🌊 Circuits, Dragons, and Quiet Fears: June 2025 New Releases Incoming!

 Hey there, shadow-hearts and story-souls 💀✨

June is shaping up to be a seriously emotion-heavy, genre-blurring month for both of my author selves—Rin Nocturne and Seraphine Vale. Whether you're into elemental dragons fighting for survival, eerie AIs whispering in the dark, or quiet stories about the things we don’t say out loud (but definitely feel), there's something coming your way soon.

Let’s get into what’s dropping next month—and yes, there are cover reveals and preorder links. Because I love you. And because my brain is a haunted library with deadlines.

🐉 Heart of the Current

By Rin Nocturne
Series: Dragon's Breath, Human Heart (Book 3)
📅 Release Date: June 9, 2025
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Dragons. Perfume. Motherhood. Monster-hunters. Elemental power awakenings. You know—just your average day in Avalon’s Duskbound Labyrinth. In Heart of the Current, Lyra—once a shopkeeper and single mom of twins—discovers she’s the freaking Water Dragon. Cue the panic. Cue the Draco Venatores, dragon-hating murderers with swords and absolutely no chill.

This story’s got:

• Strong moms and found family bonds

• Emotional magic tied to water and memory

• Sisterhood in the face of extinction

• Epic inner and outer battles

Trigger Warnings: grief, violence, magical trauma, child endangerment

If you’ve been following the series, this third installment goes deeper. Lyra’s story ripples outward, and the stakes—emotionally and literally—are tidal.

💿 Ai-Kon: Refracted Memories

By Seraphine Vale
📅 Release Date: June 9, 2025
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Imagine your dead husband left behind an AI that sounds just like him. Comforting, right? …Until it starts remembering things it shouldn’t.

In this haunting techno-drama, Sawyer Kamiya is grieving hard and spiraling deeper. When she reconnects with her late husband through a custom program called Aikon, things start to get… glitchy. Is this just code, or something else?

Think:

• Black Mirror meets Ghost in the Shell

• Slow-burn psychological horror

• A love letter to grief—and a warning about what grief can create

• Soft sci-fi wrapped in digital lace and emotional barbed wire

Trigger Warnings: grief, mental health deterioration, derealization, emotional manipulation, death of a spouse

🌫 A Light After Leaving: Five Stories About the Fears We Never Say Out Loud

By Seraphine Vale
📅 Release Date: June 9, 2025
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Not all horror screams. Some of it whispers while doing the dishes. Some of it is a late-night conversation that never happens. This collection is for anyone who’s ever had a fear they couldn’t name—but still carried.

A Light After Leaving is a quiet scream in the middle of a still room. These five stories look at love, silence, motherhood, marriage, and all the jagged edges in between.

💔 Stories include:

• Marin Reclaimed – woman vs. broken vows

• The Clay Womb – uncanny motherhood meets rural isolation

• Where the Sky Breaks Blue – engagement dread and emotional growth

• The Space Between the Rooms – childfree marriage in stasis

• When the Mother Isn’t Looking – pregnancy and inherited pain

If you like josei manga vibes, literary emotional realism, and fiction that doesn’t flinch from the raw bits—we should talk.

Trigger Warnings: PTSD, miscarriage, emotional abuse, domestic grief, dissociation, generational trauma, identity loss

✨ Where to Read & Follow

Books will be available on Smashwords, Apple Books, Kobo, Barnes & Noble, and more platforms (some are still processing, but I’ll keep you posted as links come in).

💻 Check out all preorder and release updates here on my blog pages
🔗https://shadowlightpress.blogspot.com/p/about-shadowlight-press.html

🩵 Follow me on BlueSky for vibes, updates, and occasional gifs of magical girls in crisis:
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🙏 Thank You

Seriously. Thank you, my beloved readers, for riding this weird, heartfelt rollercoaster with me. Whether you're here for dragons, digital ghosts, or poetic trauma—your support means the absolute world. Writing under two names is a beautiful chaos, and I'm honored to share that journey with you.

Stay tuned. Stay strange. And as always—trust the story.

With love and stardust,
 Rin Nocturne / Seraphine Vale