Here are the new releases for the week.

Let us know if there’s something missing & we’ll add it to the list and information that follows.

 

Title	Author	Publisher	Release Date	Other Details	Link
Relationship Material	Jenya Keefe	Riptide Publishing	8/5/2019
The Marked Prince	M.A. Grant	Carina Press	8/5/2019	The Darkest Court #2
The Grim Assistant	Jodi Hutchins	NineStar Press	8/5/2019	Tales from the Grim #1
Omega, Deer	Aria Grace & Lorelei M. Hart	Self Published	8/5/2019	Vale Valley Season 3 #10
King Slayer	Layla Reyne	Self Published	8/5/2019	Fog City #2
Digging Deep	Jay Hogan	Dreamspinner Press	8/6/2019	Digging Deep #1
Heart Unbroken	Andrew Grey	Dreamspinner Press	8/6/2019	A Hearts Entwined #4
Small Town Sonata	Jamie Fessenden	Dreamspinner Press	8/6/2019	Dreamspun Desires
Golden Like Summer	Gene Gant	Harmony Ink Press	8/6/2019
Searching for Home	Megan Linden	Pride Publishing	8/6/2019	Harrington Hills #5
Colliding with the Coalition	Jools Louise	Siren Bookstrand	8/6/2019	Age of the Faerie #1
Mac	J.D. Light	B4 Dawn Publishing	8/6/2019	Training Days #5
Backstage Beginnings	Erin McRae & Racheline Maltese	Avian30	8/6/2019
A Little Light Mischief	Cat Sebastian	Avon Impulse	8/6/2019	The Turner Series #3.5
Beau Tyed	Isabelle Peterson	Self Published	8/6/2019
Dead on His Feet	Pandora Pine	Self Published	8/6/2019	Cold Case Psychic #12
Darkness Is Illuminating	L.J. Hamlin	JMS Books	8/7/2019
Audible	Sam Couste	JMS Books	8/7/2019
A Wolf’s Vow to Protect	Marcy Jacks	Siren Bookstrand	8/7/2019	Triton’s Pack #5
Forgotten Monster	J. Emery	Self Published	8/7/2019
Fraught	Susi Hawke & Crista Crown	Self Published	8/7/2019	Alphabits #7
The Boys of the Circle D	T. K. Benjamin	Siren Bookstrand	8/8/2019
Dead Man’s Quill	Jordan Castillo Price	JCP Books LLC	8/8/2019	The ABCs of Spellcraft #4
Poetry in Motion	Samantha Wayland	Loch Awe Press	8/8/2019
Old & New	Megan Linden	Self Published	8/8/2019	D.C. Files #6
World Turned Upside Down	Elyse Springer	Dreamspinner Press	8/9/2019	World of Love
On Silent Paws	Liza Kay	eXtasy Books	8/9/2019	Wildcat Hills Pride #6
Perfect Fangs	Catherine Lievens	eXtasy Books	8/9/2019	Life with Fangs #3
Kaden	RJ Scott & Meredith Russell	Love Lane Books Ltd	8/9/2019	Boyfriend for Hire #2
Blaze	Christa Tomlinson	Torlina Press	8/9/2019	Heartthrob Heroes #1
A Soul to Keep	K. Sterling	Self Published	8/9/2019	The Boys of Lake Cliff
Release	A.E. Ryecart	Self Published	8/9/2019	Rent Boys #1
When Two Omegas Dance	Amy Bellows	Self Published	8/9/2019	Vale Valley Season 3 #11
Cup o’ Sugar	Ofelia Gränd	JMS Books	8/10/2019
Past Sins	Thomas Grant Bruso	JMS Books	8/10/2019
Murder in the Condo Next Door	Edward Kendrick	JMS Books	8/10/2019
London Lark	JL Merrow	JMS Books	8/10/2019
Sudden Death	W.S. Long	JMS Books	8/10/2019
Walk Tall	Susi Hawke	Self Published	8/10/2019	Assassin’s Claws #1
River Runs Red	Scott Alexander Hess	Lethe Press	8/11/2019

 

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TITLE: Relationship Material

AUTHOR: Jenya Keefe

PUBLISHER: Riptide Publishing

LENGTH: 220 pages

RELEASE DATE: August 5, 2019

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It’s not always possible to meet in the middle.

Registered nurse Evan Doyle doesn’t consider himself fit for more than occasional hookups. He has a good life, but the emotional aftermath of a horrific crime makes him feel too damaged to date. So when his sister’s hot bestie, Malcolm Umbertini, comes on to him, he turns him down flat. Mal is Relationship Material: the kind who thinks in the long term. What would Evan do with a man like that?

As a prosecuting attorney, Mal’s learned how to read people, and he knows there’s more to Evan than meets the eye. Mal has faced his own hardships since his family kicked him out as a teen, and he respects Evan’s courage and emotional resilience. More than that, he wants Evan—in his bed and in his life. But can he weather another rejection?

Both wary, they agree to a no-strings fling. Mal knows that Evan wants things to stay casual, but he’s falling in love a little more with each encounter. With health, happiness, and bruised hearts on the line, Mal and Evan must risk everything for love.

TITLE: The Marked Prince

AUTHOR: M.A. Grant

SERIES: The Darkest Court #2

PUBLISHER: Carina Press

LENGTH: 305 pages

RELEASE DATE: August 5, 2019

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Torn between two worlds, desperate to save one love.

