Sep 15, 2026 · 55 min · 10 segments
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which I feel like is one of our favorite authors, author of Divine Rivals, of several other really awesome fantasy books, she's coming out with a new book called A Bittersweet Spell, releasing April 2027, so next spring.
So soon.
And so this appears to be a...
I think it's going to be like second chance romance.
I wouldn't call it romantic-y.
I think it's more fantasy romance, right? Because I think the fantasy elements are a little bit more at the forefront.
And so it's going to follow this...
A man named Lorne.
He's a magical antiques dealer.
And then he's going to have to find... a woman named Aveline and they're going to try to, I guess, um, translate a mysterious manuscript.
So
yeah, sounds cool.
Yeah.
She's, she's a beautiful, beautiful author, beautiful prose.
All right.
Another, another book that I somehow have not heard of.
We literally just did an episode talking about new releases.
Um, Bethany Joy Lenz, um, author of dinner for vampires hayley james scott from one tree hill is coming out with a fiction book called the betrayal of cora wexford and so it's described as a romantic psychological suspense set in victoria era london amidst the jack the ripper murders which that sounds very interesting to me it's it does it's releasing october 20th so very soon
Oh, soon.
Yeah.
And so, yeah, we read her memoir, which honestly was really good.
I felt like it was literary at times.
And so I'd love to see what she can do like in the fiction world.
which I feel like is one of our favorite authors, author of Divine Rivals, of several other really awesome fantasy books, she's coming out with a new book called A Bittersweet Spell, releasing April 2027, so next spring.
So soon.
And so this appears to be a...
I think it's going to be like second chance romance.
I wouldn't call it romantic-y.
I think it's more fantasy romance, right? Because I think the fantasy elements are a little bit more at the forefront.
And so it's going to follow this...
A man named Lorne.
He's a magical antiques dealer.
And then he's going to have to find... a woman named Aveline and they're going to try to, I guess, um, translate a mysterious manuscript.
So
yeah, sounds cool.
Yeah.
She's, she's a beautiful, beautiful author, beautiful prose.
All right.
Another, another book that I somehow have not heard of.
We literally just did an episode talking about new releases.
Um, Bethany Joy Lenz, um, author of dinner for vampires hayley james scott from one tree hill is coming out with a fiction book called the betrayal of cora wexford and so it's described as a romantic psychological suspense set in victoria era london amidst the jack the ripper murders which that sounds very interesting to me it's it does it's releasing october 20th so very soon
Oh, soon.
Yeah.
And so, yeah, we read her memoir, which honestly was really good.
I felt like it was literary at times.
And so I'd love to see what she can do like in the fiction world.
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