Welcome to my merry newsletter! I hope you’re all finding time to relax, enjoy festive cocktails and cozy up with your favorite books!

Can you actually believe 2025 is almost over?! It was a rollercoaster of a year for me, with major changes in my personal life, book releases and some serious overspending on character art. (But not really, because the limit does not exist, right?) So what’s next for S. D. Paine? Read on to find out!

I can’t thank you enough for reading and loving my books!! As always, if you have the time, please consider leaving reviews on Goodreads, BookBub, Amazon or B&N’s website. Every review keeps my books live on these sites! Reviews are everything to us authors, and help keep our books available for new readers. I appreciate all the love and shares!!

Sometimes I say things like, “I’m not going to attend as many events because it’s expensive” and then I go and join several events all over the US. Zero self-control and cannot be stopped.

Plan ahead and come see me at a signing event! I absolutely love meeting readers! I’m picky about events and try to choose the ones run by good/honest people and boast major organizational skills. So hopefully knowing that gives you some comfort these events will be worth your while!!

This story popped into my dreams one night and never left. From a single novella to an entire cast of degenerate devils, this series will surprise you at every turn. Before you dive deeper into this wicked world, know that there are MANY trigger warnings. This series is a very dark romance, and the characters are morally corrupt.

For those of you who read OHN, don’t worry, Ghost’s story is coming in 2026 as well. Ssshhh!

Lacy Breaux was on a mission, and this Halloween finally presented her with a chance to get the answers she so desperately needed. She always knew something was strange about her, but it wasn't until Lacy learned her birth father was a serial killer that she had even an inkling of what those dark urges were about.

Hallowed Hills Sanatorium locked up the worst of the worst, prisoners who committed the most unspeakable crimes. And it happened to house her father. What Lacy didn't expect to find was someone new, with a soul as ruinous as the devil, and the face of a god. Her father held the answers to her past, but it was Jasper Barrett who had plans to claim her future, one desperate moan at a time.

FUN FACT: Lacy’s name came from a reader! I loved her name and instantly saw it in this story. I asked her permission to use it as my main character and she loved the idea. You never know when an author will get inspired, and your name could be next!

One Hallowed Night is available on KU & Paperback on Amazon! You can also purchase signed copies in my Etsy Shop!

Have you finished the Daemons & Lumens Series?! The entire series is available on KU & Paperback, and signed copies are in my Etsy Shop.

Ready for a secret?! The spin-off series I am working on will feature Tibby and Gremory! Tibby and Gremory are headed to New Orleans, where Delphine insisted they go next. This will be a why choose series as well, with a new FMC, feisty witches, gods and a new big bad set on destroying the Earth.

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Dueling Obsessions is the first book in my new Twisted Desires Series. This series will feature interconnected standalones, each with their own main characters. This is an LGBTQIA+ friendly dark romance series.

Let’s meet your new favorite main character, Primrose Eleanora Kingsley. She’s fled Chicago, changed her name to Nora King and created a new life for herself away from her corrupt family and horrible asshole of a fiancé.

Nora has always wanted to be a true crime journalist, and she will take any risks to make that happen. And maybe she’s a little emotionally damaged from the relationship she recently escaped…and maybe she’s got a few dark and twisty kinks of her own yet to be unleashed…

🖤 MMF Dark Romance

🖤 Mafia Adjacent

🖤 Kinky Awakenings

🖤 Mistaken Identities

🖤 Multi POV

🖤 BDSM Club Owners

🖤 Touch Her and Die Vibes

RELEASE DAY is Friday, March 13, 2026

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HOLIDAY BONUS CONTENT TIME!! You’ve made it to the EXTRA hot and bothered portion of the newsletter. Click through to the VIP page to gawk at all the pretty artwork and read my new bonus scene!

I DO NOT support the use of AI when it has been stole from human artists. I ONLY commission humans for art, and do not work with “artists” who use AI. I full support humans creating amazing art and stories. Let’s not give the robots more power, eh?

As always, thank you for being here and supporting my indie author journey! This page will feature different artwork each month, includes uncensored NSFW art. (Because of the spicy content, this page is for 18+ only)

This page includes bonus scenes, extended chapters and sneak peaks available ONLY to you, dear VIPs. Cheers to you!

December will feature A Daemons & Lumens Christmas, written by yours truly. Phen and Levi get into trouble, Morax presents the perfect gift, and Seraphina dresses to kill in this spicy novelette. The password for December is SURPRISEPARTY and you can enter here! Enjoy!!

