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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CROSS: INTERGALACTIC DATING AGENCY (BEAST BATTALION BOOK 1) by Elsa Jade
A strange bargain…Tyler Lang took the offer for a data-processing job in Sunset Falls, Montana—“Big Sky Country: Where the stars are close enough to touch!”—as a chance to escape a humiliating breakup. Mr. Evens’ Odds & Ends Shop sounded like a great place to hide and focus solely (meaning ALONE) on her beloved numbers. Except she’s constantly distracted by the looming presence of the shop’s weirdly hot security guard. What kind of thrift store in the middle of nowhere needs protection? Not to mention a guard literally hot enough to make her computer smoke. These numbers just aren’t adding up. A secret task…As captain of his banished beast battalion, Wyvryn Cross will take any job that keeps his fighters free from intergalactic incarceration. He’ll even work for a devious Dirter who claims to be reopening a defunct Intergalactic Dating Agency outpost on Earth. Cross doesn’t believe in a “universal mating algorithm”…until his smoldering gaze alights on the shy female who doesn’t know anything about aliens on Earth and doesn’t even realize she’s writing a love code. Unfortunately, suddenly smoldering eyes are a bad sign in a Wyvryn. A last chance…
They should just do their jobs and go their separate ways, but when a mysterious saboteur tries to shut down the Intergalactic Dating Agency before it opens, Tyler and Cross must work together to perfect her code. Even if that demands some hot kisses under the bright Montana stars.
FLETCHER: STARGAZER ALIEN MYSTERY BRIDES #2 (INTERGALACTIC DATING AGENCY) by Tasha Black
Jana Watson used to be embarrassed of her larger-than-life physique, then a stint in live theatre taught her to love herself just as she is. Now she is on her way to the role of a lifetime. When a drop-dead gorgeous alien professes his love, her lifelong career plan is put to the test.
Fletcher’s big body was designed to attract the women of Earth. But the only one he actually wants seems determined to ignore the undeniable heat between them. He’s trying his best to give the fearless beauty the space she needs. But he’s traveled lightyears to find her and he’s not about to give up now. When the mysteries in town begin to escalate, the two are thrown together on a dangerous mission for the detective agency. Can Jana resist her growing bond with Fletcher and keep her eyes on the prize? Or will he finally convince her that she can have it all?
HER CYBORG MATES (ZODIAC CYBORGS BOOK 4) by Mina Carter
Even the most feared beings in the galaxy need love…A cancer class cyborg, all Cael has ever known is war and pain. The love and support of her unit is all that kept her going even in the darkest days. But only two of them make her burn with need and desire, but she can’t let it show. They’re gemini’s, coded for seduction, and she knows they’d never look twice at a nerdy cancer like her. She’d die for them, but kiss them? Romance? She’s not brave enough to make that first move…She’s all they’ve ever wanted, and everything they think they can’t have…Infiltration units pulled from their tanks at the same time, Eoin and Archon have always done everything together. Every battle, every undercover mission for the fleet, they’ve been by each other’s side. The one thing that could come between them? Cael, their unit’s delicate, beautiful cancer class. They’ve shared before, can they persuade her that her future lies with not one of them, but both? But life as the galaxy’s most feared and hunted race is never easy. When Cael is taken by their enemies, she must make a choice. Her life or the lives of the men she loves.
PLANETARY ANTHOLOGIES SERIES: JUPITER (TUSCANY BAY’S PLNANETARY ANTHOLOGY SERIES 8) by Various
VS Note: Not romance…
There are stories here that explore the mythology of Zeus and the personalities in myth, as well as urban fantasy and fantasy stories that explore our understanding of leadership. The science fiction worlds range from splendidly alien to profoundly human to mixes of each as authors presented their visions of what life might be like on Jupiter’s moons.
NO ESCAPING EARTH (ELEMENTAL ALIEN MATES BOOK 4) by Riley Onyx
My father owns the mining company and he’s sending me to oversee the breaking of the ground. I’ve listened to the records of the previous expeditions, and I worry about the missing ships and crew, but we land safely. The planet would make such an idyllic tourist spot…it’s a pity we’re going to dig it up. Then an earthquake swallows our ships and I’m trapped underground with a guy who glows in the dark and has the biggest…hands I’ve ever seen. And he doesn’t want me on his planet. I try to run. I try to hide. I try to bargain with him. I’ll do anything to avoid being consumed by the creatures that live down here. I beg and he gets what he wants. Me.
HENCH: A NOVEL by Natalie Zena Walschots
VS Notes: Not a romance. Well reviewed, a release of note…
Anna does boring things for terrible people because even criminals need office help and she needs a job. Working for a monster lurking beneath the surface of the world isn’t glamorous. But is it really worse than working for an oil conglomerate or an insurance company? In this economy? As a temp, she’s just a cog in the machine. But when she finally gets a promising assignment, everything goes very wrong, and an encounter with the so-called “hero” leaves her badly injured. And, to her horror, compared to the other bodies strewn about, she’s the lucky one. So, of course, then she gets laid off. With no money and no mobility, with only her anger and internet research acumen, she discovers her suffering at the hands of a hero is far from unique. When people start listening to the story that her data tells, she realizes she might not be as powerless as she thinks. Because the key to everything is data: knowing how to collate it, how to manipulate it, and how to weaponize it. By tallying up the human cost these caped forces of nature wreak upon the world, she discovers that the line between good and evil is mostly marketing. And with social media and viral videos, she can control that appearance. It’s not too long before she’s employed once more, this time by one of the worst villains on earth. As she becomes an increasingly valuable lieutenant, she might just save the world. A sharp, witty, modern debut, Hench explores the individual cost of justice through a fascinating mix of Millennial office politics, heroism measured through data science, body horror, and a profound misunderstanding of quantum mechanics.
ALIEN OUTCAST’S EXILED BRIDE (DRACONIAN WARRIORS BOOK ) by Juno Wells
Pern – I’ve killed a queen. She was a vicious Draconian queen bent on death and destruction but she was my queen none the less. And I gunned her down in cold blood. No male has ever killed a queen and lived to tell the tale. Queen Cassandra granted me a pardon and took me into her favor for siding when her when the war was all but lost. I try to act normal but nightmares plague my sleep and the other warriors look at me as broken. When times of war called me to action again, I answered for I have nothing else to lose. Being forced to cover a human queen does strange things to my mind and body. I begin to covet things I know the other warriors will never permit me to have.
Jade – Being exiled from the bio-domes on Earth is a death sentence. I roam in a group of five looking for water, scavenging food where we can find it. When we’re turned away from the last human city and are on the verge of death we stumble upon a Draconian emergency station. When I ask for sanctuary the male assigned to speak me with is stunning. He puts himself between me and the enemy, saves my life and offers me sanctuary. The thing is,
I want more. He might be standoffish and cold at times but once we touch all the ice melts away leaving only searing hot passion. That’s what keeps me coming back.
STOLEN TRIBUTE (ZEXIAN TRIBUTES BOOK 2) by Luna Wren
When I accepted to be one of Earth’s Tributes to the Zexian warriors, I didn’t expect to be kidnapped during the ceremony. This rogue Zexian claims that he is one of the good guys. Jaxir stole me away from the warrior who claimed me, risking both of our lives in the process. Now we’re on the run from an elite alien warrior who I was sworn to, and I can’t keep fighting the feelings I have for the irresistible rogue. Jaxir swears that it’s our destiny to be together, but am I willing to die for it?
THE ARTIST (MEN OF THE NORTH BOOK 11) by Elin Peer
For more than four hundred years, women have ruled the world, but things are finally shifting. My father Magni always despised the Motherlands, and I’m no fan either, but I still go to the yearly summer gatherings that started when I was sixteen. The Northlands, Motherlands, and Old Europe each sends five future leaders. The Europeans are arrogant, the Motlanders are naïve, and neither of the groups seem to understand or accept that we Northlanders are born to lead. This year, we postponed the gathering four months, and since we’re hosting here in the Northlands, our guests were going to discover our beautiful winters. It would have been fine, if not for the un-expected snowstorm and the Europeans leaving one of their women behind. Now, we Nmen are gearing up to find Belle. I’m furious and ready to show the two delegations why they should stick to calculus and meditation and leave us real men to run the world.
I’ve watched Belle grow up over these past ten years. She is as pure and sweet as her art, and even though I can never have her, the thought of her alone and scared in the woods makes me want to kill someone. I’m going to save her life, even if it costs me my own!
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OVERMORROW: STORIES OF OUR BRIGHT FUTURE by Various
VS Note: Not romance…
“OVERMORROW: Stories of our Bright Future” is an anthology of science fiction short stories set in an optimistic future. From classic Golden Age style science fiction to wicked satire, from solarpunk to parody. Colony ships bound for distant solar systems, humans (and chickens) on Mars, Transhumanism and medical revolutions…”
THE CONSTANT RABBIT: A NOVEL by Jason FForde
VS Note: What can I say? It’s Jason Fforde. By which I mean, a mind like no other when it comes to thinking up unique plots. Not a romance although the book evidently contains romantic elements. This one’s too weird for me…A release of note…
England, 2022. There are 1.2 million human-size rabbits living in the UK. They can walk, talk, drive cars, and they like to read Voltaire, the result of an Inexplicable Anthropomorphizing Event fifty-five years before. A family of rabbits is about to move into Much Hemlock, a cozy little village in Middle England where life revolves around summer fetes, jam making, gossipy corner stores, and the oh-so-important Best Kept Village awards. No sooner have the rabbits arrived than the villagers decide they must depart, citing their propensity to burrow and breed, and their shameless levels of veganism. But Mrs Constance Rabbit is made of sterner stuff, and her and her family decide they are to stay. Unusually, their neighbors–longtime resident Peter Knox and his daughter, Pippa–decide to stand with them . . . and soon discover that you can be a friend to rabbits or humans, but not both. With a blossoming romance, acute cultural differences, enforced rehoming to a MegaWarren in Wales, and the full power of the ruling United Kingdom Anti-Rabbit Party against them, Peter and Pippa are about to question everything they had ever thought about their friends, their nation, and their species.
