Blog Tour: Olympian Awakenings trilogy by C.B. Samet

 

Cursed as children.

Empowered as adults.

Now, they’ve been summoned to stop a force older than the gods themselves.

Stone Hearts

Olympian Awakenings Trilogy Book 1

by CB Samet

Genre: Greek Mythology Urban Fantasy Romance

Madison was cursed to destroy with a glance—until a prophecy calls her to fight beside the one man who sees through her walls… and into her heart.

Cursed to turn the living to stone, Madison has spent her life avoiding others—until a prophecy drags her to Greece to join a team of strangers to help stop an ancient evil. Among them, she meets Rex, a battle-scarred archaeologist with the power to heal and secrets of his own.

Together, they must survive deadly skirmishes, outwit mythical creatures, and recover the Armor of Achilles from the heart of Daedalus’ labyrinth.

The deeper they go, the more the maze twists not just the path, but their minds.

Failure isn't an option. Succeeding might cost them everything.

Magic. Monsters. A love forged in fire. The battle is only beginning.

 

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Winds of Destiny

Olympian Awakenings Book 2

When a titan’s power surges, mortals pay the price—and the Olympians must answer the call.

Layla, Tyler, and the other Olympians are thrust on a perilous quest across the Mediterranean and into the sunken heart of Atlantis to reclaim Poseidon’s trident. Their sea voyage is fraught with danger with deadly monsters and diabolical magic at every turn. Only by learning to trust—and love—each other can they hope to survive.

Layla’s storm powers are tied to her heart, and to master them, she must first confront the emotions she’s spent years guarding. Tyler, a shapeshifter whose might can rival the fiercest beasts, may be the key to her control—but breaking through the walls around her heart won’t be easy. Their past mistakes still linger, and some wounds run too deep for even the strongest powers to heal.

Adventure, danger, and passion collide in this electrifying continuation of the Olympian Awakens series.

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Flame and Shadow

Olympian Awakenings Book 3

A titan is rising.
And this time, the world may not survive.

Fire-wielder Zoey has spent her life afraid of her own power. Ancient soldier Alexios has spent centuries believing he was nothing more than a weapon. Together, they’ve survived monsters, gods, and impossible quests—but nothing prepares them for Kronos’s final move.

As fractures tear open between worlds, monsters pour into the mortal realm and the boundary between life and death begins to collapse. When a desperate sacrifice strands Zoey in the Underworld itself, ancient warrior Alexios must defy gods, fate, and death to bring her home—before she loses her memories… and herself.

The final battle will demand everything from all six champions who have fought side by side: fire and storm, stone and steel, courage, sacrifice, and unbreakable trust.

Because defeating a Titan will take more than power.

It will take a family forged in battle—and two souls willing to burn for each other and the world they refuse to lose.

The explosive conclusion to the Olympian Awakenings trilogy delivers epic Greek mythology, found family, and a sweeping romantic finale where love and legend collide.

 

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Stormborn & Flameforged

Olympian Awakenings Prequel

When fire meets storm, destiny ignites.

Zoey has always felt the burn of something more beneath her skin—an untamed fire that refuses to be extinguished. After years of hiding her power, she’s finally found belonging and a chance to be normal… as a stunt double on a Hollywood set.

Layla is the picture of grace and fame, a star with a global following. But behind the camera, she’s hiding a dangerous secret: she can control the weather.

When a monstrous creature straight from myth attacks during filming, Zoey and Layla are forced to reveal their powers—and discover they’re not alone. Chosen by ancient forces, bound by a forgotten legacy, the two women must join forces to face a truth that will shatter everything they thought they knew.

Because the world is on the brink of chaos.
And this is only the beginning.

 

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Christina is a four-time award winning author in thriller, romantic suspense, and fantasy. She is a mother of two energetic boys. She is a lover of suspense, adventure, and happy endings. She writes action and adventure in fantasy, thrillers, and romantic suspense genres. Her novels have empowered women overcoming powerful obstacles and the strong men who support them.

