This week I’m getting all the last minute things to get ready for Space Coast Book Lovers. I’m so excited to see everyone. I love conferences and meeting readers and other authors. While I’m doing that, I’m thinking about which book I wanted to start next. My choices are the next Magicbound Protector book or a new funny, witchy small town suspense. The MCs for both books are talking to me so I’ll have to let them fight for it. LOL.

Have a fabulous week and I hope to see you at Space Coast next weekend!

Happy reading!

Lia

In this edition of the Lia Davis Substack:

• The Shifters of Stock Creek Series is available in KindleUnlimited

• Preorder My Dragon Frenemy now

• My alter-ego Hayleigh Davis has a new release

• Books from My Backlist

Do you love Small Town Shifter Romance?

Take a trip to Stock Creek for some seriously fun, flirty, and emotional fated mates romances, including:

My Dragon Savior
She ran to a quiet mountain town to disappear. She never expected to be found by a dragon.

Erin
I was careful. I changed my name, bought a charming inn, and buried my past so deep no one could find me. Until I was kidnapped and dragged into the mountains to die. I thought I was hallucinating when a massive black dragon ripped my captor apart, but the truth is worse and better than any nightmare. He’s real. He’s powerful. And for some reason I don’t understand, he says I belong to him. I don’t need a monster to save me, but I might not survive without him.

Ashton
I was supposed to sleep for another decade, until her fear woke something ancient and savage inside me. The moment I scented her, I knew. Mate. Human. Fragile. Mine. I burned the threat from her world, but claiming her heart will be harder than spilling blood. She fears what I am, and she should. I’m a dragon who doesn’t share, doesn’t let go, and will destroy anyone who tries to take what fate has bound to me.

She wanted safety. He wants forever.

Start My Dragon Savior now and fall into a satisfying, fated-mates romance where survival means surrender, and love burns hotter than dragon fire.

Tropes & Triggers:
Fated mates
Dragon shifter
MMC Touch-her-and-die energy
Small mountain town
Possessive, protective alpha hero
Slow-burn to explosive passion

My Brother’s Alpha Wolf
Nathan
I never expected a fleeting memory from my childhood to stir such a storm within me. But Gavin's little sister Rissa is back, and she's grown into a woman who ignites a fire I thought long extinguished. She’s my best friend’s much younger sister—off-limits, forbidden. And I have sworn off love to carry the heavy weight of loss and the responsibilities of single fatherhood. Yet, Rissa’s presence challenges all my resolutions and fate seems determined to mock my resolve.

Behind her gentle smile and bright eyes lies a strength born of overcoming her own tragedies. Her laughter echoes through my thoughts, her touch branding my soul. We steal moments in the shadows to dance on the edge of something inevitable, something neither of us wants to admit. She’s my fated mate, a bond written in the stars that we both deny.

Rissa
Returning to Stock Creek was meant to be a fresh start, a chance to heal the wounds of my past. Little did I know that it would also awaken a deeply buried longing. Nathan has been my brother's best friend for as long as I can remember, but I was just a child when I saw him last. Now, he's a pillar of strength, a ruggedly handsome man with a heart burdened by unspeakable tragedy.

With the shadows of my past forever haunting me, I shouldn't want anyone. Especially not my older brother's best friend. But the more we resist the undeniable chemistry that crackles between us like wildfire, the stronger the pull of our fated bond becomes. His tender moments with his daughter and his protectiveness of me chip away at my resolve until we're hiding our forbidden affair. In a town where everyone knows everyone else's business, we tiptoe around the truth of our connection, pretending that our hearts aren't entwined by destiny. But secrets have a way of unraveling, and ours threatens to unravel everything we've built.

My Dragon Boss’s Secret Baby
Boss. Employee. Fated Mate. Secret Baby.
Stock Creek might not survive the storm brewing between them.

Ten years ago, Krystal had a very drunk, very unforgettable one-night stand. Unforgettable except she can't remember what he looked like. Six weeks later, she found out she was pregnant—with no way to track down the mystery man. With no choice but to move home and raise her son alone, she’s built a quiet life for them in Stock Creek, working at the local bar.

But one-night-stands don’t just disappear forever, not when they're dragons—they hibernate.

Zaden never expected to wake up from his ten-year sleep to find his life turned upside down. He returns to his bar, ready to reclaim his world, only to come face-to-face with a woman who should remember him—but doesn’t. The gorgeous, stubborn wolf shifter working for him has no clue she’s the reason he hasn’t been able to shake the memory of one wild night before his hibernation.

Then he meets Bryce.

One look at the nine-year-old boy, and Zaden knows the truth. The son he never knew he had. The mate who doesn’t remember him.

When the truth explodes, tempers flare, claws come out, and secrets unravel.

Binge The Series Here!!!