SUBMITTING TO THE SHADOW: KINDRED TALES 27 by Evangeline Anderson
Samantha Grey is in deep trouble—someone is stalking her and he’s getting closer every day. Desperate to escape, she goes to the one place she knows she can’t be followed—the Kindred Mother Ship. But she needs a job to stay aboard and the only one available in her field is…strange to say the least. When Sammi interviews with her new boss, she can tell that Commander Roark is an Alpha male who will be a challenge to work with. But she has no idea that he will demand her complete submission…or that she will give it willingly.
Commander Roark knows that he wants Sammi the moment he sees her. She’s an Elite—her lush curves call to his deepest desires. But a bad experience with a human woman in the past has made him wary of love. He and Sammi grow closer and closer but when she reveals an unthinkable truth, he sends her away, vowing to never love again.
Heartbroken, Sammi flees back to Earth…and straight into danger. Can Roark rescue her from a deadly fate before time runs out? You’ll have to read Submitting to the Shadow to find out.
PROMISE FOR VORE (TALLEAN MERCENARIES BOOK 3) by Lynnea Lee
She hated him the moment they met. Burned by love, Lettie is finally ready to date again after a long, self-imposed hiatus from men. But Vore is everything Lettie abhors. The sexy alien is a self-proclaimed ladies’ man and totally not her type. Then why does her body react every time he flashes her his fangs? “Love them and leave them.” That’s what Vore has always said. Why play with feelings when the females he meets only think of mercenaries as one-night stands? Vore lives for the chase, so when the tiniest human female he had ever met tells him off and claims he’s not her type, Vore takes it as a challenge to get her in his bed. With only a few days before his ship leaves the colony for the next mission, will Vore be able to win Lettie’s heart and teach her to love again? Or will she reject him to try her luck with another male, leaving him forever tortured by an unfulfilled mating bond?
SWEET HARMONY by Claire North
VS Note: Not a romance…
Harmony is tired. Tired of working so hard, tired of the way she looks, tired of being average.
But all that changes when she decides to splash out and upgrade her nanos. And why not? Everyone’s doing it now. With a simple in-app purchase, you can update the tech in your bloodstream to transform yourself – get enhanced brain power, the perfect body or a dazzling smile. Suddenly, everything starts going right for her. She’s finally becoming the person she always wanted to be. But as Harmony will find out, there’s a limit to how many upgrades a body can take.
THE ROAD TO THE STARS: THE CASSIDY CHRONICLES VOLUME 2 by Adam Gaffen
Cass and Ken are back! Five years after the events in Volume One, life is good for the Cassidys. Aiyana is perfecting her teleporters while running the Heavy Lift Corporation. Kendra is overseeing her ambitious starship project in her own, inimitable way. They want nothing more than to live their lives and raise their girls. It seems, though, that the universe has other plans for them. First there’s a mysterious request to meet with a pair of leaders from the world government; they have a problem and it seems the Cassidy’s are the only ones who can solve it. But they’ve never met a challenge they could walk away from, and this one’s no different. Meanwhile, Kendra has to find a captain and a crew to make her starship come to life. Then there’s the little matter of the science officer…Juggling demands from every direction, will Cass and Ken be able to rise to the occasion again?
THE INCONSTANT DOPPELGANGER (ELIZABETH HUNTER-PAYNE STEAMPUNK ADVENTURES 4) by Mikala Ash
In a time of rapid technological change which challenges the roots of the empire, Elizabeth witnesses the impossible. The arrival of her late husband’s doppelganger takes Elizabeth Hunter-Payne to the brink of insanity. Captain Nathanial Royston, late of the disgraced East India Company, claims he is innocent of the murder on the Great Northern Express. With the coolly professional Miss Clayton at her side, our feisty heroine investigates three nasty suspects to get to the bottom of the mystery. While doing so, Elizabeth is faced with a cruel reality and comes to a decision that threatens her future happiness.
THE RED RIDER: A REVERSE HAREM ZOMBIE ROMANCE (END OF DAYS BOOK 3) by JB Trepagnier
The Horseman of War is on the scene and nothing about the apocalypse prepared me for Dice. I thought Aeron and his murdering horse were crazy. Try everything about Dice. I’ll bet his murder horse is even worse than Aeron’s. We’ve moved from Mexico to Dice’s base in Florida. If you’re wondering where all the military ended up after the war, they all follow the Horseman of War now. It must be his angel superpower because not only does he have planes and firepower here, he’s got people that can use them. He’s got people all over the freaking world. I don’t know the first thing about war. In fact, I slept through World War III. Dice has bombs ferreted away, but we aren’t using them to light my father’s ass up and send him back to Hell. The three Horsemen I’ve met so far have some long-term plan. So, Dice is fiddling with explosives to make them into a delivery device for Leif’s zombie killing serum without blowing the rest of humanity to kingdom come.
THE UNEXPECTED BONDING VOW (ASSASSINS GUILD BOOK 1) (IN THE STARS ROMANCE) by Michelle Howard
Mated? No. Never. The last thing Garik Denikon would do is willingly tie himself to a woman. That would require a level of trust the ruthless assassin didn’t allow. Yet, here he was. On the run, escaping from an enemy, with his bonded mate at his side. Saedra had one chance. Only one, to grasp freedom and escape. So she took it with both hands locked tight to the dark-haired man in her father’s dungeon. She didn’t care about his deadly reputation or the rumors. Garik Denikon was worth the risk if he helped her to get away.
JHERGH: OBOSIAN WARRIOS BOOK FOUR by Sabine Ferruci
Interplanetary pilot Sophia Delgado has survived alien lizard slavers. ✓ adapted (somewhat) to a planet of decent alien alpha males. ✓ But for a while now, she’s just been going along to get along on Planet Obos. She gravitated toward the middle Savo brother, Jhergh, because he’s a little less bossy than the other males. And, bonus, he lets her fly the occasional aircraft. And, okay, he’s just as hot, if not hotter, than the other brothers. When a routine trip north suddenly goes south, they need to pool their skills to survive. She soon learns there’s a whole new wild side to her ‘mellow’ alien and a whole new way to fly.
TEA DREAMS: A SCOTLAND STEAMPUNK NOVELLA by Elizabeth Wren
Constable Genevieve Conlon has been a mess since her best friend and colleague was killed in a botched operation two years ago. When her boss gives her an ultimatum—go undercover on a tea-smuggling airship or face the sack—she knows it’s her last chance to hang on to her job.
Will Eisman is the second son of Scotland’s most powerful crime family, and has always played second fiddle to his brother, John. Now he’s finally been given his own mission, flying a shipment of smuggled tea from Hong Kong to Edinburgh, and with it the chance to finally prove his worth to his parents—and to himself. What he doesn’t expect is a last-minute change of crew and a new—and very attractive—first mate. Thrown together on a transcontinental voyage, the policewoman and the criminal find they have more in common than they thought. But Will has a secret that could ruin everything, and in Edinburgh Gen’s colleagues are waiting, handcuffs at the ready.
NIGHT TRAIN by David Quantick
VS Note: Not a romance…this one seems so weird! I read the Look Inside sample and have to admit it’s so mysterious, it kind of grabbed me. Put it on my TBR List. Seems to be more scifi than anything else, genre-wise, with horror maybe?
A woman wakes up, frightened and alone. The room shaking and jumping like it’s alive. The noise is terrifying. Where is she? Stumbling through a door, she realizes she is on a train carriage. A carriage full of the dead. A personal hell unfolding in an apocalyptic future. This is NIGHT TRAIN. A terrifying ride set on a driverless locomotive, heading for a collision somewhere in the endless night. How did the woman get here? Who is she? And who are the dead? As our heroine makes her way through the train trying to find out what happened to her, she meets a former strongman, a trained killer, and a collection of strange and terrifying creatures. Each step takes her closer to finding out the secret of the Night Train.
GOOD MORNING, MIDNIGHT: A NOVEL by Lily Brooks-Dalton
VS Note: Just read this last week. It’s going to be a Netflix-George Clooney movie in December. Really good scifi. Had an excellent twist. Not a romance although there’s a faint whiff of a romantic element (not with the character Clooney is playing). From 2016 but I wanted to share because I thought it was excellent. Warning: Not everyone gets a happy ending. And yes, at the old day job I did know scientists like this astronomer (in terms of his dedication to the science despite everything). Not many but some!
Augustine, a brilliant, aging astronomer, is consumed by the stars. For years he has lived in remote outposts, studying the sky for evidence of how the universe began. At his latest posting, in a research center in the Arctic, news of a catastrophic event arrives. The scientists are forced to evacuate, but Augustine stubbornly refuses to abandon his work. Shortly after the others have gone, Augustine discovers a mysterious child, Iris, and realizes that the airwaves have gone silent. They are alone.
At the same time, Mission Specialist Sullivan is aboard the Aether on its return flight from Jupiter. The astronauts are the first human beings to delve this deep into space, and Sully has made peace with the sacrifices required of her: a daughter left behind, a marriage ended. So far the journey has been a success. But when Mission Control falls inexplicably silent, Sully and her crewmates are forced to wonder if they will ever get home.
As Augustine and Sully each face an uncertain future against forbidding yet beautiful landscapes, their stories gradually intertwine in a profound and unexpected conclusion. In crystalline prose, Good Morning, Midnight poses the most important questions: What endures at the end of the world? How do we make sense of our lives? Lily Brooks-Dalton’s captivating debut is a meditation on the power of love and the bravery of the human heart.
CAPTURED (RUINS OF PLAZA AZUL BOOK 1) by H R Savage
VS Note: Apparently from the reviews there’s a cliffhanger ending.
I was raised in a world full of more death than life, surrounded by the blood-curdling violence and nauseating stench of zombies. And twenty years after the Outbreak, it doesn’t seem to be changing any time soon. After a devastating loss rocks my little group of survivors, I’m forced to venture out of my comfort zone in an attempt to find help—straight into the impenetrable walls of El Castillo. But The Knights don’t take kindly to my mission, and when their leader, Gunner, captures me, everything spirals out of control. My captor suddenly becomes my ally as we’re thrust into a war of Gunner’s own making. A war that threatens not only his people, but my own.
