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 106+ titles featured this week):
CAPTURED BY THE DRAGON WARLORD (FATED MATES OF THE SARKARNII WARLORDS BOOK TWO) by Hattie Jacks
This dragon warlord might think I belong to him, but he’s about to find out how wrong he is…I was minding my own business, exploring this brand new alien world myself and my friends have found ourself on, when Dexx kidnapped me. The great, scarred warlord is king of the underworld and he says he needs a mate to break the cycle which afflicts him and his crew. I am not a science experiment. I am not his mate. And I won’t fall for his gruff, strangely innocent, charms. Dexx might think he’s found a solution to the mutation which tortures him, but he knows nothing about mating and nothing about females. Which gives me an idea. Providing he keeps to the rules I set him, then I might consent to being his mate. The problem for my huge dragon shifter warlord is all the rules prevent him from doing the things he likes. How long is he going to last before I break him? I’m not sure, but it’s going to be fun finding out! Only when things start exploding, and his crew start getting hurt, it’s not a game anymore. Dexx needs a way to overcome his mutation, and I know I have to help him. Even if helping him might mean neither of us survive.
THE VADOROK’S UEXPECTED MATE (THE MATE INDEX: DOROK BOOK ONE) by S J Sanders
Humans were never meant to be on Dorok. That was just common sense. But when a human comes across the ice-flats and incites a tribe of native VaDorok into breaking into the Agraak lab to rescue a small group of human women, they suddenly have several vulnerable females awakening the ulukskinon—the mating fire—within their unmated males. But, while matings are rare enough to be considered a blessing, it is not welcomed by everyone. Kull, having experienced the loss of a mate in his youth, wants nothing of the ulukskinon’s return, but he cannot quite seem to shake the female he rescued. Ulukskinon is not good for either of them. With her size and fragility, he knows that it can only end in sorrow. Despite his determination to protect her, and his heart, from disaster, Katie chips away at his defenses. Although she has suffered much at the hands of her captors, she possesses a spirit that he cannot help but admire. Can they both set aside the pain of their past to trust in the love that they find with each other?
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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.”