The Summer Court is nothing like Sebastian remembers. The oppressed lower classes are drained of their magick, and around every corner political intrigues threaten an already unstable regime. Sebastian’s only hope of surviving the Court and bringing home Prince Lyne’s traitorous brother lies with Duine, a magickless Unseelie servant desperate to win his freedom. A servant for whom Sebastian, an estranged Seelie royal himself, is developing a dangerous and deepening affection.

But behind the mask Duine wears are secrets as dangerous as what’s smoldering between them. And the more Duine helps Sebastian navigate Court life, the more it becomes clear the servant is not who he appears to be. How he came to be the whipping boy of one of the most powerful and corrupt faeries in the Summer Court is a truth Sebastian is determined to uncover, even if it puts him at odds with the very people who can lead him to the missing Unseelie prince.

When a powerful enemy steps from the shadows, it could spell the end not just for the Unseelie, but for both faerie Courts. Sebastian must choose: complete the mission and earn his place among the Unseelie who took him in, or risk his very life to ensure freedom for the man he loves.

TITLE: The Grim Assistant

AUTHOR: Jodi Hutchins

SERIES: Tales from the Grim #1

PUBLISHER: NineStar Press

LENGTH: 246 pages

RELEASE DATE: August 5, 2019

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Postal carrier and amateur surfer, Samantha Diaz, lives an uncomplicated life. Well, other than helping her sister with childcare, crushing on her unavailable customer, Lauren Brennan, and catching as many waves as possible before hurricane season begins. Suffice to say, she isn’t looking for much more, but when Lauren invites her to a monthly game night at her house, Sam happily agrees.

When Sam sets out on an early morning surf, the last thing she expects to do is die, but a sudden thunderstorm thrashes offshore, creating a riptide that steals Sam’s life. She awakens to a snarky woman named Margo speaking cryptic nonsense. Not only does she claim to be one of the many Grim Reapers, or Grims, in the world, Margo makes Sam an offer: she’ll bring Sam back from the dead, as long as she becomes Margo’s temporary assistant. Sam accepts but soon realizes the deal was too good to be true, and the consequences she faces may be worse than the death she dodged.

TITLE: Omega, Deer

AUTHORS: Aria Grace & Lorelei M. Hart

SERIES: Vale Valley Season 3 #10

PUBLISHER: Self Published

LENGTH: 96 pages

RELEASE DATE: August 5, 2019

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Sometimes what you think will break you is the one thing you need most.

Omega Anthony Buck needed a break from life. The pressure to become the perfect omega, docile and constantly breeding was too much. He wasn’t sure he’d ever be that man, no matter how hard he tried. So, he did what every responsible deer does.

He ran away.

Dr. Peter Loomis moved to Vale Valley after his omega and their daughter were killed in a car accident. For the past five years, he’s buried himself in his work, eager to help others as a distraction from the emptiness in his life.

When their paths crossed after Anthony was struck by a car, both men realized the fear and pain they’d been running from could also bring them the most happiness.

If only it were that easy.

TITLE: King Slayer

AUTHOR: Layla Reyne

SERIES: Fog City #2

PUBLISHER: Self Published

LENGTH: 195 pages

RELEASE DATE: August 5, 2019

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Never fall for a mark. Mission fail.

Christopher Perri—a.k.a. Dante Perry—infiltrated the Madigan organization with one goal: vengeance for his murdered partner. Falling for the assassin at the head of the table wasn’t part of the plan, but Hawes Madigan is not the cold, untouchable Prince of Killers Chris expected. Everything about the newly crowned king is hot, and every inch of him eminently touchable…and off-limits once Chris’s cover is blown.

Exposure couldn’t come at a worse time. Hawes’s throne is threatened, and Chris suspects the same person who killed his partner is behind the coup. Working with Hawes benefits them both, but Chris’s employer has other ideas. Dismantling criminal organizations is what Chris does best, and his boss expects the King Slayer to deliver.

But Hawes is taking the Madigans in a new direction, one Chris can get behind, and the two men form a shaky alliance strengthened by the irresistible attraction between them…until Chris learns who killed his partner. Once he knows the truth, the King Slayer is unleashed, and Chris will stop at nothing to destroy those who betrayed him, including the king who stole his heart.

TITLE: Digging Deep

AUTHOR: Jay Hogan

SERIES: Digging Deep #1

PUBLISHER: Dreamspinner Press

LENGTH: 342 pages

RELEASE DATE: August 6, 2019

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Drake Park has a complicated life. As a gay male midwife, he’s used to raising eyebrows. Add Crohn’s disease and things get interesting—or not, considering the sad state of his love life. Experience has taught Drake that most men are fair-weather sailors when it comes to handling his condition—gone for dust when things get rough. Staying healthy is a full-time job without adding in any heartbreak, so a little loneliness is a small price to pay. If he says it often enough he might even believe it. One thing for sure, the cop who arrested him isn’t about to change that.

Caleb Ashton does not have a complicated life. A senior detective with the Whangarei Police Department, he likes his job and is good at it. He works hard and plays hard, happy to enjoy as many men as he can while he’s still young enough—or at least he was. These days he feels adrift for the first time in his life, and the only thing sparking his interest—a certain prickly young midwife.

