VS: I have a new release this week!
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 82+ titles featured this week):
JOURNEY (PLANET OF LAST RESORT BOOK THREE) by Veronica Scott
Cyborg soldier Cody Wayne never expected anything more in life than endless missions with his team. Then they were sent to a remote colony world on an undercover mission, which rapidly became something else entirely as they found the planet in the middle of an apocalyptic outbreak. The mysterious epidemic created millions of ‘infected,’ victims who rose from the dead with only one purpose – to create more of themselves and eliminate ordinary humans. Attempting to reach a safe haven halfway across the globe, Cody and his team have ended up on an isolated ranch, where only the woman who owns the place has survived. She calms every nerve in his re-engineered body and makes his heart long for what he never thought he could have. Tamsyn Wendover endured and survived the death and destruction of her small town and the loss of everyone else on her ranch. She just wants to live in solitude and mourn. Then the team of Sectors Special Forces soldiers arrives, seeking a place to rest and repair one of their vehicles. She’s immediately drawn to Cody and his attention pulls her out of her self imposed emotional retreat. Could he be the life partner she’s always dreamed of? But loving him is going to come with hard choices, including leaving her ranch to travel with the team, a doctor and her young brother as they seek answers to the tragedy which has befallen her planet. Will Cody and Tamsyn choose each other in the ruins of the colony? And if Tamsyn decides to leave the shelter of her ranch, can she cope with the dangers and challenges of the ravaged world her home has become? Their shared journey will be fraught with peril but is the love between them enough to overcome the risks of the road? This is a 72K word novel and can be read as a standalone. There is no cliffhanger but the book ends on Happy For Now note.
CYBORG UNCLAIMED (CLAIMED IN THE COLONY BOOK ONE) by Candice Gilmer
She saved his life once. He’s been making that a problem ever since. Morrigan lost her wings, her home, and her place among the Novians because she broke one rule: she let a human soldier live when Krevik said to let him fall. Years later, she’s doing her best to start over — until a vision of bloodshed puts her in the hands of the very man her mercy created. Luke Cadell is part soldier, part machine, and all dangerous. He didn’t come to The Colony to make friends — especially not Novian ones. But the woman who can see his future might be the only person who can stop someone from rewriting it for him. The attraction between them is inconvenient. The conspiracy trying to kill them both is worse. And the god who’s been watching from the start? He’s not done with either of them yet. In a colony built on second chances, two enemies will have to decide what they’re willing to claim — and who they’re willing to become.
Read more on Veronica Scott’s blog…
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.”
