⚡️ Everything you’ve ever known is a lie ⚡️ The gods weren’t heroes. The giants weren’t monsters. The final blurb for Fallen Gods is finally HERE! ⛈️ You’ve been warned. Fall for the villain-live to see another day. Fall for the hero… and pay. Final Blurb: They say the Gods are myth. That the Giants were only stories told around dying fires. They lied. The gods aren’t dead—they’re only sleeping, locked in mortal bodies, scattered across the world, waiting for the right spark to wake them. And Odin, the most ruthless of them all, is my father. He raised me to obey. To bleed. To be his blade when the time came. Now he’s sending me to Endir University, a place filled with ancient bloodlines and deadly secrets, to steal back Mjolnir, the hammer that once belonged to my dead brother. If I fail, everyone I love dies. But Aric Westberg wasn’t part of the plan. He’s the enemy’s heir. Distant. Dangerous. And somehow…familiar. He doesn’t know what he is yet—or what he carries—but I do. And the more I’m ordered to unravel him, the harder it becomes to remember where the lies end and I begin. Because there’s no clean line between survival and surrender anymore. No comfort in the stories I’ve told myself to make any of this feel justified. Only a mission I never chose—and a man I was never meant to care about—standing between me and the end of the world. If I’m the spark, he’s the fuse. And the gods? They’re about to wake up angry. ⚡️FALLEN GODS drops August 19th, 2025. Pre-order in bio!⚡️ #romantasy #fantasyromance #redtower #entangledpublishing #fantasybooktok #booktokmademedoit #newadultfantasy #norsemythology #mythrewritten #enemiestolovers #forbiddenlove #rachelvandykenbooks #contemporaryromance #universityromance #fantasyromancebooks #booktok
Dark academia. Divine danger. Welcome to Endir. Fallen Gods by #1 NYT bestselling author Rachel Van Dyken is HERE! Pick up your deluxe edition everywhere books are sold. “Addictive, compelling, and wow! This is a must read.”―NYT bestselling author Tijan “Norse Mythology meets Twilight.”―USA Today bestselling author Shain Rose #fallengods #rachelvandyken #romantasy #redtowerbooks #nafantasy #romance #fantasy #bookreels #bookbirthday #newrelease #booklover #bookstagram
I really was on a break, met Nate at my sisters wedding, he tricked me into going on a group date (where the group suddenly couldn’t make it), challenged me to several ping pong games and the rest is history on how my sister and I married brothers! #booktok #rachelvandyken #smalltownromance
I made my amazing reader group pick out my new photo and the first pic is the winner! Thank you so much for your help guys, finally updated author pics with the right colored hair 🤣 Photographer: @wyldlightphoto Makeup: @danismithmua Thank you so much for helping tame my chaos for a few hours while I was running around with deadline brain! ❤️ Also in case you weren’t aware, Fall drinks at Starbucks have landed! My suggestion: iced shaken espresso with coconut and three pumps of pumpkin spice!
I made my amazing reader group pick out my new photo and the first pic is the winner! Thank you so much for your help guys, finally updated author pics with the right colored hair 🤣 Photographer: @wyldlightphoto Makeup: @danismithmua Thank you so much for helping tame my chaos for a few hours while I was running around with deadline brain! ❤️ Also in case you weren’t aware, Fall drinks at Starbucks have landed! My suggestion: iced shaken espresso with coconut and three pumps of pumpkin spice!
I made my amazing reader group pick out my new photo and the first pic is the winner! Thank you so much for your help guys, finally updated author pics with the right colored hair 🤣 Photographer: @wyldlightphoto Makeup: @danismithmua Thank you so much for helping tame my chaos for a few hours while I was running around with deadline brain! ❤️ Also in case you weren’t aware, Fall drinks at Starbucks have landed! My suggestion: iced shaken espresso with coconut and three pumps of pumpkin spice!
I made my amazing reader group pick out my new photo and the first pic is the winner! Thank you so much for your help guys, finally updated author pics with the right colored hair 🤣 Photographer: @wyldlightphoto Makeup: @danismithmua Thank you so much for helping tame my chaos for a few hours while I was running around with deadline brain! ❤️ Also in case you weren’t aware, Fall drinks at Starbucks have landed! My suggestion: iced shaken espresso with coconut and three pumps of pumpkin spice!
I made my amazing reader group pick out my new photo and the first pic is the winner! Thank you so much for your help guys, finally updated author pics with the right colored hair 🤣 Photographer: @wyldlightphoto Makeup: @danismithmua Thank you so much for helping tame my chaos for a few hours while I was running around with deadline brain! ❤️ Also in case you weren’t aware, Fall drinks at Starbucks have landed! My suggestion: iced shaken espresso with coconut and three pumps of pumpkin spice!
