I have not read most of the new releases listed (although I always end up one-clicking a bunch as I prepare these posts LOL) and as always I recommend sampling before you buy!
I put them in the order in which they come to me from authors or I find them myself in the previous week, so it’s a mix of the genres…(usually giving priority to the books brought to my attention by the authors.) Also the term “new” is generally plus or minus a week or two. And I catch up on ones I missed in recent months.
(NOTE: If the author provides me with buy links I insert those; otherwise I default to Amazon and iBooks.)
Also, I usually include only the beginning of the book blurb…
XENOGENESIS (THE ENDURANCE BOK 4) by Tracey Cooper-Posey
VS NOTE: Always thrilled to have a new book from Tracey! It’s now on my kindle.
Life aboard the Endurance is disintegrating—unemployment, inflation, crime and destitution, all ignored by the super-rich, including Rex Julyan, the wildly successful and most hedonistic man on the ship. When Rex meets an old Artificial Intelligence called Emma, she tells him there may be a way to save the ship, but does he care enough to try? For the woman he once loved, Belen Tirrell, is now the partner of the ship’s Captain, Antonio Tyler. She left Rex to be with him, long ago. Nothing would win her back now…would it?
Amazon iBooks
ARCHANGEL’S HEART (A GUILD HUNTER NOVEL) by Nalini Singh
VS NOTE: If you know me at all, you know I’m a HUGE Nalini fan and I love this series!!! In fact, as soon as I finish this post tonight, I’m curling up in bed and reading this book.
One of the most vicious archangels in the world has disappeared. No one knows if Lijuan is dead or has chosen to Sleep the long sleep of an immortal. But with her lands falling into chaos under a rising tide of vampiric bloodlust, a mysterious and ancient order of angels known as the Luminata calls the entire Cadre together to discuss the fate of her territory.
Accompanying her archangelic lover Raphael to the Luminata compound, guild hunter-turned-angel Elena senses that all is not as it seems. Secrets echo from within the stone walls of the compound, and the deeper Elena goes, the uglier the darkness. But neither Raphael nor Elena is ready for the brutal truths hidden within—truths that will change everything Elena thinks she knows about who she is…
Nothing will ever be the same again.
Amazon iBooks
PERILOUS HUNT (FALLEN EMPIRE BOOK 7) by Lindsay Buroker
VS NOTE: And again ALWAYS excited to have a new entry in this terrific series!
After failing to catch up with her daughter Jelena so many times, Alisa’s optimism is battered, but her determination has never waned. She, Leonidas, and their eclectic crew are hunting down a Starseer research station in the heart of the Kir Asteroid belt—Jelena’s supposed location. Alisa vows that she will find her daughter if she has to search a million asteroids to do so.
But Jelena and her close friend, Prince Thorian, have attracted the interest of many factions, and the Star Nomad isn’t the only ship on the hunt…
Amazon
JUMPER’S HOPE: CENTRAL GALACTIC CONCORDANCE BOOK 4 by Carol Van Natta
VS NOTE: Carol’s another autobuy for me!
Reunited lovers must outwit a ruthless government agent, or their rumored deaths will be real this time. Two retired elite special forces veterans discover their battles aren’t behind them after all. Someone considers them loose ends, and will stop at nothing to erase their knowledge of a secret government project. Their service left them both with wounds that will never heal. Do they still have what it takes to survive?
Kerzanna Nevarr’s elite special forces days of wearing Jumper mech suits and piloting Citizen Protection Services’ ships are long gone. The dark legacy of her service forced her to learn to live a quiet life. And she had to do so alone, without the lover who died before her eyes.
Jess Orowitz, veteran of CPS’s secret spy organization, Kameleon Corps, made the mistake of trusting his superiors….
Amazon iBooks
THE TIDES OF BARA (SORCEROUS MOONS BOOK 3) by Jeffe Kennedy
VS NOTE: Yet another new book from one of my favorite fantasy romance authors this week!
With her secrets uncovered and her power-mad brother bent on her execution, Princess Oria has no sanctuary left. Her bid to make herself and her new barbarian husband rulers of walled Bára has failed. She and Lonen have no choice but to flee through the leagues of brutal desert between her home and his—certain death for a sorceress, and only a bit slower than the blade.
