I have not read most of the new releases listed (although I always end up one-clicking quite a few as I prepare these posts LOL).
‘AB’ denotes audiobook and the Amazon buy link.
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BADASS ALIEN BOSS (GAL FRIDAY BOOK TWO) by Cara Bristol
He’s a battle-scarred warrior with something to prove. She’s the bodyguard assigned to keep him alive—whether he likes it or not. After a brutal attack leaves former military hero Ruyn gravely injured, his combat career is over. Stuck planetside and recovering, he reluctantly joins his brother’s company while he rebuilds his strength. But his brother is convinced the assault wasn’t a random act of violence. Someone wanted Ruyn dead—and they may try again. Enter Michaela Perine. A former investigator and elite bodyguard, Michaela is hired through GAL Friday—Galactic Auxiliary Labor—to protect Ruyn. There’s just one problem: Ruyn would never agree to having a bodyguard. So his brother presents her as the newest administrative assistant. Michaela can handle danger, criminals, and impossible assignments. Pretending to be a secretary for a stubborn, intimidating alien warrior? That may be her toughest job yet. When Ruyn discovers the truth, sparks fly. Furious at the deception and determined to reclaim his independence, he clashes with the fierce human woman assigned to protect him. But the more time they spend together, the harder it becomes to ignore the attraction simmering beneath their arguments. As new threats emerge and the mystery behind the attack deepens, Michaela and Ruyn find themselves caught in a deadly conspiracy. To survive, they’ll have to trust each other completely. Because someone is still hunting Ruyn. And losing his heart to his bodyguard may be the most dangerous battle of all. AmazonKU
LOVING THE ALIEN SPY (BRIDES OF THE BOHNARI BOOK THREE) by Erin Hale
Carrik – For generations, the eldest son of our family line has served a single purpose—royal spy to the King of Bohna. My entire life has been about keeping secrets from and lying to those I love. Even the twin brother who hates me. When I’m forced to imprison Bannik and take his place, I never imagined I’d find my heart’s fire—the single female who soothes the beast that resides in all Bohnari males. Only she believes me to be my brother. Now, I must choose between the role I was born into or my mate. Lindsey – I entered the bridal lottery as a joke, never imagining I’d actually be chosen. Living in the bottom tier of Earth has prepared me for nothing but being disappointed. Now, my life on my new planet is far greater than I expected. Especially when I discover I’m the mate of a Bohnari male. Except the Bannik I’ve met before is not the same Bannik whose kisses and touches set my body aflame. He asks me to trust him even though he has secrets he can’t share with me yet. When I finally give him my heart, danger threatens to take him from me. I only hope I’m not too late. AmazonKU
CHRONICLES OF AN UNKNOWN WORLD BOOK THREE: SVENN by C L Pride
He was born unlike anyone of his kind — and he swore he’d never chain a soul to a life like his. Then the Winds gave him her. Elyna survived the crash that should have killed her the way she’s survived everything: alone, resourceful, asking nothing of anyone. An orphan and a technician who fills the quiet with sketches and refuses, on principle, to be a burden to a living soul. And then there’s Svenn. Chief of the northern lands. Snow-white wings, eyes red as a predator’s, golden skin beneath a crown of snow — among the Erians, he is the only one of his kind. The Winds have given him the Life Companion he swore he’d never take, and the harder he refuses her — fist clenched, teeth held back — the more the refusing costs him. Elyna doesn’t believe she needs saving. Svenn doesn’t believe he gets to keep anything. But the longer she stays, the harder it is to fight the pull between them… or to ignore the way her own body is quietly, impossibly changing. AmazonKU
QUEEN OF THE NEBULA (OLYMPUS SECTOR BOOK TWO) by Eden Ember
First, he stole me. Then, he crowned me. Now, the universe wants us dead. I am no longer the girl in the glass tower. I am the Queen of the Tartarus Belt, and I have found my home in the arms of the Warlord who once terrified me. But loving Haid comes with a price. The Golden Apex Station has blockaded our sector, starving my people to force my return. They think I am a delicate flower they can crush. They have no idea what I am becoming. My powers are evolving. I’m not just growing vines anymore; I’m waking up ancient, terrifying biology that hasn’t been seen in a millennia. There is a buzzing in my blood that whispers of war. To save my kingdom, I have to make a deal with a treacherous Pirate King, survive a guild of assassins, and face the one truth that might break me: I wasn’t born. I was made. And I was made to be a weapon. AmazonKU
IN WHAT WORLD by Bridget Morrissey
Total opposites, Marlowe Jenkins and Priscilla Covington-French hated each other in high school. Now in their thirties, Marlowe is barely scraping by while Priscilla is wildly successful. Their rivalry should be long dead, yet both women remain connected through their mutual mentor, drama teacher Dallas Winthrop. Their unending tension has nothing to do with the fact that they’ve kissed. More than once. When Dallas goes missing, each woman believes she can figure out where he is. Except this is no ordinary disappearance. Dallas has found a way to explore alternate versions of reality. While trying to follow him, Marlowe and Priscilla find other versions of themselves instead, surprised to learn not all Marlowes and Priscillas are fueled by hate. In fact, some Marlowes and Priscillas have very different strong feelings for one another. . .The more Marlowe and Priscilla are forced to rely on each other, the harder it becomes to ignore their simmering attraction. But with every alternate reality they search, they only get further from their real life and responsibilities. Do they play it safe and hide behind their rivalry, or take a chance on each other that could permanently change the world as they know it?