Fallen Gods is an INSTANT New York Times bestseller! Huge congrats to Rachel Van Dyken!! This book came to conquer, and it did. #fallengods #rachelvandyken #romantasy #redtowerbooks #nafantasy #newyorktimesbestseller #newyorktimes #bestseller #bookreels #booklover #bookstagram
Not all monsters hide under the bed. Some guard your heart while plotting your ruin. From #1 New York Times bestselling author Rachel Van Dyken comes a gripping standalone mafia romance set in the electrifying world of the Eagle Elite series. Welcome to your final dream. Don’t worry. I’ll keep you safe. I promise. Just close your eyes. Sleep. Grief has five stages, they say. But in the mafia, there’s only one: survival. The day I buried my boyfriend, the Families replaced him with the man who rejected me four years ago—Ace “Matchstick” De Lange. Cold. Calculated. Deadly. He has the bedside manner of a serial killer and the looks of a fallen angel. And now, he’s my shadow, ensuring I don’t end up in the grave beside the man who died for me. I despise that I’m the one left behind. I loathe how Ace provokes me, pulling me from the abyss of my sorrow. But most of all, I hate that the only piece I have left of my dead boyfriend is something others would kill to possess. When Ace uncovers my secret, there’s only one solution: marriage to the devil himself to protect the legacy of the one who had no choice. I vow never to love him. He promises he’ll never love me. He’s a means to an end—the only one who can stand against my father and live to tell the tale. He claims his life is mine, but I don’t want it. I tell him I’ll never be his. Ace’s response? A chilling, “We’ll see.” But what happens when everything you believed was a lie? When the only one who can free you from your nightmare threatens to drag you deeper into the darkness? Some families are tested and break under the weight of the mafia. The De Langes broke… then gathered the pieces and rose. OUT JUNE 5th Link in BIO #bookstagrammer #booknerd #bibliophile #bookaddict #books #booktok #book #reading #booklover #bookworm #bookish #readers #bookstagram #books #reading #read #book #bookworm #booklover #bookish #booklovers #writers #writer #read #bookish #love #bookaddict #bookstagrammer #booknerd #libro #romancebooktok #spicyromance #bookrecommendations #booktoks #books
As I finish up the last book in the Rise of the De Lange series I’m reminded where it all started. With the Eagle Elite series. Where family is everything and no one gets out alive. Blood in. No out. #mafiaromance #completeseries #indieauthorsofinstagram #romancereadersofinstagram #enemiestolovers
Writing mafia. It’s not looking great, maybe I shouldn’t write at night? #eagleelite #bloodinnoout #mafiabooks
After this week of edits and not being able to promote my own book release yes 🤣 I want to set things on fire! Thank you @amhouser91 for the candle and special shout out to @curiouselixirs for hooking me up with the best non alcoholic drinks on the planet! My faves are the 7 (champagne cocktail with elderflower and lavender) and 2 (juniper Collin’s with ashwaganda and lemon Ayurvedic). I’m about to be up again until early in the AM. 😎 cheers
Loving this quote from Fallen Gods! I’m on deadline for another book but Aric keeps sucking me back into the drama at Endir 😩 It makes it so hard to focus!!! #teasertuesday #fallengods #redtowerbooks #romantasy
If you’re coming over here from my newsletter or follow here on insta, here’s your post and your chance ❤️ I want to know some of the real texts from your exes. One lucky winner will receive a kindle case of their choice from the shop. So if it is hilariously long or as simple and cringy as “Can I get your snap?” I want to hear from you in the comments! This giveaway will stay open until Friday, September 19th in honor of the new release. (Not associated with Instagram hosted by yours truly).
