Author: Serena Hawke
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Your Guide to Nightbloom Paranormal Romance Greetings My Fellow Readerlings! I am Serena Hawke, writer and author of romance novels. I bring to you this Nightbloom Paranormal Romance Guide, which is a growing universe of magic, desire, mystery, and shadowed worlds. This space serves as your official gateway into the…
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Best Standalone Paranormal Romance Novels
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Standalone paranormal romance novels deliver the magic of supernatural love stories in a single, complete package. Unlike lengthy series, these books resolve their storylines neatly in one volume. I appreciate how standalone reads provide satisfaction and closure without having to wait for sequels, which is especially appealing when looking for…
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150+ Tropes Listed Alphabetically & by Theme
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This is a fairly exhaustive paranormal romance trope list that contains 150 tropes. I’ve combined as many tropes sourced from genre databases and expert lists. There are two lists on this page for you: TROPES LISTED ALPHABETICALLY A–G: Foundational Paranormal Romance Tropes and Classic Paranormal Dynamics Accidental SummoningAlpha ProtectorAmnesia Romance…
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32 Sub-Genres of Dark Romance
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Introduction Welcome to the shadowed edge of romantic storytelling—where passion intertwines with peril, and love navigates through morally ambiguous terrain. Dark romance is not the soft-glow of candlelit dinners and happily ever afters (and other tropes); it is the genre that confronts the complexities of desire, obsession, power, and sometimes…
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Eternal Embrace: A Tale of Blood and Love
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Volume 1 in New Series (Coming Soon!) Before the first sunrise, he swore he’d never love again. Before the next full moon, she became the one thing he couldn’t live without. Eternal Embrace is a story of temptation and redemption—a forbidden connection between a mortal drawn to darkness and the…
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New Releases in Vampire Romance
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(Coming Soon!) Hello readerlings! Something dark and beautiful is stirring. A new vampire romance series is in the works, which is an unfolding saga of immortal love, blood-bound loyalty, and the perilous hunger that ties them together. The series will span four to five books, each one delving deeper into…
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Darker Schemes: Embracing The Shadow
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Let’s address what many romance writers tiptoe around: the darkness matters. The shadow elements, the uncomfortable truths, the aspects of human nature we’re supposed to politely ignore—these aren’t flaws to be sanitized from fiction but essential ingredients for stories that resonate with psychological truth. Darkness Comes I’ve done the shadow…
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Psychic Dreams: When The Veil Thins
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I’ve spent most of my life navigating two realities simultaneously—the consensus world where most people dwell, and the fluid, prophetic realm that bleeds through in dreams, intuitions, and moments when the veil between worlds grows gossamer-thin. Psychic From Youth The dreams started young. Not the typical anxiety dreams or wish-fulfillment…
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Secret Passions Revealed
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Behind every writer lives a constellation of obsessions, those secret passions that fuel the creative fire when inspiration runs thin. Mine have always dwelt in the liminal spaces—between light and dark, cultivation and wildness, healing and harm. Take my poison garden, for instance… Poison Garden While other gardeners plant roses…
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Serena Hawke’s Opening Statement
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Quiet Writings Writing paranormal romance novels is like waking up from a long winter’s nap. For years, I existed in the margins of my own story as a ghostwriter, a voice for hire, someone who poured passion into words that would never bear my name. I wrote for businesses, for…