Favorite quote, ‘She needed a hero. So she became one.’ --Robin Reed

 

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Blog Tour: UNLADYLIKE by Regina Louise

This post is part of a virtual book tour organized by Goddess Fish Promotions. Regina Louise will be awarding a $25 Amazon/BN GC to a randomly drawn winner. Click on a tour banner to see the other stops on the tour.

Unladylike: A Mythopoetic Reclamation of Love is a lyrical collection of poetry and prose exploring love, survival, embodiment, and the journey of returning to the self. Blending literary poetry with personal reflection, Regina Louise examines relationships, identity, trauma, healing, and the process of reclaiming one's voice after loss and betrayal.

Through intimate poems and essays, Unladylike maps the emotional terrain between heartbreak and self-discovery, inviting readers into a deeply human exploration of resilience, self-love, and personal transformation. Her work speaks to readers interested in emotional healing, spiritual growth, women's voices, and the reclamation of dignity through storytelling and creative expression.

Rooted in mythopoetic inquiry and lived experience, this collection moves through memory, desire, grief, and repair, offering language for those navigating change, recovery, and the search for meaning. Unladylike is both an artistic work and an invitation-to witness oneself honestly and to return to what was always there.

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Say Her Name, Yours, and Mine
for Celie, for the girl on the 24 Divisadero, for all of us

Who taught her to bankrupt herself
back into her own disremembering—
to shrink inside the sound of her own name?

But I call her by her name. Celie.
Not by what Mister said.
Not by the nothing she thought she was.

I call her holy.

I recognize her as my own emulate,
mama,
sister,
auntie,
grandmother,
Jezebel,
and Sapphire,

The forgotten-about ones.

Because, like all of them (us),
she wrote letters to a God
she wasn’t sure existed.

Because she kept speaking,
even when no one answered.
Kept showing up,
and up,
and up—

Until that sacred day she stood and said,
“I may be poor, Black, I may even be ugly—
but dear God, I’m here,”

the day every woman who had been erased
stood up inside her.

The day I stood up.
My smallest exiled self—commanding like Moses—
until her spine / mine / all our spines
reached a Heaven of our own creating.

Miss Celie
touched her own face,
and I touched mine
on the 24 Divisadero bus heading away from Haight,
and we found ourselves beautiful.

Topic: How was it that you came to be a writer?

The Morning the Universe Shifted

Life has a way of turning on a single, invisible pivot. For the first chapter of my working life, I was a business owner, navigating the daily rhythms of running my hair salon. I had never written anything creatively before, no journals tucked under a mattress, no ambitious drafts stashed in a drawer. My world was defined by the tangible: scissors, hair, appointments, and the quiet, heavy survival of enduring thirty foster homes with no family and no anchor for the entirety of my youth, young adulthood or any other time in my life.

The shift began with a nightmare. I awakened from a chilling dream that warned me to be acutely aware of strangers. I brushed it off, not realizing it was a premonition. I started my day and went into my salon, only to find that every single client had canceled. 

Feeling a sudden, urgent need to find something that reflected my reality, possibly a book representative of surviving thirty foster homes and total isolation, I decided to head to the Barnes & Noble on Union Square in San Francisco. But as I set out, an inner voice intervened. Go home. Just go home. My son was in boarding school and scheduled to return; I could go home and prepare the house for his arrival.

Yielding to that sudden intuition, I changed direction and caught the BART train just as the doors were closing. I scooted on and found a seat. When the train reached 16th and Mission, my usual routine would have had me stepping off to grab Mexican food at my favorite taqueria. Instead, I stayed on. When we arrived at 24th and Mission, normally I would have pushed forward with assertive urgency, but this time I didn't. I waited, holding back to let mothers carrying babies and toddlers exit first.

As I finally stepped off the platform, a man walked past me. I instantly recognized him as someone whom I had not seen in thirty years.

Instinct took over. I went after him and called out, "Hey, hey you." He kept walking. I said it again, louder: "Hey, hey you."

He turned around, his eyes looking past me. I walked right up to him. "I'm sorry," I said.

"Yes, how can I help you?" he asked.

