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 65+ titles featured this week):
THAWED GLADIATOR SULLA (AWAKENED FROM THE ICE BOOK NINE) by Alana Khan
A soldier with one last shot…Former Army Major Reid Blackwood has survived combat deployments and a career-ending betrayal by the commanding officer who set her up to fail. What she can’t survive is watching her father lose the medical care that’s keeping him alive. Winning the TV show Elite Crucible—thirty days of survival challenges in the brutal Scottish Highlands—is the only option she has left. Win the money. Get home. Resist him. …a gladiator who woke from the ice with everything left to prove…Ever since Sulla was thawed after two thousand years in the frozen sea, he has fought to become something other than the cruel bastard he was in ancient Rome. The men he once treated without mercy remain skeptical. Forgiveness isn’t something they’re ready to grant. So Sulla treats redemption like training: daily, deliberate, and without excuses. In the Highlands, he meets the one woman who makes every punishing mile matter—enough to race across a collapsing bridge rather than watch her fall. …and a partnership built one act of trust at a time. Rope bridges over ravines. Freezing river crossings. Forty-eight hours of pursuit in darkness. Cameras everywhere. Somewhere between brutal challenges and sharing body heat through freezing Highland nights, Reid stops being Sulla’s partner and becomes more important to him than any prize. For a man who believes he ruins everything he touches, letting himself love her feels like the cruelest risk of all.
VACATION WITH THE ALIEN ROCKSTAR by Holly Hanzo
Some love stories cross oceans. Others cross galaxies. Elizabeth North might have been jilted at the altar, but she’s not giving up the honeymoon she always dreamed of; she boards the plane to paradise. All she wants to do is have some alone time to pull herself back together. Zenith Quasar just wants a break from being the lead singer of Starvonna, the Andromeda Galaxy’s biggest band. On Earth, and under the guise of holographic technology, he can live his dream of anonymity. With a double-booked getaway, the two of them come to an agreement: stay and share the place. But what begins as an awkward arrangement quickly spirals into something more, and Zenith worries if he can keep up the facade of the fake identity all the time, even in his hotel room…When the paparazzi close in, and Zenith’s management is making career-ending ultimatums, the two must ask themselves a terrifying question: Are they finally learning to love again, or just finding a more spectacular way to hide from who they are?
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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.”
