Let me proudly and happily introduce to you all to my newest dark romance novel, A Cold Winter Night (cue screaming!) 🤩
It’s been FOUR YEARS since I last published, so I am BEYOND excited to finally be releasing another novel! Which leads me to… if you haven’t heard, I’ve decided to do things a little differently this time around by having some fun with my next release. How? You may wonder. Well, I will be secretly releasing ACWN later this year, but since it’s a secret release, no one will know what day it drops! Except for my street team members. Lucky ducks. So, no pre-orders, no countdown, just straight suspense and eager anticipation.
But don’t worry, my darlings, leading up until its secret release day, I will be dropping tons a teasers to hold you over. But that’s not all… the closer we get, I will also announce what month it releases in, as well as another really awesome secret that you will not want to miss. But until then, do subscribe to my Newsletter if you would like to hear and see all the exciting things first.
Lastly, the Book Cover Reveal drops July 21, 2026, so make sure to set a reminder and check back!
Now, go add it to Goodreads and stay tuned for more!
Early praise for A Cold Winter Night
“Tall, TATTOOS, ABS, Mysterious!” @wellreadchaos on IG
“Intense, Steamy, Captivating. The icy stare of this book already has its clutches in my heart, and I know I’m going to be obsessed.”@beatrice_lebrun on IG
Book Info:
Title: A Cold Winter Night
Genre: Adult Paranormal Dark Romance
Series: Standalone
Spice: Open-door, explicit s*x scenes
Tropes:
✨Second Chance Romance (for her)
❄️Doctor x Patient (she’s the doc)
✨Snowed In
❄️There’s a cabin…
✨She saves him
❄️He saves her
✨Widower
❄️Billionaire Romance (she’s rich)
✨Age Gap (he’s older)
❄️He’s fully tatted
✨Hidden Identity
❄️On the run
✨Dark Past / Secrets
❄️Emotional Scars
✨Mafia
❄️Norse Mythology
✨Scary Norse Monster
❄️Infertility
I’m still accepting members to my Street Team, so if you are interested in helping me hype up A Cold Winter Night across social media up until release day, and be among the first to read this story and see the book cover before everyone else, please apply HERE!
Buckle up! It’s a long post but totally worth it 😉
What’s included in this update: (If you don’t want to read about all the fun stuff, skip to the bottom to Bookish News to get to the big stuff.)
Randomness, Rambles + Life shananigans
Current fave snacks and drinks
Fave tv shows I’ve watched lately
Current reads
Bookish news 👀
Other bookish news…
Randomness, Rambles + Life shananigans
Hiiii, my darlings.
Okay, I know it’s been a while. I think I last posted an update back in Jan. Just blame it on getting invited to BookCon at very last min 😂 Like seriously, I got the invite to attend as a signing author at the end of Jan and the event was in APRIL. So, basically, I spent all that time before prepping for that massive event. And by massive, I mean 25,000 people! Long story short. BookCon was EPIC! I got to sight see around NYC, sold out of books on DAY ONE, met so many amazing people and made some insane connections that I can’t quite talk about just yet… but you bet I will scream about it come time.
So, what have I been up to post BookCon? Well, WRITING. After I got back, I have been so inspired to write and work on special things. I seriously haven’t stopped and I hope I never do.
WHAT AM I WRITING???