But can Drake find enough faith to risk opening his heart again? And does Caleb have what it takes to cope with the challenges Drake’s condition presents?

TITLE: Heart Unbroken

AUTHOR: Andrew Grey

SERIES: A Hearts Entwined #4

PUBLISHER: Dreamspinner Press

LENGTH: 180 pages

RELEASE DATE: August 6, 2019

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Car restorer Dean Milford knows how to make damaged things beautiful again. Only, after a bad breakup, he loses sight of who he is, playing the field and distracting himself with any man he comes across. But now there’s only one guy who really matters to him. And maybe with his latest restoration job—a vintage Cobra—he’ll get the chance to let him know.

Losing his sight wasn’t the worst thing to happen to Lee Studer—losing his independence was. It’s taken a while, but he’s finally found his place in the world—in a garage. Funny enough, his acute hearing allows him to pinpoint engine problems just by listening. And even better, he’s going to have a chance to help his long-time crush, Dean, rebuild his fantasy car.

As the restoration comes together, so do Lee and Dean, building a friendship that quickly turns into so much more. But before they can think about a future together, they have to deal with the past. Only that turns out to be more dangerous than either one ever dreamed….

TITLE: Small Town Sonata

AUTHOR: Jamie Fessenden

SERIES: Dreamspun Desires

PUBLISHER: Dreamspinner Press

LENGTH: 260 pages

RELEASE DATE: August 6, 2019

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Can the trusted town handyman rebuild a broken pianist’s heart? When a freak accident ends Aiden’s career as a world-renowned classical pianist, he retreats to his New Hampshire hometown, where he finds the boy he liked growing up is even more appealing as a man. Dean Cooper’s life as handyman to the people of Springhaven might not be glamorous, but he’s well-liked and happy. When Aiden drifts back into town, Dean is surprised to find the bond between them as strong as ever. But Aiden is distraught over the loss of his career and determined to get back on the international stage. Seventeen years ago Dean made a sacrifice and let Aiden walk away. Now, with their romance rekindling, he knows he’ll have to make the sacrifice all over again. This time it may be more than he can bear.

TITLE: Golden Like Summer

AUTHOR: Gene Gant

PUBLISHER: Harmony Ink Press

LENGTH: 210 pages

RELEASE DATE: August 6, 2019

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When he escapes the abusive man he calls Pa, Joey thinks his nightmare is over. Instead, a new one begins.

The police don’t buy Joey’s story about the six-year-old boy he saved from Pa during his escape . Suddenly he’s being accused of a crime, threatened, and shown firsthand how the criminal justice system treats a black teen with no resources.

After making another escape, Joey gives himself a new name, Alan, and starts a new life living in an abandoned house. Then he meets Desi, another homeless boy.

Though their mutual attraction grows into deeper feelings, Alan’s ordeal has left him afraid of physical love. Still, he’s determined to save Desi from the older teen who’s pimping him out. But in confronting the pimp, Alan and Desi may find themselves in trouble with the law again, a situation that could forever tear them apart.

TITLE: Searching for Home

AUTHOR: Megan Linden

SERIES: Harrington Hills #5

PUBLISHER: Pride Publishing

LENGTH: 133 pages

RELEASE DATE: August 6, 2019

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Two men who don’t quite fit in have a chance to find an anchor in an unusual place—each other.

Patrick Donnelly was cast out from his pack after admitting to his father—his Alpha—that he is gay. Now he’s trying to start over in Harrington Hills, but he is struggling, not only with the new power balance but also with his own demons.

Ollie Tomilson had gotten used to being the odd one out—a kid in the system, a lone human in the werewolf pack and a man who is always just temporarily visiting in a town where people put down deep roots.

While Patrick and Ollie seem different in many ways, what unites them is that neither fits into the Harrington Hills mold. But maybe—just maybe—they can find what they are searching for in each other.

TITLE: Colliding with the Coalition

AUTHOR: Jools Louise

SERIES: Age of the Faerie #1

PUBLISHER: Siren Bookstrand

LENGTH: 36,869 Words

RELEASE DATE: August 6, 2019

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Bayley, a five thousand year old faerie, is on a mission to clean up earth after a devastating war totaled most of it fifty years before.  He’s tired of humans, his own world dying as a result of their selfish desire for destruction and strife.  One human catches his attention after trying to mug Bayley, and turns out to be “the one”. He’s moved when he reads Robbie Poole’s tragic past, and finds out the former mechanic is grieving the loss of his family.  Bayley takes a chance on Robbie, taking him under his wing, protecting him against Robbie’s old nemesis, Lenny, a member of the Klan, a notorious terror group who caused the Third World War.  Between them, Bayley and Robbie must prevent the Klan’s brutality, and set out to find Robbie’s son, kidnapped during one of the Klan’s Recruitment Drives, then uncover a secret that must remain hidden…faerie hybrids who could be the undoing of the faeries…or their salvation.

TITLE: Mac

AUTHOR: J.D. Light

SERIES: Training Days #5

PUBLISHER: B4 Dawn Publishing

LENGTH: 81 pages

RELEASE DATE: August 6, 2019

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Steve “Mac” McCabe

When my sister died, I gained custody of my nephew Dalton. Over the last six years, he has been my sole focus in life. He means as much to me, as if he were my own biological son, even to the point of calling me dad. I can’t afford to let anything in my life that could potentially hurt Dalton. Which is why when the gorgeous Royle Johnson comes into my life and Dalton’s, I try not to let him get too close. It’s not like a twenty-four-year-old male model could actually want anything to do with a thirty-two-year-old husky maintenance man and his ten-year-old son?

