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Shadow Kin
M.J. Scott
Book 1, The Half-Light City
Expected Re-release: 30 July
Dive into this darkly intense and steamy romantasy series from RITA® Award nominated author M.J. Scott…
In a city of magic and ancient enmities where the Fae and the human mages stand against the Night World of Blood Lords and Beast Kind, I am the Night World’s most feared weapon. A wraith who can walk unseen in the night. The perfect assassin.
Rejected as soulless by my Fae mother, I was taken by a Blood Lord and raised to be his deadliest blade. He turned me into a weapon honed for one purpose, keeping me chained to the shadows by a need only he can fulfil.
Now my master is growing bolder. He wants to bring down the treaty that holds the city together. So he orders me to kill a human man. Simon DuCaine. But he doesn't tell me that Simon DuCaine, a man who wields the very light that leaves me powerless. Leaving me his captive. In his place, most men would kill me, but Simon is a man sworn to peace and he sees something in me no one else ever has.
But to take a chance at freedom, to leave the darkness and believe that the sun could love a shadow, I have to trust him as I’ve never trusted anyone. And hope that his actions don’t tip the city into war…
Shadow Kin is the first book in the Half-Light series, a dark and steamy romantic fantasy series from RITA® Award nominated author M.J. Scott. It's an intense enemies-to-lovers romance between a vampire lord's chief assassin and a human sunmage in a dangerously intriguing world. If you love worlds with vampires, shapeshifters, Fae and human magic, intrigue and action, a la Sarah J Maas, then this is your next binge-worthy series!
Author's note: This series is complete but in the process of being re-released (all books will be available again by the end of October 2024). For tropes and CW, please check the author's website.
Blood Kin
M.J. Scott
Book 2, The Half-Light City
Expected re-release: 27 August
Dive into this darkly intense and steamy romantasy series from RITA® Award nominated author M.J. Scott…
In a city where clashing magic and turbulent alliances strain a tenuous peace, life has always been treacherous. But for someone like me, a half-Fae disowned by her father, living a secret life as a thief and a spy to survive, it’s become more dangerous than ever.
My father’s only gift to me was magic, a knack for charms and glamours that make me one of the best at stealing the secrets the city wants to keep hidden. But as the Blood Lords and Beast Kind of the Night World begin to seethe with hints of rebellion, they guard those secrets more closely than ever, pushing my skills to the limit and sending me tumbling into the path of Guy DuCaine—literal white knight—a Templar warrior whose honor is his life.
The sparks of suspicion between us ignite into something far more dangerous when we are forced to work together to uncover the key to a conspiracy that could bring down the city. It’s an unlikely alliance and only a fool would let herself believe that it could last.
I know a holy knight could never love a spy who dances with darkness and that he will always choose his duty over someone like me. But to save a city, I might just have to sacrifice my heart…
Iron Kin
M.J. Scott
Book 3, The Half-Light City
Expected re-release: 24 September
Dive into this darkly intense and steamy romantasy series from RITA® Award nominated author M.J. Scott…
In a city of enchantment and perilous alliances, the divide between Fae, humans, vampire Blood Lords, and shape-shifting Beast Kind grows deeper by the day. As a metalmage, my family want me to stay safe and do as I'm told. To be a good girl. But a perfect reputation is meaningless when peace is hanging by a thread.
The humans are grasping any advantage to help them prevent a war. Like the visions of the future that Fen, a half-Fae seer can show them. But to Fen, his power is torture, wild and uncontrolled. Dangerous enough that he wears iron—deadly to Fae—to quell his magic and save his sanity. Until the night we meet and discover that somehow, my magic calms his. Which might just save us all.
Fen is as wild at heart as his power. Untameable. Unpredictable. Not a man a good girl should want anything to do with. But to help him—and my city—I have to touch him. And every touch makes me burn hotter than the magic I wield.
I know I need to keep my head and guard my heart but playing safe won’t stop a war. And as the city begins to shatter, survival might mean giving up the future I think Fen and I could share…
Fire Kin
M.J. Scott
Book 4, The Half-Light City
Expected re-release: 23 October
Get ready to be swept away by this darkly intense and steamy romantasy series from RITA® Award nominated author M.J. Scott…
In a city preparing for war, I've chosen a side. When my kind—the Fae—retreated, I remained behind with the humans, knowing they’d need my talent for healing as they try to defeat the Night World.