I just stared.

He frowned. "You speak to me as if I should know you."

"I know you," I replied. "You don't know me."

"Well, why would I?"

I looked right at him and said, "Because you're my father, Tom.

From the Edge of Despair to the Tip of a Pencil

The encounter left me entirely unmoored. The weight of thirty years of estrangement, colliding with a lifetime of foster care and abandonment, closed n on me as I walked home. When I walked through my front door, the emotional shock was so intense that I thought I was going to self-harm. 

Instead of yielding to the terror, my hand reached for a pencil.

I didn't have a blank journal or a pristine notebook. All I had near me was a copy of The Bay Guardian. Following a voice within I began writing along the perimeters of the newspaper. The pressure was so raw and uncontainable that my pencil kept puncturing right through the newsprint.

It was in that chaotic, desperate moment that I wrote the very first words of what would become a much larger project:

Careful not to disturb the raggedy screen door that barely kept the man-eating mosquitoes from tearing our asses up. I leaned my body into the frame and stared up at the sky. I could tell by the way the clouds moved that God was gonna start crying’ soon…

That single sentence broke the dam. The writer inside me wasn't born out of a desire for craft or a romantic notion of storytelling; she was born out of survival. Writing became the only vessel strong enough to hold the wreckage of my past, transforming a disorienting, shattering day into the foundation of my voice. I didn't choose to become a writer, writing chose me. 

What unexpected moment or turning point completely shifted the trajectory of your own life?

 

About the Author:

Regina Louise is a poet, writer, teacher, speaker, executive coach, whose work explores the intersection of memory, belonging, identity, and emotional liberation. The author of three books—two of which have been adapted for film: Somebody’s Someone, Someone Has Led This Child to Believe and Permission Granted: Kick Ass Strategies to Bootstrap your Way to Unconditional Self-Love—she has spent more than three decades helping people transform adversity into authorship through story, self-inquiry, and radical compassion.

A senior teacher with the Hoffman Process, Regina is known for guiding profound conversations about restoring dignity, resilience, attachment, and the art of becoming fully oneself. Whether on stage, in classrooms, behind a microphone, or in intimate workshop settings, she invites audiences to reimagine the stories that have shaped their lives and discover the freedom that awaits beyond them.

Her forthcoming collection, Unladylike: A Mythopoetic Reclamation of Love (September 2026), marks her debut poetry collection. Blending poetry, lyrical prose, and aphoristic reflections, it is a fearless meditation on love, loss, self-possession, and the sacred work of returning home to oneself.

Regina Louise lives in California, where she continues to write, teach, and create work that honors the transformative power of language to restore dignity, deepen connection, and reclaim what has always belonged to us.

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Review: LOVELY RECIPE by Myra Rose Nino

 

Sofia is the only one that cared about her family’s recipes. It will take begging her worst enemy into helping learn them.

 

Nice illustrations! Wow, Sofia was a disaster in the kitchen. Funny disasters. The two naturally bond over cooking. Turns out that Anna Marie wasn’t so bad after all. In fact, Sofia was actually starting to like her. She was so cute when she repeatedly tries to ask Anna Marie to the senior prom. Sometimes good things come to those who wait. A sweet enemies-to-lovers story.

 

Rating: 4 stars

Review: HOTELL Vol. 1 by John Lees

 

A pregnant woman running from an abusive ex stops at the Hotell. Her baby was literally sucking the life out of her. Yikes, that demon baby was scary!

 

Nice illustrations! This book is like “Tales from the Crypt” in which it relays horror vignettes—a collection of dark and scary stories.

 

A husband kills his wife, chops her up, and throws her into a glowing, freaky lake that brings her back. These stories were pretty good. In fact, they were better than I thought. Some of the images can be a little gruesome and sickening. I had to look away with all the blood and gore. Stories seemed to have a fitting ending just like “Tales from the Crypt.” The best stories were the ones without the gushing blood all over the place—basically the one with the hacked-up wife. It was cool how these stories connected to each other. Good read!

 

Rating: 4 stars