WHEN THE UNIVERSE SINGS by Gillian Eliza West
There is only one rule in the galaxy: trust no one. Juniper knows it all too well. After her home planet was destroyed and eleven years on Ebyd III, a Galactic Federation mechanical prison, the only thing she might fear now is death. Taking a chance at freedom, she climbs into the ventilation shaft of a docked pleasure barge only to be discovered by the mistress of the ship. Given the choice between certain death on Ebyd III and the unknown, she joins as their new silks dancer. When Captain Asher Ruciyah seeks someone to complete his crew for a mysterious mission, Juniper is hired as their climber to round out their numbers. As part of this new crew intent on stealing one of the universe’s most powerful weapons, Juniper discovers she wants something more than freedom: revenge on the man who took everything from her. But nothing and no one is as it seems, especially in a galaxy filled with lies, deceit, and false identities. Juniper will learn that revenge isn’t as simple as she thought it would be and sometimes it’s not one person, but an entire universe against you. AmazonKU
BRED BY SOR’EN (SOLAR BREEDING AGENCY BOOK THREE) by Penelope Mars
Humanity is desperate, scattered amongst the stars at the mercy of the planets that will have us, but mostly we have nothing. No hope, no prospects, nothing. Poverty, crime, disease, we’re the running joke among the highly advanced alien species that surround us. We’re desperate, all of us, but we’re not entirely without worth… without use. Humans are still good for cheap labor and entertainment, oh and breeding. Human women are great for breeding. That’s where the Solar Breeding Agency comes in. For a hefty fee and a dowry paid to our families, an alien in need of a surrogate can buy us. Hue- Growing up as a human in an alien dominated universe is the definition of getting the “short end of the stick” now add in being orphaned as an infant and shoved into an overcrowded home for abandoned alien children, my stick is pretty much a nub by twenty. I learned early on, survival means running, lying and oftentimes stealing just enough to keep the cold from the space port survivable. This galaxy isn’t made with humans in mind. So when I saw an ad for the Solar Breeding Agency it seemed like an easy enough mark. Get the dowry, get off planet, disappear all before whatever unfortunate species buys me can get me on my back. I have no intention of being bred. No intention of uploading my end of the contract but…(more blurb on ebook seller’s page) AmazonKU
FOUGHT AND FOUND (ALIEN RECOVERY FILES BOOK ONE) by Lara Roth
Seven feet of trained lethality, undone by a woman with a daisy sticker on her sidearm. I don’t panic. I make tea. Even when a seven-foot, crimson-skinned alien breaks into my ship, claims my cargo, and calmly informs me I’m expendable. Xor is a Tier 1 retrieval weapon, all claws, control, and lethal efficiency. I’m just a courier on a triple-rate run, with fairy lights, named weapons, and zero intention of dying on schedule. He has orders, take the container, eliminate me. I have a counter-plan, outthink him, survive, and maybe figure out why this job feels bigger than it should. The problem? He doesn’t act like a monster. And I don’t treat him like one. Now mercenaries are closing in, my ship’s AI won’t stop meddling, and the deadly alien sent to kill me is starting to look at me like I’m his. They can have the cargo. They’re not having me. AmazonKU
MAZORIUM BUYS A HUMAN by RK Munin
When Geological Assessment Specialist Mazorium comes across a human woman and her infant child for sale at a livestock auction, he rushes to buy them. Not only does this mean he has a human pet of his own now, but he also gets to gentling a wild-caught human and raise a human child from infancy. His logical and ordered mind isn’t prepared for the chaos these two will bring to his life. Over the course of writing his guide, he’ll find himself changing in ways he never expected. And in the end, it will be the humans who will gentle him. Amazon
RENJIK (KA’ATARI WARRIORS BOOK EIGHT) by Kenzie Kelly
The Scozid said they want to discuss peace. Willow was the only one who heard the lie. Willow Benally has spent her time since being rescued from the disintegrating Shangris space station studying Scozid culture. When a message promising negotiation arrives, everyone wants to believe their adversary has changed. Willow knows better. The words say peace. The cadence says trap. Now the Alliance puts her at the center of talks that feel less like she’s there for diplomacy and more like she’s bait. Renjik struggles with the loss of his arm at Scozid hands. The cybernetic replacement works well enough, but it feels like proof of failure. He knows the Scozid can’t be trusted and expects the worst. He doesn’t expect the sharp human expert to catch his senses, challenge every assumption in the room, and become his rhun. Between diplomatic theater, biological weapons, a judgmental alien scarf, and an enemy arrogant enough to mistake its own trap for victory—surviving their mission may be easier than admitting the future they want is worth fighting for. AmazonKU
BIG BAD RED PROTECTOR by Cara Stone and Athena Storm
I should have thrown her in a cell the second she challenged me in my checkpoint. Instead, the tiny human customs officer with fire in her eyes and secrets in her blood is now under my protection.
Every protocol she cites makes me want to break another. Every time she steps into danger, the need to pin her against the nearest bulkhead and claim what’s mine grows stronger. The Bridge woke for her. Ancient power answers only to her touch. Now entire fleets are moving, and factions will kill to control the woman who can activate it. They’ll have to go through me first. I was bred for war. Trained to feel nothing. But Nina Torres makes me burn. I’ll burn my rank, my command, my entire life to keep her safe and keep her screaming my name in the dark. She can scold me on breaking station rules. Fine. I’ll break her instead…slowly. Deeply. Completely. AmazonKU
ALIENS, ARCHAEOLOGY AND THE ADVANTAGES OF FALLING IN LOVE (OTHERWORLDLY FINDINGS BOOK ONE) by Rose Santoriello and Rae Douglas
Ellie Benshoof loves human history. Certainly more than she loves the humans around her. To be fair, she might be the problem, with her brusque personality and general lack of patience. But when something totally out of this world crash lands in the middle of her research site, Ellie has all the secrets of humanity she’s ever wanted, right at her fingertips. The only thing in her way? Zarek. Zarek might study humans too, but he is most definitely not one. Hailing from the planet Terilla, Zarek was sent to Earth to observe humanity from afar, but his passion project impairs his objectivity. Seeking to change the course of his own species’ future, Zarek switches his coordinates to France, where he intends to capture a live sample of an edelweiss bloom. But the French Alps are a long way from Paris, and he’ll need Ellie’s assistance if he’s actually going to reach them. Making a deal, they agree to tolerate each other just long enough to get what they both need. While on the train ride of a lifetime, Ellie and Zarek must decide what they’ll let this connection become—a neatly labeled set of samples, or a once-in-a-lifetime field study that proves some discoveries are better experienced than explained. Love just might be the greatest advantage of them all. AmazonKU
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VS Note: Have you read the latest Badari Gladiator’s story yet? JAMIRR, my newest release!
JAMIRR (BADARI GLADIATORS BOOK FIVE) by Veronica Scott
His memories gone, mistreated and abused by a series of owners, Jamirr knows only that he won’t give in and become a fighter in the savage arenas of the galaxy. He refuses to give his so-called masters the satisfaction. Destined for a grim fate in the mines, he waits to die. Raised by a gladiator father to become an arena warrior from the time she was old enough to hold a wooden sword, Samyra inherited his struggling gladiatorial house and has carved out a career as the ruthless Beast Lady. Looking for new fighters she knows she should pass Jamirr by. He’s nothing but trouble and untrainable. Something about him won’t let her walk away and she takes the risk of adding him to her team. Despite himself Jamirr has a growing loyalty and attraction to the Beast Lady. He’s drawn to the caring woman underneath the savage exterior she presents to the world. But she has secrets that threaten them both and he still has no idea what kind of past his amnesia is concealing. He knows he’s not human, not with claws and fangs, yet he loves a human woman. Will he fight for her? Could a gladiator and his mistress ever become mates and equals? And will the arrival of a group of men like him known as Badari create opportunities for freedom or destroy the life Jamirr’s carved out?
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DRAGON ME CRAZY (POSSESSIVE MONSTERS BOOK 12) by Maggie Mayhem
A Single Dad Dragon Meets His Witchy Match – As a recently divorced grandmother, I buried my magic long ago and ask nothing of life but peace and quiet. Then a single-dad dragon offers me a job as governess to his motherless dragonlet. I agree to just one visit, no promises. But the moment I step into his castle, Emmett decides I’m his. He calls me his treasure. He touches me like he means to keep me. And the heat between us? As hot as the fire in his belly. But secrets slither through these castle walls, and someone covets what Emmett guards most. To save the dragonlet I’ve come to love, I’ll have to reclaim my magic and learn to trust the dragon who’s staked his claim on my heart. And I have to do it all before dragon fire burns it all to the ground. AmazonKU
MICROBURST (THE PROSPECTS BOOK FOUR) by Erin R Flynn
I am Queen Sagan De la Rosa… For now. After learning family secrets and horrors about my parents that no child should ever know, I think maybe the majority of Thovudin is right and Uncle Fraser should be king. It’s not like people in my own castle really want me there even. Fine, some have accepted I’ll be there and this is the way things are—which is so big of them when it’s my home—but they don’t really want me as their boss. All I ever wanted was to come home and now I want to be anywhere else with the way things turned out. And the men who “want” me don’t want me, Sagan. They want to be prince thinking they’ll be the actual ruler. One wants me now that we learned what my parents really thought of me. One says he wants me as I am, but I don’t know I could ever trust someone from that family again or the intensity of his obsession. One would want me if I wasn’t going to be queen, so maybe that’s the answer? Maybe the answer is to leave it all behind and find out who Sagan is without the heavy weight of the De la Rosa name and the fate no one wanted for her? AmazonKU
THE OCEAN’S QUEEN (THE CURSED QUEENS BOOK FOUR) by E E Hornburg
Finley, the feared and legendary pirate queen of the realm, has one goal: to break her sleeping curse before it traps her in an eternal slumber. With the enchanted chalice hidden deep within the Paravian Mountains, rumored to have the power to cure the king’s sleeping curse, she believes it can do the same for her — if she can find it in time. But nothing is ever that simple. Finley’s quest becomes even more complicated when she’s forced to team up with a brooding shape-shifting wolf, bound by an ancient curse to the goddess of death. This enigmatic wolf has the power to drag anyone into the world of the dead, and Finley’s friends are at risk if she can’t find a way to break his bond. To survive, she must convince him to work with her to cure her curse — and maybe even free him from the goddess’s hold. With the evil queen threatening to take over the realm, Finley’s mission becomes a race against time. If they fail, it’s not just Finley who will fall into eternal sleep — the entire world could descend into darkness. Can the pirate queen and the cursed wolf overcome their differences in time to save the realm from destruction? AmazonKU
A WORLD ENOUGH by Jenny Frame
VS Note: FF PNR.
