Must Read Indie Author October Releases
Hello friends and lovers!
Welcome to the eighth monthly blog post where we will share with you, romance novel releases coming up in October 2021 from indie authors.
All books are in the romance category, but can have various sub genres.
Wow, oh wow! October is a jam-packed month! It’s the cozy season to cuddle up in your favorite fuzzy sweaters and blankets.
Below are a couple books coming up in October you will NOT want to miss!
Along with details, you’ll be able to read the book blurb, learn about the author, and have easily accessible links to purchase.
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Trope: Retelling of Repunzel, Dark Mafia,
Genre: Dark Romance
Release Date: October 1, 2021
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I am Number Nine, and I serve at the pleasure of those who come knocking on my door.
Once upon a time...
I was locked in a skyscraper in New York City with eight other girls. I can't belong to no single man because I've belonged to all. No identity, no friends, and no life outside the gilded door of this tower. When I'm not working, I paint the wall every day, imagining the outside sun I've never felt on my skin.
One day, the Bratva Brotherhood comes for me.
Sociopath. Barbaric. Inhuman. Dimitri Nikolaev wears no smile on his face as he barges into my room. No greetings. No words of assurance.
Imagine my surprise when he says, "You're being delivered."
Now I'm on a road trip across the country with the deadly Russian man to my final assignment. I thought he was my prince charming, that he might be my savior, but I was so wrong. I didn't know my freedom would come at a high price. Through darkness will come salvation.
Welcome to New York's Underworld.
Loosely based on the fairytale Rapunzel. A sinister standalone tale about fighting for freedom in the dark side that blurs the line between morality and immorality.
Vow of Hell is a complete standalone and a part of the City of Stars series.
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About the Author
Beena Khan is a storyteller based in NYC where she brings dark fairytales and myths to life. She writes edgy mafia crime noir, romance thrillers, new adult, women's fiction, and contemporary fiction that gives you a book hangover. Her books are painful, messy, dangerous, and raw. She has a Master's Degree in Developmental Psychology and a minor in Arabic studies. She often explores the human psyche. She published her first book, the Name of Red when she was 26. Come say hi at beenaxkhan@gmail.com or her Twitter/Instagram @beenaxkhan
Her women's fiction and contemporary books is where you will find flawed gentlemen. Her dark romance books is where you will find morally gray anti-heroes and villains so there is something for all readers.
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Release Date: October 8th, 2021
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I’m used to protecting myself. Always have, always will.
But he’s the one person I can’t protect my heart from.
When an internship partners me with the one man I can’t stand but is every other girl’s fantasy, I find out there’s more to him than meets the eye. With his devilish good looks and piercing eyes, he’s smashing through the wall I’ve erected around my heart.
Our lives couldn’t be more opposite, but the more time I spend with him, the harder I fall. He says all the right things and shows me a world beyond work and school.
Everything is going great… until it’s not. When my life falls apart around me, I do the one thing I’ve always done.
I run.
What happens when the mirror shatters and the pieces are scattered?
*Shattered Mirrors is part one of the Justin and Madison duet and does end in a cliffhanger. This must be read prior to reading Mended Mirrors.
**Trigger warnings include suicide and mentions addiction.
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About the Author
Norma Marie is a contemporary romance author who believes in love that heals. With hero’s full of devotion and heroines who find their worth after trauma, her stories will encompass you in swoon worthy moments that steal your breath away.
Residing in Clarksville, TN with her small zoo, Norma Marie can often be found in her craft room playing in glitter and inks or writing stories full of hope and passion. She's a lover of romance and when she isn’t covered in glitter or sitting behind her desk bringing her stories to life, she’s often sitting on her deck with her kindle and a glass of wine.
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Genre: Dark Romance
Release Date: October 13, 2021
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WELCOME TO ST. VICTORIA'S 21st ANNUAL INITIATION NIGHT.
A corrupted ceremony where the cheerleading and hockey teams pledged their allegiance to a secret circle of elite students.
A game of debauchery on the grounds of a haunted convent turned high school, filled with dares and a hearty dose of wickedness.
A night for saints to witness the morally depraved waltzing with their demons in the confinements of St. Victoria’s secret-riddled walls.
ELLA
Eighteen. Cheerleader. South Side's Princess.
A good girl was what they called me.
But I was bad to the bone.
And there was only one boy who knew how to bring out the rebel in me.
Too bad he had to go ahead and break my heart.
Too bad I got paired with him for Initiation Night.
Cade Killian Remington, with his beautiful blue eyes, bad boy aura and sinful touch, was the bane of my existence.
CADE
Eighteen. Hockey Player. South Side's Princepin.
Two years ago, I traded my cards for new ones and landed at St. Victoria, where I met the girl of my dreams.
I may have Remington blood coursing through my veins, but I was no fool. St. Victorians still saw me as trash.
Everyone except for one girl.
Ella Ximena Cordova, with her flawed gaze and playful grin, was branded inside of me.
Too bad she now hated my fucking guts.
Too bad I broke her heart one fateful night three months ago.
And now we were trapped together in our very own nightmare.
Looks like it's just you and I in this hellhole, sweetheart.
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WARNING: This book contains a dirty-talking hero, strong language, sexual content, and other dark themes that may be triggering to some. Reader discretion is advised.
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Trope: Cartel romance
Genre: Dark Romance
Release Date: October 19, 2021
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She was a Cartel Princess.