A Race Against Time
At the mercy of a husband barely more than a stranger, Oria must war with her fears and her desires. Wild desert magic buffets her; her husband’s touch allures and burns. Lonen is pushed to the brink, sure he’s doomed his proud bride and all too aware of the restless, ruthless pursuit that follows…
A Danger Beyond Death…
Can Oria trust a savage warrior, now that her strength has vanished? Can Lonen choose her against the future of his people? more…
Amazon iBooks
FROM THIS FAE FORWARD (PARANORMAL WEDDING PLANNERS BOOK 2) by A. E. Jones
VS NOTE: Yeah, I one clicked this one before I even finished reading the blurb!
Sheila Hampton knows how to take care of herself. After being banished from her close-knit woodland nymph clan for defying her father, she has made her way in the human world on her own.
Now she works as an exercise instructor for stressed-out paranormal brides. If she can tell a vampire that no exercise plan in the world will help her lose weight, she can handle anything. Until her father lifts her banishment and tries to force her to marry as part of a political power play, and an unlikely hero steps forward.
Charlie Tucker is used to being on his own. A sea nymph with no ties to his clan, he joined the Navy and became a SEAL….
Amazon iBooks
ILLICIT (A NOVEL OF THE SAZI) by Cathy Clamp
In Cathy Clamp’s Illicit, when a border dispute between two bear clans destabilizes shapeshifter relations throughout Europe and threatens to reveal their existence to humans, the Sazi High Council orders both sides to the negotiation table. The peace talks take place in Luna Lake, the American community where all shifter species–wolf, cat, bird, bear, and more–live in harmony.
Diplomats, their families, and security personnel stream into town, among them Dalvin Adway, a Wolven agent. Dalvin is startled to find Rachel Washington in Luna Lake. The last time he saw her, they were children in Detroit….
Amazon iBooks
CLOAK OF WAR (THE EMPRESS GAME TRILOGY 2) by Rhonda Mason
The bloody tournament to determine the new empress of the intergalactic empire may be over, but for exiled princess Kayla Reinumon, the battle is just beginning. To free her home planet from occupation, Kayla must infiltrate the highest reaches of imperial power. But when a deadly nanovirus threatens to ravage the empire, it will take more than diplomacy to protect her homeworld from all-out war.
Amazon iBooks
COUNTERPART: BOOK TWO OF THE MACHINATION SERIES by Hayley Stone
VS NOTE: I loved the first book. The series has a “sort of Skynet vibe” if John Connor was a woman and instead of time travel, you had cloning. I think this is more scifi with romantic elements (haven’t read this second book yet) but I thoroughly enjoyed the first installment, which had a HFN ending.
The machines believed their extermination of the human race would be over as quickly as it began. They were wrong. As the war against extinction intensifies, people are beginning to gain the upper hand.
Commander Rhona Long understands survival better than most. Killed in combat, she was brought back to life using her DNA, and she’s forged a new, even more powerful identity. Now the leader of the resistance, she’s determined to ensure the machines are shut down for good.
But victory is elusive.
Amazon iBooks
REFLECTIONS OF LOVE by Elle Clouse, A. R. DeClerck & Paulina Woods
3 stories of love, courage and adventure by fantasy romance authors offered FREE for your 
reading pleasure.
BLOOD AWAKENING by Akaria Gale
Kissera’s life has been in a downward spiral ever since an acid-spitting demon destroyed Midtown Manhattan. Bad turns worse when her 
companion, Angela, vanishes after a nasty argument. Vampire cops slap her with an ultimatum. She’s got seven days to prove Angela’s alive or spend a century in prison.
With time running out, Kissera turns to the infamous angel Lucifer for help….
Amazon iBooks
MIND THE RECKONING (THE MIND SERIES BOOK 3) by Jenn Nixon
VS NOTE: Another Whiskey With My Book blog find
Baldwin Bates has only wanted one thing since joining 
MIND, to take care of his friends and keep them all safe. While the Meta-Alien Investigation and Neutralization Department is busy monitoring an emergence of human psychic and alien activity, Bates takes his first solo assignment searching for a woman who claims to see the future, only to botch it up and let her get away.
