Monday, March 16, 2026

Five Unless by Angie Day (Legends & Shadows Saga, #4) #UrbanFantasy #UF #Romance @angiedayauthor

Five Unless
Angie Day
(Legends & Shadows Saga, #4)
Publication date: March 24th 2026
Genres: Adult, Romance, Urban Fantasy

In this gripping finale, a clean romantasy where the last safe place falls under siege and love has to survive it all.

Welcome to the final round.

Mara and Kylan can’t be happy. Alec won’t let them. Hunting for energy is getting harder for every Legend. The Shadow mansion feels the hunger. Then Alec returns, not with threats but with force. He seizes the mansion, rips their home away, and everything Mara built with Kylan and their found family fractures instantly. He leaves her one challenge: find the safest place you can.

Driven into hiding, they reach for the one place that might be out of Alec’s reach. Secrets surface. Loyalties bend. Alec will not relent. Mara must decide who to fight and who to save when not everyone can survive.

Expect a fade to black fantasy romance in crisis, finale-level stakes, and a relentless villain in full command. This urban fantasy pushes found-family bonds to the breaking point and intensifies a slow-burn love that refuses to die. Dark, vivid, and built to leave you crying, breathless, and satisfied.

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“What he does isn’t your decision,” I hissed at Fiona. “If you’re looking for a fight, you don’t have to go after him.”
Kylan pulled his arms away when he felt me tense.
“Too bad Thayer banned you from playing,” Fiona said, sizing me up and her eyes lingering on my gloves.
I smiled and cracked my knuckles. “You think I answer to Thayer?”
“Mara, don’t,” Derek said.
“Why not?” I asked, pulling off my gloves and settling into a low stance. “I’m feeling a little hungry.”
Fiona’s face paled slightly, even if she tried to hide it. She lowered her stance, ready to accept the challenge we both know she’d lose.
Kylan stepped in front of me and I didn’t budge. He caught my clothed arm, “Stand up.”
I shook off his hand and tried to step around him. He stopped me again with an arm blocking my path.
“If you really need to teach Fiona a lesson, take it outside. You have little eyes here,” Kylan whispered.
I looked around and caught Cassie holding Etta. Those little eyes watched me snarling at Fiona and ready to knock her out. I swallowed. I knew why Cassie didn’t like being here. I knew why she didn’t want her daughter turning into a Shadow.
Right now, I was everything Cassie feared for her little girl.
I stood and stepped back, slowly pulling my gloves back on.
Fiona relaxed, silently debating whether or not she wanted to taunt me more. Nikki would’ve. Most of the other Shadows would’ve if this was a year ago. But things were different now.
For better or worse.
I walked over to her and lifted my hand, now covered by my glove. She hesitated a second before she took it. I shook her hand and smiled, but pulled her closer.
“If you come after my brother like that again, I’ll cut an X on you so big you’ll need a full human to heal you,” I whispered. I tightened my grip. “Got it?”
She leaned back, already smiling. “I missed you.”
It felt a little twisted to grin back at her, but it was automatic. I dropped her hand and felt more at home here than I had in months.

Meet the Author:

Angie Day found her love of writing while in college where she studied psychology and eventually went on to a master’s degree. She noticed the need for romantic and fantastic adult stories that were still wholesome and clean. So, she took matters into her own hands. LEGEND UNDONE is her debut novel. When she’s not devouring the next book, she is spending time outdoors with her husband.

To follow along with her journey, find her on Twitter or check out her website.

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Lifecycle of Nations by Steve Jones ~ @RABTBookTours #RABTBookTours #LifecycleofNations #SteveJones #Finance


Lifecycle of Nations by Steve Jones


A New World Order and Maturity Model for Global Economies and Markets

 

Economics, Finance, Non-Fiction

Date Published: February 19, 2026

 

 

About the Book:

 In a world fractured by tariff wars, rising protectionism, and geopolitical rivalry, Steve Jones offers something different: a structured framework for understanding how economies truly evolve, and how nations can grow together rather than apart.

In Lifecycle of Nations, Jones introduces a five-stage Maturity Model for Economies and Markets, from nascent, resource-dependent nations to post-industrial, innovation-led consumer economies. Drawing on economic history, modern case studies, and the defining lessons of the 20th century, he argues that countries do not rise randomly. They progress through identifiable stages, each with distinct pressures, trade dynamics, and strategic responsibilities.

