2025 Releases

A Fate of Wings
Island Wolf
The Sheikh's Forced Bride: A Billionaires and Sheikhs novel
A Spell of Longing and Death
Bowen River
Dead and Gone: Ein Violet-Blackwood-Krimi (Thornwood Academy)
Vampire's in the Details
To Wed A Queen: An Epic Romantic Fantasy
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Monday, 17 February 2025

DarkSider News: March 2025 - New Releases & Sales!

        


“If a book is well written, I always find it too short.” 
― Jane Austen



NEW RELEASES




Jameson
Anna Hackett
Book 1, Hunter Squad

Expected Release:
6 March


We survived the invasion and beat the aliens. But they left something behind…

Monsters that hide in the swamps, rivers, and forests—breeding, mutating. Every now and then, they crawl out of the shadows.

That’s where I come in. I’m Jameson Steele, the leader of Hunter Squad. It’s our job to keep people safe and secure.

We’re the monster hunters. 








Kelly Ethan
Banshee, Moonshine and Madness
Book 2, Holly Harrow: Point Muse Cosy Mysteries

Release: 
28 February


A banshee, moonshine wars, and a deadly spreading madness. Let the mayhem begin…



Holly Harrow, witchy banshee, hates chaos and mayhem. But since Thanatos, Death Personified, a.k.a. Nate Mortis, settled in Point Muse, life has calmed and her romantic prospects might be looking up.



Until Elspeth Harrow, matriarch of the Harrow family and Holly‘s grandmother, cries feud on a witchshine competitor. The wicked witch never loses... Even if she has to cheat.



People are hallucinating and dropping dead. A saboteur has targeted Elspeth and her competitor. A ghost is haunting the town and a killer is on the loose. And Elspeth is top of the suspect list.



If she wants peace, Holly has no choice but to swing into banshee detective mode, track the killer down, stop the saboteur, and banish a ghost.



And don’t even mention her talking, stuffed, Viking raven…

If you like snarky dialogue, murder and mayhem then you’ll love the second installment in Kelly Ethan’s new Point Muse Cozy Paranormal Mystery spin off series – Holly Harrow: A Point Muse Cozy Paranormal Mystery!





L.A. Monteiro
Claimed by the Orc
Book 6, Seasonal Spice

Released: 
28 February


He can't trust her. But could she be the queen he needs?

The villainous orc Evan has betrayed everyone who once cared for him. Seeking redemption, he takes back his orcish name Gevrank, and returns to his home world to kill the Southern King who enslaved his people. But Tessa, a witch with her own dark past, follows him to seek her own revenge. When she fails, their fates entwine as Tessa's true mystic nature comes to light.

This enemies to lovers monster romance is the sizzling conclusion to the Seasonal Spice series, featuring orcs, mating, heats and shape-shifting. It can be read as a standalone but refers to events in previous books.







TJ Nichols
Hold My Reins
Monster Match

Released: 
10 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?







Mila Young
Grim Sector
Fractured Fairytales 
multi authors

free for a limited time!



Some curses are sealed with a kiss. Others with blood.

In a forgotten corner of the Grim Sector, I run my sugar plum shop, content with my quiet life—until a mysterious black wolf starts haunting our village gates.

I shouldn’t be drawn to a wild wolf, especially with an Alpha’s son determined to claim me, but there’s something in those ice-blue eyes that calls to me—something that whispers of torment darker than winter nights.

Now, dark forces gather in the shadows, and I’m caught between playing it safe and risking everything. In the Grim Sector, nothing comes without a price—paid in blood.

A Nutcracker and Beauty and the Beast paranormal romance twist where fairy tales bare their teeth.

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Mistletoe Mishapps
Melody Beckett
 Taurean Warriors 

Released: 
28 March



All I wanted for Christmas is to talk to the hot alien delivery guy… but that was before he told me I’m his mate. Can I trust that he’s for real?

I left Earth to start a new life, but I’m still the same old clumsy Holly. Every time the seven foot tall alien delivery guy brings stock to my space station coffee shop I turn into a stuttering mess.

I’ve given up ever learning his name when he brings me a present… and I dump hot cocoa all over him. But it’s when he sniffs me and tells me I’m his mate that I start to wonder if he’s more than I bargained for.

