Releasing 8/26-9/1
The Awakening: Liam by Abby Niles
The Awakening #2
Shifter, Liam Doyle knows Hell. At least he believed he did. The night he feels his mate die, he learns how very wrong he was. Nothing he’d struggled with since Ava’s rejection compares to the emptiness that fills his soul by her death. Lost in his grief, he’s taken by surprise and drugged. When he wakes, everything changes. Nothing is what it seems, and someone is dead set on making him pay.
When Ava Michaels is taken captive, she’s thrust into a dark and terrifying world along with the man she was forced to leave behind. While being near Liam again is heartbreaking, the motive behind her kidnapping is gradually revealed. The more she learns, the more she worries Liam isn’t the man she believed him to be. He has enemies willing to do anything to extract their revenge. Can their love survive a crazy man’s vengeance?
The Bitter Kingdom by Rae Carson
Fire and Thorns #3
The third book in Rae Carson's award-winning
The Girl of Fire and Thorns fantasy trilogy. Elisa, the
seventeen-year-old sorcerer-queen, will travel into an unknown enemy's
realm to win back her true love, save her kingdom, and uncover the final
secrets of her destiny. Veronica Roth called The Girl of Fire and Thorns "intense, unique . . . definitely recommended."
Perfect
for fans of Tamora Pierce and George R. R. Martin's style of sweeping
and deeply satisfying epic fantasy, the third and final book in the
trilogy takes the young queen on a journey more dangerous than any she
has faced before. Elisa will stand before the gate of the enemy. And she
must rise up as champion—even to those who have hated her—or her
kingdom will fall. Full of sorcery, adventure, sizzling romance, and
secrets that challenge everything she believes, this is a bold and
powerful conclusion to an extraordinary trilogy. As USAToday.com proclaimed, "Rae Carson has proved she's a master and has shaken up the YA genre."
Deception by C.J. Redwine
Defiance #2
A rich, postapocalyptic YA fantasy perfect for fans of Graceling and Tamora Pierce, this sequel to C. J. Redwine's Defiance
continues the story of warrior Rachel Adams and her love, Logan
McEntire. With their city-state ravaged, their lives under constant
threat from rival armies, and a band of survivors looking to them for
leadership, Rachel and Logan must work to forge a new future for them
all.
Abandoning the ruins of their home to take their chances in
the Wasteland, the group soon realizes their problems have only begun:
an unknown killer—possibly inside their ranks—has begun picking off the
survivors one by one. And Rachel and Logan must question whether the
price of freedom may be too great—and whether they can make it out of
the Wasteland alive.
The Demon's Desire by Kendra Leigh Castle
Hearts of the Fallen #2
He’s as dark and dangerous as the storms he once commanded…and she can’t get him out of her heart.
Dru
has spent two thousand years fighting to keep the people of Terra
Noctem safe. In all that time, she's only opened her heart to one man,
with disastrous results. But when her city takes in a group of renegade
Fallen, she finds herself drawn to the brooding and tormented Meresin,
despite the fact that he seems to be the least redeemable of them all.
When his instability hits a breaking point, Meresin’s only chance at
survival is a perilous journey into a place from which few ever return.
What he never expected was that confronting his demons would mean
risking not only his future, but Dru's as well...and that one stubborn
vampire might give him back not just hope…but his heart.
Heart of Venom by Jennifer Estep
Elemental Assassin #9
When I say you’re a dead man, take that literally.
To me,
killing people is like a day at the salon: cut and dry. Well, more like
rinse and repeat when you moonlight as the assassin the Spider. But my
last spa day ended redder than my freshly painted nails after a twisted
Fire elemental and his goons kidnapped my close friend Sophia Deveraux
and nearly killed her sister Jo-Jo in the process.
Up Ashland’s
most dangerous mountains, and deep into the heart of its blackest
woods—I’ll track these thugs no matter where they take Sophia. It
doesn’t matter what kinds of elemental magic they try to throw at me, my
Ice and Stone powers can take the heat and then some. I will get Sophia back, over their dead bodies.
Because anybody that hurts Gin Blanco’s family becomes a body.
Immortally Ever After by Angie Fox
Monster M*A*S*H #3
The hard-won cease-fire between the battling immortals doesn’t last
long. In the blink of an eye, human surgeon Dr. Petra Robichaud is back
on the frontlines, and starring in yet another of the oracle’s
prophesies. As the only healer who can talk to the dead, Petra doesn’t
have much choice about her role—even when her breathtaking ex-lover
shows up at exactly the wrong time…
Petra may have moved on
when Commander Galen left her, but she never forgot him—and the
passionate moments they shared. Seeing him again is a distraction she
really doesn’t need with both armies honing new weapons, and wounded all
over her M*A*S*H unit. But how can she resist him? It’s now or never
for the demi-god Galen to become Petra’s mate…but with the fate of
humanity at stake, will their desire be worth the cost?
Hearts in Darkness by Keri Arthur
Nikki and Michael #2
PASSION WITH A BITE
Private Investigator Nikki James has a lot
to contend with. Her lover, Michael Kelly, walked out without so much
as a goodbye, and what seemed like a simple case of stopping a runaway
teen brought her face-to-face with another clutch of deadly vampires.
But if that seemed bad, it is about to get a lot worse, because when
Michael returns, it is not for her, but for the case.
Wealthy
men are starting to vanish from a resort in Jackson Hole—which is
exactly where Nikki’s runaway teen seems to be as well. Something
nefarious is going on at the luxury spa, but what? The last thing
Michael needs is a confrontation with Nikki—especially when his control
over his bloodlust is still so tenuous. But posing as a newlywed couple
at the swanky resort may be the best way for both of them to solve their
respective cases. This time, Nikki is determined to make Michael see
that life apart is worse than death. Yet before she can make him see the
light, a specter from Michael’s past rises that could destroy any hope
she has of a future with him. Because this time the threat isn’t
physical. It’s a matter of the heart.
