As always, I recommend sampling before you buy! 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).
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WARLORD’S MERCY (CHAMELE BARBARIAN WARLORDS BOOK 5) by Cynthia Sax
VS Note: I really enjoy this series and Cynthia is an autobuy for me…per the author this book is based on a short story.
Other Chameles view him as the enemy. She sees the warrior hero he never believed he could be. * * *
Tolui is a Warlord in search of a planet to rule. He has been leading his fellow clones in a stealth battle, fighting for both control of the Chamele sector and the right to exist. The brave warriors he commands warrant respect and they deserve the best. That best isn’t the barren, dangerous terrain on Chamele 4. When Tolui crashes on that planet’s surface, he’s determined to leave it as soon as possible. The tiny human female rescuing him might be as beautiful and as wild as the land she inhabits, but her flowing words, trusting gaze, and enthralling submission won’t stop him from rejoining the war. After many solar cycles of living alone, Lea is overjoyed when a tall, scarred, muscular warrior falls from the sky. Her savage stranger is strong and severe, and he makes her feel safe, an emotion she hasn’t experienced in a long, long time. He also insists they must part. Before they do, she’ll show him the splendor of her home, and she’ll enjoy his big form, collecting passionate moments she can revisit when she’s solitary once more.
Every additional moment Lea and Tolui spend together increases the chance they’ll both die. Lea is being chased by female-hating fiends. Tolui is being hunted by the best bounty hunters in the universe. War will soon arrive on their threshold, and the blood spilled might be their own.
WHEN SHE PURRS (A RISDAVERSE TALE) by Ruby Dixon
Life on a farm planet at the edge of the universe can be dangerous for a human woman alone. That’s why I need a husband. ANY husband. Unfortunately, all the men I approach keep running off. So I hire a bounty hunter to kidnap me someone capable and strong, someone who will scare off the creeps that are trying to move in on my territory.
It’ll be a marriage of convenience only. I should have been a little more specific about who I wanted, though…because the intimidating and fierce praxiian male that the bounty hunter brings to me? The one with feline features, big arms and an even bigger…uh, farm? He’s the problem I was hoping a new husband would scare off. What am I supposed to do now? (Don’t ask him, because all of his suggestions are completely and utterly filthy and have nothing to do with a marriage of convenience.)
STARPYRE by Jade Waltz
My plan for the summer was to win a cosplay contest… But I wound up being abducted by aliens instead. Who knew dressing up as a space fairy at a summer rave would end up with me in a prison? Now I am trapped with three gorgeous males who seem to be wearing the same costume as I am—only I’m pretty sure they aren’t. Things about them aren’t adding up… Their eyes appear to be glowing whenever they watch me… Their wings look too real to be fake… And the most crazy thing of all is that the language barrier doesn’t create any boundaries between us when it comes to touching…When the truth finally comes out that I am not dreaming, my life takes off out of this world… Now, I am depending on three alien males for a chance at survival… And the only thing that their survival depends on: Me!
STOLEN (FATED MATES OF THE KALIXIAN WARRIORS BOOK 2) by Presley Hall
Kidnapped by aliens? Yeah, I don’t think so. These Kalixian warriors may have rescued me from depraved Orkun warlords who abducted me, but that doesn’t mean I’m going to obey their every command. I was a CEO back on Earth, and I don’t take orders from any man. Not even from Malav. Especially not from Malav. Never mind that he’s the most gorgeous man I’ve ever seen—even with his horns and color-changing eyes. Never mind that his prowess in the gladiator ring makes my heart beat faster and my body ache. I refuse to let myself fall for an alien. And even though I can’t deny the chemistry that sparks between us, I can’t afford to get attached to anyone on this planet.
Because I’ve got a secret. I’m going to steal a ship. And I’m going to go home.
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TREV: BOOK 5 IN THE MASTERED BY THE ZINN ALIEN ABDUCTION ROMANCE SERIES by Alana Khan
General Arrenn Trevanian – She’s all I’ve ever wanted, and so easy to love. This Earth female is taboo. Untouchable. For one hundred days I’m responsible for her care while I secure her a suitable mate. How can I send her into the arms of another when she’s mine? Emily Jane Jackson – Not only did he save my life, he’s also the most honorable male I’ve ever known. Which is the problem. Will he put his principles and love of country ahead of his feelings for me?
TO DESIRE A DRAGON (VENYS NEEDS MEN) by Amanda Milo
The last man in our tribe told me that dragons are small and fierce, and when they bond to someone, they’ll protect them with their life.This is what our tribe needs–a protector. Our males are being stolen by raiding clans, and with the man-shortage like it is, we can’t afford to lose any more. Armed with a fishhook and a glaring naiveté, I set off to catch my dragon. I catch him alright. And I find out a few things. One: dragons aren’t small. Two: dragons don’t like fishhooks. Three: this dragon will only bond to his *mate.* So I guess the question is… do I desire a dragon?
CYBORG SALVAGE (DIASPORA WORLDS BOOK 7) by Melisse Aires
VS: Edited June 17 – Author advises the book will not be published at this time but possibly later in the summer. Sorry!
DUALITY by Chloe Spencer
A dead-end job, a slob for a boyfriend, and neglectful friends: this is Kat Wallace’s life. Ever since her best friend got married, Kat has been struggling to find happiness. All that changes when she meets Melody Adebayo, a field agent with the mysterious transdimensional company Clockwork & Associates. Melody’s job is to send the consciousness of others to a scarier dimension in order to make them kinder and more grateful for their lives, which, in theory, will influence them to do good. But when Kat is sent to B-215, she awakes in a world beyond her wildest dreams. She’s wealthy, well-liked, and has a successful career. Kat realizes she doesn’t need to find happiness in her own world … she can just steal it from her other self. Because of a certain (ahem) incident, Melody owes a lot of money to her evil ex-girlfriend, and Kat works out a deal with her in order to keep visiting B-215. With each visit, a sinister plot unfolds. Kat discovers her life is at risk, and she isn’t alone in this dimension. To eliminate the threat, she must team up with Melody, but can the two uncover the truth before Kat loses her life? More important, will they be able to move on from the mistakes they made in the past and find love with each other?
CLAIM (BARBARIANS OF THE SAND PLANET BOOK 6) by Tana Stone
What Bexli knows about the silver fox alien: he’s moody, he rarely talks, and he seems to think she’s some fragile female who needs protecting. Tommel knows that he has no interest in a mate, he won’t talk about his past, and he can’t stop thinking about the beautiful Lycithian. After a night when adrenaline is running high and Bexli is determined to prove she’s anything but fragile, they end up sharing a tent. And a lot more. When Tommel walks out, she panics and runs as far away from him as she can…and right into danger on the deadly sand planet. Now she’s lost her ability to shape-shift, which means two things. She can’t help rescue her captured friends, and she’s pregnant by the alien who walked away from her. Not good.
VEILS TWO: THE VEILS TRILOGY by Linda Mooney
VS Note: I enjoyed the first book…
Griffin and Natalia are still surviving one veil at a time, living life not knowing when another one might make an appearance, or where it may take them. Mountains, desert, summer or winter—there’s no way to prepare, they just take what’s thrown at them. Through it all their love continues to grow, and it’s more than just because of circumstance. They’ve grown to rely on each other. Depend on one another. But they shouldn’t get too comfortable…They soon learn that with the storms, they’re not only traveling to different locations, but different times as well. How far into the future or past will they go? When will it end? No one knows. All that matters is they have to survive, no matter what. Together. Do they find strength in numbers, gain new allies, or are they safer with just the two of them? New enemies, old friends, and new revelations of their situation… They’ve developed a theory, and if it’s correct, they could finally end back up where they started, but that could mean losing each other for good, which they vow never to do.
LEGACY CONTRACT (STANDALONE TALES BOOK 6) by Viola Grace
He didn’t want her. He didn’t request her. But now that she is carrying his legacy he is not letting her go. Dekora travelled the stars to get medical treatment for a friend. Once she arrived on Gryphal, she had to get to work in order to pay for everything her friend needed. New organs aren’t cheap. Dekora takes a contract that puts her in harms way, and after a burning tree collapses on her she needs to find another means to make money. The research doctor arrives and makes her an offer. Gryphal needs a new hero born from the genetics of their current champion. She is the first viable match that they have found. If she agrees to donate an egg, she will get the funds for her friend’s care. She agrees and wakes up in a different wing of the med center with a cheerful nurse announcing her pregnancy. Khed Amur is notified that his legacy is assured, and he keeps an eye on the news feeds and hospital monitors. When the second attempt on his carrier’s life makes the news, he sweeps in to take her somewhere safe… with him. Life with a team of superheroes takes getting used to, but as Dekora’s pregnancy advances at an alarming pace she finds out that the life inside her isn’t the only change she’s going through. Things are about to get complicated.
