Ok, so I am my usual late self - but here are some of last weeks new releases in case anyone is interested!
Title: Once (Eve #2)
Author: Anna Carey
When you're being hunted, who can you trust?
For
the first time since she escaped from her school many months ago, Eve
can sleep soundly. She's living in Califia, a haven for women, protected
from the terrifying fate that awaits orphaned girls in The New America.
But
her safety came at a price: She was forced to abandon Caleb, the boy
she loves, wounded and alone at the city gates. When Eve gets word that
Caleb is in trouble, she sets out into the wild again to rescue him,
only to be captured and brought to the City of Sand, the capital of The
New America.
Trapped inside the City walls, Eve uncovers a
shocking secret about her past--and is forced to confront the harsh
reality of her future. When she discovers Caleb is alive, Eve attempts
to flee her prison so they can be together--but the consequences could
be deadly. She must make a desperate choice to save the ones she loves .
. . or risk losing Caleb forever.
In this breathless sequel to
"Eve," Anna Carey returns to her tale of romance, adventure, and
sacrifice in a world that is both wonderfully strange and chillingly
familiar.
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Title: Fire Kissed (Shadow #4)
Author: Erin Kellison
Fae Fire
It
is Kaye Brand's power to wield. But outcast from her kind, she's been
selling herself to the highest bidder—money for her survival in exchange
for a magic glimpse into the flames of the future.
Angel Ice
One
of the angelic Order, Jack Bastian has no use for a female like Kaye,
as provocative and unexpected as her blazing beauty. Yet he has no
choice but to hire her to uncover the secrets of his sworn enemy and her
former fiancé, Ferrol Grey.
Magekind
War
is inevitable between the defenders of the Order and the mage Houses
who threaten to engulf the world in Shadow. For Jack, mage-born Kaye is
off limits, no matter how hot the impossible attraction between them.
But in the coming darkness, beset by danger and desire, everything is
about to change...
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Title: Dark Companion
Author: Marta Acosta
When foster teen Jane
Williams is invited to attend elite Birch Grove Academy for Girls and
escape her violent urban neighborhood, she thinks the offer is too good
to be true. She's even offered her own living quarters, the
groundskeeper's cottage in the center of the birch grove.
Something's
not quite right about the school -- or is it Jane? She thinks she sees
things in the birch grove at night. She's also beginning to suspect that
the elegant headmistress and her sons are hiding secrets. Lucky is the
gorgeous, golden son who is especially attentive to Jane, and Jack is
the sardonic puzzling brother.
The school with its talented
teachers and bright students is a dream for a science and math geek like
Jane. She also loves her new friends, including hilarious
poetry-spouting rich girl, Mary Violet. But the longer Jane stays at
Birch Grove, the more questions she has about the disappearance of
another scholarship girl and a missing faculty member.
Jane
discovers one secret about Birch Grove, which only leads to more
mysteries. What is she willing to sacrifice in order to stay at this
school...and be bound to Birch Grove forever?
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Title: Goddess in the Middle (Forgotten Goddesses #3)
Author: Stephanie Julian
"Incredibly erotic, unconventional, romantic love story"
TOGETHER. THEY CREATE THE MOST POWERFUL MAGIC OF ALL ...
Romulus
and Remus are sexy werewolf cousins with an unbreakable bond. When they
meet beautiful goddess Amity and save her from an encroaching demon,
they discover that the three of them together are way more powerful than
any of them could ever have imagined. And they're going to need that
power to overcome the forces that are determined to steal Amity's magic
and destroy the two men. As different as night and day, and each an
amazing man in his own right, Rom and Remy make all of Amity's deepest
fantasies come true ...
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Title: Just For Fins (Fins #3)
Author: Tera Lynn Childs
When Lily Sanderson
decided to remain Crown Princess Waterlily of the mermaid kingdom
Thalassinia, she knew she couldn’t just coast along in the current. But
since she’s spent the last couple of years on land—with gorgeous human
Quince by her side—Lily’s not sure she has the fins to lead a kingdom.
Even her maddeningly pretentious cousin Dosinia seems to know more about
ruling than she does.
But Lily has to dive in deep to keep her
promise to Tellin, her mer bond in name only, whose kingdom is suffering
in the changing ocean climate. Lily knows this is a seven seas–sized
problem: from sea animals dying to oil spills and threats to humans.
They’ll need to create some serious waves to make the mer community
aware and get it to join together to make things right. Even if that
means facing one of the iciest queens in the mer kingdoms.
Just
when Lily thinks her double life on land and sea can’t get any more
complicated, an ancient mer law might separate Lily and Quince after
all. It feels as if the pair is up against a solid tsunami wave!
