After the Kiss (The Stiletto #1) Genre: Contemporary Romance | Publisher: Loveswept | Release Date: Aug 2013 In the first book of a delightful new series from Lauren Layne, the star columnist of Stiletto magazine will do anything for a story. Anything… except fall in love. Julie Greene loves flings. Loves steamy first dates, sizzling first kisses, and every now and then, that first sexy romp between the sheets. Comfy pants, sleepy Sundays, movie nights on the couch? Shudder. But when Julie gets assigned the hardest story of her career—a first-person account…
UNVEILED (Alex Crocker Seer #2) | RELEASE DATE: May 2013 PUBLISHER: Malachite Quills | GENRE: Urban Fantasy | ARTIST: Unknown With strength comes vulnerabilities. With love comes loss. With power comes pain. The world Alex now belongs to hinges on such balance. Her every step seems to be lurching her precariously closer to one wrong side or another. Alex had known her life as a Seer wouldn’t be easy. She knew her gift would be difficult to control and constantly sensing others’ emotions would be overwhelming. She even knew she’d be hunted for…
FEARSOME DREAMER (Fearsome Dreamer #1) | RELEASE DATE: September 2013 PUBLISHER: Hot Key Books | GENRE: Fantasy | ARTIST: Unknown There is a world where gods you’ve never heard of have wound themselves into hearts, and choice has led its history down a different path. This is a world where France made a small, downtrodden island called England part of its vast and bloated empire. There are people here who can cross a thousand miles with their minds. There are rarer people still who can move between continents in the…
WITHOUT A SUMMER (Glamourist Histories #3) | RELEASE DATE: April 2013 PUBLISHER: Macmillan | GENRE: Historical Fantasy | ARTIST: Unknown Jane and Vincent go to Long Parkmeade to spend time with Jane’s family, but quickly turn restless. The year is unseasonably cold. No one wants to be outside and Mr. Ellsworth is concerned by the harvest, since a bad one may imperil Melody’s dowry. And Melody has concerns of her own, given the inadequate selection of eligible bachelors. When Jane and Vincent receive a commission from a prominent family in…
DEATH’S ANGEL (Lost Angel #3) | RELEASE DATE: December 2012 PUBLISHER: Headline | GENRE: Paranormal Romance | ARTIST: Unknown It’s time for Azrael’s story… As the former Archangel of Death, Azrael has always stood apart from his brothers. Cursed to rule from the darkness, he is not only one of the four favored archangels, but the very first vampire, and king among his kind. Sophie Bryce is a woman scarred by the dark secrets of her past. Though she is overwhelmingly attracted to the brooding archangel, she simply cannot believe…
DAMN HIM TO HELL (Saturn’s Daughter #2) | RELEASE DATE : June 2013 PUBLISHER: Pocket Books | GENRE: Urban Fantasy | ARTIST: Unknown Justice is blind. Justine isn’t. Book two in the Saturn’s Daughter series, in which Tina Clancy is gifted with the power to dispense justice…for good or evil.Tina Clancy is adapting to her new life as one of Saturn’s Daughters while living in the toxic part of Baltimore known as The Zone, and occasionally acting as a champion of the downtrodden, the weird, the innocent…and the sometimes not-so-innocent. Just when she finally…
EDGE OF OBLIVION (Night Powler #2) | RELEASE DATE: Oct 2012 | PUBLISHER: Montlake Romance GENRE: Paranormal Romance | ARTIST: Unknown In a dark underground cell, Morgan Montgomery waits to die. A member of the Ikati, an ancient tribe of shape-shifters, Morgan stands convicted of treason. And Ikati law clearly spells out her fate: death to all who dare betray. But there is a glimmer of hope. Thanks to her friendship with Jenna, the new queen of the Ikati, Morgan has one last chance to prove her loyalty. She must discover and infiltrate the headquarters…
