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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.
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Vampire Nix Hadley wants nothing more than for everyone to forget he exists. He’s created a new life for himself far away from the bloody streets of the Melbourne feud that claimed the life of his family. Now a cellar door sales rep for a winery, he loves serving the tourists who visit, and he can always talk them into buying more than they planned with a little magic. This is the new start he needed, but he still sleeps badly and he’s wary of trusting anyone.
Lance Orlan has spent the last six months tracking down the male heir of the Hadley family. If he fails, he’ll never be blooded and turned into a full vampire. When Lance turns up at the winery where Nix works he doesn’t recognize the man he’s been hunting, all he sees is a cute hipster. Where is the cold-blooded killer?
The enemy has finally caught up with Nix. His life is about to come crashing down if he doesn’t do something drastic...
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The Thief's Familiar
Book 12, Familiar Mates
TJ Nichols
Expected release: 28 June 2025
Return to 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.
Fated mates
Opposites attract
A missing phoenix egg
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.
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Hold My Reins
Monster Match
TJ Nichols
Expected release: 31 March 2025
cover real coming soon!
When they both carry secrets and scars learning to trust can be terrifying....
Hold my Reins is a size difference, hurt/comfort MM monster romance.
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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 ruined her life. Then, the unthinkable happens. For the first time in years, the House of Shadow chooses a protégé.
Her.
Nothing is as it seems in the Court of Dreams, least of all the Nightmares.
Castle of Nevers and Nightmares is a slow-burn dystopian fantasy romance novel where the underdog heroine finds her inner power and the six villains learn to love. 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 that will continue with a standalone world and story. Listening to the Fae Guardians is unnecessary to enjoy this story, but it can enhance your listening experience as these characters have a past. It is recommended for mature listeners.
The only way for Willow to defeat an oppressive faerie queen is to make six villains remember they’re obsessed with her, except . . .
One hates her.
One confuses her.
One distrusts her.
One is encased in stone.
One rejects her, and,
One thinks she’s a dangerous distraction.
The task seems impossible. To make matters worse, Avorlorna’s mortal populace is starving and fodder in a looming faerie war. If they find out she’s the reason for their suffering, she’ll be dead before the Solstice Trials begin. But that’s months away. She still has time to rewrite the realm’s fate, remind six demigods they have hearts, and find the belonging she’s always yearned for.
She has time . . . until she doesn’t.
Moments before she’s thrust into the arena, she receives a chilling warning: “One will betray you. One will try to kill you.” With alliances shifting like quicksand, Willow faces an agonizing choice: fight for the love of villains or sacrifice everything for a realm that hates her.
Trials of Dusk and Dreams 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 second 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.
The Only Question That Matters
JL Peridot
Expected Release: 9 December
Do I call this love already? I am almost disgusted with myself. How pathetic to fall so easily. Perhaps I was the cause of my past heartbreaks. Not stupid schoolboys or an arrogant rich man, but a gullible girl from a flower farm who opens her heart too readily and expects too much.”
Sofia is en route to Planet Paradiso, ready to start a new life after her divorce. But when she accepts Alexei’s dinner invitation on her final evening, she realises she’s in for more than she bargained for.
As the AMS Celestial Dream arrives at its destination, and their one-night stand draws to a close, Sofia must choose between a newfound possibility with Alexei and the freedom she so desperately craves.
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Winds of Change anthology
contains story by
Michelle Somers
Expected Release: 31 October
An accident and a magical breeze will forever alter their destinies…
Weird stuff happens in San Destino. Some accept it without question. Others know and protect its secrets. Cross the bridge over Starfall Bay to a town where the paranormally gifted live in peaceful anonymity. When ten couples are drawn together during the mystical time of Beltane, their hearts and minds will be challenged and changed.
Whose magical world is threatened? Whose ordinary world will be transformed by magic? Find out in this limited-edition collection of steamy paranormal romances by established and emerging authors.
This multi-author paranormal romance anthology includes stories of witches, warlocks, guardian angels, mermen, shapeshifters, psychics, seers, ghosts and strange happenings in the small coastal town of San Destino.
The Reckoning
Book 3, The Mendovan Alliance Chronicles
Angelica Grymm
Book 3, The Mendovan Alliance Chronicles
Angelica Grymm
Expected release: 1 November
Payback Is A Bitch
They thought the Xjaran had been subdued.