ALIEN’S PRIMAL PRIZE (PRECURSORS BOOK 1) by Athena Storm
Her race fell to his world from the sky. And nothing in the galaxy would ever be the same. Kor was a hunter of the Drokan people. His clan lived on the plains. They lived simply. They hunted. They fought. And it was always with honor. His life was his own. Until Cress crashed from the sky. A tiny human woman. Rescued by the horned alien hunter who towered over her. She looked at him and saw a monster. He looked at her, and saw something else. Hisjalshagar. A word his clan used to mean fated one. His mate for the rest of his life. Someone who would grow old with you. One who you’d protect as yours. Who would worship you, as you worshipped them. Someone to please during intimate moments. Who would give as well as receive. Kor would take Cress, and make her his. But in doing so, he would open the door. To conflict. War. Progress. Advancement. And hope. Nothing in the galaxy would ever be the same.
WARRIORS: A DARK SCIFI MENAGE ROMANCE by Piper Stone
They’ve taken me as theirs, and they’re not going to be gentle with me. I knew this was a primitive planet when I landed, but nothing could have prepared me for the rough beasts who inhabit it.,,(more blurb on evook seller’s page…)
FALLEN (UNTAMED WARRIORS OF VANTHAE BOOK 1) by Ivy Cross
We were abducted by alien slavers, which is bad enough, right? But then they decided to dump us on a primitive planet like yesterday’s garbage…We came down two to a pod, and I immediately got separated from my only lifeline back to humanity. My friend was taken by feral beasts, and I was rescued by an alien warrior who is no less beastly… but a lot nicer to look at. Only, he thinks I’m something I’m not, and I have to play along. What choice do I have? There’s no way I can go after my friends all alone on a hostile alien planet. I couldn’t get three steps away from my escape pod without almost becoming a snack for some of the natives. But the lying is starting to really get to me—Dekkar is willing to die for me because of what he thinks I am. I can see it every time I look into his eyes. So the choice is between telling him the truth and going it alone on this unfamiliar planet, or stringing him along and dealing with the consequences later. I literally don’t know if I can live with either of those choices. I think I might have liked it better on the alien slaver’s ship.
THE TURQUOISE SPIDER (ELIZABETH HUNTER-PAYNE STEAMPUNK ADVENTURES BOOK 1) by Mikala Ash
VS Note: Saw this mentioned on author Echo Ishii’s FB page…
Elizabeth Hunter-Payne is an adventurous widow with time on her hands — a dangerous combination in Victorian London of 1859. Seeking excitement in a time of radical change, Elizabeth starts her own Investigation Bureau. Armed with an inquisitive eye for detail, the capacity and boldness to ask obvious, if blunt, questions, and most importantly of all, her ability to keep her mouth shut, Elizabeth is quickly immersed in a case of kidnapping, smuggling, murder, and general mayhem. With guns blazing, steam-cars steaming, and clockwork automatons of a salacious nature going clickety-clack, can she save the son of a violent industrialist? Can she recover the priceless Turquoise Spider from the vicious clutches of underworld thugs behind one of Victorian London’s infamous Houses of Introductions? The survival of the Empire may well depend on the fortitude, brazenness and deductive powers of the irrepressible Elizabeth Hunter-Payne.
STOLEN FLYGHT (THE FLYGHT SERIES BOOK 6) by S J Pajonas
VS Note: Definitely on my TBR List…
Vivian will do whatever it takes to finally be victorious in the battle for her family farm. So when her benefactor insists she infiltrate a hostile military base on a treacherous ice planet, she has no choice but to agree. But when two of her crew are apprehended during the operation, her focus shifts to desperate survival. Outmanned and pinned behind enemy lines, Vivian’s options for escape dwindle. But everything she believes in turns on its head when she makes a shocking discovery in the base’s top-secret lab. Can Vivian and her team evade a deadly trap to win back her legacy?
DEVOLUTION: A FIRSTHAND ACCOUNT OF THE RANIER SASQUATCH MASSACRE by Max Brooks
VS Note: Not a romance. This is the author of World War Z, which I enjoyed. I like his writing style and of course you know me and apocalyptic tales…so I had it pre-ordered.
As the ash and chaos from Mount Rainier’s eruption swirled and finally settled, the story of the Greenloop massacre has passed unnoticed, unexamined . . . until now. The journals of resident Kate Holland, recovered from the town’s bloody wreckage, capture a tale too harrowing—and too earth-shattering in its implications—to be forgotten. In these pages, Max Brooks brings Kate’s extraordinary account to light for the first time, faithfully reproducing her words alongside his own extensive investigations into the massacre and the legendary beasts behind it. Kate’s is a tale of unexpected strength and resilience, of humanity’s defiance in the face of a terrible predator’s gaze, and, inevitably, of savagery and death.
Yet it is also far more than that. Because if what Kate Holland saw in those days is real, then we must accept the impossible. We must accept that the creature known as Bigfoot walks among us—and that it is a beast of terrible strength and ferocity. Part survival narrative, part bloody horror tale, part scientific journey into the boundaries between truth and fiction, this is a Bigfoot story as only Max Brooks could chronicle it—and like none you’ve ever read before.
DRAGON’S ISOLATION (REDPLANET DRAGONS OF TAJSS BOOK 19) by Miranda Martin
I’ve lost my happily ever after…My story was supposed to be over. We were supposed to grow old together in each other’s arms and watch our tiny son become a man with a life of his own. The Zmaj, seven foot tall winged and scaled dragon warriors, are getting sick. It’s stealing their memories and making them regress into primal barbarians, losing themselves completely. There isn’t a cure, there isn’t any hope, and my Shidan is showing the first signs. But I’m used to fighting. I was the only female pilot back on the ship and I had to fight every day for that. I’m certainly not going to lose the love of my life without doing something about it. I’m going to beat this disease. Shidan saved me, now it’s my turn to save him.
PROSPER AND THRIVE (THRIVE COLONY SPACE ADVENTURES BOOK 3) by Ginger Booth
Thrive Spaceways proved its new warp gate by saving Sass’s butt on Sanctuary. Now Ben and Copeland seek to turn their invention into a business. The Sanks hire them to visit the European theme world of Cantons. But first the reunited crews owe a whirlwind trip home for inventor Teke. After 15 years, how does Denali of the pterodactyls fare? Next stop is Sanctuary. Will the AI Loki let his people go? And then on to Cantons’ city-states of…pikemen and Renaissance wizards?
GLORIOUS (BOWL OF HEAVEN BOOK 3) by Gregory Benford and Larry Niven
VS Note: Not a romance but an SF release of note…
Audacious astronauts encounter bizarre, sometimes deadly life forms, and strange, exotic, cosmic phenomena, including miniature black holes, dense fields of interstellar plasma, powerful gravity-emitters, and spectacularly massive space-based, alien-built labyrinths. Tasked with exploring this brave, new, highly dangerous world, they must also deal with their own personal triumphs and conflicts.
CLAIMED BY HELIOS (ALIEN’S FROZEN BRIDE BOOK 1) by Aya Morningstar
I died, but then I woke up in his arms.I was hit by a truck in 2020 and declared legally dead, but my body was cryogenically frozen, and I’m brought back in the year 3,253. The first thing I see is him. Helios. He’s taken me, and he’s going to sell me—if he can resist my scent. I’m the last pure-blooded human in the galaxy, and no Cygnian can resist a human, not even one as stubborn as him. And can I resist him? He’s almost seven feet tall, with teal skin over rippling muscles and dizzyingly wide shoulders. Even though he’s an alien, his scent is so manly. I take one whiff and I’m soaking wet. But no, I can’t. Just before I died, I promised myself I was done with men. And that promise will now have to include alien men with cocky smirks and too-high cheekbones. He’s determined to sell me. A pure human—untouched by alien hands—is the most valuable thing in the galaxy. So then why is he touching me? Why is he kissing me? Is he just getting a taste, or is he going to give up everything just to claim me for himself?
GRAVITY (DARK ANOMALY BOOK 1) by Marina Simcoe
The unpredictable gravity of the mysterious space anomaly knocks me off course. But it’s the irresistible pull of its Captain I’m afraid I can’t escape. Sucked into the Dark Anomaly’s gravitational field, I crash into the solid mass in its center. It’s made of thousands upon thousands of vanished spaceships. Inside the wrecked bowels of the Anomaly, existence is dark, vile, and deadly. The man in charge holds my life and freedom in his hands. I hate this place and its crude inhabitants. I hate the Captain even more. However, as time passes, I realize that I’m beginning to love hating him.
POOCH PLANET: G FORCE FEDERATION BOOK 4 by M M Wilde
VS Note: Author’s note says: “Pooch Planet is Book Four in the multi-author G-Force Federation mpreg, sci-fi series. Each book in the series can be read in any order. Join the G-Force Federation gargoyle warriors as they embark on their mission to protect and serve the Federation and possibly find their fated mates. If you like adorable shifters, hunky gargoyles and sci-fi action with lots of fluffy feels, then take a trip to Pooch Planet!”