After helping to destroy an alien device called the Transcender, Lexa Quinn wakes from a two-week coma a very different person than she was before….
Amazon
AWAKENING BLOODLINE by Tiera Rice
Antanasia knows better than anyone that being royal comes with lots of expectations. Born into war as a Vampyre Witch, she has to battle the ultimate enemy: her own blood. When she has a terrifying Vision, Antanasia fights harder than ever to prevent it from coming to pass. Will she succeed? Or does she die trying?
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Nadia is an average teenager celebrating her nineteenth birthday. But her day turns upside down when she starts developing unusual abilities….
Amazon
EMERALD DRAGON (AWAKENED DRAGONS BOOK 6) by Terry Bolryder
After centuries of searching, the impossible has finally happened: Aegis, the Emerald 
Dragon, has found his long-lost mate. The only problem? She’s a captive of the dark forces he’s allied himself with in order to meet his own selfish ends. But Aegis knows how to be a hero, it just takes the right motivation. Like saving the only person that has ever mattered to him.
The Opal dragon has been a prisoner of the dark oracle for far too long, and imprisonment is starting to take it’s toll. Until her knight in shining armor finally arrives in the shape of her childhood friend and the only man she’s ever been attracted to….
Amazon
GHOSTS, GEARS AND GRIMOIRES by Various
VS NOTE: Not sure there’s any romance but who can resist that title???
A grimoire is a magician’s manual for invoking demons and the spirits of the dead. Within 
the pages of this book, you’ll find just such tales…along with a sprinkling of ghost stories, possessed machinery, and wicked deeds cloaked in Steampunk.
Immerse yourself in the magic, mystery and mayhem.
Amazon
ZORAIDA GREY AND THE FAMILY STONES by Sorchia DuBois
VS NOTE: Saw this one on the Whiskey With My Book blog!
Granny’s dying, but Zoraida can save her with a magic crystal of smoky quartz. Too bad the crystal is in Scotland—in a haunted castle—guarded by mind-reading, psychopathic sorcerers.
Getting inside Castle Logan is easy. Getting out––not so much. Before she can snatch the stone, Zoraida stumbles into a family feud, uncovers a wicked ancient curse, and finds herself ensorcelled by not one but two handsome Scottish witches.
Up to their necks in family intrigue and smack-dab in the middle of a simmering clan war, Zoraida and her best friend Zhu discover Granny hasn’t told them everything.
Not by a long shot.
Amazon iBooks
SENECA’S FAITH (SHADOWCAT NATION BOOK 4) by Abigail Owen
The Delaney Dare needs a new leader—one from outside, after their own Alpha’s actions led to the shifter war. Gage McAvoy has agreed to marry one of the previous Alpha’s daughters and try to keep the dare from falling apart. Unfortunately, the daughter he’s agreed to marry is not the one he wants.
Seneca Delaney is a known latent, unable to shift. She’s remained in her dare, enduring rejection and isolation all her life, even from her own father, because she had no other place to go….
Amazon iBooks
THE SHADOW OF WHAT WAS LOST (THE LICANIUS TRILOGY) by James Islington
VS NOTE: From July. I have no idea about romance, but this sounded like really good epic fantasy.
It has been twenty years since the god-like Augurs were overthrown and killed. Now, those who once served them – the Gifted – are spared only because they have accepted the
rebellion’s Four Tenets, vastly limiting their powers.
As a Gifted, Davian suffers the consequences of a war lost before he was even born. He and others like him are despised. But when Davian discovers he wields the forbidden power of the Augurs, he sets into motion a chain of events that will change everything.
To the west, a young man whose fate is intertwined with Davian’s wakes up in the forest, covered in blood and with no memory of who he is…
And in the far north, an ancient enemy long thought defeated begins to stir.
KALEN: WARLORD BRIDES (WARRIORS OF SANGRIN BOOK 2) by Nancey Cummings
Sent on a mission to backwards Earth alien physician Kalen never expected to find his 
destined mate. Meridan’s alluring scent, soft curves and the fire in her spirit call to him the way no female ever has. She is his destined mate. He’s certain of that.
