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NEW RELEASES
M.J. Scott
Wicked Lies
Book 7, Techwitch
Released:
13 October
My mother was a wicked witch. Turns out my dad wasn’t so great either. I’ve paid for their choices and I use my magic for good. But that doesn’t mean the darker side of the magical world will leave me alone…
Wicked Deeds is the seventh book in the TechWitch series, exciting dark and sexy futuristic urban fantasy from RITA® Award nominated author M.J. Scott. This series has witches, demons, an ongoing relationship that will have an HEA, sexy times, and a lot of computer geeks. Perfect if you like the idea of a strong heroine, a hot protective billionaire and magic and technology colliding. Enjoy!
Author's note: For tropes and CW, please check the author's website.
TJ Nichols
At 52 Kieran Sherry inherits a crumbling castle half a world away and discovers he’s a witch. Now, with his long‑buried magic surging back to life and an accidental fated mates bond with the castle’s owl‑shifter groundskeeper, he must unravel his family’s curse before it claims his life.
Tropes:
silver fox
fated mates
forced proximity
owl shifter
family curse
suddenly magical
finding home
set in the Familiar Mates world
Welcome to the world of Silver Linings, where old age doesn’t have to mean bad backs and regrets. Silver Linings is a shared concept collaboration about older silver foxes and their magical midlife awakenings. Grab your tea, light a candle and dive into six magical cozy worlds full of whimsy, warmth and happily-ever-afters.
TJ Nichols
Blades and Bone
Books 4, Hunting Hearts
The special edition will be available via Kickstarter (closes soon).
To make a stand against the Orlan vampire family, the Ashby and Reid families agree to a treaty…and the best way to seal it is with blood.
For helping his uncle, Hamish Reid finds himself offered to the Ashby family and married to the youngest brother of the matriarch. A man who is as cold a blade and has made his distaste for the treaty and Hamish clear without saying a word.
Brodie Ashby doesn’t agree with his sister’s decision to form an alliance with the Reids because it feels like they are stepping into a war that isn’t theirs. The Reids only got involved because they helped Nixon Hadley. But Brodie understands his duty and accepts Hamish as his husband, a man who appears not to understand the seriousness of the situation and is determined to push every boundary.
The Orlan family will not back down, as there is too much at stake. When the battle comes to their doorstep, Brodie and Hamish will have to put aside their differences and prove that the families are stronger together.
When this black cat meets a golden retriever, teeth and claws come out before they build trust and find common ground and a common enemy.
Book 4 in the MM vampire mafia series, Hunting Hearts. For readers who like steamy vampire romance, enemies to lovers and arranged marriages.
Mel Teshco
His Predator
Book 3, The Unnaturals
Released:
19 October
Released:
19 October
She was made to kill. He was made to be her target.
My name is Nyra. I’m the perfect weapon—silent, fast, and deadly. My handler points, I hunt. I don’t use bullets. I use my teeth. My claws. The way nature intended. A gun is a coward’s weapon. My prey deserves to face their predator. It’s simple. Clean. I don’t question the names on my list because I’m told they’re monsters who deserve what’s coming.
Until Barrett.
He’s supposed to be my next target. Another evil man who needs to disappear. But when I get close, nothing adds up. He’s not the monster they claimed. And the longer I watch him, the harder it becomes to make the kill.
My spots are breaking through my skin, my teeth extending, my eyes burning amber with predator fire—a warning I’m losing control. My claws ache to extend. Not to kill him. To protect him.
But my handler is watching. Waiting. And if I don’t complete this mission, we’ll both pay the price.
Some prey should never be hunted. Some predators were never meant to be caged.
Kelly Ethan
The Wicked Witch and the Ghastly Galleon
Point Muse Halloween Cozy
Released:
31 October
Pirates, ghastly curses, and a librarian turned sleuth… Let the mayhem begin.
A Halloween cruise aboard the Ghastly Galleon Cruise Ship was supposed to be harmless fun. Fake ghosts, pirate legends and a wicked witch, Elspeth Harrow, complaining loudly about everything…
Not what Alexandra Meyers-Braun, a.k.a. Xandie, guardian to the Supernatural Great Library of Alexandria, expected. But a free trip is a free trip, even if one has to travel with their loose cannon witchy grandmother.
Until a massive prop drops during rehearsal of a pirate play and the ship’s social director and Elspeth’s longtime frenemy is crushed to death.
