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The Word On The Street has been renowned for the quality and diversity of its event programming and our 2026 festival promises to offer the best so far. Check out our schedule for Saturday, September 19, 2026!
New York Times bestselling author Aurora Ascher’s hilarious and hot blend of spicy demon romance and cozy fantasy featuring a half-mad demon with questionable morals, a goth witch who kicks ass and takes names, and a magical library in a castle in Hell. Perfect for fans of Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Brynne Weaver, Jenna Levine, and Kimberly Lemming.
A villain always has a plan . . . but she’s a complication he never saw coming.
Murmur, the nefarious Necromancer, is losing his mind. His army of souls screams in his head, and his dreams are filled with bone-chilling visions of his approaching death. To save himself, he will unleash a torrent of destruction unlike anything Hell has seen before . . . But for his plot to succeed, he requires one final ingredient: the blood of a certain headstrong witch.
This witch can rescue herself . . .
Suyin, leader of the Montreal coven, hides her dread beneath a tough exterior. Unusual abilities she can’t explain are taking over her life, and she’s haunted by ominous dreams. Her fears are realized when she’s captured by a demon with bloodshot eyes. Murmur plans to leave her in his dungeon, but Suyin has no intention of making this easy for him. Bargaining with demons is dangerous business, but she’ll do anything to survive.
Enemies may become lovers, but fate has other plans.
Forced into close proximity, things begin to shift between Suyin and her captor. But as the Necromancer’s machinations reach a pinnacle, he is faced with an impossible choice: achieve his master plan, or free the woman who resurrected his dormant soul.
Aurora Ascher is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling paranormal romance & fantasy author. After her breakout success with Sanctuary of the Shadow, she released her Hell Bent series which continued to hit the bestseller lists again and again. Her books have been translated into over 8 languages. She loves misunderstood monsters, redeemable anti-heroes, and epic happily-ever-afters.
Although Aurora always loved reading, she never expected to become a writer. At age 5, she started playing the piano, which culminated in a professional career touring and recording with her prog-hop trio. She also paints, and is a total coffee snob who has invested a great deal of time into perfecting her latte art. But one fateful day, after binge reading yet another romance, her first book popped into her head and wouldn’t leave her alone until she wrote it down. She hasn’t stopped since.
In the rare spare moments between playing with her son and renovating her house with her husband, Aurora sits in her book-filled office and writes like a fiend. Her endlessly patient husband and endlessly impatient toddler await her return, when she emerges from her cave like a bear in the spring.
Before moving to Montreal, Aurora spent several years travelling in Asia, Australia and her own huge country. After a decade in the city, she and her family settled back in beautiful British Columbia, surrounded by the mountains and lakes of her homeland.
