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):
HUNTED BY THE DRAGON ALIEN (ZARUX DRAGON BRIDES BOOK THREE) by Ella Blake
Abducted. Auctioned. Forced to fight for the entertainment of others. That is her fate…until she meets him. In a brutal arena where survival hinges on bloody spectacle, Sevas, a fierce Terian fighter, finds herself struggling against the shackles of captivity—and her own growing feelings for Takkian, a brooding Zaruxian gladiator whose past is as scarred as his battle-worn body. With their futures hanging by a thread, Sevas and Takkian plan an escape from the dangers of the arena, but the game changes when they’re pitted against each other in a fight to the death. Takkian is a beast. With no memories of his past, he fights for survival. But when Sevas, a fiery Terian fighter, becomes his cellmate, Takkian finds himself fighting to protect her. As the danger escalates and their feelings deepen, he begins to imagine a life free from the arena with Sevas as his mate. But escape is not easy and the Axis—the powerful entity holding them—won’t let them go. But their lives are intertwined in surprising, hidden ways and Takkian soon learns that leaving the arena is only the beginning of the battle for freedom.
CHAOS (UNCHARTED HEARTS BOOK THREE) by Constance Fay
He’s a mind controlled killing machine, until her touch frees him – Engineer Caro Ogunyemi thinks she has everything in control. Sure, she has a dark secret in her past and aim so bad that she can’t shoot the side of a spaceship when she’s right in front of it, but those are minor details in the life of a space mercenary. When Caro embarks on a solo mission infiltrating a prison planet that is run by the deadly Pierce family, she embraces the opportunity to prove she’s a hero. It’s there that Caro meets Leviathan, a super soldier with a chip in his head that turns him into a mindless killer. He’s drop dead gorgeous with an emphasis on drop dead, until she touches him and renders his chip inert. The danger begins when she lets him go. In the heart of enemy territory, where love is at stake, life is treacherous and time is short, Caro and Leviathan must figure out how to recover his agency, protect her crew from Pierce’s sinister machinations, and stage a prison-break before Leviathan is lost to her—and himself—forever.
Read more on Veronica Scott’s blog…
