Saturday, September 15, 2018

What's on the Reading Radar? #WishList #TBR

My week has been super busy. I have created an author page on Facebook and I'm putting together a quarterly newsletter that will deal mainly with new releases. Working on getting Twin Flames (Sumeria's Sons, 1) produced as an audiobook. And there is just a ton of other things that I need to do. For some reason, this week has felt busier than previous ones.


Title: Destiny: A Prequel to Bound by Destiny
Series: The Harvest Young
Author(s): MA Church
Length: 68 pages
Publisher

Genre: Romance / Sci-Fi / Gay

Notes:

Blurb: Raiden Shou knew who his mate was before he took his first breath. Hard to believe? Well, when it comes to these Tah’Narians and their young, nothing is impossible. 

Did destiny bring Raiden and Dayo together? Or something else? And does it really matter when the love of a lifetime awaits?

Follow Raiden and Dayo from birth to their mating day. See how their bond evolves as they grow older, how the struggle of being part of the Tah’Narian royal family takes on an unexpected meaning to the young warriors, and how their hopes and dreams cumulate into a future they can’t wait to embrace at long last.




Title: Black Annis: Demon Hunter
Series(Revenge of the Witch Book 1)
Author(s): Aubrey Law
Length: 212 pages
Publisher

Genre: Romance / Urban Fantasy /Dark Paranormal / Lesbian / 

Notes:

BlurbHell has no fury like a Black Witch betrayed

The legendary and dreadful witch Black Annis rises again after she was brutally executed and snatches the body of an unsuspecting young woman in modern Los Angeles. Annis must adapt to the new world after four-hundred years of torment in the Lake of Fire and her hatred of the Priesthood with their demon allies is eternal. The hunt for her enemies has begun but the woman's body she selfishly possessed will change Annis in ways she never imagined possible. Can a Black Witch's cold empty heart ever know love?

Powerful Necromancers, deadly Archdemons, and even the angels of Heaven all want to spill the blood of Black Annis. Those who seek to kill her will not rest until she is dead again and her dark soul is returned to the Lake of Fire.



Title: Queen of Gods
Series(Vampire Crown Book 1)
Author(s): Scarlet Dawn, Katherine Rhodes
Length: 399 pages
Publisher

Genre: Romance / Vampires / Paranormal / Reverse Harem / Poly / 

Notes: I've been on the fence about reading this sreis. RH is good but I like my multiple partner romances to have a little bit more love and respect between all the characters. I was reading the blurbs for the next two books and the little content warning sold me. "*CONTENT WARNING: This book contains graphic language, violent content, and sexual situations (M/F, M/F/M, M/M/M, and M/F/M/M). It is intended for audiences 18+ ONLY.*" Yes, please.

Blurb: Magic is life. 
Bound to S'Kir, the Unseen Gods wait to reunite with their brethren. Only an ancient prophecy keeps their hope alive.

Blood is life.
Locked away from S'Kir on earth, the Vampire Overlords and an Original Druid hold their crowns with brute power. The Law is all that keeps their savage nature hidden.

Until one defiant vampire is awakened early from her Rest and summoned to the vampire stronghold. In her wake, all hell breaks loose...

Magic always wins.
But never without blood.

*CONTENT WARNING: This book contains graphic language and sexual situations. It is intended for audiences 18+ ONLY*
*Slow-burn Reverse Harem (for one woman) with guaranteed sexy times in each book*




TitleThe Mercenaries of the Stolen Moon
Series: Tales of the high Court, 4
Author(s): Megan Derr
Length: 100k
Publisher: LT3 Press

Genre: Romance / Fantasy / Pansexual / Bisexual / Trans / 

Notes: Releases 11/21

Blurb: For twenty years Myra has served the High King, so familiar, respected, and envied the rest of the palace calls him the High Secretary. For twenty years he has kept his secrets buried, and after so long he dares to believe he has left his past behind. But during the Festival of Harmony, tragedy strikes, and Myra's past is dragged into the present.

Once third in command of Fathoms Deep, Charlaine is used to shadows and secrets, but even he is shocked to learn what his best friend, and the man he secretly loves, has been hiding all these years. In the wake of a terrible tragedy, he doesn't know what to do—except whatever it takes to help his friends.

Though Jac is a member of the Three-headed Dragons and primary bodyguard to the High Consort, she is used to being overlooked and underestimated. But she didn't earn her spurs by backing down, and she's not about to do so now—even if she must defy the High Throne itself to save the man she's falling in love with.




Title: Murder of Crows: Shaman States of America
Series: Stealheads
Author(s): James Osris Baldwin, Chrishaun Keller Hanna
Length: 185 pages
Publisher

Genre: Romance / Lesbian / Urban Fantasy / 

Notes:

BlurbMonsters are real - and we are their prey.

