I have a new release this week too!
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 96+ titles featured this week):
BENET: BADARI GLADIATORS SERIES BOOK FOUR by Veronica Scott
Benet Arencollo was a top ranked gladiator in the Five Systems, second in command at the House of Badari and acclaimed celebrity. He had the world at his fingertips…until he was kidnapped and taken to the Outlier Empire to compete in the sinister Empress’s Games. The shady noble who ordered him taken believes he’s an actual genetically engineered Badari Warrior. As Benet participates in training for the deadly events to come, he looks for ways to escape but Outlier is like a black hole – no way out. The only redeeming aspects of his captivity are working with a mysterious Badari who serves the Empress and finding the one woman who could capture his heart.
Marushka Nichevsky is a child of privilege and the daughter of the man who kidnapped Benet. She wants to be a veterinarian but she’s engaged to a man she barely knows and thoroughly despises and will be his trophy wife. Benet is everything she ever dreamed of in a romantic partner but their love is doomed given her position in Outlier society and Benet’s place as a prisoner.
Can Benet keep up the pretense of being a true Badari? Will his friends at home be able to locate and rescue him? And will he and Marushka find a way to be together?
INVASIVE SPECIES (OUTCASTS OF OLORIA BOOK TWO) by Bea Tama
He’s engineered for perfection. She’s living proof that imperfection is beautiful. Gara isn’t a leader: he’s a healer clone, and a basic one at that. The more the tiny human Arra-bellah pushes, the more Gara closes down, but he secretly admires the strength in her undefeatable attitude and boundless creativity.What’s he hiding under those thick scales? Arabella admits it: she’s fascinated by the aliens who crashed into her best friend’s barn. Especially the grouchy green one, Gara, who stirs the artist in her to paint at last. The more she pushes to learn about him, the more he backs away, but is it really hatred driving his actions, or is he hiding something else? Can her boundless heart find room for a big, grumpy alien? An accident and a leadership challenge brings them together, but Gara has a secret, one he hopes the others never learn; it might be his fault they’re exiled in the first place.
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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.”