On Pooch Planet, Chiweenie shifter Benji has been tasked with helping to guard Small Breed Village. A murderous beast has invaded the local forest, and for the first time in the dog shifter realm, they’re in fear for their lives from a mysterious killer. Benji is feisty and tough, but he’s also on the verge of his first heat. Talk about bad timing!
Gargoyle Antoine heads the military police division of the G-Force Federation. He’s been tracking a vicious alien from Hades Galaxy that’s been terrorizing several worlds under the protection of the Federation. If the fearsome predator eats its way through the inhabitants of Pooch Planet before Antoine can save them, he will have failed as both a guardian and gargoyle. When Antoine lands on the remote world, he meets an adorable little shifter who captivates him. Even though he’s been promised a gargoyle mate he’s never met back on Old Earth, something about Benji calls to Antoine’s stone heart. Antoine finds himself in quite the predicament—one he never could’ve anticipated when he accepted his mission. But the evil that has invaded Pooch Planet might make the decision for him if he can’t rescue his sweet Chiweenie.
ALIEN GENERAL’S REBEL CONSORT: DARK SF ALIEN INVASION ROMANCE by Aurelia Skye, Juno Wells and Kit Tunstall
When Tarsans invaded Earth two years ago, Kendall’s cell was one of many around the world tasked with guerilla warfare and fomenting rebellion. When she has the chance to execute the general of Sector Seven, she takes it, thwarted at the last moment by an act of heroism by his protégé. To buy her people time to escape, she confesses to being the sniper. She expects to be killed for her crime, but Tarek imposes an unthinkable sentence instead.
He takes her as his consort, deeming she’ll give a life for the life she took by providing him with a son. She can escape, but she decides to stay, hoping to find a way to bring down the Tarsans with access to a part of the city-ship rebel spies have never obtained. She doesn’t expect to lose her heart along the way, and when the opportunity to help humans presents itself, she’s torn by the need to betray him and their deepening bond, though she has no choice.
Tarsans consider females weak, especially human females. At first, Tarek thinks Kendall is lying when she claims credit for trying to shoot him and coordinating the attacks on his people over the past two years. When she stabs him through the heart, he’s more convinced, and as the days progress, he sees depths of strength in her that he comes to respect. Love blossoms in spite of them, but can it survive Kendall’s ultimate plan, and what it will mean for the Tarsans?
HALF LIFE by Lillian Clark
VS Note: Not a romance (although one review mentioned “some romance”) but a release of note…
There aren’t enough hours in the day for Lucille–perfectionist, overachiever–to do everything she has to do, and there certainly aren’t enough hours to hang out with friends, fall in love, get in trouble–all the teenage things she knows she should want to be doing instead of preparing for a flawless future. So when she sees an ad for Life2: Do more. Be more, she’s intrigued.
The company is looking for beta testers to enroll in an experimental clone program, and in the aftermath of a series of disappointments, Lucille is feeling reckless enough to jump in. At first, it’s perfect: her clone, Lucy, is exactly what she needed to make her life manageable and have time for a social life. But it doesn’t take long for Lucy to become more Lucy and less Lucille, and Lucille is forced to stop looking at Lucy as a reflection and start seeing her as a window–a glimpse at someone else living her own life, but better. Lucy does what she really wants to, not what she thinks she should want to, and Lucille is left wondering how much she was even a part of the perfect life she’d constructed for herself. Lucille wanted Lucy to help her relationships with everyone else, but how can she do that without first rectifying her relationship with herself?
RED NOISE by John P Murphy
VS Note: Not a romance but I was intrigued enough by the Look inside sample to one click.
When an asteroid miner comes to Station 35 looking to sell her cargo and get back to the solitude she craves, she gets swept up in a three-way standoff with gangs and crooked cops. Faced with either taking sides or cleaning out the Augean Stables, she breaks out the flamethrower.
TAKEN TO NOBU (XIVERI MATES BOOK 2) by Elizabeth Stephens
Kiki – There’s no way I’m letting this alien who calls me his Xiveri mate claim me as his. He may say the right things and stir emotions in me I never expected to feel again for any male, but his kind has already taken too much from me as is. Trapped now on his harsh, snow-consumed planet waiting to be hunted, with no way of escape, I’ll do the only thing I can. The one thing I’ve been training for since the aliens first came to the human moon colony to hurt us. I’ll fight. Va’Raku – Nobu has never seen a queen before who is able to wield sword and staff, fist and tongue. A warrior queen, and mine to claim. But when her hate puts the entire village at risk, I finally come to understand the provenance of her pain. While she is the only one who can unravel it, I can teach her control, acceptance, release. But first I will need her trust. And only then can we fight together against our shared enemy and bring him to his knees.
HEARTFELT SCOUNDREL (SPACEPORT MERCY BOOK 5) by Lexxie Couper
VS Note: A re-release. Listed in Erotica.
Look up smuggler in the Interplanetary Alliance Council’s database and you’ll find an image of Rikshor Dollavera. Research Rikshor Dollavera in the Nil-Raja Masterpleasurers’ Code Bible, and you’ll find a detailed description of his phenomenal sexual prowess. Walk into the bar Haze on Spaceport Mercy and you’ll find the man himself, well and truly flirting his way into someone’s bed. You’ll likely find the mysterious Leatian, Eyn, at Rik’s side. Eyn’s a rival smuggler, and just as sexy. So what happens when an AP cop comes looking for the best sex of her life and hunts Rikshor Dollavera down? A threesome beyond any of their wildest dreams. Yet everyone’s got a secret, some more dangerous than others. And some far more erotic.
SUBZERO: AN ESTO UNIVERSE STORY by Angel Martinez
VS Note: Second edition, edits only but since I didn’t cover it whenever it came out the first time, here we are!
Major Aren Dalsgaard’s newest assignment is to investigate a series of murders on the frigid planet, Drass, where relations between the Treaty settlers and the indigenous inhabitants have taken a nasty turn. A linguist and trained xenologist, Major Dalsgaard should be the ideal Special Investigations Officer for this case, but Drass is where he died, over a hundred and twenty years ago.
Sent by his family to the chigyel city, Nyachung finds himself confronted with a murder charge, racial prejudice, and a man who claims to be a hero from his grandmother’s generation. The man could be crazy or he could be lying to manipulate Nyachung, but the sincerity in those spring-green eyes disturbs him more than anything else he’s encountered in the foreigners’ city. Evidence that makes no sense, mysterious boxes, and a suspicion that they can’t trust anyone in the city drives the major and Nyachung together and out into the wilderness. No one’s telling Major Dalsgaard everything, but every step leads him closer to a feeling of imminent catastrophe if he can’t wrap this case up in time.
KING OF LIGHT (ROSETHORN VALLEY FAE BOOK 2) by Tasha Black
VS Note: Loving this new series of hers!
Tabitha spends her days restoring and caring for old things at the local museum. But none are as old, or as intriguing, as the immortal light king who appears on the edge of the Rosethorn Valley forest and turns her measured existence into a madcap adventure. From the village Historical Society to a hippie retreat in the Pocono mountains, Tabitha will go anywhere to track down the magical artifact that will stop evil fae from destroying her beloved town. But no matter where she goes, she can’t seem to escape her growing longing for the heartless King of Light.
Tristan has been frozen in time for hundreds of years when he awakens to find that the brother he betrayed has fallen in love with a mortal woman. Tristan is determined not to make the same mistake – even though Tabitha is brave and interesting, and her every smile convinces him she is meant to be his. The King of Light could never take a mortal queen. Especially not one so fiercely independent.
When an escaped monster straight out of a fairy tale forces the two to head off on a road trip to track down a source of magic together, the depth of their attraction becomes impossible to ignore. Will Tabitha willingly renounce her single lifestyle and make room for real magic in her life? Or is Tristan destined to be a conduit of happiness forever, and never its recipient?
WITCHING MOON – AN ANTE FAE ADVENTURE (WILD HUNT BOOK 12) by Yasmine Galenorn
When you dance with Death, you have to be willing to roll the bones…Still shaken from her run-in with the serial killer, Raven turns to a new and unlikely friend. But the Ante-Fae Trinity has dark secrets in his background, and he threatens to destabilize Raven and Kipa’s relationship. When Trinity introduces Raven to a secret garden, it quickly becomes the place of nightmares. Will Raven’s recklessness endanger her friends as well as herself? Or will the Wolf Lord and Raven’s dearest friends not only put the nightmare to rest, but also drag Raven back from the edge of the chasm?
