Novels In Bits

The Heir Apparent by Rebecca Armitage ~ FULL SUMMARY Listen, I get it. You've been seeing the buzz around the novels and they're sort of intriguing. However, you don't have the time to sit down and read books right now. There's a lot to do. Audiobooks don't cut it for you either. If only there were somebody to cut through the noise and give you a fun outline about the whole story in 10 minutes! Yo...

Sera’s intention has been exposed. She struggled with fulfilling her “duty” and is relieved she no longer has to. But these gods don’t believe her, not after all the horrors they’ve been through together, and they would never forgive her. To her shock, Nyktos has no intention of calling off their wedding. In fact, he makes her share his bedroom so he can keep a closer eye on her. This isn’t just a...

Novel: A Shadow in the Ember by Jennifer L. Armentrout 200 years before Sera was born, the Primal of Death made a deal with her ancestor that he would take the firstborn daughter as consort. Now when it came time to fulfill the deal, the Primal showed up to tell Sera, “I have no need for you”.  For three years, she lived with the shameful secret of being rejected but when her life gets threatened,...

Novel: A Shadow in the Ember by Jennifer L. Armentrout Seeing Tavius in her bedroom first thing in the morning is cause for an alarm. Princess Seraphena reaches for the dagger she normally keeps beneath her pillow and it’s gone. Oh no, how could she let something like this happen? If only she’d not overslept and let down her guard… Tavius is here to personally inform Sera that he’s now King and sh...

Novel: Heat of the Everflame by Penn Cole  Rymari was pure white from tongue to tail. Out of the nine Gryverns (a creature that has the head of a dragon, body of a lion and wings as eagles), she was the eldest and was loyal to the youngest Kindred, Montios. Gryverns are immortal and it takes a lot to be able to kill them but during the Blood War, Rymari died from wounds she couldn’t recover from....

Novel: Heat of the Everflame by Penn Cole Diem goes to warn Henri of what she’s about to do. She feels she owes it to him because of their history. But whatever regard she has for him isn’t reciprocated as he treats her coldly despite being with another woman without first breaking it off with her.  He also outright lied to her about her missing mother’s whereabouts, choosing other priorities abov...

Novel: Heat of the Everflame by Penn Cole  “I used to play a game where I would change the topic to see how long it took before my brother brought you back up. It never took more than three sentences. He had it bad.” Lily tells Diem. Luther also keyed the blood lock of his rooms to open to only himself and Diem. That’s a big red flag to her that he suspected he might not return alive from rescuing...

As Queen, Diem is the most powerful magic user of Lumnos— Realm of Light and Shadow. Unlike the rest of the Descended in Lumnos, she can also access her full magic on other realms because she’s a Crown. However, something never heard of is happening to her. First, she burst into flames (and didn’t die) when she entered Ignios, Realm of Sand and Fire. Suddenly, she can use powers exclusive to Desce...

A man stabs Taran with a godstone spear. Not deep enough to kill; that would be too easy. This man wants Taran to suffer a slow, painful death from an injury he can never recover from. Taran and two others came to save their queen, Diem, from the hands of these people. Through the entire rescue, Diem was all about, “Don’t let the hate be an endless cycle. They’re only acting because they’re angry....

A gryvern— a ferocious rare creature that breathes fire and has almost impenetrable skin— is descending on the camp of the Guardians. Riding on the gryvern is one of the deadliest Descended men in the entire Emarion. Instead of fear and running for cover, there’s grim determination on the Guardians’ faces. This is why they’ve been holding the queen hostage and keeping her heavily drugged. The guar...

Ep 5 - Their second kiss was very public. Prince Luther and Diem, The Queen of the Lumnos realm, have been drawn together by an invisible string since the first time they came face-to-face. But there were so many insurmountable gulfs. Regardless, Luther goes through so many highs and lows to prove his loyalty to Diem. Just as she accepts it, he deals her the hardest blow. It’s the Challenging, the...

Ep 4 - Diem hasn’t seen Henri in weeks, since she gave orders he be locked up in the dungeon. He looked so betrayed and she is convinced he hates her. To make amends, on the day she’s supposed to be grieving the untimely demise of her father, she’s bending to Henri’s whims. He’s providing zero comfort knowing fully well that in less than 14 days, Diem would die at Challenging. With that, her 30-Da...