MUSE AND MALICE: ECHOES OF OLYMPUS by Anna Hawke
No one worships the God of the Dead. Feared by mortals and mistrusted by his own family, Hades has ruled the Underworld alone for millennia. When a prophecy ties the fate of the pantheon to a mortal woman, he has no choice but to bring her into his realm—and keep her close. Persephone enters the Underworld with a secret purpose: steal Hades’ keyring and reclaim the son she lost. She expects a cold and merciless god. Instead, she finds a man worth protecting. If Persephone’s deception is exposed, it may destroy more than their fragile bond. It may bring down the gods. AmazonKU
GUARDIAN OF EXILE: A NYX FORTUNA NOVEL by Michelle Manus
Normal isn’t easy. Readjusting to ordinary life at the Station isn’t as easy as Nyx Fortuna would like, so she isn’t too upset at having another problem to distract her. Namely, finding Tristen Veld, the exiled Shaman who is her only chance at freeing Griff and the Stations. The catch? The only information she has on his whereabouts is that he was living in Dead Earth fifteen years ago. Tracking him down is difficult enough, but when she does, he isn’t at all what Nyx expects. Life hasn’t treated him kindly, and it’s left the exiled Shaman cynical and angry. Nyx, not exactly full of hope herself these days, isn’t sure she’s the right person to convince him to help her, but she has to try. And the funny thing about convincing someone else that life is worth fighting for? Sometimes, you convince yourself of the same thing along the way. Amazon Apple Books Kobo
SCORCHED BY THE DRAKE (BRED FOR THE RIFT BOOK FOUR) by Zara Crowe
He can taste every lie she tells. One flick of his forked tongue and the drake warlord knows what her cool, clever mouth won’t say: she isn’t afraid of him. She’s starving for him. She came to negotiate the breeding contract. She’s begging him to honor it instead, his mark searing her throat, his knot locking her in the dark, and no idea how to want anything this much. Possessive monster. Heroine with teeth. A heat neither of them can refuse. AmazonKU
ILLUMINATED (VAMPIRE TALES BOOK ONE) by Alexa Piper
VS Note: MM Fantasy.
He locked me in his gaze. “You can try to run, but I am faster. You must have guessed. What do you think I am?” My lips trembled before I spoke. “Vampire.” Ethan is a photographer who has made peace with being lonely. When he saves a man from certain death, he has no idea that in doing so, he unlocks an age-old prophecy—and a love like no other. Illuminated is a Gothic-style romance between an ancient vampire and a lonely photographer. Contains travel, adventure, secret organizations, and a prophecy that echoes through the ages. Contains some violence. Amazon
JASON AND THE MERMAID & HONEY AND GARNET WINE by Alexa Piper
VS Note: LGBTQ short reads.
These two short stories bring you two supernaturals, a merman and a vampire, and the human lovers they have chosen. They are stories of strangeness, of worlds meeting and overlapping. Amazon
A SPOT OF TEA AND SORCERY VOL 6 by Sylvia Mercedes
VS Note: A novel serialized in 6 parts.
Former Dark Sorcerer. Ready to sacrifice everything. Completely unprepared for Happily Ever After.
His secret is out. She knows the truth, knows who he once was. The monster, the villain, the man who nearly decimated an entire kingdom in his quest for immortality. Now, she’ll want nothing to do with him. Surely. But Nigel won’t let that stop him from protecting Luna Talbot. If he is meant for one good deed in this life, it is to save her from the doom which stalks her footsteps. Bound by the Sovereign Troth, crippled by poison, he will nonetheless march into the very lair of the worst Dark Sorcerers the world has ever known and, one by one, destroy them. If he can just . . . get out the front door without fainting first. Luna, meanwhile, must decide if she’s going back to work tomorrow morning or not. She’s got one more day to survive before her one-way ticket out of Ballycastle. Between her formerly-evil-sorcerer boss and her infuriatingly persistent would-be boyfriend, she can’t make a move that isn’t compromised! But Extremely Great Aunt Amelia’s old prediction is determined to come true. A glamorous night, a horse-drawn carriage, a moonlit garden, and a romantic tryst are written in the stars for this humble shop girl. Meanwhile, a much darker fate is closing in, and it’s only a matter of time before all the once-scried visions collide. Amazon
LITTLE MUSIC OF NIGHT (MMF MONSTER ROMANCE) (CREATURE CAFE SERIES BOOK 17) by Clio Evans
Creatures of all kinds go to the Barista to find love, including the two cursed phantoms, Erik and Ray. Erik and Ray already know their mate. They’ve been watching her, stalking her, and yearning for her night after night. There’s just one problem—Christy cannot see the phantoms who haunt her dreams. Christy is ready to give love a shot. But when she’s ghosted on her first date, she leaves Creature Cafe furious. Little does she know, her two phantoms are in agony, waiting for the moment she can finally see them. Will Erik, Christy, and Ray finally break the curse that’s holding them back? AmazonKU
A SEA OAT FOR SANDY – A PLANT/MONSTER ROMANCE SHORT (PLANT INSTALOVE) by Elliot Ason
She was offered as a sacrifice. He claimed her for worship. Branded a curse since birth, Sandila has always known she would die for the sands. Bound on a freezing beach and abandoned by her village’s priests, she braces for a brutal end at the hands of the legendary monster of the coast. But Argus isn’t there to claim a sacrifice. A terrifying creature of ancient vines and coastal flora, Argus has waited centuries for his fated mate. When he rescues Sandila from the harsh elements, he sweeps her away to a hidden sanctuary where she’s finally safe. He doesn’t want her blood—he wants to show her exactly how a treasured thing is kept. Sandila was born for sacrifice, but in the heavy arms of the beast, she’ll discover she was meant for worship all along. AmazonKU
SASSY SUNFLOWERS by Holly Day
VS Note: MM PNR.
