“We live for books."
- Umberto Eco
EVENTS
Lots of events featured today!
Love on the Beach
Hilton Ballroom, Surfers Paradise
24 February
will feature DarkSiders:
Cassie Laelyn
HM Hodgson
Maggie Mundy/Maggie Rose
Mila Young
Valentine's Day Library Event
Brisbane Square Library
14 February
will feature DarkSider:
HM Hodgson
Blussh: A Romance Festival of Film & Books
Brisbane
22-24 February
will feature DarkSider:
HM Hodgson
GenreCon
State Library of Queensland, QLD
23-25 February 2024
will feature DarkSider:
Lana Pecherzcyk
Saturday 24 February
Panel: Not Your Everyday Romance
Sandra Makaresz, Lana Pecherczyk, Vanessa Len
Queensland Writers Centre, Level 2, State Library of Queensland
Sunday 25 February
Panel: Turning Up the Heat - Steamy Romance
Lori-Jay Ellis, Lana Pecherczyk, Anna Campbell
Studio, Level 1, State Library of Queensland
Panel: Superheroes Across the Genres
Lana Pecherczyk, Patrick Ness, Jake Corvus
Studio, Level 1, State Library of Queensland
A Romantic Rendezvous 2024
Australian Romance Readers Association (ARRA)
Various locations
March 2024
will feature the following DarkSiders:
Brisbane
Bernadette Rowley
HM Hodgson
Imogene Nix
Sydney
Donna Maree Hanson
Efthalia
Next DS News post will have the Melbourne & Perth details.
Readers Take Denver
Denver, USA
18-21 April 2024
will feature DarkSiders:
HM Hodgson
Ages of Pages
Claudelands Event Centre, Hamilton, New Zealand
Saturday 27 April 2024
will feature DarkSider:
Keri Arthur
Mary Brock Jones
Entry Free.
Readers Unleashed
Cairns
14-15 March 2025
will feature DarkSider:
Cassie Laelyn
HM Hodgson
BB4E Vancouver
Sheraton Vancouver Wall Centre Hotel
24-26 July 2025
will feature DarkSider:
Lana Pecherczyk
Tickets not yet available.
NEW RELEASES
Phoenix King
Book 2, Brothers of Fire
TJ Nichols
Released: 4 February
Gerrit's story.
Snowed in with a would be assassin...
Phoenix King is book 2 of the Brothers of Fire series about the royal phoenix shifters of Mont de Leucoy. If you love mm fated mates, past lives, princes, and spies, join the phoenixes.
Brothers of Fire is set in the same world as the Familiar Mates series, but stands alone.
Crown of Shadows
Book 11, Relic Hunters
Keri Arthur
Released: February in audio format
Narrator: Laurel Horowitz
Listening length: 10hrs 19min
Never mess with the relics of the old gods… or the pixies who once guarded them.
After her mom’s disappearance six months ago, Bethany Aodhán has been running their tavern in old Deva—something her family had been doing ever since a light-fingered pixie lost them the job of guarding the treasures of the old gods eons ago.
Then her brother, Lugh, is attacked, his best friend murdered, and the tavern firebombed. A confrontation with a former lover leads to the discovery of another murder and a missing jewel from a godly relic, and Beth learns that the Éadrom Hoard—one of three godly hoards now guarded by the elves—has been stolen.
But this is no ordinary theft. Darker forces are at work, and they’re not only seeking the means to resurrect a god of destruction but the power to forever banish daylight. That power lay with Agrona’s Claws—three godly artifacts that, when used together, give the user full control over night itself.
With the webs of suspicion drawing ever tighter around them, Beth & Lugh—with the help of two sexy elves and a cantankerous old goddess who knows far more than she admits—race to find the missing artifacts before those intent on unleashing chaos.
It’s a race they must win, because it’s not just their lives on the line, but the fate of modern-day England.
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Seduced by the Billionaire Sheikh
Book 2, Billionaires & Sheikhs
Cathleen Ross
Released: 3 February
She'll defy everyone and everything to keep her freedom. He'll do anything to make her his.