Audio out February 3 with @podiumentertainment eeeek! How thin is the line between love and hate? Find out in Ciao Bella a brand-new standalone mafia romance from Rachel Van Dyken, the number one New York Times bestselling author of the Eagle Elite series. The Five Families thought the war was over. They have no idea, I’m the very beginning. I kidnapped her to prove a point—at knife point, it seemed sharper that way. See what I did there? I used the perfect virginal daughter from one of the most powerful Families in the Cosa Nostra to fix the broken pieces, knowing that in the process—I’d spread hers for the world to see. I would embarrass her, shame her, use her, but I would never touch her… my one and only vow to her father in exchange for his allegiance. The flowers at our wedding would be extravagant—people would watch it like a celebration, she’d live it as her funeral. Call me twisted, but I thrive off her hate, I wouldn’t know what to do if I had her heart—I’m not good with pretty things I’m capable of breaking. I’ll use every single person I can to restore order… to bring about the peace that my Family deserves. But something sinister lurks in the darkness. In the end, it may not be just my Family I save but theirs as well. They say the past comes back to haunt you—that history repeats itself. Bet they never saw this coming. After all, when one Family falls—another will rise. Ciao Bella. The Rise of the De Langes
🤳 𝕭𝖑𝖚𝖗𝖇 𝕽𝖊𝖛𝖊𝖆𝖑 🤳 “𝑭𝒂𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂 𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒇𝒆𝒄𝒕 𝒆𝒙 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒆𝒂𝒔𝒚…𝒖𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒍 𝒎𝒚 𝒃𝒆𝒔𝒕 𝒇𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒏𝒅 𝒗𝒐𝒍𝒖𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒚 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒑𝒂𝒓𝒕.” Some people scrapbook. I screenshot my exes’ texts. What started as me venting my dating disasters online (creative outlet, don’t judge) has turned into a blog with actual followers—and the only thing keeping me in my dirt-cheap apartment. My grandmother-slash-landlord insists I “prove my creativity” to stay, so the blog lives on. Except now my readers want a happy ending. With an ex. Problem? None of my exes qualify. So…I invent one. The perfect guy. The one that got away. Rule #1: Never roast your exes online if they know how to read. Rule #2: Definitely don’t make up a fake ex-boyfriend just to keep your rent low. Rule #3: do not—under any circumstances—let your best friend discover the lie. Because now he’s volunteered to become my fake perfect ex. And the more we fake it, the more I can’t tell if my readers are the only ones falling for the story. Turns out, the biggest plot twist of all? I might have been in love with him the whole time. 𝘈 𝘭𝘢𝘶𝘨𝘩-𝘰𝘶𝘵-𝘭𝘰𝘶𝘥 𝘳𝘰𝘮-𝘤𝘰𝘮 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘣𝘢𝘥 𝘣𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘬𝘶𝘱𝘴, 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘴𝘦 𝘣𝘭𝘰𝘨 𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘵𝘴, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘧𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘥 𝘸𝘩𝘰 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘢𝘭𝘸𝘢𝘺𝘴 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘯 𝘢 𝘧𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘥. Pre-order here: https://geni.us/TEXTEXKU #textsfrommyexes #RVD #blurbreveal #coverreveal #romcom #bestfriend
Did you guess right?! The Fae Ball team is so absolutely thrilled to welcome @rachvd to Myths and Legends in May! We keep trying to tell you that this is an event you will NOT want to miss!!! It’s time to buy your tickets for MYTHS AND LEGENDS Literary Market and Ball May 30th, 2026 At the Overland Park Convention Center Enjoy a day of book market fun with authors and bookish vendors and end the night with our Fae Ball! You won’t want to miss this one! #faeball #bookish #booklover #instagood #bookstagram
Editing on Labor Day weekend 😇 Yes, that is correct, I do in fact have Saja Boys and Huntrx stickers on my computer as one should 🤣 Drink: SF Lotus energy (love adaptogen drinks) Mood: 😳 I’m going in! #authorlife #bookedits #workweekend #sundayvibes #fantasyromancebooks
Which would you choose? Ciao Bella is a delicious enemies to lovers mafia romance full of twists and turns. Fallen Gos is an amazing enemies to lovers Norse mythology romantasy that will keep you on the edge of your seat. Both are out now! #romantasy #mafiaromance #romancereaders #norsemythology #indieauthorsofinstagram
Week recap! Surprise @boisestatefootball game from @bigsmiles_mikey (Thors very first college football game and on the same day as his 3 touchdowns for his own game)! New book announcement with @coletabedi yes it’s Christmas, sexy, and so fun! New merch dropping soon in the store, and deadline met with publisher ⚡️ ⚡️ ⚡️ It’s been a busy few weeks! Stay tuned for more announcements this month and behind the scenes! #booktok #romantasy #authorlife #fallfootball
It’s new release day! Texts From My Exes is guaranteed to leave you in stitches. It is a hilarious romcom spliced with all the sexual tension of a best friend romance. You don’t want to miss out on this book. Besides, I think everyone needs some light heartedness in our current world. Only on Amazon and Kindle Unlimited! #rvdelite #newrelease #booklover #bookobsessed #bookaholic #romancelibrarian #romancelover #romcom #bestfriendromance #horribleexes #hilarioustexts @rachvd
Just got these super cute stickers from @littlevioletpaperie I’m loving all of the Kpop Demon Hunter stickers that she is putting out. #booklover #bookobsessed #kpopdemonhunters #smallbusiness #stickers #customstickers #romancelover
One mysterious contract. One brooding Christmas heir. Charlie never expected the fine print to include stolen kisses, snowbound nights, and a Clause that could melt the North Pole. This Christmas, get ready to feel naughty and nice… Clause & Effect drops November 13th!!!! I’ve had the best time writing this with @rachvd 🎅🏽🎅🏽🎅🏽Pre-order now!!! #christmas #holidayromance #romancebookaddict #sexysanta #christmasromance #hotsanta #romancenovel
