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 70+ titles featured this week):
THE ALIEN’S SAVAGE STARFIRE CROWN (EMPIRE OF FROST AND FLAME BOOK FIVE) by Margo Bond Collins
Every queen needs a crown—but some crowns demand a price even monsters fear to pay. In her journey from captive servant girl to dragon-shifter queen, Lara Evans has shattered every fairy tale she once believed in, becoming a ruler who knows exactly what she’s capable of sacrificing. Now she and Ivrael, the former Duke turned ruling Ice King, stand on the brink of uniting the warring Firelord and Icecaix Courts. Deposed ruler Jonyk isn’t finished with the Ice Palace, however. His final assault threatens the ancient crown device that could hold their dying planet’s magic together. As his forces target the technology that could heal or destroy their world, Lara discovers the legendary Starfire Crown offers her everything: absolute control, the strength to end all threats, the power to rule unchallenged. But the crown also demands a price: her humanity, her principles, perhaps even the love she’s fought so hard to claim. Meanwhile, enemies in both courts circle like wolves, testing whether a woman from Earth truly deserves to rule realms of ice and flame. They want a queen who plays by their rules. What they’re getting is a savage who’s learned that the real curse isn’t becoming the monster in the fairy tale—it’s choosing which kind of beast she’ll be.
MECHANICAL MISTLETOE by Sahara Kelly
In the steam-powered city of Arcvale, Christmas officially starts with the Turning of the Green—the moment when the great Holly Maker and the legendary Mistletoe Machine fill every level with twining garlands of red and white. But this year, the ancient Mistletoe Machine has fallen silent. Lady Dorothea Renslow has always had a talent her ambitious parents dismiss—a “knack” for gears, cogs, and clockwork. After one restriction too many, she flees the marble halls of Upper Arcvale, vanishes down to the lowest levels and into the smoky Undercroft, determined to build a life where no one can tell her what a lady must or must not be. Silas Gray, Forge Marshal of Arcvale Foundry & Clockworks, prefers boilers to ballrooms and machines to manners. In the Undercroft he’s simply Silas, a man who works beside his people with soot on his sleeves and a mechanical cat in his kitchen. And he’s happy to keep it that way. When Dorothea reaches the Foundry, sparks fly—of attraction and of invention. And knowing that the Mistletoe Machine might have failed for good, Silas dares to believe that there might be one person in Arcvale who could coax life back into its clock-sick heart: the stubborn, brilliant woman whois rapidly turning his world upside down. Dorothea plunges into the guts of the ancient mechanism, where forgotten faults, and ghosts of Silas’s past lie buried among the gears. But does he realise that if she succeeds, it will mean facing the Council that condemned him years before… and revealing his true name to the woman who has finally seen him as he is. If Dorothea can fix the Mistletoe machine, Christmas will come to every level of Arcvale once more. If she fails, the Turning of the Green will end in disaster—and the holiday season would never be quite the same again.
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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.”
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