When Prince Rafi Katoom of Bahari is ordered to find a bride, he knows exactly who he wants, but will Alison Soltani, the girl he grew up with, want him? In his high-flying world, marital choice is a luxury, and he has made his, determined to marry Alison rather than have a royal stranger picked for him. Can Rafi convince Alison to stay and live in the country she hates when freedom and the city life of London calls?
Alison doesn't know her father has given permission for her to be Prince Rafi's bride. She's an English citizen after all, and she doesn't do arranged marriages. Such a shame her father and the Bahari royalty think she'll be a perfect royal princess for the delectably sexy, commanding third in line to the throne. Rafi can give her anything she wants, except her freedom.
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Damaris
Book 4, Alien Fugitives
Mel Teshco
Expected Release: 30 March
Can two lost souls complete one another?
Damaris Trant has never been alone…until now. Not only is he stuck on planet Earth, his six Strazanian comrades—rares with special powers just like him—are scattered around the city of New Faxian like confetti to avoid an enemy that has already wiped out the rest of their species. Damaris doesn’t even know if his comrades are still alive since landing on Earth.
Despite his purple scale coloring making him a lower caste, his rare powers, which had elevated his standing on his planet Strazan, are now erratic at best. Add to that the memories of his deceased family, and he’s rendered even more powerless.
Then he meets Callie, and his already topsy-turvy life is turned upside down. She’s an addict who sees things differently. That she doesn’t find Damaris abnormal is beyond appealing to his peace of mind. If only she didn’t also see him as just another man without a conscience.
After Callie Trueberry lost her family to a house fire, she fell into a dysfunctional world of her own making. Chemicals and alcohol might decay her mind, but at least she’s no longer half-mad with grief. Then she stumbles into Damaris and wishes she was the woman she used to be, a woman who would have turned his head and perhaps even won his heart. He is everything she’s ever wanted in a man, their shared grief binding them closer still. But will he stand by her side as she cleans her body and her mind while enemies are hunting him down, or will he be lost to her forever?
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Castle of Nevers and Nightmares
Book 1, Fae Devils
Lana Pecherczyk
Expected Release: 26 February
The first book in the Fae Guardians Standalone Spin-Off series, Fae Devils (Season of the Sluagh).
When winter comes to the Court of Dreams, the war against the Subterranean of Nightmares freezes. To celebrate, the faerie queen holds a tournament where mortals compete for the prize of a dream come true. For outsider Willow Nightstalk, it’s the only way to break the curse making her as ugly as she feels.
But the deadly tournament has a darker purpose—to flush out flawed mortal blights on the perfectly pretty fae society… and to kill them. Any left alive are conscripted when war returns in spring. When the coveted prize can give you anything your heart desires, allies are likelier to stab you in your sleep than save you.
Surviving means securing the highly contested patronage of the powerful fae nobility. But when the notoriously recluse House of Shadow is the only option left, the odds are stacked against her. Especially since it’s led by the six beautiful fae boogeymen who rejected her, robbed her of magic, and ruined her life. She would rather let terrors drag her to the beneath.
But then the unthinkable happens.
For the first time in years, the House of Shadow chooses a protégé. Her.
Forced to live in their rundown castle, Willow starts uncovering secrets about the war, the oppressive queen, and the tragedy behind the Six’s forbidden obsession that left her broken. Soon, she doesn’t know who to trust, blame, or befriend. What’s worse is that sabotage is in the air, and bodies start dropping like flies. Safety means choosing between trusting her eyes or her battered heart. But if she chooses wrong, no dreams will come true—she’ll be dead.
Nothing is as it seems in the Court of Dreams, least of all the Nightmares.
Castle of Nevers and Nightmares is a slow-burn, spicy “why choose” dystopian-fantasy romance novel where the underdog heroine finds her inner power, the tension is hot, and the world-building is full of intrigue. It’s the first in the Fae Devils series, a Fae Guardians spinoff. Reading the Fae Guardians is unnecessary to enjoy this story, but it can enhance your reading experience as these characters have a past. It is recommended for mature readers due to language, violence, horror, and explicit sexual and dark situations.