Readers will see how collaborative trade built prosperity after World War II, and how protectionism repeatedly undermines it. From Adam Smith and David Ricardo to the repeal of the Corn Laws, from the Smoot–Hawley Tariff to President Reagan’s warnings against trade wars, history provides unmistakable evidence: nations prosper most when they specialize, exchange, and respect comparative advantage.

Through case studies of China, the United States, Germany, India, Vietnam and others, Jones maps where countries sit today, and why the language of “reciprocal tariffs” must give way to a deeper understanding of “reciprocal needs.”

More than theory, this book serves as a diagnostic tool for policymakers, investors, business leaders, scholars, and engaged citizens seeking clarity in a fractured, multi-nodal global order.

The global economy functions best not when nations compete to win alone, but when they recognize that prosperity is shared.

Lifecycle of Nations is both a map and a mirror for the 21st century.


BONUS ~ Readers also receive access to a complimentary mini-book, Churchill’s Leadership Lessons from American Presidents, distilling five timeless principles Churchill drew from Washington, Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Truman — leadership insights that shaped Allied victory, built the post-war world order and remain urgently relevant today.



About the Author:

 

 Steve Jones is an Economist, Entrepreneur, Historian, and International Analyst and Commentator on geopolitics, trade, and global governance. He is the business, marketing, and economic author of All to One – The Winning Model for Marketing in the Post-Internet Economy by McGraw Hill. Steve has advised governments, multinational institutions, and think tanks, and is known for his incisive, evidence-based critiques of the international system.

Following a successful blue-chip corporate career with British Airways, EDS, Avis, and Accenture, he founded a children’s sports education business, Sport4Kids. Inspired by the current global crises, rising trade wars, and his son’s fascination with economics, Churchill, FDR, and the rules-based world order, Steve began writing a new series of books exploring the origins of global governance and today’s geopolitical challenges.

The Churchill World Order Series looks at how world trade and the post-World War 2, multi-lateral, world order was created in response to the 20th Century world crisis and how it is challenged today. It also looks to take lessons from history to understand today’s challenges and how we can use concepts, philosophies and frameworks to address current leadership and global issues moving forward.

* Churchill’s Fascination with America and its Presidents Leading to a New Rules-Based World Order

* From the Atlantic Charter to Trump’s Tariffs Tsunami – A multimodal World and a Pacific Charter?

* The Lifecycle Of Nations – A Maturity Model for Global Economies and Markets

Future titles in production include:

* The Lifecycle of Intelligence: AI, Power, and the Future of Nations (How Applied History, Constitutional Principles, and a New AI Charter Can Shape a Fairer Technological World Order?)

* Churchill DNA to Trump DNA - The Man of the 20th Century and the Man of the 21st

* The 21st Century Multi-Nodal World – What’s Next?

Steve hopes that connecting the past with present-day challenges will provide fresh insight and potential solutions. His ideas include a re-imagined Atlantic Charter — a Pacific Charter between Trump and Xi — and a vision for a Neo Multi-Nodal World Order.

Beyond geopolitics, Steve is also a sports education innovator through Sport4Kids and the author of Fitness for Living. After years as a CEO launching world-class brands, a once-active sportsman had shifted into a sedentary lifestyle. His journey back to health and fitness forms the foundation of Fitness for Living. Today, Steve is passionate about building a community of adults who inspire each other to “fight the good fight” and grow younger together each year.


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Knight by Marteeka Karland ~ @RABTBookTours #RABTBookTours #Knight #MarteekaKarland #MCRomance


Knight by Marteeka Karland

Kiss of Death MC, Book 12

A Bones MC Romance


MC Romance / Suspense / Age Gap

Date Published: March 20, 2026

Publisher: Changeling Press



I thought my past buried until I learned I have a critically ill daughter. Only I can save her life.

About the Book:

Knight -- I just found out I have a daughter. Brynn. Walking back into Lavender’s world forces me to face the woman I never stopped loving and the child I failed before I ever knew her. The system doesn’t care that I’ve changed, and powerful men are willing to sacrifice Brynn’s future for their own gain. I will not let that happen. I will give my little girl my kidney without hesitation, and I will fight anyone who stands in our way. Redemption is not guaranteed, but this time I’m staying.

Lavender -- For eleven years, it was just the two of us, me and my daughter. Now she needs a kidney transplant, and I’m forced to find the man who walked out on us. Rhys is no longer the man I loved. He’s harder, dangerous, and bound to a motorcycle club I don’t trust. I won’t forgive him, and I don’t want to need him. But when becomes collateral damage, Rhys proves he won’t walk away again. Letting him back into our lives could cost me everything, but losing him after this would cost even more.



