"We write stories, not because we have answers, but because we have questions."
- Katherine Paterson
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Wolf's Redemption
Books 3, The Wolves of Langeais
K.E. Turner
Expected Release: 26 November
He’s no saint. She’s no angel. Together, they might find redemption.
Rebekah’s penchant for bad boys has gotten her nothing but trouble—a brush with the law, a tyrant landlady, a job in the worst pub in London and a sleezy boss who’s best mates with her hardass parole officer. She’s desperately trying to start over and make a better life for herself.
Not returning the little gold amulet wasn’t her best idea. Translating the weird inscription on the back… She may live to regret that stupidity. Now she’s in more trouble than ever, stuck in the past, in the dungeon of a 10th century keep, with a guy who’s every one of her darkest fantasies.
Ulrik Voclain, 10th century chevalier and werewolf, has made his fair share of bad decisions. They’ve cost him his family, his friends and the respect of his pack. Sacrificing himself for his alpha and getting thrown into the Count of Anjou’s dungeon wasn’t his greatest idea, but it’s one he doesn’t regret. He’s not averse to escaping, though, when a chance presents itself. Especially when that opportunity is a woman with curves in all the right places.
Ulrik needs the strangely attired beauty’s help to break free of the dungeon. Rebekah’s only chance of survival is with the raspy voiced man chained to the wall. He understands the danger they’re in. She’s not prepared to trust another outlaw.
On the run, his enemies closing in, Ulrik is determined to change her mind. Rebekah is hell bent on resisting him. When the chemistry between them explodes, there’ll be no turning back.
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Thoroughly Disenchanted
Alexandra Almond
Expected Release: 4 December
A weekend away that has lasted a century. True love's kiss can' break this spell ... A cosy, romantic fantasy mystery for all fans of Rebecca Ross, Legends and Lattes and Assistant to the Villain.
A hundred years ago, Genevieve and Oliver spent an amazing weekend together in Riverswood manor. They wished they could stay there forever ... and then something made their wish come true.
Blessed with immortality but trapped for eternity, the two former lovers are now completely tired of one another's company. Then, one dark and stormy night, a stranger called Ella arrives with a cheery disposition and a secret that could be the key to their salvation. With the help of Ella and the return of their best friend, Fionn, Genevieve and Oliver learn more about Riverswood's tangled history.
If they can come to terms with their own feelings, and the truth that has kept them locked away, they might stand a chance at breaking this curse. True love certainly hasn't worked.
Isabel and the Werewolf Beast
Book 1, Vampire Tales
Helen Walton
Expected Release: 28 October
Book 1, Vampire Tales
Helen Walton
Expected Release: 28 October
Will the beast free his beauty? Or claim her as his mate?
Isabel
Cursed. Imprisoned by an evil warlock. Time loses all meaning until him. Dante, the beast I trick into my enchanted castle. My prisoner.
My training says I should kill werewolves, but I’m so lonely, I let him live. He believes he can help me escape, but his caring, considerate ways threaten to capture my heart, even though loving him is impossible. Forbidden.
But this bewitched kingdom is intent on destroying me. If I make it out alive, then we have even more problems to face…
Can I love my immortal enemy? And have a happily ever after?
Dante
I loathe the beast I’ve become. Fangs and fur. Claws that shred skin. Controlled by the cycle of the moon. Then I’m forced to spend time with her.
Isabel the vampire.
She tells me I should fear her. I don’t. She threatens to kill me but keeps me alive. Shows me her prized library. As a bookworm, I’m in love.
As a werewolf, I want her as my mate. The beast inside me wants to chase her, claim her. Make her mine.
But first I need to keep her alive, because the curse keeps trying to take Isabel away from me. Even though I enjoy tending her wounds, I’ll protect her from further harm.
Even if I have to give my life for hers.
Beauty and the Beast meets the vampires and werewolves of Twilight in this enemies to lovers, forbidden love, spicy paranormal romance.
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Of Steel and Scale
Book 1, The Drakkon Kin Trilogy
Keri Arthur
Expected Release: 16 November
Book 1, The Drakkon Kin Trilogy
Keri Arthur
Expected Release: 16 November
Once, they hunted the drakkons to near extinction. Now their survival might well depend on them…
Princess Bryn Silva, the sole child of Esan’s king, is not only soldier-trained but also a Strega witch, gifted with the ability to raise fire and mind speak to animals. After years of tracking the movements of the drakkons, she has formed a tenuous relationship with the biggest of them all—a queen in the prime of her life.
