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Happy Halloween Everyone! This week to celebrate the end of Spook-Tober the queen of Dark Romance, Zoe Blake, came on the podcast and she bought us Dead Love by Audrey Rush – a super spooky stalker romance about a Grave Digger/Mortician who has very imaginative uses for his cellophane… we may never wrap up our leftovers without blushing again! Please join Nat as she fangirls HARD while discussing books, writing, and of course lube, with one of the authors that inspired this podcast into being! 

✅ Contemporary dark stalker romance; Hades and Persephone retelling; gothic FMC 

🚩 Stalking; destruction of property; murder; drugs; virginity; smothering parents; manipulation; disease (mother, brother); suicide (brother); graphic violence; car crash

Titles mentioned:

Crawl – Audrey Rush
Wicked Games – Zoe Blake
Savage Games – Zoe Blake
Vicious Games – Zoe Blake
Vicious Oath – Zoe Blake
Captive Bride – Alta Hensley
Dark Notes – Pam Godwin
Claimed by the Marine – Zoe Blake
Born to be Bound – Addison Cain
The Decadent and the Damned – Zoe Blake
Broken Doll – Zoe Blake
Papa’s Prey – Zoe Blake
Dark – Vivian Murdoch
Lust – Drethi Anis (Nat’s Pallet Cleanser) Now also Available in Audio!
Quarantine – Drethi Anis

Assorted random other mentions:

Zoe Blake’s website and social links:
https://linktr.ee/zoeblakebooks
Link Tree – https://linktr.ee/zoeblakebooks
Instagram – @zoeblakebooks
TikTok – @zoeblakebooks
Zoe’s Facebook Groups – https://www.facebook.com/groups/ZoeBlakesWantonlyWickedReaders https://www.facebook.com/groups/ZoeBlakesSpoilerRoom/
Murdoch Mysteries (Zoe’s Pallet Cleanser) – https://www.cbc.ca/murdochmysteries/m_site/

Other:
Brain FM App – https://www.brain.fm/
Florence + The Machine – Howl
Paloma Faith – Only Love Can Hurt Like This
LP – Lost On You
Regina Wamba (Photographer) – https://reginawamba.com/
Symphony Hall on Sirius XM

Intro and Outro music:

We Ascend Instrumental by Michael Briguglio