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 67+ titles featured this week):
ROGUE STARFIGHTER (STARFIGHTER TRAINING ACADEMY SECOND WAVE BOOK ONE) by Grace Goodwin
Priya Anand has spent her entire career guiding strangers safely home. She never expected an alien to cross the galaxy for her. Priya thought Starfighter Training Academy was only a game—and Vesh was nothing more than the dangerously attractive alien she had chosen as her virtual partner. Then she completes the final mission, Vesh walks into her control tower, and everything she believed shatters.
The war is real. She is an Elite Starfighter. And Vesh is her bonded mate. Vesh swore he would never fly with another partner after the last one died. But Priya is impossible to resist. Brilliant. Fearless. Stubborn enough to follow him into the heart of enemy territory. Brave enough to make him want a future he stopped believing he deserved. Their first mission uncovers evidence of a devastating betrayal. Someone inside Velerion command has sold them out, their escape route is a trap, and their damaged ship may never reach home.
HAVOC (UNCHARTED STARS BOOK FOUR) by Constance Fay
Itzel grew up as the sole bright, sunny spark in the dark monastery of a death goddess. She was excellent at the killing part but she wasn’t so great at following commands. After being (mostly) booted from their order, she has a better life now with the ragtag crew of the starship Calamity. But when she and the rest of her crew attend a gathering of the most powerful Families in the universe, her old superiors come calling with one last chance at redemption for her worst mistake. She must kill Lucien Chandra, a prince of one of those Families. After her first attempt goes wrong, Itzel realizes that her target is far more than the repressed rule-follower he seems. Lucien is kind, intelligent, and open to new experiences, even if that new experience is waking up with an assassin poised over his bed. She’s just starting to explore a future where she doesn’t kill at her goddess’s whims when sabotage strikes the Family Summit. Itzel and Lucien are thrown into crisis as a new, inexorable enemy is revealed. With no help in sight, they must fight not only for their own survival but for the future of charted space. If they succeed in creating a new world, the question remains; what kind of man wants a future with his would-be assassin?
Read more on Veronica Scott’s blog…
