- It Might Be You (Bindarra Creek Christmas in July Romance) by Juanita Kees
PRE-ORDERS
Melinda Sørensen
The Solstice Queen
Book 1, The Oak King & the Holly King
Expected Release:
22 November
Their story always begins this way. This time she'll decide how it ends.
Rory's plans for her post-grad trip to England? Cute villages. Cozy pubs. A little history on the side. What she didn't expect was to be dragged into a hidden fairytale world where the tall, gorgeous rulers of Summer and Winter both want her.
Rivals for centuries, the two kings agree on one thing. Rory is the key to saving the seasons (and stopping climate change) before their world - and ours - falls apart. The catch? She needs to fall in love with one of them. No pressure, right?
As the two kings turn up the charm, and the heat, to win Rory's allegiance, secrets are revealed and the dark side of their world exposed, putting her life in danger.
Will she survive to choose one of the immortal guardians, when in this battle, love is the most dangerous weapon of all?
TJ Nichols
Dragons and Other Dreams
Mytho Collapse novella
Expected Release:
14 December
Hallix Nen was nine when his world was destroyed. He survived the collapse of the mythological world thanks to the nymphs who took care of him. Living in the southern part of Tasmania has kept the mythos safe from humans since then, but ten years later, Hallix longs for more. He wants to find other water dragons, other people. He’s seen humans on the boats and played with their lobster pots…
Jack Webster is once again spending his summer break on his uncle’s rock lobster boat. The money is good, the work is hard, and he loves the wildness of the southern coast inhabited only by mythos. Like most people his age, he doesn’t remember much of the world before the collapse, and he’s fascinated by the mythos and their customs. Other people, like his uncle, hate the mythos. He blames them for lost pots and bad weather.
When a storm hits the boat, Jack finds his life in the hands of a water dragon, and Hallix has the chance to learn all about human men. But what happens when the storm passes?
TJ Nichols
Palaces and Other Prisons
Tinsel and Tentacles
Expected Release:
21 November
Sometimes the world is actually ending…
Dawson Hill is used to the routine and isolation of working on an oil platform in the North Sea. He’s woken up by what he thinks is an emergency drill, then the platform shudders and tilts like it’s about to fall into the sea…but the sea is gone. The oil platform is now on an island. And the island is inhabited by all kinds of beings. It soon becomes clear that rescue isn’t coming, and they are running out of food.
Magic is gone, and the water tastes different. Is different. King Ul doesn’t know what to tell his people when they look to him for answers about what happened or what the metal contraption is. The invaders must have answers, so when they leave the metal boxes, he has them arrested, which is how he discovers the marks on his skin glow in the presence of one man. His mate.
Even though Ul wants to get his tentacles on Dawson, he doesn’t have time for love while his kingdom is in trouble.
A gay solstice romance in the Mytho Collapse world, which is set when the mythological world collapses into the human world, stranding all kinds of beings from myth.
TJ Nichols
Steel and Silence
Book 3, Hunting Hearts
Expected Release:
21 January author site
28 January elsewhere
Trent is determined to uncover the truth about the feud and missing people, and Garrick will do anything to keep vampires in the shadows where they belong.
Steel and Silence is book 3 in the Hunting Hearts vampire crime family series. Join the fight between the Reid family and the Orlans in this enemies to lovers mm mafia romance.
Lilliana Rose
Moonlight Promenade
Time for Monsters (multi-author series)
Released: 18 May in paperback format
Expected Ebook release:
10 November
I never believed time travel was possible.
Until a mysterious pendant transported me to Victorian London, where I’m hunted by dark creatures known as shadows, beings that drain my energy and stalk my every move.
That’s when I learned monsters are real.
Lord Nathaniel Blackwood is cursed—caught mid-transformation between man and werewolf, shunned by high society. But not all monsters are evil, and Nathaniel might be the only one who can help me survive.
Our forbidden attraction sparks a fire I can’t control. I’m trapped in the past and drawn into a future I never imagined—where every touch is a risk, and every whispered word could cost me my life.
If Nathaniel and I can uncover who’s behind the shadows and their twisted purpose, I might have a chance to return to my own time.
But the longer I stay, the more I want to remain—no matter the danger or who wants the pendant… or me.
Lilliana Rose
has a story in the
Fated Fates anthology
Expected release:
1 November
When the world ices over, destinies collide.
Frozen Fates is a chilling yet enchanting collection of paranormal and fantasy tales that trap characters in storms, cabins, and circumstances where escape is impossible and sparks are inevitable. Within these pages, love battles frost, secrets thaw in the dark, and fate proves inescapable.
