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Afterlight May 2025: Happily Never After

Our Afterlight May theme is . . . HAPPILY NEVER AFTER!

Happily never afters might just become happily ever afters under the right circumstances.

Our May Afterlight book is a standalone contemporary adult romance! When a popular romance author is revealed to hate happy endings, she is cancelled by readers and dropped by her publisher. Her sister books her a trip to Alaska, and whilst there she decides to focus on writing a murder mystery. Except now she keeps running into her inn’s very handsome owner, and she wonders if she’s stuck in a romance novel of her own . . .

Our Afterlight Exclusive edition is a B-format hardback and features:

If you like the hate to love trope and broody lumberjacks, we think you’ll enjoy this one!

The book at a glance:

  • Adult standalone romance
  • Featuring: exclusive redesigned cover; art on the hardback; digitally printed edges; illustrated endpapers; author letter; bonus chapter; signed by the author
  • M/F romance; secondary character with chronic illness

Content warnings:

  • Depictions and discussion of chronic pain and autoimmune disorders
  • Discussion of terminal breast cancer (past, off-page)
  • Deceased parent (past, off-page)
  • Depictions of hemiparesis caused by (past, off-page) injury
  • Seizure (off-page)
  • Depictions and themes of caretaking
  • Themes of co-dependency
  • Descriptions of an absent father, divorce (past, off-page)
  • Explicit language
  • Explicit, on-page sexual content

Open subscription spots will be offered exclusively to our Afterlight waitlist. You can join the subscription waitlist here.

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