New Release - The Duke's Runaway Omega

Autumn Montague — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Coming Soon to Changeling Press: The first in a new Regency Omegaverse series!

Fated Mates 1: The Duke's Runaway Omega

Phillip’s on the run, with not just one but two alphas on his trail.

Raised as an alpha, Phillip’s unexpected manifestation as an omega turns his life upside down. His father demands a handfasting, insisting Phillip be mated to whichever alpha wins the day with their pheromones. But when the triumphant alpha turns out to be his school friend Everett, Phillip realizes they are fated mates. However, as a diminished omega, his chances of bearing Ev’s children are slim. Heartbroken, Phillip flees to London.

Everett never expected to be Duke of Harriford. His title brings a slew of distasteful marriage and handfasting offers. The latest invitation for his old friend Phillip shocks Ev into accepting. Phillip is everything he remembers and more, and Ev soon finds himself responding to the potent scent of Phillip’s pheromones. When his mate runs, Ev questions whether their feelings are true, or merely the bond of alpha and omega. Despite his fears, he’s determined to find Phillip and bring him home.

As Ev searches London, Phillip questions the wisdom of his choices. His plans have begun to unravel rather spectacularly. To start with, he’s pregnant, the one thing he thought he’d never be. Worse, there’s an alpha hunting him -- and it’s not Ev.

Coming to Changeling Press!

https://www.changelingpress.com/the-duke-s-runaway-omega-fated-mates-1-b-3893

Available for pre-order from Amazon now:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H8QC4MWK?spcref=PUBLISHED_PREORDER_LIVE

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Would You Read Omegaverse?

Autumn Montague — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Omegaverse. The hidden vice of many a reader of manga, manwha, manhua, and books. IYKYK, am I right?

So what exactly IS omegaverse?

Omegaverse is a particular subgenre of romance fiction that incorporates elements of the old theory of wolf-packs being centered on dominant wolves (alphas), submissive wolves (omegas) and everyone else (betas). This hierarchical approach is used in romance to generate themes of inescapable attraction by alphas and omegas through pheromones, dominance and submission through the same process, social oppression and stigma experienced by women but applied to men, and the ever-popular male pregnancy trope found in fantasy romance.

Every author's omegaverse world is unique, and can be set in almost any era or locale, even in space or on another world. But there are commonalities across the subgenre that are standard, even if the individual elements vary. For example:

There are two basic sexes: male and female, and three subsexes: alpha, beta, omega. There are males and females of each subsex, in greater or lesser ratios, depending on the author's particular omegaverse.

Alphas and omegas produce pheromones designed to attract the other subsex to encourage "mating" and "breeding" to produce offspring. There are some omegaverse settings where anyone, male/female, alpha/beta/omega can get pregnant, but these are less common.

Bonding between an alphas and omegas that ties the omega to a particular alpha for life. Some authors allow bond-breaking, and some tie the alpha as well as the omega, but the standard is that the bond is permanent and the alpha remains free to pursue other omegas.

Male omegas are usually rare and can get pregnant. Sometimes this is limited so only alphas can get male omegas pregnant.

Omegas suffer through periodic heat cycles, and alphas have periodic ruts. Omegas in heat can trigger alpha ruts. This facet of omegaverse settings often leads to implications and backstories of sexual violence, along with dubious consent situations.

Sex during an omega's heat, or during overlapping heat/rut cycles pretty much guarantees pregnancy, or at least a statistically significant chance of it.

Societal oppression of omegas, along with prejudice against male omegas results in omegas having to settle for low paying jobs, if they can get jobs, or hiding their secondary gender, or living on welfare from the government.

The appeal for many readers of omegaverse is the leveling factor of the alpha/omega trope. Female alphas can "father" children and hold positions of high authority and elite status; male omegas can get pregnant and be viewed basically as brood stock-good for nothing but producing children, the way women have been viewed historically. Depending on the author, omegaverse settings can be used to address a variety of negative societal concerns, drawing parallels to real world situations through a fantastical fictional world. Some authors even flip the trope on its head and give omegas power.

All in all, the omegaverse setting can lead to richly developed stories that take on societal woes, both historic and modern, and give them a new spin through a unique form of gender equality.

So would you read omegaverse?

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New Release - The Duke's Runaway Omega

Would You Read Omegaverse?