Well, book two of A War Amongst The Stars which is called A Wish Amongst The Souls. As most of you already know, I had to take a mega break from AWATS after having severe burnout and have still been struggling to get back into this world. I’ve started and stopped writing so many times, I’ve lost track, but I’ve started up again and I am feeling GOOD. The characters are speaking to me again, the universe is as vivid as ever, the romance is HOT AF and the magic is flowing better than ever. It’s finally coming along but damn stars almighty this epic series is a LOT. So, much so, I’ve had to deter and work on easier non-as-extensive sci fi fantasy works over the years just to give my over-worked brain some rest 😅 which leads me to those other works…
I might have written two more secret book series in my absence… 👀 A paranormal dark academia gothic romance and a fantasy romance series, but don’t get too excited just yet. These babies I am saving to query in hopes that maybe, just maybe, they might get picked up by a cool agent and fingers crossed, an awesome trad publisher 🤞🏼🤩
But in the meantime, I still have my paranormal vampire dark romance book I’m working on called Not Even A Monster that I’ve had to push down the list to finish writing in order to make room for another novel I am currently prepping for publication. THIS YEAR! Yep, you heard that right. I will be publishing a book this year! Closer to the end of the year to be clear. And yes, I have a date picked out but no, I am not disclosing that date just yet. Not until EVERYTHING is solid and ready to go. But trust, I will be dropping more teasers across social media, so keep a lookout there and here! Of course, my dearest Substack subscribers will get all the updates, reveals and opportunities here FIRST. You lucky duckies.
But seriously, you should totally keep scrolling.
Particularly down to Bookish News… 😉
Current Fave Snacks & Drinks
Current Fave Shows I’ve Watched Lately
Euphoria (That last ep… 😭)
The Boys (This show is INSANE but it’s one of those shows where you just can’t stop watching) 😅
The Testaments (A spin-off from The Handmaids Tale. I’m already on the edge of my seat, waiting for season two) 😭
The Boroughs (Binged this show over the weekend. Soooo good!) I’m so mad it already got cancelled!!
Dutton Ranch (Just started and am itching for more! I’m obsessed with Taylor Sheridan’s tv shows!)
Current Read
Call Me Cupid by Brittany Weisrock (Early read. Book not out yet) (You guys… I am already so hooked on this book. Ahhh I can’t wait for ya’ll to read it!!!)
Make sure to check out her other dark paranormal romance books and follow Brittany on Instagram for updates on Call Me Cupid!
That book I mentioned that I planned on publishing this year… THIS IS THE ONE!! (Cue screaming and jumping up and down)
It’s call A COLD WINTER NIGHT and it’s a beautiful yet tragic Dark Romance with paranormal elements in which explores a particular dark creature of Norse mythology.
HERE’S THE BOOK BLURB!!!
A COLD WINTER NIGHT BOOK BLURB (This is not the final book blurb, so it may change)
“When we say winters here are brutal, we mean it. Cold, unbearable and deadly. If you’ve been through half of what I’ve been through, then you’ll understand… winter here sucks.”
Clara’s life takes one earth shattering turn after a cold winter night that stole everything from her, leaving her with nothing but the pain, guilt and denial of her loss. Forced to replay those last precious moments she had with her loved ones, Clara refuses to accept the reality that the ones she lost, are never coming home.
One year later, after enduring enough, Clara chooses a dark choice that would put an end, to all her suffering.
That is until she meets him, Edvin. A lonely man with a haunting and tortured past left out to face the brutal winter during a night where he would have frozen to death, had it not been for her.
It was destiny that the two should meet. It was fate that had them cross paths, and it is their love that will heal their bleeding wounds.
A family curse that has spanned over centuries, with an ancient, mysterious and vindictive supernatural entity watching, waiting and lurking just around the corner, orchestrating more than the humans it haunts will ever know, life works in ways one may never understand, or believe to be true… but for Clara and Edvin, maybe the only hope of surviving this particularly strange winter together, is not just in the warm embrace of each other, but by forming an unlikely alliance with the one person they never saw coming…
That is, if their love will be powerful enough to save one another yet again, this time, from a dark buried past that is set on destroying them all…
~END BLURB~
AHHHHHHH! What did you think? Are you excited? Are you ready to fall in love with Clara & Edvin? Are you ready to bawl your ever loving eyes out throughout the ENTIRE book? And most importantly… are you ready to meet one scary Norse monster? Basically, you’re going to read this story thinking you know where it’s going only to be hit with a semi truck of a twist where you’ll end up thinking, “WTF!? I thought this story was totally going another direction!” But nope. I wanted to keep ya’ll on your toes with this one.
