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 79+ titles featured this week):
VENGEANCE (WAR BRIDES OF THE VANDAR BOOK TWO) by Tana Stone
I was a rebel fighter with a grudge against the Vandar. Then I got thrown in a prison cell with the scariest one imaginable. The Empire was hunting me, but they were happy to take the Vandar raider sent to rescue me, as well. Now I’m sharing a cell with Kolt, a massive Vandar battle chief whose distrust of humans burns as hot as the spark I feel every time he looks at me. The moment those dark eyes locked onto mine with an intensity that made my pulse race, I knew we were in trouble. Not from our captors. From each other. But as we’re forced to work together to escape and have to put aside our mutual distrust in order to survive, I discover that the battle chief with his ruthless exterior might be more like me than I care to admit.
THE BEAST’S BRIDE by Grace Goodwin
Victoria Smith is standing at the altar. White dress. Fake smile. Six-month contract marriage to a rich college bestie who swears he just needs a “temporary wife.” She doesn’t love Derek. She doesn’t want to marry him. But the money would solve everything. “Speak now or forever hold your peace.” The church doors explode inward. Egon’s beast claims Victoria in front of the gods, her groom, a full camera crew, and two hundred stunned wedding guests. Warlord Egon. Seven feet of scarred alien warrior. Banished hero. Former prisoner of the Hive. Contaminated with enemy tech. And absolutely feral when he scents his fated mate. The beast has finally found his mate. Stolen the bride from her own wedding. It should be Game Over. Except it’s not. Because Egon signed a binding contract to star in the hit alien dating show Bachelor Beast. If he refuses to participate, none of his fellow war veterans will be allowed to travel to Earth to find their mates. The show must go on. Now Victoria has to compete… for the alien who already claimed her. Pretend she’s just another contestant. All while cameras follow their every move. While Egon battles mating fever. And while Derek–the jilted billionaire groom–is spiraling into a dangerous obsession that threatens to destroy everything.
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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.”