The humans are desperate, outnumbered by the Blood and the Beast Kind. But I never expected them to seek aid from the one man I’ve tried everything to forget. Asharic is Fae like me and once my heart was his. Until he was exiled by the Queen whose death has splintered the city’s peace and whose empty throne is dividing the Fae. Now he’s coming home with his mercenary army to fight a battle I’m not sure we can win.
I tell myself he means nothing to me now, but Ash’s power is fire, and he still makes me burn with just a look. I'm not the only one thrown off balance by his return. The vast magic he commands threatens more than just the Night World and there are those who would sacrifice the city to take him down. As old enemies move against him and the Blood push for conquest, navigating past hurts and new alliances seems impossible.
To stand against the dark, I need to embrace the fire, and hope it doesn’t leave me with nothing but ashes…
Fire Kin is the fourth and final book in the Half-Light series.
Shadows and Wolves complete collection
Mila Young
Books 1-3, Shadowlands Sector
Release: July
Three sexy Alphas want to claim me, but will they be able to tame the monster inside me?
To survive, I had to pretend to be something I’m not—normal.
Only someone strong enough to fight the darkness inside me and savage enough to stay will be able to tame my beast.
The Ash pack Alphas claim I’m their fated mate and promise to help me, but these three ruthless wolf shifters are strong, powerful, and fiercely possessive.
Being submissive to them might be impossible, but I can’t deny how their touch ignites a fire within me, how I burn to be with them in every way possible.
But will they still want me when they find out the truth of what I really am?
Shadows & Wolves is the complete collection of the Shadowlands Sector books.
• Shadowlands Sector, One
• Shadowlands Sector, Two
• Shadowlands Sector, Three
This series is set in the same Savage Sector (Her Forbidden Protector) world.
HARDBACK COLLECTION INCLUDES:
Gold Foiled Covers
Metallic Red Edging
Interior Color Artwork
Full Colored and Gold Foiled Bookmark
Mila Young Postcard and Stickers
Signed by Mila Young in Australia. Signed bookplate internationally.
Phoenix Prince
Book 4, Brothers of Fire
TJ Nichols
Released: 14 August direct;
28 August Amazon
Everest's story.
Phoenix Prince is book 4 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.
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Wolf Bite
Book 8, Outcast Pack
TJ Nichols
Expected Release: 1 August
After four years of living in Darwin, George Franklin is back in Melbourne, and everything has changed. There is now a pack of gay wolf shifters with their own territory, something that would have been unimaginable when he left. His own family pack is expecting him to move home and run with them…and he definitely doesn’t want to do that. The last thing he wants, though, is to fall for his best friend’s older brother—again.
Pack and family come first. Evan Steele knows that, and because of it, he lived a lie for years. He did things he regrets on the pack leader’s orders. Now, he’s put as much distance as he can between his past and his present. To humans, he is successful and confident.
But he hates shifting. He hates running on four feet.
When his past turns up at his door in the form of an anonymous hook-up, Evan’s lies come unstuck, and he’ll have to choose between putting himself first or obeying the pack who will hate him if they knew the truth.
This is the final book in the mm wolf shifter Outcast Pack series.
Audiobook
Narrated by Casey McLeod
Running time: 6.3 hours
Gluttony & Other Hungers
Book 7, Mytho Investigations
TJ Nichols
Released: July in audio format in author store;
20 August elsewhere
Narrated by Roberto Scarlato
Listening length: 6hr 29m
Jordan and Edra aren’t the only ones thinking about their wedding, and some people don’t want it to happen. The destruction of several Mythological Services buildings around the country has revealed there are still people who view the mythological refugees as something less than human, despite the law now recognizing them as equal.
When someone decides to stop the wedding, Jordan and Edra need to act fast…but this isn’t a battle they are fighting alone.
The final book in the gay urban fantasy crime series that follows Jordan and Edra as they solve crime and figure out how to improve mytho and human relations. For readers who like dragon shifters and fated mates romance.
The Love Hexperts
Anthology including stories by
HM Hodgson
Melanie Pickering
Angelica Grymm
Expected Release: 16 August
Welcome to CovenFest!
Witches and warlocks, sorcerers and spellcasters, come for mayhem and magic surrounded by Enchantment Mountains. Monsters, too, are invited.