Preorder Stock Creek Book 4 Today!

He broke her heart in an attempt to save her, and she never forgave him.

Frankie:

I knew about the dragon hibernation. I knew he’d be gone for ten years, and I was willing to wait. He was worth it, but Chance didn’t give me that choice. Instead, he tore me apart with a few well-chosen words. After all this time, I never moved on. Never forgot. Never healed. Now he’s back, looking at me like I’m still his. Too bad he destroyed any chance of that the night he walked away.

Chance:

I thought I was doing the right thing. Ten years is a lifetime for a human. She deserved more than waiting on a man who might never come back. So I lied. I hurt her in the worst way I knew how, just to make sure she’d let me go. I told myself she’d move on, that she’d forget me. She didn’t, and now I have to live with what I did. Every broken piece of her, every ounce of pain in her eyes is all my fault. I don’t deserve a second chance, but that won’t stop me from trying to earn one.

Get ready for a heart-wrenching, second-chance shifter romance filled with regret, redemption, and a love that refuses to die. One-click now.

Perfect for fans who love:
Second Chance Romance
Groveling Hero
Fated Mates
Forced Separation
“I hurt you to protect you”
Alpha Hero / Strong Heroine
Emotional Angst
Found Family
Small Town / Pack Dynamics
Heartbreak & Emotional Trauma (past)
Redemption Arc

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It’s Release Week for Hayleigh Davis!

He was supposed to be one unforgettable night, not the man who makes me feel safe enough to stop running. But when danger follows me to Braeden Creek, Austin Kinley’s protective instincts collide with buried secrets, a deadly betrayal, and a romance neither of us can walk away from.

For months, I’ve kept my head down, working behind the bar at Creekside Bar & Grill and building a quiet life where no one asks questions. It’s safe. It has to be. Because if the wrong person finds me, everything I ran from will catch up to me.
Reconnecting with Austin Kinley wasn’t part of the plan.

A year ago, he was one reckless night I never forgot, even when I tried to convince myself it didn’t matter. Now I’m back in his town, and the connection between us is just as strong. And just as dangerous. The more time I spend with him, the harder it is to keep my distance, and the easier it becomes to forget why I need to.

Then there’s the stranger who keeps showing up. Watching. Waiting. Always a little too close. I know what that means. I’ve been found.

But the deeper this goes, the less sense it makes. The fear, the unease, the feeling that something isn’t right. That maybe I’ve been focused on the wrong threat all along. Because the truth is more dangerous than I ever imagined, and when it finally comes to light, I’ll have to decide if I keep running… or trust the one man who makes me feel safe enough to fight.

The problem? The real danger isn’t who I thought it was.

It’s the one I never saw coming.

Hidden Echoes is the second standalone romance in the Braeden Creek series, where danger lurks beneath the surface of a close-knit mountain town. Featuring hidden identities, emotional baggage, possessive hero energy, suspicious strangers, simmering attraction, and a heroine forced to confront the truth, this romantic suspense is packed with twists, tension, and a love worth fighting for.

Perfect for fans of:
Friends to lovers
Protective small-town hero
Strong but guarded heroine
Touch her and die vibes
Found family friendships
Forced proximity

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Books From My Backlist!

Check out these books that are already available, no preorder required.

Ancient war between witches and demons climbs to a new level.

It’s up to five Divinities, their Guardians, and a pair of Siamese twin hellhounds to protect the power source and the worlds from a fate far worse than anyone can imagine.

This incredible saga unfolds in a series of four novella-length stories, each a stand-alone paranormal romance.

In Forgotten Visions childhood sweethearts reunite to search for the power source before it falls in the hands of evil, while visions of a past forgotten sparks an old flame and new desires.

In Death’s Storm Divinity, Khloe comes face to face with death, and he claims to be her guardian. She is torn between her desires for the dark predator and the painful loss she has endured at the hands of her enemies.

In Dark Divine, Zach is powerless to resist Divinity Lydia, and while she may understand him like no other, trusting her might unleash a new dark power that could destroy them both and put everyone they love in danger in the process.

The final story in the sage, Divine Awakening, Divinity witch, Desiree Sanders has made a lot of bad choices in her life, but trusting the demoness, Samoan, should earn her the award for traitor of the millennium. After several failed attempts to set things right, Desiree turns to the dark, sexy Death Demon, Lex for help saving her son and ending the war.

Available Here!

It’s release day for the final installment of Fanged After Forty. I know it’s bitter sweet to have this series as well as the other two series set in the Life After Magic World. But all good things have to end to make room for new things.

