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FFB After Dark – A Night of Books, Drinks, and Desire! Step into the shadows and experience FFB After Dark, an exclusive adults-only event where the pages heat up and the night comes alive. Meet your favorite authors, sip on signature cocktails, and immerse yourself in a world of romance, fantasy, and forbidden temptations. Whether you're here for sinful stories, steamy surprises, or simply to mingle with fellow book lovers, this is the after-hours literary escape you've been craving.

Date: Mar 28, 2026. Signing: 11am until 4pm. Evening event 7pm until midnight.

Location: Mercure Hotel, Piccadilly, Manchester.

Dress Code: Dark, sultry, and ready for a night of bookish mischief.​

Are you ready to indulge?

Meet The Authors

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Alexandra Ravensbrook is a UK-based author with a passion for all things gothic, where beauty meets the macabre and shadows tell their own stories. Alexandra’s work delves into power, vulnerability, and the allure of the forbidden and the taboo. A devoted

 lover of dark romance, she crafts tales that blur the line between pain and pleasure, seduction and surrender.  

 

A fierce advocate for women’s rights, Alexandra is committed to writing only strong, complex female characters who own their power unapologetically. 

 

With a penchant for coffee, tattooos, all things vintage and sparkly, and a deep love and respect for kink and BDSM, Alexandra dives fearlessly into the depths of human desire that define the darker side of love and hate and all that sits between.

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Anya began life as an Indie author in 2023. Before that she spent her youth writing on fanfiction, jottify and deviantart. She was commissioned to write a children's story in 2012, but has long since left children's work behind for more salacious reads.

She works a public facing job, which has led her to hide her identity with a Hannah Montana style double life, wig and mask included. Sometimes she feels mysterious. Some times she feels like a bit of a prat.

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Hi! I'm Bailey Grayson and I write paranormal and fantasy romance novels. I love disappearing into the worlds I write and seeing my characters come alive through my writing is so much fun. I am from Cheshire in the UK and I live with my wonderfully supportive husband and I have a beautiful little boy (who is sometimes a terror!). I love cake! I enjoy baking cakes and eating cakes and I'm very partial to a lemon drizzle. Hope you like my books and enjoy reading them as much as I enjoy writing them.

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Author of Black Smoke Rising
Dark fantasy with 🥵 romance
Queer & chaotic
Inclusive & diverse
Featuring a chonky orange cat 😻
Safe space 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

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D. E. Bartley lives in Wales, UK, with her husband, three feral boys, two cats and a budgie. To say her home is a madhouse would be an understatement, but she wouldn’t have it any other way.

When Bartley isn’t working nights, running around after her tribe or driving her husband up the wall, she can be found reading and hoarding books like a magpie hoards shiny things.

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Elizabeth-Kate lives in Oxfordshire with her husband, and two sprocker-spaniels. She is a lover of books (the darker the better!), dogs, shoes, and cocktails. She swears far too often, and her party trick is devouring a pack of cookies in one sitting.

Elizabeth-Kate's books are full of suspense and morally grey characters that will have you questioning your morals while swooing over them.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Emilie Ocean—a fiction writer and a polyglot hailing from Reunion Island—has carved a niche for herself in the literary world. Armed with a BA degree in LLCE from Blaise Pascal University, France, and an MA degree in Literary Translation from Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, Ocean has established herself as a prolific writer and ghostwriter who specializes in science-fiction, fantasy, romance, and erotica. Her passion for languages is evident in her ability to fluently speak Reunionese, French, English, and Spanish, which she seamlessly incorporates into her writing. Ocean’s work is a testament to her dedication to the craft of writing and her ability to transport readers to fantastical worlds through her vivid imagination. Her credentials and talent make her a force to be reckoned with in the literary world. Ocean currently resides in Galway, Ireland, with her partner and furry companion.

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Queen of heartbreak and trauma with a happy ever after!

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Karen writes a mix of M/M, M/F, and M/M/F books. If you love strong female leads, kickass heroines, swoon-worthy, powerful Alpha heroes, magic, action, battles, bloodshed, hot scenes, and a HEA then look no further! Come and meet strong characters who will destroy worlds for those they love.