HORDE KING’S CLAIM (TIRIZAR HORDE) by Gabby Dark
I am captured to pay the price—in flesh—for my ex-ruler’s treachery. I’d rather fight than be given to a vicious alien warrior for his pleasure. My disobedience gains me the attention of the most ruthless and powerful warrior in the horde—their king…(more blurb on ebook seller’s page…)
KITTY VS ALIEN (FERAL ALIENS) by Loki Renard
When I catch my neighbor trying to steal my cat, I do what anybody would do. I hit him with a spade. That’s when I discover my mild mannered, cute, but boring neighbor is actually an alien. With fur. And claws. He doesn’t work in finance, either. He’s an interstellar bounty hunter. According to him, I’ve been aiding and abetting a fugitive in the form of my cat, Mr Tiddles. When I refuse to give Mr Tiddles up, I find myself dragged before a merciless alien court.
I have no chance of beating the charges, and the sentence is not what I expected. I become the bounty. I become his chain-kept. I become the alien’s kitty.
HER ALIEN CAPTOR (ALIEN PIRATES OF CANIA) by Zara Zenia and Juno Wells
I thought I was going to spend the rest of my life behind bars when I got shoved into that squad car, but I wake up to a much worse fate. Imprisoned on an alien planet, drugged, and about to be sold to the Alpha who ponies up the most cash. But a pale, muscular alien with silver hair and golden eyes steals me from the indoctrination center, intent on making me his own. I want to be angry. I want to despise him and what his people have done to me. But I can’t deny my attraction to him or what he stirs inside me. A need stronger than any hate.
THE GLASS QUEEN (THE FOREST OF GOOD AND EVIL BOOK 2) by Gena Showalter
Ashleigh Ansklelisa may be called the Glass Princess due to her weak heart, but Saxon, king of the Avian, knows she is more dangerous than broken glass, in this Cinderella retelling that sweeps readers into the magical land of Enchantia, filled with treacherous enemies, unexpected allies, forbidden love, and dangerous magic! Can destined lovers find their way to each other, or will evil win the day? Everything changes at the stroke of midnight as one determined princess fights for her legacy, her love, and the crown that is her destiny.
JOY TO THE WOLVES (RED WOLF BOOK 1) by Terry Spear
As Christmas approaches, red wolf shifter Brooke Cerise unexpectedly inherits an antique shop in Portland, Oregon. But when a missing reindeer calf turns up on her property, she becomes embroiled in a kidnapping case and the primary suspect of far-too-intriguing shifter Detective Josh Wilding. Josh doesn’t intend to fall for the mysterious new woman in town, but Brooke gets under his skin from the moment they meet, and he can’t help his instinct to protect her. These red wolves are both on the hunt for love, but there’s a mystery to solve before they can enjoy their holiday happy-ever-after.
ENSNARED (SEA DRAGONS OF AMBER BAY BOOK 2) by Zoe Ashwood
When I arrived in Alaska, I thought I signed up for a simple IT job. I didn’t think I’d have to create a massive magic spell with my funky witchy powers – for a village of sea dragons, no less. But here I am. Surrounded by my family’s mortal enemies, trying to learn spells most five-year-olds can perform, and getting flustered over guys who turn into mythical beings. The worst thing: I don’t even mind that much. Because as terrifying as this new world is, these three men make it worthwhile. With every look, every touch, every kiss, I get more addicted. Until the moment my old life catches up with me, bringing dangers I never saw coming. Everything I’ve worked to build might shatter with one false move. Unless I figure out how to be the witch I was meant to be.
TAMING LONDON (WARWICK DRAGONS BOOK 1) by Milly Taiden
London Warwick, dragon shifter and millionaire playboy, has been living a life of debauchery. He has no plans of changing his ways. Not even when his mother, a force of nature, decides he needs to revamp his image before he finds his mate. London has no plans on making things easy for the public relations wiz his mom hired to clean up his image. Not even if she’s his mate.
Bethany Russo has been crushing on London Warwick for way too long. But she is a professional with a PR nightmare to fix. She vows to put her hormones on lockdown. She is a professional, and she refuses to be another one of London’s conquests. Even if he is the walking definition of sexy male shifter. The sparks between the pair are way too hard to handle. Stolen kisses collided with hidden secrets. It seems that every time Bethany opens her heart to London, something goes wrong. But can a cold case murder and an international hitman really stand in the way of destined mates?
OLD DEMON AND THE SEA WITCH: A HELL CRUISE ADVENTURE (WELCOME TO HELL BOOK 10) by Eve Langlais
You can’t teach an old demon new tricks, but it’s never too late to fall in love. A long time ago, Shax loved a sea witch, but was too dumb to admit it. But this old demon has decided it’s time he got a second chance. A cruise through the tropics seems like the perfect place to rekindle things. The problem is, Dorothy isn’t about to let him charm his way back into her life. Not when he broke her heart once already. Good thing fate hasn’t given up on this pair. With Lucifer meddling, surely things will–Go to Hell first, because come on, this is Lucifer we’re talking about. But even he can’t stop true love.
BEWITCHED: A PARANORMAL WOMEN’S FICTION NOVEL (BETWIXT & BETWEEN BOOK 2) by Darynda Jones
Forty-something Defiance Dayne only recently discovered she comes from a long line of powerful witches. Added to that was the teensy, infinitesimal fact that she is what’s called a charmling. One of three on the entire planet. And there are other witches who will stop at nothing to steal her immense power, which would basically involve her unfortunate and untimely death. No one told her life after forty would mean having to learn new lifeskills—such as how to dodge supernatural assassins while casting from a moving vehicle—or that the sexiest man alive would be living in her basement. Whoever said life begins at forty was clearly a master of the underappreciated and oft maligned understatement.
THE PIXIE’S QUEEN (A MONSTERLY YOURS ROMANCE) by S J Sanders
Born into a family of witches, Orenda has the misfortune of being the sole member of her family born without magic. The smallest bit of magic that she can claim for herself is the ability to sense out magical talismans. She is drawn to them and makes it her task to keep the most powerful of them out of the reach of her family. Yet, when she comes across an ancient talisman in an antique shop, she is swept away by its magic into the fae world, but not unchanged.
Shrunk and stranded alone in the depths of the troll kingdom, Orenda must rely on the help of a hive of male pixies. Although they say that she is their queen, and lure her with every touch, they promise to help her return home. They are nothing like she’s ever imagined a pixie to be and give her a taste of a life that she couldn’t have imagined. In a world of magic, she—a magicless witch—strangely finds her place until events provide an opportunity to return to the human world. It leaves Orenda with a choice: to go back home or remain by their side?
Among pixies, although long-lived, they only have a opening of a handful of years to find their mates before the elders determine that the hives be broken and the males stripped of their breeding and mating abilities to serve as protectors for young unmated queens. Shavish is determined that his hive, though well beyond the suitable age of mating, do not come to a similar fate. His hive brothers Orel and Gwin may have resigned themselves to being guardians and Dazi retreating to his scholarly works, but he is not willing to give up yet. Although being mated to a small wingless queen wasn’t quite what any of them imagined, they resolve to not give her up. They will court their queen and win her for their own.
IMMORTAL ANGEL: AN ARGENEAU NOVEL by Lynsay Sands
For almost two centuries, Ildaria Garcia has been on the run, a trouble magnet with a knack for taking down bad guys. Lately, her vigilante tendencies have drawn unwelcome attention to her fellow Immortals. Forced to relocate, Ildaria is supposed to lay low in a new town. Instead, she quickly entangles herself with six and a half feet of muscular, tattooed trouble. Joshua James Simpson Guiscard, aka G.G., knows a lot about Immortals—enough to make him wary. Yet from the moment Ildaria walks into his club, he feels desire stronger than anything he’s known. Accepting the fact that they might be life mates is disconcerting. But when her past catches up to them, G.G. faces a choice—confront his demons at last, or lose a passion that’s hot as hell.
APPLE OF MY EYE: TIGER’S EYE MYSTERIES by Alyssa Day
When Tess starts receiving mysterious gifts from a stalker, addressed to “The Apple of My Eye,” she starts to worry. Because it’s Dead End, Florida, where dead bodies have been piling up faster than competitive pecan pies at the county fair. But when the gifts turn deadly, she and Jack know they have to solve the mystery and track down the stalker before they find another dead body … and this time it might be Tess! Luckily, Tess has Jack to help her solve this case … because sometimes it takes a tiger’s eye to see the truth.
BATTLE GROUND (DESDEN FILES BOOK 17) by Jim Butcher
VS Note: Not a romance but I know we have a lot of Harry Dresden fans here…
Harry has faced terrible odds before. He has a long history of fighting enemies above his weight class. The Red Court of vampires. The fallen angels of the Order of the Blackened Denarius. The Outsiders. But this time it’s different. A being more powerful and dangerous on an order of magnitude beyond what the world has seen in a millennium is coming. And she’s bringing an army. The Last Titan has declared war on the city of Chicago, and has come to subjugate humanity, obliterating any who stand in her way. Harry’s mission is simple but impossible: Save the city by killing a Titan. And the attempt will change Harry’s life, Chicago, and the mortal world forever.
DREAMING DEATH (KREWE OF HUNTERS BOOK 32) by Heather Graham
Ever since she was a child, Stacey Hanson has had strange dreams—and sometimes they come true. Her skills and experience led her straight to the FBI’s Krewe of Hunters. Now a serial killer is stalking Washington, DC, and people are scared. And it will be Stacey’s first case. Special Agent Keenan Wallace isn’t exactly thrilled to be teamed up with a rookie, but they’re going to have to get past their mutual friction if they want to stop a brutal killer. The victims are all vulnerable women, though the clues lead to suspects from DC’s powerful elite. Stacey can’t escape her nightly visions, but in trying to prevent them from occurring in real life, she might come face-to-face with a nightmare.
