"No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond."
- C.S. Lewis
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Maggie Mundy
The Secret of the Essence
Book 1, The Mask Wearers Downfall
Expected Release: 14 February
Nothing is as it seems.
In Majura, the Mask Wearers have mystical powers they receive from a crystal entity, called the Essence. For six hundred years, the crystal beacons they provide, protect the people from the wolf like horde. That was, until now.
Twenty-year-old Cora, did the unthinkable for a female child. She touched a beacon crystal that left her hand deformed, and her mind scarred. Ten years later, she still has nightmares of a strange mask wearer saying she will destroy the land.
When Cora’s settlement is attacked, she develops magical abilities and saves people. Now, she must join the exalted ranks of the mask wearers, whether she wants to or not.
She is magically taken to the capital, Denarius, by a Traveler Mask, called Alenze, who is as handsome as he is mysterious. When he transports her, something goes terribly wrong and she’s convinced it’s her fault?
Cora survives her training as a mask wearer and her relationship with Alenze grows stronger. Then the city is attacked, and she has two choices. Stay and be controlled, or leave with Alenze and try to find and fix the Essence.
As they travel, she sees the land is changing and so are they. But, could someone like Alenze ever love a person like her who has caused all the magic to fail.
Or is he keeping secrets of his own.
TJ Nichols
Minotaurs and Other Magic
Prequel, Mytho Collapse
Expected release:
14 January on author store;
28 January for Amazon
Visit Tariko before the collapse. Come for the minotaur and stay for the magic.
When a hiking trip in the human world goes wrong, Nate Lee finds himself in another world, stealing to survive. His crimes land him at the hooves of Prince Rohan: minotaur, musician, and massive...
While his brother rules the city, Rohan de Calla concerns himself with smaller matters, like cute human thieves who don't belong there. Rohan pays off Nate’s debt, now Nate owes him.
And Nate soon realizes the size of his predicament…
TJ Nichols
Hold My Reins
Monster Match
Expected release: 31 March
Can a human man capture a kelpie’s heart?
Assassin Lynck Whitehorse fled the monster realm and has built himself a good life in the human realm, teaching violin and serving coffees. He’s used to the stares and the comments about his ears and hooves, and the hook-ups that only want to experiment, but going home is impossible because of the chain around his neck. If he steps through the portal, the monster who captured him and took him away from his herd will once again control his life, forcing him to kill, and he won’t get the chance to escape again.
Since his mother’s death Gideon ‘Rox’ Roxburgh has been adrift. He quit his job as a mechanic and has been traveling, seeking a place to call home. After six months on the road, he arrives in Elder Ridge, one of the monster portal towns, to work in the auto repair shop. While in a monster town, he takes a chance and downloads the app, not expecting any of the monsters to be interested in him. Especially not the tall and impossibly pretty kelpie he matches with…
But the closer they become, the more secrets are revealed, and it’s only a matter of time before the past catches up with Lynck and Rox finds his world, and heart, ripped apart again.
Hold my Reins is a size difference, hurt/comfort MM monster romance between a kelpie assassin and a human afraid of being hurt. It’s part of the Monster Match series and contains its own Happily Ever After. Each book is a standalone, but why don’t you have fun with all our monstrous beasties?
TJ Nichols
Best Suited
Book 2, Good With His Hands
Expected release:
28 September
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His famous sister is getting married...so he shouldn't be hooking up with her bodyguard...
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Best Suited, book 2 in the Good With His Hands series, is an angsty, emotional, opposites attract, MM contemporary romance.
Keri Arthur
Horn of Winter
Book 5, Relic Hunter
Expected Release: 28 January
Revenge is a dish best served cold…
When Bethany Aodhán, resident—and reluctant—relic hunter for Deva’s Fae Council, is assigned her next task, little does she realize just how many unwanted ghosts it will raise.
The missing relic—Borrhás’s Horn—enables the user to raise elements of winter against their enemies. It quickly becomes clear that the Horn is now in the hands of a powerful witch who has very specific targets in mind—everyone involved in the hunt for Agrona’s Claws.
As the attacks intensify, and buildings—and people—are frozen and destroyed, Bethany and Mathi Dhār-Val, her Elven handler and friend, race to uncover who is behind the attacks and reclaim the Horn.
