"Nash
“Hit me.” I tapped the felt-covered poker table.
Across from me, my friend, Cole, threw a card down.
I checked it and groaned. “I’m out.” In disgust, I tossed the rest of my cards on the table.
“Good,” Bastian drawled from beside me. “I’m definitely in.”
I rolled my eyes and sat back in my chair. Of course he was. Sebastian Thorne was a card shark and won most of our poker games. I wasn’t sure why I bothered.
Cole looked unfazed. My gaze swung from him to where Bastian lounged beside me, looking
like a king sprawled on his throne, deigning to mix with the commoners."
- Burn The World Down (Book 1, Unsanctioned) by Anna Hackett
PRE-ORDERS
Annie Seaton
The Drowning Hour
Book 2, Catherine Snowden Mysteries
Expected Release:
31 March
Detective Catherine Snowden is supposed to be on medical leave. Instead, she's lying in a hospital bed when a dying man's spirit reaches out to her with a desperate message: I was murdered.
Oliver Ashford-Kent's car went into the Thames, his brakes sabotaged by the uncle who's been embezzling millions from the family pharmaceutical company. Now Oliver's trapped in a coma, caught between life and death, and Catherine is the only one who can hear him.
But proving murder means finding evidence the killer thought was safely buried. As Catherine digs deeper, she discovers Oliver isn't Marcus Ashford-Kent's only victim. Bodies have been disappearing into the Thames for years—young professionals who knew too much, who asked the wrong questions, who threatened to expose the truth.
The river remembers everything. And when the dead start calling for justice, Catherine must risk everything to answer—even as Marcus closes in, determined to silence her before she can prove what he's done.
Some secrets are worth killing for. And in the drowning hour, the Thames claims everyone.
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Annie Seaton
March Magic
Book 3, The Enchanted Village
Expected Release:
30 March
Ten years of marriage. Ten years of hope, disappointment, and the slow, silent drift that comes when every month brings fresh heartbreak. Sophie and Daniel Ashford thought a fresh start in the Cotswolds might save them—a sabbatical, a break from the constant medical appointments and whispered apologies. Just six months in Violet Cottage to remember why they fell in love.
But Violet Cottage has other plans.
A tender story of marriage, grief, and the courage it takes to start again with the person you thought you'd lost.
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Annie Seaton
April Blossoms
Book 4, The Enchanted Village
Expected Release:
15 April
Olivia Morrison came to protect her dead sister's memory. Three years isn't long enough for Hugh to move on. Especially not with Joanna.
But Primrose Cottage doesn't tolerate bitter hearts or unkind thoughts. And it has very pointed ways of teaching lessons about love, loss, and letting go.
Flowers wilt. Doors lock. Gardens refuse to bloom.
Liv's about to learn that grief and kindness can't coexist. And only one of them will help her survive an enchanted cottage with opinions.
Sometimes the gardens we tend most carefully are the ones inside our own hearts.
She came to protect her sister's memory. The village had other plans.
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K.E. Turner
Wolves' Witch
Book 5, The Wolves of Langeais
Expected Release:
31 March
Two wolves. One mate. A love that defines the future.
Witch Isobella Rodriguez is dying. With chemotherapy and invasive surgery, she has a thirty-five percent chance of, maybe, another five years. Zero percent chance of having a family of her own. There is one thing that can save her—being turned into a werewolf. Only one pack has that ability. The Langeais wolves.
They won’t sanction a turning. That’s a privilege reserved for human mates. But they do offer her a solution. Take on a dangerous mission to tenth century France and change the face of modern witchcraft and they guarantee she’ll not only survive but thrive.
Twins Edmond and Aubert Montagne are formidable warriors on their own. Together they are terrifying. With a bond so strong, they have no need of words to communicate and are rarely seen apart. When they rescue a woman from the clutches of the witch hunter, their relationship is tested. Both of them want her, to claim her as their mate.
With a witch hunter gathering forces, they’ll need to band together to survive. They can let her choose between them, or they can do something never done before in the history of the Langeais wolves. Share a mate.
