- The Secrets of Danu (Book 3, Danu's Secrets) by Imogene Nix
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Rachel Armstrong
Island Moon
Book 3, Wolf Shifters of Magnetic Island Expected Release:
1 August 2026
Book Three of the Wolf Shifters of Magnetic Island Series.
In production 2025. Scheduled for release in 2026. Release date subject to be earlier than currently scheduled.
Blurb to come.
Ruby St. George
Natural Magic
Book 2, Touch of Magic
Expected Release:
28 November
Most witches have cute kittens as their Familiar, but I ended up bonded to a cranky wolf shifter who’s only the half of my problems.
On the run from the Witch clan who raised her, Darcy has convinced cranky wolf shifter, Jones, to help. But as they cross his pack borders, she’s captured by a new player, Jett—a hunter who believes the only good witch is a dead witch.
Escaping from Jett isn’t easy, and when she finally makes it to the safety of the pack, she begins to question how safe she really is. With the clan still chasing her, a hunter who wants her dead, and Jones hiding something, Darcy’s running out of options. And she still doesn’t have a clue how her strange magic works.
Cementing the bond with Jones seems to be the only answer, but his secret could get them both killed. Now, surrounded by enemies, she faces a difficult choice: her freedom…or her life. But what’s a life worth living without freedom?
There’s only one option left. And as they say, the enemy of my enemy is my friend.
… Right?
Fans of Ilona Andrews, Faith Hunter and Keri Arthur will love this slow burn paranormal romance.
K.E. Turner
The Wolves and their Cipher
Book 2, The Descendants
Expected Release:
2 December
They’re double trouble. She doesn’t stand a chance.
Melinda Cheng is a master of reinvention—a skilled cipher who creates new lives for those desperate to leave their past behind. For years, she’s helped survivors of domestic violence vanish into the anonymity of carefully crafted identities. Her latest case seems simple enough—an unassuming old lady Melinda’s determined to keep safe no matter who’s hired to track her down.
Twins, Pierre and Louis Montagne, do everything together. They live together, work together and share their women. As the Langeais wolf pack’s tech team, they’re a cyber force unrivaled. Nobody can hide from them. Not even a time traveling witch who’s been a thorn in their pack’s side for centuries. Wherever she is, they’ll find her. It’s only a matter of time. One clever little cipher isn’t going to stop them.
When the hunt for her client turns to tracking her down, Melinda is drawn into a world of werewolves and witches. Where a woman in her eighties may not be as innocent as she seems, and cyber specialists come in the form of two hot as hell Frenchmen.
Melinda will risk everything to protect her client. Pierre and Louis will do anything to find their target. Discovering Melinda means more to them than an opportunity to complete their mission, changes everything. Pierre and Louis must decide what truly matters—capturing the witch or claiming their mate.
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
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.
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.
Donna Maree Hanson
The Prudential Light
Book 4, Cry Havoc
16 December
Aunt Prudence Wainwright, famously daunting dragon lady of the Hardcastle family, has set herself to writing her memoirs. There will be plenty in these pages to astonish her relations: adventures, abandonment, heartbreak, secret loves and dangers and the family’s magical gifts running through her veins. But with new children, marriage proposals, battles with rogue magicians, and the very past she is recalling bursting back into her life in startling ways, how will she ever find the time to finish them!
Annie Seaton
A Magic Christmas
Book 1, The Enchanted Village
Expected Release:
1 December (date updated)
Australian author Dimity Armstrong is visiting London, on the cusp of Hollywood success, when a devastating fall results in vision impairment. Retreating to her late great-aunt’s cottage in the Cotswolds to meet her looming book deadline, she arranges for an editor to help complete her latest steamy mystery novel. But when Vivian Edwards arrives at Bramble Cottage, Dimity discovers her carefully arranged plan has a major complication: Vivian is most definitely not the woman she was expecting, but a deep-voiced male editor who now must help her write the most intimate scenes of her career.