Now the ship is in lockdown, a pirate curse is back in circulation, and everyone thinks the wicked witch, Elspeth Harrow, is suspect number one.
With suspicion swirling, Xandie must unravel cursed pirate legends, buried grudges, blackmail, and a ship full of secrets to find the killer before the curse of the Ghastly Galleon claims another victim…
If you love snarky dialogue, witchy chaos, and piratical cozy paranormal magic and mayhem, you’ll love The Wicked Witch and the Ghastly Galleon, a Halloween novella in Kelly Ethan’s Point Muse Cozy Paranormal Mystery series.
K.E. Turner
The Wolf and His Grace
Book 3, The Descendants
Released:
27 October
He’s not what she expected. She’s his saving Grace.
Grace Williams curses the day her mother married into the King family. That’s when magic became a tool for things a little left of Grace’s moral compass. Now she’s been called up for a mission by the formidable and frightening matriarch. Her task—seduce a member of the Witch’s Council and steal an ancient grimoire.
Getting into his bed isn’t the problem. Staying out of it is.
Alain d’Louncrais, wolf-witch and member of the Witch’s Council, plays hard and kinky. It’s the only thing keeping him sane and his dominance under control. But he’s all business when it comes to guarding an ancient grimoire of the evilest spells he’s ever come across. A grimoire that holds the key to his pack’s survival.
When the woman who comes to steal it is his fated mate, Alain will put more than his heart on the line.
Keri Arthur
Geitha's Tears
Books 7, Relic Hunter
Released:
9 November
In the game of life and love, can you depend on the old gods to play fair?
In Bethany Aodhán’s experience, the answer to that question would be a definite “hell, no.” But it’s not like she has any real choice except trust that at least some of them are on her side, especially since her father is one of the players in the latest godly game.
When the latest relic hunt leads them back to an ancient Myrkálfar kingdom, it raises yet more questions about her mother, their pixie heritage, and her own developing powers.
Then her tavern is set ablaze, and it becomes increasingly clear that someone wants her out of the way. Someone who isn’t a god, but a competitor for the heart of the man she loves.
Someone who is very determined to win, and may well have Geitha, the Myrkálfar goddess of love and destiny, on their side.
But when it comes to this particular battle, it is one Bethany is determined to win.
Even if it kills her.
Efthalia
Two Times The Curse
Book 2, The Willow Witch Chronicles
Released:
7 November
A witch. A curse. And a secret of epic proportions.
Samantha Willow’s defective powers have been the bane of her existence, but when new information emerges about her cursed backfiring magic, her whole world comes crashing down. She needs her wolf’s support to expose those responsible.
Dex Lycophron will move heaven and earth to help his witchy mate fully harness her abilities. When they discover she has been cursed by several Greek gods, who are targeting her for unknown reasons, they set out on a quest they hadn’t anticipated. Fortunately, Dex has a supernatural network that can help them get to the bottom of it.
Will their relationship withstand the danger they face?
Two Times the Curse is the second book in the Willow Witch Chronicles, a paranormal romance with magic, witches and supernatural suspense. Tropes: Cursed Heroine, Spells gone wrong, Fated Mates, Touch her and Die, Found Family.
Anna Hackett
Through Unchartered Space
Book 9, Phoenix Adventures
Released:
21 October
previously published, lightly edited
Through Unchartered Space
Book 9, Phoenix Adventures
21 October
previously published, lightly edited
A deep-space convoy master who demands everyone follow his rules discovers a stowaway on his ship who’s never met a rule she wouldn’t break.
Previously published - has been lightly edited
Dare Phoenix runs his convoy with absolute control. In uncharted space, lives depend on it. When one dowdy woman comes aboard, he knows something is off about her. Soon there are assassins and sabotage on his ship, and he discovers his drab passenger is a smart-mouthed scam artist who defies him at every turn.
Life has taught Dakota Jones that if you don’t grab what you want, someone else will snatch it. She’s stolen a map to an immense lost treasure from Earth. Okay, so maybe snatching the map from a deadly terrorist group wasn’t her best decision, but she just needs hide out on the Phoenix Convoy and decode the map. Easy.
As soon as she sets eyes on the sexy, in-charge Dare Phoenix, she knows she’s made a terrible mistake.
Dare and Dakota strike sparks at every turn, but they reluctantly join forces to find the treasure. Every step of their adventure is dogged by danger, and the biggest threat is getting burned by their incendiary attraction.