Elizabeth Fox is small, dark, and deadly. As the new leader of the Steelheads, Washington’s top monster hunting team, she must face down monsters in single combat, absorb their power, and banish their spirits – or die trying.

A family is slaughtered in their Seattle penthouse by a prehistoric nightmare too powerful for the cops to handle. The Steelheads are called in to destroy the monster and rescue the only survivor: a young girl who is at the center of another bloody mass murder the very next day.

The girl is innocent.

Whatever has control of her is not.

Starring a fierce Valkyrie who must learn to rely on her teammates - a mysterious and devastatingly handsome sniper and a Marines combat veteran with an encyclopedic knowledge of monsters - Murder of Crows is set within the expansive world of the Shaman States of America. Join Liz, Inari and Jack as they take on monsters, gangsters and each other in Book One of the Seattle Steelheads series!



Title: Fairy Dusted
Series
Author(s): Shannon West, Susan E. Scott
Length: 209 pages
Publisher: Painted Hearts Publishing; 2 edition (August 28, 2018)

Genre: Romance / Fantasy / Urban Fantasy / Gay / 

Notes:

Blurb:

When FBI agent Cole Gregory is called to his bureau chief’s office and recruited for a special task force, he is confronted with the commander of the force, a handsome, enigmatic man named Commander Levi who makes Cole feel restless and uneasy. Cole learns of a world beyond our own, one entered only through special Blood Gates, into a world where Faeries and Demons rule, and where Fae and Paranormal creatures exist. These creatures are dangerous to humans, and the FBI has a secret special task force to keep the Blood Gates sealed. An astonished Cole is informed that he has been selected as a member of this force. While all that’s hard enough to believe, even worse is the way Commander Levi looks at Cole, as if he wants to consume him. When Levi changes into a powerful demon right before his eyes, Cole begins to wonder if he’ll even survive this encounter, or will this demon take possession of not only his body but his very soul?


Slade is another FBI agent and Cole’s best friend. When Cole suddenly goes missing and no one can explain where he is, he goes looking for him and stumbles into an open Blood Gate, where he encounters a powerful and handsome wizard, who tries and fails to send him back to the human world.

They seek help from others in the Realm and soon become caught up in a powerful war raging in the Faery Domain, one that his friend Cole, along with Levi, are already mixed up in. When Cole and Slade are both taken by the evil Faery king and slated for sacrifice, they realize they have to stick together and use all their training and a bit of luck to make it out of this alive.



Title: Edge of Nowhere
Series
Author(s): Felicia Davin
Length: 299 pages
Publisher: Etymon Press (July 31, 2018)

Genre: Romance / Sci-Fi / Gay / 

Notes:

Blurb: Kit Jackson has two talents in life. He can navigate the void known as the Nowhere to teleport himself across long distances and he can keep his mouth shut. These talents have earned him a reputation as a discreet, reliable Nowhere runner—he’ll smuggle anything for the right price—and that’s how Kit likes it. Morals don’t earn money, and neither do friends. When the private research firm Quint Services makes Kit an astounding offer for a mystery delivery, he says yes.

The parcel turns out to be an unconscious man, and even for Kit, that raises questions. When something monstrous attacks them in the Nowhere and throws them into an unknown wilderness, Kit and this stranger, a man named Emil, have to rely on each other. Kit just wants to make his delivery and get paid, but he finds himself increasingly entangled in Quint Services’ dangerous research—and his own attraction to Emil.

Emil Singh left his career in the Orbit Guard to work at Quint Services Facility 17, a base hidden in an asteroid, to prepare a team to cross the Nowhere into other worlds. It’s the chance of a lifetime and he can’t wait to explore the universe. But then Emil witnesses a terrible accident in a Facility 17 lab and gets sent to Earth for questioning. Something isn’t right, but before Emil can investigate, he and the Nowhere runner hired to transport him are knocked off course. Is the monster that attacks them a creation of Quint Services? What else is the corporation hiding? He has to get back to Facility 17 to protect his team and he needs Kit’s help. Can he trust the cynical young smuggler?




Title: Syn Consulting
Series: Dragos War Chronicles, 1
Author(s): AG Carothers
Length: 189 pages
Publisher

Genre: Romance / Paranormal / Urban Fantasy / Bisexual / Gay / Poly / 

Notes:

Blurb: Continue to hide or help save the very kin she's hidden from?

Welcome to SYN Consulting, the top business strategy consulting firm in Europe, home to a motley crew whose leader has a life changing secret. CEO, Danica Lestrange, is the first female dragon born in the last 800 years. Hidden from the rest of her kin and raised in the human world, she built a life that she would defend until her death.

A devious plan is unearthed while working on a new business deal that could plunge the dragons into another war with the humans. The humans may have forgotten the last dragon-human war, but the dragons have not. Will the war reveal this hidden world to the humans, or will the clans come together to defeat their enemies and maintain their anonymity?