 

Royle Johnson

I’ve been doing this modeling thing for six years now. What was once fun and exciting has become a tether to a life I no longer want. I may only be twenty-four, but I can feel myself tiring of life with little to no roots. I don’t want to say that my life is bad, because it’s not. And I never want to be one of those people who aren’t thankful for the great things that have happened to me. But I’m definitely ready for a change. When I meet Mac I’m smitten immediately. And when I meet Dalton I fall head over heels for the adorable little boy who talks like he’s decades older than he really is. But I understand Mac’s reticence to let me in his life. I just need to show him that I’m not just my age or my career, and if I can get by the barrier he’s put up, I might just be able to mean something to both of them.

TITLE: Backstage Beginnings

AUTHORS: Erin McRae & Racheline Maltese

PUBLISHER: Avian30

LENGTH: 27 pages

RELEASE DATE: August 6, 2019

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Jack is dating Andrew. Andrew is dating Christian. And polyamory works just fine for all of them.

At least until Andrew wants Jack to be his date to see Christian’s band play at a local bar. Jack’s all for sharing, but having to make nice about other people’s artistic ventures when he’s not involved with them sounds like a recipe for disaster.

Despite his misgivings, Jack wants to be a good boyfriend and finds himself saying yes… to a whole lot more than he bargained for.

 

TITLE: A Little Light Mischief

AUTHOR: Cat Sebastian

SERIES: The Turner Series #3.5

PUBLISHER: Avon Impulse

LENGTH: 101 pages

RELEASE DATE: August 6, 2019

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A seductive thief

Lady’s maid Molly Wilkins is done with thieving—and cheating and stabbing and all the rest of it. She’s determined to keep her hands to herself, so she really shouldn’t be tempted to seduce her employer’s prim and proper companion, Alice. But how can she resist when Alice can’t seem to keep her eyes off Molly?

Finds her own heart

For the first time in her life, Alice Stapleton has absolutely nothing to do. The only thing that seems to occupy her thoughts is a lady’s maid with a sharp tongue and a beautiful mouth. Her determination to know Molly’s secrets has her behaving in ways she never imagined as she begins to fall for the impertinent woman.

Has been stolen

When an unwelcome specter from Alice’s past shows up unexpectedly at a house party, Molly volunteers to help the only way she knows how: with a little bit of mischief.

TITLE: Beau Tyed

AUTHOR: Isabelle Peterson

PUBLISHER: Self Published

LENGTH: 175 pages

RELEASE DATE: August 6, 2019

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To secure the job of his dreams, photographer Ty York tells his new boss he’s gay. Now Ty has to play the part. The plot thickens when Ty is asked to bring his “boyfriend” to a company event.

Beau Thompson is a struggling actor waiting for his big break. To make things worse, his fiancée isn’t exactly thrilled with his chosen profession. When his best friend, Ty, needs someone to pretend to be his gay boyfriend for a party, of course Beau will help Ty out. What could possibly go wrong?

TITLE: Dead on His Feet

AUTHOR: Pandora Pine

SERIES: Cold Case Psychic #12

PUBLISHER: Self Published

LENGTH: 261 pages

RELEASE DATE: August 6, 2019

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Cold Case Sergeant Ronan O’Mara wakes to a shocking midnight phone call. The body of a man killed in a shoot-out with the F.B.I. has vanished from the Suffolk County Morgue. What’s even more shocking than the missing corpse, is the identity of the second man apprehended at the scene. Mitchell Bond, aka, Tommy O’Neil was Ronan’s second-grade classmate and best friend until he was kidnapped in broad daylight, steps from his front door.

Even though psychic Tennyson Grimm hadn’t heard of Ronan’s childhood friend before now, he’s suddenly consumed by thoughts of the man. Thanks to Ten’s gift he knows twelve missing children linked to Mitchell Bond are alive, but he is uncertain of where to find them.

When Ronan is finally given the opportunity to speak to his long-lost friend, accusations begin to fly. Ronan is blindsided and begins to question everything he knew about Tommy, his kidnapping, and whether or not he could possibly have played a role in it.

While Tennyson races to put the pieces together to save the missing children, Ronan is forced to come to terms with a past he thought was long dead and buried. Can he set aside his own emotions long enough to put a stop to this deadly hunt?

TITLE: Darkness Is Illuminating

AUTHOR: L.J. Hamlin

PUBLISHER: JMS Books

LENGTH: 35 pages

RELEASE DATE: August 7, 2019

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Wyatt is weary. He’s been alive for more than two hundred years, and all that lies before him is at least another two centuries of the same tedium. The tales and legends of vampires are vastly more interesting than the reality.

After another night of failed attempts at finding someone to connect with, Wyatt heads home, more despondent and alone than ever—and comes across a young man being attacked. Though blind by conventional standards, Wyatt is nowhere near as helpless as people like to assume, and easily fends off the attackers.