FOREST OF SPIRITS (DARK SPIRITS BOOK 2) by S J Sanders
Never go into the forest alone. There are things that dwell within the woods. Things that came with the mist even as forests expanded or appeared where none before had been. Things that terrorize humanity and worse if rumor was to be accounted…people disappeared into the woods.
Humanity has done its best to limp along after the world went to hell. They hunted and tended the fields as they attempted to live the best lives with what they had. They wanted to pretend that everything was fine while avoiding the terror of the forest. Diana lived in a state of uneasy peace with the woods near her home until the same forest betrayed her and shifted her between worlds. There something hunts and devours men. And worse, it has intruded into the mortal world. Caught in a web of fate, Diana has no escape from the terror of her destiny awaiting her.
Silvas is the lucumo silvani and high king of the Eternal Forest. When he is alerted to the rise of a dangerous monster, one of the Tainted Ones half remembered in ancient myths, he is forced to take up the burden of harnessing death itself to protect both worlds of humanity and the denizens of the Eternal Forest. Betrayed once by the promise of love, he has no interest in forming a permanent bond with a human whose life-thread is woven into the upcoming events by the Fates. A role that is unclear even to the oracle. Yet as they face the darkness together, will he forge an alliance of flesh, blood and love with the one being who could destroy him?
FINN – XAVIER’S HATCHLINGS BOOK 1 by Kathi S Barton
Finn Manning had so much on his plate, he wasn’t sure which end was up. He’d been there six months, and the pile of work on his desk hadn’t diminished by one sheet of paper. None of the construction projects the family had lent the money for had even been started. The foreman was a bully, and Finn had had enough.
Rachel Merkel had literally felt the earth move from beneath her feet. The plates she had been stacking at the restaurant crashed around her when she hit the floor. Her sister-in-law Sandra, instead of being concerned, threatened to fire her. Rachel was wondering how that worked, considering she owned the majority share in the restaurant, but instead of arguing with her, she clocked out and went home.
After a heated argument with her brother, Chad, about Sandra, Rachel quit to keep the peace. Then, Rachel felt the earth move again. This time she was sick with it. Finn had felt it too through an unseen connection and came to Rachel’s rescue. He didn’t know the woman, but he had an overwhelming need to help her. As soon as he caught her scent, he knew what she was to him. Rachel, not entirely human herself, could sense Finn was a dragon, and she felt the connection when he did. What she wasn’t sure about was what all came with it—the Mannings—all the parents, brothers, aunts, and uncles—it was overwhelming.
SPY SPY AGAIN (VALDEMAR FAMILY SPIES BOOK 3) by Mercedes Lackey
VS Note: Not a romance but I know we have many Lackey fans!
Thirteen year old Prince Kyril and Mags and Amily’s fourteen-year-old son Tory “share” the Gift of Farsight–although neither of them are Chosen. They are self-trained, though currently, their shared Gift only allows them to see what is happening with their immediate family members. After much debate, the Herald’s Collegium has decided to test and train them anyway. That’s when the surprises start. They do not share a single Gift; they have two complementary Gifts working together in a way that the Heralds have never seen before. Tory is the Farseer–Kee’s Gift is to extend his range beyond a few dozen feet. Their Gifts become crucial when Mags gets a desperate message from his cousin Bey, the head of the enigmatic assassin-tribe, the Sleepgivers. Bey’s eldest daughter has been kidnapped, but he doesn’t know why or by whom. He’s calling in the debt Mags owes him to find his daughter before it’s too late.
Tory is certain that if anyone can find her, he can. But that will mean traveling out of Valdemar into an unknown, dangerous country. And it will mean taking a Royal Prince with him.
THE DEATHLESS (THE DEATHLESS TRILOGY BOOK 1) by Peter Newman
THE DEMONS – Creatures lurk in the endless forests of the Wild, plucking victims from those who scratch a living by the sides of the great Godroads, paths of crystal which provide refuge from the infernal tide. THE DEATHLESS – Humanity’s protectors reign within crystal castles held aloft on magical currents – seven timeless royal families, born and reborn into flawless bodies. As immortal as the precious stones from which they take their names, they fight to hold the Wild at bay. For generations a fragile balance has held. AND THE DAMNED…House Sapphire, one of the ancient Deathless families, is riven by suspicion and grief. Their hunting expeditions against the Wild are failing and entire villages have begun to disappear. Then, when assassins strike, House Sapphire shatters. NOTHING LASTS FOREVER.
THE SHADOW WAND (THE BLACK WITCH CHRONICLES BOOK 3) by Laurie Forest
Elloren Gardner hides the most powerful secret in all Erthia—she is the Black Witch of Prophecy, and destined to triumph…or be used as the ultimate weapon of destruction. Separated from everyone she loves, isolated and hunted, Elloren must turn to the last person she can trust—her fastmate, Commander Lukas Grey. With the Mage forces of Gardneria poised to conquer all of Erthia, Elloren has no choice but to ally with Lukas and combine their power to keep herself out of the hands of Gardnerian leader Marcus Vogel…the holder of the all-consuming Shadow Wand.
With just weeks to train to become a warrior, and no control over her magic, Elloren finds unexpected allies among those under orders to kill her. It’s time to step up. To fight back. And to forge onward through the most devastating loss yet.
OURS: A DARK FANTASY ROMANCE ([POSSESSIVE GODS) by Loki Renard
Two gods. One girl. We are the old gods. The forgotten deities. We are fierce, proud, jealous, and possessive.
A lying little human tricked her way onto our world. Now she belongs to us. Forever.
REAPER UNTAMED (DEADSIDE REAPERS BOOK 3) by Debbie Cassidy
Actions have consequences, and my actions are about to kick me in the teeth. I’m still reeling from the unthinkable. Lucas is gone. It’s all my fault and if the dominus can’t find evidence that my actions were under duress then the consequences will be lethal. Sanctuary lies with Grayson and his pack, but I’m a rare commodity—a female loup in a world where females are rare—and the other packs aren’t going to back off without a fight. Even if I escape the executioner’s noose, the loup world isn’t about to let me go so easily. This time there is no hiding. This time there is no get out of jail free card. The loup world is about to swallow me whole, and I’m not sure I’ll make it out alive.
DAWN OF DAE (DAE PORTALS BOOK 1) by R J Blain w/a Trillium Anderson
This is a republishing of an older work, and it has undergone substantial editing and rewriting, including the addition of new scenes. The morning Alexa Daegberht’s macaroni and cheese develops sentience, the world changes. She thought escaping poverty and moving up in the world would be the challenge of her life, but the new arrivals, who call themselves the dae, waste no time proving her wrong. Some claim it’s the rapture of the Christian faith. Some claim the world has been reborn. With millions vanished into thin air, one thing is certain: humanity is in for a fight for survival. There’s only one thing Alexa is certain of. The dae are here to stay.
VILLAINOUS: AN ANTHOLOGY by Various
Every fairytale needs a villain…Venture into a world of darkness, a world of broken hearts, jealousy and pain, as seven notorious individuals begin their journey on the road to villainy. Villainous offers you an insight into true evil, with six fairytale retellings from the prospective of the bad guys we love to hate. The Sea Queen by USA Today Bestselling Author S. K. Gregory – Cecelia runs the docks, like her father before her. She is used to getting everything she wants, even if she has to kill to get it. Breadcrumbs and Glass Coffins by Kat Gracey – Long before she built a gingerbread house, Wilhelmina was a prisoner. Tormented by a monster, she has a choice – give into her dark side or continue to suffer. Which will she choose? Stepsisters: Evils of the Flesh by Essel Pratt – Ella and Anna are content to wait for some Prince Charming to sweep them off their feet, but when their stepsister, Cindy threatens their future, they go to extreme lengths to make sure her dreams never come true. The Tower by Christine King – Gotty longs for life beyond the tower, but there are real evils in the world and they may be closer than she thinks. Legend of Tremaine by Bokerah Brumley – Melody cannot resist entering the crystal cave, despite the warnings. Her own mother perished there, but Melody is drawn to the cave, to the darkness within. Hollowed: A Tale of Malice by Ember Cassidy – The Hollows are guarded by the Fae, but that doesn’t stop Stephanie from venturing in. A chance meeting with a Fae boy offers her a chance at first love, but it could also be her downfall. You never cross a Fae.
CHANGE OF HEART (THE POTENTATE OF ATLANTA BOOK 3) by Hailey Edwards
When a lethal drug targeting paranormal citizens is unleashed on the streets of Atlanta, Hadley hits the clubs to pin down the dealer. The party is just getting started when a mysterious fae with his own agenda offers her a taste of power she can’t refuse if she wants to purge the evil from her city. Hadley already owes Natisha seven beating hearts to satisfy their bargain, but the price the fae demands from Hadley might as well be her soul. He strips away her tiny spells, her necessary illusions, and leaves her bare to face judgement from the one person she never wanted to see her truth. Now Hadley’s fate rests in Midas’s hands, and all she can do is hope the future she glimpsed for them doesn’t slip through his fingers.