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MIDLIFE MAGIC: A PARANORMAL WOMEN’S FICTION NOVEL (NOT TOO LATE BOOK 1) by Victoria Danaan
The day after my forty-seventh birthday, my husband announced he was trading me in – his words, not mine. The news was unwelcome at the time, but honestly? I needed a good goosing to get up and find my way to the door.
So. I was freed from the giant manual of expectations authored by my ex. That was the good news. The flip side was less happy. Due to living in a state not friendly to discarded wives, I was also relieved of the financial ‘security’ I’d spent a lifetime accruing. Starting over? I didn’t plan on it. Didn’t see it coming. But pulling a sheet over my head and waiting for the end didn’t seem like my style. Granted. I wasn’t sure what my style was because I hadn’t thought about freedom of expression since I was twenty. I’d never been a fan of optimistic adages like ‘it’s not too late’, but that was before my life was divided into two parts; everything that came before the shoes and everything after. The red shoes shot me with a lightning bolt of attitude adjustment and thrust me head first into an adventure that was unforeseeable to say the least. If you’d told me what my life was going to be like, I would have used every synonym for crazy you’ve ever heard. By day I manage the curious goods shop I ‘inherited’ in a tiny, picturesque English village with where the world of magic lives side by side with the mundane. By night I receive magical dignitaries and magical lowborn alike for the mediation of disputes. Odd or not, some of the most attractive figures imaginable are finding me and my magical authority sexy. It may be too late for super shiny hair, going without a bra, or sleeping eight hours without a potty break. But it seems that it’s not too late for navigating magical politics, expatriating, romance, and saving the world.
DAN’S HAUNTASTIC HAUNTS INVESTIGATES: IVARSSON SCHOOL: A GHOSTLY M/M PARANORMAL ROMANCE by Alex Silver
Hauntastic Haunts is investigating the historic Ivarsson School. With Halloween right around the corner, the vlog is in peak season. Dan and Chad are eager to explore the decades-long string of strange deaths among the school’s young scholars. While they delve into the mystery, both men must come to grips with Chad’s newfound talents as a medium. Dan and Chad’s efforts to uncover the haunting’s truth meet with mixed messages from both the living and the dead. They’re left wondering if this month’s site is full of tricks, or if there’s a treat awaiting discovery. The locals blame a curse for all the misfortune at the one-room schoolhouse, and if the pattern holds, the guys are at risk of becoming the latest victims.
THE BLOOD BRIDE: BLOOD SECRETS BOOK 1 by Imogene Nix
Hope just wants to be an ordinary nestling. She went to college and escaped, but now she’s back and there’s a secret everyone is keeping from her. Xavier is the new master of the nest, ready to welcome home the daughter of the house who he has never met. He’s unprepared for the woman who steals his breath and enchants him. Now Hope and Xavier must fight for lives and those of the innocents. After all, it is only by overcoming the rogues that they will have a chance of a timeless future together. But will it be in time?
FORGIVING THAYNE (TRUE MATES BOOK 2) by J R Loveless
A wolf shifter eases his pain with work after being rejected by the other half of his soul, a man who despises the idea of true mates. Nicholas Cartwright buries himself in his work in an effort to forget the night he found his mate only to be callously rejected. He pushes himself to exhaustion, an incomprehensible state for most shifters, while being unable to find solace for even a single night in another man’s arms. When Nick’s reluctant mate reappears one day asking for his help, he questions whether he can set aside his pain and forgive Thayne. He must decide if he can trust Thayne to stay this time and not cut and run again.
MRS. MORRIS AND THE GHOST OF CHRISTMAS PAST (A SALEM B&B MYSTERY BOOK 3) by Traci Wilton
Charlene’s parents are in town for Christmas, and her mother is driving her up a tree. Her bed-and-breakfast’s resident ghost, Jack, isn’t fond of her either—and he’s showing it with some haunting high jinks. But when Charlene takes her mom and dad out for dinner, the less-than-seasonal spirits take a deadly turn. David Baldwin has just won a fortune in the lottery—and it adds a lot of drama to the charity auction he’s hosting at his restaurant. When he caps off the evening by playing Santa and handing out checks to some of the attendees, the mood shifts . . . and Charlene observes mysterious tensions between David and his flashy, bleached-blonde wife, his neglected teenage son from a previous marriage, and his hostile business partner, among others. And they’re only a few on the long list of potential suspects when David runs into the road and is mowed down by a fleeing motorist. Now it looks like it’s going to be homicide for the holidays.
THE MIDNIGHT LIBRARY: A NOVBL by Matt Haig
Somewhere out beyond the edge of the universe there is a library that contains an infinite number of books, each one the story of another reality. One tells the story of your life as it is, along with another book for the other life you could have lived if you had made a different choice at any point in your life. While we all wonder how our lives might have been, what if you had the chance to go to the library and see for yourself? Would any of these other lives truly be better? In The Midnight Library, Matt Haig’s enchanting new novel, Nora Seed finds herself faced with this decision. Faced with the possibility of changing her life for a new one, following a different career, undoing old breakups, realizing her dreams of becoming a glaciologist; she must search within herself as she travels through the Midnight Library to decide what is truly fulfilling in life, and what makes it worth living in the first place.
KILL ME SOFTLY (FOREVER IN THEIR THRALL BOOK 3) by Lidaya Foxglove
I escaped the cult, and have found happiness with my mother, but Father Joshua has not forgotten me. And why do I feel so empty inside? The clan took my memories and gave me this happiness apart from them. But something inside me still remembers the all-consuming love and need that we shared. I must return. To the love of the clan, and the dangers of our enemies. There are so many people I love and want to protect now. But when I return to the clan, I find that they have already paid a terrible price to protect me. It’s time to end this once and for all. I have grown stronger, but am I strong enough? Will I ever break the curse and become a vampire alongside my beloved men?
BACHELOR IN THE NORTH (THE RARE AND UNKNOWN BOOK 9) by Shai August
For months, Mahjabeen and her followers have perpetrated a series of terror attacks all over the world striking fear into the very psyche the populace. The world is afraid, and is crying out for feel good comfort television and the number one rated show must reluctantly return to air with an even more reluctant Alpha in the hot seat. Philippe Pelletier and his grumpy inner bear would rather be hibernating or fishing or doing anything else but facing the glaring lens of the camera and letting other people find him a mate. He seriously contemplates running, but familial obligations keep him in the Yukon, and the cameras catch him and so does a certain doe eyed beauty. Evangeline Longfellow has a secret. She’s an anonymous gossip blogger. Since the very first season she’s been trying to get the low down on the alphas of the Rare and Unknown, but no one has been sharing any secrets. Well as they say if you can’t beat them, join them. Infiltrating the production of The Shifter Bachelor was surprisingly easy, getting away from the hunky Philippe is way too hard.
CABIN ON SOUDER HILL by Lonnie Busch
Michelle and Cliff Stage bought their isolated vacation cabin in the mountains of North Carolina with hopes of repairing their eighteen-year marriage. But when Cliff disappears one night searching for the source of a mysterious light in the woods, Michelle’s life will change in unimaginable ways. After the sheriff’s department fails to find him, Michelle scrambles down the same dark mountainside alone, the strange, beckoning light her only guide. What she discovers is a cabin, identical to theirs, housing a life she barely recognizes—and a husband she hardly knows. Cliff is a changed man. Now caring and considerate, no longer a manipulative womanizer, he is also missing a finger. He claims that Cassie, their teenage daughter, is dead, killed in a car accident over a year ago. Michelle knows that’s not possible—Cassie had phoned her from Atlanta only hours before. Even when shown Cassie’s grave, Michelle refuses to accept she’s gone.
Michelle wants her daughter and her life back, and the only clue to what has happened is a man named Pink. A real estate agent and the man who years earlier built Michelle and Cliff’s cabin, Pink was rumored to have killed his wife and buried her on the property, then vanished, never to be seen again. But in Michelle’s new reality, Pink and his wife still reside in town and Pink’s smile-splashed billboards are everywhere. To get back to the world where her daughter exists, Michelle must unravel the mystery of Pink while questioning her very reality—and her sanity. Haunting, atmospheric, and deeply thought-provoking, The Cabin on Souder Hill questions the very nature of our existence and the choices we make to form it.
DEMON CURSED: THE MAGE CIRCLE TRILOGY BOOK 3 by L A McGinnis
One good demon deserves another. Alexis Hawthorne would give anything to have her old life back. Even her role as a demon soldier in Rhiannon’s legion of warriors was an improvement over where she is now. Chained up in the Mage Circle’s dungeons. Cole West came to New York with the clothes on his back and a boatload of secrets. Too bad he can’t tell anyone who—and what—he really is. But being sworn to secrecy by the Queen of the Fae means he has to keep his word. Or die. As Alexis fights to survive, Cole West hasn’t given up his search. When he finds the Mage who took her away from him, he’ll burn the entire Circle to the ground. Even if it is made out of marble.
DEADLY EDUCATION: A NOVEL (THE SCHOLOMANCE BOOK 1) by Naomi Novik
I decided that Orion Lake needed to die after the second time he saved my life. Everyone loves Orion Lake. Everyone else, that is. Far as I’m concerned, he can keep his flashy combat magic to himself. I’m not joining his pack of adoring fans. I don’t need help surviving the Scholomance, even if they do. Forget the hordes of monsters and cursed artifacts, I’m probably the most dangerous thing in the place. Just give me a chance and I’ll level mountains and kill untold millions, make myself the dark queen of the world. At least, that’s what the world expects me to do. Most of the other students in here would be delighted if Orion killed me like one more evil thing that’s crawled out of the drains. Sometimes I think they want me to turn into the evil witch they assume I am. The school itself certainly does. But the Scholomance isn’t getting what it wants from me. And neither is Orion Lake. I may not be anyone’s idea of the shining hero, but I’m going to make it out of this place alive, and I’m not going to slaughter thousands to do it, either. Although I’m giving serious consideration to just one.