Anna Hackett
Beyond Galaxy's Edge
Book 5, Phoenix Adventures
Released:
3 November
in audio format
A dedicated space captain collides with a sexy, charming smuggler.
Ambitious captain Nissa Sander has spent three years at the galaxy’s edge, keeping law and order…and chasing scoundrel smuggler Justyn Phoenix. The charming rogue has always outwitted her, and she’s had a hard time ignoring his muscled body and handsome face. But when one of the galaxy’s most important documents—the US Constitution—is stolen, Nissa finds herself working with the very man she’s been trying to throw in her brig.
Justyn Phoenix embraces life and offers everyone a wink and a smile. He’s also in love with the spit-and-polish patrol captain out to arrest him. Yep, crazy in love. When the opportunity arises to work alongside Nissa on a wild and crazy mission, he can’t resist.
The hunt leads them to fake documents, rival treasure hunters, and a millennia-old mystery. As the pair travel beyond the galaxy’s edge, Justyn and Nissa will face the firestorm of their desire, and soon learn if they can survive long enough to save the galaxy.
Annie Seaton
Harvest Magic
Book 9, The Enchanted Village
Released:
22 October
Kirsten Tredinnick QC has been one of the most respected barristers at the Criminal Bar for two decades. She has stood in courtrooms and changed the course of lives. She has been certain, precise, and formidable, and she has never once doubted that the work was enough.
Then came the Ashworth case.
She won’t talk about the Ashworth case. Not to her clerk, not to her chambers, not to the daughter who calls every Sunday and asks, carefully, whether she’s all right. What she can do is leave. A six-month sabbatical, an old friend’s recommendation, a cottage in the Cotswolds. She does not plan to talk to anyone. She plans to walk and read and be left alone, and when six months have passed, she will go back to the Bar, and everything will be as it was.
Michaelmas Cottage in Lower Thistlewick has other ideas.
Michaelmas Magic is the ninth book in the beloved Enchanted Village series — a story about the woman who has given everything to her work, and the village, the cottage, and one magnificently overconfident thirteen-year-old who refuse to let that be the whole of her.
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Kell Shaw
The Demon's Peace
Book 2, Cambion Chronicles
Released:
27 October
She buried her daughter. Made a deal with a demon. Then went hunting.
When Sabyse’s daughter is murdered on her wedding day, the corrupt authorities can’t help.
Thaena Ashmore can. She's a legendary demonic assassin. Except she's done with human vengeance and has little interest in anything except mourning her lost love.
To gain the vengeance she craves, Sabyse has no choice but to shatter Thaena's peaceful retirement, forcing the assassin into a contract that drags her back onto the path of blood. Bound by a fraught alliance, the two women must navigate a conspiracy that stretches back fifty years and confront their own terrible truths.
A dark fantasy featuring crime lords, necromancers, supernatural warfare, and long-dead secrets that refuse to stay buried. Perfect for fans of M.L. Wang's The Sword of Kaigen, and Joe Abercrombie's Best Served Cold.
Pick up The Demon's Peace, a standalone book in the Cambion Chronicles series.
non spec-fic
Astrid Cooper
Phoenix
Released:
4 August
Phoenix
4 August
To live a life in fear is a life half lived…
September 11 in New York City began as an ordinary day, but within hours, terror had changed the world forever. Heroes died, and heroes were created—ordinary men and women who faced the tragedy and became extraordinary.
Phoebe Warren, an Australian nurse, visiting the Trade Center, narrowly escapes death when the towers fall, but her brother is killed. Ten months later she returns to New York, determined to overcome the aftermath of terror and find answers. Her meeting and growing friendship with Brooklyn firefighter, Sean Connor, begins a life-challenging journey where they find that death is not an end but a beginning.
With humour and with the irrepressible camaraderie of firefighters, Phoebe and Sean discover meaning amid pain and loss, but is their spiritual, emotional, and physical transformation enough to overcome the fear of that day? Will they rise like the phoenix from the ashes of 9/11?
Annie Seaton
Outback Hearts
Book 4, The Happy Outback Hotel
Released:
31 October
Some hearts break so completely, the only way back is to help someone else's beat again.
Dr Ethan Reeves has never set foot outside the UK—until an international placement scheme drops him straight from a London hospital corridor into the red dirt and endless sky of the Australian outback, with no layover in a city to soften the landing. Garnet Creek Medical Centre is smaller than his old GP surgery's car park. The nearest hospital is two hours away. And the man giving him a lift from the airstrip calls him "Doc" before he's even said his name.