Jacob has always had a thing for vampires, but he never realized how dangerous they can be. When Jacob Litwin is called to the community in Myrfolk to feed an injured vampire, he jumps at the opportunity. It isn’t until it’s too late, he realizes there is a difference between a sexy nibble in a dark corner of a nightclub and being handed over to a severely hurt vampire. Drystan Sorge has lost everything — his house, his job, everything. He’s been beaten black and blue and is out of his mind from pain. His friend manages to get him to the community in Myrfolk in the nick of time. They’ve left everything behind apart from a bag of clothes and twelve hundred sunflower seedlings. What had he been thinking? Sunflowers aren’t the solution to his problems. The one bright thing in the whole situation is Jacob, the human who agreed to feed him when he first arrived. Too bad Jacob is trying to run away from him. Jacob can’t believe how naive he’s been. He’s always had a thing for vampires, but now his view of them has been shaken. The way Drystan does what he can to take care of him is cute, but he should tell him to stop. Right? Amazon
ORC’S VEIL (VEIL LANDS BOOK 11) by Cyn Blade and Milly Taiden
Welcome to the Veil lands, where monsters are the only ones who can save you. Eirene: I’ve survived at the edge of the world, stealing the memories of travelers to pay the Veil’s hunger. Then the boundary shrieked, and the sky permanently split wide open. Now, an iron-masked monster has ducked into my cottage to end my treason. Varkhul is a giant built of harsh angles, tusks, and a lifetime of absolute obedience. He captures my bleeding wrists, but the twin moons light up a dangerous, mutual heat between us. They say our touch is eroding the wall, but his darkness is the only anchor keeping me whole. Varkhul: My tusks are weighted with iron rings, each one marking ten executions for the order. I was the Iron Citadel’s cleanest weapon, sent to the border to eliminate a rogue witch. Instead, I found a silver-haired woman bleeding herself hollow just to keep the realm alive. My ancestral blood is an active poison to the Veil, but when it mixes with her skin, the screaming barrier goes dead silent. I was sent to be her executioner, but I will butcher my own commander before I let the dark take what’s mine. AmazonKU
HE’S A 10 BUT HE BITES by Vixen Voss and Milly Taiden
She stole the wrong relic. Now she’s mine. I’m a monster. The Black Fang. Four centuries of hunting down threats—and one reckless human thief just woke the most dangerous one of all. Riley Harrow. Chestnut hair, clever hands, and a pulse that calls to the monster in me like nothing ever has. The obsidian only answers to her. My mate bond only burns for her. Every faction in our world wants her dead or leashed. They’ll have to go through me first. I should end her. Instead I’m claiming her. Protecting her. Ruining her for anyone else while we chase secrets older than my blood. She ran with my relic. She’s not running from me. AmazonKU
STRIPES DON’T LIE (PARANORMAL DATING AGENCY BOOK 109) by Milly Taiden
Leni Lovett was this close to taking a vacation. One clean arrest, one million-dollar payday, and maybe—finally—a beach with no assassins, no traitors, and no one asking her to save the day. Then Gerri Wilder taps on her car window with a job involving a wormhole, another planet, and a tiger-shifter pride with a mole problem. Naturally, Leni says yes. Because apparently her idea of relaxing is hunting a traitor in alien territory while trying very hard not to notice the growly commander with the lethal body and bossy mouth. Commander Voryn Drath trusts his warriors, his instincts, and absolutely no one from the outside. After rogues nearly kill the Alpha’s children, he’s ready to tear Stormreach apart claw by claw to find the traitor. The last thing he wants is a human counterintelligence expert poking through his security files. Then Leni steps through the portal, shakes his hand, and his tiger goes feral for one sharp-tongued woman in tactical boots. She’s his mate. Fantastic. Too bad she looks at commanders like they come with warning labels and emotional damage. Gerri swears this is fate doing what fate does best—making a mess and calling it destiny. Leni calls it suspicious. Voryn calls it a security risk with curves. But as the danger closes in and the mole inside the Drath pride gets bolder, their investigation turns into a battle of wills, heat, and very inconvenient feelings. Now Leni has to expose a traitor, protect a royal family, and survive one overprotective tiger who makes her want things she swore off years ago… including a place to finally stay. AmazonKU
HOWL’S THAT FOR FOREVER by Sabrina Sin and Milly Taiden
She’s mine the second I walk into her flower shop. Amelia Harper smells like grief and quiet fire, and my wolf wants to mark her until the whole town knows exactly who she belongs to. They’ve spent five years blaming her for her husband’s death. But I don’t care about their whispers. I just care about making her mine. I came to investigate black roses and cursed roots. Instead I found my mate.
Every black bloom makes the town point at her. Every tremor in the ground pulls her deeper into danger. They don’t understand. She’s not the curse. She’s the only thing worth saving in this dying town. I’ll burn every lie to the ground. I’ll face the ancient monster clawing its way free. And when it’s done, I’m not leaving her side. She never wanted a man like me. Too bad my wolf already decided forever. AmazonKU
PROTECTED BY THE VAMPIRE by L Rose and Lily Rose
VS Note: MM PNR.
For centuries, Soren existed in the shadows. A powerful vampire who had long ago accepted that forever would be spent alone. Love was a luxury fate had denied him. Then he met Spade. Spade, vice president for the Fury Motorcycle Club, isn’t looking for forever. Especially not with a vampire whose very existence shattered everything he believed about the world. But fate doesn’t ask permission. In a world where monsters rule the night, one vampire and one biker will discover that the greatest danger isn’t falling in love… it’s surviving it. AmazonKU
DEATH MAKES THE HEART GROW FONDER (SHROUDED NATION BOOK 37) by Brenda Trim and Tia Didmon
I can command the dead, but saving the living may cost me everything. As the newest member of the Sacred Sisterhood, I’m given a brutal task of dispatching a zombie horde before it devours everything in its path. But the dead aren’t rising because of errant necromancy. A powerful enemy has returned, and he means to reshape our world into something twisted, broken, and unlivable. To stop him, I’ll need more than my magic, my sisters, and the loyal friends willing to fight beside me. I’ll need the relentless protection of a stubborn gargoyle determined to keep me alive… and the one dark power I’ve feared my entire life. But if the only way to save the world is to unleash the very thing that could destroy me, will I sacrifice my soul for everyone I love… or let the world burn? AmazonKU
FIND ME (HAUNTED HEARTS SERIES BOOK TWO) by Jennifer Julie Miller
VS Note: An ‘expanded’ re-release.
A job assignment, a dream, and a choice. Multiple lifetimes flash before me and each time, I choose unwisely. Will I be able to find him before my dream ends and I once again take the foolish path? My happiness hangs in the balance. AmazonKU
SISTERS AND BLISTERS (AMETHYST’S WAND SHOP MYSTERIES BOOK 17) by Laura Greenwood and Arizona Tape
Amy and Ambrose embark on their latest case as they discover a pair of dead women whose death is a mystery…Sisters and Blisters is book seventeen of Amethyst’s Wand Shop Mysteries, an urban fantasy murder mystery series featuring a quirky witch, a serious detective, a slow burn m/f romantic subplot and a standalone crime.
THE WITCH QUEEN (THE CRIMSON CROWN DUOLOGY BOOK TWO) by Heather Walter
VS Note: LGBTQ Fantasy
The wicked queen’s story did not end with a happily ever after. And she wouldn’t have it any other way. With the king bound to her magic mirror and Princess Blodwyn, the rightful heir, hidden away in the countryside, Queen Ayleth has the kingdom entirely at her command. Despite her ultimate power, Ayleth finds herself consumed: With fears that the witches from her former coven will return to depose her. With the dread that someone at the palace will discover her secret. With her own deepening dark magic. And with thoughts of her lost love, Jacquetta—the witch whose betrayal still haunts Ayleth as stubbornly as the lingering scent of juniper. But Ayleth’s carefully built world begins to unravel when Blodwyn returns from exile accompanied by Margaret, the king’s scheming sister, and reveals a plan of her own: to invoke Braxos’s Trials, a contest of bravery, wisdom, and justice that could allow Blodwyn to retake the throne. Ayleth suddenly discovers she is in danger of losing the crown she sacrificed everything to win—and she will do anything to retain control. And Ayleth isn’t the only one struggling with her altered position. Blodwyn’s homecoming soon proves more difficult than she imagined. Embroiled in Ayleth’s viperous court, Blodwyn is surrounded by enemies and plagued by rumors of a long-buried curse come to life. As family secrets resurface, the princess isn’t sure who—or what—she can trust. Especially when she may be falling for one of her rivals in the trials. As the battle for the realm intensifies, both Ayleth and Blodwyn find themselves fighting not only for the throne but for the truth.
