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 87+ titles featured this week):
SILVER SCHOLAR: WARRIORS OF VALOSE NOVELLA by Iona Strom
Zikkar – I was a scholar, not a warrior, yet I would burn the universe to keep her. Rowan was stolen from Earth, torn from her twin and believes she’s alone on Valose. She isn’t. Her echo burns in my ancillary heart, placed there by Spirits who don’t make mistakes. She doesn’t understand what we are yet. But I do. Beyond our dome, new enemies gather. Huren still bleeds from the last war. Safety crumbles. Time dwindles. And when they come for my female, I’ll become something far deadlier than a tech. Because Rowan will be mine. Rowan – I didn’t believe in soulmates, not on Earth or anywhere else, but Valose doesn’t care. Here, sex creates an unbreakable spirit-bond, something I can’t risk while my twin sister remains lost among the stars. Yet I struggle to resist Zikkar, the silver-scaled male whose calm brilliance makes him impossible to ignore. He watches me like I’m both sacred and something he’s starving for. Now, with war pressing against our trembling dome, the one male who makes me feel safe could claim me forever. When that bond finally snaps tight, will I run or surrender to my silver scholar?
ALIEN SPARK (MOTHERSHIP BOOK FOUR) by Eden Ember
She survived the crash. She’s not sure she deserves to survive him. Elena Vasquez is the last one left. While her best friends found love aboard the alien starship that rescued them, Elena buries herself in dangerous electrical work—crawling into live power conduits, rewiring weapons arrays, taking every risk that might finally make her useful. Or finally make her pay for surviving when so many others didn’t. Vaxon, Mothership’s imposing Security Commander, has watched Elena’s death wish for months. When he assigns himself as her permanent partner, she’s furious. She doesn’t need a 8’8″ warrior shadowing her every move, no matter how his protective intensity makes her pulse race or how those cobalt-blue eyes see straight through her defenses. But when Elena’s obsessive scanning detects a signal from Liberty—her destroyed colony ship—everything changes. There might be survivors. There might be answers. There might finally be absolution for the guilt that’s eating her alive. Investigating the derelict nearly kills them both. Trapped in the wreckage of her past with a corrupted AI hunting them, Elena must choose: keep punishing herself for surviving, or fight for the future Vaxon is offering—if they make it out alive. Because the dead don’t need her sacrifice. But the living warrior bleeding beside her? He needs her to choose him.
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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.”