Diem Bellator-Corbois isn’t to be messed with. She won’t cave in to the ridiculous demands of the most powerful houses of the realm. They want to kill off mortals, banish them from the kingdom and continue with their cruel, lavish lifestyles. She’s sick to her stomach by their wickedness. What Diem fails to realize early on is this: she may not care about her life and would gladly lay it down to s...

Diem and Henri are childhood best friends turned sweethearts. Many times, Henri asked her to marry him. She avoided giving an answer, knowing deep down in her heart that he’s not for her. However, when her life takes a drastic turn, Diem wants to hold onto something familiar, so she accepts Henri’s proposal. Soon after, she knows she’s in big trouble because although Henri is the one she’s promise...

Diem has lived as a Mortal her entire life. The realm she dwells in, Lumnos is made up of Descended and Mortals who live apart from each other. The Mortals are deliberately kept in the dark about the ways of the Descended. It is why when Diem’s life changes overnight as she’s revealed to be a Descended Queen, she must learn everything from scratch. One of her first lessons is this: she must stop w...

It’s an open secret that Prince Luther is the most powerful magic user in the realm. Everyone is afraid of him, defers to him and never wants to get on his wrong side. But not Diem. And she isn’t even a magic user! When Diem demands that Prince Luther lets her into a burning building to save people, she would have died had he not come for her. But he goes beyond that, refusing to leave her side fo...

Diem is going about her business of being a healer. She just treated a courtesan wounded in both spirit and body. Now, she’s on her way home when she comes across a horrific scene. A man— descended— dressed in jeweled clothing, possessing blue eyes and shadow magic writhing like snakes is about to strike a poor woman and her blue-eyed 4-year-old son. Their crime? The woman allowed the boy to be bo...

Diem is a healer like her mother, Auralie, but she’s never treated The Descended. Auralie forbids any association with them. But Diem’s younger brother, Teller, associates a lot with The Descended. He even attends their school. Why isn’t Auralie playing fair? It’s even worse for Diem who doesn’t know her biological father. Auralie claims he died before she discovered her pregnancy and refuses to g...

Penelope Diana Ross broke up with Lukas Blomqvist 8 months ago but insisted the news stay private. The majority of their friends and colleagues still believe they’re dating. But Pen starts seeing someone new. Lukas’ new girlfriend, Scarlett, happens to be Pen’s diving teammate. Scarlett and Lukas keep things on the downlow but Pen, claiming that Lukas is her best friend, remains strongly in his li...

What if your greatest strength was also your biggest weakness? Lukas Blomqvist is an Olympic-level athlete… and an Olympic-level dumbass when it comes to dating. His discipline is legendary: ✔️ No sugar for years (not even a birthday cupcake). ✔️ Ice baths daily (RIP his nipples). ✔️ Ate plain rice for two years (yes, on purpose). But when he tries to "hack" love with the same extreme rules? Disas...

“Do you like being reminded that I'm superior in Computational Biology?” Scarlett texts Lukas after his Coach, Ur, spots the marking she drew on his palm. Lukas is a world championship holder and an Olympian while Scarlett is a girl who is a year behind in college because of a painful injury. Coach Ur believes in good luck charms and for this season, the good luck charm is the mark on Lukas’ palm....

Misery barely survived a brutal poisoning that knocked her out cold for 5 days. But the general consensus among the Weres was “she’s not the target.” That’s until she’s kidnapped and thrown in the same cell as Serena, her best friend. The whole reason why Misery agreed to become a chess piece in her father’s political games was to find Serena who’d been missing for 3 months, 2 weeks and 4 days. Se...

Lowe is simply being true to character. When they left the dinner table, they told everyone it’s because the only Vampyre in their midst— his wife, Misery— needs to feed. They’re here on a mission though and that’s just an excuse. But right at the moment they’re about to be caught, he makes her do it. When Misery confides in her twin brother later about what she did, he’s shocked. “The Vampyres an...

Roscoe was the alpha of the Weres. He was vile and high handed. “Do what I say or lose your life. Give me all the power.” That was his modus operandi. He staunchly believed the Weres were a more advanced race than the humans and Vampyres, so he wanted nothing with them. Yet the most number of Roscoe’s people died by his hands than from defending their borders from other species. Lowe had to step i...

Misery is walking down the aisle when whispers drift to her. “She’s such an attention whore. First, the collateral and now this, does she think we’ll be grateful?” *Scoff* This is the first wedding that has held between the Vampyre and Were race in 200 years. The last one ended in a bloodbath - The Aster. Hopefully, everything will go well today even if Misery is getting married to the only one wh...