They thought they were safe.
They thought wrong.
Kai’a is eager to accept her new commission as a pilot aboard the Lightship Odin to join the fight to protect the Alliance worlds. It also places her right under the supervision of the man she loves, a love she knows will never be returned.
Mak Corbin isn’t ready to accept Kai’a onto his flight deck. Not with his unspoken, all-consuming, forbidden attraction to her. She’s out of bounds, and he already has a squadron of pilots to look after. One more - this particular one - might just break him. But when the Xjaran attack the heart of the Alliance itself, Kai’a’s shuttle goes silent.
Fear and uncertainty decimates long-standing accords between species. Now Mak has to choose between what little is left of his shattered soul, and battling to hold the remnants of the Alliance together.
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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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Sang Kancil, the mousedeer: trickster, adventurer, king and sometimes villain and thief—the traditional folktales from South-East Asia about this diminutive hero have been told for centuries. He might be small, but through cunning and intelligence, he always prevails against powerful enemies while saving his friends from danger.
The author has researched many mousedeer stories and in this book, brings new insights into the age-old tales and by using her own modern adaptions combined with her lyrical prose, the mousedeer's adventures will be sure to delight audiences hitherto unfamiliar with Sang Kancil. Here you will meet the cruel Crocodile, the rapacious Tiger, the avenging Ant King, the rampaging Elephant and the greedy, dishonest humans…
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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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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?
The Wicked Witch and the Ultimate Smackdown
Point Muse Cozy Mystery
Kelly Ethan
Expected release: 31 October
Murder in the ring, a killer stalking competitors, and a nosy librarian turned sleuth. Let the mayhem begin.
Lights. Camera. Death.
The Ultimate Witch Fight reality show has come to town. And Elspeth Harrow, wicked witch extraordinaire, has been invited to compete. Xandie Meyers, aka the Librarian to the Supernatural Great Library of Alexandria, has been drafted into her grandmother's cheer support team for the witch-on-witch televised fight.
But with protestors and rabid fans picketing the show, and murderous undercurrents bubbling away, Xandie may have to swing into Sherlock Librarian mode and save the day.
If you like snarky dialogue, murder and mayhem then you’ll love this short story set in Kelly Ethan’s Point Muse cozy paranormal mystery series.
**PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED IN THE SUPERNATURAL SLEUTHS PROMOTION**
A power too great for even her mate to withstand …
Leanna Finnigan thinks she is nothing more than a normal Healer witch—until she brings back Dougal MacCrae, the Were she loves, from death. Now her friends are worried about what her new power means, because nobody but a God or Goddess can bring back the dead. But she can’t be worried about that because she didn’t completely heal Dougal from his injuries and he is unable to move his legs.
According to Pack Law, such injury means his death.
An Alpha born, if not yet in reality, Dougal can’t be a burden on the pack, or his almost-mate Leanna. Without the means to end his life he endeavours to will himself to death. Until the Pack’s Coven leader, Morghanna Cantrae, tells him he is already mated to Leanna and she will die if he keeps on as he is. Horrified that he could hurt his mate so, he tries to break the bond, but that only makes matters worse, pushing her to breaking point ...
And bringing their ancient enemy, the Darkness, to their door once more.
Somehow Leanna must find a way to heal Dougal’s soul and accept their mating if she is to face the evil of the Darkness once again. Because she will need all his love, trust, and strength if she is to survive without turning into the very thing her mentor fears she is becoming: a Soul-wraith.
If stories of wild magic, shifters, witches, fated mates, terrible secrets, meddling Goddesses and the struggle against evil, all mixed with sizzling sexual tension and a powerful romance are your nirvana, then Alpha Bound is the book for you.
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Stepping into the dark cave just a short distance from the safety of her college friends, the blonde-haired girl immediately senses danger. A tall figure steps out of the shadows, and she knows there’s no time to run…
When a heavy storm hits Black Rock Falls, it brings a trail of destruction. Sheriff Jenna Alton is more than prepared, but she never expects to find college sweethearts Abby Jaye and Cole Peters floating among the wreckage in the river. Missing for twelve years following an end-of-school party, no clues were ever found and the couple’s devastated parents gave up hope that their beloved children would ever come home. Could the fraternity pin clutched tightly in Abby’s hand be the key to finding out what really happened that night?
