Here are some newer paranormals, steampunk, urban fantasy, compiled for you and HEA by romance authors (info provided by authors, publishers and/or their websites):
Savage Revenge by Shelli Stevens (Samhain Publishing). New York Times bestseller Shelli Stevens takes readers back to the Savage series with Book 3, where an alpha wolf running for his life teams up with a quirky novelist destined to be his captive—if a serial killer doesn't get her first.
Secret Unleashed by Sierra Dean (Samhain Publishing). Sometimes, the darkest secrets are the hardest to unearth. In Book 6 of the Secret McQueen series, Secret finds herself on a cross-country journey featuring a sexy guardian, an AWOL vampire warden, a missing artifact, and a monstrous human. What could go wrong?
Dancer of the Nile by Veronica Scott (Veronica Scott). Third book in the Gods of Egypt series. 1550BCE. Nima's beauty and skill as a dancer leads an infatuated enemy to kidnap her after destroying an Egyptian border town. However, she's not the only hostage in the enemy camp - Kamin, an Egyptian soldier on a secret mission for Pharaoh, has been taken as well. Working together to escape, aided by Horus and the Snake Goddess Renenutet, the two embark on a desperate quest across the desert to carry word of the enemy's invasion plans to Pharaoh. Will the dancer and the soldier be able to accomplish their task and survive to find a future together?
The following new releases were compiled for HEA by Angie Fox, author ofMy Big Fat Demon Slayer Wedding. Her website is angiefox.com.
Bare Knuckle by Katie Porter (Samhain Publishing). After a near-fatal plane crash, fighter pilot Captain Eric "Kisser" Donaghue is a changed man. By day he labors to regain his confidence in the cockpit. By night he moonlights as an off-Strip boxer. Down on her luck but not quite out, Vegas showgirl Trish Monroe lives for the spotlight. The scarred, steely-eyed loner who stares at her from his corner of the ring gives Trish an extra reason to strut her stuff. Curiosity and the temptation of a no-strings good time bring them together. Trust in love, however, is another matter.
The Mountain's Shadow by Cecilia Dominic (Samhain Publishing). Joanie was close to discovering the cause of chronic lycanthropy syndrome when a suspicious lab fire left her without a job. Inheriting her grandfather's Ozark estate seems like a change of luck. Except her inheritance comes with children who disappear during full moons, an irresistible butler, and a pack of flirty, ferocious werewolves. Joanie's research is the key to unraveling the mysteries of Wolfsbane Manor, but resuming her work means facing painful truths about her childhood. Which could result in the loss of love, friendship, and the only true family she has left.
Shadowed by Rebecca Zanetti (eKensington). Danger signs rise off Jase Kayrs like steam—the scars, the secrets, the strength. He's got a mission, and he's not interested in much outside of it. Except Brenna Dunne. Brenna was an ass-kicking, name-taking witch—before the poison that's killing her sapped her powers too. She knows there's more to Jase than a handsome face and an ugly history. But there's no time to find out what. Taking him as her mate might save her life. But once she unleashes the force of his desire, there will be no turning back…
The following new releases were compiled for HEA by Deborah O'Neill Cordes, co-author of The Other Side of Heaven and its sequel, Time Enough for Love, and the Roman Time travel series. Her website is www.morganoneill.com.
The Osiris Curse by Paul Crilley (Pyr). Steampunk Sherlock Holmes meets The X-Files with a dash of romantic tension and a large dose of adventure. When Nikola Tesla is murdered and blueprints for his super weapons are stolen, Tweed and Nightingale are drawn into a global cat and mouse chase with his killers. What's more, it seems the people who shot Tesla are responsible for Octavia's mother's disappearance. As the two cases intertwine, Tweed and Nightingale's investigations lead them to a secret society called The Hermetic Order of Osiris. Fleeing the cult's wrath, they go undercover on the luxury airship, The Albion, setting out on her maiden voyage to Tutankhamen's View, a five star hotel built in the hollowed-out Great Pyramid of Giza. In Egypt, the duo begin to unravel the terrible truth behind Tesla's death, a secret so earth-shattering that if revealed it would mean rewriting the entire history of the world.
