n this episode the Coven chats about Daughter of the Moon Goddess by Sue Lyn Tann. We discuss the beauty of a story about the fierce love between daughter and mother. We also discuss at LENGTH why one of the MMCs is thé worst, and the other is very tasty indeed.

We do our best with the pronunciation of the character names but we slip up now and then.

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In this episode, the Coven had the absolute pleasure of speaking with author Nikki St Crowe about her new dark spicy Wizard of Oz retelling, West of Wicked!!

We save spoilers for the later on in the episode so don’t worry if you haven’t yet read this one yet. Spoilers are from 29:20 until 49:38!

We also talk to Nikki about her love of dark romance and writing spicy retellings, and why she chose Wizard of Oz for this newest story.

Towards the end of the podcast we let Brigitte go all fan girl on Nikki about what we can expect to get in book 2, which comes out November 2026!

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In this episode the Coven chats with author Rachel Vincent about her latest book, The Alchemary which came out April 2026 and which we got to read in advance of this conversation. We ask Rachel why she wanted to write a dark academia, which of the two brothers she likes the most and what inspired her to write such an unapologetically driven main female character.

This was such a fun conversation! You can find The Alchemary everywhere that sells books, and you can find out more about Rachel's many previously published books on Rachel's website: www.rachelvincent.com

Please note: we chat spoilers from 28:55 onwards.

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