As Jenna and her deputy David Kane speak to the pair’s classmates, they’re struck by how startlingly similar their stories are. They all say that nothing suspicious happened that night—they describe the open fire, the cans of cheap beer and the way Abby and Cole seemed totally in love before they disappeared. Their accounts are word-for-word identical, Jenna suspects the friends are keeping a deadly secret, and she’s determined to find out what it is.
Days later, Marissa, who still lives in town with her husband and young children, is found dead at a remote farm miles from her cozy family home just hours after answering Jenna’s questions. Jenna’s pulse races as she realizes the killer could be one of the group, and so could their next victim…
As Jenna inspects the isolated barn, gun shots ring out nearby. Heart pounding, she receives a panicked phone call from the youngest member of her team. She races to the forest, praying that her friend is still alive. But with a deadly storm brewing overhead, and a twisted killer on the loose, will she make it in time to save another life from being taken?
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.
Falcon
Mel Teshco
Book 2, Sons of the Sheikh
Expected Release: 31 July 2025
His strike is as sharp as his intellect.
Sheikh Zayn Al-Hadid might love his province, but he doesn’t much care about the politics and legislations in running it. He’d much prefer hanging out with his falcons—the very same bird that has become his nickname—than sitting in the great hall of his palace solving his people’s every dispute.
Using cameras mounted on his falcons, the last thing he expects is for a western woman to capture his attention. After observing her for days, he realizes he must have her with or without her consent.
After her cheating boyfriend breaks her heart, Dolly Clark leaves her homeland of Australia and heads to the Middle East. She wants to go someplace faraway, somewhere with a different culture, a different perspective and far different people. What she doesn’t expect is to be kidnapped by a stalker with his seeing-eye falcon. Even less expected is her attraction toward him or her growing feelings.
But no matter how tempted she is by him, surely nothing and no one can rebuild her trust in men?
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..
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 four covers are by Eleni Konstantine's alter ego, HelzKat Designs.
Shattered
Book 4, Unfinished Business
Juanita Kees
Expected Release: 15 December
She’s a stranger to the outside world. He's seen far too much of its dark side. As tragedy unleashes terror on the farm, can Bridey and Cole work together to bring peace and love to Mindaleny Ridge?
Bridey McCaffrey’s life has never been perfect. All she’s ever known is control. Under strict rules, she is isolated from the community, a prisoner at Mindaleny Ridge. But as tragedy strikes on the farm, a new nightmare unfolds for her and her three children. When she receives a mysterious call for help, what is uncovered will open the doors to hell. It will take all her remaining strength and courage to keep herself and her children safe.
Sergeant Cole Delaney is looking forward to some quiet, small-town policing, until he realises that secrets run deep in the town of Moonie River. And the family living out at Mindaleny Ridge appear to be a magnet for trouble. He’s no longer arresting goats for chewing up Mrs Lee’s petunias or breaking up fights over a poker game in the park. There is something far more sinister going on in his town. And his growing attraction to Bridey makes him even more determined to keep her and her young family safe.
Together, Cole and Bridey follow a trail of murder and manipulation to catch a killer. Can they end his reign of terror to find happiness together before it’s too late?
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Lana Pecherczyk
The Fae Guardians series
has had a mini face lift with its covers
Danni Line
Trinket Bay K9 Mysteries
have new covers
When an important case goes horribly wrong, a canine unit officer learns love and
heartbreak are all in the line of duty.
When murder and love collide, does duty trump one’s heart?
A Twist In The Tail
Part 3, Trinket Bay K9 Mystery
With his integrity questioned, and her heart on the line, can
Of Scale and Blood
Book 2, The Drakkon Kin Trilogy
Keri Arthur
Hardcover & Special versions
Keri Arthur
The Lizzie Grace Omnibuses
Books 1-3, Lizzie Grace
Books 4-6, Lizzie Grace
Hardcover omnibuses
Secrets in a Sandstorm
Book 5, The Pharoah's Promise
TJ Nichols
Released: 28 October and has the updated cover
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.
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.
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