As Christmas approaches in the picture-perfect village, the cottage seems determined to work its legendary matchmaking magic. The antique dwelling has a history of bringing lonely hearts together during the holidays, and despite Dimity’s pragmatic nature, magical coincidences begin to pile up. With her confidence still shattered from childhood taunts, she struggles to believe that someone like Vivian could see beyond her ordinary appearance.
Meanwhile, Vivian finds himself increasingly drawn to the brilliant mind and resilient spirit behind the bestselling novels he’s long admired. As her deadline approaches, Dimity must decide whether to trust in the magic of the cottage and open her heart to honesty or retreat into the worlds she creates on the page, where she can control every happy ending but her own.
A heartwarming Christmas romance about learning to see with more than just your eyes and finding love where you least expect it.
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Amanda Ashby
The Widows' Guide to Last Orders
Book 4, The Widows' Detective Club
Expected Release:
1 April 2026
Life in Little Shaw is as nice as pie for librarian Ginny Cole. She’s got a tentative truce with her grumpy neighbour Detective Inspector Wallace, and Sunday quiz nights at The Lost Goat with her friends (team name: The Merry Widows). Until the young quizmaster is found dead in the cellar. The police call it an accident; Ginny suspects murder. But with Wallace strangely impossible to locate and convince, she and the other widows must step – carefully, mind – into the breach.
The victim, it turns out, wasn’t just torturing locals with impossible trivia. He was hunting for his great-aunt who vanished from Little Shaw in 1963, along with what village gossips insist was a fortune in Cold War secrets. Now Ginny and her friends must decode a sixty-year-old mystery involving priest holes, spy scandals, and the competing egos of the local history society.
But when the killer strikes again, the widows need to solve this fast before someone calls last orders on them…
A brilliantly twisty cozy mystery perfect for fans of Fiona Leitch, Robert Thorogood and anyone who thinks retirement should come with a side of solving murders.
Annie Seaton
Storm Season
Book 3, Bec Whitfield Mystery
Expected Release:
15 January 2026
Detective Bec Whitfield thought she'd found paradise in tropical Mission Beach—and maybe even love with charming local developer Jake Morrison. But when Cyclone Meredith threatens the coast, emergency preparations uncover a twenty-year-old secret buried in concrete.
The skeletal remains belong to Marcus “Moondog” Sullivan, a former Sydney property developer turned environmental activist who vanished in 2004 during heated battles over coastal development. Marcus had made powerful enemies on both sides of the conservation debate, and someone wanted him silenced permanently.
As Bec investigates, the case becomes uncomfortably personal. Jake's construction company was involved in the building where Marcus was found, and her new boyfriend grows increasingly evasive about his past. When Detective Todd Davenpot arrives from Brisbane with warnings about Jake's reputation, Bec finds herself caught between two men and a web of corruption that reaches far beyond Mission Beach.
With the cyclone bearing down and evacuation orders imminent, Bec must solve a murder that exposes decades of environmental crime and political corruption. But the closer she gets to the truth, the more she realises that Marcus Sullivan died because he threatened to expose secrets that powerful people will kill to protect.
In a race against time and the storm of the century, Bec will discover that some foundations are built on lies—and that choosing the wrong person to trust can be deadly.
Perfect for fans of Jane Harper and Candice Fox.
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Annie Seaton
Outback Strangers
Book 1, The Happy Outback Hotel
Expected Release:
14 February 2026
When three English friends—Amelia, Sophie, and Charlotte—arrive in the dusty outback town of Garnet Creek during their gap year, they expect nothing more than a quick stop at the campground attached to an abandoned hotel. What they don’t expect is to find themselves completely charmed by a town that’s barely changed in decades.
The once-thriving Garnet Creek Hotel now serves as a basic campground, and sitting around the campfire one evening, the girls dare to dream: what if they could transform this forgotten pub into the heart of the community again—a proper English-style pub where locals and travellers alike could gather?
Their dream seems impossible until a mysterious fellow traveller, elderly philanthropist Alex Morrison, makes them an offer they can’t refuse. Suddenly, they own the pub and face the mammoth task of bringing it back to life.