Ruby St. George
Midnight Magic
Book 4, Touch of Magic
Expected Release:
30 June
My cranky wolf shifter Familiar has broken our bond, and my heart, in order to save my life. I’m getting him back, but first I need to survive my trip to Faery land.
After discovering the truth about her father and her heritage, Darcy must travel to Faery land to finally learn how to control her strange magic. She can’t go if she’s bonded to Jones, but without help, she’ll die.
Once she gets to Faery, she must prove her worth by passing the Trials, a Fae right of passage that puts the participant’s life at risk. Failure means death – weaklings aren’t allowed in Faery. Especially when her father is the Midnight Prince.
Fin, a gorgeous Fae warrior, is assigned to train her. But he has his own agenda and Darcy isn't sure she can trust him.
If she survives the Trials she’ll get the magical help she desperately needs. But there’s a catch – passing the Trials means she’s got Fae blood, and the Faery Queen won't allow her to leave Faery land. The only option is to bring Jones to Faery instead.
It’s an impossible choice, making Darcy rethink her priorities. Does she have the right to ask him to give up everything for her? Or will she sacrifice her one chance of happiness and let him go, forever?
Fans of KF Breene, Faith Hunter and Patricia Briggs will love this slow burn paranormal romance.
Leisl Leighton
Hunter Bound
Book 3, Dawn of the Curse
Expected Release:
20 March
A Hunter, a Fae Shifter, a power to face the Darkness …
Were Hunter, Callum MacHeath, wants nothing more than to help his Alphas build their new Packlands into a place of safety and welcome. His only sadness is that his brother, Bram, still refuses to leave their old Alpha and venture north to join them. But then Leanna, half of his Alpha team, has a vision: he must journey south to find an incredibly powerful and mysterious Being whom only he can manage to bring into the pack. A Being they will need if they are to survive the dark times ahead even while death and destruction follow in her wake. Even as Callum heads south, he worries whether he really should bring this woman back to his pack – until he claps eyes on her and realises she's his mate!
TJ Nichols
Scream and Steam
Expected Release:
14 March
Failing college was bad enough, but moving back home feels like a nightmare for Timothy. A stepmother he barely knows, a curious five-year-old sister, and eerie noises in the night have reignited his childhood fear of monsters under the bed. Then he learns the truth: the monsters are real.
Farrow, a guardian of the magical bridges hidden beneath children’s beds, has one mission—keep the human and magical worlds apart. But everything changes when he records Timothy in a very private moment. Convinced by a monster friend that selling videos on Scream and Steam will be easy money, Farrow opens an account—and Timothy becomes his unwitting star.
When Timothy discovers Farrow in his room, they strike an uneasy deal: Timothy will appear in Farrow’s videos if it means no more scares. But as sparks fly on and off camera, Timothy begins to see magic where he never expected it, and Farrow realizes Timothy’s past holds secrets that could shatter both their worlds.
Can they bridge the gap between fear and love, or will their worlds collide in chaos? Dive into this steamy monster romance where love pushes all boundaries.
TJ Nichols
Queens and Other Quarrels
Book 4, Mytho Collapse
Expected Release:
28 July
Pan and Noah's story continues...
The centaurs make a visit to town and Noah leans to be more careful with what he wishes for.
MM urban fantasy romance between an ancient god who has lost his magic and a human who is now selkie.
Non Spec-Fic
Lilliana Rose writing as Ivy Hart
The Drover
Men of the West
Expected Release:
15 April
He’s running from a hangman’s noose. She’s fighting a war for her land. God brought them together, but a secret this dangerous could tear them apart.
Kansas Territory, 1870.
Ellie Sutton has no room for error. A widow raising a young daughter on a drought-stricken homestead, she faces a ruthless cattle baron determined to steal her water rights. She prays for a miracle, but instead, she gets a stampede—and a stranger who rides into the jaws of death to save her little girl.
Griff is a man defined by the miles he’s put between himself and his past. A fugitive doctor framed for murder, he knows staying in one place is a death sentence. But with a broken leg and a blizzard closing in, the Drover is trapped in Ellie’s small cabin. As he heals, he finds himself drawn to the fierce woman who tends his wounds with a grace he doesn’t deserve.
