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River Rowan

What to say about River, the Duo?

The number of half-filled Google Docs and folders to their names is enough to drive almost anyone crazy. Some would call them a beautiful storm of creativity. Too much creativity at times. They’re crazy, kooky, all together campy, and apparently, in an Addams Family type of mood while writing their bio.

Please excuse their weirdness.

River can usually be found plotting their next story over bowls of soup, cups of tea, or maybe even mid-bite of something delicious. That novel, serial, short story, or random idea will usually be romance. They have deep investments in writing about sexy men loving other men. Still, the enjoys writing all types of relationships, from bodice-rippers in alternate worlds to post-apocalyptic vampires.

Publishing novels has always been on their respective bucket lists. Due to some brutal personal setbacks these past few years (which they’re sure everyone can understand), it’s been a struggle to do so, but this year they’ve decided to do or die. They’re slamming on the throttle and planning to publish six books this year. When not plot-planning and world-building, they plot vacations to places with blue water and pristine beaches, pretend to clean their house, eat sushi, and drink milk tea with and without tapioca, depending on the mood. They live in the U.S. (for now) but have their sights set on a nice beach-side condo in Hawai’i or a cruise ship for at least half the year one day.

River’s Catalog

Renee Brooks

Renee is an aspiring artist, a self-proclaimed writing addict, a freelance ghostwriter for several serial fiction companies, and as of 2023, an independent author.

Writing for a living has always been a goal for her. She’s been writing fiction since middle school, usually for herself or friends, but she’d never dared to publish her original work until now.

In 2021, she left corporate jobs and started freelancing full-time. 2022 was her first full year as a freelancer, and given the success she managed, she decided that it was time to take the journey from a full-time writer to a full-time author.

Away from pseudonyms and indie publishing, she has a Master’s in Library and Information Science and an English degree from Rice University. Renee prefers her social time balanced with a proper amount of solitude with her laptop and her imagination, escaping into different lives and universes. She is working on filling her passport with new destinations, finding peace in her personal life, and developing her creative craft.

When not writing, drawing, or getting lost in the endless spirals of the internet, she might be stress-cleaning her house, pretending to work out, or eating ice cream. She lives in the U.S.A. with one of her best friends and plots dastardly plans for financial freedom.

Expect escapism, modern tales of love, artistic liberties with history, sexy times, and much more from her stories.

Renee’s Catalog

Valerie Mars

Valerie Mars decided, after choosing her pen name, to write what she loves and only what she wants to read, no matter what’s hot in the streets.

She loves gay romance and has a deep weakness for the paranormal, fantasy, and sci-fi-esque genres, so that’s what she’s writing. As she works toward fulfilling her prolific author life dreams, she’s also working toward challenging herself and expanding beyond the genres she’s most comfortable with.

Expect slow burn, scorching heat, and everything in between from her works. When she’s not working on future chapters or trying to corral her ideas into order, she’s probably committed to the daily grind of adulting. She lives in the U.S.A. and plots her way toward financial freedom.

Valerie’s Dying Day Series is her first foray into romantic suspense, and she’s incredibly excited to go on this roller coaster. Just don’t expect her to get on any other ones. 🙂

Valerie’s Catalog

Coming July 2025

No dragon surrenders his treasure without a fight—and no witch ever forgives her trespassers.

Kaelra survived ten brutal years on the western frontier after her father cast her out for a crime she still didn’t remember. Instead of breaking, she found peace, freedom away from his cruelty, and hope that she would one day fulfill her mother’s dying wish.

Now, with the frontier all but conquered, her father orders her home to sell her into a claimed mate bond at the end of the Calling: the annual, week-long rite where shifters and witches seek their fated mates.

Kaelra knows his plan will fail. She just never imagined that failure would start in the eyes of Ruhkaal, the Elemental Dragon King of Fire and the Southern Crown Prince of the Moongrave Empire.

She is the daughter of his enemy and his only salvation.

Cursed and running out of time, Ruhkaal will stop at nothing to have the one who speaks to his soul and soothes the wretched curse threatening to consume him.

As old and new enemies conspire to bring the decades-long enmity between the Empire and the Southern Clan Council to a head, Kaelra and Ruhkaal’s bond could unite the southern continent…

Or burn it to ash.

Book 1 of the Torc and Brand Series

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