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New Adult Urban Fantasy/Paranormal Romance

CONTROL MY NIGHT

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“Sarah Richhelm has created one of the most unique, vivid, fast-paced, intriguing, beautifully crafted worlds I’ve read in an age.”
- H.M. Hodgson, award-winning Paranormal Romance author

"I couldn't guarantee his safety. He should be scared of me. I was scared of me.”

Heiress Keanna Backhus is business-smart and street-naïve, and discovering she is an untrained banshee with a unique—and deadly—wail wasn’t in the plan. After an accident leaves Keanna with blood on her hands, she is snatched from the streets by a criminals determined to weaponize her.

If Prague is a chessboard, Arwood Sayer rules one side—and he needs Keanna, his new pawn, to find his missing daughter. Forced into service alongside Arwood’s henchmen, Keanna realizes that mastering her abilities is the only way to outwit a man who is always two steps ahead of her.

Her only ally is another prisoner, a mage called Silas. He’s just as charismatic as he is secretive, and he has his own reasons for working with Arwood. As their forbidden relationship develops and Keanna sinks further into the world she is desperately trying to escape, she soon discovers earning her freedom may cost not just her heart—but everything she’s ever known to be true.

Control My Night is the award-winning first instalment in an interconnected standalone new adult urban/paranormal fantasy series, and mixes mafia vibes with romance, action, and spice in a reimagined, modern-day Prague. This series is perfect for fans of Laura Thalassa, Lana Pechercyzk, Richelle Mead, and Karen Marie Moning's Fever Series.

Cover design: Jaqueline Kropmanns at Jaqueline Kropmanns Professional Cover Design

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  • !SPOILER WARNING BELOW!

    Control My Night is a new adult fantasy for mature audiences and contains strong language and content some readers may find distressing including profanity, violence, alcohol use, graphic sexual content, disordered thoughts around food and self-image, death of a family member, and mentions of death during childbirth (off-page).

    A full list of content and/or trigger warnings can be found below. If there is something not included that you as a reader found distressing, please contact me so it can be added.

    Profanity

    Violence (including gun & knife violence)

    Alcohol use

    Graphic sexual content

    Disordered thoughts concerning food and self-image

    Parental death

    Murder

    Assault (not sexual)

    Torture (references to)

    Instances of coercive control

    Instances of gaslighting

    Instances of body shaming/fatphobia

    Mentions of death during childbirth (off-page)

    Mentions of human trafficking (off-page)

    Mentions of terminal illness leading to death (off-page)

Awards:

  • WINNER Australian Romance Readers Association Favourite Debut Romance Author 2024

  • WINNER Romance Writers of New Zealand Koru Excellence Award 2025 for Best First Book

  • SHORT-LISTED FINALIST Georgia Romance Writer’s Maggie Award for Excellence Paranormal Romance Published Finalist for 2025

  • FINALIST Romance Writer’s Association of Australia Emerald Award for 2024

  • NOMINATED 2025 Indieverse Awards for:
    - “Couldn’t put it down… it was that good!”
    - Memorable Mentor

  • SILVER Reader Views Reviewer’s Choice Awards 2024-2025 - Fantasy

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