FAMINE (THE FOUR HORSEMEN BOOK 3) by Laura Thalassa
They came to earth—Pestilence, War, Famine, Death—four horsemen riding their screaming steeds, racing to the corners of the world. Four horsemen with the power to destroy all of humanity. They came to earth, and they came to end us all. Ana da Silva always assumed she’d die young, she just never expected it to be at the hands of Famine, the haunting immortal who once spared her life so many years ago. But if the horseman remembers her at all, he must not care, for when she comes face to face with him for the second time in her life, she’s stabbed and left for dead.
Only, she doesn’t quite die. If there’s one thing Famine is good at, it’s cruelty. And how these blighted bastards deserve it. Try as he might, he can’t forget what they once did to him. But when Ana, a ghost from his past, corners him and promises pain for what he so recently did to her, she and her empty threats captivate him, and he decides to keep her around. In spite of themselves, Ana and Famine are drawn to each other. But at the end of the day, the two are enemies. Nothing changes that. Not one kind act, not two. And definitely not a few steamy nights. But enemies or reluctant lovers, if they don’t stop themselves soon, heaven will.
BLOODLACED (YOUKAI BLOODLINES BOOK 1) by Courtney Maguire
Kanjin hardly view their servants as human. Even less so when they are different. Asagi is different. Both a man and a woman. In the wake of his failure to protect a boy he saw as a son from their abusive master, Asagi is sold into the house of a young nobleman, Mahiro, who is the opposite of everything Asagi has ever known—gentle, kind, and generous. Mahiro bonds with Asagi and their friendship blooms into a deep and profound love. But when Asagi is poisoned out of jealousy, Mahiro reveals himself to be youkai, a demon who feeds on blood, and he has no choice but to turn Asagi to save his life. Asagi awakes reborn, strong, and eternally youthful. But the price for Asagi’s new life is high. The blood of the innocent. Just as Asagi’s trust in Mahiro falters, the boy he failed to protect, now a man, reappears. New master, same threat. With both a literal and proverbial monster at the door, Asagi must decide what it means to be human to protect what he loves most.
WHICH IS WHERE CLOWNS GO TO DIE (A WITCH P.I. MYSTERY BOOK 38) by Adele Abbott
Jill is busier than ever. A man who has just been released from prison asks her to clear his name. A bestselling author’s new manuscript has been stolen, and she is tasked to find it.
As if that wasn’t enough, she makes a chilling discovery about Grandma’s new business venture.
WOLF MATE (FATED MOUNTAIN WOLF PACK BOOK 5 ) by Jessica Aspen
All Natalie has is her GPS, her best friend’s last known location, and a desperate hunger for the truth. Her dangerous search for clues leads her to a blood soaked piece of land and a trip down a rocky ravine—straight into the arms of a sexy angry cowboy. Could it be fate? Luca has been a lone wolf his entire life. Discovering Natalie trapped and injured on Fated Mountain ranch—her big brown eyes and determined attitude break into his lone wolf reserve. But Natalie’s human. And her insistence on hunting down the truth conflicts with the pack’s needs. What happens when fate draws you to the wrong mate and murder might be best covered up?
BURNING ROSES by S L Huang
Rosa, also known as Red Riding Hood, is done with wolves and woods. Hou Yi the Archer is tired, and knows she’s past her prime. They would both rather just be retired, but that’s not what the world has ready for them. When deadly sunbirds begin to ravage the countryside, threatening everything they’ve both grown to love, the two must join forces. Now blessed and burdened with the hindsight of middle age, they begin a quest that’s a reckoning of sacrifices made and mistakes mourned, of choices and family and the quest for immortality.
DAIMON (GUARDIANS OF HADES SERIES BOOK 6) by Felicity Heaton
Daimon is ice. His heart is frozen by it. His body caged by it. And he likes it that way. But the sexy sorceress that storms into his life and declares herself a part of his team in his battle against the daemon uprising is determined to melt the ice that has shielded him for centuries, and he’s powerless to stop the burning need she ignites in him.
Even when he’s sure it’s only a game to her.
Cassandra has a sword hanging over her, a duty she has no choice but to perform and one she’s been putting off for years. Her latest excuse? Helping a band of immortal brothers with a war that might mean the end of this world if they fail. Her delaying the inevitable has nothing to do with the gorgeous Greek god who keeps rebuffing her and everything to do with saving the world. He’s a nice distraction and nothing more. She keeps telling herself that. Even when she’s sure he’s a danger to her heart. As things heat up in the battle to save the mortal world and the Underworld, will Daimon’s icy heart be able to withstand the fiery witch who can scorch him with just a look?
INFERNAL ENCHANTMENT (FIREBRAND BOOK 2) by Helen Harper
Being the sole police detective in London’s Supernatural Squad is no easy task. I have to navigate my way through a world teeming with supernatural creatures, from vampires to werewolves and everything else in between. My inexperience might count against me but my own shocking supernatural abilities will stand me in good stead – especially when I’m confronted yet again by the gruesome spectre of death…A vampire has been mysteriously killed in the centre of the city. Werewolf graves have been plundered for their bodies. And I think I might be developing an ill-advised crush on a certain black eyed vampire Lord.
FATED FOREVER (KINDRED OF ARKADIA BOOK 3) by Alanea Alder
VS Note: A re-edited re-release with “a bit more content added” per the author.
Ashby Fairfax has always looked for love in the wrong places, his last attempt left him running from an abusive boyfriend. Since coming to Arkadia life has been great, he finally has the family he has always craved. Only one thing is missing, his mate. But how can a small town, fox shifter be mated to a vampire prince?
Prince Gabriel has led his people through the ages and into the 21st century. He is on the verge of losing his soul when he catches the scent of what may be his mate. Once Ashby is confirmed as his, it seems their troubles begin.
Someone is after Ashby. Gabriel’s entire coven rallies around their new prince and for the first time in his existence Gabriel experiences bone numbing fear. Can he find the strength to send Ashby to Arkadia to ensure his safety? And will he be able to eliminate the threat before he loses his reason for living.
SOUL KEEPER: SOUTHERN SOUL HUNTERS BOOK 1 by Tegan Maher
I have to stop cursed souls bent on world domination? Must be Tuesday. I’m Kira, fallen angel and official guardian of lost souls. How that happened is a long story, but suffice it to say, I’m not exactly a rule follower. When my mother opens the gate to The Valley of Lost Souls and frees some of the most evil beings to ever walk the planet, I’m tasked with cleaning up the family mess. As usual. The catch? No dark magic. I have to follow the rules to catch them if I want to save my own soul and keep people from dying, but first I have to figure out who “they” are. Luck’s with me, though, because Mom’s colossal screw-up caught the attention of a high-powered supernatural agency. The new task force, dubbed the Soul Hunters, is a diverse team of witches, shifters, and other magical beings motivated to help with containment. After all, the entire world is at risk. They assigned Callum Knox, a powerful mage, to help me. Despite his dark past, I’ll have to learn to trust him if I want to recapture the souls before my mother’s mistakes seal my fate.
WHITE FOX by Sara Faring
VS Note: Mixed reviews, seems more gothic to me than anything paranormal or mystical as best I can tell (have not read it) but maybe a touch of a dark fairy tale in the “tale within a tale” format? No idea but it was a release of note…
After their world-famous actor mother disappeared under mysterious circumstances, Manon and Thaïs left their remote Mediterranean island home—sent away by their pharma-tech tycoon father. Opposites in every way, the sisters drifted apart in their grief. Yet their mother’s unfinished story still haunts them both, and they can’t put to rest the possibility that she is still alive. Lured home a decade later, Manon and Thaïs discover their mother’s legendary last work, long thought lost: White Fox, a screenplay filled with enigmatic metaphors. The clues in this dark fairytale draw them deep into the island’s surreal society, into the twisted secrets hidden by their glittering family, to reveal the truth about their mother—and themselves.
DRAGONS OF KARASK (BLUE FLAME OF LOVE) by Alina Giuchici
I was chosen. I am one of the selected ones. My name is Rya and I am a mate for a Dragon shifter. When I lay eyes on him, I can’t believe that the Crystal picked the handsomest mate for me! Thranadon is the man of every girl’s dreams, just not mine. My heart is with the cool D’Arcy, the dragon that is now the mate of my best friend, Dianeira!
And as if this mess is not complicated enough, the shadows attack us and I land all alone in the dangerous jungle.
Everything would be awful and horrible if not for the silver haired God I met. Ash is fun and drop dead gorgeous, I don’t know what he sees in me. When I get “rescued” I find myself unable to choose between the three men, because I am in love with each one of them.
A CAT IN THE ATTIC MYSERY: MAGIC OF HALLOWEEN NIGHT BOOK 5 by Kathi Daley
How is one to start again after losing the one thing that speaks to your heart and fuels your passion? After a serious accident leaves Calliope Rose Collins unable to continue with the career that has owned her soul for most of her life, she returns to Foxtail Lake, Hollister House, and Great Aunt Gracie. After solving the murder of a local girl she begins writing freelance articles for the local newspaper. This turns into a full time career and a new passion and inner healing is found. In book 5 in the series, Callie is faced with a personal choice as she stumbles onto a new mystery while helping the town prepare for the best Halloween it has ever seen.
THYME UNDER TENSION: BOOK ONE OF THE ILLUSION SQUARE ROMANCE NOVELLAS by Jen Lassalle
On the surface, Illusion Square is a charming shopping center thirty miles south of New Orleans in the small town of Treater’s Way. But mystique surrounds the specialty stores who call it home, and magic lies just below the roots of the mighty oak tree at its center. At Beyond Thyme, the store on the southwest corner, Adeline Refaire waits for the same afternoon to begin again and again. Normally, she doesn’t mind repeating a day, especially if she can help someone seize an opportunity they missed the first time. But this Tuesday has worn out its welcome, and her repeated efforts to save a life are taking a toll. No-nonsense crime blogger Christopher Reynolds is struggling to find a lead in his current cold case until a surprise in his daily activities brings a new angle but puts his life in danger. When he’s drawn to Illusion Square, and the mysteriously sexy Adeline, he wonders if she has answers to the questions he hasn’t yet thought to ask. As Adeline tries to solve the mystery of the cycling Tuesday, she’s forced to admit her developing feelings for Christopher, who doesn’t exactly remember meeting her every day. If instinct is drawing them together, is it possible that same instinct could break the cycle and help them solve a twenty-year-old crime before it destroys both of their lives?
