There is a chill in the air and the scent of pumpkin spice on the wind. So take a seat by our fireside, my pretties, because Booktober is back.
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All Hallow’s Eve is when our bookish fantasies come to life. This spicy paranormal romance collection is packed full of spooky twists and tantalizing turns. Each page will suck you deeper into a world filled with vampires and demons–shifters, aliens and witches, too.
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Join us as we discover the sexy creatures lurking in the shadows who will raise the hair on your arms and warm your blood to boiling.
 
This year’s Booktober charity anthology features original work from:
Mariah Thayer
 K. O. Newman
Mir Stone
Shelly Ferguson
T. K. Eldridge
Amanda V Shane
Shanna Swenson
N. J. Johnson
Jade Bones
@dallas.e.love 
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All intimate scenes in this book are consensual, however, the depictions of adult activity may be graphic. As such, this anthology is for an adult audience only. 18+ readers.
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All proceeds will be donated in support of the National Domestic Violence Hotline.

Storm Tide, Book 4 in the Tides of Atlantis series is now live!
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B6GJ7KS9

Banished from the Underwater Realm, Isdra—a Selkeen princess of Seaverse—undergoes the dangerous process of learning to live in the human world all alone. When she runs afoul of a secret organization that hunts her kind, they give her an ultimatum: steal a legendary sword and kill the one who guards it to win her way back to Seaverse or die by their hands and cause her world to perish. Resolved, she takes on the mission. The last thing she expects, however, is the burning attraction she feels towards the warrior she finds beneath the sea when she does.
 
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Cursed by a band of witches, Viking warrior, Karr of the Völbroks, has lain frozen in an ice cave for over a thousand years. When the beautiful angel that awakens him turns out to be a murderous selkie, he fights his way through modern day Reykjavik to retrieve what she’s stolen and protect the city from an ancient foe.
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Drawn to each other from the very start, will Karr and Isdra’s growing desire prove too strong to resist or will the troubles of their homelands keep them apart?
 
18+This book contains sex, violence, alcohol and adult situations. If this material offends you, please don’t buy this book.

A little longer snippet from Storm Tide for #teasertuesday today. This snippet comes from a scene where Karr and Isdra are in the frozen Isle of Emar together after just learning a big secret. I’ll be putting out a longer excerpt later this month in my Monsters & Mystics newsletter. I love writing the Atlantis scenes in my Tides series. What's your favorite fantasy world?

Join the conversation on my Monsters & Mystics thread:
https://amandavshane.substack.com/p/book-teaser-from-storm-tide?r=slpqc&s=w&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

Happy Valentine's Day! I put together a list of my favorite love quotes to celebrate. Enjoy!

"I wanna love you and treat you right everyday and every night." - Bob Marley

"I love her and that's the beginning and the end of everything." - F. Scott Fitzgerald

"He stepped down, trying not to look at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking." -Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

"Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward in the same direction." - Antoine De Saint- Exupery

"You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams." -Dr. Seuss

"It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them." - Agatha Christie

"If all else perished and he remained, I should still continue to be. And if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger." - Emily Bronte

"... I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once." - John Green, The Fault In Our Stars

"She wasn't doing a thing that I could see, except standing there, leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together." - J.D. Salinger

"If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so that I never have to live without you." - A.A. Milne, Whinnie the Pooh

"I wish I had done everything on earth with you." - F. Scott Fitzgerald

"Yours is the light by which my spirit's born: - you are my sun, my moon and all my stars." E.E. Cummings

"I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched." - Edgar Allen Poe

"Doubt thou the stars are fire; Doubt the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar: But never doubt I love." - William Shakespeare, Hamlet

Here it is! The cover for Storm Tide is here at last!!

Finally, Karr and Isdra are making their debut appearance on my website and social media. Stay tuned for more news about the fourth book in the Tides of Atlantis series and be sure to sign up for my new newsletter / blog, Monsters & Mystics for more fantasy romance fun!

Hey paranormal romance readers! Where are my arts and crafters at? Do you love to color? Download this awesome, FREE, PNR coloring book and enter the PNR lovers coloring challenge. Download the book, print and color, then post your amazing artwork on social media and tag the author that's hosting the challenge you chose and be entered to win a prize. I'd love it if you chose one of my challenges to enter. I have two character pages in the challenge, one from King of the Tides and one from Crystal Tide.

https://BookHip.com/KQCQNGF

*Be sure to post your masterpieces online (Instagram, Facebook etc.) and tag me @amandavshane!

Happy Monday! Just a quick note to let you know that my new flash fiction story is up on the Wild At Heart blog, and Monday Motivation post.

Have a great week!

Things are getting spookier by the minute around my little town. Not really, but there is an excitement in the chilly fall air as Halloween and weekend fall festivities approach. Just as a check in, I wanted to let you know that edits are coming along nicely for Storm Tide. I just finished reshaping a pretty tricky scene with a big cast of big players from the Tides world and some major reveals that I hope readers  will appreciate. If you want to keep up to date on my progress and read my flash fiction stories first, be sure to sign up for my mailing list. This month's challenge theme is Halloween, of course. Mine is set in a kind of magic slash cyber fantasy world that I really had fun with. Beyond that, I wanted to share some of the pictures and posts from this week's social media lot. I did some spooky bookstagramming and shared more image quotes from my 13 Spooky Romantic Quotes post from last year.

Oh! Also, Odile, Legend of the Black Swan is on sale all the way through Halloween. If you haven't read this hauntingly steamy adult fairy tale, now's your chance to grab the ebook for just 99 cents! Available at all your favorite book retailers.

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow is one of my favorite fall time stories. I tried to bring life Irving’s love of adjectives by putting lots of bobbles and decorations in the background. (JK) 
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The awesome, covered wine bottle comes courtesy of @the_ravens_yarn_staceybunker Check out their page for other really cool, decorative pieces.
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Do you have a favorite story for this time of year?

A little tease from my #wildatheartpnrflashfiction story. Fun!!

EBook sale!! Odile is only $0.99 this week thru Halloween! Pick up your copy of this steamy, dark fairy tale today at your favorite book retailer.

Pale, cold mistress of the serpent’s lair, blood red lips and coal black hair… 

Enter the world of the Black Swan, a dark and seductive tale where things are not always as they seem. Odile is the reviled villainess of Aarroughac, a castle inhabited by the evil wizard, Count Rothebart. After a sinister magic sweeps through the land and results in death, Odile is accused of the crime. Von Rothebart vanishes, leaving her to face the wrath of an entire kingdom alone until a mysterious stranger with powers of his own comes along. 

With vengeance as his guide, Lord Azarus di Caspari hunts an ancient curse. When he crosses paths with the Black Swan of legend, he immediately makes up his mind to use the temptress’s magic for his own devices. But when Azarus learns that the story of the sorceress might not be true, disappointment gives way to desire. Spells are cast and secrets are revealed, but can love exist in the shadow of two dark hearts such as theirs?
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Are the tales of the Black Swan true? Is she a murderess and an evil sorceress to be feared or is she the only thing standing between true evil and the fall of a kingdom? Only time will tell as the magical story of the Black Swan unfolds.

Odile, Legend of the Black Swan is a fantasy, fairy tale romance inspired by the legendary ballet, Swan Lake. A standalone Enchanted Lands Romance.
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Ooo, my edits have taken me into the first dragon scene in Storm Tide. ️ I loved coming up with descriptions for this beautiful creature so here’s a little Teaser Tuesday snippet.

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