THE ENEMY’S TRIUMPH (AGE OF THE ANDINNA BOOK 5) by Kristen Banet
Everyone is someone’s enemy. The Elvasi and the Andinna are enemies. Alchan and Shadra stand against each other as rulers of opposing forces. Two races, locked in a deadly battle for control, each trying to out maneuver the other with their best strategies, their best warriors, and the all power at their disposal. And Mave? Mave faces her old nemesis. Prince Lothen of the Elvasi Empire. His cruelty is renowned. The memories she has of him mark her skin in the form of permanent scars, forever telling the tale of her time in Elliar, like her tatua tell the tale of her freedom.
Old rage bubbles and boils over. Fury buried deep in her heart, Mave confronts him with a single-minded purpose. Mave has never let her anger get the best of her. Until now. Someone’s enemy will always triumph on the battlefield. Mave can only hope it’s not her own.
FEISTY HEROINES: ROMANCE COLLECTION OF SHORTS by Various
Over 30+ pulse-racing shorts to capture your heart with USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, New York Times, and Award-winning authors in the mix. Paranormal, Contemporary, Fantasy, and Historical Romance that will whet your appetite with titillating, heart-pounding tales you’ll want to read again then beg for more. Fall in love with your next book crush!
AMERICAN DEMON (HOLLOWS BOOK 1$) by Kim Harrison
What happens after you’ve saved the world? Well, if you’re Rachel Mariana Morgan, witch-born demon, you quickly discover that something might have gone just a little bit wrong. That the very same acts you and your friends took to forge new powers may have released something bound by the old. With a rash of zombies, some strange new murders, and an exceedingly mysterious new demon in town, it will take everything Rachel has to counter this new threat to the world–and it may demand the sacrifice of what she holds most dear.
THIRTEEN COVENS ACADEMY: COVEN SOCIETY by Audrey Brice
In my short time as a witch I’ve learned there are at least eight laws that magicians and witches must abide in order to live peacefully in coven society:
One: Don’t mix with rival covens. Two: Do what your coven says. Three: Follow the magickal courtesies. Four: Never, ever, show, teach, or involve women of The Watch in magick. Five: Don’t do necromancy. Ever. Six: Don’t piss off anyone in Ashtaroth Briarwood. Seven: Don’t let the town Seer read for you. Eight: Don’t fall in love with more than one guy at a time. I’ve never been very good at playing by the rules, which could make finishing my first year at The Academy a nightmare. Now, aside from worrying about my magickal education, making friends inside my own coven, juggling three relationships, and navigating initiations – I have nine curses to find. Keeping it all from blowing up in my face… that’s another matter entirely.
HAUNTED by Cathy Pegau
VS Note: I’ve always enjoyed her scifi romance and historical Alaska-based mysteries! On my TBR List. The author tells me this is a cozy mystery (not a romance) despite the content warnings (so, not a dark PNR for example)…
Environmental consultant Georgie Del Ducco sees dead people. Well, one dead person–her best friend, journalist Min Goldfelder. Min’s latest visit comes as Georgie flees her own wedding in her cheating ex-fiancé’s car. As much as Georgie appreciates Min’s company, she can’t help but wonder why her friend keeps showing up and hasn’t “crossed over.” While Georgie’s being held for car theft, Min sees a man she knows is somehow connected to her fatal accident. And her accident is connected to a bear poaching story she was working on when she died. Can Georgie and Min solve the mystery of Min’s death so she can continue her journey to the other side? Better question: Can Georgie face having her BFF gone forever?
Content Warnings: scenes of dealing with grief and loss of a close friend and an adult child; brief rough handling by a former romantic partner; recounting fatal automobile accident and images of injuries.
LOVE BEWITCHED (GARGOYLE NIGHT GUARDIANS BOOK 3) by Rosalie Redd
Be careful of gargoyles who can’t commit…Wynne’s had enough of tall, dark, brooding males that aren’t interested in her kind of love—the “until death do us part” kind. Attracted to unattainable men, she’s in uncharted territory when not just one, but two males show an interest in her. One’s a gargoyle with muscles of steel and a deep, sensuous voice to match. The other, a dark, seductive fae with a smirk that can melt panties. The problem? The men are on opposites sides of a war. Caught between the two, who will she choose?
SECRET COURTSHIP ( THE HANDS OF DESTIN BOOK 3) by Jaycee Jarvis
Devoted to the Goddess of the Future, an elegant beauty is blessed–or cursed–with near-perfect foresight. Han-Mystic Ophelia d’Marana lives a rich life as the strongest seer in the bustling tropical town of Trimble, but still she feels alone. She aches for a family with every beat of her heart. She would take comfort from a prophesy predicting the birth of her child, except the foreseen father is Han-Builder Ulric.
The rude, crude earthworker has no place in her pious life, and has never seen her as a woman worthy of a tumble, until a passionate night proves him susceptible to her beauty. Emboldened, Ophelia hopes to share her destiny with him. But Ulric can’t risk his heart, not again. Instead, they enter into a loveless arrangement to beget a child, each keeping painful secrets close. When Ophelia’s most ominous prophesy comes to pass, the uneasy lovers overcome their differences to work together against a mysterious plague threatening the city. As their passion burns hot, Ophelia finds she has more in common with Ulric than she ever dreamed. She’s in danger of losing her heart to a man in love with a ghost . . .If she doesn’t become a ghost herself first.
THE WATCHERS BOOK 1: IN THE VALLEYS OF THE EARTH by RR Pearl
VS Note: From mid-May…
The only thing more dangerous than their chemistry…is their enemies! Mild-mannered Xenoarcheologist Dr. Alec Coimheed and his best friend, Dr. Clemy Armistead, are certain that they’ve just found the ancient location of an apocryphal battle between demons and angels. Whisked away on a rollicking adventure, Alec finds himself under the watchful eye of Rafe, a taciturn mountain of a man with a mysterious past. Working with the enigmatic Praesidium, which claims to have protected humanity for generations, Alec clashes with his ethereally handsome bodyguard. As the New Watchers pursue the rambunctious pair across the globe, Alec and Rafe will have to battle ancient terrors and mythical creatures come to life. Racing to the ancient tomb of a fallen angel, Alec and Rafe may lose it all – and each other – to save the world.
WITCHER UPPER (A MAGICAL RENOVATION MYSTERY BOOK 1) by Amy Boyles
Southern gal Clementine Cooke is busy. The house renovation business she runs with her best friend in the small town of Peachwood, Alabama, is thriving. That is until Clementine discovers her partner dead, encased in poured concrete. It looks like murder. Clementine starts to investigate, quickly realizing that not only had her so-called best friend spent years lying to her, but plenty of folks wanted her dead–from the unionized wizard mafia to the old lady quilting club. But even with haters coming out of the woodwork, Clementine finds herself fighting off suspicion. She must locate the killer before the local police chief tosses her in jail and throws away the key. With no one to turn to, she enlists the help of a wizard suffering from amnesia. But there’s a hitch–he might not remember who he is, but Clementine does, and for her own reasons, she’s not talking. Can Clementine clear her name and save her business? Or will this be one magical renovation that winds up in demolition?
THE UNCONQUERED CITY (CHRONICLES OF GHADID BOOK 3) by K A Doore
Seven years have passed since the Siege—a time when the hungry dead had risen—but the memories still haunt Illi Basbowen. Though she was trained to be an elite assassin, now the Basbowen clan act as Ghadid’s militia force protecting the resurrected city against a growing tide of monstrous guul that travel across the dunes. Illi’s worst fears are confirmed when General Barca arrives, bearing news that her fledgling nation, Hathage, also faces this mounting danger. In her search for the source of the guul, the general exposes a catastrophic secret hidden on the outskirts of Ghadid. To protect her city and the realm, Illi must travel to Hathage and confront her inner demons in order to defeat a greater one—but how much can she sacrifice to protect everything she knows from devastation?
CONSIDER ME GONE (TIME SHADOWS BOOK 1) by Jane Thornley
Romy works too many jobs—part-time tour guide and occasional performance artist included. So when she begins hearing and seeing things not of this century, she puts it down to fatigue. But things just keep getting more baffling, more destructive. One moment, she’s Romy in the 21st century and the next she’s Claire, an Acadian orphan spying against the Spanish two hundred and fifty years earlier. Suddenly it feels more like she’s a tourist in hell. No one believes her, not even Dr. Adrian Countway, her thesis advisor and the man she loves. Their attraction is undeniable and yet he resists. He’s certainly not about to believe that he’s the reicarnation of the first Spanish governor of Louisiana anymore than he believes that Romy’s an Acadian orphan inciting a revolution. ..(more blurb on ebook seller page…)
WINTER’S WOLF (THE CURSED BOOK 1) by Lou Grimes
VS Note: From April
Louvette Blackwood never even knew her own father’s name until a lawyer shows up on her door step to execute her grandfather’s will. She soon finds out that her grandfather was murdered while searching for her father. At first, they are hesitant to sign the will, but quickly realize that a fresh start in Montana is what they need after she was kicked out of yet another school for fighting. A life changing year packed full of uncovering the truth, new friends, and new enemies is about to start!