In the aftermath of the attack, the man he rescued proves unexpectedly to be a light in the darkness Wyatt has endured for centuries…

TITLE: Audible

AUTHOR: Sam Couste

PUBLISHER: JMS Books

LENGTH: 107 pages

RELEASE DATE: August 7, 2019

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The nice thing about losing your future is that it makes starting over much easier. Marcus Williams is prepared to make it through the last two years of his degree with no expectations, no aspirations, and no connections.

But strategies can change, especially when you’ve got someone like Sebastian Lockwood staring you down on the line of scrimmage.

TITLE: A Wolf’s Vow to Protect

AUTHOR: Marcy Jacks

SERIES: Triton’s Pack #5

PUBLISHER: Siren Bookstrand

LENGTH: 25,137 Words

RELEASE DATE: August 7, 2019

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Lucas never cared about the shady aspect of selling his blood to vampires. He only cared that they paid him well and that he could keep his father’s prescriptions filled.

Then something went wrong. When the vampires nearly drink him dry during a party, and werewolves decide to crash it, Lucas quickly learns that he was not as free to come and go as he thought.

As the second in command of Triton’s pack, Philip was expected to take out as many vampires as possible. He was not supposed to abandon the fight, even if he’d found his mate.

But Lucas’ scent calls to him, even more so than the screams of battle. Philip needs his mate. Right now. He needs to do is bring Lucas to safety before he’s caught in the crossfire. It’s clear his mate does not understand the danger he’s in, and Philip will have to work overtime to keep him alive.

TITLE: Forgotten Monster

AUTHOR: J. Emery

PUBLISHER: Self Published

LENGTH: 247 pages

RELEASE DATE: August 7, 2019

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Better with numbers than people, Taisce would have been perfectly happy managing the family estate the rest of his life. But when his older brother, Rupert, vanishes on a quest to find a mythical monster, Taisce has no choice but to find him before anyone realizes there’s an heir missing.

Sef has learned a thing or two about magic and poor life choices during his centuries of cursed immortality. He’s also fresh from a missed appointment with the hangman and looking to get out of town quickly, so he happily volunteers to assist in locating the wayward brother. In return for his services, Sef only wants one thing: for Taisce to break his curse. The fact that it will likely kill Sef (permanently this time) is just a bonus.

But somewhere in the midst of bickering and searching for Rupert, Taisce and Sef start to struggle with keeping business separate from pleasure, leaving both wondering how exactly their quest is going to end.

TITLE: Fraught

AUTHORS: Susi Hawke & Crista Crown

SERIES: Alphabits #7

PUBLISHER: Self Published

RELEASE DATE: August 7, 2019

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Finn O’Toole is an omega in an alpha’s world. He’s done everything he can to make sure that doesn’t interrupt his ability to get his job done, and it never has. Until him.

Antonio Montoya is the notorious leader of the vigilante group STAHP, and stands for everything Finn despises. When the powerful alpha discovers that the Alphabits’ only omega is his mate? It doesn’t matter how far Finn runs… Antonio always gets what he’s after.

Thankfully, Antonio has information that the Alphabits need, and the perfect excuse to prove to his feisty, reluctant mate that even dangerous men can have good hearts. There’s still that little argument about eating the bad guys, though…

The Alphabits aren’t vigilantes. These former soldiers and officers of the law have to do things by the book—even when it tears them apart to do so. But once all their ducks are in a row, the bad guys had better beware! You do not want this team of protective alphas on your tail.

TITLE: The Boys of the Circle D

AUTHOR: T. K. Benjamin

PUBLISHER: Siren Bookstrand

LENGTH: 27,561 Words

RELEASE DATE: August 8, 2019

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The day Mason Thornton hands Brick Counters two hundred dollars and tells him to run and find a good life is the day that changed Brick’s life. Without hesitation, Brick grabs Mason and kisses the older man, says thank you, and runs away. Away from his controlling and abusive parents and into the arms of a future he can build for himself.

In a matter of years he has a successful ranch and like-minded people around him. He has a good life.

So when he meets Mason again, the man is still as strong and vital as before. Still as handsome and as unattainable. Now Brick has a choice. Should he let Mason into the truth of his life or should he conduct their business and leave the other man be? Circumstances force his hand and he tells Mason the truth, never expecting the man to not only accept it but to build a new life for them.

TITLE: Dead Man’s Quill

AUTHOR: Jordan Castillo Price

SERIES: The ABCs of Spellcraft #4

PUBLISHER: JCP Books LLC

LENGTH: 84 pages

RELEASE DATE: August 8, 2019

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It’s all fun and games until someone loses a hand.

Dixon has been dying to introduce Yuri to Uncle Fonzo, the Hand of his family, and now he’ll finally get that chance. All they need to do is meet him at a traveling carnival with an unused piece of Spellcraft.

Easy peasy, right?

Not even a little. And even worse, they might encounter a clown.

Uncle Fonzo has left a trail of magical destruction in his wake, but he claims he’s been helping people. Spellcrafters are a slippery bunch, and it’s hard to say if he’s stretching the truth or telling an outright lie. One thing’s for sure, he’s between a rock and a hard place now, and if he doesn’t deliver an outrageous ransom to Strange Manor by midnight, all deals are off.

From a lackluster carnival with a booby-trapped tour bus to the decrepit mausoleum behind an old mental asylum, the Spellcraft leads Dixon and Yuri on a goose chase that’s not only wild…but deadly.