All proceeds from Frozen Fates will go to one of the charities the event is supporting, bringing warmth and hope where it’s needed most. Step inside, and discover the magic that only isolation and ice can awaken.
This collection includes:
Claimed by the Panther by Bonnie Snow & Eliza Spark
The Rise of Beasts and Bones by Brooklyn Dean
Ember & Obsidian by Lilliana Rose
The Crow and the Hollow Hill by Serene Conneeley
Content Creation by LK Shear
Kindred Spirits by Serafina Jax
Supernova by L. Firminger
Under the Frost by Kathleen Kelly
All profits will be donated to Starlight Foundation.
Lilliana Rose
The Green Man
Expected Ebook release:
14 November
I went looking for escape and found it in the last place I ever expected.
Lost, injured, and miles from anything familiar, I stumbled into his world. Or maybe it called to me.
He’s raw elemental power and ancient secrets wrapped in a form that shouldn’t exist. He healed me.
Keeps me safe. Keeps me here.
This impossible sanctuary is my prison, yet the longer I stay, the more entangled I become in its mysteries… and in him. There’s a connection between us, thrumming with magic—terrifying, irresistible, and binding.
Is he my guardian? My jailer?
Or something far more dangerous to the life I thought I wanted back?
Keri Arthur
Bia's Blade
Book 6, Relic Hunters
20 January 2026
Keep your friends close and your enemies closer... but what happens when you don't know one from the other?
more information to come.
Kelly Ethan
Ghosts and Gold Dust
Book 1, The Ghos Vein Mine Cozy Paranormal Mysteries
30 November
Welcome to Ghost Vein, Nevada. Where the mine runs deep and so do the lies. The gold's cursed, the ghosts are chatty, and murder never stays buried for long.
Down on her luck, Rue Maddox inherits a haunted saloon turned bookshop café in a cursed wild West reeinactment mining town. The last thing she expects is to find a dead body behind her building or to be accused of murder. Now Rue is suspect number one in a crime she didn't commit.
But Ghost Vein isn't your average tourist trap. The mine is haunted, the locals are obsessed with cowboy costumes, and Rue's late Great Aunt Ruth turned out to be the town's last curse-breaking witch.
With a dead tour guide, a too attractive grumpy sheriff, a town full of ghosts and secrets, Rue must solve the mystery before another body drops or she ends up six feet under with only ghosts and gold dust for company.
Small town life just got weirder. And Rue? She might be the only thing standing between Ghost Vein and something far worse than bad tourist reviews.
Perfect for fans of paranormal cozy mysteries, haunted Western towns, and amateur sleuths.
Unlock the lighthearted magic and mayhem in Ghosts and Gold Dust. Book one in The Ghost Vein Mine Cozy Paranormal Mysteries by Kelly Ethan.
Tropes
Quirky Characters
Amateur Sleuth
Twisty Mystery
Nosy Animal
Magical Mayhem
Found Family
Slow Burn Romance
Ghosts
Curses
Old Western Mining Town
S.E. Gilchrist
Quest for Earth
Book 1, Search for Home
30 November
With the survival of her crew at stake, an old enemy lurking in the shadows, and a world on the brink of war, can Sherise lead her people safely home?
Honouring a pledge made in the blood-soaked dirt of a prison planet, Sherise volunteers to accompany the stolen people of Earth home. But when a collision plunges their ship off course and emerges three hundred years into Earth’s future, she encounters a dystopian planet seething with hidden danger.
And where more than one tribe jostle for dominance. Whilst there appears to be a stable society protected within the Fortress from the Outworlders, Sherise quickly discerns evidence of constant surveillance and rigid rules. Their enemy, the warrior tribe the Lycaneans, roam the desolate and ruined landscape doing battle with predators and something far worse – the Half-dead with their never-ending hunger.
The window of being able to return to her own time and planet is rapidly closing.
With the Lycanean chieftain Maaka determined to claim her as his fated mate – and use her people’s technology in a war against the Fortress, Sherise stands on a knife’s edge.
Should she accept the hand of friendship extended to her by the governing council of the Fortress - in the hope they can help her own people?
Or follow her heart which she realises now lies with Maaka. Only he is a warrior resolved on war to alleviate his people’s suffering and harbours a terrible secret of his own.
With the safety of her passengers and crew paramount, Sherise must choose her alliances with great care. For an old enemy is hidden on the planet, and he thirsts for revenge.