KIDNAPPED BY THE MESSY DRAGON by Tessa Stone
In the heart of Shadow Wolf Creek, journalist Jalen “Jay” Carter, known as the messy dragon, is on the hunt for the truth behind a suspicious cleaning solution manufactured by a powerful corporation. As he digs deeper into the company’s operations, revealing dark ties to shifter magic, he never expects to find his fate intertwined with that of a curious stranger. When Zuri Spencer accidentally uncovers the company’s sinister dealings, she unwittingly puts herself in grave danger. To protect her, Jay kidnaps the very woman whose scent awakens a primal desire he can’t resist. As their connection deepens amidst the chaos, Zuri learns about Jay’s true nature as a dragon shifter and the fate he is bound to protect. With witches, secrets, and a sizzling attraction that defies the odds, can Jay and Zuri navigate the perils of shifter society and uncover the truth before it’s too late? In this paranormal rom-com, love and laughter blaze hotter than flame. AmazonKU
REAGAN (DRESDEN PRIDE BOOK THREE) by Kathi S Barton
Dr. Reagan Dresden has spent his life helping others. Between taking over his father’s medical practice, caring for his patients, and staying close to his large, loving family, he barely has time to think about finding a mate. Then a trip to a local auction changes everything. Blake Winters has enough problems of her own. She loves her job, values her independence, and spends far too much time cleaning up the chaos left behind by her demanding sister. The last thing she needs is a head injury, a broken wrist, and an annoyingly handsome doctor who suddenly seems determined to look after her. When fate reveals Blake is Reagan’s destined mate, he knows he’s found the woman he’s been waiting for. But winning Blake’s heart may be more difficult than any medical challenge he’s ever faced. Especially when family drama, dangerous secrets, and a sister who thrives on being the center of attention threaten to pull them apart.
GRIFFIN FOOD (COVETED PREY BOOK 15) by L V Lane
I fled my home and my cruel sister, who also happened to be queen. In my homeland, omegas are not celebrated. They are persecuted. So I, a bookworm far more comfortable in a dusty library than on any road, set out with two beta guards I had come to trust. My quest was simple and impossible, driven by what could only be called an obsession: I wanted to see a griffin. Then, finally, I would live out my days in peace. Only events did not go to plan. I did not account for three griffins with very strong opinions about who I belong to. They have decided—unanimously, annoyingly—that the answer is them. I am not interested in belonging to anyone. Not after everything I ran from. But Atlas is immovable. Darrion is impossible to ignore. Fenix is brooding impatience. And Lark and Rafe, my guards turned companions, look at me as though I am already theirs. Then my heat arrives unexpectedly. And suddenly, the choice I swore no one would ever take from me may be the one my body makes first. AmazonKU
THE RESEARCHER’S GUIDE TO UNEXPECTED MATES (THE SPELLBOUND SERIES BOOK ONE) by Amy Padilla
VS Note: MM Fantasy.
Volunteering for Spellbound Corp’s new Residential Pilot Program was supposed to make Mateo’s life easier. Instead, between a demanding cyber security job, chaotic roommates, and sleepless nights, he’s more stressed than ever. Then he meets Dax. Sweet, earnest, and always showing up when Mateo needs him most, the kraken researcher quickly becomes Mateo’s favorite part of the day. Mateo never intended to rely on anyone, but it’s hard to resist someone offering support, massages, fried chicken, and a safe place to land when life gets overwhelming. For Dax, falling for Mateo is easy. The problem is that Dax already knows something Mateo doesn’t. Krakens recognize their mates at first touch, and the moment Dax met the exhausted human, he knew they’d found each other. Now he just has to figure out when to tell Mateo the truth. After all, when is the right time to tell someone they’re your mate? AmazonKU
SEASHELLS AND DAIQUIRIS by Charlotte Mallory
I bought a cursed seashell and now it won’t stop telling the hot bartender my deepest secrets. My name is Freddie, and I write love stories for a living. Not that you’d know it lately. I haven’t published in a year, my agent sends me smiley-face texts that feel like threats, and the only thing I’ve written recently is a grocery list that made me cry. So, of course, I ran away to a beach for inspiration. The plan did not include a cursed seashell. It definitely did not include the broody, silver-haired bartender who hasn’t felt a single emotion in six years—because his ex (a sea witch, as he so casually mentions) literally ripped his heart out and sealed it in a shell. A shell that I bought. From a shop. For six dollars. Now it won’t leave my pocket. I’ve tried everything. Setting it down? Back in my pocket. Throwing it in the ocean? Back in my pocket. Wearing a dress with no pockets? The beautiful, damned thing appeared in my hand. And it screams my thoughts out loud. Every unfiltered, mortifying, wildly inappropriate thought I have is broadcast at full volume. Even to the bartender that the shell informs I like the tattoos on his delicious forearms. My name is Freddie. I write love stories for a living. I just never expected to find one inside a seashell. AmazonKU
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CAUGHT BY THE WOLF: AFTER MIDNIGHT by Marie Mason
She had a gift for walking into things. She’d walked into a supply closet at the hospital that had been very much occupied by two coworkers who were definitely not getting supplies. She’d walked into a surprise party at a restaurant—one she had not been invited to. She’d walked into a bar fight just as the first punch landed. She’d been walking into the wrong places at the worst moments her entire life. It shouldn’t have surprised her when she’d gotten turned around on a hike and landed smack dab in the middle of an illegal poaching operation deep in the mountains of Lone Creek — armed men included. Honestly, it tracked. What did not track was him. The man – wolf – that saved her. Wren knew shifters were real. She’d grown up beside them. As a nurse, she’d patched up a bear shifter with a chainsaw injury and a wolf who’d lost an argument with a truck, and none of it had ever rattled her. Shifters were just part of Stone Creek, same as the bad cell service and the church potlucks. But she had never, in thirty-one years, seen anything like Roman. Roman and his brothers had come to Stone Creek with a plan for a fresh start. Keep their heads down. Mind their own business. It was a good plan. Then he’d found her running for her life in his woods. His wolf scrapped the plan for a peaceful existence in under a minute, for two very good reasons. One… the men who saw her face were not going to let it go. Two… she was his fated mate. Now the only thing that matters is keeping her safe. And keeping her his. AmazonKU
THE DUNGEON BOOK by Gareth Hanrahan
Enter a world of dungeons and dragons, magic and manticores, and goblins and gargoyles …Bait doesn’t remember a time before the dungeon. Before the dragon stole her from her cot. She doesn’t know what her name was before she was handed over to the monstrous denizens of the dungeon beneath the sorcerer’s tower. Luckily for Bait, they decided not to eat her. And so she grew up in the dark—the goblins her adopted family, a vengeful minotaur her protector, a sentient skull her tutor, and a blob of corridor slime her main source of nutrition. But the labyrinthine dungeon, with its haunted halls, buried temples and forgotten magics, draws treasure hunters like moths to flame. And as the outside world starts to intrude, Bait will learn what it means to be monstrous and she will have to decide where she truly belongs. Amazon AB Apple Books Kobo
STUBBORN AS A SHADOW (WILLOW LAKE PACK BOOK TWO) by Lori Ames
VS Note: MM PNR mystery.