TITLE: Poetry in Motion

AUTHOR: Samantha Wayland

PUBLISHER: Loch Awe Press

LENGTH: 287 pages

RELEASE DATE: August 8, 2019

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Travis Campbell has been at this hockey thing for a while. He knows his days on the ice are numbered, but he’s happy with the Moncton Ice Cats and he’s still got some time to figure out what comes next. He’s been taking college classes online and thought he knew what he was doing, but then he made the ultimate rookie mistake. It turns out the poetry class is not the easier way to get his required English credits.

Barnaby Birtwistle has exiled himself to the wilds of New Brunswick, leaving London, his so-called friends, and his cheating ex behind. His life is finally getting back on track, and he’s going to keep it that way, even if it means living like a monk.

Travis is expecting a bookish nerd to help him pass his staggeringly boring class; Barnaby is expecting a meathead hockey player who struggles to string two words together, let alone appreciate poetry. Turns out that they both have something to learn.

TITLE: Old & New

AUTHOR: Megan Linden

SERIES: D.C. Files #6

PUBLISHER: Self Published

LENGTH: 316 pages

RELEASE DATE: August 8, 2019

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Years ago, one of them swore off politics, the other swore off DC. Now, they’re both coming back.

Jake Wilkinson escaped the country for a chance to be someone other than the president’s son. He burned his bridges and broke his own heart, but he felt like he had no choice. It’s been eleven years, though, and he can’t say no to the Smithsonian job offer, so he comes back to DC to start a new life…

…only to stumble into the old one.

Troy Abbot once thought all his dreams had come true, but then the reality wore him down. He made peace with it, somehow, but when he hears Jake is back in town, everything changes.

Can they fix their old mistakes and start something new or should they just stay away from each other for good?

TITLE: World Turned Upside Down

AUTHOR: Elyse Springer

SERIES: World of Love

LENGTH: 96 pages

RELEASE DATE: August 9, 2019

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After three winters in Antarctica, Simon Bancroft is an old hand on the ice. The harsh weather and extreme isolation aren’t for everyone, but he enjoys the tight-knit community at McMurdo Station… and lately he’s enjoyed watching the hot new researcher, Asher Delaney, who’s recently arrived to study the aurora. But Simon’s just a janitor. Asher doesn’t even know he exists.

When Simon’s friends propose a wager, he gets a chance to introduce himself to Asher at last. But Asher defies all of Simon’s assumptions, and suddenly he finds himself reevaluating everything he thought he knew about Asher, himself, and falling in love at the bottom of the world.

TITLE: On Silent Paws

AUTHOR: Liza Kay

SERIES: Wildcat Hills Pride #6

PUBLISHER: eXtasy Books

LENGTH: 44,008 Words

RELEASE DATE: August 9, 2019

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In the war of love, the heart must never surrender…

Vaughn Christian is pissed. His alpha has sent him on a serious mission along with another shifter who keeps trying to play the mate card. Vaughn is determined to keep things strictly business between them. He’s lost one mate and doesn’t think he can survive losing another. But his heart and body aren’t listening…

Finley Palmer knows Vaughn’s his mate. All this cougar shifter wants is to ride off into the sunset with the man of his dreams. But Vaughn’s making that almost impossible. What does he have to do to get through to the stubborn coyote shifter?

Finley is determined to fight for his love, but it won’t matter if he and Vaughn don’t survive this mission. At this rate, stress will either make them or break them.

TITLE: Perfect Fangs

AUTHOR: Catherine Lievens

SERIES: Life with Fangs #3

PUBLISHER: eXtasy Books

LENGTH: 37,160 Words

RELEASE DATE: August 9, 2019

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Oscar didn’t expect a vampire to barrel into his life—or to fall in love with him.

Oscar hates his life, but he’s too scared to do anything about it. The last time he did the right thing—when he freed James, the bitten werewolf accused of killing the pack’s alpha—his father whipped him, and he’s still recovering from that. He knows he won’t be able to go through it again, but when one of the conclave enforcers comes back to ask a few more questions after they arrest James, he knows he can’t keep the truth of what happened to himself, no matter how scared he is of the consequences.

Ignatius wasn’t sure his friend Fyfe was right when he called him and asked to make sure James really was guilty of murder, but now that he’s been back with the pack interrogating witnesses again, he knows something is wrong. He gets the proof when Oscar, the new alpha’s son, tells him his father was behind everything. Ignatius is alone, though, so there’s not much he can do. Alpha Becket won’t let Oscar go, but Ignatius won’t leave him behind.

He’d never forgive himself if he did, and conclave rules be damned.

TITLE: Kaden

AUTHORS: RJ Scott & Meredith Russell

SERIES: Boyfriend for Hire #2

PUBLISHER: Love Lane Books Ltd

LENGTH: 316 pages

RELEASE DATE: August 9, 2019

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When the lines between pretense and reality blur, can the actor and the boyfriend-for-hire discover something real?

Ryan Levesque is Hollywood’s newest blue-eyed boy. Moving from soap operas to the big screen has paid off for the kid from Minnesota, and he’s hot property. But, when a video from the lowest point of his past is shared on social media everything begins to unravel and old hurts resurface. His agent suggests a way out of the mess, and he jumps at the chance to make things right by pretending he’s in a committed, loving relationship with the tall, dark, sexy boyfriend for hire, Kaden. Only, he never counted on the impact Kaden would have on his life or his career.

