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 87+ titles featured this week):
LAST DRAGON ON MARS (DRAGONS ON MARS BOOK ONE) by Honey Phillips
She was looking for answers. She found a legend. Dr. Alina Falkner is a scientist. She believes in data, in logic, in the cold hard rock of the Martian landscape. So when impossible energy readings lead her deep into a newly-opened cavern, she expects a geological anomaly, not the last echo of an ancient world, awakened by advanced human technology. He is dangerous. He is impossible. And he is her secret to keep. He was born in darkness. She was his first light. Born from a fusion of cyborg blood and the planet’s dormant DNA, Rhyx is a newborn in a warrior’s body, and the brilliant, gentle human who found him is the first thing he has ever known. Trapped together by a raging dust storm, she becomes his fierce, consuming passion. He will do anything to keep her, even though the world outside their sanctuary threatens to tear them apart. A ruthless scientist, obsessed with both Alina and her secrets, is pursuing them both. As the hunt intensifies, Alina must choose between the career she’s dedicated her life to and the impossible male she’s fallen for. But when you’re hiding the last dragon on Mars, the price of discovery isn’t just loss—it’s extinction.
DESIRED BY THE DRAGON WARLORD (FATED MATES OF THE SARKARNII WARLORDS BOOK FOUR) by Hattie Jacks
I had a one night stand with an alien dragon warlord and now he thinks I belong to him…And because I felt I’d not suffered enough, I picked the biggest, baddest, grumpiest Sarkarnii warlord on this planet. Go me! Driok is the leader of the Sarkarnii warriors tasked with protecting Vorostor. He’s massive, abs for days, brilliant purple scales and a handsome face which would make any red-blooded female melt. He’s also arrogant, bossy and entitled, all the things I’d usually hate in a human man. Yet, I still woke up in his bed, and he’s been asking for a rematch ever since. I absolutely cannot give into him. Being abducted from Earth was bad enough, but far from being safe with all these huge alien dragon warlords, we’re even more at risk of their enemies who will do anything to destroy the Sarkarnii and anything associated with them. But when Driok is distracted by events off world, that’s when I discover the one thing I was so sure couldn’t happen to me. I’m pregnant, and the baby is his. All I wanted was a ray gun and a way to get off this planet. Now I have a bun in the oven and a Sarkarnii warlord who is determined to claim me, and my unborn child, for himself. And, as it turns out, Driok is far more charming when he wants to be. But I am determined. I am going to make a life for myself and if he doesn’t like it…then I’ll go it alone.
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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.”