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Copyright ©2026 Marteeka Karland

Knight

A month ago, I had my life figured out. The people in Kiss of Death MC had become my brothers and sisters. They’d all had my back, in prison and out. The club represented the entirety of my loyalty. My life.

A month ago.

I’d been staring at this Goddamned email since I’d found it. I’d opened it. Read it. Then promptly vomited. I’d told Ada and she’d been excited, but the longer I thought about it, the more dread settled in the pit of my stomach.

As with most nights since I’d gotten the email, I sat staring at the screen. Just… reading the words over and over and trying to make sense of them. My eyes burned from the blue glow of the screen.

The hit came back as “close relative/first cousin.” Given the DNA Ada sent in was hers, I had very little doubt this child was my daughter.

Brynn Leahy. Brynn. The name Lavender and I had picked out right after her senior year of high school. Then later. The night I’d gotten arrested. She’d asked me about the name Brynn for a baby’s name. Looking back, after Ada had voiced her suspicions, Lavender might have been going to tell me then. We’d been interrupted by the feds, of course. Because I’d gotten greedy and stupid. Lavender had even given the child my last name instead of hers. I knew Lavender. We’d spent a good deal of our lives together. Practically grown up together, though I was six years older than she was.

She’d had a hopeless crush on me my junior year of high school. She’d been in the fifth grade. Even though I’d started out being amused by her, she’d quickly grown on me. I’d thought of her as an adored little sister. Right up until I’d come back from college after getting my masters in economics -- just in time for her to ask me to her senior prom.

I never even contemplated telling her no. Never occurred to me. Just got the day and time she wanted me to pick her up, rented a tux, bought her flowers, and showed up in a limo. No way she was getting anything but the best.

I’d swaggered to her door. I hadn’t been heavily muscled or anything, but I knew I was good looking. I also knew that bringing an older date to her prom would make her friends envious. Then she’d opened the f*cking door…

And I literally fell to my knees on her front porch. I’d begged her to marry me on the spot. She’d thought I was playing a bit, being dramatic to make her smile. What she didn’t find out for two solid years was I’d been totally serious. We’d kept in touch while I’d been away at school, but I’d never seen her in anything other than jeans and a T-shirt. The slinky formal dress she’d donned had me wanting to keep her covered and at the same time show her off so everyone knew the goddess in the room belonged to me.

Memories sliced through my brain painfully. Lavender had been the one person in the world I wanted to protect with everything I had. Still did. Apparently, I’d f*cked up twice. First when I decided I could make enough money to set us up for life sooner rather than later and got caught. Then when I’d basically told her to get lost and that I never wanted to see her again. And I wasn’t nice about it.

About the Author:

Marteeka Karland is an international bestselling author who leads a double life as an erotic romance author by evening and a semi-domesticated housewife by day. Known for her down and dirty MC romances, Marteeka takes pleasure in spinning tales of tenacious, protective heroes and spirited, vulnerable heroines. She staunchly advocates that every character deserves a blissful ending, even, sometimes, the villains in her narratives. Her writings are speckled with intense, raw elements resulting in page-turning delight entwined with seductive escapades leading up to gratifying conclusions that elicit a sigh from her readers.

Away from the pen, Marteeka finds joy in baking and supporting her husband with their gardening activities. The late summer season is set aside for preserving the delightful harvest that springs from their combined efforts (which is mostly his efforts, but you can count it). To stay updated with Marteeka's latest adventures and forthcoming books, make sure to visit her website. Don't forget to register for her newsletter which will pepper you with a potpourri of Teeka's beloved recipes, book suggestions, autograph events, and a plethora of interesting tidbits.

 

Author on Instagram & TikTok: @marteekakarland

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Publisher on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok: @changelingpress

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Saturday, March 14, 2026

Midnight Ballerina by Jhani Mills ~ @RABTBookTours #RABTBookTours #MidnightBallerina #JhaniMills #Romantasy #Fae #HeFallsFirst



Midnight Ballerina by Jhani Mills



Rituals and Relics, Book One


Romantasy

Date Published: February 14, 2026



About the Book:

She was born a rarity.

Lysandra has spent her life in a silk cage, dancing for a monster who sees her hybrid blood as the key to tearing open the veil between worlds. She is half-Fae, half-mortal, a living anomaly trained to suppress every flicker of power that could expose what she truly is.

Then they send a Destroyer to end her.

