Draft 1 of an Upcoming Sapphic Fantasy Romance is COMPLETE

What is covered in this month's post:

• A Crown of Deceit & Ruin Updates!

• A Delicate Betrayal Reviews!

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A Crown of Deceit & Ruin Updates!

First and foremost: it only took almost 3 full years (🥴), but I finally finished A Crown of Deceit & Ruin's first draft! 🎉 And as promised, I can now confidently confirm the release date: July 7th, 2025!

This new book has all the slowburn tension, epic world-building, and enemies-to-lovers vibes you've come to love from me, but this time instead of one badass FMC, we have TWO—and their love just might be the sweetest yet. 🥰

At its heart, A Crown of Deceit & Ruin is a story about self-discovery and growing into adulthood. It's about learning the hard lessons of a scary world and the monsters (sometimes human) who lie, trick, and deceive you—but also finding the people you connect with most. The ones who make you feel seen and strong. The ones who will stand by you and fight, no matter how dire the circumstances.

I cannot wait to get this book into your hands—but sadly, you'll have to wait just a little longer as I dive fully into editing mode. While you wait for the story to be polished to perfection though, don't forget to preorder A Crown of Deceit & Ruin here!

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A Delicate Betrayal has 60 Reviews!

In other exciting news, I was revising the book description for A Delicate Betrayal (the prequel to A Crown of Deceit & Ruin) when I saw that this book had received some new reviews!

For those who don't know, reviews are an indie author's LIFELINE. The Amazon algorithm favors books with 100 or more, so reaching that 100 review threshold is always a goal of mine (one I'm still trying to reach). To see this book finally make it past 60 reviews made my whole week, so THANK YOU to whoever left the new ones this month!!

(Below is a screenshot of the Bookbub version, just because I liked that it showed the pretty cover and some of the tags the reader left 😊)

If you read ADB and enjoyed it, please consider leaving a review as well to help get this book up to that 70 review mark next! 🎉 

If you haven't read it yet, what are you waiting for!?! This prequel has it all:

👑 Viking/warrior queen

⚔️ Protective duty-bound knight

🐉  A quest to slay a dragon

👑 Forbidden romance

⚔️ Touch her and dïé vibes

🐉 Norse-inspired magic system

👑 Reluctant allies

⚔️ A slowburn that turns steamy

🐉 Betrayals that will rip your heart out

👑 Villain origin story (to setup the rest of the series)

If you have Kindle Unlimited, you can start binging this deliciously forbidden romantasy for free here! If you don't have KU and you'd like to buy a copy, I'd suggest waiting until April 6th, because I'll be running a promo that day (and will email you to remind you 😉).

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That's everything I have for now! But in a couple of weeks, I'll send the full character art reveal and a reminder about the discount on A Delicate Betrayal. I should also be getting the cover back from my cover designer, so finger's crossed I get to share that with you next month too!

Until next time, happy reading!

~ Jessaca ⚔️🩵🦇