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 76+ titles featured this week):
ALIEN WARLORD’S FURY (NYXARI BONDMATES BOOK SIX) by Ava York and Bella Blaze
He wants a plan. I want action. But the children don’t have time to wait. I escaped Hammond’s experiments—barely. Now those monsters have Nyxari younglings, and I’ll burn through the world to get them out. Nirako is everything I don’t want—controlled, calculating, maddeningly calm. And the only one who insists on coming with me. His touch steadies my unstable markings. His kiss? It unravels everything. We’re connected by something ancient and electric. But if we can’t trust each other, it won’t just be the mission that breaks—it’ll be us. Stranded on an alien world. Bound by ancient power. Each step toward survival forges a bond no heart can escape.
THE LANTERN BRIDE (LIGHT OF THE WORLD BOOK ONE) by Sara McKinnon Jackson
In a world starved of sunlight, hope burns from within. For generations, the sky above the city of Nox has been sealed in ash, and the ruling Sanctum feeds off the stolen light of the genetically engineered—Vessels known as Lantern Brides. Arielle was one of them. Born in a lab, lit from within, trained to illuminate the power grid that keeps the Sanctum alive. But Arielle escaped. And now she’s ready to ignite a rebellion. In the ruins beneath the city, resistance flickers in hidden tunnels and scavenged tech. Thorne, a battle-worn mechanic with a shadowed past, never asked to become part of the war. But when he finds Arielle half-dead and glowing in the dark, he makes a choice that will change everything. As Arielle fights to rescue others like her—children raised in silence, lit like stars but treated as tools—the Sanctum unleashes its most twisted creation: the Lux Null, a Lantern that consumes light instead of giving it. To stop them, Arielle must awaken the long-dormant reactor buried beneath the Genesis Lab and face the truth about her own origin—one that ties her to the Sanctum’s darkest secrets and to a future she must fight to claim.
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Veronica Scott grew up in a house with a library as its heart. Dad loved science fiction, Mom loved ancient history and Veronica thought there needed to be more romance in everything. When she ran out of books to read, she started writing her own stories.
Seven time winner of the SFR Galaxy Award, as well as a National Excellence in Romance Fiction Award, Veronica is also the proud recipient of a NASA Exceptional Service Medal relating to her former day job, not her romances!
She read the part of Star Trek Crew Member in the official audiobook production of Harlan Ellison’s “The City On the Edge of Forever.”