Rylan is the Order's most lethal weapon, forged without mercy, raised without attachment, sworn to eliminate hybrid corruption wherever it breathes. His mission is simple: observe, confirm, and execute.

But some targets refuse to be prey.

When the tether breaks and Lysandra's power erupts beyond all control, she and Rylan are thrown into a deadly alliance that will force them both to betray everything they were made to be. He will break sacred oaths. She will shatter the chains of her gilded prison. Together, they will ignite a love so consuming it will literally rewrite the laws of death.


Midnight Ballerina is a dark romantasy of obsession, sacrifice, and a bond forged in blood and shadow, where the monster you were raised to fear becomes the only one who sees you as more than a weapon.


For readers who crave: Fae romantasy, mortal/immortal romance, possessive heroes, powerful heroines, found family, he-falls-first, and love that burns worlds.

 

About the Author:


Jhani Mills is an award-winning, multi-genre author and founder of publishing imprint, Cipher Veil Publishing. Her work explores power, grief, devotion,

obsession, and survival across science fiction, thrillers, and speculative fiction. Midnight Ballerina is her debut romantasy, merging dark fantasy and romance into a story about breaking oaths, reclaiming power, and choosing love in defiance of fate.

 

Contact Links:

Author Website

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Death at a Firefly Tea (A Tea Shop Mystery) by Laura Childs ~ Cozy Mystery

 

Death at a Firefly Tea (A Tea Shop Mystery) by Laura Childs

About Death at a Firefly Tea:

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Death at a Firefly Tea (A Tea Shop Mystery)

Cozy Mystery

30th in Series

Setting - South Carolina

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Berkley 

Publication date ‏ : ‎ March 10, 2026

Print length ‏ : ‎ 336 pages

Hardcover ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0593815475

ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0593815472

Digital ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0593815489

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0FCRJMV96

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A brazen killer sparks Theodosia Browning’s sense of justice in this latest installment of the New York Times bestselling series.

As fireflies dazzle like tiny glowing lanterns, tea maven Theodosia hosts an elegant evening tea on the patio of the Tangled Rose B and B. But in this gentle darkness an intruder has made their way in and slipped deadly drugs into the baked Alaska of Mrs. Van Courtland, one of Charleston’s local grande dames. Shocked by this brazen act, urged on by Mrs. V’s grieving son, Theodosia begins her own shadow investigation. Soon, she finds herself at odds with a greedy developer, the questionable residents of Honey Badger House, a vengeful ex-daughter-in-law, ne’er do well relatives, and a housekeeper who knows all the secrets.

As Theodosia hosts a Moulin Rouge Tea and a Queen Victoria Tea, her tea sommelier Drayton is assaulted by a masked stranger and the fiancé of Mrs. V’s son is kidnapped. It’s only at the Starry Starry Night black tie ball that Theodosia stumbles upon the killer and gets pulled into a dramatic life and death chase.

About Laura Childs:

 

Laura Childs is the New York Times bestselling author of the Tea Shop Mysteries, Scrapbook Mysteries, and Cackleberry Club Mysteries. In her previous life she was CEO/Creative Director of her own marketing firm and authored several screenplays. She is married to a professor of Chinese art history, loves to travel, rides horses, enjoys fundraising for various non-profits, and has two Chinese Shar-Pei dogs. Laura specializes in cozy mysteries that have the pace of a thriller (a thrillzy!) Her three series are: The Tea Shop Mysteries – set in the historic district of Charleston and featuring Theodosia Browning, owner of the Indigo Tea Shop. Theodosia is a savvy entrepreneur and pet mom to service dog Earl Grey. She’s also an intelligent, focused amateur sleuth who doesn’t rely on coincidences or inept police work to solve crimes. This charming series is highly atmospheric and rife with the history and mystery that is Charleston. The Scrapbooking Mysteries – a slightly edgier series that takes place in New Orleans. The main character, Carmela, owns Memory Mine scrapbooking shop in the French Quarter and is forever getting into trouble with her friend, Ava, who owns the Juju Voodoo shop. New Orleans’ spooky above-ground cemeteries, jazz clubs, bayous, and Mardi Gras madness make their presence known here! The Cackleberry Club Mysteries – set in Kindred, a fictional town in the Midwest. In a rehabbed Spur station, Suzanne, Toni, and Petra, three semi-desperate, forty-plus women have launched the Cackleberry Club. Eggs are the morning specialty here and this cozy cafe even offers a book nook and yarn shop. Business is good but murder could lead to the cafe’s undoing! This series offers recipes, knitting, cake decorating, and a dash of spirituality. 

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