Rainbows and darkness don’t belong together, but fate has other ideas. People use the word “unicorn” to describe the rarest of the rare. The thing that is more myth than reality. The thing that makes you question if it even existed. Yeah. Nelson knows firsthand how apt that metaphor is, because finding an abducted unicorn is about as easy as tracking down rocking-horse crap. After months of searching, all he’s found is failure. Every time he closes his eyes, he imagines the poor man—Morgan—fading away somewhere, unable to escape. And that’s better than magically enhanced caffeine at keeping him awake at night. So when Nelson agrees to do a side job for someone at the Supernatural Council, the last person he expects to find is Morgan. But here he is at a black magic market, dressed up like a stand-in for a B movie about evil witches, and Nelson knows he has to get him back to the safety of Willow Lake. If only Morgan would listen to him. Morgan’s dedicated his life to finding out what happened to his parents. Although that hunt has gotten people killed in the past, he can’t stop. But he is open to help. And who could help better than a deliciously hot shadow jumper? Particularly when Nelson is all heroic and stuff…Hurrah for heroes. Hmm… Maybe Morgan should try to seduce him. Because Nelson really should be rewarded for his services and more importantly, Morgan is dying—hopefully not literally—to see a smile on the grumpy grump’s cute face. AmazonKU
EARTHBOUND: A NOVEL (THE FAEBOUND TRILOGY BOOK THREE) by Saara El-Arifi
Broken by love. Trapped by war. Bound by magic. Lettle is on a quest to uncover the truth. Along with the human Alder, the last of his kind, she sets off on an arduous journey of discovery. But after a painful separation from King Rayan, she is struggling to find her way. Alder is determined to learn more about his origins. With no memories of his childhood, he retraces his steps to the cave where it all began. But what he finds there may shake him to the core. Back in the fae court, Yeeran has other priorities. The warrior-turned-ambassador must negotiate a peace treaty with the elven army. But it’s hard to bargain with a duplicitous enemy. And it’s even harder to negotiate with a broken heart. Secrets ripple like an earthquake across the land and love and power are at the core of them all. Amazon AB Apple Books Kobo
WORLD’S OKAYEST ORACLE (RELUCTANTLY) SEEKS DEMON by Olivia Dade
Gwen Wexloff might be able to see the future, but not when it matters. Her visions invariably involve piddling issues, which means—unlike most oracles—she’s spent her life predicting for everyday humans instead of international power brokers. After a clutch of brain-slurping zombies escapes from their walled-off compound, though, Gwen experiences the first genuinely world-altering vision of her life . . . and now she needs help. Unfortunately, that help comes from Hugh Blacke, the same starchy (but annoyingly cute) demon who watched her bomb her oracle verification test years ago. To Gwen’s dismay, the two of them will need to work together to unravel the deadly conspiracy behind the zombie breach, despite their complicated past and the secrets they’re keeping. Even with her newfound power, she couldn’t have foreseen how quickly they’d both want more than a simple partnership. But the clock is ticking—and with the fate of humanity at stake, Gwen and Hugh will have to decide how much they’re willing to risk for an unexpected, passionate love…and a future together that might prove very short indeed.
THE INEVITABLE UNDOING OF ZAHARA DOUGLASS by Leslye Penelope
In April 1995, Zahara watched her twin sister, Annica, get hustled into a stranger’s car and disappear—only to return to a world where no one has heard of Annica. Not her mother. Not the police. No one. Four years later, as the world braces for the looming Y2K crisis, Zahara finds evidence proving her sister was real and hires a private investigator to dig into her family’s shadowed past. When the investigation leads to two charismatic men who once served with her father in Vietnam, Zahara realizes she and her sister may be pawns in a dangerous power struggle with unthinkable consequences. To find Annica, Zahara must face the truth about her family, her memories, and the power lurking within her. But the sisters’ reunion comes at a price—one that could bring about the end of the world. Amazon AB Apple Books Kobo
THE PREGNANT WOLF OMEGA NEXT DOOR: AN MPREG ROMANCE (BABIES FOR BROKEN DADS BOOK SEVEN) by Anna Wineheart
(This is a full-novel expansion of my 12k-word short story, The Pregnant Omega Next Door) – Pregnant and on the run from his ex-alpha, Emre hides with his wolf pup in a run-down apartment. Thing is, he’s out of cash, out of food, and his neighbor is cooking something that smells delicious. Desperate to feed himself and his pup, Emre knocks on his neighbor’s door. What he doesn’t expect is a handsome alpha with a secret. Zenith is protective and offers his own apartment as shelter; he accepts Emre and his pups even though neither child belongs to him. Then Emre goes into labor, dragging his inexperienced alpha neighbor along for the ride. This is just a case of neighbors helping each other. No one is going to fall in love… right? AmazonKU
THESE VILE HEARTS by Melody Robinette
Maddox Sinclair has run out of options. No job means no health insurance —a death sentence for a type one diabetic like herself. She flees to the forest to make a desperate deal with a dryad queen: kill the Redwood King and be cured of the illness that threatens her life. In the redwood treetops, Prince Castor, is cursed– anyone who loves him is doomed to die. Like Maddox, he has made an equally unwise pact with his brother, the Redwood King: get a mortal to fall in love with him by solstice and be free of his curse forever. When Maddox mistakes Castor for the king, sparks fly and troubles ensue. Each must decide what is more important—survival and freedom, or the love they (kind of, almost) feel in their traitorous, vile hearts.
DARK DESTINY: THE FATES’ BARGAIN (CHILDREN OF THE GODS PNR BOOK 110) by I T Lucas
The Fates are moving pieces on their cosmic chessboard, and a wait of five thousand years approaches its reckoning. AmazonKU
BOUGHT FOR BLOOD (DRAGONBLOOD DYNASTY BOOK 14) by B E Brouillard
They don’t call it captivity. They call it supply. For over a year, I’ve been kept alive because dead girls don’t bleed. Every morning, they open my veins. Every night, they leave just enough in me to wake up and do it again. I stopped praying for rescue a long time ago. Then he walks in. Tall. Pale. Beautiful in a way that feels less human than hunger. He studies me like livestock. Like I’m already his. Then tells my handlers he wants me. They refuse. So he buys time with my blood instead. The first time his mouth finds my throat, I brace for pain. For teeth. For terror. I don’t brace for pleasure. I don’t brace for wanting him to do it again. Then he makes his terms clear. No more needles. No more buyers. No one drinks from me but him. He doesn’t free me. He claims me. But every visit leaves me stronger. Every touch pulls me deeper under. And the vampire who looked at me like he owned me starts looking at me like I’m something he can’t afford to want. He holds himself back like restraint is the last decent thing left in him. Every night, that restraint gets thinner. Then he buys me. Not for an hour. Not for a taste. Forever. Behind locked doors and old stone walls, I’m safer…(more blurb on ebook seller’s page) Amazon
CURSE OF ANCIENTS (REBEL MOON SHIFTERS BOOK SIX) by Faith Gibson
She’s a Gargoyle genius and a computer specialist. Do not call her a hacker. Carleigh Stone spends her days and some nights as a keyboard warrior keeping her Clan safe. She uses her knowledge of coding to ensure her family has every advantage when taking out the bad guys while also finding their mates and living their best lives. She and her two partners at H3, their cyber security company, assist their cousins at Steele Securities. When the security company’s newest client comes under fire, every bit of knowledge she has isn’t enough to ensure his safety. He’s a white tiger shifter and a chosen guardian. Do not call him a savior. Bayu Tan comes from a long line of beings who’ve been blessed by the spirit god Baekyo. It is their sacred duty to balance the scales of good versus evil. When a group of dark mages attack Bayu’s family, he turns to Steele Securities to watch over him. With the company comes a female hacker who claims he’s her fated mate. That would be a blessing if everything else in his life wasn’t in utter chaos. Carleigh and Bayu navigate their new life together while fighting a different kind of cult. One with the type of magic neither has encountered before. It will take the help of Carleigh’s Clan, shifter and fae alike, to overcome this evil before the cult can eliminate Bayu. The year is 2076, and it’s the next generation’s turn to fight the evil in the world. Curse of Ancients is the 6th book in the Rebel Moon Shifters series. While it can be read as a stand-alone, most readers find it more enjoyable if the series is read in order as there will be spoilers. AmazonKU