Danica must gather her allies and help the very dragons she's hidden from her whole life. She can only hope that she'll be strong enough to protect her chosen family.



This is the first book in a new series about dragons who want nothing more than to live in peace, but refuse to be subjugated. In war there's also love, and love is blind. Love doesn't care about gender, race, species (in this case), or sexuality.

Warning: This book contains explicit sexual content between consenting adults. The sexual scenes are MM, MF, and MMF. There are romantic relationships depicted that are MM. There is also a high level of explicit language, snark, kink, and possibly bad puns and fart jokes.

This book does end in a cliffhanger. Book 2 will be released in November 2018.




Title: Legacy
Series(Deity Rising Book 1)
Author(s): Kilian Grey
Length: 447 pages
Publisher: Zurr Sol; 1 edition (September 3, 2018)

Genre: Romance / Fantasy / Gay /

Notes:

Blurb: A fractured hierarchy. A buried past. The wind tells all, to those who listen.

Tension is high among the kingdoms of Alimphis and information about the past is prohibited. The Kingsley royal line has lived under restrictive rules from the deities, Emoris and Lathil, but the royal family also holds a great secret.

Prince Faust has kept his affinity for magic hidden by the order of his brother, King Konrad. His life is thrown into chaos when Emoris discovers he can wield all four magic stones and tries to kill him. King Konrad sends Faust away under the guise of a prestigious court merchant. Outrunning the deities isn’t easy, and Faust is exposed to the corruption and lies that have settled in the kingdoms.

With the help of a rather amorous mercenary and King Konrad’s allies, Faust embarks on a path to restore order to Alimphis’s kingdoms. Emoris and Lathil will stop at nothing to ensure he fails, even pitting him against his own family. Faust isn’t alone in his fight as those with power gather to assist him. But is he ready to shoulder the weight of war?



This book (series) contains dark themes, M/M moderate heat, and is intended for mature audiences.




Title: The Returned
Series: The Complete Trilogy
Author(s): Emyrs Apollo
Length: 284 pages
Publisher

Genre: Romance / Fantasy / Gay / 

Notes:

BlurbIn an ancient world of magic and mythos, a war has broken out. As the dragon guardians vanish and old gods rise to bring chaos and destruction, lovers Emerys and Aeron find that they are the only ones who can bring peace to a desolate land.

But ancient magic is more than meets the eye, and the pair must triumph and rise... or die.


Title: Unbearable Mates
Series
Author(s): Calandra Hunter
Length: 114 pages
Publisher

Genre: Romance / Paranormal / Gay /

Notes:

Blurb: Bear shifter Peter Harris just wants one thing: catch the wanted criminal he's been tracking down. His latest case has led him to an art gallery in the small town of Wethersville, and his plan is simple: Attend the exhibition opening, pretend to like paintings, and solve the case before moving onto his next one. But running into his destined mate changes everything, especially since his mate might just be the most arrogant man Peter has ever met. 

Swan shifter Henry Sinclair just wants one thing: for the exhibition opening he's organised to run smoothly. Everything seems like it's going according to plan until he meets his destined mate, and he isn't sure what's worse: that there's a wanted criminal at the gallery, or that his true mate is a selfish jerk who doesn't like art.

After a passionate quickie turns into a passionate argument, Peter and Henry decide to team up for now. The sooner they get rid of the thief, the sooner they can get out of each other's lives.

But as the evening goes on and they learn to work together, they also learn about each other. Can they get a second chance to make a first impression, or has the situation become unbearable?

This is a 38000 word standalone shifter romance with a HEA and explicit sex scenes between two men. No cliffhangers.


TitleQueen Takes Checkmate
Series: Their Vampire Queen, 5
Author(s): Joely Sue Burkhart
Length: 301 pages
PublisherJoely Sue Burkhart (September 9, 2018)

Genre: Romance / Paranormal / Vampires / Poly / Myths 

Notes: Okay this was tagged on at the last minute since the book came out this week. I have been waiting for this conclusion to the series. I will probably have devoured this book long before this post goes up on Saturday. :)


BlurbThe god of light has met his match. But whose life will the red serpent claim?

Killing the queen of New York City has added a million new responsibilities to Shara Isador’s list. The former queen’s Blood must be dealt with before they turn thrall. The queens Keisha Skye coerced into sibling relationships must either be formally sworn to House Isador or freed. Though Shara can’t in good conscience allow anyone into her house who took part in the rampant torture in which House Skye indulged.

While every single day, Shara feels the weight of the red serpent coiled around her throat. The goddess’s gift grows heavier with every passing moment. If she doesn’t act, the serpent will consume everything she loves. But if she goes after Ra as promised…

Someone she loves very much will die.

Any of her Blood will gladly pay that cost, but Shara loves them too much to even consider losing one of them.

Who will survive the epic showdown with Ra, the god of light, and will this be the end of Shara Isador’s story?



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