Book Tour: Strange Familiars

Book Info:

Title: Strange Familiars by Keshe Chow

Genre: Adult Romance

Publishing Date: May 19, 2026

Synopsis:

All's fair in love and magic.

Gwendolynne Chan just needs to get through her final year. At Seamere College of Magical Veterinary Sciences, she spends her days using her powers to heal companion animals while her nights are spent studying for exams. As the top student in the magical familiars stream, she is on track to be awarded Dux of the entire school - as long as the pretentious twat Harrisford Briggs doesn't beat her to it.

Harrisford Briggs was born into privilege. His father, the Chief Financial Officer of Magecorp, a major global distributor of magic, expects him to come top of the year. Harrisford, though, can't help but notice that his father has been acting odd. Really odd. And there are strange whisperings, too. Rumours of uncontrollable surges of excess magic, which Magecorp has been trying to cover up, as well as rampant corruption within the Magical Ministry itself.

When these magical surges begin to rock their way through London, causing chaos and explosions and familiars going feral, Gwen and Harrisford find themselves without a reliable source of magic, putting both of their academic careers at risk. To fix this, they must put aside their duelling feelings of lust and loathing, and - along with Gwen's snarky cat familiar - team up to diagnose the problem. If they fail, not only is their education at stake, but also the fate of the magical world.

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About the Author:

Keshe Chow lives in Naarm (Melbourne) with her husband, two kids, and an ice cream-obsessed cat named Wasabi. She is a qualified veterinarian with a specialty in cats (Feline Medicine, specifically).

She won the 2020 Perito Prize, the 2021 Yarra Literature Prize, the 2021 Rachel Funari Prize for Fiction, the 2022 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards Prize for an Unpublished Manuscript, and the 2023 Uncharted Magazine Thrilling Contest. Her debut young adult fantasy novel The Girl With No Reflection was an instant #1 Sunday Times bestseller and has been shortlisted in the 2025 ABIA awards. Her second YA fantasy, For No Mortal Creature, released in October this year with Penguin Random House, and her debut adult fantasy, Strange Familiars, is due to come out in 2026.

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Tour Schedule:

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Release Boost: King of Fangs and Frost

King of Fangs and Frost by G.K. DeRosa is now live!

In Lunaris, crowns are won in blood.

Calista Vale was never meant to wear one.

Wolfless. Disposable. A promised bride to the Savage Wolvryn King--meant to stand behind him, never beside him.

But Calista does what no bride has done in centuries.

She demands more than a consort's crown.

She invokes the Blood Hunt. A five-night race through the frost for the Moon Crown, the crown of the goddess. A true queen's crown. The only crown with the power to command even kings.

If she's captured, she dies and all hope of saving her court with her.

If she survives, she can protect them all.

Twelve competitors. Twelve hunters. No mercy.

The king's bloodsworn weapon is bound to guard her in the rite ... and bound to the throne she seeks to usurp.

He watches too closely. Knows too much. And he's hiding something.

But so is she.

In the Blood Hunt, trust is a weakness. And desire is a death sentence.

He was never meant to want her.

She was never meant to crave him.

In Lunaris, power always comes at a price.

And with each secret that unravels in the hunt, the kingdom edges closer to collapse.

To win the crown... she may have to destroy the only male who could save her.

 

 

 

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USA Today Bestselling Author, G.K. De Rosa has always had a passion for all things fantasy and romance. Growing up, she loved to read, devouring books in a single sitting. As an adult, her favorite books were always young adult novels and she remains a self-proclaimed fifteen year-old at heart. When she's not reading, writing or watching way too many TV shows, she's traveling and eating around the world with her family. G.K. DeRosa currently lives in South Florida with her real life Prince Charming and their two little royals.

 

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Release Boost: Falling Undercover

Falling Undercover by Patricia Puentes is now live!

All Laura Moreno wanted was to prove--once and for all--that she was more than just okay-ish.

A homicide detective with something to prove, Laura volunteers for a high-stakes undercover assignment inside the writers' room of a hit TV show. Posing as a screenwriter for a high-profile book-to-screen adaptation, she’s tasked with uncovering the true identity of Vivienne Sinclair, the elusive author behind the bestselling novels the show is based on--after a murder on screen mirrors one from real life a little too closely.

Going undercover was supposed to be challenging. Pretending to belong in a Hollywood writers' room? Hard. Keeping her detective instincts in check? Harder. But nothing prepares Laura for Vigo Rivas--a tall, dark-blond Spanish screenwriter, single dog-dad, with devastating charm and a knack for making her forget every rule she's supposed to follow.

As the investigation grows more dangerous and the attraction impossible to ignore, Laura finds herself torn between a career-making case and the man she never expected to fall for--especially under a false identity.

With a killer to catch, a pen name to unmask, and her heart on the line, Laura will have to decide how far she's willing to go for the truth--and whether love can survive the ultimate undercover operation.

A sexy, witty mystery romance full of banter, twists, and Hollywood intrigue, Falling Undercover proves that the most dangerous secrets aren't always the ones you're chasing... but the ones you're keeping.

 

 

 

 

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Patricia Puentes is a mystery romance author and recovering entertainment journalist from Barcelona. After spending nearly twenty years in the U.S.--mostly in Los Angeles and Oakland, with a brief stint in Boston--she's now back in her hometown, writing stories where glam, love, and suspense collide.