THE HAUNTING OF H G WELLS by Robert Masello
It’s 1914. The Great War grips the world—and from the Western Front a strange story emerges…a story of St. George and a brigade of angels descending from heaven to fight beside the beleaguered British troops. But can there be any truth to it? H. G. Wells, the most celebrated writer of his day—author of The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds, The Invisible Man—is dispatched to find out. There, he finds an eerie wasteland inhabited by the living, the dead, and those forever stranded somewhere in between…a no-man’s-land whose unhappy souls trail him home to London, where a deadly plot, one that could turn the tide of war, is rapidly unfolding. In league with his young love, the reporter and suffragette Rebecca West, Wells must do battle with diabolical forces—secret agents and depraved occultists—to save his sanity, his country, and ultimately the world.
BLOOD DEMAND (ROYAL COVENS BOOK 1) by Kaylin Peyerk
No vampire has ever given a damn about me or my human family, that is until I was selected to become one. Every one hundred and twenty-five years the four sinfully sexy ruling coven lords choose a new concubine from the human population. They hand pick a woman based on blood type, often looking for one with the rarest blood type in the world: AB-negative. Only .06 percent of the population carries it. To vampires it’s the holy grail, the city of gold. To human women, it’s a secret to be covetted, for the lords are known for their cruelty above all else. To bad I was born with it. . . My blood is both gold and poison. It was easy to stay hidden until my twenty-fifth birthday, but from that year forward every human on the planet is required to donate blood once per month. For me, that dreadful date is in two days. From that moment on I will be a helpless fool in their cruel game of cat and mouse. All I can do is resist their pull by fighting against them with everything I have. . .Because as soon as the coven leaders have me locked between their bloodied hands, I know they’ll never let me go.
AN ODDITY OF SOME CONSEQUENCE by Gary Dickson
Robert Valmer moves from Rome to Beverly Hills in 2015, where against his better judgment, he falls for Alexis Roth, PhD, psychologist to the stars. But Alexis wants to know everything. Start from the beginning, she says. The beginning? Can he really tell her about how he fled France during the French Revolution in 1789 or about Italy during World War II? If he tells her even a little, will she think of him as a liar or a freak rather than a lover? He tries to deflect her probes, pleading shyness, but she knows that reticence is often the veil behind which secrecy lurks. His practice of stonewalling only further ignites her burning curiosity. As the pressure for honesty mounts, he does what he’s always done—flee. But Alexis is not a lover to be easily dismissed. She follows him to Europe, determined to track him down for an explanation. Where can she start when her quarry doesn’t want to be found? Each clue she uncovers leads her deeper into intrigue. An Oddity of Some Consequence is a glamorous tale of mystery, romance, and the fountain of youth.
SPARK (BEAR PAW RIDGE FIREFIGHTERS BOOK 12) by Ophelia Sexton
When a series of supernatural events terrorize the hotel’s staff and guests and injure one of Sophie Markidis’s shifter friends, the painfully shy, curvy Mythtrust News intern is compelled to investigate. She faces opposition from the hotel’s owner and a ghost who seems to hold a grudge against shifters. Luckily for Sophie, her two best friends, bear shifter Matt Swanson and sabertooth shifter Chris Langlais, have always had her back. Now, they insist on tagging along to protect her. But there’s a big complication–both of them want to claim her as his mate. Choosing one would mean destroying her friendship with the other. It’s an impossible choice…but first she has to uncover the truth about the Bearpaw Springs Resort haunting, and survive long enough to tell the tale.
AVENGING LANCE (A WARRIOR’S REDEMPTION TRILOGY BOOK 3) by M D Grimm
A child’s memory. A journey’s end. Lance doesn’t remember the time before Ulfr found him. It’s a dark pit in his mind that he avoids at all costs. And yet, despite his best efforts, pieces start to fall, and echoes from the past begin to ring. However, he has little time to comprehend their meaning, since the Captain of the Imperial Army herself has come to collect him and bring him to the capital city of the Nifdem Empire. Whisked away to the gilded streets and glittering court of the Hill of Tarran, and then to the snowy reaches of Swenen, Lance and Gust will learn the answers to questions they’ve had from the start. And be forced to acknowledge their roles in the survival of the empire and the ripple effects of their actions. But such knowledge can come at a steep price. As allies and enemies begin to step from the shadows, Lance will learn the truth of his past and the price of his redemption, and all the pain that comes with them. While Gust will have to decide what he’s willing to sacrifice to safeguard the one he loves.
THE VAMPIRE OF THE PROPHECY (THE PROPHECY TRILOGY BOOK 3) by Victoria Jayne
It was all happening according to plan. Rori chose power over love, and as a result, put himself in the running to be the next emperor of all vampires. Then someone threatened to expose his witch (along with all other paranormal creatures) to humans…unless he gave up his claim to the throne, that is. That’s when everything fell apart. The Council has no idea what Rori did to keep Divina safe, and if they find out, the consequences will be deadly. It’ll take all his power, connections, and the help of his loyal guard to protect everyone and everything he holds dear. But with time running out and enemies circling, can Rori survive long enough to complete the prophecy and maybe—just maybe—get a second chance at true love while he’s at it?
DARK MOON FALLS: LYALL by Tami Lund
She’s back. His high school sweetheart. The love of his life. The woman he let go because she needed to find herself.
Looks like she found herself back in Dark Moon Falls. She also found herself an enemy. And even though Lyall swore he was through chasing someone who didn’t want to be caught, he sure as hell was going to protect her from danger. He’d figure out how to protect his heart later. When she leaves town again.
TO KILL THE DEAD (HOLLOWCLIFF DETECTIVES BOOK 3) by C S Wilde
Mera never imagined she would have to face a necromancer without Bast, her fae partner, but the Captain decided to separate them on a whim – or so she thinks. Running against the clock to avoid an outbreak that could destroy the human borough, Mera is forced to work with Julian Smith, the man she used to love before the Night Prince came waltzing in her life. Not good. Not good at all. Meanwhile, Bast chases Poseidon with the help of his brothers, knowing it’s the only way to ensure Mera’s safety. He’ll do anything to save her, even if it means his doom.
ICE AND INK: A TWIN CITIES ICE BOOK by Erin McRae and Racheline Maltese
VS Note: Apparently there are selkies??? I read the blurb and thought it was a contemporary rom, but then I saw the author on social media talking about it being PNR….
Growing up on an isolated island in the middle of Lake Erie, Aaron Sheftall learned to skate as a young child when extreme weather would cut his off his small community — and its legends about a lost colony of seals — from the rest of the world. Now an elite figure skater, Aaron dreams of getting to the Olympics. Yet competition is fierce and in a sport filled with injuries and drama, careers are short. But when a fluke accident changes the stakes for the entire U.S. team, Aaron sees his chance. Zack Kelly used to be a war reporter. But a successful book about his time covering global conflicts, an unsuccessful marriage, and a dose of PTSD have sidelined him from the journalism game. When an old friend calls up him with a long-form assignment about competitive figure skating, Zack has no idea what he’s getting into. He also doesn’t care — it’s a change of scenery and a paycheck. Thrown together under circumstances neither of them are initially enthused about, Aaron and Zack ultimately embark on an unlikely — and ill-advised — romance about trust, myth, and what it really means to be comfortable in your own skin.
SHARDS OF ICE: M/M RETELLING OF THE SNOW QUEEN (GRIM AND SINISTER DELIGHTS BOOK 9) by R Phoenix
What happens when your rescuer becomes obsessed with you? Even worse, what happens when that rescuer isn’t even human…Kai’s life has never been easy, and bleeding to death in the snow seems the perfect fated ending to his miserable existence. A beautiful stranger drags him back from death’s door with a touch that is pure magic. Kai soon discovers that such magic lingers when Avery persists in seducing him. He starts to fall for him, but with every sliver of affection he gives Avery, his appreciation for his best friend Tristan gets stripped away to loathing, destroying every chance at love they might have had. Tristan has been in love with Kai for years, but he’s too afraid to admit it for fear of what Kai’s reaction might be. When the ice prince enters their lives and binds Kai to him with fae magic, it seems like there’s nothing anyone can do about it. But Tristan has his own powers, and he’s determined to save Kai from Avery’s deadly clutches. The only problem is…Kai might not want to be rescued.
HALLOWEEN HEARTS by Various
Witches, gargoyles, warlocks, and friends party with vampires and skeletons, and awaken the dead. Our collection of ghouls is sure to delight. Still, unfortunately, this is a limited engagement—we’ll be gone with pumpkin spice. For now, fill your bag with fantasy, urban fantasy, and more from today’s bestselling and hot new authors. One-click today is better than trick-or-treat tomorrow.
PURSUED (THE VAMPIRE SYNDICATE BOOK 1) by Rebecca Rivard
They call us the Dark Angels: Gabriel, Zaquiel and Rafael. We’re brothers. Princes. Billionaires. The richer-than-sin heirs to one of the world’s most powerful vampires. But we’re not vampires, we’re dhampirs. Half-human, half-vampire, with panty-melting good looks. The media love us. Vampires hate us. And Slayers, Inc. will do anything to take us down. Mila – I knew Gabriel was dangerous, the eldest son and heir to a Syndicate Primus. You think a Mafia don is scary? You should meet Gabriel’s father. But I thought I could play with fire without being burned. Now I’m on the run from the Syndicate. Hungry, alone. Not knowing who to trust. Until the night the vampires hunt me down…
Gabriel – I let Mila run from me once. Now she’s back—right when all hell breaks loose in the Syndicate. Yeah, I’m suspicious. I know she’s keeping secrets from me. But this time, I have the upper hand. Mila’s mine now. Bound to me by a blood oath that only I can break. I’ll never let her leave.
