Note: Some of these covers may not be final.
ENEMY GAMES by Marcella Burnard.
Genre: Science Fiction Romance
Release: Spring 2011
Kidnapped while combating a devastating plague, Jayleia Durante fights to resist the attractive Major Damen Sindrivik, an officer from a rival government’s spy corps. But with her spymaster father missing, and mercenaries hot on her trail, Jayleia must join forces with the magnetic, charming and manipulative spy. She must see past her desire and remember that his single-minded agenda is for the protection of the empire - not her or her people.
Damen knows a shadowy network of traitors has allied with the violent Chekydran, and that Jayleia’s father holds the key to dismantling that web. She becomes his only lead in a circuitous round of hide and seek and despite their opposing sides, he can’t resist her. Too bad his instincts tell him Jayleia is lying to him.
Now Jayleia and Damen must find the love to match their passion and end the war or they’ll become the prey of the traitors they stalk, and one species’ civil war will consume the galaxy.
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Thoughts: I’m taken with it, just not enthralled. Holds a tenuous balance between projecting Urban Fantasy and Sci-Fi.
NAVARRO’S PROMISE by Lora Leigh.
Breeds #23
Genre: Paranormal Romance.
Release: April 5th, 2011.
You wanted to know more about Cassie? Her friendships, her interactions, the nightmares that haunt her?
In NAVARRO'S PROMISE you once again meet Mika Toler, the friend that has become as close to her as a sister. The daughter of her father's best friend. The one person who knows the nightmares she suffers. And now she's in danger.
Only Navarro, the charming, secretive, mysterious Wolf Breed that will not just endanger her further, but could be her only hope of salvation.
Thoughts: Repetitive. A re-do needs to be done.
Previous Novels:
KISS OF SNOW by Nalini Singh.
Psy-Changeling series #10.
Genre: Paranormal Romance.
Release: July 1st, 2011
The first in Singh’s Psy-Changeling series to be released in hardback, followed six months later by the paperback edition. (IMO, Sienna had *better* be the heroine. Term me crest fallen if not.)
Update: (<—Ahem. Disaster. Averted.)
New York Times bestselling author Nalini Singh’s exhilarating world of shapeshifters and psychics is “paranormal romance at its best” (Publishers Weekly). Now comes the story of an alpha wolf named Hawke used to getting exactly what he wants--and of the only woman who dares tangle with him.
Since the moment of her defection from the PsyNet and into the SnowDancer wolf pack, Sienna Lauren has had one weakness. Hawke. Alpha and dangerous, he compels her to madness.
Hawke is used to walking alone, having lost the woman who would’ve been his mate long ago. But Sienna fascinates the primal heart of him, even as he tells himself she is far too young to handle the wild fury of the wolf.
Then Sienna changes the rules and suddenly, there is no more distance, only the most intimate of battles between two people who were never meant to meet. Yet as they strip away each other’s secrets in a storm of raw emotion, they must also ready themselves for a far more vicious fight…
A deadly enemy is out to destroy SnowDancer, striking at everything they hold dear, but it is Sienna’s darkest secret that may yet savage the pack that is her home…and the alpha who is its heartbeat…
Thoughts: I like the font switch for Singh’s name, but the wolf overlapping jeans? No... Regardless, I’d buy this one for the content alone.
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TAKEN BY FIRE by Sydney Croft.
ACRO #6
Genre: Erotic Romance
Release: June 2011
HIS MISSION WAS TO TAKE HER OUT.
BUT DESIRE GOT IN THE WAY.
A product of genetic manipulation, Melanie Milan shares a body with her malevolent sister Phoebe. A sleek, blonde predator with a heart of pure darkness, Phoebe puts their body through the wicked underbelly of sex for thrills—when she’s not igniting her pyrokinetic skills for an evil organization bent on taking over the world. Melanie rarely gets out to play—much less fall in love. But that changes when rival ACRO agent Stryker Wills shows up, with a mission to take out the woman who torched his partner.
An operative with rare abilities, Stryker soon realizes that the woman he’s about to kill isn’t the murderous fire starter he’s hunting. But he does want her. Melanie, with the power to ice anything in her path, is heating things up in ways that are setting his blood on fire. As long as Melanie stays in control, she is his best ally to bring down her sister and stop hellish havoc from being unleashed. Walking a tightrope of longing and hate, Stryker and Melanie begin to understand that true power lies in sweet surrender to each other, to the fire between them, to the erotic adventure that’s joined their hearts and abilities to become their salvation—and perhaps the world’s.
Thoughts: The relation between cover and heroine? Love.
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VOWED IN SHADOWS by Jessa Slade.
A Novel of The Marked Souls #3
Genre: Urban Fantasy Romance.