I was a soldier. A helping hand. A life that didn’t matter.
None of that stopped me from falling in love with her the first time I laid eyes on her.
This Cartel Princess was everything to me.
And I was able to show her, but only in secret.
After years of hiding I had finally found the courage to tell her father, but he announced he’d arranged a marriage for her. One that will bound families.
One that is all about power and money.
The man that she is set to marry is a dangerous man. He doesn’t love her. He only wants her for the money and power that she comes with.
I need to try my hardest to stop this arrangement.
No matter how much blood I shed.
Isabella Morales is mine.
Violent Attraction is Book #2 in the Flor de Muertos Series. It can be read as a standalone but its suggested to be read after Vicious Union.
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About the Author
Meet Jocelyne Soto
Jocelyne Soto is a writer born and raised in California. She started her writing journey in 2015 and in 2019 she published her first book. She is an independent author who loves discovering new authors on Goodreads and Amazon. She comes from a big Mexican family, and with it comes a love for all things family and food. Jocelyne has a love for her mom’s coffee and writing. In her free time, she can be found reading a romance novel off her iPad or somewhere in the black hole of YouTube.
Tropes: Dark mafia
Genre: Dark Romance
Release Date: October 27th, 2021
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From USA Today best-selling author Trisha Wolfe comes a fierce and seductively thrilling Dark Mafia Romance as part of the Underworld Kings, a multi-author series of standalone books filled with mafia families waging war, danger and violence, arranged and forced marriages, angst, love, and everything in-between.
Rapture, desire, need - the yearning for our passions is the reason we strive, the reason we breathe. I've devoted my entire existence to the pursuit of my passion for dance. Ballet is my escape from the dark underworld I was born in to. As a Carpella and the daughter of a made man, I've accepted certain traditions. Yet, having just been promoted to principal within a prestigious dance company, I'm so close to being free...
Until a devil with blood on his hands and an Irish curse inked into his skin tears into my world, now passion holds a whole new, sinister meaning. With ruination in his steel-blue eyes and me in his crosshairs, Lucian Cross traps me in his gilded cage and uses me to deliver his retribution.
Forced to sign a marriage contract to unite two warring families, my father traded my life to save his own. Now I'm bound to Lucian, owned by a monster who swore an oath of pain and suffering to the Carpellas.
Lucian's passion is revenge.
And because my family destroyed what he loved, he's vowed to destroy what I love. Every night he forces me to dance until my breaking point. He wants to condition me to loathe the very thing that once gave me hope.
I can't let him break me, but the closer we get to the wedding date, the more entangled I become in his dangerous, tempting world, and I'm losing myself in this man.
His vow is my pain.
My vow is not to fall for the enemy.
But how can I dance with the devil himself and not be singed by his fire?
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About the Author
From an early age, USA Today best-selling romantic thriller author Trisha Wolfe dreamed up imaginary worlds and characters and was accused of talking to herself. Today, she lives in South Carolina with her family and writes full time, using her imaginary worlds as an excuse to continue talking to herself.
For more information on Trisha Wolfe and her works, please visit: TrishaWolfe.com
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Genre: Dark Romance
Release Date: October 29th, 2021
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The truth shall NOT set me free.
Running away seven years ago did nothing but delay the life chosen for me before I even had my first kiss. Leaving isn’t an option anymore. Staying might break me.
The unraveling secrets are exposing more than just my family’s past. They’re revealing burdens of the man who is determined to prove our story isn’t finished. My trust is the one thing Kyro refuses to stop chasing, even when everything is attempting to tear us apart.
And for the truths I so desperately wanted to learn? They’re twisting the key, locking me in the cage known as Suncrest Bay.
The promise I made to never stop fighting is being threatened by ghosts of my past. Maybe the easiest thing is to give into what my enemies want.
But I never was one for easy.
I’m a perfect storm and I’ll destroy them all.
**This is the second book in the Suncrest Bay Series and ends in a cliffhanger. Book one, Fateful Secrets must be read first. It is an enemies-to-lovers, contemporary dark romance. Content Warnings include graphic violence, foul language, sexual scenes, and a possessive anti-hero. Suitable for readers 18+**
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Genre: Contemporary Romance
Release Date: October 29th, 2021
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They thought they had the upper hand... but they were wrong.
Since finding out her ex-boss is a diner owner turned kingpin, Juliana’s small-town life has been nothing short of unstable. A one-nighter in Vegas with a hot-as-sin bartender proves to be more than she bargained for when she strikes a deal just to scratch an itch. But with the constant danger lurking around The Pound, the temporary stability Derrick offers becomes a temptation she can’t resist.
The thrill of chasing a certain Latina hellcat is a pleasant distraction from the real world, but Derrick can’t shake the sense that there’s more to come from Diablo’s rapidly expanding empire. When the protection of the bar’s resident biker gang falls on shaky ground and the lines of who they can trust blur, the pair soon find themselves relying on unlikely allies.
Backed against the wall, they’re forced to make the first move, but how far will they go to bring this tyrant to his knees?
It’s time to make a deal with the devil.
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About the Author
Loren is a dreamer, artist, radiologic technologist, and author who loves animals and people. Always writing short stories as a young child and young adult, she knew she wanted to become an author someday. The Art of Loving Ellie is Loren’s debut novel.
Loren can be found in her cozy home in Texas with her nose in a book, her corgi and mini-aussie on her lap, and her son trailing along with her and her husband through their many adventures.
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