 

Like you, Karen adores books and likes nothing better than to lose herself in a spicy romance with amazing characters and a HEA! She lives in Derbyshire, England, (think Mr. Darcy territory) with her husband, twin girls, and her gorgeous dalmatian. As well as reading and writing books, she loves keeping fit, walking in the hills with her family, and dancing around with her earbuds in while singing badly! You can find all her books on her website: karentomlinson.com

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KM Morgan lives in England with her husband, her five beautiful boys and pets.

She loves to curl up with her two youngest boys and watch Disney or Netflix; and is a sucker for a Christmas film. KM Morgan loves long walks with her dog Loki as well as going to the pictures with her eldest boys.

KM Morgan has Fibromyalgia/ME as well as Dyslexia. When leaving school, she struggled to read or write. To improve this she picked up a Dark Hunter book and never looked back. KM Morgan always wished she could write, but never had the confidence until she wrote a book about her son Zakk who is non-verbal, and severely autistic. KM Morgan has another two boys with autism who are also in her children’s book.

KM Morgan is now writing adult fantasy books and hopes to bring people joy, inspiring people who can’t read and write because of learning difficulties, to not give up. KM Morgan believes that if you keep trying, and believe in yourself, you can fulfil your dreams.

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Luisa Perez is the author of The Loss, The Grief, and Her Quiet Hunt. Her first two novels focus on love, grief, and the messy, beautiful process of healing. Her Quiet Hunt, on the other hand, dives into darker waters: a dark romance with twisted edges, unhinged characters, and just the right amount of obsession. Luisa lives in Ireland, where she somehow juggles writing, co-running Booked and Hooked (an online indie bookshop), and managing everyday chaos with the help of caffeine and sarcasm. She has a habit of recommending her own books after a few Tequila Rose shots, and she is still trying to convince her husband that her internet search history is part of the creative process, not a red flag.

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Patricia Prior writes romance that lives everywhere—on war-torn fantasy battlegrounds, in small-town diners, between teeth-baring monsters and late-night text messages. Whether it’s soft and slow or dark and destructive, her stories always center love in all its messy, beautiful, break-you-open forms. Expect emotional chaos, sharp edges, and characters who ruin you (in the best way).

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I write as a hobby to relieve stress and for the pure enjoyment of the ride. My preferred writing style is first person present tense, or third person, omniscient. My favorite genres to write about are Romance, Fantasy, Paranormal, and Mythology.

Proceed with caution. These are not your average everyday love stories.​​​

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Stephanie Hudson is a #1 Amazon bestselling Author. She had dreamed of being a writer ever since her obsession with reading books at an early age. What first became a quest to overcome the boundaries set against her in the form of dyslexia, has turned into a life's dream.

When not writing, Stephanie enjoys chatting with her fans and spending time with her friends. Being with her loving family as much as she can including her wonderful daughter Ava and supportive husband and personal muse Blake, who is there for her no matter what.

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Ali Williams is a sapphic AuDHD author who writes intensely kinky paranormal romances as Ali, and fluffy and spicy age play romances as Ellie Rose.

 

Her PhD research focuses on the intersection between queerness, kink and neurodiversity in feminist romance, and her sell-out online lecture series, Romancing the Discourse, discussed everything from how erotic romances use kink as liberation, to how paranormal romance can degender agency.

 

When she’s not writing, she can invariably be found reading tarot, traipsing round the South Downs with her girlfriend, or playing boardgames with her queer, kinky found family.

                 

 

                   

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Ava M. Rose began writing in May 2016 and immediately fell in love with words. She uses them to express both her active imagination and creative soul. Rose finds great happiness in creating sensory art using imagery that portrays the connection of bodies, minds, and souls.

Her style is focused on feelings, evoking raw emotion in the reader. Rose loves to write about sensory emotion, placing the reader at the heart of both the characters and scene, with exquisite attention to detail. She wants her readers to experience what the characters feel. From the thrill of the centrally themed dark romance, to the torment of the danger invoked by the villain. To feel the highs and the lows, the confusion, and the ecstasy; to understand the journey of each character. Her words are emotional, vivid, and exactly what you hunger for when you’re looking for words to escape into.

