Call Forth the Moonlight: Magíqon's Guide to Gryphon Liberation by Z.M. Celestaire + giveaway

Standing up for magíq means the world stands against you.

Call Forth the Moonlight: Magíqon's Guide to Gryphon Liberation
by Z.M. Celestaire
Apr 4, 2025
Genre: LGBTQ Ecopunk Fantasy Romance
Deubrise is a land blessed by the breath of the slumbering gods. Magíq lives within nature, powerful and beautiful. Few else can harness it besides the gryphons that reside in the mountains near Nico De Falco's home, and the rare magíqon like Nico's little sister. But magíqon are shunned and feared by modern society.

To protect himself from such treatment, Dr. Ackerleigh Sebring keeps his magíq a secret. Yet his "radical" teachings of magíqal history gets him fired from Ravensbourne University. Desperate, he finds a gamekeeper job caring for an imprisoned gryphon. Finally, he can be his whole self.

That is, until Nico follows a misguided impulse and frees the gryphon, injuring Ackerleigh accidentally.

Their fates—and feelings—become entangled in their determination to protect the sacred magíq of the gryphon. Ackerleigh and Nico will stop at nothing for the sake of liberation.

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Z.M. (they/them) is a writer, artist, and therapist. Writing and art have been a hobby for some twenty years now since they were a goofy little middle schooler. Z.M. grew up devouring urban fantasy authors like Charles De Lint, Holly Black, and Patricia C. Wrede.
Z.M. lives in Saint Paul with their spouse, human child, and fur children. 

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Cover Reveal: Bloodbound (Druadan Legacy Book 3) by Amelia Cole

Bloodbound (Druadan Legacy Book 3)
by Amelia Cole
June 10, 2025
Book 3 of 3: Druadan Legacy
Blood runs deep. My resolve runs deeper.

Tropes:

Why Choose/ Reverse Harem
Mile High Club
Age Gap
Betrayal
Dystopian/Post-Apocalyptic setting
Telepathic Bonds
Sci-fi War Horses
Multi-POV
Touch her and Die
Forced Proximity

My sister thinks she’s saving us. She’s wrong.

Rebellion brews in the streets of Venovia. The wealthiest families and Circuit scramble to dodge accusations while the air thickens with chaos and poison. Meanwhile, as a captive of my sister and leader of the Inherited Terra Movement, I’m facing my own hell.

I can’t fight back, not while she’s holding the lives of those I love as leverage. She’s determined to use my rare ability to bond banshees—mutated druadans evolved to survive the wastelands—believing it’s the key to saving the country.

But her experiments are cruel, and the cost is devastating. The banshees weren’t meant to bond with humans, and I can do nothing but watch as my supposed ‘gift’ warps people into rage-fueled monsters. With every passing day, I feel myself unraveling, slipping closer to becoming one of them.

The clock to save the country is ticking, but if I don’t find a way to escape, the person my riders love, the person I am, might be lost forever.

Bloodbound is book three in a series where the main character will end up with multiple love interests. It is a dystopian sci-fi romance and includes elements of violence, death, mental illness, torture, harm to animals, sexual situations, and infertility.
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Amelia Cole is a fantasy and sci-fi author. Her stories always include romance and speculative elements and are inspired by mythology, historical events, and they almost always involve horses in some way. When not writing, she enjoys reading, playing TTRPGs, dressing up for ren faires, and horseback riding. She lives with her family in Washington state.

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The Artist and the Dragon (The Castamar Duology Book 2) by Megan Van Dyke

 Welcome to the ARC tour for the upcoming release in Megan Van Dyke's Castamar Duology, The Artist and the Dragon!

The Artist and the Dragon (The Castamar Duology Book 2)
by Megan Van Dyke
Expected Publication Date: April 29, 2025
A Sleeping Beauty Fantasy Romance Retelling

Tropes/ Themes:
Sleeping Beauty retelling,
Phantom of the Opera vibes/themes,
Gaslamp romance
Reluctant allies
Grumpy/sunshine
"It's complicated"
Mystery
Curses
Banter
Pining/longing
Hurt/comfort
touch her and die
slow burn to spicy
"It's always been you"
The princess will save you
Family bonds
Monsters
Faking dating others while secretly dating

She loathes him.

He craves her.

But when a deadly curse threatens those they love, these reluctant allies must work together to hunt down its wielder before time runs out.

Bronwyn Kinsley helped overthrow a malicious and corrupt monarch. Now, she wants nothing more than to return to a quiet existence painting artwork in the countryside. No more pretentious court life, and definitely no more of the infuriating Malik who touched her heart and then went right back to being the flirtatious prince she swore to loathe.

But the so-called dragons, dissenters of the new monarchs’ reign, are hell-bent on preventing that peace and causing chaos within the kingdom.

Alistair (Malik) Ithael is determined to hunt down the last of the dragons and end their reign of terror. But his attempts to infiltrate their number require him to wear the careful façade of the playboy prince they expect. A guise that puts him at odds with Bronwyn, the only woman he’s ever truly wanted and one that seems to hate him more than ever.

When the dragons strike close to home and afflict Bronwyn’s sister with a deadly sleeping curse, Bronwyn and Malik must team up to save her. In doing so, Bronwyn enters the place she loathes most—high society. Because dragons live disguised in plain sight, and they’ll have to find them first. That is, if a pesky little distraction like love doesn’t get in the way.

The Artist and the Dragon is a retelling of Sleeping Beauty with themes and motifs from The Phantom of the Opera, and set in a gaslamp fantasy world akin to Bridgerton, but with magic. You can look forward to a slow burn, angst-ridden romance between two reluctant allies who harbor secret feelings for one another while trying to solve a deadly mystery.

This story is complete with a happily-ever-after and does not end on a cliffhanger. 

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Paranormal Fantasy: Even Vampires Bleed (The Even Ever After Series Book 2) by E. V. Sauvage

We're celebrating the release of Even Vampires Bleed with a tour! This is the next book in The Even After series and if you enjoy paranormal/ shifter romance, you are going to want to read it!

 

Even Vampires Bleed (The Even Ever After Series Book 2)
by E. V. Sauvage
March 28, 2025
Genre: Paranormal Fantasy
🦇She is a bat-shifter/he is a cockatoo
🦇Forced proximity
🦇One bed
🦇Who did this to you?
🦇Grumpy/sunshine
🦇Amnesia
🦇Female rage
They have deceived the humans, led them to believe they’re archangels, ruling over the world for far too long. But the bird shifters have nothing angelic or good. They maim, they torture, they kill. When they don’t toy with people’s brains… That’s what happened to my father. That’s what happened to my other half, Léandre. I found the first, his skull open on an operation table, after he was taken prisoner, and the second still has a chip in his brain, ready to blow up his mind. My world is one thread away from unraveling. But I won’t let them win. My name is Cassiopé. I’m a bat-shifter, a vampire, as humans like to call us, and those birds are going to pay for what they’ve done to the men I love. Do I have what it takes to avenge them? Only time will tell…

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Triggers: This book contains detailed sex scenes, violence, mentions of torture, murder and a heavy dose of heartbreak.

 

 

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E.V. Sauvage is a French author who writes in English and lives in Paris.

When she's not writing, you can find her reading books, collecting them, trying to paint or sew. 

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