Release news, cover reveals, and the occasional note from the writing desk.
The wait is nearly over. Book two of the Harbor of Secrets arrives July 1st — and today I get to show you the cover. Agatha and Gideon, a boarding house full of secrets, and a harbor at dusk that knows exactly what they're trying to hide.
Here's a first look, the release date, and how to be first through the door on launch day.
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Emerald Fennell's *Wuthering Heights* adaptation — released earlier this year, starring Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi, earning $242 million at the box office — sent a particular kind of reader back…
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There's a reader complaint circulating this week that I want to address directly, because it names something real.
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Something has been happening in romance reader spaces lately that I've been watching with a specific kind of interest.
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Something is happening on BookTok right now, and if you've spent any time in romance corners of the internet this month, you've probably caught the edge of it.
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There's a phrase I've been watching show up in reader posts and recommendation threads all year, dropped casually, as if everyone already knows what it means: romantasy fatigue.
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Not the category itself. I have no objection to books you can read outside in warm weather. I mean the implication that a beach read should be easy, uncomplicated, light. As if the beach is a stress-…
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I got into an argument in a Facebook romance group last month that I'm still thinking about. Someone posted asking for "morally gray hero recs," and within twenty comments, two different readers were…
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A few years ago, "book boyfriend" was the kind of thing you said with a small laugh attached, half a joke, half an apology. You'd admit it to your reading group and somebody would tease you, gently,…
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There's a specific thing readers have been saying this year, across BookTok and Facebook groups and Reddit and comment sections everywhere, and it goes roughly like this: "I need a book that makes me…
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If you have walked into a bookstore in the last two years, you have seen it. A whole table, sometimes a whole wall, of fantasy romance. Dragons and courts and morally questionable fae princes, with c…
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Something interesting is happening in romance right now, and for once it isn't a new release or a viral cover. It's a conversation — a loud, searching, occasionally furious conversation about dark …
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It's real, it's live, and you can read it tonight. The debut Harbor of Secrets novel — Eliza Mercer, Captain Rowan Vale, and a paper trail worth killing for — has officially set sail.
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Fog, lantern light, and a ledger that can ruin a life. A few words on why I keep coming back to the harbor — and the kind of love story that only survives a signature.
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