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“It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.” ― Oscar Wilde

This epic conclusion was a beautiful wrap-up for this story and these characters. Go get your copy now!
02/07/2026

This epic conclusion was a beautiful wrap-up for this story and these characters. Go get your copy now!

In a war of bloodlines and dragons, will love survive the fire—or will Avalynn and Mateo destroy each other first? ✨

A Legacy Forged is the epic conclusion to the Bloodlines Legacy Series!

⚔️ rivals to lovers to enemies to lovers
🔮 dark shadow magic
🐉 epic dragons
🥀 lost memories
💔 betrayal and revenge

So many twists and turns! See the series here: https://rosegarciabooks.com/bloodlines-legacy-series

01/12/2026

Elizabeth’s friends and family are devastated to announce that she passed away from Stage IV colon cancer on December 7, 2025.

Elizabeth is survived by her beloved husband and daughter, her parents, and an enormous community of readers who loved her and her stories. Writing was more than a profession for Elizabeth–books were the passion that guided her life. She was an avid reader from a young age and always loved exciting, plot-driven novels; from that young age, she always dreamed of being an author herself. Her writing ultimately made her a New York Times and Top 5 Amazon bestselling author. Her books have been translated into multiple languages and have tens of thousands of five-star reviews. She not only wrote riveting young adult, paranormal, and fantasy romance novels, but spent much of her career mentoring other writers, including at-risk teens in her local community. All through her cancer journey, she continued to offer support and advice to other authors in her circles, including strategies to manage life as an author during times of illness. When she wasn’t writing, she could often be found with her family surrounded by her pack of fluffy white dogs. She also loved attending San Diego Comic-Con every year for her birthday and visiting Disneyland as long as she was able to.

If you would like to support Elizabeth’s family, please honor her by buying her books. If you don’t own them all, now is a great time to finish your collection. If you’re an avid fan with a full shelf of Elizabeth’s novels, consider giving a few as gifts. If you’re an author, her final wish was for you to put an awesome Liz or Elizabeth in one of your upcoming books so she can live on in your fictional world. Some part of her will always be alive as long as her stories have readers and as long as she’s remembered by you.

Thank you for being one part of her story that will live on.

If Elizabeth or her books had a positive impact on your life, please leave a comment that can be shared with her daughter someday.

Had an amazing time at ! Met the Queens of Why Choose, some favorite narrators, and a lot of new book friends!
10/26/2025

Had an amazing time at ! Met the Queens of Why Choose, some favorite narrators, and a lot of new book friends!

Elizabeth Briggs is shutting down her merch store at the end of the month. This is your last chance to get some swag!
10/20/2025

Elizabeth Briggs is shutting down her merch store at the end of the month. This is your last chance to get some swag!

New release from Penny Reid!
10/16/2025

New release from Penny Reid!

💛 NOW AVAILABLE 💛
This is not a drill, the wait is finally over! REPRODUCTION is available on all platforms! Go forth and read the nerdy goodness!

Tropes
💛 Fake Dating
💛 Plot with multiple twists
💛 Women in STEM
💛 She's morally grey
💛 He's morally grey too...
💛 Forced Proximity
💛 Former childhood friends to lovers

Read REPRODUCTION Now: https://geni.us/ReproductionPR

**BLURB**
Sam keeps sleepwalking . . . and waking up in the wrong bed.

Samantha Jarlston keeps telling herself she doesn’t want to get romantically involved with her former childhood best friend and current partner in crime, the very sexy chess grandmaster, Andreas Kristiansen. But despite her many, many, MANY protestations, Sam keeps waking up in Andreas’s bed. Even worse, he’s adorably flustered and shy about it. Every. Single. Time.

Sleepwalking into Andreas’s bedroom and his cute reactions aren’t complications Sam has time for, not when she needs to get back on track with her Ph.D., catch up with her part-time job while avoiding the inappropriate Dr. James Nieminen, not to mention juggling the demands of exacting revenge on the Kristiansens.

Basically, her social calendar is quite full.

Does her subconscious know something her conscious brain does not? Is Sam ready to give up on revenge once and for all and figure out how to make things work with her first love?

And what happens when Sam finally discovers adorable Andreas’s dirty little secret?

‘REPRODUCTION’ is book 2 in the ‘Fundamentals of Biology’ trilogy, ends on a cliffhanger, and cannot be read as a standalone. ‘Fundamentals of Biology’ is the third trilogy in a series of trilogies that begins with ‘Elements of Chemistry’ and ‘Laws of Physics.’ You do NOT need to read ‘Elements of Chemistry’ or ‘Laws of Physics’ before reading ‘Fundamentals of Biology.’

Out today! Can’t wait to dive into this one! The series has been so good so far.
10/09/2025

Out today! Can’t wait to dive into this one! The series has been so good so far.

It's here! This series is now complete.

Come for the curse, and the curse will come for you.

Zane

My mission is clear: travel to Faerie and help Lorelei destroy the curse that has plagued our worlds for centuries. But Faerie is no fairytale. The moment I arrive, everything unravels. Lorelei is imprisoned by a mad queen, and the land itself is a nightmare of decay and danger. I must fight through this cursed realm to reach her, knowing time is against us. If I fail, I’ll lose her before I even have the chance to love her.

Lorelei

The Summer Queen will stop at nothing to possess the heart of an Ethereum lord, even if it means sacrificing me. Imprisoned in her dungeon, she drains my magic and sets a deadly trap for Zane, the dark Ethereum lord who fills my dreams and ignites a fire in my soul. But even if I escape, I’ll never truly be free—because what Zane doesn’t know is that to end the curse, someone must make the ultimate sacrifice.

To rewrite our fate, we must risk everything. But if we fail, I fear the curse will claim us both.
US amzn.to/4o0pJ9U
UK amzn.to/3WubLBi
AU: https://amzn.to/46Sk3YG

09/23/2025

reading is reading 👻

09/20/2025
New release by Leia Stone!
09/19/2025

New release by Leia Stone!

The weapon that hasn’t chosen anyone in a thousand years has chosen me, a Dreg-born girl with no magic.

Forged by the Creator and feared across the realm, the King Killer was never meant for someone like me. But the moment I touch it, the wolves come running, snarling, fighting, and bleeding to claim me.

Only one survives.

A wolf with a traitor’s mark burned into his skin.

And now we’re bonded.

Last night, I was digging through trash in the Elite district when a dying highborn collapsed at my feet. With his final breath, he pressed his trial mark into my chest and gave me his place in a deadly competition I was never meant to enter.

If I win, my entire bloodline, all forty of us, gets magic. The Dregs will rise overnight and the Elites will never forgive it.

My bonded wolf says he doesn’t care about me, that he only wants my blade. But he guards me like I matter, trains me like I have a chance and when they try to kill me, he tears them down like I belong to him.

I didn’t ask for this, but I’m not backing down. Not even for the wolf who could break my heart.

US: https://www.amazon.com/Traitor-Wolf-Bonded-Fate-Duet-ebook/dp/B0FJ34C23C
UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Traitor-Wolf-Bonded-Fate-Duet/dp/B0FPRHRGKX
AU: https://www.amazon.com.au/Traitor-Wolf-Leia-Stone/dp/B0FPRHRGKX

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