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Bride

Ali Hazelwood

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A dangerous alliance between a Vampyre bride and an Alpha Werewolf becomes a love deep enough to sink your teeth into in this new paranormal romance from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Love, Theoretically and The Love Hypothesis.

Misery Lark, the only daughter of the most powerful Vampyre councilman of the Southwest, is an outcast—again. Her days of living in anonymity among the Humans are over: she has been called upon to uphold a historic peacekeeping alliance between the Vampyres and their mortal enemies, the Weres, and she sees little choice but to surrender herself in the exchange—again.

Weres are ruthless and unpredictable, and their Alpha, Lowe Moreland, is no exception. He rules his pack with absolute authority, but not without justice. And, unlike the Vampyre Council, not without feeling. It’s clear from the way he tracks Misery’s every movement that he doesn’t trust her.

If only he knew how right he was… Because Misery has her own reasons to agree to this marriage of convenience, reasons that have nothing to do with politics or alliances, and everything to do with the only thing she's ever cared about. And she is willing to do whatever it takes to get back what’s hers, even if it means a life alone in Were territory…alone with the wolf.

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Boundless Press\ \ Jananie\ \ • Sep 11 2024

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Boundless Press\ \ Jananie\ \ • Feb 18 2024

Hello loves!\ \ Apologies for the later than usual journal post—it’s been a difficult few weeks with my health but I’m on the way to getting better!\ \ What I’m starting this week:\ \ I’m working on a vlog where I read the highest and lowest rated books on my TBR! Bride by Ali Hazelwood will be the highest rated book and The Ex Hex_ _by Erin Sterling will be the lowest. Already loving Bride so I’m curious to see what I think of The Ex Hex next—the paranormal, fantasy-romance vibes are just so much fun!\ \ I’ve been increasingly wanting to start writing again, so I’m thinking of slowly getting back into it with my sci-fi novel that I’ve been working on for years. I feel like I’ve grown up so much in the past couple years since my last draft and I’ve just been bursting with new ideas to make the story better. I’m making no promises on timelines or when I’ll finish because I don’t want to stress myself out but I’m hoping that I can make writing fun and exciting again like it used to be when I was younger. Wish me luck!\ \ And let me know if you’d be interested in reading parts of the book as I go as part of your perks here on Bindery! 👀\ \ What I’m currently reading:\ \ I just finished reading Kindred by Octavia E. Butler and omg guys this book was so amazing! I obviously knew it was going to be amazing because it’s a classic and I have read one book by Octavia E. Butler before, but my god, it exceeded even my high expectations.\ \ I’m also about to start Technofeudalism_ by Yanis Varoufakis as part of my research/inspiration for my book. If you may recall, I read a couple of Yanis Varoufakis’s books last year ( Another Now_, and Talking to My Daughter About the Economy) and absolutely loved them, so I’m excited to see what I think of this one and what ideas he puts forth.\ \ What’s currently giving me stress:\ \ My health _again_ 😵‍💫My chronic health issues have taken an even deeper dive and I haven’t been able to eat properly the past few weeks. I’ve been spending a lot of time at home and partly in pain so it’s been fairly difficult to do my regular activities of filming and editing. Even reading is hard when I can’t get my mind off the pain. I’ve mostly been curled into a ball watching TV and hoping that this will pass soon. I’m currently seeing a naturopath to see if there’s something they can help with that my doctor isn’t able to dedicate the time to so hopefully that will bring me some relief soon!\ \ What I’m loving right now:\ **Cooking! **With all my chronic digestive issues I’ve had to be very vigilant with what I eat so I’ve had to get fairly creative with my cooking and meal prep. I’ve been exploring new recipes for non-acidic, anti-inflammatory food and making modifications to recipes I already know. Overall, I’m getting more practice with cooking so I guess that’s a silver lining to all of this!\ \ That’s all from me for today! Let me know how you’re all doing, what you’re up to, and what you’re reading <3

