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 95+ titles featured this week):
SURVIVAL INSTINCT: A POST APOCALYPTIC ROMANCE by Cara Bristol
A nurse and an alien battle for trust in a devastated world – Laurel is a nurse working in her hometown hospital when disaster strikes. Aliens from planet Progg-Res attack Earth, vaporizing most of the population from huge spaceships. Then ground troops march town to town, house to house, eliminating the rest. Laurel survives by hiding out in a cave, living day by day hoping to evade detection. After many months of quiet, she dares to venture out. And finds a critically wounded Progg man in the woods. Instinct tells her to finish him off, but she can’t bring herself to kill in cold blood. Besides, he’s going to die anyway. However, she worries that leaving his body for his comrades to find will bring them too close to the hiding place that has served her well, so she drags the Progg’s body back to the cave. Unfortunately, the alien scum survives and throws her into a dilemma. She can’t keep him prisoner forever, which means she has to release him and risk her life—or kill him. Death at the hand of the enemy is an honorable one, but to his shame, Grav doesn’t want to die. Although he’s an aide to the admiral in charge of the Earth campaign, he’s never killed anyone, never even discharged his vaporizer. But he doesn’t think that will matter to the young human woman who took him hostage and looks at him with revulsion in her eyes. The only thing he can do is try to build a rapport and convince her he’s harmless in hopes she’ll see him as a person and not one of the hated aliens who killed her family. If he can’t, he’s afraid he’s in deep trouble. Because he suspects she won’t release him. Which only leaves one other option. Can two people bitterly divided by fear and loathing bridge the gap and trust one another so they both can survive?
THAWED GLADIATOR: VICTOR (AWAKENED FROM THE ICE BOOK FOUR) by Alana Khan
A fighter facing impossible choices…Maya Andrews built her gym from nothing, cleaning up her father’s messes along the way. Still, nothing prepared her for her father’s latest scheme—a stolen gladiator preserved in ice for two millennia. Now she’s all that stands between an honorable warrior and those who would turn him into a lab experiment. If only he didn’t make her burn hotter than arena sand every time he kneels, bows his head, and calls her “Domina.” …a gladiator who never broke…Through arena battles and brutal punishments, Victor kept his dignity and principles intact. Now he’s awakened two thousand years later, pursued by deadly forces he barely understands. His only anchor is the fierce trainer pretending to own him. He knows she’s lying to him, but can’t ignore the heat between them that could melt ice itself. …together they defy destiny…As Maya and Victor flee across the desert with corporate mercenaries in pursuit, they discover that passion and protection transcend time itself. But with pharmaceutical companies willing to kill for his DNA and nowhere left to run, they’ll have to risk everything—including their hearts—to survive
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