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 108+ titles featured this week):
RETURN TO SENDER (YOU’VE GOT ALIEN MAIL BOOK THREE) by Lara Roth
DOMINIQUE I escaped my arranged marriage by stowing away in an alien postal service cargo pod. Seemed like a solid plan until the uptight Gluxian courier discovered me and some ancient law declared us legally bonded consorts. Now my psychotic ex-fiancé has bounty hunters chasing us across the galaxy, and I’m stuck with Agent Stiff—whose perfectly controlled facade cracks every time I get too close. His alien pheromones don’t lie, even if his mouth does. The real problem? I’m starting to like the way he says “mine.” WI’KAR Princess Dominique is chaos incarnate—feral, unpredictable, everything my ordered existence was designed to avoid. She weaponizes my food replicator, mocks my protocols, and her human scent drives my species to distraction. Logic dictates I return her immediately. But when she risks herself to save me, duty becomes irrelevant. She chose freedom—now I choose her.
PHOEBE’S ABRAUXIAN ASSASSIN: BOOK SIX OF THE ABRAUXIAN BRIDES SERIES by Lisa Clute
He dodged fate for fourteen months. She walked in anyway. Fyrdon, the Abrauxian First Knight and the Crown’s deadliest assassin, refused to join the Ulae’Zep mate search. King Jakvar added his DNA anyway. When Phoebe Ware, an Earth actress with a spine of steel, outsmarts him and attends a royal event he is attending, Fyrdon sees past the headlines. She is brilliant, poised, and his. Duty does not wait for desire. Ordered to escort a cadre of deadly Type-9 hybrid women to the primitive world Vorrak Prime for a nine-week rehabilitation, Phoebe and Fyrdon must turn enemies into survivors while a Ven’aens mining crew nearby digs up something ancient and hungry. On Vorrak, trust is a weapon. Fyrdon wears armor for the world and nothing at all for Phoebe. She was never the ditzy star he imagined, and he was never just a blade. Together they face deadly warriors, hybrids, and monsters older than empires. Can love forged on a violent primitive planet outlast the nine-week assignment, or will the Crown strand them on a planet that destroys the weak?
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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.”