It’s going to take more than a little holiday magic to prevent me from screwing up what might just be the best Christmas ever.

Mistletoe Mishaps is a short read set in Melody's Taurean Warriors universe, but can be read as a standalone.

This story is a light and cozy alien romance with a HEA.













Non Spec-Fic



Annie Seaton
Secrets and Surprises
Book 2, Duckinwilla Days

Released: 
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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Annie Seaton
Angie
Book 2, Home to the Outback

Re-released: 
15 February



Angie Edmonds is content with life in the small town of Prickle Creek. Being alone doesn't bother her until Liam Smythe, the man who broke her heart, shows up at her vet clinic with an injured puppy. Unfortunately, he's just as irresistible as she remembers. In an attempt to prove to him that she's moved on, somehow a little white lie begins . . .

When Liam returns to help run the family farm, his enjoyment of the slow life in Prickle Creek surprises him. After all, he's used to the thrill of chasing the next big story. Running into the girl he's never been able to forget is unexpected, and he's shocked to learn she's getting married—to someone who's not him. She's off-limits, but Liam can't stop thinking about the gorgeous vet and what could have been. But convincing her he’s changed will be harder than finding a needle in a haystack.

NOTE: Previously published in the US as Her Outback Surprise

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Khloe Wren
Trident
 Mayhem Makers

Released: 
13 March


The only reason I flirted with Charon MC’s newest Daughter of the Club, Jacie, was to mess with her brother. It was only fair considering the hell he and his old lady caused my club, the Satan’s Cowboys MC.

But from the first kiss she got under my skin like no other woman ever had. I tried to stay away, avoided going anywhere near Bridgewater, Texas or the Charon MC. I was way too old and broken to even be thinking of settling down with anyone, let alone a woman as young and angelic as Jacie. But fate had other plans.

When she turns up in Dallas, I soon learn the Aussie beauty is no angel after all. Instead of being grateful for my stepping in and saving her, she’s furious. She might hate me for the target I accidentally put on her back, but I won’t abandon her to fight her father’s past alone, even when it forces me to confront my own dark history.?




Anna Hackett
The Hero She Loves
Book 4, Unbroken Heroes

Released: 
24 February
in audio format


The last thing he wants is to hunt a dangerous fugitive in the Alaskan wilderness, especially with a tough, stubborn US marshal.

Parker Conroy moved to Alaska to be alone. His military career in Ghost Ops ended with an explosion and three torturous weeks of captivity. It’s left him scarred, wanting to avoid people, and hating being touched.

When US Marshal Jenna Sheriden knocks on his door, he has no time for the attractive marshal. But she isn’t taking no for an answer.

A dangerous fugitive is on the loose, and he happens to be a rogue Ghost Ops soldier.

Jenna Sheriden lives and breathes being a marshal. Her past has left her with something to prove. She has zero interest in love, relationships, or anything that slows her down.

She needs help hunting a deadly murderer. She needs Parker Conroy.

The gruff, lean loner radiates a dark intensity she can’t ignore, but he has the skills to help her track down her quarry. Thrust together, they’re sharing the same bed, the same tent, and working together every hour of the day.

As they draw closer to catching the killer, Jenna sees under Park’s scarred exterior to the man beneath. A man who tempts her in ways no one ever has before. A man who will do anything to keep her safe.

If they survive this hunt, then Jenna knows she’ll have the biggest challenge of all—convincing her scarred hero to take a chance on love.









SALES 


Melody Beckett
Tauren Warriors Box Set
Books 0-3, Taurean Warriors

99c for short time only!



Alien warriors, fearless heroines, and a battle for Earth’s survival.





Mila Young
Grim Sector
Fractured Fairytales - multi author

free for a limited time!




Some curses are sealed with a kiss. Others with...

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Leisl Leighton
Love Cursed
Book 1, Gods Cursed

free for March!


A love across time, cursed to stay apart …






Juanita Kees
Montana Baby
 Book 1, The Calhouns of Montana

Free for a limited time!




 Chase Calhoun has worked hard at making Calhoun Customs a world-wide sensation and keeping his father’s dream alive. He hasn’t had time to think about settling down, so he’s not expecting to find love or new life in their garage amongst the ghosts of his family’s past.

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