Fierce and independent, nurse Meridan was never interested in settling down, with a human or an alien, especially not the arrogant, rude and devastatingly sexy medic Kalen.
ROMANCING THE INVENTOR (A SUPERNATURAL SOCIETY NOVELLA) by Gail Carriger
A steampunk lesbian romance featuring a maid bent on seducing a brilliant cross-dressing scientist who’s too brokenhearted to notice. Or is she?
Imogene Hale is a lowly parlourmaid with a soul-crushing secret. Seeking solace, she takes work at a local hive, only to fall desperately in love with the amazing lady inventor the vampires are keeping in the potting shed. Genevieve Lefoux is heartsick, lonely, and French. With culture, class, and the lady herself set against the match, can Imogene and her duster overcome all odds and win Genevieve’s heart, or will the vampires suck both of them dry?
This is a stand-alone LBGTQ sweet romance set in Gail Carriger’s Parasolverse, full of class prejudice, elusive equations, and paranormal creatures taking tea….
DATING AN ALIEN POPSTAR by Kendra L. Saunders
VS NOTE: From June but who can resist that title???
Daisy Kirkwood has only just escaped her small-town life and run away to New York City,
the land of last-minute secret gigs at famous musical venues, when she’s kidnapped by aliens. Unfortunately, no one ever writes about how to handle alien abduction in those fancy NYC guidebooks.
Griffin and Dev are supermassively sexy aliens from a politically and environmentally troubled planet who arrive on Earth with very little knowledge about human ways other than what they learned from a wayward
E! News signal….
BELOVED ENEMY (THE DESTINY TRILOGY BOOK 3) by Hywela Lyn
VS NOTE: OK, this dates back to March, which is kind of a reach but seemed as if the people who read it, enjoyed it…
Cat Kincaid is obsessed with killing the man she believes is responsible for the torture and death of her sister, but when she eventually catches up with him, survival becomes a greater priority than revenge.
Kerry Marchant, haunted by memories, regret, and self-blame, shields himself from the pain of the past by committing himself totally to the starship, Destiny, of which he is part owner. However, the beautiful, red-haired woman who reminds him of his lost love, and who he suspects is working for a corrupt regime, represents a possible threat not only to the ship, but to his heart.
Marooned on an inhospitable planet, they need to work together to stay alive…
Here’s the link to the Weekend Writing Warriors central page, so you can visit all the participants sharing excerpts today…a fun way to sample new books and find new authors! (Also welcome to the Sunday Snippet visitors!)
This is the last week to get a copy and have a portion of the proceeds go to Hero Dogs Inc. Next week I’ll move on to another book.
Join the adventure as nine pet loving sci-fi romance authors take you out of this world and pull you into their action-packed stories filled with suspense, laughter, and romance. The alien pets have an agenda that will capture the hearts of those they touch. Follow along as they work side by side to help stop a genetically-engineered creature from destroying the Earth to finding a lost dragon; life is never the same after their pets decide to get involved. Can the animals win the day or will the stars shine just a little less brightly?
And the blurb for Star Cruise: Stowaway:
I love doing these quizzes and I’ve been so busy of late with Pets In Space that I haven’t had time for answering questions. Found this one in the April issue of 
Moment I felt I’d ‘made it’: When Angela James called me in the summer of 2011 to say Carina Press wanted to acquire my Priestess of the Nile. My first published book! And that opened the door to everything in my writing career since, even the self publishing.
Book that left a lasting impression on me: Wow, hard to pick just one. I reread Nalini Singh’s Shield of Winter fairly often, does that count?
If I could compete in an Olympic sport, I’d like it to be: Pairs figure skating with a very hunky partner. But actually, I’d be good at archery.
I thought it might be fun to gather the links to my various guest posts with my fellow authors for the Pets In Space anthology in one place, in case you wanted to read any that you might have missed! I talked about scifi pets in movies and TV, my own childhood pets and various other topics.
“Pets are no trouble at all…” as my grandfather used to say. Talked about this and Boston Terriers a bit 
And more about