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The Sinner and the Priest
Book 3, Sinner Sisterhood
Lana Pecherczyk
Expected Release: 27 June
The Sinner and the Priest is the third book in the Sinnerhood Sisterhood series.
Shield of Fire
Book 4, Relic Hunters
Keri Arthur
Expected Release: 19 March
A new relic hunt. A new evil…
Resident Relic Hunter for Deva’s Fae Council is a title Bethany Aodhán never wanted, but it isn’t like she has a choice. And in truth, the appointment might just aid her quest to find her mother’s murderers—because at least one of those responsible is a member of the council, and getting access to their records could give her the connection and their identity.
But before she can be given her first task or even start her behind-the-scenes hunt, a building belonging to Cynwrig Lùtair—the highborn dark elf who is not only her council liaison but lover—is set alight, and they barely escape with their lives.
It quickly becomes clear that the cause of the fire was a relic belonging to the god of smiths and fire, capable of destroying anything made within a forge, old or new. And the man wielding it is an elf who stirs uneasy echoes of past darkness within Bethany.
As the attacks intensify and draw ever closer to home, it’s increasingly evident that not only do the keys to finding the culprits lie in the past Bethany can’t remember, but he’s someone who knew her very well indeed.
Someone who has no qualms about doing whatever it takes to get what he wants from her.
Even if that means killing Lugh.
This book is currently available for pre-order on Apple, Amazon, and Nook. Kobo & Google Play will be added once the proofreading has been finished.
Shadow's End
Book 12, Lizzie Grace
Keri Arthur
Expected Release: 22 July 2024
With a wedding to plan and a prospective mother-in-law who hates her, an ancient vampire seeking brutal revenge might be the least of Lizzie’s problems…
Their Pretty Little Monster
Book 1, Monsters Night
Mila Young
Expected Release: 1 June 2024
Phoenix Mate
Book 3, Brothers of Fire
TJ Nichols
Expected Release: 28 May direct;
4 June Amazon
Kaine finds his fated mate and secrets come between the brothers.
Explore the hidden kingdom of Mont de Leucoy in Book 3 of the Brothers of Fire series.
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Desert Kings Alliance Box Set 2
Mel Teshco
Book 5-8, Desert Kings Alliance
Expected Release: 10 February
Meet four powerful sheikhs and the women who tame them. From palaces in desert landscapes and city centers, be transported to foreign places and fall in love right alongside our heroes and heroines.
Book 5 - The Sheikh’s Defiant Princess
She desires the man of her dreams. Can she resist the attention of another?
Book 6 - The Sheikh’s Fake Fiancée
She’s an outcast. He’s a newly appointed sheikh. It can’t possibly work—can it?
Book7 - The Sheikh’s Royal Widow
He’s running from the past. She’s afraid to face the future. Can they create a perfect today?
Book 8 - The Sheikh’s Temporary Girlfriend
She’ll do anything for her family. He’ll do everything to claim her.
Enforced
Mel Teshco
Book 3, Gangsters at War
Expected Release: 25 June
One sadistic madman substituted by another.
Chantilly
That’s what happened when I escaped from the don of the O’Malley mafia only to be captured by Valentino Barone, deadly enforcer of the Agostino mobster family. I didn’t think I could hate anyone more than the don who damaged me, until Valentino takes away my freedom yet again and awakens my darkest desires, ones I never knew existed. Escape seems futile. But I did it once I can do it again—or die trying.
Valentino
I was sent to find and kill Chantilly Alcott, fugitive lover of the don of a rival mafia who is desperate to find her. Ending her life and sending pieces of her body to the O’Malley family isn’t something that should bother me—it never has before—so why my reluctance to do my job? I will do it, eventually. For now, I hold her captive and tell myself I’ll break her spirit instead of her body.
So why is she slowly breaking me, instead?