“Ava is the epitome of beauty, passion, erotica, and dark desire. She is an enigma. Her way with words invigorates the mind and entices you to read more. Her words bring magic to the mind, heart, body, and soul of her readers. The highest compliment I can bestow upon her is to inform the world that she is quite simply an epic lady, poet, wordsmith, and author.”

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Indie author of Hot Fiction. Billiejo Priestley was born in 1987 in Leeds, she currently still lives in Leeds, UK and is a mum.

She focuses primarily on writing and publishing work than other career aspects. Billiejo writes books that are often taboo, dark and forbidden romance varieties.

Subjects that many steer away from through fear of others views. Her books are not for the faint of heart. Most feature aspects of BDSM, Polyamory, and often life issues, including mental health, addiction and abuse.

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Clarice Jayne published her first book Jessica's King in May 2021.

Living in Kent, The Garden of England, with her husband, daughter and dog, she started writing as a hobby when someone suggested she should publish a book. Jessica's King was the outcome.

Clarice writes both steamy contemporary romances and mystery/suspense romances which are based in the south of England. All of her books include mystery, a little danger, passion, family, and a happily ever-after.

When she is not writing, Clarice works full time in the healthcare industry, drinks copious amounts of coffee and enjoys spending time with her family.

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Donna Richards is a first-time indie author based in Southeast of England, where she lives with her two children. She writes mostly dark romance filled with tension, emotionally complex characters, intense chemistry, and the kind of morally grey men you know you shouldn't want — but do anyway. A lifelong lover of stories, Donna fits writing in whenever she can, usually with a coffee in hand and a new twist forming in the back of her mind. She's a Marvel fan (especially Moon Knight), Fortnite player and a rom-com enthusiast. Music is a must when writing!

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I'm E.M.Ritchie aka Elizabeth or Liz, and right now, I’m co-authoring a trilogy with another author you'll all know as the writing machine that is Stephanie Hudson.  Then I'll be jumping straight into working my way through a never-ending to-be-written list packed with magic, mayhem, and the occasional morally questionable love interest. I've got enough book ideas bouncing around my head to fill a small library. Everything from dark fantasy and romantasy to reverse harem and even tentacled-alien erotica. Genre commitment? Never heard of it. . Academically, I’ve collected degree's in bioveterinary science, wildlife conservation, and I’m currently halfway through a STEM degree with the Open University — because apparently, I enjoy punishing workloads and high stress situations! In between writing and studying, I read like my life depends on it, explore the Scottish Highlands I'm lucky enough to call my own, and practice archery just in case I ever get dropped into a fantasy novel myself. I'm also constantly chasing after my two rescue dogs, and a westlife/minion obsessed one-year-old daughter who together, get up to so much mischief I worry for my sleep-deprived future.

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    Georgina Stancer lives in the UK with her partner, 3 of their children, and 2 fur babies. She loves anything paranormal and fantasy and is often caught daydreaming about mythical creatures and far-off worlds. Georgina can be found drinking copious amounts of coffee as she hides away in her writing cave, or snuggled up with a good book in her favourite armchair. When she's not writing or reading, she loves spending time outdoors with her family.

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    Author of dark contemporary romance.

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    Kayla Kyng lives in Manchester, England with her two cats. When she isn't reading, she's writing.

    She writes women (who are sometimes morally grey) who fall in love with men (who are always morally grey). Most of her books are based in the US because that's her happy place (specifically California and New York).

    ​​​​​​​Her dream is to write books that help a reader escape.

     

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    Author of breeding romance 💕💕

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    Luna Peters is an English author writing contemporary forbidden, age gap romances with dark themes. Luna lives with her real life cinnamon roll husband and two cats. She can often be found curled up with her kindle supporting other indie authors

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    I’m a writer from London with a lifelong love of romance and fantasy. Ever since I was a little girl, books have been my favourite escape, captivating me with magical worlds and heartfelt stories. Thank you for joining me on this exciting journey!

