Spotlight: The Sea Queen’s Key by R.S. Kellogg

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Genres: Adult, Fantasy

At eighteen, Mira is one of the last humans in Breadcove Bay with formal training in Fire and Heat magic outside the faculty of Borealis University. Masitro has already lost a string of talented fire‑workers to failed confrontations with Shora, the Ice Queen, whose sightings creep closer to the city every month.

Mira just wants to get home for winter break.

The politics of a rogue ice queen and a missing mermaid queen get in the way.

Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/rskellogg/the-sea-queens-key-balancing-breadcove-bay

About the Author

R.S. Kellogg writes the Everyday Goddess Stories, the Mermaid Magic Tales, and fiction in the story realms of Breadcove Bay and Agratica, among other places. 

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Spotlight: The Dean's List by Rachel Van Dyken

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Release Date: June 23

AVAILABLE IN KINDLE UNLIMITED

A new adult dark academia romance with a scarred hero and a school full of secrets from #1 New York Times Bestselling Author Rachel Van Dyken

She spent seven years mourning him.

He spent seven years hating her.

Neither of them knows they're hunting the same secret.

They call it the Dean's List.

Not because of grades.

Because of sins.

At Brighton University, someone keeps a ledger of the powerful. Professors. Legacy families. Future politicians. Every affair, bribe, betrayal, and crime is carefully collected, waiting for the perfect moment to destroy the people responsible.

Delilah Quinn wants nothing to do with it.

She changed her name, rebuilt her life, and has one year left before she can finally leave her past behind.

Then Jude Mercer walks back into her life.

The boy she loved.

The boy she buried.

The boy who knows exactly who she is.

Jude spent years paying for a crime he didn't commit, convinced Delilah betrayed him. Now he's back, determined to uncover the truth and make everyone responsible suffer.

Especially her.

But revenge gets complicated when old feelings refuse to stay dead, and the deeper they dig into the Dean's List, the more they realize the ledger isn't exposing strangers.

It's exposing their families.

Someone has been waiting for them to come home.

Someone knows what really happened seven years ago.

And if the Dean's List finally comes to light...

It won't just ruin lives.

It will reveal that some secrets were never meant to stay buried.

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Meet Rachel Van Dyken

Rachel Van Dyken is the #1 New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today bestselling author of over 100 books ranging from new adult romance to mafia romance to paranormal & fantasy romance. With over four million copies sold, she's been featured in Forbes, US Weekly, and USA Today. Her books have been translated in more than 15 countries. She was one of the first romance authors to have a Kindle in Motion book through Amazon publishing and continues to strive to be on the cutting edge of the reader experience. She keeps her home in the Pacific Northwest with her husband, adorable sons, naked cat, and two dogs.

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Spotlight: My Twin the Murderer by Lindsay Kent

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Neuroscientist Evelyn Malcolm has built her life on reason. She believes in clean data, repeatable results, and the comforting illusion that the mind can be mapped, measured, and controlled. But when the man she has secretly loved is found dead, Evelyn's carefully constructed world collapses.

Now a prime suspect in his murder, she's forced back into the orbit of her estranged twin sister, Vivian—a volatile mystery writer and recovering addict whose life has been defined by impulse, instability, and excess. When the twin's DNA is discovered at the crime scene, the case fractures into something far more disturbing. Two sisters. One victim. Matching genetic fingerprints. And no clear explanation for what really happened.

As the sisters are pushed beyond their limits, Evelyn is forced to confront everything she has spent her life denying: the unreliability of memory, the fragility of identity, and the terrifying possibility that the mind is not a neutral observer, but an active participant in its own deception. And clearing her name may require the one thing she has always avoided: trusting her sister.

Propulsive, hallucinatory, and darkly funny, My Twin the Murderer is a mind-bending psychological thriller about the hidden costs of believing we are fully in control.

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About the Author

Lindsay Kent, aka The Hallucinarrator, is a filmmaker and psychedelic historian whose work explores the intersection of storytelling, consciousness, and psychological transformation. Her work spans decades, from global feature films and streaming series to campaigns for nonprofits and Fortune 500s. Her 2016 cult documentary Going Furthur retraced the electric pulse of America’s counterculture, while Plant Medicine dives deep into the visionary heart of an Ayahuasca retreat center in Costa Rica. With years of research into the cultural and emotional impact of altered states, she brings a rare combination of narrative craft and intellectual depth to the thriller genre. Her writing bridges art and awakening—using fiction as a way to make complex inner experiences accessible, human, and emotionally grounded. My Twin the Murderer is her debut novel. She lives in Half Moon Bay, California, with her husband Jim and their four-legged comic relief, Bodhi. Her twin lives five minutes away—and so, in a very real sense, so does she. More at: THEHALLUCINARRATOR.COM.

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Spotlight: Fault Line by Tim Smith

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Pub Date: April 2026

Genre: Memoir

A powerful and deeply personal memoir of survival, resilience, and self-reclamation. 

Through a series of intimate, chronological vignettes, Tim Smith recounts a childhood shaped by abuse, addiction, and emotional abandonment—beginning with his mother’s instability and the absence of a father who never truly showed up. Raised in an environment where safety was unpredictable and trust was fragile, Smith learned early how to endure. 

But this memoir is not only a story of survival—it is about what comes after. The takeaway is that the past may shape us, but it does not have to define us. Life is not just about what happened to you but about what you choose to become anyway.