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Guess what I've got for you today...\ \ ...\ \ ...\ \ I think that's enough to keep it out of the image preview, so....\ \ \ \ Ta-daaaaa! Subscribers actually got this a couple weeks ago so shout out to you guys for keeping it a secret in the discord.\ \ For those of you who don't know the lore here, let me give you a little background. Yes, you are reading that correct, that says this is announcing the 2024 Best of Books winners. In November. of 2025.\ \ I wish I had a reasonable excuse for this, I really do...but I don't. I genuinely can't even tell you why I didn't release this in January like I was supposed to or why I haven't released it in the many months that these images have been sitting in my Canva projects, but from the bottom of my heart I have no idea. Anyway, it has now been almost a full year since we first started the process of nominating books for our Best of Books 2024 and for the love of god I need this to not be hanging over my head anymore. I say that as though there was literally anything or anyone but my own damn self keeping me from getting this out, BUT THERE WASN'T.\ \ You ever get a text or an email from someone that you don't reply to right away and then you kind of forget about it until it's a few days later and you go "oh my god I need to reply to that" but you've remembered at 1am and that's not a reasonable hour to text someone so you'll do it in the morning, and then you wake up in the morning and for many more mornings until the next time you remember it's suddenly been weeks and now it's awkward but you really should reply to it but you put it off because now you're embarrassed and then the longer you wait the worse it gets so you just never reply and suddenly you've ignored someone you really meant to get back to?\ \ That's normal...right? Anyway that's basically what has happened here and I refuse to have this sitting on my dusty, unseen to-do list any longer so HERE are the winners of our 2024 Best of Books:\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ And there we have it! I AM FREE. Free to get started all over again on our 2025 nominations...

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The Alchemist Society\ \ Shay\ \ • Nov 13 2025

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\ \ I just finished listening to the audiobook of Mate, by Ali Hazelwood. This was a much anticipated read for me this year, as I really enjoyed Bride, something that surprised me as I am not a big romance, or even a romantasy reader. I think my friends, I just like reading monster and alien romance and the themes that are so prevalent in the genre. \ \ Oh yeah, that's right, I also really loved Ice Planet Barbarians, an alien romance series where a group of women are kidnapped out of their homes in order to serve nefarious purposes in the intergalactic human trafficking world, until the ship they are on crashes in a remote world that happens to have hot, eight foot tall aliens. This isn't the post to give more details on plot lines and character development, among other things, but I will say... I read the first 20 books in the series in 4 weeks. Its good, and there is actually a pretty solid sci-fi subplot in the midst of all of the romance, smut, and "interspecies mating" going on. You know... fun. \ \ Give me a romance with a human man, though, and I usually can't be bothered. I've recently been thinking about why that is. The following line of thoughts are not exactly a new conversation. They've been happening for decades, but it is an ever evolving conversation, with the continued rise in violence against women and girls globally, and the current romantic recession. \ \ Monster/Alien romances typically have similar themes to the typical romance genre, but are often a bit more magnified due to the "monstrous" or "animaltistic" elements of the MMCs in these books (more on that later as I am certainly NOT comparing men to animals). The main male protagonists often exhibit traits such as protectiveness and care for their "woman", showing high levels of self control (when they often fall fast and hard for the FMC), thoughtfulness, and even playfulness. Women are often drawn to these stories, including myself, because of these themes. This is not necessarily because of a lack of these traits in their personal lives with personal partners... though that certainly can be the case. These novels give women the opportunity to read, almost in a Y/N, self insert type of way, about another women being cherished, supported, lusted after and loved by their partners or the potential partners that they are interested in. \ \ Monster romances often have plot lines that revolve around the male being territorial towards their partners (the FMC) and exhibiting "anyone else touches her and you die" type energy, while also simultaneously denying themselves their own wants until they are appropriately encouraged or interest is expressed by the FMC. We see these MMCs cherish and support the women whom they are entangled with, all while simultaneously fucking them into oblivion (consensually of course). \ \ Actually, one of the biggest appeals of books like these are plot points where MMC falls hard and fast (often before the FMC). 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Skies Press\ \ Emma\ \ • Nov 12 2025

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