Contracted
Mel Teshco
Book 4, Gangsters at War
Expected Release: 31 August
He’s a merciless killer who gets what he wants. He can have me…for a price
Delilah
When my widowed stepmother kicked me out on the streets when I was sixteen, I was too proud to ask for help from any of my friends. Hunger left me with no choice but to accept money for sex so that I might survive. Four years later I’m not only surviving, I’m thriving. Asked to attend a private party at the Agostinos, a notorious mafia family who are as ruthless and cruel as they are filthy rich and generous, I can’t say no. Then my gaze meets the cold eyes of Serafino, and I’m lost even before he decides he wants all of me…body, mind and soul.
Serafino
I’m known as a cold-hearted killer without a conscience, the bad boy of the Agostino mafia. That says a lot considering my brothers can be as ruthless as my father had once been, and he’d been a sick and twisted bastard of the highest order. Nonetheless, I have a reputation to uphold. People are afraid of me for good reason. What would they think though if they discovered the call girl who arrived to service the Agostino brothers is the one woman I want all to myself—a woman I would kill to protect—until I’m left with no choice but to kill her myself.
Scorpion
Mel Teshco
Book 1, Sons of the Sheikh
Expected Release: 31 October
His sting is as lethal as his charm.
Sheikh Aziz Hadi might be a player who knows how to charm the panties off women, but that means very little when the one woman he wants—Zamira Fasih—is also the one woman he can’t have. She’s the daughter of a sheikh from a neighboring country bordering his province. That they’re at war means there is no way he can talk to her, let alone date her. Then he sees her at the markets and he can’t deny the impulse to take what—who—he wants.
Zamira Fasih is not interested in Aziz, at least that’s what she tells herself. He and his family sided with an enemy of her father’s and now her people are paying the ultimate price. The Hadi family are scum, and Aziz is the worst of them. He’s not worthy of her attention, if only she’d stop damn well thinking about him! Then he kidnaps her and expects her to like him—but he’d better think again!
She is promised to another man who will help end the war and the death of her people, and nothing will change her mind. Not even the famous charm Aziz is renowned for.
The above four covers are by Eleni Konstantine's alter ego, HelzKat Designs.
Winning Offer
Book 3, Bachelor Brothers of Sydney
Mel Teshco
Expected Release: 30 February
Will saving her father’s crumbling estate cost her everything?
Liam Black hides a sensitive side. If losing his parents was a tragedy, then finding out his father had been unfaithful to his wife—Liam’s mother—is a tragedy Liam can’t even begin to process. It leaves him questioning everything he’s ever known. If his parents’ happy marriage was a sham, what hope has he got to find a woman to love and settle down with? Not even his two brothers’ happy relationships can convince him otherwise. Then he sees the fearless, gorgeous woman on stage at a once yearly charity auction—a woman he met once and can’t stop thinking about—and despite his cynicism, his heart is lost.
Harper Franks isn’t going to let a little pre-auction nerves get to her now. Not if it means snaring the billionaire sheikh she hopes to attract. She’ll do anything to pay the debts inherited from her father and rebuild his bed and breakfast. What she doesn’t expect is for Liam to outbid the sheikh with a figure that surely not even an infamous Black brother can afford? So why don’t her financial woes seem half as bad when she’s in his arms? She’ll just have to figure out some other way to save her inheritance, because there is no way in hell she’ll add to Liam’s burden with her own problems.
COVERS
Of Steel and Scale
Keri Arthur
Book 1, Drakkon Kin Origins
Expected Release: TBA
Hell's Bell
Keri Arthur
Book 2, Lizzie Grace
Expected Release: February in Hardcover
Entrust
Cassie Laelyn
now has a cover.
The story will initially release in the anthology
Summer Lovin'
Expected Release: 14 February 2024
ENTRUST will release as a standalone in March 2024.
OTHER
Efthalia
Keri Arthur
Hellucy Howe
Debbie Johannson
HM Hodgson
Cathleen Ross
Seduced by the Billionaire Sheikh has a Release Day post on the ARRA (Australian Romance Readers Association) blog.
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Congratulations to our DarkSiders!
Happy Reading everyone. Be safe & well.
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