As the world's royalty of witchcraft and wizardry descend on Leavenworth in rural Washington State for their week-long annual conference, magic and romance ensues while the beer flows at Octoberfest.
The everyday folk have no idea witches and warlocks, sorcerers and spellcasters, and monsters and mages walk among them.
Heroes and heroines talk to the dead, howl at the moon, dance under the stars and summon the powers that lurk in the shadows at the Monster Mash Ball on Halloween.
Romance is definitely not on the conference program, but hexing your ex is, for a price. While secret crushes and enemies alike will be tormented and cursed, the witches and warlocks, monsters and magic users just might save the world. And find true love.
Sink your fangs into eleven wickedly swoony and deliciously spooky tales of witchy romance. Enjoy fairytales with a steamy twist where happily ever afters are guaranteed and will make you laugh and gasp.
Contributing authors are Sabrina Duval, Louisa West, Fiona M Marsden, HM Hodgson, Clarissa Morgan, Zelda Hartland, Sharyn Swanepoel, Emily Hussey, Melanie Pickering, Angelica Grymm and Savannah Blaize.
Book 5, Thornwood Academy
LJ Swallow
Expected Release: 28 August
Thornwood Academy’s darkling detective is back for more as she continues to investigate the truth behind Madison's death and pursues those plotting against the supernatural council.
Dance With Death is the fifth book in a new YA supernatural academy series from LJ Swallow,author of the Nightworld Academy books.
The Thornwood Academy series features a girl who isn't afraid to use her dark side, a magic school where humans mix with vampires and witches, and the three guys who she’d like to stay alive.
Other books in the series must be read first.
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Winterfall Secrets
Book 11, Nightworld Academy
LJ Swallow
Expected Release: 1 May 2025
Winterfall Secrets is the fifth book in the Nightworld Academy: Winterfall series. Other books in the series must be read first.
The Winterfall series is a 'life after academy' series featuring all the characters from the original Nightworld Academy series.
More details soon!
Batteries: Spicy Bites Anthology 2024
Romance Writers of Australia
includes story by
L.A. Monteiro
Expected Release: 17 August
From breakdowns on isolated roads to charging up the battery-powered boyfriend, electricity has been putting the spark in love since the 19th Century and continues to keep couples connected through forced proximity and long distance!
Ignite your nights with Romance Writers of Australia’s sexiest anthology Spicy Bites! Twelve erotic short stories will put the sizzle in your blood and warmth in your heart as passion ignites and barriers are dropped. Along with clothes!
Put the zing in your evening and lock yourself away with spicy stories featuring forbidden love, single mums, friends to lovers, and reunions where sexy mechanics give you a jump start.
Lights: Diversions Anthology 2024
Romance Writers of Australia
includes story by
L.A. Monteiro
Expected Release: 17 August
Everyone deserves to find their happily ever after.
Light up your nights with these twelve sweet and spicy stories in Romance Writers of Australia's highly anticipated, new anthology, Diversions. Packed with a cast of exciting characters, these romance short stories from some of Australia's most exciting new authors will leave you laughing, crying, and at times, breathless as your heart swells.
Dim the lights and snuggle up with a range of diverse lovers as they experience barriers and live their best romantic lives in workplace romances and tense reunions with past partners in sci-fi thrillers, historical settings, and our contemporary world.
Non Spec-Fic
Forgotten Girls
Book 4, Special Agent Beth Katz
D.K. Hood
Expected Release: 31 July
She bites her nails as she steals a glance at the stranger in the pickup truck beside her. She trusted him when he offered her a ride, but now, as he turns onto a deserted road leading into a dark pine forest, she knows she’s made a huge mistake.
Special agent Beth Katz races through the dense Montana woodland toward a small, isolated cabin. She’s investigating the disappearance of her partner Dax Styles’s sister who went missing as she walked home from school, and Beth finally has a solid lead. Outside the decrepit building, her heart pounds wondering what she will find on the other side of the door.
A young woman with long brown hair and cornflower blue eyes, just like Dax’s, shakes in the kitchen. It’s clearly Ginny, but before Dax can speak to his long-lost sister, Beth hears a noise from outside. In a rundown outbuilding, they discover another young girl, reported missing just weeks before. Dressed in a thin nightie, Ava cowers as Beth breaks into the padlocked room. Her captor has fled, but Beth will use every skill she’s got to track him down.