Disenchanted & Co., Part 2: His Lordship Possessed by Lynn Viehl (Pocket Star). In a steampunk version of America that lost the Revolutionary War, Kit Kittredge makes her living investigating magic crimes and exposing the frauds behind them. Lady Diana Walsh calls on Kit to investigate and dispel the curse she believes responsible for carving hateful words into her own flesh as she sleeps. As Kit investigates the Walsh family, she becomes convinced the attacks on Diana are part of a ominous plot—one that may involve the lady's obnoxious husband. Sleuthing in the city of Rumsen is difficult enough, but soon Kit must also skirt the unwanted attentions of nefarious deathmage Lucien Dredmore and the unwelcome scrutiny of Chief Inspector Thomas Doyle. Unwilling to surrender to either man's passion, Kit struggles to remain independent. Yet as she learns the truth behind her ladyship's curse, Kit also uncovers a massive conspiracy that promises to ruin her life—and turn Rumsen into a supernatural battleground from which no one will escape alive.
SCI-FI AND TIME TRAVEL ROMANCE
The following new releases were compiled for HEA by Louann Carroll, author of The Gemini Rising series and A Shadow of Time. Her website is www.louanncarroll.com.
Daniel X: Armageddon (Daniel X #5) by James Patterson and Chris Grabenstein (Little, Brown). Daniel must face an alien whose origins appear nearer to the depths of Hell than the outer reaches of the galaxy. Number Two is an unstoppable criminal that's slowly been amassing an underground army to help him enslave Earth's population. It's all in preparation for the arrival of Number One, the most powerful alien in the universe and Daniel's arch-nemesis. To Daniel's horror, thousands of humans defect to the alien's side. For the first time in his life, Daniel isn't alone in his fight. He's connected with several military and intelligence groups, including the daughter of a prominent FBI agent, and is prepared to lead the ultimate showdown against the evil that has plagued planet Earth for so long.
Beta (Annex #1), by Rachel Cohn (Hyperion). Elysia is a clone, created in a laboratory, born as a sixteen year old girl with no life experience to draw from. She is a Beta, an experimental model of teenaged clone. Elysia's purpose is to serve the inhabitants of Demesne, an island paradise for the wealthiest people on earth. At first, Elysia's new life on this island paradise is idyllic and pampered. But she soon sees that Demesne's human residents, who should want for nothing, yearn. She knows she is soulless and cannot feel and should not care. If anyone discovers that Elysia isn't an unfeeling clone, she will suffer a fate too terrible to imagine. When Elysia's one chance at happiness is ripped away from her, emotions she's always had but never understood are unleashed. Elysia must find the will to survive.
Winds of Purgatory by Rex A. Ewing (Eastlake Books). Science and the supernatural collide in the Colorado mountain town of Purgatory when Salia Warchez, a dangerously talented sorceress, pursues the final key to her sinister scheme of bringing oil...a long-lost commodity...back to the world, under her strict control. When physicist Jack Vara is unwillingly thrust into the tangled web left by his deceased father, he and the malegente must ready themselves for a standoff against Salia and her Apocalyptic Warriors in one of the most dangerous and peculiar places on earth.
PARANORMAL YA/NA
Everything You Know by Mary Beth Bass (Boroughs Publishing). A dark forest, a screaming woman and blood, these are the images that haunt seventeen year old Emma Mathews from the moment she meets Joe Castlellaw. As she and Joe grow closer Emma's visionary powers increase and everything she thought she knew about life, her family and herself is about to change forever.
Cardinal Desires by Linda Nightingale (Double Dragon Publishing). Police and media don't mix but how can Katy McCaully resist Sterling Fox? In her early teens, she fell in love with the painting of a thirteenth century warrior, and Sterling is the image of that man. She's a forensic psychiatrist working with Scotland Yard. He's a high-profile journalist who invades the underworld for a story or broadcasts live at the scene of the world's worst tragedies. They are both trying to capture the animalistic killer the newspapers have dubbed the Vampire Slayer but what modern London doesn't know that the Slayer has also killed four vampires.
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