The speed of the incoming messages on Chelsea McGinnis's phone made it sound like a child bashing a xylophone. Her gut clenched as she lunged for it.
Nothing good came this fast at this hour of the morning. She spotted the name, Aria Simpson, and her heart went into overdrive.
No, no, no.
What had Aria done?"
- Repairing Dreams (Book 1, Lilydale Cottage) by Claire Boston
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Ruby St. George
Midnight Magic
Book 4, Touch of Magic
Expected Release:
30 June
My cranky wolf shifter Familiar has broken our bond, and my heart, in order to save my life. I’m getting him back, but first I need to survive my trip to Faery land.
After discovering the truth about her father and her heritage, Darcy must travel to Faery land to finally learn how to control her strange magic. She can’t go if she’s bonded to Jones, but without help, she’ll die.
Once she gets to Faery, she must prove her worth by passing the Trials, a Fae right of passage that puts the participant’s life at risk. Failure means death – weaklings aren’t allowed in Faery. Especially when her father is the Midnight Prince.
Fin, a gorgeous Fae warrior, is assigned to train her. But he has his own agenda and Darcy isn't sure she can trust him.
If she survives the Trials she’ll get the magical help she desperately needs. But there’s a catch – passing the Trials means she’s got Fae blood, and the Faery Queen won't allow her to leave Faery land. The only option is to bring Jones to Faery instead.
It’s an impossible choice, making Darcy rethink her priorities. Does she have the right to ask him to give up everything for her? Or will she sacrifice her one chance of happiness and let him go, forever?
Fans of KF Breene, Faith Hunter and Patricia Briggs will love this slow burn paranormal romance.
Leisl Leighton
Hunter Bound
Book 3, Dawn of the Curse
Released:
20 March
A Hunter, a Fae Shifter, a power to face the Darkness …
Were Hunter, Callum MacHeath, wants nothing more than to help his Alphas build their new Packlands into a place of safety and welcome. His only sadness is that his brother, Bram, still refuses to leave their old Alpha and venture north to join them. But then Leanna, half of his Alpha team, has a vision: he must journey south to find an incredibly powerful and mysterious Being whom only he can manage to bring into the pack. A Being they will need if they are to survive the dark times ahead even while death and destruction follow in her wake. Even as Callum heads south, he worries whether he really should bring this woman back to his pack – until he claps eyes on her and realises she's his mate!
Annie Seaton
March Magic
Book 2, The Enchanted Village
Expected Release:
7 February
She appeared on the village green with the February dawn—a girl with silver-blonde hair, a tent the colour of morning mist, and a smile that made the snowdrops bloom early.
Fern doesn't explain where she came from or why she's camping on the village green in the depths of winter. She simply is—a literature student on an adventure, a storyteller with a gift for magic, a girl who talks to robins and leaves glitter wherever she walks.
Emma Morrison is convinced: Fern is a fairy. The adults shake their heads and smile, but even they can't quite explain the way flowers bloom in Fern's footsteps, or how the cottage windows shine brighter when she passes, or why the whole village seems lighter since she arrived.
For one magical February week, Fern brings joy to the Enchanted Village. She reads stories at Chapter & Verse that make children believe in wonder and adults remember their dreams. She befriends Dimity and Vivian, shares tea with Mrs Willoughby, and gently deflects questions about where she'll go next.
Because Fern is running—from a choice, from a boy with kind eyes and a patient heart, from the terrifying question: what if love is real and I'm brave enough to choose it?
The village has healed broken hearts and mended fractured marriages. But can it help a girl who's afraid to believe in her own happy ending?
A joyful, whimsical tale of storytelling, wonder, and the courage it takes to stop running and start living. Perfect for readers who believe in magic, love stories, and the power of choosing joy.
Set between January Joy and March Miracle, February Frolics is a standalone novella that can be read independently or as part of The Enchanted Village seriesPre-Order
Annie Seaton
March Magic
Book 3, The Enchanted Village
Expected Release:
30 March
Ten years of marriage. Ten years of hope, disappointment, and the slow, silent drift that comes when every month brings fresh heartbreak. Sophie and Daniel Ashford thought a fresh start in the Cotswolds might save them—a sabbatical, a break from the constant medical appointments and whispered apologies. Just six months in Violet Cottage to remember why they fell in love.
But Violet Cottage has other plans.
A tender story of marriage, grief, and the courage it takes to start again with the person you thought you'd lost.
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Annie Seaton
April Blossoms
Book 4, The Enchanted Village
Expected Release:
15 April
Olivia Morrison came to protect her dead sister's memory. Three years isn't long enough for Hugh to move on. Especially not with Joanna.
But Primrose Cottage doesn't tolerate bitter hearts or unkind thoughts. And it has very pointed ways of teaching lessons about love, loss, and letting go.
Flowers wilt. Doors lock. Gardens refuse to bloom.
Liv's about to learn that grief and kindness can't coexist. And only one of them will help her survive an enchanted cottage with opinions.