When Kaden Moore’s next assignment lands in his lap, he’s expecting nothing more than a self-centered celebrity who’s messed up. Kaden’s new role is that of Hollywood A-lister Ryan Levesque’s boyfriend, a PR stunt concocted by his agents to restore the actor’s dented popularity. Kaden is aware of the video that surfaced from Ryan’s past, and though it raises questions about what kind of man Ryan is, it’s not any of Kaden’s business. Kaden has been pretending his entire life and knows he can show the troublesome actor a thing or two about the world beyond the Hollywood bubble. But maybe Kaden isn’t as clued up as he thinks, especially when it comes to the heart and love.

TITLE: Blaze

AUTHOR: Christa Tomlinson

SERIES: Heartthrob Heroes #1

PUBLISHER: Torlina Press

RELEASE DATE: August 9, 2019

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Fighting villains is easy. Falling in love is hard.

Blaze. St. Louis’s elusive superhero. In the dark of night, he wages war against the city’s criminal masterminds. Once the sun rises, he’s Jordan Wells, quiet custom body shop owner. Jordan has accepted that it’s his destiny to walk alone in the shadows… until the night he meets Daniel. The sweet, untrained submissive seeks a Dom, and Jordan would love to take on the role.

Jordan dreams of dominating the young man, of finding respite from his harsh life as a lone vigilante by losing himself in Danny’s softness. Unfortunately, past trauma has taught the superhero that letting others into his world leads to tragedy. Jordan knows he should let Danny go, but he can’t seem to tear himself away from the submissive’s gentle smiles and soft kisses. Can Jordan risk a relationship with Danny when his life as Blaze is rife with danger?

TITLE: A Soul to Keep

AUTHOR: K. Sterling

SERIES: The Boys of Lake Cliff

PUBLISHER: Self Published

RELEASE DATE: August 9, 2019

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“Scream, you stupid American bear.”

Night after terrifying night, Captain Denver Walsh returns to the compound in Dubai where Al Qaeda terrorists tortured him. Night after night, he relives the terror and pain and wakes up haunted by a ghost from his past. Numerous surgeries and years of physical and psychiatric therapy have failed to fix our brave soldier and hacker and he’s perilously close to breaking.

“Alone is why you almost killed yourself and that’s what’s going to kill you.”

Denver might be an admirable yet occasionally stupid brand of stubborn but Dr. Ezra Gabriel is about to teach him a few lessons in patience and perseverance. Gifted, charming and just about as stubborn, the young doctor won’t let Denver give up, then finds he can’t let the brilliant, gentle, battle-scarred veteran go.

An incident involving a monster of a trout causes two friends to slip and slide into a predicament neither saw coming. One of them loses their head and two hearts find the same steady beat as dreams change and merge with reality.

TITLE: Release

AUTHOR: A.E. Ryecart

SERIES: Rent Boys #1

PUBLISHER: Self Published

LENGTH: 218 pages

RELEASE DATE: August 9, 2019

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Selling his body since he was a fifteen-year-old runaway, rent boy Sean Farrell has learned the hard lesson that the only way to survive the streets is to act tough and cocky. But an act is all it is, because underneath he’s never felt more adrift as he struggles with crippling self-doubt. Sean’s distilled life into three simple rules: earn enough cash to get by, stick close to the friends who have become his family — and don’t let anyone steal his heart.

Art is Laurie Cassell’s profession and passion. His calm and ordered life is just how he thinks he wants it, but it’s becoming harder to ignore the creeping feeling that calm and ordered has become dull and predictable. Laurie craves more but doesn’t know what, or not until a man with dark hazel eyes and a bad attitude swaggers into his life — and leaves with his heart.

Two men who should never have met, let alone fallen in love. Can Sean and Laurie release the other from lives that are holding them captive?

TITLE: When Two Omegas Dance

AUTHOR: Amy Bellows

SERIES: Vale Valley Season 3 #11

PUBLISHER: Self Published

RELEASE DATE: August 9, 2019

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Kai spends eight hours a day training for a grueling sport only the toughest men can handle.

In other words, he’s a ballet dancer.

When Kai gets cut from his dance company, he’s not sure what to do. His whole life has revolved around ballet since he was a child. Heartbroken and uncertain of his future, he ends up at a strip club with his friends. There he sees an omega own the stage with a presence that takes Kai’s breath away.

There isn’t any doubt in Kai’s mind that this omega is his fated mate.

Noah is a red wolf shifter. Like all omega red wolf shifters, he has powerful pheromones that trick alphas into thinking they’ve found their fated mate. But Noah will never have a fated mate. He’s only attracted to other omegas, and while some omegas are drawn in by his pheromones, the artificial connection never lasts. He’s resigned to living his life alone.

But the night Noah meets Kai, Noah feels the connection too. If only he could be sure that Kai’s feelings for him are real.

In a world where everyone thinks they’re Noah’s fated mate, how will he know when he’s found the one person who actually is?

TITLE: Cup o’ Sugar

AUTHOR: Ofelia Gränd

PUBLISHER: JMS Books

LENGTH: 18 pages

RELEASE DATE: August 10, 2019

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Roarak Halfhide of the Halfhide pack understands his duty. He’s found his pack a home, now he just needs to keep them safe and fed. It doesn’t matter that Sam, one of the workers at Cup o’ Sugar, makes him want to shirk his duties and spend his time sipping coffee in one of the booths.