The locals, however, are suspicious and not ready to embrace change—especially not from a trio of English backpackers. The town council is hostile, and tensions run high as old wounds and pride clash with the arrival of new residents. When Amelia finds herself drawn to Jake Sullivan, the talented builder caught between his loyalty to the town and his growing feelings for her, everything becomes far more complicated.
Can three young women from halfway around the world turn doubt into acceptance and transform a struggling town? Or will the outback prove too harsh for their English dreams?
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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
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**
D.K. Hood
His Next Wife
Expected Release:
14 January 2026
His first wife died in an accident, but I’m not so sure. Did he kill her? Am I next?
Handsome and charming, Jack swept me off my feet when we met, and now we’re married and I’m moving into his imposing old house. I’m bursting with excitement until I see a face staring down at me from an upstairs window. Before I can wave, the face vanishes from view. Jack says nobody else was home, so who is hiding in the shadows?
Taking in my new home, I’m startled to discover a long ivory wedding gown in one of the bedrooms. My heart pounds as I realise this was the room where I saw someone watching me. Jack tells me the dress belonged to his ex-wife, who died in an accident. He says he forgot the dress was there, but I can’t fail to notice the way he avoids eye contact as he quickly hurries me out of the room and locks the door behind us.
As the days go by, I see Jack less and less and I can’t help but think he’s avoiding me. Left in my new home alone, I begin to obsess about his ex-wife. Jack tells me to stop, that I’m imagining things, but I can’t help myself. Instead, I go back to the room where I thought I saw someone and nothing could have prepared me for what I find behind that locked door. Or what happens next…
Readers who enjoyed The Housemaid, The Perfect Marriage and Valerie Keogh’s The Wives, will love this truly heart-racing, pulse-pounding psychological thriller from bestselling author, D.K. Hood.
Mel Teshco
Wolf
Book 3, Sons of the Sheikh
Expected Release:
31 December
His bite is as fierce as his reputation
Sheikh Sharif Al-Hadid isn’t known for his gentleness. Like the territorial and savage wolf he was named after, he rules his province without mercy. He can’t be any other way. His enemies would cut him down quicker than a lightning bolt if they suspected he had a soft spot. It’s why he pretends not to care about his new fiancée, Elmira. If he showed her even a speck of love and tenderness his enemies wouldn’t stop at hurting her to hurt him.
But how long can he keep up the pretense and continue to unintentionally offend the woman he secretly loves?
Though Elmira Bakir is deeply in love with her future husband, she’s as deeply wounded by him. He is as cold and dismissive of her as any man could possibly be. A stranger would show her more warmth and compassion. That she senses beneath his icy façade is a burning passion waiting to be unleashed is her only hope, and she’ll break every rule in her culture to seduce him and know for sure if they have a future together.
Because there is no way she’ll tolerate the same loveless marriage her parents had. She deserves so much more than that. But can she fight for a man who mightn’t deem her worthy to fight for in return?
Mel Teshco
Jackal
Book 4, Sons of the Sheikh
Expected Release:
28 February 2026
His growl is as possessive as his nature
Sheikh Zayn Al-Habib has always preferred his harem to the complications of marriage. Why tie himself to one woman when he can have many? But when Malika—his favorite, his weakness—announces she's leaving because she can't share him anymore, everything changes.
They don't call him Jackal for nothing. This predator mates for life.
She thinks she can walk away, but Zayn has finally realized what he should have known all along: Malika isn't just another woman in his collection. She's his. And jackals don't let their mates go—even if keeping her means destroying what little love she still has for him.
Malika Ismat gave her heart freely, but she won't share it anymore. She wants all of Zayn or nothing at all. The problem? Leaving requires his blessing, and he's made it brutally clear she'll never have it.
Trapped between a man who owns her body but refuses to claim her heart, and a love that's slowly turning to resentment, Malika faces an impossible choice.
The line between devotion and captivity is thinner than a blade's edge.
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Ruby St. George
True Magic
Book 3, Touch of Magic
Expected:
December
Anna Hackett
Burn the World Down
Book 1, Unsanctioned
Expected:
4 December
Mel Tehsco
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Justice and Slade
Baranany and Hunter
Books 2-3, Shadows End
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