Today is a great day for reflection.

How many books by Indigenous authors have you read this year?

How many books by Indigenous authors have you bought this year?

I'm going to include some books that I recommend adding to your shelves today! Buy one (or a few) that sound the most interesting to you.

Instead of shopping for the best Black Friday sale, commit to supporting the work we do at this imprint for a year for $5 a month(That's the cost of two hardcover books per year).

Forget hollow land acknowledgments and show support for the people. We are still here.

Have a great holiday. How you show up matters.

Okay, stop what you are doing. We need to talk about the Waking Heart Series by Erica Ivy Rodgers starting with Lady of Steel and Straw. This series is officially certified as having everything The Page Ladies crave:

▫️Immortal Scarecrow Guardians

▫️Forbidden Love that should be illegal

▫️Enough Ghostly Chaos to literally raise the dead.

✨️If you like your fantasy lush, lethal, and ready to rip your heart out, you need to step into this kingdom that's currently on fire.

🔥The Chemistry You Could Slice with a Saber!

In Lady of Steel and Straw, we meet our two tormented souls:

👧Charlotte Sand: Fierce, stubborn, and refusing to bow to corrupt power. The perfect rebel.

👨Luc de Montaigne: The loyal captain torn between faith, duty, and the one girl he absolutely cannot stop loving.

Their dynamic is pure, tortured perfection! One minute they're enemies, the next they're saving each other's lives while the world burns around them. Rodgers doesn't just write tension; she writes tension so thick you could slice it with a saber, leaving you breathless with every turn of the page.

🔥Raising the Stakes and the Dead

Then Lord of Blade and Bone shows up and ups the stakes tenfold. The rebellion is in full swing, the kingdom is bleeding, and the emotional scars run deeper than any sword wound.

What truly obsessed us was the way Rodgers layers the world: we get bone collectors, haunted Guardians, and underground resistance networks; it's all so vividly cinematic and heart-wrenching. Charlotte’s fight for justice collides with Luc’s struggle for redemption, proving that love and sacrifice might just be two sides of the same blade.

We were emotionally wrecked by the end, half in love with every morally gray character, and absolutely desperate for the next book. The prose feels both lush and lethal like a velvet cloak concealing a dagger.

🗡️ The Page Ladies Verdict: Read This!

✨️If you're in the mood for a series that is beautifully macabre and romantic in equal measure, clear your schedule. The Waking Heart Series is a dangerous obsession we fully encourage.

❗️The Big Question for the Rebellion!

❓️If you were bound to a magical Guardian half spirit, half soldier would you fight for the living or follow the dead who still whisper your name? Tell us your choice in the comments!

Our December Booksworn Bookclub pick has been chosen by our Bright Stars! Really looking forward to the reactions, chats and videos all about The Only Good Indians with our First Swords and Bright Stars!

It's time for The Page Ladies Book Club's 2025 Book Lovers Secret Santa Gift Exchange! We're turning up the holiday cheer and using the magic of Elfster to handle the anonymous matching. Let's make this Christmas the most bookish one yet!

🎁 How the Gift Exchange Works:

Matching: Elfster will anonymously pair you with one lucky recipient.

The Gift: You choose the perfect read! It can be a newly purchased book OR a beloved title from your own collection new or gently used.

Wish List Wisdom: Please head to Elfster and clearly state your "wishes"! Include specific titles, preferred genres, and your preferred book format physical, e-book, etc.. Help your Secret Santa out!

⭐Dates to Remember:

Register by: December 24th

Matches Drawn: December 25th A Christmas morning surprise!

Send Your Gift by: January 1st

A Quick Note on Spending: Please ignore the $50 spending limit on Elfster it's just a site requirement! There is no minimum or maximum amount. The true magic is in the exchange!

📍Our Golden Rule: The success of this event relies on commitment. Please only join if you are committed to sending a gift. Let's make sure every member is feeling the love this Christmas!

❗️If you or know of someone who maybe interested in joining us tap or send them this link! https://tinyurl.com/4hafcpsu

Guess what I've got for you today...

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Ta-daaaaa! Subscribers actually got this a couple weeks ago so shout out to you guys for keeping it a secret in the discord.

For those of you who don't know the lore here, let me give you a little background. Yes, you are reading that correct, that says this is announcing the 2024 Best of Books winners. In November. of 2025.

I wish I had a reasonable excuse for this, I really do...but I don't. I genuinely can't even tell you why I didn't release this in January like I was supposed to or why I haven't released it in the many months that these images have been sitting in my Canva projects, but from the bottom of my heart I have no idea. Anyway, it has now been almost a full year since we first started the process of nominating books for our Best of Books 2024 and for the love of god I need this to not be hanging over my head anymore. I say that as though there was literally anything or anyone but my own damn self keeping me from getting this out, BUT THERE WASN'T.

You ever get a text or an email from someone that you don't reply to right away and then you kind of forget about it until it's a few days later and you go "oh my god I need to reply to that" but you've remembered at 1am and that's not a reasonable hour to text someone so you'll do it in the morning, and then you wake up in the morning and for many more mornings until the next time you remember it's suddenly been weeks and now it's awkward but you really should reply to it but you put it off because now you're embarrassed and then the longer you wait the worse it gets so you just never reply and suddenly you've ignored someone you really meant to get back to?

That's normal...right? Anyway that's basically what has happened here and I refuse to have this sitting on my dusty, unseen to-do list any longer so HERE are the winners of our 2024 Best of Books:

And there we have it! I AM FREE. Free to get started all over again on our 2025 nominations...

The December book club pick is The Bone Ships by R.J. Barker! I’m so excited to start this trilogy with you guys. I’ve heard amazing things, including that it’s dark, gritty, intense, and inventive. A word of warning—I’ve heard a lot of people say the first 100 pages can be pretty confusing. Barker tends to throw you in the deep end of his world-building and you have to teach yourself how to swim 😅 The glossary will be our best friend!

Just a reminder that we have a virtual book club meeting scheduled for Sunday, November 30th at 8pm PT 📱

Check the Discord for the zoom link and for this month’s giveaway winner!