THE PRINCE’S FEALT: MM FANTASY ROMANCE (PRINCELY PLANS BOOK THREE) by Ellie Ash
Tor – After the disastrous events in Tond and Alossa, Tor is definitely winging it. He needs to expose the forces that are setting him up and protect his family. If he manages to do that, he’ll finally be able to take the time to prove to everyone that he and Pel should be together, no matter what. Pel – Despite first impressions, if there’s one thing Pel’s learned about Tor, it’s that he puts other people’s wellbeing above his own. It’s a full-time job trying to make sure that Tor stays still long enough to recover from magical exhaustion (again). But Pel’s determined to safeguard the peace of the United Realms, too, and he’ll follow Tor wherever he leads to get to the truth and keep everyone safe. Even if it means they’re committing treason and putting their future in jeopardy. AmazonKU
HEALING THE DEMON (DEMONS OF THE RIFT BOOK TWO) by Evelyn Embers
Running a Boston ER is controlled chaos. Falling into a dying dimension and landing at the feet of a seven-foot demon medic? That requires a totally different triage protocol. I’m a nurse, not an interdimensional traveller. But in a sunless realm where humans are enemy number one, my only shield is the terrifying demon who scoops me up. Torik is a mountain of sweeping wings, lethal horns, and a rugged dad bod. He’s a deeply grumpy, solitary healer who spends his lonely days with his pet lizard. He’s also the most infuriatingly stubborn male alive. Now, we’re trapped together in his rustic clinic, two fiercely dedicated medical professionals clashing over everything. He barks orders for me to stay hidden from other demons; I can’t just sit quietly while there are patients to save. He refuses to let me lift a finger, but when I ignore him and do it anyway, those clawed hands are devastatingly gentle when he washes the grime from my curls, or pulls me against his broad chest in his single bed just to keep me warm. Giving in to the blistering heat between us—and his very, very accommodating demon anatomy—is a dangerous game when one wrong move could get us both killed. Because once this grumpy monster claims my heart, I might just burn the portal home. AmazonKU
THE KING’S RUNAWAY MATE (BWWM) (THE WICKED BARBARIANS SERIES: WELCOME TO TRAVENIA BOOK THREE) by T C Clark
She entered his world for a cure. He claimed her as his. And now there’s no escaping what they started. Liora Hale never meant to stay in Travenia. She came for one reason—and one reason only. Her sister is dying from a curse no healer on Earth can break. Desperate and out of time, Liora risks everything to slip through a forbidden portal into a brutal realm of magic and warriors, searching for a rare plant whispered about in legend. She plans to get in. Get the cure. And get out. What she doesn’t plan for… is him. Kael Draven feels her the moment she steps onto his land. A stranger. A witch. His mate. He finds her before the dangers of Travenia can. Protects her with a quiet, controlled intensity that leaves no room for argument. And when his people discover what she is to him, there is no debate. No delay. She is claimed. Bound to him under ancient law. His bride. For one night, she is his—guarded, watched, and held too close for something that was never supposed to happen. And by morning…She’s gone. Back on Earth, Liora uses the plant to save her sister, her hands steady even as her heart isn’t. Because she knows something no one else does. Kael Draven isn’t the kind of man you leave behind. So she waits. And he comes. Crossing worlds without hesitation, Kael follows the bond that refuses to break—into a place with no magic, no rules, and no understanding of what he is. But Earth won’t stop him. And neither will she. Because protecting her was only the beginning. Now? He’s taking his wife home. AmazonKU
WOLF BLOOD (AT FIRST BITE BOOK TWO) by Lola Glass
The werewolf who’s been keeping me alive with his blood for the last few months just declared me his. He also says he isn’t mine, so that’s fantastic. At least we’re not soulmates. Yet. Being a turned vampire has been rough for me, but I’m determined to survive long enough to make sure that my best friend has a support system of some kind when I’m gone. It doesn’t help that my mother is somehow behind the murders that nearly took her out, though. Or that the wolf who’s claimed me isn’t willing to let me go. Somehow, I have to keep myself sane just long enough for everything to fall into place… and I have to do it without falling for a werewolf. AmazonKU
BLADE by Shaw Montgomery
VS Note: MM PNR.
Hunting The Beast of Bladenboro was supposed to be foolproof. It wasn’t a sentient creature I could have coffee with or chat with online. It wasn’t running an online jewelry store or complaining about how humans ruin the national parks. It wasn’t even on the list for the Solstice Festival. It should’ve been a real monster I could save people from. It wasn’t. Somehow I had the worst luck of any monster hunter ever…and getting trapped in my own net was just the start. Things might be improving, though, as long as I can count finding my murder kitty, saving my mate from being trapped forever, and falling in love…yeah…things might be improving. Fingers crossed. Enter the Legends world, where National Parks hold secrets—and monsters steal hearts. AmazonKU
DIVINE RISING (MOONLIGHT DIVINE BOOK ONE) by Cindy Stark
A gifted restoration expert. An immortal guardian. A castle hiding a fracture between worlds. Selene Sullivan has built her career on control—on reading structures, correcting flaws, and restoring balance where others see only crumbling stone. When she’s offered the chance to work on a remote Irish castle, it should be the opportunity of a lifetime. Except the building doesn’t behave like a building. The air tightens without warning. The stone hums beneath her hands. And at the center of it all lies a circular inlay no one will cross, least of all the man assigned to oversee her work. Bren McLoughlin is precise, controlled, and entirely uninterested in explaining himself. He watches too closely. Moves too carefully. And when Selene steps too near the heart of the castle, his restraint sharpens into something far more dangerous than distance. Because Bren isn’t guarding the structure. He’s guarding what lies beneath it. When a fracture in the Veil between worlds begins to spread, Selene does what she’s always done. She fixes it. Except she shouldn’t be able to. Now the balance Bren has protected for centuries is shifting, drawn toward a woman who doesn’t understand what she is, or why his world is starting to respond to her. The closer they work, the harder it becomes to maintain distance. The more they deny the pull between them, the more the Veil strains in response. And when something ancient begins to hunt her, restraint may no longer be enough to keep her safe. Or to keep him away. AmazonKU
A FAMILY AFFAIR by Jodi Taylor
Everyone’s favourite time-travelling bounty hunters return for a whole new adventure…With the dust finally settling after her near-fatal shooting, Lady Amelia Smallhope is looking forward to a period of rest and recuperation. A chance for her and Pennyroyal to plan their next lucrative adventure and drink margaritas in the sun. Yeah – like that’s ever going to happen. An unexpected phone call blows everything out of the water. They’ve been targeted. By someone all-too familiar with Pennyroyal’s murky past. But who would dare? There’s only one way to find out – and the road ahead is dangerous. But as Smallhope likes to say…When things are bad – make them worse.