GORGON’S QUEST: REDEMPTION OF THE GORGONS BOOK 2 by Claire Davon
hanks to her sister Euryale’s bargain with the gods, gorgon Stheno is back in human form—but far from comfortable in her skin. As the fiercest warrior of her three sisters, she mourns her tough, beastly hide and snaky hair. The last thing anyone would call Stheno is girly—much less beautiful—but before she sets out to find her lost, mortal sister, Medusa, she googles a salon at random to cut off her annoyingly long hair. Her stylist is Marwen, a man with compelling, light-brown eyes that glow with an otherworldly light. The last of Stheno’s unruly locks barely hit the floor when the first attack comes, and in a heartbeat they’re on the run. As their passion ignites, they realize they didn’t meet by chance. They’re both entangled in a prophecy drawing them inexorably toward one fated conclusion: Medusa. But there’s a faction working just as hard to make sure it never happens. To save her sister, Stheno will have to face her fear—that once she unleashes her beast, Marwen won’t look upon her with love any more, but with horror.
SPELL CAT (THE ALOYSIUS TALES BOOK 1) by Tara Lain
VS Note Update June 17: I’ve been advised this is a re-release
When Killian Barth, history professor, meets Blaine Genneau, quantum physicist, they ignite their own big bang. But Killian can’t pursue a physics professor—or a human. As the most powerful male witch in ten generations, Killian must bolster his dying race by reproducing—despite the fact that he’s gay.
Even a fling with Blaine is out of the question, because Killian has been told sex with humans drains his power. But if that’s true, why can young human Jimmy Janx dissolve spoons with the power of his mind? If Killian can sort through the lies he’s been fed, he’ll still face his biggest obstacle—convincing rational scientist Blaine to believe in magic.
With his ancient and powerful cat familiar, Aloysius, on his shoulder, Killian brings the lightning against deceit and greed to save Blaine from danger and prove love is the greatest power of them all.
BEAR WITH ME (STRAWBERRY SHIFTERS BOOK 1) by Marilyn Barr
Blue eyes, dimples, and silky brown hair; Grant Luther has all of Alison’s weaknesses. When he asks for one last chance to save their marriage, she agrees to relocate their family to isolated Strawberry, Kentucky in pursuit of his career dreams. Grant views Alison’s sensory issues as limitations and protects her from outside threats. When he finds his new job includes changing him into a shifter in a war against the soul-sucking Sluagh he vows to keep the changes a secret. What he doesn’t know is Alison has been hiding a magical secret of her own. One that makes her a target of the Sluagh. Will Alison emerge from Grant’s shadow to protect her family? And can Grant learn that being different can be a strength not a weakness?
DRAGON REBELLION (THE HIDDEN WARRIOR BOOK 2) by M Lynn
Sometimes not even love is stronger than hate. Sometimes sacrifices must be made. Hua Minglan is trapped, presumed dead, and back where it all started. Home. A place that once brought peace to her mind, a place she’d abandoned in order to seek her revenge. But that was before. Before the dragon awoke inside her to destroy an entire village. Before she ceded control. And now, the dragon has a mission, one Hua must do anything to stop. Kill the emperor. There is one way to defeat the beast inside her. Hua Minglan must die. Only one man can prevent her sacrifice. As Jian Li races across Piao to save both Hua and his brother, the emperor, he knows he’ll have to choose. Even if he chooses the right one, it might mean the end of Piao. Because the Kou have returned, ready to finish their war.And the only creature that can save the empire also wants it destroyed.
BORDERLAND by F E Feeley Jr and Jamie Fessenden
They were young. In the prime of life and recently married. And then the diagnosis came. Cancer. George and Jason make arrangements to travel back to George’s home state of Vermont so he may pass away in the town where he grew up, but a terrible storm diverts the couple into the gates of an out-of-the-way hotel called Borderland. Sure, the employees are well dressed and polite. Sure, the food and entertainment are old-time fare. But it’s all a schtick, right? Or is there something far more sinister at work here? Welcome to the Borderland Hotel, where you may check in, but you’ll never, ever leave.
CHOSEN OF THE SHADOWS (THE FAIRY CODE BOOK 2) by Kaitlyn Weiss
I was the last hope for the faeries. Yes, I’d found my love, my true love, in Doran, King of the Court of Shadows and Leader of the Wild Hunt. But he wanted to deprive me of my freedom, my right to control my own destiny. Even the fact that we’d been coupled by the tree, that I was no longer his captive, meant nothing. I was still “his” in his eyes, even if he loved me.
WOLF’S DRAGON: TEXAS RANCH WOLF PACK SERIES COMPANION NOVELLA (TEXAS RANCH WOLF PACK WORLD BOOK 4) by Lynn Nodima
Dragon shifter Ulia smuggles her tiny pet unicorn to Texas when she flees Dragomir to escape an unwanted dragon shifter mate. Cross-cultural differences keep wolf shifter Reese off balance when his true mate, a dragon shifter from another realm, arrives in Texas. Then her spurned suitor follows her to Earth. If her brother doesn’t kill Reese for insulting his sister, the dragon she fled may. In a world where dragons, unicorns, and werewolves are mythical creatures, what could go wrong?
THE WARLORD SEASON (THE COVALENT SERIES BOOK 4) by Libby Doyle
The battle in the Destructive Realm is over and Zan O’Gara wants to love her mate in peace, but nothing is ever simple when it comes to the Covalent. With many warriors wounded or exhausted by the fight, a new villain sees an opportunity to take power. He imprisons the Council and the healers. He hunts any warrior who refuses to submit to his authority. He throws Pellus’ mate into the Wasteland Dungeons. An attempt on Barakiel’s life while he is in the healing sleep forces Zan and Pellus to flee to the Earthly Realm with the warrior long before he’s had time to recover from his wounds. Despite his injuries and loss of Balance, Barakiel pledges to reunite Pellus with his beloved. He vows the warlord will pay for this injustice in blood.
SABOTAGED (THE SUNDANCE SERIES BOOK 3) by C P Rider
My name is Neely and I live among shapeshifters in the desert truckstop town of Sundance, California. As a telepath-spiker, I can read a person’s thoughts. I can also spike deadly power straight into their brain. I’ve got my hands full navigating an undefined relationship with Lucas Blacke, the sexy tiger alpha of the Sundance shifter group, and trying to run my bakery, La Buena Suerte Panaderia, while dodging random alpha leaders bent on turning me into a weapon. But when one of the would-be kidnappers finally gets lucky and grabs me, I find myself in a whole new world of trouble. Trapped and on my own, I’ve only got myself to depend on. The rules I’ve always lived by have been swept aside and second-guessing myself is no longer an option. If I want to get out of this alive, I’ll have to spike my way out.
DARK RIVER by AR Keo
VS Note: From May
Sitting in a dungeon, miles below the surface of the earth is not the ending she anticipated. Nor is coming face to face with some very lethal dark elves, but Vanadey Adara is particularly good at finding trouble. Van is not having a pleasant day, but things take a surprising turn when an unconscious dark elf is dragged in by his kin. Some rather unpleasant orks have two prisoners to play with now. Everyone knows dark elves are notorious killers, wicked and malevolent in their ways. That fact becomes irrelevant when you are sitting in a cage waiting to die, and the only option presented is to escape with one. …Sometimes the hardest battle is against yourself. The fates may have intervened like divine providence, but personalities mix like oil and water. For a human and a dark elf, freedom comes with a price. If they can trust each other long enough to navigate the perils of Deepearth, outrun evil orks, and evade dangerous dark elves, they might reach the surface in one piece.
GARTERS AND GARGOYLES (VAMPIRE KNITTING CLUB BOOK 10) by Nancy Warren
The Gargoyle Club is a secret society in Oxford’s Cardinal College, where privileged young men from important families get drunk and rowdy and cause trouble. Rafe, as a member of the club, is not impressed with these newest Gargoyles. Meanwhile, a social climbing high school friend of Lucy’s is in town. Is she really after an art history degree or is her purpose more devious? When someone dies during a club dinner it looks like more than boys behaving badly. It’s up to Lucy and her undead knitters to solve the crime.