This section got a makeover! We are still fully focused on indie authors, and now I’ll be sharing books I’ve read or plan to read. I’ll definitely be a ghost haunting a library somewhere with my unfinished business being my endless TBR. #readerproblems

As always, be kind and maybe kick some ass when necessary.

And enjoy these authors and their amazing stories!!

A Holiday RomCom Novella

Vixen Merritt has one holiday wish: survive Christmas in PineHaven Hollow without decking anyone with her antlers. Being a shapeshifting reindeer comes with enough baggage, and returning home means enduring carols, cookies, and her family's relentless cheer. She's grumpy and prickly, and she certainly isn't looking for love. 

Enter Crispin "Frost" Hale, a snowman who came to life last Christmas thanks to a burst of holiday magic. He's charmingly clueless about human traditions, and hopelessly optimistic. He's also convinced that Vixen's fiery spirit is exactly what he's been waiting for. 

When a blizzard traps them together, sparks fly faster than sleigh bells on Christmas Eve. Between magical mishaps, laugh-out-loud misunderstandings (snowmen don't do hot cocoa), and the undeniable pull of romance, Vixen and Crispin discover that sometimes the most unpredictable magic is falling head over hooves in love.

Full of frosty hijinks, enchanted snowfalls, and heartwarming cheer, Snowflakes and Shapeshifters is a holiday rom com that proves even the grumpiest reindeer can't outrun Christmas magic...or a snowman with a heart that refuses to melt.

MY RATING: TBD!

This novella sounds ADORABLE and I love shifter stories. I also happen to love this author as a human being, so of course I have this one on my TBR!

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Two souls bound by loss, rediscovering their place in life. Drawn together by a secret he’s always known and a truth she is about to uncover.

Syve has spent the last year struggling to hold together the pieces of her life after losing her family. Her shop—and the apartment above it—are the final ties to everything she’s lost, and she’s desperate to keep them. But how do you hold on when grief weighs down every breath? As if that wasn’t enough, vivid dreams of haunting the graveyard, trapped in the body of a deer have begun to plague her nights. Searching for answers, she uncovers an old family secret: the dreams are real. When a stranger appears, offering explanations she never imagined, a door to a hidden world creaks open.

Bastien knows how fast life can fall apart—less than a minute, if you’re counting. Now, all that’s left is a hollow work to support his mother and teenage sister, and fight through sleepless nights. Only his wolf—an untamed force within—gives him escape, running wild through the darkened woods to silence the memories. Until one night, he finds someone who looks as lost as he feels. And for the first time, he can’t walk away.

When dreams blur with reality and nightmares claw their way into the light, can two broken souls find healing in each other? Or will the deer and the wolf be forever haunted by the past?

MY RATING: TBD

I was looking for more paranormal and shifter books, and this one was recommended to me. I am only two chapters in and enjoying the story and the writing style. Stay tuned for my review!

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Starlight in her veins, and a soul that calls for darkness.

On the magical continent of Celesterra, all humans are enslaved to the ruling fae...

Asteria Zagreus, a mortal young woman enslaved on Celesterra, must face Placement Day, the one day where all humans, at the age of Twenty-One, are placed in new kingdoms and given new masters to serve. Come Placement Day, Asteria is forced into the Dusk Kingdom and given to its Prince, Cyrus Tynan. When she refuses him and his desires, Asteria realizes she has only one option: escaping her enslavement and finding something thought impossible—freedom. Asteria must begin to play her own game within the court...and with the Prince of Dusk Kingdom himself.

Enemies come from all sides, however, and the merciless ruler of the Night Kingdom, King Calix Atarah Erebus, starts making his move against the Dusk Kingdom. Yet, darkness calls to Asteria in mysterious ways, and an equally mysterious soldier makes her question who the real monsters are—especially when it comes to a brutal king and a callous prince. With a bloody war brewing on the horizon, Asteria must decide who the true villain of her story is. Her choice, and the consequences of it, will ripple out across the continent.

Chaos rises, resistance gathers, and a soulmate bond is tested, while Asteria begins down a path that will change the course of history...

MY RATING: 🌟🌟🌟🌟 / 🌶🌶🌶

Rachel and I met when we were both debuting our first books, and I loved her spicy romantasy story with tough female characters, dragon daddies, court intrigue and all the magical worldbuilding! If you like ACOTAR and Fourth Wing, you will love her series!

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