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 107+ titles featured this week):
KLAUS ENCOUNTER (HORNED HOLIDAYS) by Honey Phillips
Can a cold alien warrior and a struggling woman give a grieving boy the one gift he needs most—a family? When Talia moves to an isolated village to care for her angry, grieving nephew Theo, she quickly discovers that her city-based skills are useless. Her efforts to reach her nephew and save his home are failing. The last thing she needs is another problem, but when she finds a huge, horned alien unconscious in the snow, she’s determined to save him. Commander Klausan D’Kringar’s mission has come to an ignominious end. Crashed, injured, and alone, his only goal is survival. But when he wakes up in a primitive cellar, tended to by a fierce, captivating female, his priorities begin to shift. Her compassion is irrational, her living situation is unacceptable, and the unexpected attraction between them is completely outside his experience. Logic dictates he should escape, but a new, protective instinct demands he stay. As they work together to ease Theo’s sorrow, an unforeseen bond begins to grow between the three of them. And when they attract the wrong kind of attention, Klausan will do whatever it takes to protect his new family.
VANQUISHED (WAR BRIDES OF THE VANDAR BOOK ONE) by Tana Stone
My planet made a deal with the ruthless Vandar. Now I belong to the most feared warlord in the galaxy. It was supposed to be a random lottery with just one unlucky woman chosen to seal the alliance between my frozen outpost and the Vandar warriors. One bride to guarantee we wouldn’t betray them to the Zagrath Empire. But the moment the massive alien walked into my bakery that morning, his golden eyes locking onto mine with an intensity that stole my breath, I knew. Somehow, I knew my life would never be the same. And I was right. When my name was called, I was torn from my sisters, my home, and the underground rebellion I’d built in the shadows. Dragged onto a vast warbird, claimed by Raas Wrexonn, the Keth’rax himself. The Scourge. He told me he saved me. That the Empire had marked me for execution, that taking me was the only way to keep me alive. I told him I’d never forgive him for it. But as we’re hunted across the galaxy by Imperial forces, as I discover the truth about the war he’s fighting and the pain he’s buried beneath his ruthless exterior, I’m forced to confront an impossible reality: the alien warlord I’ve vowed to hate might be the only one who truly sees me. But the Raas wants more than compliance. More than tolerance. He wants me to choose him freely, even though he stole that choice from me. And the most terrifying part? I’m starting to want that too.
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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.”