INFINITE MOON (VAMPIRE FOR HIRE BOOK 20) by J R Rain and Matthew S Cox
Dealing with one’s greatest nemesis can be frustrating, but Samantha Moon is literally beside herself. From the moment Elizabeth escaped her mind prison, Sam and her family braced for the worst. With the plan now set in motion, only two things are known for sure: the plan is big, and it’s going to be horrible. After tracking the dark masters down to the remote jungles of Venezuela, Sam and her crew rush there to prevent the apocalypse they’re certain is brewing. Alas, problems abound. Not only are they facing a new type of vampire they’ve never seen before, Elizabeth gets the upper hand in a major way. Sam is thrust into a maze of alternate realities where she is forced to face an enemy far more dangerous than an ancient sorceress: herself. If she can’t escape fast enough, Elizabeth will enslave an entire dimension.
NO MAN’S LAND by A J Fitzwater
VS Note: I found the sample intriguing so I one clicked.
No Man’s Land is a historical fantasy and a love story set in the golden plains of North Otago, in the South Island of Aotearoa New Zealand. Dorothea ‘Tea’ Gray joins the Land Service and is sent to work on a remote farm, one of many young women who filled the empty shoes left by fathers and brothers serving in the Second World War. But Tea finds more than hard work and hot sun in the dusty North Otago nowhere—she finds a magic inside herself she never could have imagined, a way to save her brother in a distant land she never thought she could reach, and a love she never knew existed.
THE HARBINGER (ARTEMIS BOOK 1) by Mary Eicher
In a picturesque California town, the deafening sound of bells brings dozens of people to their knees. Three days later a horrific accident claims their lives. Among the dead is the twin brother of Artemis Andronikos, a beautiful attorney, who abandons the ill-fated vacation and returns home to grieve.
Her mourning is interrupted by Lucy Breem a reporter who suspects a connection between the strange bell sound and subsequent deaths. Disturbed by the possibility that the phenomenon had presaged her brother’s death, Artemis agrees to join forces with Lucy to investigate the mysterious premonitions. Utilizing her considerable physical and deductive talents, Artemis battles nefarious forces and seeks information from friends in high places. Their research takes them to various global venues. But the solution to the mystery proves illusive and the couple discovers that neither science nor religion can provide an explanation for what has become known as the Harbinger.
THE BEAR’S BEST FRIEND’S SISTER (WEREBEAR RANCH BOOK 5) by Layla Silver
He’s always been my one and only crush. But he’s never even noticed me. He’s my brother’s best friend, and to him, I’m invisible. He probably hasn’t thought of me once since he left our town. But now I have to live with him in his new house. At the very least, I hope I can control myself around him. If he finds out about my crush, he’ll just think it’s cute and dismiss it. If my protective brother finds out, it’ll be even worse. So here I am, in his kitchen while he’s shirtless and flipping bacon. I’m practically drooling at the sight of his perfect six-pack. At those jeans hanging low on his waist, slipping down just a little too far. At the lazy smile he flashes me as he makes me breakfast. I have no idea how I’m going to survive all of this alone time with him…(more blurb on ebook seller page…)
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CHOSEN GODS (THE SECRET GODS PRISON SWERIES BOOK 2) by G Bailey
My name is Karma, and I will do anything to save my family and my gods…even from myself. All the secrets are out, and the world as I know it is changed forever. The higher gods take me as their prisoner, and it’s not just me they take to play games with. My family, my best friend, and my gods are all on the line. I’ve already lost one friend; I won’t lose another. If I don’t win the games, everyone I love dies. So I will not lose. My name is Karma Maria Kismet, and I am going to destroy the higher gods. I am going to get justice…no matter what it takes.
THE PASSION OF HADES (THE HADES TRIALS BOOK 2) by Eliza Raine and Rose Wilson
I’m trapped in actual hell. And just about everything here is trying to kill me. Even the god who claims he once loved me has come pretty close to ending my life. But things are about to change. I’m fed up of being Persephone – human underdog in the Hades Trials. I’ve managed to awaken a little bit of goddess inside me, and now I have power, I’m not afraid to use it. Although I don’t actually have a clue how to. Nor do I know what I did to get cast out of Olympus twenty-six years ago, or why strangers are seeking to punish me for it. All I know for sure is that I survived the first round of the Hades Trials, and now I need to survive another. One step at a time I will get back to New York. Because I can’t stay here. Olympus is filled with monsters, and ruled by monsters, and I do not fit in. The trouble is, the more I discover about the mysterious King of the Underworld, the less sure I am that he fits in either. My connection to him is undeniable, and it’s not escaped the other gods’ notice. They don’t want me to stay in Olympus, and now that I have my power back, they’re going to make the next three Trials even more lethal. If I can survive, I’m a step closer to getting home. But if I spend much more time with Hades, I’m not sure I’ll ever be able to leave.
WITCHES BE CRAZY (NOT YOUR BASIC WITCH BOOK 3) by A J Macey and Jarica James
Nothing in Aris Calisto’s life has ever been basic, and after a cauldron full of unexpected events, she finds herself a fugitive. Going on the run should have been the biggest challenge of her life, but after being separated from her tethers, she’s faced with an impossible choice–submit or run. With time ticking down, Aris and her ragtag band of witches have to risk it all. Despite the odds, her coven manages to find their way back to each other, and Aris quickly realizes they have more allies than they thought. Revolution is coming to Akasha, but it won’t be an easy ‘potion to brew’ with- new powers to master, a collection of hexing hellions intent to use her for themselves, an anonymous admirer, and the unexpected burden of becoming a leader. With her capricious coven behind her, can Aris use her i’magic’nation to hit the council where it hurts? Or will she find out payback’s a real witch?
PRINCE OF FOREVER (IMPERIA BOOK 2) by Gena Showalter
VS Note: A re-release.
Return to Imperia in this scorching, significantly updated classic from New York Times bestselling author Gena Showalter, originally published as The Pleasure Slave. Curiously drawn to a battered jewelry box, Santa Fe antique dealer Julia Anderson could never have anticipated what—or rather who—it held inside—a handsome warrior who swears his devotion to her. Tall and sinfully handsome, Tristan ar Malik is hard to resist and determined to fulfill her every desire. A rogue on the battlefield and the bedroom, Tristan resolved himself to a life of servitude after being cursed…. until he met Julia. The passion between them is unlike anything he’s ever experienced, and he only wants more. Yet even though revealing his true heart would break the centuries-old spell that entrapped him—freeing him from the box—it would separate them forever.
BEAR AFFECTION (TOOTH AND CLAW BOOK 4) by Emilia Hartley
They ended their high-school relationship on a messy, angry note. The hate they spouted then is enough to keep them apart forever, even if the eventful intervening decade apart isn’t. Back in town after her New York dreams have crashed to pieces, Ashlyn wants to get her career back on track. Bumping into the ex she left behind is not on her agenda, especially when the ex in question has turned into some kind of Greek god lookalike. Ashlyn doesn’t need the distraction; she doesn’t need the guilt she feels over their bad breakup; and she certainly doesn’t need the reminder of how badly her life has gone wrong. She’s going to stay away from Mac. If only he would stay away from her.
Mac loved Ashlyn back in high-school, and now that he’s a shifter, that attraction has only gotten stronger. Ashlyn avoids him, though, and he’s also lost contact with his inner bear. He’s losing time to it, and he can’t even shift to help explain to Ashlyn how he has changed. He has no idea what this means, but he knows he can’t offer Ashlyn a mutilated piece of himself. He doesn’t want her in danger if the bear is out of control, either.
Maybe it would be best for everyone if his pack puts him down.
DESERT DRAGON’S HUNT: ROYAL DRAGONS OF MOROCCO BOOK 7: A RED LETTER HOTEL PARANORMAL ROMANCE by Ava Ward
When her magic is imprisoned by her enemy’s treachery, can she free it? Layla’s Dragon-power has been chained inside her by her mortal enemy Hunter, a compelling Royal Dragon Bind whose terrible deeds know no limit.
Desiring to dominate all Dragons, Hunter lacks only one thing to accomplish his plan – a powerful mate like Layla.
Drawn away from her lovers to embark upon a dangerous quest to re-open her magic, Layla feels his tremendous call. When she finds him, will she be able to resist her enemy’s seduction and free her magic? Or will she succumb – becoming Bound to him forever?
BAIT AND WITCH (BRIMSTONE INC BOOK 3) by Abigail Owen
VS Note: A re-release…
Rowan McAuliffe has been hiding most of her life. Secretly trained in her powers by an unusual source, she’d been taught not to trust anyone. Especially other witches. However, after she was forced to perform a hateful act against her will, she now hides from the Covens Syndicate and their judgement. Greyson Masters is the Syndicate’s best hunter. On top of the danger of his job, Greyson is trying to raise his triplet daughters alone, budding new witches who display an alarming combined power no one understands. Too bad he doesn’t have a clue how to deal with them. Until Rowan walks in and the chaos settles for the first time in…well, ever. Little does Greyson realize that his new nanny is the very witch he is hunting, and she’s been hiding right under his nose this whole time.