For readers who love strong characters, action and adventure in a science fiction / dystopian setting, high stakes and deadly consequences, intrigue and battle scenes, horror elements and romance.
Non spec-fic
Christina Phillips
Abducted by the Highlander
Book 3, Sons of the Sheikh
Expected Release:
2 December
She dreams of a future with her noble Scot—only to discover he’s an outlaw from his clan.
Roisin MacDonald lost her heart to Hugh the day she met him, but despite his promises to return to her, after he left her isle, she never heard from him again. And yet she cannot forget him and harbors the secret hope that one day their paths will cross again.
Traveling in the Highlands to visit her sister, Roisin’s party is ambushed. When she tries to escape, she’s horrified to discover one of the bandits is none other than Hugh Campbell. She scarcely recognizes this menacing stranger and yet there’s no denying the passion that still blazes between them.
He saves her from ruin, but who will save her from him…
Commanded to spy for the Earl of Argyll, Hugh Campbell leaves everything to go undercover in a rebel MacGregor clan. Forced to survive as a mercenary, it’s only the memory of sweet Roisin MacDonald that keeps the darkness at bay. One day, he hopes to make her his, but as he falls deeper into the shadows of subterfuge, he despairs he’ll ever escape this life, never mind be worthy enough to seek her hand.
Hugh can’t believe the one woman he hoped would never discover this side of his life is now ensnared with the rebels. Every moment she stays with him puts her in peril, and he swears he’ll protect her and return her to her kin. He’ll keep her safe whatever it takes, but his pledge to keep his distance from her shatters with their first illicit kiss.
As danger closes in, Hugh knows he must risk everything to ensure Roisin survives.
But how can he let her go, when he knows it means they will never see each other again?
Tropes you'll love:
- Protector hero
- Touch her and die
- Forced proximity
- First love
- Unrequited love
- Fish out of water
- She falls first, he falls harder
- Rekindled romance
Lilliana Rose
Focus on the Farmer
Expected Release:
6 November
I capture moments for a living, hiding behind my camera. The Royal Adelaide Show was just another assignment, until Jackson Pearce, a ruggedly handsome farmer with a quiet strength and haunting blue eyes, forces me into the frame. After his bull introduces us headfirst, my job transforms into a dizzying, heart-pounding complication.
He sees past my city-girl defenses, stirring feelings I thought were buried. But his life is dirt roads and wide-open spaces, and mine is deadlines and duty to my dad. Jackson represents a future I never imagined, one that terrifies and tempts me in equal measure.
The connection is real, the chemistry explosive, but can a love sparked in the heat of the show survive the distance? Or will choosing him mean losing myself?
D.K. Hood
Watch Over Me
Book 28, Detectives Kane and Alton
Expected Release:
16 December
Stepping onto the icy sidewalk, she doesn’t see a soul around her. But as she nears the safety of her vehicle, she hears the sound of heavy footsteps. She barely has time to take a breath before a sack is thrown over her head, and her world goes dark…
It’s Christmas in Black Rock Falls, and as the snow falls, schoolteacher Ellie McBride races to the office of Sheriff Jenna Alton and Deputy David Kane. She says she escaped being kidnapped. Days later, when a deadly message is written on the whiteboard in Ellie’s classroom, it’s clear whoever took her still has her in his sights.
Jenna is determined to catch the person responsible, and as she watches footage of the attempted kidnapping, something doesn’t add up. Why is Ellie missing from the footage? Did the kidnapper cover his tracks, or is Ellie telling lies about what happened?
Days later, social worker Laney Prescott is reported missing. Worried that it could be the same person, Jenna rushes to Laney’s small home, but she’s already too late. Taking in Laney’s long dark hair, which hangs limp over her face, and the thick cord wrapped around her neck, Jenna fears that a twisted monster is stalking vulnerable women. She vows to hunt them down and bring them to justice.
But as heavy snow begins to block off roads and homes in the small town, the murderer uses the opportunity to take his next victim. A young nurse is missing, and as Jenna closes in on the killer, she finds herself in unthinkable danger thanks to the treacherous conditions. Can Jenna survive and catch the murderer, or will this be her last case?
If you love reading Lisa Regan, Melinda Leigh and Kendra Elliot, you will adore this truly addictive crime thriller from USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author D.K. Hood.
**Each Kane and Alton book can be read as part of the series or as a standalone**
COVERS
Keri Arthur
Books 1-4
Lizzie Grace series
Foiled edition covers
Books 1-3 now available.
If you're in Australia or New Zealand, order direct from Keri.
Email Keri at keriarthurauthor@gmail.com.
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