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    Sebastian Sharpe writes romance with a heart that beats loud for the messy, complicated, and achingly beautiful sides of love. His stories often follow men finding their way through fame, heartbreak, friendship, and the kind of desire that sneaks up on you when you least expect it.

    If you love tropes like slow-burn tension that finally ignites, forbidden attraction that refuses to stay hidden, or the gut-punch of second chances, you’ll feel right at home in Sebastian’s worlds. From stage lights and silver screens to small towns and post-apocalyptic wastelands, his books balance sharp humour with raw emotion, always keeping love and queerness, at the centre of the story.

    When he isn’t writing about fictional men who tie themselves in knots of longing, Sebastian lives in the Northwest of England with his husband, son and their black Labrador. He has a habit of over-caffeinating, talking too much about TV shows, and plotting new ways to emotionally wreck his readers (with a happily-ever-after as compensation, of course).

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    Brazilian and Irish, Amy Oliveira is a contemporary romance author dedicated to writing about the two things you shouldn't skip on: therapy and smut.

    Amy's leads are strong, flawed, and very open about their mental health struggles. And her heros are understanding, lovable, and often pierced.

    The combination results in a delicious slow burn with a lot of heart and a lot of heat.

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    B. Green is a paranormal, horror romance author based in the United Kingdom. Red wine, dark chocolate and a fluffy blanket is the best way to enjoy her books

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    B.L. Wilde (Bee) writes many genres, including Contemporary, Rom Com and Fantasy. All have one thing in common… love!

    Romance is always her go to, whether she is writing or reading.

    Her love of words began at a very young age. Now, living in Worcestershire, UK, with her amazingly supportive husband, and two spotty dogs, she has finally started to write full time. A dream that finally became possible when she met the love of her life.

    She adores nothing more than creating page turning reads, but beware, Bee will always make her characters work for their happy ending.

    Let your imagination run ‘Wilde’ with one of her books today.​​​​​

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    ​Cory Zahara​

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    Constitutionally incapable of settling into a genre, I bounce in and out of contemporary mystery, space opera, and paranormal romance, all with a decidedly kinky twist. Connect with me on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, and Goodreads for previews, giveaways, and book talk.

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    🖤Author of Dark, Gritty Romance 🖤

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    G.N. Wright is a British Indie Author who loves reading, listening to music and spending time with her family.

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    Kam is an avid reader, and cut her teeth on the romantic Twilight series. She spends her days teaching the youth of tomorrow and her nights writing dark and dirty romance novels that will heat up your pages.

    She resides in sunny Oxfordshire, UK with her husband and two children.

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    Kenzo Ash is a dark romance author. From mafia to monster—she writes it all. As long as it's dark, tense, and spicy, she's there. Amongst her pages, you might find gut-wrenching enemies to lovers, or maybe you'll stumble upon formidable FMCs and their trusty weaponry. Rest assured, whatever you choose, it'll have you on the edge of your seat.

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    L.M. Mountford’s goal in life is to be unique, a character who stands out from the crowd that you just can’t help remembering with a bemused chuckle.

    A born and bred country boy from the southwest of England, he knew from an early age that he wanted to write and spent most of his time writing story ideas or playing Star Wars on his PlayStation.

    Not much has changed over the years, though his stories have grown decidedly dirtier, and he swapped the Star Wars for Call of Duty.

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    Hi I'm Martina Dale and I love all things romance especially alpha heroes, grumpy billionaires, and strong female role models in my books. I love reading all types of books but romance novels are my favorite and because of my love of anything romantic I decided to put my thoughts and dreams down on paper. Some of my work is soft, sweet and occasionally comedy but it sometimes it has an element of suspense and drama and may contain triggers. But there is always a bit of the naughty. All my books have a happy ever after. That's why we escape into a good romance book right?

    I have two beautiful children, a wonderful husband and a crazy pooch who joins me on every writing mission.

     

     

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    Sophia Grange lives in North Yorkshire. She writes romance books with a some spice. She loves reading, visiting the theatre and of course writing.

    Sophia loves being in touch with her readers and talking to them about books even other peoples.

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