Besides writing like crazy, I’m getting everything ready for Space Coast Book Lovers event coming up in a few weeks. I can’t wait to see everyone. I also have exclusive GRAVE swag for those attending the Billionaire Christmas Carnival party all the authors that are part of the Billionaire Under the Mistletoe series and me (as Hayleigh Davis). It’s going to be so much fun! Below is a picture of the swag envelopes. The contents are “top secret”. :D

ICYMI, GRAVE, short for Greybreak Regulations & Assessment of Violent Entities, is a covert FBI division within the organized crime branch that partners with “reformed” crime families to control and eliminate larger threats like trafficking rings, cartels, and violent networks. Operating in the gray between law and crime, GRAVE enforces order where the system falls short, where loyalty is currency, justice is controlled, and survival often means choosing the lesser evil.

Christmas in New York is an intro into the GRAVE world. You’ll meet the 3 families that are currently working with GRAVE. Although the starter series will be about the Delaney brothers because they started the program

For more about Hayleigh, hop over to her website and check it out: https://hayleighdavis.com/

Happy reading!

Lia

In this edition of the Lia Davis Substack:

• Happy Release Day to me and L.A. Boruff

• Romantasy deal from fellow PNR & PWF author Brenda Trim

• Books from My Backlist

Allied in the Midlife is here!

Join Hailey and her friends as they travel to the realm of dragons.

Get It Here! It's FREE in KU!

Free This Week From Brenda Trim!

At thirty-two, I’m too old for this. The dragon that chose me has already killed three riders. And my instructor knows exactly what I am—he’s just not telling me.

I’ve spent three decades perfecting failure. College dropout. Fired barista. Retail disaster. Freelance photographer who couldn’t book a gig. When a military recruiter offers me a spot at Thornwick Academy, I’m desperate enough to ignore every red flag.

I expect boot camp. I get creatures that shouldn’t exist.

Thornwick isn’t a military academy—it’s a hunting ground for an ancient war, where legacy families bond with Sovereigns or die trying. These cadets have trained since childhood. They know the protocols, the bloodline politics, the secret history of this place. I learned magic existed seventy-two hours ago.

Then Obsidian chooses me.

A black dragon. A mountain-shaking force that killed his last three potential riders. Ancient, volatile, and now mine. The academy gives me two weeks before I’m added to his body count.

But my flight instructor? He’s already decided I’ll survive.

Captain Kael Blackwater is devastating and dangerous, pushing me past every limit while watching me like I’m a bomb he’s trying to defuse. He trains me like my life depends on it—because it does. What I don’t understand is why.

Why does he look at me like he knows something I don’t?

Why are black dragon riders being systematically murdered, their deaths staged as training accidents?

Why are pale creatures with needle-sharp teeth suddenly hunting bonded dragons, draining their blood, leaving corpses that all lead back to me?

Kael has answers. About black dragons. About a royal bloodline supposedly exterminated centuries ago. About what I am and why Obsidian chose a thirty-two-year-old foster kid with no magic, no family, no right to be here.

He’s keeping me alive by keeping me in the dark.

And I’m falling for him anyway—for the man who’s either my protector or my handler, who teaches me to fly while hiding the truth about why things with teeth are hunting me, who might have orders to eliminate me the second I become too dangerous.

The Bonding Ceremony was supposed to be the hard part. No one warned me that the real test is surviving what I’m becoming.

Welcome to Thornwick Academy, where:

• Dragons choose riders (or kill them)

• Instructors keep deadly secrets about your bloodline

• Something is hunting bonded Sovereigns and draining them dry

• The man training you might be the one ordered to end you

• Being chosen isn’t an honor—it’s a target on your back

Get It Free Here!

Books From My Backlist!

Check out these books that are already available, no preorder required.

Magic, murder, and mayhem come standard when your spells have a mind of their own…

My name’s Lexi Palmer, and I’m a witch with a problem.

Okay—several problems. My magic’s unpredictable, my familiar talks back, and I somehow keep tripping over dead bodies.

Welcome to Howling Creek—a small mountain town where shifters, witches, and humans coexist (mostly) peacefully. As a field agent for the Ancients Agency, I’m supposed to protect that balance. Instead, I keep finding trouble, one spell-gone-wrong at a time.

From a dead wolf shifter that kicks off my first big case, to uncovering traitors inside the Agency itself, every mystery pulls me deeper into a world of dangerous secrets and unexpected romance. And then there’s Kellen—the brooding alpha who makes my broken magic spark in all the wrong ways.

With my sarcastic familiar Octavia, my best friend Jamie, and a coven of chaos behind me, I’m learning that sometimes fate chooses the messiest witches to fix the biggest problems.

Magic. Murder. Fated mates.
Just another day in Howling Creek.

Perfect for readers who love:
Cozy paranormal mysteries with a romantic twist
Sassy witch heroines and talking cat familiars
Alpha wolf shifters and slow-burn fated mates
Found family, friendship, and laugh-out-loud banter
Small-town magic, secrets, and second chances
Murder, mystery, and mayhem wrapped in heart

Check The Series Out Here!

