakery just down the street from her bestie’s café.

Unexpected distraction…or attraction? A certain tatted, black-bearded, sooty-eyed Frenchman, whose dimples don’t quite make up for his over-the-top watchful ways.

Wine seller Jean-Luc was struck by a coup de foudre—thunderbolt of love—the stormy night they met. He promised to return to his family wine estate, yet he can’t get the stunning and sassy Lauren out of his head.

Sure, Lauren parked Jean-Luc in the friendzone—she needs friends more than flings right now. But why is the recovering bad boy so hot to protect her at any cost? And why does he hide from thunderstorms just like his rescue Bernese Mountain Dog, Cabernet?

When instant BFFs, Baby and Cab, force the couple into sharing one bed, the stakes just get higher. Will they unleash their deepest desires? Or will they fall prey to their regrets and run from forever love?

Can Lauren and Jean-Luc trust each other with their hearts…and ALL their secrets?

Red Wine Lover is a swoony, spicy romcom featuring a belly-button-baring wine tasting, matchmaking fur babies, meddling found family, and all the rich, full-bodied feels.

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Free in Kindle Unlimited

AUTHOR BIO

Kristin Jeffries writes about her favorite escapes—romcoms and dogs—from her home in Portland, Oregon. After years in health care marketing, she decided to prescribe a dose of healthy escape from daily stress for romance readers like her. Kristin draws her inspiration from her family’s past Chocolate Lab Café in a small Midwest town. Plus, she’s married to the original red hot roaster who advises her on all things coffee. And she injects her affection for a long line of smouchy pups, including an IRL Pirate, into her tales.

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𝗦𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗺𝗲𝗻 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘁𝗲𝗰𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗺𝗼𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀. 𝗦𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗺𝗲𝗻 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝗼𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿.

 

I built my career helping powerful men close impossible deals. I never realized I was helping them destroy lives.

 

Arthur Harrow gave me everything: a future, a career, a second chance. For five years, I trusted him completely.

Then I uncover a pattern buried beneath the deals I helped structure.

 

Companies destroyed from the inside. Families ruined. Collapses that were engineered, not inevitable. And every analysis that identified the pressure points has my name on it.

 

I built the scalpel. Someone else did the cutting.

 

Evan Kincaid is the last man I should trust. He operates in the shadows of Arthur's world, watching me with an intensity that feels equal parts protection and obsession. The deeper I dig, the more dangerous things become, and the harder it is to resist the man pulling me into the fire.

 

Then I learn the truth.

 

Evan has been lying to me from the beginning.

 

I should walk away. But someone knows I'm digging. The threats are escalating. And the only man dangerous enough to stand between me and what's coming is the man who betrayed me first.

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He catches me watching him over the top of my laptop. The look he sends back promises more than words ever could.

The casual way he returns to the dishes without acting on it is its own kind of power play. He is patient.

He will be there when I look up.

That used to terrify me.

Now the terror has a different shape:

it is the fear of wanting this much and being right about it.

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If steamy alpha males, curvy heroines, and just the right amount of paranormal growl are your thing—meet your new favorite author: Delta James.

A USA Today bestselling queen of romantic suspense and paranormal heat, Delta writes fast-paced, heart-racing, panty-melting stories featuring strong women, dominant men, and more than a few fated mates. Whether it’s shifters howling in the wild or billionaires brooding in boardrooms, her books always bring the spice.

Delta didn’t grow up dreaming of writing romance. In fact, she launched her author career in 2018 after deciding her second act in life needed more passion… and possibly more bite. Since then? She’s published dozens of books across series like Wayward Mates, Otter Cove Shifters, Club Southside, Tangled Vines, and Mystic River Shifters—each one a decadent dive into danger, desire, and often, some well-placed discipline.

She lives in Florida with her pack of loyal basset hounds (aka editors with long ears and zero chill), and when she’s not writing steamy scenes or plotting revenge for her latest heroine, she’s probably riding horses, walking the beach, or white-water rafting—because why not?

 

 

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