Anywho. Congrats! You my darling friends are the FIRST to be introduced to my new secret story, so I hope you’re just as excited as I am!
Idk when I plan on sharing the title and blurb with the rest of the world but I will eventually. But alas, I do plan to drop the cover here first and SOON! 🤩
I haven’t really nailed down a whole timeline of announcements yet as I was seriously debating on doing a random surprise release and announce it the day it was published but I’ve changed my mind since, so now I’m going forward with a normal release but I’m trying to make it the least stressful ever. Like, I do not plan to go all out. So expect the release of ACWN to be chill af. My goal… to just publish and move on quickly to my next release!
ACWN Q&A: Will I have arc readers? Yes! Will I have a street team? Yes! When can you apply? Idk yet but I’m working on it. Where can you find out more information? Here! All that jazz will come, so hang tight as ya’ll here will be given all the info before anyone else.
Now on to…
Other Bookish News…
If you’ve been paying attention to all my subtle hints and teasers that I’ve been dropping on Threads and IG since I got back from BookCon in April, then you’ve probably been wondering, “what the hell is going on and what do all these teasers mean!?” Well, I just got off the phone with my people yesterday and I asked them, “when do we think we’d be ready to share everything?” You guys… we’re finalizing everything now and will (fingers crossed) be making an announcement within the next three weeks! 🤩 I plan to start dropping even bigger teasers across all my socials leading up to reveal day so PLEASE go follow me everywhere and turn on notifications so you do not miss a single post. Trust me, you are not going to want to miss what’s happening because it is going to be EPIC!!! But all I will say is, I hope you enjoy the snow because it’s going to be cold where we’re heading, baby! ❄️🌌
The vampire author office vibes are certainly vibing 🕯️🥀
Fun fact about A War Amongst The Stars I bet a lot of you didn’t pick up on while reading. So, we know The Darkness and The Light are the creators of the universe who gave light and life to everything we know. We also know a ton of origin stories originated from them (magic, wishes, soulmates, heart mates, gods…well, there’s two tiny scenes in awats where Nolance consumes a drop of Serena’s light and blood and she’s just like “weird he’s done that twice now.” And way back when magic still existed on planet, mates would bind their fate with a ceremony that included drinking from one another. You see where I’m going with this? Yep. Safe to say we can add a vampire origin story to the list too. 🧛🏻♂️🩸
There’s a very…um special scene in book two that happens in ch one, A Wish Amongst The Souls that I CANNOT wait for you to read. I can’t give away anymore info about it but when you read it…you’ll def be like WTFFFFF!?
And don’t worry, more will be explained on the origins of vampirism but it’ll def be something different from what we’re already accustomed to knowing. All origin stories gotta start from someone and daddy Nolance sure has started a lot 😅
And as always, this series is setting up a whole universe of stories to come that I have been tirelessly working to bring to publication. Y’all just wait. We’re going to be seeing more than just celestial gods. We’re getting EVERYTHING! 🤩
Haven’t read A War Amongst The Stars yet? Read it here!
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Yep! I’m now on Substack.
What is Substack? You’re probably wondering.
Substack is an online platform that enables writers and content creators to publish newsletters directly to our subscribers inboxes, offering both free and paid subscription options which come with different perks. The layout is pretty cool. It has notes which is basically like Threads, and then there’s posts where only free and paid subscribers can see. It’s where I’ve migrated and where I intend to spend most of my time sharing my writing journey with all. There, you’ll find the real, raw ramblings and random thoughts of my author mind, exciting announcements and updates, reveals, character art drops, behind the scenes info and teasers of my current work in progresses, exclusive giveaways, author and/or story fun facts. And sometimes a daily look into my life and creative process. You’ll certainly see a more personal side of me there which I hope you love.
Basically, I plan on combining everything I post across all my social media platforms into one place, plus adding even more!
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