KITSUNE ENCHANTMENT by Margaret L Carter
On the verge of losing her job, Shannon leaps at the chance to sell her graphic novel series to a major publisher. If only she could trust her reclusive artist partner, Ryo, to show up for editorial meetings at the science fiction convention they’re attending. She’d love to have a closer relationship with Ryo, but how can she count on a man who keeps disappearing with the flimsiest of excuses? Ryo feels the same attraction to Shannon, but he isn’t sure how she’d react to the truth. He’s a kitsune—a fox shapeshifter—prone to transforming at awkward moments. Furthermore, a bungling amateur sorcerer is stalking him. When the wannabe wizard follows him to the convention, Ryo’s secret, liberty, and budding romance with Shannon are all threatened.
MORE THAN YOU KNOW: THE SOLARS DUOLOGY BOOK 1 by Natalie J Damschroder
Avery Kale is a paranormal law enforcement agent in charge of rogue solars—people who use their ability to harness the sun to commit crimes. Her husband Reed is a teacher, helping young solars adapt to becoming part of the solar community. Their marriage has been a delicate equilibrium ever since their deadly allergy to each other nearly killed Reed, a balancing act neither is able to endure much longer. But Reed’s insistence on finding a better solution wars with Avery’s fear that trying could be fatal. Then Avery and Reed are enlisted for a multi-jurisdictional homicide case. Someone has been using heretofore unknown powers to kill using the sun. They need Avery’s unique ability to determine if their main suspect is a solar. Paul Adranian, a DC billionaire, is hiring a husband-wife bodyguard team for his kids, and Avery and Reed are the task force’s best option. The risk seems low: Get hired, get in, identify him, and get out. But the not-so-quick job drags on and gets complicated when Paul enlists them to clear his name, using an enticement they can’t turn down. Now not only are Avery and Reed targets of the most dangerous solar ever known and a danger to each other, being together every day has put a spotlight on problems they didn’t know they had. If they survive the killer and the allergy…is their marriage doomed anyway?
VINTAGE VAMPIRE (SOUTHERN RELICS COZY MYSTERIES BOOK 4) by Bella Falls
Ruby Mae Jewell is over the moon with how well things are going in her life. Now that all the elements of her life seem to be falling into place, the fiery witch is ready to focus her energies on fixing her cousin Deacon’s tiny little problem of being cursed into the form of a pig. But as she gets close to a solution, a bigger problem almost cooks her bacon. Rue’s always known her vampire boyfriend’s fears have always been that his past deeds would come back to haunt him and hurt her. When someone from Luke’s past insists he return to his ancestral home, Ruby Mae insists on returning with him. While in Italy, she finds out just how much the death of his long-lost sister is affecting his whole family, she makes it her mission to solve her murder. But when her own life gets threatened as she gets closer, will Ruby be able to find out the truth before she becomes the next victim?
BECOMING HUMAN by Holly Gray
Jack Whitaker lives a grayscale life. But a violent, yellow-eyed woman; a tea-drinking animal in human form; and a woman in brown with devastating powers of healing have Jack rethinking the boundaries of reality. Marin, the woman in brown, is supposed to be the most important leader Jack will ever meet. She’s certainly the kindest, so Jack accepts the task of protecting her for a month from a violent duo with a supernatural ability to track their prey. Jack and Marin travel the country, healing humans and animals, meeting everyday heroes and villains and everyone in-between. Jack isn’t sure if the world is ready for a woman like Marin, let alone whether she is.
THE WOLF (WILD HUNT 2) by Stephanie Burke
Caille knows the hearts of men, and she has been ripping them from their chests for centuries. Now, as a member of the Wild Hunt, she wants nothing more than to rip apart the men who dared steal one brother’s mate and kidnap her other Hunt brother. Nothing and no one will stand in her way… even the curiously attractive new partner The Master of the Hunt has given her.
Bran the Blessed had been in a cave for what seemed like an eternity, growing back his body and learning about the new world with the aid of his companion crows. He relied on no one except his friend, Kern, who brought him out of his solitude and offered to introduce him to the new world. Problems arise when his friend’s mate has been kidnapped by murderous cultists, leaving Kern unable to function. There is no way Bran, the once-powerful King of Wales could not assist with this hunt as a new Huntsman… and then there was Caille. Instantly intrigued with each other, the two Huntsmen become pawns in a dangerous game where the elite go to satiate their darkest desires and where the cultists themselves hope to gain more power and influence. Vowing to protect this budding relationship, Bran will do anything he can to protect his new family, even if it means he became one of those who play with wolves.
LIZA (DRAGON ISLES BOOK 1) by Shelley Munro
Elizabeth Carrington: single-mother with a daughter and an obnoxious ex who refuses to leave without a chunk of her inheritance. An aspiring writer, she glimpses the unbelievable during a research trip, and when she awakens after the resulting car crash, she isn’t in England any longer. Not that she understands this calamity, because a knock to the head has stripped her memories. She is a woman with no past and no perception of dragons or their danger to her. Dragon shifter Leonidas, Champion of the Skies, is the youngest son, and his parents have arranged a betrothal for him with Nan, The Strongminded. He rejects this betrothal his parents insist will bring peace and cement bonds between the Dragon Isles. Once Liza crashes into Leo’s life, everything changes. While his family, friends, and neighbors are baying for her death, instinct propels Leo to protect this attractive stranger. Their friendship deepens from respect to love as they attempt to discover how and why they met. What they learn will rip apart the dragon world and propel the inhabitants of the Dragon Isles into an unknown future.
COURT OF COMMAND (AGE OF ANGELS BOOK 1) by Milana Jacks
Julia – the mortal – I’m scrounging for food in an abandoned Bel Air mansion when an angel catches me—and I try to kill him. Instead of swatting me like a mortal fly, he strikes the ground with his sword… And I’m transported, wounded and alone, to some kind of Medieval, science-fiction fantasy world. There must be some reason the archangel—all gorgeous, bloody perfection with massive wings and a deadly kilt—spared me. No mortal is supposed to remember when the angels fell. But I do, and I’m marked with a secret that could turn the tables, and send this beautiful angel straight to hell. Commander – the archangel – In my world, everything—and everyone—submits to my will. Mortals who retain memories of Before are eliminated. I should eliminate this one, too. But something about her tugs at my very soul. So I’ve decided to keep her. When I discover she’s a pawn, I discover something else about her. She may be mortal, but she’s not weak. And I’ll fight to my last shred of power to save her before her sanity—and her life—are torn from me.
IDOLS AND ENEMIES (AMPLIFIER BOOK 4) by Meghan Ciana Doidge
I knew that opening the letter from the sorcerer Azar would have deadly consequences. So we had prepared. We’d planned. We knew we might have to defend ourselves, our freedom. And that I might finally get a chance to exact the revenge I kept telling myself I wasn’t interested in exacting. What we didn’t know was that we’d find ourselves hosting a dysfunctional family reunion — the kind where everyone tries to kill someone at least once over dinner.
Sorcerers and witches. With me in the middle. Mediating. I could wipe a small city from the face of the earth. I could vanquish a horde of demons with only two shortswords. I could infiltrate a magically fortified compound without detection, stand against black witches, and defy even those capable of manipulating minds. What I couldn’t do was mediate a family squabble that stretched back decades, replete with kidnapping, magical coercion, and rape. Or I couldn’t mediate with words, at least. Thankfully, though, draining everyone of their magic was always an option.
PINCH OF SASS: SASSY EVER AFTER (DIRE WOLF MATES BOOK 3) by C D Gorri
Can this stoic Dire Wolf admit the sassy feline is his fated mate and stake his claim? Ariella Golden needs to persuade sexy Dire Wolf Beta, and the amazingly talented chef at Serious Moonlight, Brock Laurent, to use her Pride’s corporation, Eat Well Live Proud, for all the roadhouse’s needs in order to win the coveted quarterly prize at her company. They did offer the best organic, non-GMO, and responsibly harvested fish and meat. The only problem was the big ol’ doggy happened to be her fated mate.
Brock was perfectly content to cook good food and hang out with his Pack until she walked into his life. Now the curvy, curly-headed goddess was all he could think about. Determined to ignore the pull of his mate, Brock develops a plan to test whether or not the virginal hellcat can handle all of him. Ariella is stunned when Brock propositions her. With the encouragement of her family, she agrees to a single night in Brock’s arms to close the deal that will put her in the running for EWLP’s quarterly prize. After all, it might be the only way she can get the big dummy to realize she is his mate. Will the sassy feline prove that she can take anything he dishes out?
THE DRAGON’S FAKE FIANCEE( DRAGONS FOR HIRE BOOK 1) by Sadie Sears
100 years ago a woman tore my heart out. I haven’t risked it since. Faking things with Gretta should be simple fun. Scaring off her evil ex is a bonus. She makes the fire deep inside of me rage with desire and I need to make things real. Will she accept me if I tell her I’m a dragon shifter? Hell, I don’t even know if she’ll believe me. Wizards have come to town and they’re up to no good. Why do they want Gretta? It doesn’t matter. I’ll keep her safe. My heart is ready to heal, and my inner dragon is sure of one thing: she’s my fated mate. New relationship? No thanks … Fake one? Sign me up! People say workaholic like it’s a bad thing. Those people don’t know my life. Love? Ha! Not in the cards. I’m still trying to get rid of my disastrous ex. Then Samuel shows up like a knight in shining armor. He’s ready to fake it all to keep the evil ex at bay. One tiny problem: Nothing feels fake with Samuel. He makes me crave the heat of his embrace and long nights in his bed. I think I’m ready to trust him with my heart. But when Samuel reveals an impossible secret it’s no longer my sister, my work, or my ex that I’m worried about. Can I really be falling for a guy that breathes fire?
HAWK’S HEART (GUARDIANS OF THE FAR REALM BOOK 4) by JL Madore
The quint is aligned and as much as I hoped life would simplify once the five of us mated… it’s a big ‘Hells No’ on that. Don’t get me wrong, the guys are great, with me, with each other. Sexy sparks are flying in every direction and having a front-row seat is enough to ignite me into flames—even if I wasn’t a mythical firebird. Now we need to get ahead of the chaos coming at us. Open the portal. Unite the realms. Everyone lives happily-ever-after. But not everyone is as on board as they pretend. Who do we trust? Who’s working against us? As we get closer to our goal, the opposing forces level up their attempts to keep us from fulfilling our destiny. Is it the Council? The Black Knight? Someone in the upper levels of the Fae Concealment Office? Whoever it is, they must be stopped before someone I love gets killed.