I hope you are having a great week so far. I’m good. Better than I was the last half of last week. I had a migraine that last four days, but the head is all better for now. So I’m back in the writing cave getting all the words out and doing final edits on Allied In the Midlife, the final Fanged After Forty book.

This week I’m sharing all the book …

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It’s been a busy week and I almost forgot to send this out. Ha! I’m deep in editing the second book in Braeden Creek and loving Austin and Natasha’s story. I love being in Braeden Creek with the Kinley siblings and their friends. Now is a great time to grab book one because it’s on sale! For the month of May it is only 99c.

I’m also cooking up a …

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I have an announcement about the Magicbound Protectors series.

I’m happy to let you all know that you can now read Before the Bond Breaks and Before the Truth Shatters with your Kindle Unlimited subscription!

Yes, the whole series will be released in KU and remain in KU until at least 90 days after the final book in the series releases. There are…

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I’m excited to share the cover and blurb for my new mafia protector romantic suspense series that I’ll be writing under Hayleigh Davis. This series will not be dark romance, but there will be dark and gritty elements throughout because the The Delaney Brothers are the sons of a powerful mafia boss. Well, they were before the el…

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Midlife Remedy is here! It’s bitter sweet releasing the final book in a series. But you never know, we might revisit this world with one-off stand alone stories in the future. Or cook something up equally as funny.

I hope you enjoy Blair and Lily’s final mystery with their found family. Have a fabulous weekend.

Happy reading!

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SEVEN more days until the final book in the Hunting After Forty book comes out. I’m so excited. I always get excited for new releases.

Before the Truth Shatters released last month and I’m working on the outline for book 3 of the Magicbound Protectors. I’ll be doing a title and cover reveal for it soon. It’s not on preorder because …

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Happy double release to me. I was deep in the editing cave last week and missed sending out the newsletter, so this week it’s a double release issue. My Dragon Boss’s Secret Baby released Friday (3/20) and Before the Truth Shatters released TODAY (3/24).

So what’s next? I will be doing a cover and title reveal for book three…

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I’m in the editing cave, putting the final polish on the two books that release this month: My Dragon Boss’s Secret Baby (Shifters of Stock Creek, Book 3) and Before the Truth Shatters (Magicbound Protectors, book 2). I can wait for you to read them.

This weekend is a busy weekend for me. I have an all day workshop with my writer g…

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I have exciting news. I will be attending as a signing author at FanGrrrl Romance Recs in Orlando this year! I’m excited to be attending this year. See below for more info.

I’m in the revising stage of Before the Truth Shatters while getting ready for the March 24th release. I can’t wait for everyone to read Candra and Jenson’s story. I’m…

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February is my (and Hubby’s) birthday month! I’m celebrating with a giveaway. Starting today through the end of the month you have a chance to win either a $50 gift card to Amazon or a free book from my backlist.

Check out the giveaway here: https://authorliadavis.com/lias-birthday-giveaway/

Please share with all your book-loving f…

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This weeks’ updates… I’m not sure I have too much of an update. I didn’t get a lot of words done last week w…

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Since February is my birthday month, be on th…

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I hope everyone is staying warm. Yesterday, I got an invite to another book signing for this year (one I was on a waiting list for). Once I pay the deposit and everything is confirmed, I’ll make an announcement to let everyone know.

What am I working on right now?

I’m drafting book 2 of the Magicbound Protectors, Before the Truth Shatter…

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I finally pinned Candra down for an interview. It’s hard getting her away from her sexy mate, Jenson. You how new mates are. These two are HOT together.

I also saw a mock up for book three’s cover (Nicky and Larc’s story). It’s so pretty. I’m not sure when I’ll share it because I’m doing things differently this year. One of the big chang…

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The Urban Fantasy Free – January 10, 2026!

It’s a Urban Fantasy Free For All!

Search by tropes and spicy level on about 100 titles. ALL FREE.

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A new Ava and Olivia adventures is live! A Challenging Midlife will be the last book in Witching After Forty. We didn’t make this decision lightly and we will write more in the Life After Magic world as we are inspired to do so. I love Ava and crew and hate to see the series end, but somethings have to end to leave space for something…

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Tony and I staying home. I can’t promise that I’ll be wake at midnight to ring in the New Year. LOL. Are you doing anything special tonight?

Well whatever your plans, have a safe and blessed new year.

Happy reading.

Lia

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I hope you had a magical Christmas. Mine was good. Tony and I spent lunch with his mom and dinner with my mom. It was a good day. We all missed my dad and sister, but it was a good day.

Today, is Stuff Your e-Reader day! check it out below and go stuff your e-Reader.

Lia

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