This book was previously self published but has undergone a complete re-edit. Scenes were added, things were changed, but the kissing still remains!
BROKEN DAWN (IMMORTAL GUARDIANS BOOK 10) by Dianne Duvall
Nick Belanger can’t stop thinking about the single mother who lives next door. She’s smart. She’s funny. She’s so beautiful he can’t stare at her too long for fear his eyes will start to glow. But Kayla thinks he’s just an ordinary guy who works in security. Finding out he instead is a powerful immortal warrior who hunts and slays psychotic vampires for a living may not go over well, particularly since she has a daughter she doesn’t want to endanger.
Kayla Dorman can keep neither her gaze nor her thoughts from straying to the man next door. Who can blame her really? He is the epitome of tall, dark, and handsome with smart, charming, and honorable thrown in. He’s also a few years younger than her and surely would not be interested in a single mom who hasn’t dated since her divorce. At least that’s what she thinks until an accident nearly takes her life and Nick risks all to save her.
The dynamics of their relationship swiftly change. The friendship they’ve developed over the years deepens into love as the two spend every minute they can together, laughing and teasing, never suspecting a threat may lurk in the shadows. But that threat soon strikes, making it clear that Nick is the target and his enemy doesn’t care if Kayla gets caught in the cross fire. Though Kayla bravely rises to the occasion and is determined to do whatever it takes to help Nick defeat his enemy, Nick is terrified of losing her. Can he identify and eliminate his new nemesis before the man takes everything from him?
FIFTH A FURY (GODDESS ISLES BOOK 5) by Pepper Winters
“There was a beginning once. A beginning that started with being sold to a monster I fell for. There was an ending once. An ending that came cloaked in bloodshed and fury.” Eleanor Grace is a simple mortal who has the power to topple a god. She captured his heart, fed him a different future, and fought for a fantasy that wasn’t make-believe but destiny. Sully Sinclair is a man masquerading as a monster. He let down his shields and allowed a goddess to show him a simpler path. However, neither of them could predict the war that was coming, nor the toll it would take. A fated romance. A fight that will finish in tears. The age-old battle of good versus evil.
FATED TO THE FIRE (FATED DRAGON MATES BOOK 2) by Scarlett Ray
COLE – She is the one I didn’t even know I was waiting for. The piece of my heart that I didn’t know was missing.
The one woman who could change everything and carry on my family secret. I can’t let her go. I will do whatever it takes to win her heart, claim her body and soul…And protect her from the past. Even if it means war.
No distance is too far, no challenge is too great to keep her safe and make her mine.
STELLA – The last thing I want or have time for, is an accidental baby witha devastatingly HOT dragon shifter billionaire. Oh yeah, who just happens to be a firefighter! There is no space in my life or in my heart for this. I have one goal, save the career I’ve sacrificed everything for. And here he is saving my life…in more ways than one. Now I’m running…from New York, from the man who has captured my heart and from his heart beating in my body. Our baby.
HAMMER TIME by Anne Denton and M J Marstens
VS Note: From the end of May…
Danger is my middle name. Just kidding—it’s Bergljot. Sigrdrifa Bergljot Jones. But don’t call me that—I go by Val. My dad is Thor and my dear mother was human … which makes me a demi, or half-goddess and half-human.
Of course, I got the shaft on the half-goddess part. I’ve got no powers and work in the human world—Home Depot, to be exact. But, I’m needed back in the godly realms—to break into a supernatural prison to save my best friend. I never thought I’d put ‘get arrested’ on my to-do list … but some dickhead gods need to be dealt with. And how do you deal with dickhead gods? By stealing Thor’s hammer and magical goats, making a special Visine drink, and getting the God of Shit on your side … as well as a demi, a concussed guard, and an amazing human. These dickhead gods won’t know what hit them. Everyone can just stop—it’s HAMMER TIME!
KELOS: SPRING (SHIFTER SEASONS BOOK 4) by Harmony Raines
His mate is on the run. His dragon will do whatever it takes to protect her…Will their love survive? Dragon shifter, Kelos, has lived a solitary life. When he finally decides to settle down in Bear Creek the last thing he expects is to find his true mate. After all, he’s waited centuries for her. It’s love, and lust, at first sight. But Kelos needs to keep his emotions in check until the danger surrounding his mate is dealt with. Who is he trying to fool? There’s no way this dragon shifter can deny his feelings for his mate. Which means he has to deal with the people threatening his mate’s family now. Would breathing dragon-fire over their foe or biting their head off be overkill? Unfortunately, those days are way in the past and they have to play by the rules of the modern world. Pity. A phone call from her brother sends Amber on the run with her sister-in-law and two children. Sworn to keep them safe, she travels to the house of an old friend…never expecting to meet a dragon shifter who claims she is his mate. ..(more blurb on ebook seller page…)
INFILTRATE (MISFIT OF THORNBRIAR ACADEMY BOOK 1) by Cali Mann
Spirit Shifters go mad, unless we mate four times. Bad enough that fate chose them, the Alpha wolf and the Bad Boy vampire, but I don’t have time for these irresistibly sexy shifters when my brother’s life hangs in the balance. My mother’s murderous boyfriend threatened him, and I will do anything to save him – even infiltrate and sabotage the only academy willing to give me – and my brother – a chance.
WILD THING (BLUE BLOOD VAMPIRES BOOK 2) by Michelle Hercules
Savage. Reckless. Wild. These are only some of the words used to describe me. I’m all of those things, and I never wished to be anything else in almost 500 years of existence. Then she came along. Aurora Leal, the daughter of the High Witch and destined for that role. She’s practically royalty in the magical world, but most importantly, she’s forbidden fruit. I was taught never to mess with witches, and I had no intention of breaking that rule until the night she crashed into my life. I couldn’t resist the pull, and like an idiot, I succumbed to her charms. Now I’m screwed. What was supposed to be only a hookup left a permanent mark. I ended up mated to the sassy witch. An eternal commitment wasn’t something I ever wished for, but when your destined mate is promised to someone else, that’s a much bigger problem. I only have two choices. Either I find a way to break the mating bond or Aurora will become a widow before she says I do. That will definitely start a war between vampires and mages. But the more time I spend with her, the less inclined I am to give her up. Damn, I guess I’m killing some mages, then.
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VS Note: In case you missed my new release last week! It’s gotten some lovely 5 star reviews and ratings – WOOT!
COLONY UNDER SIEGE: INTERSTELLAR PLAGUE ( A SECTORS SF ROMANCE NOVEL) by Veronica Scott
Newly graduated from a prestigious interstellar medical school, Dr. Saffia Mandell has been assigned to the Haven Two colony on the galaxy’s outer rim as the only doctor for some 2000 human residents. She’s counting the days until her five years there is up, trying to adjust to rural living after life in the crowded Inner Sectors and fighting her attraction to Chief Ranger Micah Navonn. She’s dreading the upcoming tourist season when the rich and pampered will descend on the planet for the scenic wonders and novel sports opportunities and no doubt inundate her little clinic but the colony depends on the seasonal income to survive.
As the senior official for his people, the Calinurra, the indigenous inhabitants of Haven Two, Micah enforces the treaty, regulates the tourist permits, patrols the forests and resists his fascination with Dr. Mandell. He never expected to be involved with a human woman and doesn’t want to believe in the concept of a fated mate. He wants to keep his life simple and isn’t ready for any long term commitment. Besides Saffia keeps proclaiming she’ll be leaving when her appointment is up in four and a half years so why should he risk his heart?
Then a ship arrives unexpectedly carrying a very ill little girl and soon the deadly virus is spreading through Haven Two. The colony authorities are desperate to cover up the problem to preserve the all-important tourist season and Saffia and Micah have to work together to battle the outbreak, the local administration and their undeniable feelings for each other. Can the colony survive? And will Micah and Saffia be able to move past their fears about entanglements to act on the mutual attraction? An 87K word standalone novel set in the far future…
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LINKS TO RECENT NEW RELEASES POSTS from Veronica:
“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’.
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…
I check and verify all the buy links at the time I create the post but after that I’m not responsible.
Another great week. The Tara Lain book, Spell Cat, is a rerelease. The author is getting a lot of her rights back although it’s not mentioned in her blurb
Gill
Another great line up. For some reason, WP won’t let me reblog.
Thanks for letting me know about the reblogging. I’m not sure what if anything I can do about that but I’ll check my settings. WP changes stuff and I never know about it LOL.
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Thank you so much for mentioning Warlord’s Mercy. (tackle hugs) I really appreciate this and I appreciate you, my friend. Happy release week, everyone!
My pleasure! I’m always so happy to have a new book from you and best wishes on the release doing well…
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Dear friend Veronica, Every week I have so much interest in your work. Hugs always from me to you