Release: April 2011
No synopsis is currently floating throughout the interweb, but Slade chalked up a summation of what to expect in regards to content and characters over at Silk and Shadows: We’ve met Jonah briefly in SEDUCED BY SHADOWS and FORGED OF SHADOWS. This righteous missionary man lost his wife when he was possessed, and he can’t imagine ever loving again. So when the repentant demon within him sets him on the path of rampant unbound etheric energies that leads him straight to the Naughty Nymphette — dancing tonight at the Shimmy Shack! — he knows beyond a shadow of a doubt that he will never, ever, in an eternity fall in love as Archer and Liam did before him.
But he is a man of strong convictions, and he’ll do whatever it takes to make sure the Chicago league of immortal demon-possessed warriors bring this newest fighter to their side. And by “do whatever it takes,” I include doing her…
Thoughts: I have eyes all for the elements on this one. (And I appreciate the hell out of the tag line.)
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UNDER WRAPS by Hannah Jayne.
The Underworld Detection Agency Chronicles #1
Genre: Urban Fantasy.
Release: March 1st, 2010.
Sick of wrongful-death lawsuits every time a full moon comes around?
Call the Underworld Detection Agency.
As a human immune to magic, Sophie Lawson can help everyone from banshee to zombie transition into normal, everyday San Francisco life. With a handsome werewolf as her UDA boss and a fashionista vampire for a roommate, Sophie knows everything there is to know about the undead, the unseen, and the uncanny…
Until a rash of gruesome murders has demons and mortals running for cover, and Sophie finds herself playing sidekick to detective Parker Hayes. Dodging raging bloodsuckers, bad-tempered fairies, and love-struck trolls is one thing. But when Sophie discovers Parker isn’t what he seems, she’s got only one chance to figure out whom to trust. Because an evil hiding in plain sight is closing in…and about to make one wisecracking human its means to ultimate power…
Thoughts: The summary – along with the cover – manoeuvred this one into my grab-it-and-test-the-waters list.
SHADY LADY by Ann Aguirre.
Corine Solomon #3
Genre: Urban Fantasy.
Release: April 5th, 2011
Edition: US
I’d spent my whole life settling, trying not to attract attention, and generally doing whatever it took to keep other people happy. I didn’t want to do that again. Not when I was finally comfortable in my own skin. Sure, there were certain challenges, like a drug lord who wanted me dead, and the fact that I owed a demon a debt that he could call due at any moment. But everybody’s got problems, right?
Whenever Corine Solomon touches an object, she immediately knows its history. But her own future concerns her more and more. Now back in Mexico, she’s running her pawnshop and trying to get a handle on her strange new powers, for she might need them. And soon.
Then former ally Kel Ferguson walks through her door. Heavily muscled and tattooed, Kel looks like a convict but calls himself a holy warrior. This time, he carries a warning for Corine: the Montoya cartel is coming for her—but they don’t just pack automatic weapons. The Montoyas use warlocks, shamans, voodoo priests—anything to terminate trouble. And Corine has become enemy number one…
Previous CORINE SOLOMON Novels:
UF Alert: The titles of Corine Soloman novels #4 and #5, DEVIL’S PUNCH and BLOODY MARIA are slotted for release April 2012 and April 2013.
Thoughts: The best of the US editions… and it may even rival the UK version.
BORN AT MIDNIGHT by C. C. Hunter.
A SHADOW FALLS Novel #1
Genre: Paranormal, Young Adult.
Release: March 29th, 2011
Kylie Galen has had a lot of crap tossed in her lap lately. Her parents are getting a divorce for who the heck knows why. Her boyfriend broke up with her because she wouldn't put out. And her grandmother died because . . . well, older people do that. But now, Kylie's acquired a stalker and she hasn't a clue what he wants or how to get rid of him . . . and she really wants to get rid of him because apparently she's the only one who sees him. Thinking she may be losing it, her parents send her off to see a psychologist who gets Kylie sent to Shadow Falls Camp. Kylie and her parents think it's a camp for troubled teens.
They thought wrong.
Kylie's surrounded by vampires, werewolves, fairies, witches and shapeshifters. And if she believes what they tell her, she's one of them. They're just not sure exactly how she fits in. As Kylie struggles to cope with the realization that these creatures even exist, and the fact that she might not be human, she's got two hot guys, a werewolf and a half-fairy vying for her attention. And they can just keep vying. Kylie's determined that before she lets her heart loose on love, she needs to unearth the truth. What does the ghost want? Who can and can't she trust? And most of all . . . What is she?
Thoughts: Atmospheric, feminine with a touch of mystery. I quite like.
SIN UNDONE by Larissa Ione - Dark, emotion splattered, molten heat, cynical and violent. What more could this girl ask for?
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