Working night and day, Beth uncovers more cases of young girls taken from remote roads near their homes. Twelve-year-old Shiloh Weeks vanished as she walked home just days ago. Her story remarkably similar to Ginny and Ava’s.
Beth and Dax are on a mission to stop to this twisted individual and save any new girls from being taken into the woods and lost forever. But when the trail leads them to a man impersonating a police officer to gain the trust of his victims, will Dax hand him over or take matters into his own hands?
Tagged
Book 2, Unfinished Business
Juanita Kees
Expected re-release: 1 August
Her new boss isn’t the only threat on the streets…
TJ Stevens will go to any lengths to protect the young offenders in her apprenticeship rehabilitation program. She’s worked hard to keep them off the streets and out of trouble. With her new boss threatening to cancel the program and danger striking close to home for the youths, will Scott Devin be a trusted ally or yet another enemy?
When Scott Devin buys a struggling car dealership in semi-rural Western Australia, he knows he’s buying a bucketload of trouble. He’s just not expecting the mess he walks in on, or the reason for it. Heading up the challenge is a woman who fights like a tigress protecting her cubs against the dark underworld of crime. Can he afford to get involved in the danger she brings to his door?
Previously titled Under the Hood
Silenced
Book 3, Unfinished Business
Juanita Kees
Expected re-release: 1 August
Even in innocence, silence can come at a deadly cost…
Overwhelmed in the aftermath of her husband's death, Lily Bennetti navigates protecting her teenage son from his father's criminal legacy and the dangers that continue to stalk them. The secrets she keeps come at a high cost. If the detective on the case figures out the truth about her connection to a cold case murder, she stands to lose everything she has left.
When Mark Johnson delves deeper into his ongoing investigation of the murder of Tiny Watts, the last person he expects to be interviewing for it is a crime boss' widow. His gut tells him she knows more than she's letting on. Her bruises tell a different story. The way she defends her son suggests that the threat runs even deeper than her scars. He's determined to bring the notorious crime gang ruling the streets to justice, but at what cost?
(Previously published as Under Cover of Dark)
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.
Reformed
Mel Teshco
Book 5, Gangsters at War
Expected Release: 15 January 2015
One mafia madman. One plain-Jane Introvert.
Alessandro
I’m not known for my long-term relationships, in fact, some might say I have commitment issues. Not that I care. I do what I want, when I want. I live my life by my own rules. Then I see sweet, homey little Jane. She reminds me of a buttercup, so fresh and innocent. So different from the women I normally go for.
Perhaps that is why I have to have her. Not that she’ll ever reform my bad boy ways.
Jane
That’s my real name. I’m a true wallflower, invisible to people. Then my biggest male fantasy-come-to-life steps into my vintage shop and I wish more than ever I was sexy and confident. When he asks me out on a date, I’m so dumfounded I can’t say no. Not that I ever expected one date to lead to another. What I should have expected is my growing feelings for him…until I find out he’s a mobster. I have to leave, but he’s not about to let me go.
He wants the plain Jane, but I don’t belong in his world. Fine. He can have me, once I’ve transformed myself.
Watch out world…watch out Alessandro..
Unresolved
Mel Teshco
Book 6, Gangsters at War
Expected Release: 30 April 2025
I was his first love. And now he's found me.
Evander
I never got over losing Gemma. I'm still putting together the shattered pieces of my heart after she walked away from me, as though I meant nothing to her, as though I'd never even existed. It didn't stop me from searching for her, and now I've finally found her I don't intend to ever let her go again. She is mine. A shame a war breaking out between rival mafia families threatens to take her away from me yet again.
Gemma
He doesn't try to pretend I didn't hurt him when I left without even saying goodbye. Perhaps that is why he doesn't care if he hurts me in return by taking away my freedom. He's keeping me hostage in his cabin by a lake in what looks like the middle of nowhere. But if it almost killed me being with him the first time, how can I survive a second time?
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.
COVERS
Season Spice series
L.A. Monteiro
Books 1-6, Season Spice
new look covers!
L.A. Monteiro
Books 1-3, Zodiac Monster Romance
Sorrow's Song
Keri Arthur
Book 9, Lizzie Grace
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