As winter deepens, Griff becomes the protector Ellie never asked for, and Ellie becomes the home Griff never thought he’d find. But when the snow melts, the law will return.
With a bounty on his head and a land war erupting on her doorstep, Griff must make an impossible choice: ride into the sunset to keep his secrets, or stay and fight for the woman who taught him that even a broken man can be redeemed.
Mel Teshco
Jackal
Book 4, Sons of the Sheikh
Expected Release:
28 February
His growl is as possessive as his nature
Sheikh Zayn Al-Habib has always preferred his harem to the complications of marriage. Why tie himself to one woman when he can have many? But when Malika—his favorite, his weakness—announces she's leaving because she can't share him anymore, everything changes.
They don't call him Jackal for nothing. This predator mates for life.
She thinks she can walk away, but Zayn has finally realized what he should have known all along: Malika isn't just another woman in his collection. She's his. And jackals don't let their mates go—even if keeping her means destroying what little love she still has for him.
Malika Ismat gave her heart freely, but she won't share it anymore. She wants all of Zayn or nothing at all. The problem? Leaving requires his blessing, and he's made it brutally clear she'll never have it.
Trapped between a man who owns her body but refuses to claim her heart, and a love that's slowly turning to resentment, Malika faces an impossible choice.
The line between devotion and captivity is thinner than a blade's edge.
Annie Seaton
Outback Secrets
Book 2, The Happy Outback Hotel
Expected Release:
28 May
Small-town outback romance where love is worth the wait.
Jill and Ryan’s story continues in Outback Secrets as Irish photographer Finn O’Sullivan arrives in Garnet Creek running from a scandal—his reputation destroyed, his career in ruins.
Librarian Charlotte Hayes recognises Finn the moment he walks into her library. Her reaction is immediate, complicated—and she's not about to explain why.
When Finn is offered part-time bar work at The Happy Outback Hotel, Charlotte tells herself to stay away, but she can't ignore the growing connection between them—or the guilt of staying silent whilst Finn suffers.
When Charlotte's past catches up to her, threatening everything she's built, staying silent is no longer an option. Speaking the truth could save Finn—or destroy them both.
As Garnet Creek rallies around them both, Finn and Charlotte must decide: keep running from the past or stand and fight for the love and family they never expected to find.
Because sometimes the biggest secret is what you're afraid to reach for.
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Annie Seaton
Under Darling Skies
Book 5, Daughters of the Darling
Expected Release:
30 April
Bridget O'Byrne thought she was building the future with her brilliant business partner and cutting-edge AI technology. Eighteen months later, she's trapped in Sydney, financially ruined, and under the controlling influence of Antony Saar. When his venture collapses amid fraud investigations, Bridget returns home to Ceann Mara with her confidence shattered.
Back on the family property she once dismissed as old-fashioned, Bridget struggles to rebuild her life. Her path to recovery takes an unexpected turn when she reconnects with Danny Walsh, a quietly competent stockman who was her closest friend in primary school. Danny's contentment with honest work and simple truths challenges everything Bridget thought she wanted.
Meanwhile, Tom and Cat's genealogical research uncovers the mystery of eleven-year-old Roisin O'Byrne, Catherine's sister, who vanished from Melbourne in 1880. Following Roisin's trail to the goldfields, Bridget begins to understand that sometimes survival requires losing yourself completely before you can find your way home.
A story about recognising manipulation, rebuilding trust, and discovering that the most profound strength often comes from the simplest truths.
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Annie Seaton
Dark Waters
Book 4, Bec Whitfield Mystery
Expected Release:
31 July
Detective Bec Whitfield thought she'd found paradise in tropical Mission Beach—and maybe even love with charming local developer Jake Morrison. But when Cyclone Meredith threatens the coast, emergency preparations uncover a twenty-year-old secret buried in concrete.
The skeletal remains belong to Marcus “Moondog” Sullivan, a former Sydney property developer turned environmental activist who vanished in 2004 during heated battles over coastal development. Marcus had made powerful enemies on both sides of the conservation debate, and someone wanted him silenced permanently.