Paramedic Zoe Bennett grew up in Garnet Creek and swore she'd never come back—not permanently, not after everything that drove her away. But her own reasons for running have caught up with her, and now she's home, splitting her time between ambulance shifts in Longreach and a new role as the hotel's safety officer. She tells herself it's temporary. She tells herself a lot of things.
Ethan and Zoe are polite strangers who happen to work in the same small building—until a hotel guest collapses mid-celebration and a child's snake bite turns a quiet afternoon into a race against time. Thrown together when it matters most, they discover something neither expected: a partner who understands exactly what it costs to keep showing up when everything's unfamiliar and there's nowhere left to run to.
As Garnet Creek gathers for a wedding that feels like the whole town's victory, farewells the man who saved it, and welcomes new life into the family they've all built together, Ethan and Zoe must decide whether two people from opposite ends of the earth can build something whole together—or whether the outback is too far from everything Ethan's ever known.
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Rachel Armstrong
Falling for the Heart Doc
Falling for the Heart Doc
Released:
October
October
Cassandra Rose has a second chance at life.
Starting over in her hometown, she volunteers on the children’s ward, sharing her love of Greek mythology to give sick children hope and courage. She’s beaten cancer but struggles to recognise the woman in the mirror. Her body is frail, her confidence is shattered, and she no longer feels feminine or desirable.
So she has no interest in her sexy new neighbour who puts all the Greek gods to shame.
Dr Alex Charles has a second chance at love.
After a loss that broke him, the successful cardiologist is ready to start dating again. He’s returning to triathlon and pushing himself harder than ever to become the man he once was.
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SALES / FREE READS
Debbie Johansson
Ghost Encounters
is free when you sign up to Debbie's newsletter.
Leisl Leighton
Leisl has a Dragon Cursed pre-order celebration sale featuring sales on more than one of the God Cursed series. Prices are in US dollars.
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Prequel - Love Cursed: Christmas Wish
Book 1 - Love Cursed
Book 2 - Soul Cursed
Pre-Order (expected release: 24 November)
Book 7 - Dragon Cursed
Leisl also has sales on two books that first in the series for a limited time.
The Blood of the Seer
Book 1, Blood Rites
Her blood carries ancient secrets. His blood carries her death …
Leisl is also part of the Fangs, Claws, and Other Bad Decisions book fair, which is currently on, with her two of her prequels free.
Bernadette Rowley
The Queenmakers Saga Boxset
is on sale for a limited time.
A princess in disguise. A shifter with a hidden agenda. Will they uncover the truth in time for romance to blossom?
Wings of Shadow and Prophecy
Book 1, Shadow Wing Quest
is on sale for a limited time on Amazon.
Christina Phillips
Hold Me Until Midnight
Book 1, The Grayson Brothers
is on sale for a limited time.
Every good girl loves a very bad boy…
Mila Young
Mila has a number of Special Editions and Bundles on sale via her store.
Dark Destiny
Special Edition Omnibus of Thief of Heart Series
co-written with C.R. Jane
I broke one rule.
Not because I wanted to be reckless, because for the first time in my life, I wanted to feel chosen… not owned.
Shifter Bundle
4 Spicy Special Edition Books Featuring Shifters
Enter four dark series where primal instincts rule, fated bonds burn, enemies become lovers and the alphas are as dangerous as they are irresistible.
This exclusive bundle brings together four full-length shifter romance special edition books
Nightmare Island (Exiled Sector)
Shadows and Wolves (Shadowlands Sector)
Her Forbidden Protector (Savage Sector)
Mark Me (Immortal Vices & Virtues)
Haven Realm Special Edition 3 Book Bundle
The Haven Realm 3 Book Bundle includes the following books:
Hunted:
Red Riding Hood. Three Big Bad Wolves. A Poisonous Scheme.
Cursed:
Bee and the Four Beasts. A Deadly Curse. A Fallen Kingdom.
Entangled:
Tangles of death, danger, and monsters. Elliana and her sexy shifters must escape a witch’s vengeance.
BONUS:
- 3 Exclusive fairytale stickers
- 3 Gold foiled bookmark
- 3 Gold foiled character cards
Birdie Song
Cinnamon, Ginger, Nutmeg, Love
is free when you sign up to Birdie's newsletter.
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