2025 Releases

A Fate of Wings
Island Wolf
The Sheikh's Forced Bride: A Billionaires and Sheikhs novel
A Spell of Longing and Death
Bowen River
Dead and Gone: Ein Violet-Blackwood-Krimi (Thornwood Academy)
Vampire's in the Details
To Wed A Queen: An Epic Romantic Fantasy
Key Change

2025 covers

Welcome to the Dark Side!

We are writers mainly from Australia and New Zealand who write speculative fiction with romantic elements. Be it fantasy, paranormal, dark urban fantasy, futuristic and everything in between.

Monday, 20 October 2025

DarkSider News: October 2025 - General News!

     



"A Christmas in July?" Pixie Wellington stared at her brother with mounting excitement as they parked up outside the small building that used to be Fig Tree Lodge's old stables before her family renovated it into self-contained quarters. She exited the car, and began to tug her bags from the trunk, her chest tightening when Kirk joined her with a happy grin. She couldn't believe how much she had missed the big galoot."


-Hidden Dreams (A Bindarra Creek Christmas in July Romance) by Suzanne Gilchrist

Welcome new DarkSiders!!

Ruby St. George

Ruby St. George writes action packed urban fantasy and paranormal romance. She lives on the Mid North Coast of NSW with her feline companions, who rule her world. Ruby loves good coffee and lives by the motto ‘experiences, not things’. She’s always looking for her next fabulous book boyfriend. 






K.A. Montefiore

K. A. Montefiore is obsessed with supernaturals, shifters, fated mates and true love. She loves to write about sassy heroines and brooding heroes whose worlds tilt when they find out their fated mates are not quite what they imagined.

K. A. Montefiore has been fascinated by the supernatural and the paranormal since she was a little girl and decided she wanted to be a UFO expert. She grew up to be a lawyer instead, then a life coach, a business entrepreneur, jewellery consultant and skincare specialist. Now a professional psychic medium, she writes steamy paranormal romance novels without the swearing and is proud to call herself a professional creative entrepreneur.

She lives in Australia with her husband, four daughters, a spirit kelpie dog she still grieves for, a wacky tuxedo rescue cat, 2 immortal bantam chickens and a fiesty black rabbit. She drinks copious amounts of Earl Grey tea, fixates on lifting heavier weights at the gym and taking part in more fitness classes than she can manage, but most of all, adores hanging out with her family, cuddling her animals and making handmade cards, sometimes all at once.






Melinda Sørensen​

I'm an indie author living in south-west Victoria. When not writing, I love to travel, visit giant trees, read romantasy and devour a donut or two. I've never met a donut I didn't like!







Leisl Leighton

The Pack Bound series has been translated into German.






Amy Hutton

A busy month for Amy with:

Ghosted had a Release Day post over at ARRA (Australian Romance Readers Association).

Amy also wrote a guest post called 'How Romance and Horror Makes for Paranormal Swoon
over at The Nerd Daily


The Australian also listed Ghosted as one of the Top 10 Books to read in October (behind a paywall).

And over on Facebook, Amy shared a cute reel to promote an upcoming virtual tour. 

Amy was a guest on the QBD Romance Book Club with Amy T Matthews.



And Ghosted was a Spotify Editors' Pick. 
Here's a link to the book on Spotify.


 


Mila Young

Cursed & Claimed currently has a Kickstarter campaign. It has reached its goal and going strong.  



Mila is also part of this  Kickstarter campaign for All Hallow's Eve (a collection of the Immortal Vices & Virtues multi-author series).







Cathleen Ross

Cathleen continues with having books translated. 

The Prince's Abducted Bride in Billionaires and Sheihks series is now available in German.




The Highlander series has been translated into German. 




And into French.



and two stand-alones have also been translated into German.

The Highlander Earl's Revenge




Love, Lust & Lies



Covers all done by Eleni Konstantine's alter ego, HelzKat Designs. 






Mel Teshco

The following stand-alones now available in German. 


As I Am





Identity Shift





Dimensional





Incandescence





Covers all done by Eleni Konstantine's alter ego, HelzKat Designs. 





Anna Hackett

 Books 2 & 3 of Team 52 series have been translated into German.


Mission: Her Rescue





 Mission: Her Security






Ava Silvers

Ava is now on Instagram.




 
Keri Arthur

Print including foiled special covers are now available from Keri's online shop

However there is a note on books that Australian customers should order directly from her 
as the shipping costs are high. 




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Congratulations to our DarkSiders! 

Happy Reading everyone. Be safe & well. 


Next on the DarkSider News: Pre-Orders & Covers!




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