DARK CURRENTS (Agent of Hel #1) RELEASE DATE: October 2012 PUBLISHER: Roc GENRE: Urban Fantasy ARTIST: Unknown Dark Currents is set in a small Midwestern resort town where paranormal tourism is a booming business. Daisy Johanssen, an incubus’ daughter raised by a loving single mom, is the liaison between the eldritch community and mundane authorities. Most of the time that doesn’t entail anything more challenging than retrieving stolen goods from a puckish pickpocket or tracking down a tourist led astray by a will-o’-the-wisp, but when a young man drowns in…
THE LOST PRINCE (Guardians of Aandor #2) RELEASE DATE: April 2013 PUBLISHER: Tor Books GENRE: Fantasy ARTIST: Unknown No summary currently available. LAURA’S THOUGHTS First of all, I’m going to be very shallow and say that I think the man on the front is rather handsome! On a more serious note, I think the blue filter over the cover is eye-catching it reminds me of ice. The two characters on the front are an interesting mix. I haven’t read the series but, he looks almost like a cop or action…
CLOCKWORK PRINCESS (The Infernal Devices #3) RELEASE DATE: March 2013 PUBLISHER: McElderry Books GENRE: Steampunk, Urban Fantasy, Young Adult ARTIST: Unknown In Clockwork Princess, Tessa and her companions travel all over the world as they race to stop the clockwork army before it’s too late. As Jem’s health worsens alarmingly and his friends search desperately for a cure, can Tessa choose between the two boys she loves—even if it means never seeing the other one again? (Goodreads). LAURA’S THOUGHTS I think this has to be the best cover in the series…
INHUMAN (Fetch #1) RELEASE DATE: March 2013 PUBLISHER: Scholastic GENRE: Dystopia, Young Adult ARTIST: Unknown In a world ravaged by mutation, a teenage girl must travel into the forbidden Savage Zone to recover lost artifacts or her father’s life is forfeit. America has been ravaged by a war that has left the eastern half of the country riddled with mutation. Many of the people there exhibit varying degrees of animal traits. Even the plantlife has gone feral. Crossing from west to east is supposed to be forbidden, but sometimes it’s…
PORTLANDTOWN (A Tale of the Oregon Wyldes) RELEASE DATE: Oct 2012 PUBLISHER: St Martin’s Press GENRE: Urban Fantasy | Horror | Zombies ARTIST: Unknown Welcome to Portlandtown, where no secret is safe—not even those buried beneath six feet of Oregon mud. Joseph Wylde isn’t afraid of the past, but he knows some truths are better left unspoken. When his father-in-law’s grave digging awakens more than just ghosts, Joseph invites him into their home hoping a booming metropolis and two curious grand twins will be enough to keep the former marshal out of trouble….
SPLIT AT THE SEAMS (Sierra Fox #2) by Yolanda Sftetsos RELEASE DATE: 21st August 2012 PUBLISHER: Samhain Publishing GENRE: Urban Fantasy ARTIST: Kanaxa Spook catcher Sierra Fox has paid her debt to the Spook Catcher Council. Life should be easier. Except everything is going to the dogs – or demons, as the case may be. Her boyfriend Jonathan is acting like a possessive jerk. She can’t stop drooling over Jason, her hunky, injured houseguest, who turns out to be a werewolf. To top it off, something seriously freaky is happening…
AN OFFICER’S DUTY (Their’s Not To Reason Why #2) RELEASE DATE: July 2012 PUBLISHER: Ace Books GENRE: Science Fiction Romance ARTIST: Unknown Promoted in the field for courage and leadership under fire, Ia is now poised to become an officer in the Space Force Navy—once she undertakes her Academy training. But on a trip back home to Sanctuary, she finds the heavyworld colony being torn apart by religious conflict. Now Ia must prepare her family and followers to secure the galaxy’s survival. Her plan is to command a Blockade Patrol…
HER SKY COWBOY (The Glorious Victorious Darcys #1) RELEASE DATE: Nov 2012 PUBLISHER: Signet GENRE: Steampunk Romance ARTIST: Unknown Amelia Darcy has no interest in marrying well. Her heart belongs to the sky and the dirigibles of brass and steel that swoop over Victorian England. But when her father, an eccentric inventor, dies, the Darcy siblings are left with scrap metal – and not a penny to their names. Their only hope to save the family reputation and fortune is to embark on a quest to discover an invention of…