As Bec investigates, the case becomes uncomfortably personal. Jake's construction company was involved in the building where Marcus was found, and her new boyfriend grows increasingly evasive about his past. When Detective Todd Davenpot arrives from Brisbane with warnings about Jake's reputation, Bec finds herself caught between two men and a web of corruption that reaches far beyond Mission Beach.
With the cyclone bearing down and evacuation orders imminent, Bec must solve a murder that exposes decades of environmental crime and political corruption. But the closer she gets to the truth, the more she realises that Marcus Sullivan died because he threatened to expose secrets that powerful people will kill to protect.
In a race against time and the storm of the century, Bec will discover that some foundations are built on lies—and that choosing the wrong person to trust can be deadly.
Perfect for fans of Jane Harper and Candice Fox.
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D.K. Hood
Watch Over Me
Book 29, Detectives Kane and Alton
Released:
17 March
Fear grips her as the heavy footsteps echo along the isolated trail path. She thought she was alone in the woods, but as a hand reaches out from the darkness to cover her mouth, she knows that nobody will hear her scream…
When Jan Pierce is reported missing, Sheriff Jenna Alton and her deputy David Kane rush to the forest surrounding Black Rock Falls. Jenna’s heart breaks when she sees Jan’s body at the bottom of a ravine. But it’s the purplish bruising in the shape of a boot on her back that tells Jenna it was no accident. Somebody killed her.
As Jenna investigates Jan’s last movements, she learns that Jan joined a self-defense class and told her closest friends that she thought someone had followed her home one night. Was someone watching her every move, waiting for the right moment to strike?
Then another woman from the same group, Sierra Lang, is reported missing. When Jenna finds Sierra at home, her lifeless body submerged in bathwater amid clear signs of a struggle, she is certain there is a serial killer in town. With no sign of forced entry, Jenna believes Sierra knew the killer and let him in. Could it be someone known to the whole group, someone they thought was a friend?
As Jenna looks into both women’s lives, her heart races when the trail leads to someone she knows very well—someone she trusts. As a member of her own team comes under fire, Jenna is shocked to her core and desperate to get answers. Could the killer be closer than Jenna ever imagined, and can she uncover the truth before another young woman’s life is taken?
Perfect for fans of Lisa Regan, Melinda Leigh, Kendra Elliot and Mary Stone, this absolutely addictive serial killer thriller from USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author D.K. Hood will have you hooked from the start!
**Each Kane and Alton book can be read as part of the series or as a standalone**
Amanda Ashby
The Widows' Guide to Last Orders
Book 4, The Widows' Detective Club
Expected Release:
15 April
Life in Little Shaw is as nice as pie for librarian Ginny Cole. She’s got a tentative truce with her grumpy neighbour Detective Inspector Wallace, and Sunday quiz nights at The Lost Goat with her friends (team name: The Merry Widows). Until the young quizmaster is found dead in the cellar. The police call it an accident; Ginny suspects murder. But with Wallace strangely impossible to locate and convince, she and the other widows must step – carefully, mind – into the breach.
The victim, it turns out, wasn’t just torturing locals with impossible trivia. He was hunting for his great-aunt who vanished from Little Shaw in 1963, along with what village gossips insist was a fortune in Cold War secrets. Now Ginny and her friends must decode a sixty-year-old mystery involving priest holes, spy scandals, and the competing egos of the local history society.
But when the killer strikes again, the widows need to solve this fast before someone calls last orders on them…
A brilliantly twisty cozy mystery perfect for fans of Fiona Leitch, Robert Thorogood and anyone who thinks retirement should come with a side of solving murders.
COVERS
Anna Hackett
At Star's End
Book 1, Phoenix Adventures
Expected Re-Release:
25 February
Anna Hackett
In The Devil's Nebula
Book 2, Phoenix Adventures
Expected Re-Release:
March
Birdie Song
The Guy from the Airport
Sommerville Downs Sweet Romance
Expected Release:
28 March
Keri Arthur
Dark Secrets
Book 1, Black Lantern Society
Expected Release:
14 July
Hardcover version!
Keri Arthur
Dark Deeds
Book 2, Black Lantern Society
Expected Release:
March 2027
Keri Arthur
Dark Defender
Book 3, Black Lantern Society
Expected Release:
July 2027
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