Here’s the weekly post from my author blog on the new releases I found to be of interest in my three favorite romance genres (which are also the ones I write in!), and related areas such as time travel, steampunk, paranormal cozy romances and more. I do sometimes cover other releases of note in science fiction and fantasy.
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). I don’t pick up every single new release each week but try to provide a representative subset and lots of choices.
Here’s a teaser for this week’s first two books (jump to the blog to see the approximately 85+ titles featured this week):
MARKED BY THE BOUNTY HUNTER (VINDUTHI CAPTURED MATES BOOK FIVE) by Ava York
Running a bar on the edge of civilized space teaches you to spot danger. What it doesn’t teach you is how to resist a seven-foot alien warrior with predator’s eyes and a growl that makes my knees weak.
As a bartender on Nova’s Edge station, I thought I’d seen it all. Then a Vinduthi warrior walked into my bar, all rippling muscle and predator’s grace, and turned my world upside down. Now I’m helping him investigate disappearing children while trying to ignore how his touch sets every nerve ending on fire. Tyrix says I’m his mate, says he’ll keep me safe, but I’ve never felt more in danger. Not from the conspiracy we’re uncovering, but from the way my heart races every time he growls my name. They say a Vinduthi’s mate bond is forever. What they don’t tell you is how addictive forever can be.
DOUBLE TAKE (COSMIC MATES BOOK FIVE) by Cara Bristol
The second time around is double or nothing…Getting over the death of her husband has been a long, slow process for pottery artist Faith Hammond. But five years have passed, and she’s making a new life for herself, moving from Earth to planet Terra Nova and opening up a pottery shop. She’s finally finding the calm and focus she’s been seeking. Until there’s a knock at her cottage door. Standing there is her very-much-alive husband, Mark. John Bragg is Mark Hammond’s clone. After the Dark Ops agent dies, Bragg takes his place, assuming all aspects of his life, except for one—his marriage. Faith is deemed off-limits. But in studying his progenitor to impersonate him, Bragg has fallen for the man’s widow. He resigns himself to unrequited love until he hears Faith is looking to remarry—she has joined the interplanetary matchmaking service, Cosmic Mates. He can’t bear to lose her again. He goes AWOL from Dark Ops in a last-ditch effort to claim the woman he desperately loves. But can Bragg convince Faith he’s a clone? And if he can, will she be able to see him as a unique individual—or will he never be more than a dead ringer for her late husband?
Read more on Veronica Scott’s blog…