He doesn’t even like coffee.

But things don’t always go as planned, and when there is a threat to Sam, Roarak can’t pretend to be just another coffee-loving customer. He has to protect his mate.

TITLE: Past Sins

AUTHOR: Thomas Grant Bruso

PUBLISHER: JMS Books

LENGTH: 110 pages

RELEASE DATE: August 10, 2019

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Officer Jack Ballinger receives a phone call from the chief of police in the early morning hours regarding a dead body at an apartment building in a quiet neighborhood in the small upstate New York town of Black Falls. A female student lies in a pentagram outlined in her own blood, clutching a rosary. Ballinger and his former partner Officer Cory Ryan interview tenants in the building about the girl’s death, but are met with more questions than answers.

When another body is found in the same apartment building a few hours later, Jack knows something is wrong. As he ciphers through a patchwork of unexplainable clues, the investigation detours when Ryan disappears from the case and cannot be found.

With his future as an officer in question, will Ballinger be able to deal with the truth of these crimes once he dscovers everything he thought he knew was a lie?

TITLE: Murder in the Condo Next Door

AUTHOR: Edward Kendrick

PUBLISHER: JMS Books

LENGTH: 100 pages

RELEASE DATE: August 10, 2019

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When the crazy woman from hell, as he thinks of her, moves in next door to Michael, he isn’t happy about it. When she’s murdered, he’s even less ecstatic, especially when he has to deal with a detective’s suspicions and a nosy reporter.

Reid Hanson is a good reporter with a nose for a story. When he tries, and fails, to interview Michael, he’s intrigued by the man’s resistance. It takes all his persuasive powers to get Michael to open up to him about the murder … and his past.

When Michael does, the two men set out to try and learn more about the woman’s murder … and a related one a week later. In the process they begin to fall for each other. Will their attraction come to fruition or will the killer manage to eliminate Michael, the only witness to his existence, before that happens?

TITLE: London Lark

AUTHOR: JL Merrow

PUBLISHER: JMS Books

LENGTH: 20 pages

RELEASE DATE: August 10, 2019

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They’ll do anything to save their children’s lives, even if it means working together.

Apprentice tinkerer Harriet Hodgkins is skilled in the construction and maintenance of intricate clockwork contrivances. She’s also rather good at masquerading as a man … for of course, no self-respecting craftsman would hire a woman.

Repairing a salvaged automaton becomes a labour of love for Hodgkins, and the object of her affections, Miss Pandora Piper, comes to hold her rescuer in equal esteem. But Hodgkins has yet to confess her true gender, and moreover the clockwork coquette is destined for resale.

If Hodgkins can’t engineer a more auspicious ending, Miss Pandora’s restoration will signal their separation.

TITLE: Sudden Death

AUTHOR: W.S. Long

PUBLISHER: JMS Books

LENGTH: 81 pages

RELEASE DATE: August 10, 2019

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Peruvian-Japanese pro golfer Dimas Kanashiro should have been celebrating his first major golf tournament win. Instead, the suspicious death of his boyfriend’s stepfather places Dimas’ boyfriend, Hunter Mullins, under suspicion.

Carl Mullins was a lousy stepfather and lousy human being in Dimas’ book, but Hunter always thought differently. So after beating Carl in the most important golf tournament of his life, it’s now up to Dimas to help Hunter find out how his stepfather died and, if murdered, who killed him in order to clear Hunter’s name.

TITLE: Walk Tall

AUTHOR: Susi Hawke

SERIES: Assassin’s Claws #1

PUBLISHER: Self Published

RELEASE DATE: August 10, 2019

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Watch out for the Assassin’s Claws…

Clay Moreno is a paid killer, just like his four brothers. It’s the family business—they fight together, they die together. Whether they’re working as a group or alone, they are a tight unit who protect their own.

Clay drew the short straw on their latest mission: assassinate the American president. He knew the case was going to be tough, but the last thing he expected to find was his mate… the president’s own son. The fact that he began the case with plans to seduce his way into the White House via that same son is beside the point. What his mate doesn’t know shouldn’t hurt him…

Nick Jackson is lonely and ordinary in a family of overachievers. He doesn’t want to do photo ops for the press, prep for the next year’s tests over the summer or any of the hundreds of other things his mother hassles him about. All he wants is to relax after his first year of college, work on his tan… and maybe find a boy to flirt with.

TITLE: River Runs Red

AUTHOR: Scott Alexander Hess

PUBLISHER: Lethe Press

LENGTH: 244 pages

RELEASE DATE: August 11, 2019

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Calhoun McBride and Clement Cartwright are men from different worlds. Young Calhoun works backbreaking, midnight shifts at the Snopes Brewery…and earns a little extra selling his body to eager men. Clement left St. Louis to pursue his architectural ambitions and returns to great fanfare as the man planning the city’s first skyscraper. But one steamy night, by the Mississippi River, both men find themselves drawn to one another. But what chance has brought together, the machinations of a bitter and cruel man, Belasco Snopes, who thinks St. Louis belongs to him…down to its people, victims for all his appetites. Lambda Literary Award finalist Scott Alexander Hess’s new historical novel offers readers a sultry story with menace.

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