It’s a new week, which means new excuses to avoid reality by diving into someone else’s fictional problems. Why deal with your own life when you could be worrying about whether the protagonist survives chapter twelve? Priorities. We get it, and we’re here to help you procrastinate productively.
I have 2 amazing books launching this week, but none of them release until Thursday and Friday! Would you look at that? We’re giving you time to catch up!
This Week’s New Releases
Title: Terms of Conflict
Series: The Freelance Vampire Book 7
Release Date: 05/21/2026
Two women could stop the war. One is already dead.
There are only two women on the East Coast who can keep vampires and witches from each other’s throats. One of them was dead before tonight’s peace summit ever began.
The other is Tatiana Sterling.
For six months, she’s played referee between centuries-old grudges and an ego-driven matriarch who’d sooner poison her tea than thank her. Tonight was supposed to be the payoff.
Tonight ends with a body, a missing opal ring, and nineteen witches about to decide a lot of things very quickly.
Tatiana has armed humans, a half-feral team, and a vampire boyfriend who’s never met a closed door he respects when she’s on the other side of it. She has minutes to find a real culprit before two ancient powers settle this the old-fashioned way, and her firm, her family, and a tech mogul’s secret database get caught in the middle.
Can the human in the middle hold the line one more time? Or has she finally taken a job that ends her?
Dive into Terms of Conflict to see who survives the night.
Title: The Sun Also Bites
Series: Penelope Coven Mystery Book 1
Release Date: 05/22/2026
A vampire walks into a retirement community. Someone’s already dead.
The dead man had a clean bill of health. Three weeks earlier, he’d had a pool bar confrontation in front of the whole community. That was all it took.
Penelope Covens has one rule: never stay long enough to be remembered. Eighty years of packed suitcases, scrubbed apartments, carefully unremarkable cars. The next city was already mapped when Frankie called—family, the way his mother was family—asking her to come to Palm Springs. Now.
By the time Penny arrived at Crimson Canyon Estates, the community had already decided. No police. No charges. Just cancelled card nights and an HOA review with Frankie’s name written between every line.
Penny has walked into harder rooms than a Palm Springs retirement community. She’s cleared people before, in places where the stakes were measured in wars. But she’s never investigated a gated community where every resident is armed with a casserole dish and an opinion.
Can Penny clear her oldest friend before the community turns its quiet, polite attention on her? Or has she finally walked into the one place she can’t afford to leave?
Pick up THE SUN ALSO BITES and step inside the gates.