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K. W. Bernard
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Spicy dark fantasy full of monsters, magic, and mayhem. 🖤⚔️🖤
Author of DRAINED and BLACKENED. Intertidal creature stranded in the woods.

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Happy Friday! Have a great weekend! #5amWritersClub
December 5, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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Happy December! #5amWritersClub
December 1, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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Two for one 🤣.
Happy #Caturday!
A tuxedo cat in a bargain bin basket A brownish gray striped cat in a basket labeled bargain bin.
November 29, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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Too many tastes to choose from in the Seeds & Shadows series, so I went with the very first one.

My monsters feed through their fingertips on the magical energy that powers casters’ spells. Sarlona was born with so much they decided to keep her.

#FridaySpark #DarkFantasy #DarkRomance #BookSky
November 28, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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Happy #ThickTrunkTuesday! Have a great day! #5amWritersClub
Massive oak with some yellow foliage behind an old gravestone.
November 25, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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Happy Monday! Have a great week! #5amWritersClub
Frosty hole in a stump that probably leads to the Abyss.
November 24, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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For context, Benton is in Aldamon’s bed, beneath him, and is pretty sure he’d rather be elsewhere.

#FridaySpark #DarkFantasy #FantasyHorror #FantasyBooks #DarkRomantasy #DarkRomance #RomanticDarkFantasy #Vampires #ParanormalRomance #MonsterRomance #Horrormance #Grimdark #IndieBooks #BookSky
November 21, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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Happy #ThickTrunkTuesday! Have a great day! #5amWritersClub
Big, gnarly sugar maple trunk against the blue sky.
November 18, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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My writing is no place for babies. Had to go back to Dagmar’s origin story for this one.

#FridaySpark #WIP #DarkFantasy #FantasyBooks #Romantasy #DarkRomantasy #DarkRomance #ParanormalRomance #CaptorCaptive #SapphicSpice #MonsterRomance #IndieBooks
Laelia lounged against the side of the mosaic-lined basin, gossamer faery silk clinging to every curve and displaying every shadow beneath. “Come here, wild one.” She beckoned with a curled finger and soft smile. Dagmar rooted in place like golden reeds in a frozen pond, bleeding into the water from a half dozen abrasions. “I’ll take the collar off,” the blonde demon offered. Not about to trust the magic-drinker who had run a greatsword through her baby brother’s brain, Dagmar didn’t so much as twitch. “I think she enjoys it,” the other monster teased, circling behind her.
November 14, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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Happy Friday! Have a wonderful weekend! #5amWritersClub
Starry, greenish sky over the forest.
November 14, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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Good morning! Have a wonderful week! #5amWritersClub
Big orange sugar maple crown against a bright blue sky.
November 10, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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Guess who’s ready for the Boozy Book Fair! I’ll be at Sidereal Farm Brewery in Vassalboro, ME tomorrow from 1-4 with dark fantasy and ‘potions’. What an event for thirsty monsters and a guardsman with a drinking problem. 🍻

#MaineEvents #MaineBooks #MaineAuthors #IndieAuthors #IndieBooks #CraftBeer
November 7, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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When the paladin thinks he’s protected a possessed woman by marking her with his sigil, but he’s actually trapped a possessed monster at his side.
 
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His dark words couldn’t begin to erode the playfulness his blush had sparked. The demon delighted in teasing him. That’s what she told herself. “Do you want to keep me, Captain Rayne?” His gaze drifted to her silk sleeve. The one concealing the flesh he’d marked. His flush deepened, and his scent thickened with the spiciness she’d longed to draw from him. He wet his lips. “I want to keep you…safe.”
November 7, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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Happy Wednesday! Have a great day! #5amWritersClub
Full moon over the treetops.
November 5, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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Happy #ThickTrunkTuesday! Complete with two raccoons this morning. Which is fun, since one tested positive for rabies in town last month. #5amWritersClub
Edge of the forest in the dark of early morning with raccoons hanging from two trees.
November 4, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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Happy Monday! It was a wild weekend for free Drained downloads 🎉 Hoping that leads to new readers. Have a great week! #5amWritersClub
Still, clear lake shore with autumn foliage.
November 3, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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🎃 Happy Halloween 👻

Drained is on me today and Blackened is .99 cents. Lots of other monsters on the loose too! Take advantage.

#monsterstuffyourkindleday #stuffyourkindle #stuffyourkindleday #monsterromance #monsterromancebooks #paranormalromance #romanticdarkfantasy #darkfantasy #BookSky
October 31, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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Happy Halloween! Have a spooky weekend! #5amWritersClub
October 31, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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Blackened is one of over 300 spooky fantasy romance e-books you can pick up for just 99c today!
 
⚔️ Monsters vs mages
🖤 Enemies to lovers
😈 Spell-eating FMC
💀 Cursed/possessed MC
🧛‍♂️ Vampire trickster
🔥 Unhinged mom rage
🦑 Black, watery hell and its naughty tentacles

#BookSky #romantasy #pnr #fantasy
October 30, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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Happy #thicktrunktuesday!
October 28, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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Happy Monday! Have a wonderful week! #5amWritersClub
October 27, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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Excited to find out that Blackened received a first place award in dark fantasy from The BookFest!

#thebookfest #darkfantasy #romanticdarkfantasy #darkromantasy #monsterromance #fantasyhorror #enemiestolovers #OctoberReads #SpookyBooks
October 25, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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Happy Friday! Have a wonderful weekend! #5amWritersClub
October 24, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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When you thought you could garden AND do book events all summer during a drought…
October 23, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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Heart or blood splatter?
It works either way.

🖤 Romantic Dark Fantasy
🥀 Captor-captive
😈 Spell-eating monster FMCs
🗡️ Human henchmen MMC
🐺 Morally gray
🌱 Nature magic
🪄 Evil mages
🪼 Naughty tentacles
 
#DarkFantasy #DarkRomantasy #FantasyHorror #DarkRomance #MonsterRomance #OctoberReads #BookSky
Drained and Blackened (awesome books) on a heart made of red leaves.
October 22, 2025 at 9:45 AM