Monday Oct 19, 2026
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
POWERHOUSE Arena
28 Adams Street (Corner of Adams & Water Street across from the Archway)
Brooklyn , NY
11201
About the Book.
Her touch kills, his saves the dying.
Are they fated, or forbidden?
Tempest Dunlap loves romance novels, but she knows she’ll never have her own happily-ever-after. She is a sweatpants-wearing doula who homeschools her seven-year-old niece in suburban New Jersey. Unfortunately, she’s also a succubus: Every man she’s ever kissed has died. But Tempest is a good person who never intended to be a murderer, so she’s sworn off love forever.
Then she meets Joel Tav, a gorgeous, gentle doctor who makes celibacy feel impossible. Tempest knows she can’t touch him—or tell him his brother was the last man she dated and accidentally killed.
Meanwhile, a vigilante is hunting people with dark powers, and Tempest is next. Should she keep hiding in her safe, lonely life, or should she embrace the darkness she fears and risk the ultimate forbidden romance?
Maybe Tempest will get her love story after all . . . or maybe she’ll become its villain.
About the Author.
KATE FOX can’t stop writing love stories. She lives in an old house in an old town in the universally admired state of New Jersey, where she homeschools her daughters and looks for magic in mundane places. She once wrote a popular blog and related essays that appeared in places like Salon, Slate, and Jezebel, and in magazines like Cosmopolitan, Self, and Women’s Health. She has two fluffy cats, as befits a writer. Her favorite trope is enemies to lovers, as long as they’re really enemies.
About the Moderator.
Maria Vale is the author of Molly Molloy and the Angel of Death, chosen by The New York Times as one of the best romances of 2023. Various volumes in her Legend of All Wolves PNR series have been named best of the year by Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, Booklist, Amazon, BookPage, and Kirkus Reviews.