Fault Line follows Tim’s long, uneven path toward healing, identity, and personal truth. With a voice that is direct, reflective, and at times unexpectedly humorous, he explores resilience and what it means to build a life after survival—and the quiet realization that you can carry your past without letting it define you. 

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About the Author

Born in Pensacola, Florida, Tim Smith grew up in the rural South in an environment shaped by addiction, instability, and neglect—experiences that would later form the emotional backbone of his writing.

Before becoming an author, Smith worked a wide range of jobs that reflected both necessity and curiosity about the world: from short-order cook to labor in a Navy shipyard, eventually building a career in the financial sector as an executive assistant. Along the way he also developed a passion for photography, earning recognition and awards for his work behind the camera.

Smith lives in Los Angeles with his husband and their three rescue dogs. His life now stands in stark contrast to the chaos of his childhood—a testament to the central idea at the heart of his memoir: that the past may shape us, but it does not have to define us. Through his writing, photography, and creative work, Smith continues to explore themes of identity, resilience, and what it means to build a life after survival.

Spotlight: Chords of Destiny by Kaylene Winter

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Release Date: June 18

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Music lives in my bones. It always has.

Even when grief carved everything else out.

I learned to keep moving before life could drag me under.

Until one night proves I’m not untouchable.

A blow I never see coming.

Sound cuts. Light fractures.

Everything I own disappears in seconds.

Something inside me doesn’t come back the same.

Alek Bozic steps into the space I can’t hold on my own.

The quiet man who’s been at the edge of my crowd for months.

Watching. Listening. Keeping his distance.

He doesn’t belong in my world.

I’m instinct. Motion. A spark I refuse to cage.

He’s control. Precision. A life built on rules.

He stays anyway.

Close. Steady. Unwavering.

I don’t do cages.

We make no sense.

Walk away, I keep my freedom and lose the one person who sees me.

Stay, I risk him loving the broken version of me and not the one who fights her way back.

Chords of Destiny is an opposites-attract, forced proximity rockstar romance where a virgin hero falls for a cool girl and fights to prove she doesn’t have to choose between love and freedom.

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Meet Kaylene Winter

Kaylene Winter is an Amazon best-selling author of steamy, contemporary romance.

Each character-driven novel is filled with snappy dialogue, pop-culture references and enough steam to make you fan yourself. Kaylene weaves authenticity, emotion and angst into a turbulent rollercoaster ride of love, passion and soul-searing romance always ending with a delicious HEA.

Kaylene lives in Seattle with her amazing Irish husband and gorgeous Siberian Husky. She loves creating art of all kinds.

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Spotlight: The Wednesday Box by Jonathan Kieran

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Publication date: June 18th 2026

Genres: Dark Fantasy, Fantasy, Horror

Some stories begin with “Once Upon a Time…”
This one begins with loneliness.

From the bestselling author of WistWood comes THE WEDNESDAY BOX, an illustrated supernatural horror novel for readers who love the haunting edge of stories like Coraline, The Thief of Always, The Graveyard Book, Neverwhere, and The Nest.

“At its heart, it’s a brilliant coming-of-age tale that isn’t afraid to get dark, showing the world through the eyes of a young girl dealing with heavy, adult-sized burdens.”

“Beneath all the strange events, this is also a story about exhaustion, poverty, protection, and the terrible compromises people make when they’re trying to survive. That emotional foundation makes the darker turns of the story hit much harder.”

May has learned to survive in a world of shrieking subway rails, soot-stained skies, and apartment hallways where silence, caution, and never asking for too much are simply facts of life.

But when a hulking stranger in a raincoat the color of broken promises begins to haunt her steps—on the train, in the tunnels, at her own door—May realizes that keeping quiet will no longer keep her safe.

Wednesday is the only day May cannot be alone.
The only night.

And when her weary mother leaves her with a new caretaker, May discovers that the tempting contents of an ancient box hold dangers far worse than anything she has ever feared 

The greatest danger, however, is not what hunts her, but the impossible choice before her…
Tell the truth and risk losing the one person she cannot live without.
Or keep silent and face the darkness alone.

Because below the city, something is hunting.
And it knows her name. 

“You’ll feel for May, just as I did. It’s quietly devastating in all the right ways.”

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About the Author

Jonathan Kieran is an author and illustrator with a passion for world travel and ancient history—and an occasionally bewildered grasp of the present. He lives in a rustic house in the woodlands not far from Big Sur, California, where he awaits the future confidently with plenty of firewood, a new cat named Beezley, mercurial internet access, a magical footbridge (troll-infested and everything), and a reasonable supply of Cabernet Sauvignon. There also appears to be a significant Pinot Noir backup; viticultural shortages are not to be countenanced.

Jonathan’s interests are eclectic. He is as likely to regale you with an account of his latest misadventures in the Midi-Pyrénées as he is to ask if you happen to have any spare cookies about the house—and if so, whether you might part with five of them. Nothing piques his interest like a good old-fashioned discussion about cryptozoology, Tuscan cuisine, classical English literature, the perils of pop culture, or the harrowing details of great white shark attacks.

In addition to running up and down various mountainsides to burn off calories accrued from the wanton consumption of baked goods, Jonathan enjoys a good party with people unafraid to laugh, and he veritably lives for bedtime.

He is the author and illustrator of The Wednesday Box, WistWood and the  Enchanted Heritage Chronicles, with more adventures to come.

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