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):
ALIEN DEVIL’S PREY (VINDUTHI STOLEN BRIDES BOOK ONE) by Ava York
Trapped with a Vinduthi in deep space. The only thing more dangerous than him… is what I’m starting to feel. I’ve survived three years as an indentured navigator by trusting no one—especially not the cold, controlled Vinduthi pilot who just ripped my world apart. Talon is nothing like the monsters who own this sector. He’s quiet, methodical, haunted by secrets he’ll never share. When his mission collides with mine, we end up trapped together on a dying ship—two enemies, forced into a partnership neither of us wants. He needs my skills to survive. I need his ship to escape. We’re hunted, desperate, sharing the same air and too many secrets. Every argument feels like foreplay. Every brush of his hand threatens to set me on fire. Every time he pins me with those hungry eyes, I wonder what it would feel like to let go—just once. I should hate him. I do hate him. So why does every look, every command, every accidental touch leave me aching for more? There’s only one rule in deep space: never fall for the enemy. Too late.
THE HOME FOR WAYWARD CREATURES by EC Garrett
While Henri looks like the average girl next door with just a bit of an animal hoarding problem, in reality Henri is half-witch, half-alien who runs the only animal rescue in the galaxy. With a pygmy kraken in her fish tank, a talking bear who hogs the tv, and a quantum portal in her basement, life for Henri is never boring. Until the day someone steals her pets. Someone not from this Planet. Left with no other choice, Henri leaves Earth and ventures deep into cosmos, searching for answers. A chance encounter leads her to a possible solution. Orion Worldkiller; criminal, murderer, prisoner, out-of-this-world attractive, and a giant Dragon. Orion Worldkiller offering to help Henri find her pets is the last thing she expected, but she has no other choice. Stuck in a spaceship at the far reaches of the galaxy, Henri fights both her growing worry and her newfound feelings. The closer they get to saving her pets, the harder she falls for Orion. When their mission goes haywire, Henri and Orion are taken prisoner and forced to compete in a deadly tournament against vicious monsters. Even worse, they’re cut off from their magic. Henri’s only hope to save her pets is to win the tournament–even if it means risking an intergalactic war. The fight for survival—and for Henri’s heart—is on, and Dragons do not fight fair.
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USA Today Best Selling Author
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.”