She writes open-door mystery romances and rom-com whodunnits filled with banter, humor, and just enough steam to keep you turning pages. Her books include the Sol & Luke Mystery Romance series (Cluelessly Unscripted, Scripted for Love and Poison) and the Confidential Hearts novels (Love, Lines, and Alibis and the upcoming Falling Undercover).

Patricia can tell many funny--and occasionally surreal--stories about the celebrities she's interviewed, but she's most impressed by writers (and dogs). She lives in Barcelona with her partner and their spoiled Border Collie, Boira (aka Peluchín diabólico).

 

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Release Boost: Whispers in the Dark

Whispers in the Dark by Ashley Elizabeth is now live!

Whispers.

That's what he offers me when he asks me to marry him,

my heart racing beneath my chest as if it's waited its whole life for this moment.

But I'm not naïve.

I won't let myself get swept away in the fantasy that this is anything more than it seems.

An arrangement to help me inherit what's rightfully mine.

Even if it's all a lie.

And to ensure things don't get messy,

we establish rules.

Rules to remind us both that this is all an illusion.

But when those rules start unraveling and a buried secret becomes impossible to ignore,

will he prove to be my knight in shining armor,

saving me from the monsters that terrorize this world?

Or will he become the villain of my story,

shattering my beating heart?

To everyone in the darkness, he's a dangerous weapon that many fear for all the right reasons.

To me, he's my temporary husband.

A man I've quietly loved my whole life:

Mauro Alarie.

 

 

 

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Ashley Elizabeth is an author of steamy contemporary romance. Her books will always tell a love story with just the right amount of spice and, most importantly, end with a happily ever after. When she's not reading a romance novel or overthinking everything, you can find her at Starbucks, keeping them in business, or watching Jurassic Park for the thousandth time with her fur baby, Bailey.

 

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Release Boost: Rook

Rook by Becca Jameson is now live!

 

Brimstone house is a dark romance series with morally gray heroes who will stop at nothing to get what they want, and what they want is control.

 

He's watching me.

I can feel his gaze on me. Goosebumps rise all over my skin.

I don't know how I know. I just do. He's somewhere in this crowded quad, keeping tabs on my every move.

My heart is racing. I should be scared out of my mind.

Instead, I find it thrilling.

There's something terribly wrong with me.

I have a stalker. I don't know anything about him except the sound of his deep voice and the feel of his hands on me.

He's mysterious and dangerous and so dirty.

He consumes me day and night.

Controls me. Because I let him.

If I had any good sense, I would go to the campus police.

I'm living on the edge. Because I've never felt more alive.

 

Warning: This is a darker romance than usual for Becca Jameson. It could be disturbing for some readers. Please see my website for triggers. It is a stand-alone with an HEA, but the path is dark.

 

 

 

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Becca Jameson is a USA Today bestselling author of over 170 books. She currently lives in Houston, Texas, with her husband. Two grown kids pop in every once in a while! She writes a variety of romance genres, including paranormal, sports, military, reverse harem, dark, suspense, dystopian, Daddy Dom, breeder, mountain man, and BDSM.
Becca writes late at night, sequestering herself in her office with a glass of red wine and a bar of dark chocolate, her fingers flying across the keyboard as her characters weave their own stories.
During the day--which never starts before ten in the morning!--she can be found walking, running errands, or reading in her favorite hammock chair!

 

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Excerpt: At First Spark

EXCERPT: AT FIRST SPARK by @renee_harless releasing May 20th! 

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The Sweet Gum Café smells like grease and coffee and something sweet that’s been sitting too long on a heated rack. 

Lark slides into the booth across from me, glancing around like she’s cataloging everything at once.

“This feels very… you,” she says.

“Should I be concerned?”

“You probably should be.”

I huff a quiet laugh. And just like that, the edge of the day softens. Something I’m afraid only Lark could do.

“Tell me something about yourself. Something I can’t find out by asking any person in this room.”

Her inquiry should have been expected, but panic rushes through me at the same time.

“The me you know now wasn’t always me,” I say.

Her brows rise in that way that asks me to continue without saying a single word.

“What changed?”

I hesitate, afraid to show her that part of myself, then answer anyway.

“I was the town goofball for a long time. In my large family, it was a way to guarantee I got some attention. Funny T-shirts, silly slogans, things like that. I just wanted to make people laugh.”

Lark smirks and says, “I can see that about you.”

“Yeah, then there was a fire at my parents’ farm,” I say. “Nothing big. But I was there.”

“And?”

“And I didn’t know what to do, like I was frozen on the spot.”

Her expression doesn’t shift into pity, so I keep talking.

“I watched everyone else move like it mattered,” I say. “Like they knew exactly how to fix it.”

“And you didn’t.”

“No.”

I exhale slowly.

“It was as if suddenly I felt like the current version of me was taking up space, taking away the air they needed to breathe. I didn’t like that version of me.”

Her gaze holds mine.

“So you became someone else.”

“Yeah. Someone my family and the town could be proud of.”

She doesn’t respond right away, just watches me, like she’s seeing something new. Something she didn’t expect. 

I shake my head slightly.

“What you do matters, Holt. You matter, always did.”

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