Sometimes the gardens we tend most carefully are the ones inside our own hearts.
She came to protect her sister's memory. The village had other plans.
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TJ Nichols
Scream and Steam
Expected Release:
14 March
Failing college was bad enough, but moving back home feels like a nightmare for Timothy. A stepmother he barely knows, a curious five-year-old sister, and eerie noises in the night have reignited his childhood fear of monsters under the bed. Then he learns the truth: the monsters are real.
Farrow, a guardian of the magical bridges hidden beneath children’s beds, has one mission—keep the human and magical worlds apart. But everything changes when he records Timothy in a very private moment. Convinced by a monster friend that selling videos on Scream and Steam will be easy money, Farrow opens an account—and Timothy becomes his unwitting star.
When Timothy discovers Farrow in his room, they strike an uneasy deal: Timothy will appear in Farrow’s videos if it means no more scares. But as sparks fly on and off camera, Timothy begins to see magic where he never expected it, and Farrow realizes Timothy’s past holds secrets that could shatter both their worlds.
Can they bridge the gap between fear and love, or will their worlds collide in chaos? Dive into this steamy monster romance where love pushes all boundaries.
TJ Nichols
Queens and Other Quarrels
Book 4, Mytho Collapse
Expected Release:
28 July
Pan and Noah's story continues...
The centaurs make a visit to town and Noah leans to be more careful with what he wishes for.
MM urban fantasy romance between an ancient god who has lost his magic and a human who is now selkie.
Non Spec-Fic
Lilliana Rose writing as Ivy Hart
The Drover
Men of the West
Expected Release:
15 April
He’s running from a hangman’s noose. She’s fighting a war for her land. God brought them together, but a secret this dangerous could tear them apart.
Kansas Territory, 1870.
Ellie Sutton has no room for error. A widow raising a young daughter on a drought-stricken homestead, she faces a ruthless cattle baron determined to steal her water rights. She prays for a miracle, but instead, she gets a stampede—and a stranger who rides into the jaws of death to save her little girl.
Griff is a man defined by the miles he’s put between himself and his past. A fugitive doctor framed for murder, he knows staying in one place is a death sentence. But with a broken leg and a blizzard closing in, the Drover is trapped in Ellie’s small cabin. As he heals, he finds himself drawn to the fierce woman who tends his wounds with a grace he doesn’t deserve.
As winter deepens, Griff becomes the protector Ellie never asked for, and Ellie becomes the home Griff never thought he’d find. But when the snow melts, the law will return.
With a bounty on his head and a land war erupting on her doorstep, Griff must make an impossible choice: ride into the sunset to keep his secrets, or stay and fight for the woman who taught him that even a broken man can be redeemed.
Annie Seaton
Outback Strangers
Book 1, The Happy Outback Hotel
Expected Release:
15 February
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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Mel Teshco
Jackal
Book 4, Sons of the Sheikh
Expected Release:
28 February
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.
D.K. Hood
Watch Over Me
Book 29, Detectives Kane and Alton
Released:
17 March
Fear grips her as the heavy footsteps echo along the isolated trail path. She thought she was alone in the woods, but as a hand reaches out from the darkness to cover her mouth, she knows that nobody will hear her scream…
When Jan Pierce is reported missing, Sheriff Jenna Alton and her deputy David Kane rush to the forest surrounding Black Rock Falls. Jenna’s heart breaks when she sees Jan’s body at the bottom of a ravine. But it’s the purplish bruising in the shape of a boot on her back that tells Jenna it was no accident. Somebody killed her.
As Jenna investigates Jan’s last movements, she learns that Jan joined a self-defense class and told her closest friends that she thought someone had followed her home one night. Was someone watching her every move, waiting for the right moment to strike?
Then another woman from the same group, Sierra Lang, is reported missing. When Jenna finds Sierra at home, her lifeless body submerged in bathwater amid clear signs of a struggle, she is certain there is a serial killer in town. With no sign of forced entry, Jenna believes Sierra knew the killer and let him in. Could it be someone known to the whole group, someone they thought was a friend?
As Jenna looks into both women’s lives, her heart races when the trail leads to someone she knows very well—someone she trusts. As a member of her own team comes under fire, Jenna is shocked to her core and desperate to get answers. Could the killer be closer than Jenna ever imagined, and can she uncover the truth before another young woman’s life is taken?
Perfect for fans of Lisa Regan, Melinda Leigh, Kendra Elliot and Mary Stone, this absolutely addictive serial killer thriller from USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author D.K. Hood will have you hooked from the start!
**Each Kane and Alton book can be read as part of the series or as a standalone**
Amanda Ashby
The Widows' Guide to Last Orders
Book 4, The Widows' Detective Club
Expected Release:
15 April
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.
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Melody Beckett
Alien Warrior's Honor
Book 1, Taurean Mercenaries
Expected Release:
April
Anna Hackett
No Matter the Cost
Book 2, Unsanctioned
Expected Release:
28 January
Mel Teshco
Nighmix series have new covers!
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