On the eve of Bryn’s unwanted wedding to Damon Valez, heir to the throne of Zephrine and a powerful blood witch, she ventures out to see the drakkons one last time, only to discover the utter destruction of a remote fishing village on the very edges of East Arleeon, with no evidence left behind on who attacked it or why.
Then, on her sea journey home, she senses the mind of an animal unlike any she has ever felt before. It attacks—and sinks—their boat, using weapons made of golden metal feathers that pierce wood and flesh as easily as any sword.
When that same enemy attacks Kaia—the queen she has been following—and her drakklings, a desperate alliance based on the need for survival and revenge is formed.
But can a Strega witch, who relies on the strength of her flesh to control and destroy with flame, and a drakkon, whose only weapons are tooth and claws, defeat an enemy that is mounted on armored birds and who possess weapons capable of eating through stone and skin with equal ease?
Will the husband she hadn’t wanted help defend the city, or will the secrets he keeps only add to the danger they face?
Can Esan, the mighty fortress that has protected the Eastern regions of Arleeon for eons, survive, or will it finally fall…. and take the drakkons with them?
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Nightmare Island
Exiled Sector
multi author series
Mila Young
Expected Release: 1 November
Part of the Exiled Sector shared world.
More coming soon..
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.
Wicked Deeds
M.J. Scott
Book 5, Techwitch
Expected Release: 15 April 2025
My mother was a wicked witch. She sold my magic to a demon. I thought that that was the worst that my past had to offer. Turns out, I might be wrong about that…
Zander
Book 5, Alien Fugitives
Mel Teshco
Expected release: 23 March 2025
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?
Phoenix Found
Book 5, Brothers of Fire
TJ Nichols
Expected release: 25 November
He wants to spread his wings...but can he trust them when he's never been allowed to fly?
Perrin Shade’s family has worked for the phoenix shifters for hundreds of years. It was always assumed he would do the same. But as his thirtieth birthday approaches, the restlessness he’s kept hidden grows. He only knows Mont de Leucoy. He’s never had a chance to explore the world. But there is a reason his family sought sanctuary in the kingdom…
He is the kind of paranormal being that many would like to forget exists. The kinds that even paranormals hunted.
A ghoul.
Oliver has spent the last ten years being told that he is a danger to others. That the Coven would hunt and kill him if they found him and that his parents abandoned him. Now, he is being told that is all a lie.
He is a phoenix shifter and his brothers have been searching for him. They claim to know him, but how can they when he doesn’t know himself?
They have their history, their duties, and their expectations. He should be embracing all of this, but instead, all he wants to do is leave before the weight of the past crushes him. The only person who treats him as if he isn’t broken is the castle handyman, Perrin.
Can a man who is really a monster help the man who is convinced he is a monster learn how to live and love?
This is the last book in the Brothers of Fire series.
Secrets in a Sandstorm
Book 5, The Pharoah's Promise
TJ Nichols
Expected release: 28 October
Max
This is a trip my brother planned with his best friend Harrison. Instead, I’m doing the motorbike ride from Cairo to Tobruk with Harrison in his memory. Getting caught in a sandstorm and taking shelter in a cave wasn’t part of the plan. With nothing to do but wait out the storm we explore the cave…and the past. This isn’t the first time I’ve been here, trapped by a storm. To change our fate, I’ll have to confront my feelings for Harrison.
Harrison
Max has always been off limits because he’s my best friend’s younger brother. But this trip is testing my resolve and getting trapped in the cave by the sandstorm feels like we are being pushed together. I’m sure he’s straight so has never noticed me the way I’ve noticed him. If I tell him how I feel, I’m afraid of losing everything.
Spanning Ancient Egypt, WW2 and the present-day Secrets in a Sandstorm brings Max and Harrison together in a forced proximity, bi-awakening, brother’s best friend romance. Read today and be swept up in the storm.
The Thief's Familiar
Book 12, Familiar Mates
TJ Nichols
Expected release: 28 June 2025
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Fated mates
Opposites attract
A missing phoenix egg
Discover the world of the Familiar Mates mm fated mates paranormal romance series. Each book in the Familiar Mates series has a new couple with a HEA.
The Thief's Familiar is a steamy gay opposites attract romance between a witch who uses his ability to talk to animals to help him steal magical items and a tiger shifter determined to catch him.
Non Spec-Fic
Their Frozen Bones
D.K. Hood
Book 23, Detectives Kane and Alton
Expected Release: 1 October
Her eyes snap open and she takes in the snow-covered forest around her. She can’t remember how she got here, and a dark figure is running toward her. She doesn’t have time to scream before he’s upon her…
When Sheriff Jenna Alton and her deputy, David Kane, hear reports of a plane crashing into the mountains that surround Black Rock Falls, their hearts shatter. Their friend’s blonde-haired teenage daughter, Julie, was on that flight. They won’t sleep until they bring Julie home to her distraught family.
