Shadow of Wings (Dragon Claimed #1) by Ellie Pond
My reclusive billionaire bosses have a secret. They're dragon shifters from another realm. And they didn't just hire me to catalog rare art. They hired me because I might be their fated mate.
Merissa
Mar 12
Review: A Theory in Vienna by Heidi Gallacher
‘I bring to light a truth, which was unknown for many centuries with direful results for the human race.’ – Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis.
Imagine you’d discovered something. Something that could save hundreds of thousands of lives. But they wouldn’t let you tell anyone. Wouldn’t it drive you mad?
Merissa
Mar 5
Spirit Out of Balance (The Guardians #5) by Tessa McFionn
Broken and dangerously so. Why did he find her now, when he can’t protect her?
Centuries spent as the hero, vanished in one horrific, sickening twist. Now Guardian Warrior Mathias Blanchett must call on his fractured strength to save the tormented woman who calls to his spirit from enemies bent on their destruction. But will it be enough?
Merissa
Feb 27
Furious Angels (The Order of the Senary #4) by L.D. Rose
Kasen Knight believed he could save the world. Now he’s barely surviving.
The vampire war rages on, but the hybrids in New York City are rapidly losing ground. As the Senary’s healer, Kasen is drowning in death and bloodshed. The only thing driving him to carry on is his beloved mate and their unborn child. When the man responsible for his tortured past discovers Kasen has a baby on the way, the threat to all he holds dear has him grappling to keep his beast in check. Kasen
Merissa
Feb 25
Spring Melt by Lori Duffy Foster
As a doctor’s wife in a thriving Adirondack village in the 1920s, Ella Devine seems to have an ideal life. Her husband grew rich catering to New York City socialites who wanted to hide their TB diagnoses from their friends. Their marriage is devoid of emotion, but so is she, having learned long ago to quietly accept whatever life offers. But all that changes when three men are charged with a nineteen-year-old murder, and the long-buried crime that shaped Ella’s childhood is e
Merissa
Feb 11
Review & Excerpt: An Impossible Mate (Strength of the Pack #1) by Joy Lynn Fielding
Alpha shifter Matt Urban is always in control. He has to be. Keeping his territory, his pack, and himself tightly leashed is the only way to protect his precarious peace. So when a defiant, smart-mouthed lone wolf stumbles into his territory, Matt’s first instinct is to drive him out. His second instinct? Quite the opposite, unfortunately…
Merissa
Jan 29
Captivated by Dominik (The Ralston Brothers) by Sarah Westill
When beast master Dominik Ralston agrees to pose as Sienna Heathwood’s husband for a government assignment, he anticipates the pretense and even the deceit. What he doesn’t expect is the fierce desire she awakens within him, or the struggle to keep the need to claim her from clouding his judgment. Disguised as a scientific expedition to New Columbia, their true mission is to uncover whether the nation is secretly mining iron and supplying it to an emerging superpower that tre
Archaeolibrarian
Jan 27
Merissa's Year in Books
I realised recently that I never really paused to acknowledge it properly, but over the course of 2025, I read 552 books, a number that still feels slightly unreal when I see it written down. It works out at more than one book a day, not as a challenge or a target, but simply as the natural rhythm of how reading has fitted into my life this year.
Archaeolibrarian
Jan 23
Limerence (The Limerent Series #5) by L.S. Delorme
Kara and Dante.
You may not know them by name but you know them by deed. You feel them in the space between dreams and reality, in the inevitable crawl of time.
They have burned continents and sunk kingdoms. They’ve been worshipped and feared. Those in power call them demons. Those above power call them monsters.
Merissa
Jan 19
Ghosting Academy (The Limerent Series #4) by L.S. Delorme
It’s been years since Amelie abandoned her home to become an elite agent of the Academy.
In its embrace she has found support and stability, but in return the Academy uses her gifts for destruction and control. For ten years, she has chosen to live only for the moment, neither questioning nor considering the motives of her employer. But when Amelie and her pod of fellow agents, “graduate” into becoming strategic operatives, they are spirited off to an isolated island. Here t
Merissa
Jan 12