But the threads of treachery loom closer than either of them realize, weaving around the pixie who pursues her romantically and the dark elf king she wants but cannot have.
As the attacks grow ever more violent, it becomes clear that Bethany is now in their enemy’s crosshairs.
Can they find the Horn and its wielder in time to not only save Bethany, but an entire city?
Or will winter’s icy embrace take them all?
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Keri Arthur
Of Scale and Blood
Book 2, The Drakkon Kin Trilogy
Expected: 24 May
The drakkons have joined the battle, but do they have the power to help win the war?
Princess Bryn Silva is a Strega witch, gifted with the ability to raise fire and mind speak to animals. It is a gift that helped her win the trust of Kaia—a drakkon queen in the prime of her life.
But the drakkons’ only weapons are tooth and claws, and they are useless against an enemy mounted on armored birds, and who possess weapons capable of eating through scale and stone with equal ease. After an aerie is attacked, the drakkons agree to a desperate alliance and the drakkon kin—a force of Strega witches mounted on drakkon back—is formed.
Despite initial success, Bryn quickly realizes that a handful of kin will never defeat the sheer number of gilded riders amassing off Arleeon’s shores.
The drakkons needed a weapon. They needed fire…
But the gilded riders were not the only danger closing in on Esan, the fortress protecting the eastern gateway into Arleeon. The Mareritt, a warrior race and an ancient enemy, also move on them, armed with weapons eerily similar to those the gilded riders use.
Weapons capable of destroying Esan’s mighty walls.
But the biggest threat of all could be the dangerous secrets being held by Bryn’s husband, Damon Velez, heir to the throne of Zephrine and a man she hadn’t wanted to marry but might well be falling in love with.
A man whose magic could give the drakkons fire, or utterly destroy them all.
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LJ Swallow
Winterfall Secrets
Book 11, Nightworld Academy
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!
LJ Swallow
Live and Learn
Book 6, Thornwood Academy
Expected Release: 21 August 2025
Thornwood Academy’s darkling detective is back for more.
Live and Learn is the sixth book in a 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.
The other books in the series must be read first.
More details soon.
Release date will hopefully be moved forward.
Non spec-fic
Annie Seaton
Angie
Book 2, Home to the Outback
Re-released: 15 February
The last thing advertising art director Lucy Peterkin wants is to go home to outback Prickle Creek, but family duty calls.
The one bright spot? Her neighbour and first love, Garth Mackenzie, is back home, too, and their connection is as undeniable as ever. After earning an engineering degree and working in the mines of Western Australia, Garth has returned home for good. He’s ready to put down roots, work the land he loves, and build a future—ideally with Lucy by his side. But Lucy has no intention of trading her career and city life for the outback, no matter how much Garth tempts her to stay.
But with her heart set on the city, he knows convincing her to stay will take more than their old spark. Can they bridge the gap between their dreams, or will their different dreams force them apart?
NOTE: Previously published in the US as Her Outback Cowboy (2017)
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Annie Seaton
Secrets and Surprises
Book 2, Duckinwilla Days
Expected Release: 27 February
Julien Johnson never planned to return to Duckinwilla Creek.
With a promising city career, the last thing he wanted was to step back into small-town life. But when his parents go overseas, leaving him in charge of the family store, he reluctantly agrees.
Soon, whispers from an old friend lead him to discover a surprise from his teenage years—if the gossip is true, it could change everything. As he uncovers the truth, Julien is forced to confront his past, question his dreams, and face the town he thought he'd left behind.
Will Julien have the courage to confront the past, and will his actions reshape his future in a way he never expected?
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Bia's Blade
Keri Arthur
Book 6, Relic Hunters
Expected Release: TBA
Keri Arthur
The Lizzie Grace Omnibuses
Books 7-9
Books 10-12
Hardcover omnibuses
Available via Keri's store unless you're in Australia,
then contact Keri direct at keriarthurauthor@gmail.com.
Lilliana Rose
Wolves and Blood
Books 1-3, Protector of the Wolf Shifter
Hardcover omnibus
Note: Wolves & Blood is a rewrite to first person and new content from
the three books Shadow Wolf, Marked Wolf and Rogue Wolf.
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