A blizzard closing in, Jenna pushes on with the search until, just beyond the snow-capped trees, she finds the plane. She falls to her knees at the sight of the lifeless bodies, still buckled into their seats. But one passenger is missing: Julie has vanished…
Racing into the remote forest, Jenna finds heavy footsteps around the crash site which are too big to be Julie’s. Someone was here before them. Following the prints, Jenna’s pulse races as she finds the bodies of three young women hanging from the tall pine trees, their limbs frozen, their faces lifted to the sky above.
When the victims are identified, Jenna notices that each girl had long blonde hair when they went missing, just like Julie. But when they were found in the forest, their hair had been cut, their looks changed forever. Is a twisted killer preying on girls who he can manipulate before their death? Could Julie be his next victim? With snow piling up around them, Jenna doesn’t have long to find Julie alive. Can she track down this monster before he takes his next innocent life?
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.
Reformed
Mel Teshco
Book 5, Gangsters at War
Expected Release: 15 January 2025
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?
The above three covers are by Eleni Konstantine's alter ego, HelzKat Designs.
From Across the River
Annie Seaton
Book 2, Daughters of the Darling
Expected Release: 1 November
Home again on Ceann Mara station, Roisín O'Byrne, a steadfast lawyer committed to protecting the environment, finds herself embroiled in a battle to protect the threatened Darling River that her family have called home for almost two centuries. But her dedication pits her against formidable adversaries within the government body entrusted with safeguarding water resources, including her enigmatic boss, Seth Brodie.
As her family continue in their quest to uncover the history of the settlement of Ceann Mara, and the hidden life of one of the first settlers, Samuel O’Byrne, Roisín delves deeper into the murky waters of corporate interests and governmental corruption.
When an unexpected twist complicates her pursuit of environmental protection—her undeniable attraction to Seth Brodie, a man whose ideals clash with her own yet whose magnetism is undeniable—Roisin has to make a choice.
Will she risk everything, including her happiness, to expose the truth and save the Darling River?
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Bowen River
Annie Seaton
Expected Release: 31 December
When policewoman Rebecca Whitfield accepts a promotion to Bowen River in remote Northern Queensland, she braces for a challenging return to her hometown and strict parents. Moving with her difficult partner, Gray Cameron, Rebecca’s plan for a brief stay is upended when local woman, Leanne Delaney, disappears.
Teaming up with local detectives, Rebecca navigates a tangled investigation filled with potential suspects, including those close to her. Amidst professional and personal turmoil, Rebecca uncovers a family secret that could change everything.
In 1925, Elspeth Valentine dreams of moving from Scartwater Station to pursue an equestrian career in England before an error of judgment ties her to World War 1 veteran Thomas Delaney. Her struggle with family and loss sets the stage for generational conflicts and buried secrets that intertwine with Rebecca’s family issues and her quest for truth in the present day.
As Rebecca battles with her father’s past and the growing attraction to Detective Todd Davenport, will she find the strength to trust again and solve the mystery of Leanne's disappearance?
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Of Steel and Scale
Book 1, The Drakkon Kin Trilogy
Keri Arthur
Hardcover & Special versions
Of Scale and Blood
Book 2, The Drakkon Kin Trilogy
Keri Arthur
Of Blood and Fire
Book 3, The Drakkon Kin Trilogy
Keri Arthur
Eating The Liver Of The Earth
Mousedeer Tales
Theresa Fuller
For as long as there have been storytellers, and listeners sitting spellbound at their feet, there have been stories of tricksters - Anansi, Brer Rabbit, Loki. They can be powerful, even frightening; or they can be cute. And when they are little, we're rapt to hear about their adventures, because they remind us that superpowers often come in small packages.
But forget meerkats! You'll love these stories about Sang Kancil - a mischievous little mousedeer, a chevrotain, from Southeast Asia. He may be small, but he can fool a huge elephant, skip across a bridge of crocodiles, and dodge the coconuts flung down at him by monkeys - then cheekily enjoy a drink from the shells they didn't mean to split open for him.
Theresa Fuller loved to listen to her grandfather telling her these stories when she was little and now she's brought together a wonderful collection from Malaysia, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, the Philippines - magical places of rainforests, tigers, leopards, pythons - with words that sound like the chiming and tinkling of music, or the whispering of wind in the bamboo.
Eating the Liver of the Earth opens up a whole world of unexpected treasure!
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