In
this third installment in the series that began with Forgive My Fins
and Fins Are Forever, Lily will have to find a way to balance safety and
justice for the mer people as well as for the humans she loves.
Available at the following places:
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Title: Team Human
Author: Justine Larbalestier
Just because Mel lives
in New Whitby, a city founded by vampires, doesn't mean she knows any of
the blood-drinking undead personally. They stay in their part of town;
she says in hers. Until the day a vampire shows up at her high school.
Worse yet, her best friend, Cathy, seems to be falling in love with him.
It's up to Mel to save Cathy from a mistake she might regret for all
eternity
On top of trying to help Cathy (whether she wants it or
not), Mel is investigating a mysterious disappearance for another friend
and discovering the attractions of a certain vampire wannabe. Combine
all this with a cranky vampire cop, a number of unlikely romantic
entanglements, and the occasional zombie, and soon Mel is hip-deep in an
adventure that is equal parts hilarious and touching.
Acclaimed
authors Justine Larbalestier and Sarah Rees Brennan team up to create a
witty and poignant story of cool vampires, warm friendships, and the
changes that test the bonds of love.
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Title: A Hunger So Wild (Renegade Angels #2)
Author: Sylvia Day
Elijah Reynolds is the
most dominant of lycans, a rare Alpha whose skill on the hunt is
surpassed only by his primal sexuality. When the lycans revolt due to
the iron fist of angelic rule, he steps into command, becoming both
enemy and coveted ally in the conflict between vampires and angels.
Vashti
is the second most powerful vampire in the world, a lethal beauty with a
path of devastation in her wake. Tasked with proposing an alliance
between vampires and the lycans who killed her mate, Vash approaches
Elijah, whose need to avenge a friend demands Vash's death even as his
passion demands her surrender.
Soon, their enmity erodes beneath
an all-consuming desire. Elijah has never encountered a woman whose
warrior spirit and fierce sexual appetite rivals his own, while Vash is
faced with the one man strong enough to be her equal. But as war looms,
each must decide where their loyalty lies--with their own kind or with
the enemy lover they can no longer live without.
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Title: Samurai Game (Ghost Walkers #10)
Author: Christine Feehan
In an underground club,
a high-ranking public official spends his secret nights indulging in
fantasies as exciting as they are depraved. For a seductive employee of
the Dungeon, it’s her job to fulfill them. But she’s playing a far more
dangerous game—one of blackmail, politics, and murder that reaches into
the shadow world of the Ghostwalkers, and the creation of a spectacular,
one-of-a-kind new weapon of defense.
But when a dictator makes
his own catastrophic moves, the Ghostwalkers have no choice but to
bring in two major players—a man and woman both driven by passion and
revenge. Both expendable. Both with nothing left to lose.
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Title: Liquid Lies (The Elementals #1)
Author: Hanna Martine
Magic is corporate America’s best-kept secret, and Gwen Carroway is superior at selling it ...
Gwen
possesses the unique ability to pick up any language in an instant—a
power that will globally expand the profitable family business. As
dutiful future leader of her race of water elementals, she'll do
anything to protect her people's secrets and bloodlines—including enter
an arranged marriage. Inside, however, she yearns for forbidden human
men.
Reed is a mercenary addicted to the money and adrenaline
rush of his work. After he inadvertently saves Gwen's life, he ignites
her taboo desire for men without magic—and with bodies of gods. Just as
things heat up, Reed discovers that Gwen is exactly who he’s been hired
to kidnap. He resolves to put work before lust, yet her luscious beauty
and fiery spirit unravel him…
But there is a terrible truth
behind Gwen’s family business—and now, caught between the kinsmen she no
longer trusts and an enemy bent on vengeance, the only ally she has is
her abductor…
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Title: Echos at Dawn (KGI #5)
Author: Maya Banks
The Kelly Group International (KGI): A super-elite, top secret, family-run business.
Qualifications: High intelligence, rock-hard body, military background.
Mission: Hostage/kidnap victim recovery. Intelligence gathering. Handling jobs the U.S. government can’t…
They live by night.
Grace
Peterson is desperate, in hiding, and on the run after escaping a
shadowy group determined to exploit her extraordinary ability to heal
others. Her only lifeline—an unerring telepathic ability she shares with
her sister—has been severed, leaving her alone and vulnerable. And time
is fast running out...
Enlisted to bring Grace home is Rio,
relentless member of the KGI. He’s unprepared for his reaction to this
wounded, damaged woman, and he’s fiercely determined to protect her from
those who nearly destroyed her. In Rio, she finds a safe haven, and for
the first time...hope. But the mission is far from over. The danger
Grace has eluded is fast closing in. And now it’s pitching two lovers
toward an unfamiliar horizon, with no place left to hide.
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