DEFENDER HELLHOUND (PROTECTION INC DEFENDERS BOOK 3) by Zoe Chant
He’s the only one who can save her.And only she can save him from himself. Ransom’s out-of-control hellhound has made his life, literally, a living hell. His beast can reveal any secret to him, but Ransom can’t make it stop. He’s barely holding onto his sanity, drowning in a deluge of the worst moments of other people’s lives. It even got him kicked out of his last refuge, the bodyguard agency Protection, Inc: Defenders. But it finally brought him something good: a vision of a woman in danger that led him to her. His one true mate has only a year to live. After an accident damaged Natalie’s heart, any excitement, from a car chase to a scorching hot kiss, could make her drop dead. But a life without joy is no life at all, so she embarks on a road trip to tick off every item on her bucket list before her time runs out. Natalie’s more than happy to drag a smoking hot bodyguard (not to mention a pair of adorable teleporting puppies) along with her. Even though acting on her desires could give her a literal heart attack.
STAR ON THE RISE (GET YOUR ROCKS OFF BOOK 3) by Sam Hall
VS note: Apparently a paranormal rock star series…
I’ve been beaten down, coerced, tricked and torn apart by them. Now I rise.
POSSESSION ON THE FIRST (AN OBSCURE MAGIC BOOK 10) by Viola Grace
A new job selling the most haunted property in town leads to a possession, then another, and finally it is time to put the hammer down. Hannah has always stuck out in her family. The carrier of a recessive skin tone, she knows a little magic, knows a lot about construction and is happy to have found a new career to focus on. Just like everyone else in the family. On the day that she got the listing for the most haunted house in town with murders like clockwork every twenty-five years, she accidentally triggers the house’s most recent victim. Five years earlier an XIA agent had been investigating the house and he had fallen into a coma. On her first day, something lodged inside Hannah’s brain.
With no other option, she calls a spectral consultant and the woman and her tiny cat identify the person who is hitchhiking behind her eyes. A portion of the XIA agent’s spirit has gotten stuck in Hannah’s and he is using her to power his return to consciousness. She has to get him out. Going back alone is stupid, but she doesn’t feel she has another choice. She doesn’t want to involve her family and the XIA can’t help because no crime had been committed in the last five years. She gets the agent out of her head, gets the attention of the ancient entity that craves blood, and finds herself in a fight for her life with unexpected allies, and one persistent dark elf who will not leave her side. According to her mother, she could do far worse.
THE RELUCTANT WOLF AND HIS FATED MATE: A HOWLS ROMANCE (WHITE MOUNTAIN SHIFTERS BOOK 1) by Lisa Carlisle
Mates were trouble. That’s why Damon would never commit to one. Even if the temptation is strong…Sophie escapes to the White Mountains with her friend for a ski weekend. When she skis off trail and gets lost in the mountains, she stumbles into the path of a wolf. Only it’s bigger than any she ever thought existed, and it’s baring its fangs at her…
Damon has refused to ever mate with another, since his father went mad after losing his. When Damon meets a woman his wolf recognizes as the one, the call is more difficult to ignore. And when he catches her scent on the mountain, he can’t fight it any longer. He tracks her through the forest to ensure she’s safe. Only Sophie has stepped into another pack’s territory. If Damon crosses the boundary, he’ll break the treaty between their packs. Mates–not just trouble. They could lead a shifter to his death.
CAN’T GET ENOUGH (DRAGON KIN) by G A Aiken
VS note: A re-release…
Renowned for his fighting prowess, Ailean the Wicked has a new conquest in mind—the gorgeous dragoness Shalin the Innocent. While he’s saving her from her enemies, he plans to prove that even in human form a bad-boy dragon can show a girl a good time that’s truly off the scale.
XAVIER: VAMPIRES IN EUROPE (VAMPIRES IN AMERICA BOOK 14) by D B Reynolds
Tall, dark, and deadly, vampire Xavier Prospero Flores waded through blood to destroy his enemies and reach the pinnacle of vampire society–Vampire Lord. He has only one regret in his long life, and that’s the day he rejected the advances of Layla Casales. She’d been too innocent, too naïve, and far too young. But she’d also been his. Layla Casales was only nineteen when she left Spain, brokenhearted and humiliated by Xavier’s rejection. But now, ten years later, the ties of family are pulling her back, not only to Spain, but to Xavier’s fortress. Her father, the vampire lord’s military commander, is critically ill. Layla has spent years fighting on battlefields around the world, so when her father asks her to come home, she can’t say no. Though Xavier’s rule began on the ashes of his enemies, it’s not vampires trying to kill him now–it’s humans. He needs to eliminate his enemy before more of his people die. Layla arrives just in time to help, but while she came for her father, the minute she and Xavier see each other, desire burns as hotly as if they’d never been apart. Xavier isn’t going to let her go this time. But before they can rediscover the love they walked away from, they must first keep each other alive.
CURSED: DECORAH SECURITY BOOK 21 by Rebecca York
The moment Andre Gascon read Morgan Kirkland’s bio on the Decorah Security Web site, he knew she was the right person to investigate the eerie murders plaguing his estate deep in the Louisiana bayou. His e-mails drew her to him. But when she arrived at Belle Vista, she learned he was a man with dark secrets. He lived like a captive on his own land, disappeared into the swamp at twilight, drank a strange homemade tea–and refused to trust her. And why did a voodoo priestess show up every night with her drum? Morgan knew destiny had drawn her and Andre together. But could she break through the barriers he erected around his heart–before evil forces doomed them both?
FLASH OF FATE (POWER OF LIGHTNING BOOK 2) by Asa Marie Bradley
Twin kids are being abducted across the country–with one left behind drugged and positioned like a corpse, while the other vanishes faster than a lightning strike. No sound, no trace, no clue. Forensic artist Molly Nyland is determined to find the kidnappers and the lost kids, and while she’s come to terms with her bizarre ability to detect when someone holds back the whole truth, she does not have time to master new powers that may burn her alive. To complicate matters more, her sexy detective boyfriend still struggles with PTSD while cultivating his own strange new abilities. Then because child abductors, unpredictable supernatural talents, and PTSD aren’t enough, Molly and her boyfriend must join with Molly’s ex in order to solve the case of the missing kids. The increased strain threatens to break their relationship, and that’s before old foes resurface to hunt Molly again. The only way for her to find the missing children and combat the enemy…is by jumping straight into the rising storm.
SACRIFICE (BLOODLINE VAMPIRES BOOK 1) by Katee Robert
All my life, I’ve wanted nothing more than to escape my father’s compound. Half human, half vampire, I have none of the perks and all of the weaknesses. Well, my father’s finally found a use for me. He’s sent me to Malachi Zion, the last vampire in his family. My role is to play resident blood bank and, should Malachi knock me up, my father gets access to a whole new bloodline to control. No one asks me what I want. But the longer I spend with Malachi, the more I realize that he’s not the monster I first thought, which makes it harder to resist the heat that flares between us. And then his two friends show up and complicate things exponentially. As long as we’re stuck in this house together, I’m a trap just waiting to be sprung. But if we break free, there’s nothing holding these vampires to me…
In gaining the one thing I want more than anything—my freedom—I might just lose everything.
LUNA CHOSEN: BOOK 5 OF THE LUNA RISIN SERIES by Sara Snow
Nineteen years ago……a mother and her baby died during childbirth. But two minutes later, that baby CAME BACK TO LIFE. A miracle, according to everyone involved…However, that child grew up to hate her life because it’s been nothing but a trip through hell. Yes, you guessed it. I’m that child, Ruby Saunders. The truth is, at birth my fate was sealed. I was saved by a God, chosen to be a vessel used to save a dying world. I didn’t ask for any of this. Now after meeting my father the truth about my birth and my power is finally revealed. I was saved by a GOD at birth…given divinity to spare my life. But…why? Still the end of the world is upon us as the vampire threat grows stronger…
…and I fear it won’t be a pleasant end. I’m living on borrowed time and…I fear the life that was spared so many years ago will have to be REPAID.
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VS Note: Pets In Space 5 coming soon….up for pre-order now….releases October 6th
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VS: From my own backlist, an old favorite of mine ESCAPE FROM ZULAIRE. I’d always wanted to write a story about a woman suddenly plunged into danger, behind enemy lines, unsure who to trust….I think Andi is the heroine of mine people have had the most trouble finding likable, which wasn’t my intent at all. She’s very strong minded though LOL. The book won the 2014 National Excellence in Romance Fiction Award in its category…
Andi Markriss hasn’t exactly enjoyed being the house guest of the planetary high-lord, but her company sent her to represent them at a political wedding. When hotshot space marine Captain Tom Deverane barges in on the night of the biggest social event of the summer, Andi isn’t about to offend her high-ranking host on Deverane’s say-so—no matter how sexy he is, or how much he believes they need to leave now.
Deverane was thinking about how to spend his retirement bonus when HQ assigned him one last mission: rescue a civilian woman stranded on a planet on the verge of civil war. Someone has pulled some serious strings to get her plucked out of the hot zone. Deverane’s never met anyone so hard-headed—or so appealing. Suddenly his mission to protect this one woman has become more than just mere orders.
That mission proves more dangerous than he expected when rebel fighters attack the village and raze it to the ground. Deverane escapes with Andi–barely. On their hazardous journey through the wilderness, Andi finds herself fighting her uncomfortable attraction to the gallant and courageous captain. But Deverane’s not the type to settle down, and running for one’s life doesn’t leave much time for romance.
Then Andi is captured by the rebel fighters, but Deverane has discovered that Zulaire’s so-called civil war is part of a terrifying alien race’s attempt to subjugate the entire Sector. If he pushes on to the capitol, Andi will die. Deverane must decide whether to save the woman he loves, or sacrifice her to save Zulaire.
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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.
Love this time of year. Intergalactic dating agency and, next week, it’s those pets again
Gill
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