HAUNTED PAST: A PARANORMAL PSYCHIC SUSPENSE MYSTERY (SHELBY NICHOLS ADVENTURE BOOK 20) by Colleen Helme
Shelby Nichols can read minds. She thought she knew everything about the people in her life. She was wrong. When her journalist friend Billie lands the assignment of a lifetime—writing the memoirs of a ninety-four-year-old media mogul—Shelby tags along to help uncover the juicy details. Silas Lynch’s Victorian mansion is full of secrets—and apparently, at least one of them refuses to stay dead. But the deeper Shelby digs, the more she realizes some secrets were buried on purpose—and the kind of people who bury them don’t appreciate shovels. Oh, and Ramos? Turns out the man has skills that go well beyond his usual job description. She reads minds for a living. She did not see this coming. AmazonKU AB
BEYOND A REASONABLE HAUNT (GRUMPY GHOST BOOK SEVEN) by Maggie March
Some trials are about justice. This one might just raise the dead. Anna McGuffin has faced down murderers, outwitted vengeful spirits, and survived small-town gossip—but nothing has prepared her for this: admitting that her feelings for a certain Victorian ghost have become impossible to ignore. Richard Lockwood is infuriating, overprotective, and devastatingly handsome for someone who’s been dead since 1895. But how do you build a future with a man who doesn’t have one? Before Anna can untangle her heart, Lockwood Cove is thrust into the national spotlight. Greg Anderson, disgraced director of the hit TV show Ghost Trackers, is standing trial for murder—and his defense is unprecedented: supernatural forces made him do it. It would be laughable if the star expert witness weren’t Dr. Thomas Braxton, a man whose obsession with Victorian serial killer Alistair Hawthorne borders on worship. Worse still, the defense’s key evidence is a gold Victorian locket—the very one Anna and Richard know contains Hawthorne’s trapped spirit. One wrong move in that courtroom and the most dangerous ghost Lockwood Cove has ever known could be set free. Richard has kept Anna safe from Hawthorne before, but this time the threat isn’t lurking in a shadowy cemetery—it’s sitting in an evidence bag, waiting for its moment. AmazonKU
SILVER CLAW (KAIT SILVER BOOK SIX) by Laken Cane
I lost my power in one unspeakably brutal moment. Left with only my rage, my blade, and the whispers of ghosts, I must protect not only my city, but the supernaturals and humans I love. A vicious new enemy is hunting me. Gavin Voss, alpha of Colorado’s Iron Fang Pack, wants my territory, my people, and me. With strange magic making him stronger than any wolf should be, he won’t stop until either I surrender—or one of us is dead. But Voss isn’t my only problem. A supernatural killer is leaving mutilated bodies across Jakeston. The ghosts are still causing trouble for the humans who come into my office asking for help. The council is demanding that I capture the woman who stole my magic. And the shapeshifter inside me has gone ominously silent. Everyone is waiting for me to become the powerful creature I used to be. They’re about to discover that my magic was never the most dangerous thing about me. I’m still the Silver Claw alpha. And anyone who comes for my city, my pack, or the men I love is going to learn exactly why monsters still fear Kait Silver. AmazonKU
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CHECKED OUT BY THE ORC: OMEGAVERSE MONSTER ROMANCE by Imani Jay
The whole town is scared of him. The new girl isn’t. Sven Greymark wanted Esme Williams the second she walked into his library. But this stubborn, growly orc has been holding himself back, wanting to do things “right.” Then Esme’s heat hits early…A small town library. A Feral alpha. One very claimed omega. AmazonKU
HEXED UP (ECCLESTON SISTERS BOOK ONE) by Hannah Haze
Why is it that when things finally go right, the universe sends you a great big Hex You? My not-quite-technically-legal potion business is booming. I’ve paid off (most of) my credit cards. I can finally afford to eat more than toast. All thanks to my newest creation: a love potion that guarantees instant attraction and long-term happily-ever-afters. So naturally, the universe smites me. One kitchen mishap later, a batch of love potion explodes, and my next-door neighbour, (American banker, immaculate shirts, permanently unimpressed), is standing in my doorway with puppy-dog eyes declaring undying love. Which would be less of a problem if he weren’t ridiculously hot – and if he hadn’t spent the last eighteen months glowering at me like I’d personally cursed his morning coffee. Now he insists we can’t be apart. He’s following me around my flat like a lovesick shadow, flirting like it’s a full-time job, and “proving” his devotion with heartfelt confessions and dangerously seductive smiles. Trouble is brewing, and not just in my cauldron. If the wrong person finds out what I’m selling, I’m finished. So I need to brew the antidote – fast. Before I convince myself this is all real. Before he persuades me he truly does love me. And before I fall head-over-heels for the man across the hall. Merlin’s toenails. I’ve really hexed it up this time. AmazonKU AB
VOW OF ETERNAL NIGHT by Lily Crozier
Clara Wagner has always known that monsters are real, and the worst of them is Prince Raleigh of Rostenburg. But when he decides it’s time to marry, Clara inadvertently finds herself at the center of his attention. Forced to accept Raleigh’s proposal, Clara would do anything to escape her fate. So when the prince provides an ultimatum—lift his vampiric curse before the end of the year, or become his bride for eternity—Clara knows what she must do. Heal the prince. Stay alive. Try not to fall in love. AmazonKU AB
PRINCE OF THE SUN by Emma Noyes
One hundred years ago, the elves appeared on Earth. Beautiful, brilliant, and filled with unearthly grace, they swarmed the libraries and universities: Harvard, Yale, Oxford, Beijing. They made for the humans’ fountains of knowledge with eerie precision, as if they’d spent millennia studying Earth before their arrival. Once there, the Elf King made an announcement: we’re looking for something, and once we find it, we will leave you in peace. Quinn Kallister doesn’t believe him. Seven years ago, she watched her father be murdered and her brother kidnapped by a pair of elves. Since then, she fought to gain admission to Harvard for one reason: to find the answers no one will give her. To do that, she must spy on Daerios Ariar, the most powerful and terrifying of the Sun Princes. Quinn is set on gaining the prince’s trust and learning the elves’ secrets—until an unwanted attraction begins to form between them that neither can deny. AmazonKU
LIBRARIAN (THE ARCANEUM BOOK THREE) by Marie Mistry
Librarians protect the Library. I have never failed in my duty, until six misfit heirs burst into the Arcanaeum and stole my attention. Now, my negligence might have cost us everything. Thanks to a stinging betrayal I should’ve seen coming, the Library has fallen. The very necromancer who murdered me centuries ago has taken over the vast halls of learning, ruining everything I’ve worked so hard to build. Defeating him is impossible. Or is it? The Arcanaeum has always been more than just a building. It’s a community, a living temple dedicated to the public good, and it’s worthless without a Librarian to unlock the knowledge contained within. And those misfit heirs? They’re going to help me take it back. AmazonKU
TWICE BITTEN (FANGS AND FUR BOOK ONE) by S E Babin
I was bitten by a vampire AND a werewolf. Now everyone wants a piece of me. I never wanted to be a powerful witch. I’m happiest pulling espresso shots at the Three Beans café and keeping my magic secret. But trouble is brewing…When a turf war between vampires and shifters erupts outside the café, I get caught between the irresistibly charming Vampire Prime and the ruggedly handsome Shifter King. As these two apex predators blindly tear into each other, I am bitten, clawed, and left for dead. My magic flares just in time to save my life, but there are… side effects. Suddenly, I find myself staring at customers’ necks. And feeling suspiciously twitchy before the full moon. It’s impossible but… am I transforming into a vampire and a werewolf? The Vampire Prime finds me immediately. Captivated by my scent, he tempts me with danger and luxury. The Shifter King is equally obsessed, and determined to claim me for his pack. I am caught between them once more—but this time it’s me that they’re fighting over. And since my new blood brings strange new powers, it won’t be long before I’m the most wanted prey in town. AmazonKU AB
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“New” is generally plus or minus a week or two. I try to catch up on ones I missed in recent months. And I may mention ‘special items’.
NOTE: I’m doing my best to avoid listing anything generated from use of AI but it’s sometimes tricky to detect from the resources I have available. As far as covers go, I list the Amazon cover whether it’s AI or not.
I do NOT cover every single new release in SFR/FantasyR/PNR. I never have. That would be an impossible task for any human! I assemble my list by hand every week based on various informal inputs, and I do curate the list to some extent…
Some authors aren’t in KU but still don’t list books with Apple or other platforms. This report is very time consuming to prepare so I’ve always had to limit myself and cannot go and look up every book on all the platforms. If an author gives me their other buy links, I include them here but generally I develop the post on my own, not from author-supplied information. I curate and prepare this post individually every week to help connect readers/books/authors and I have to be very careful not to give it so much time as an activity that I don’t write my own novels! Thanks for the feedback and happy reading!
