Ha! Ha! Remember last week when I said no more buying books willy-nilly? I put a two book limit on myself and by Thursday, I reached the two book limit and complaining that I didn't have anything that I didn't 'want' to read. I have stuff I haven't read yet, but man, I suddenly wasn't interested in any of it. LMAO. BUT today, starts a new month so I now have another two book limit. I will be very, very careful with what I'll buy.
Speaking of, of the list below, I think I already own several. The rest will have to go on my wish list. :)
Series: (Twelve Houses series Book 1)
Author(s): Sharon Shinn
Length: 421 pages
Publisher: Ace (February 28, 2006)
Genre: Fantasy / Military / Magic / LGBTIAQ Characters /
Notes:
Blurb: Gillengaria seethes with unrest. In the south, hostility toward magic and its users has risen to a dangerous level, though King Baryn has ordered that such mystics are to be tolerated. It is whispered that he issued the decree because his new wife used her magic powers to ensnare him…
The King knows there are those in the noble Twelve Houses who could use this growing dissent to overthrow him. So he dispatches the mystic Senneth to assess the threat throughout the realm. Accompanying her is a motley band of magic-users and warriors including Tayse, first among the King’s Riders—who holds a hard view of mystics in general, and Senneth in particular.
But as the unlikely allies venture farther into the south, they will face death in a land under the sway of a fanatical cult that would purge Gillengaria of all magic users. And they will come to realize that their only hope of survival lies in standing together…
Series: Northern Creatures
Author(s): Kris Austen Radcliffe
Length: 218 pages
Publisher: Six Talon Sign Fantasy & Futuristic Romance (August 8, 2017)
Genre: Paranormal / Urban Fantasy / Frankenstein /
Notes:
Blurb: What happens when a man starts life as a corpse?
Two hundred years ago, Frank Victorsson awoke as a semi-dead, monstrous abomination reanimated by his hubris-ridden father, Victor Frankenstein. But Frank refused to become the infernal hate his father spewed at the world. He walked away from his origins — and into a small, Minnesota town overflowing with magic.
Now Dr. Frankenstein’s other sins want revenge.
The Nordic elves of Frank’s new home call him family. The werewolves call him friend. And when the town’s vampires disappear and innocents die, Frank realizes the demon responsible might be the one force on Earth faster and stronger than him — and the one foe capable of pulling to the surface his long-suppressed rage.
Now Frank must stop a rampaging evil bent on murdering the people he loves the most. But can he save his town without losing himself to the monster he once tamed?
Series: Stolen by the Alien, 4
Author(s): Amanda Milo
Length: 253 pages
Publisher:
Genre: Romance / Sci-Fi / Alien /
Notes: I have read the other three books to this series. I would recommend them if you read MF and like alien romantic interests.
Blurb: I was abducted by aliens and auctioned to a positively lovely bleak place called the Underwater Pleasure Dome. An amphibious alien with hands like bug zappers helped spring me, and if you've followed my friends' adventures, you know Dohrein and I teamed up because we're both equally stellar, and awesome attracts awesome.This is the story of what happened *after* abduction life.
The good part.
The part where we settle in and build brand new lives on this brand new planet.
I just need to have tea with my Alien-in-law and convince her to set her pet humans free.
No biggie.
*Wish me luck.*
**NOTE: Is this a Standalone? Not really. A few brave booksouls who started the series with this story jumped right in and enjoyed, so it's *possible,* but I also created a Cast List Recap that will patch you through if you want a bit of a guide to this world.
Series Order:
Book 1: Stolen amzn.to/2ATZfV6
Book 2: Rescued amzn.to/2nn36A6
Book 3: Won amzn.to/2MaHwNz
Book 4: Craved amzn.to/2AWQpph
Series: (Circle City Magic Book 2)
Author(s): Stephanie A. Cain
Length: 289 pages
Publisher: Cathartes Press (June 12, 2018)
Genre: Romance / Urban Fantasy / Paranormal / Gay /
Notes:
Blurb: Martin Cole has been home from Afghanistan for three years, and his business--a one-man garage--is going well. The problem is, his PTSD hasn't gone away. He's tried all the usual treatments and some of the...well, less legal treatments, despite the fact his sister's a cop.
But he's still having nightmares. Dreams. Visions. His world turns upside down when he meets a handsome homicide detective with Indianapolis Metropolitan Police who says the visions aren't PTSD--they're premonitions.
Elliott Blake is certain he's right about Martin's visions--he's not just a detective, he's also a werewolf with preternatural senses, and PTSD symptoms have a different scent than premonitions. And his case that has way too many things in common with Martin's visions to be a coincidence.
The problem is, whoever killed Ainsley Shaw has killed again, and Elliott's no closer to catching the killer. If he could just get Martin to trust him, they could work the case together--and maybe figure out what to do with the attraction between them.
Unfortunately, the killer has other plans...
Series:
Author(s): Rhys Ford, Ginn Hale, Jordan L. Hawk, TA Moore, C.S. Poe, Jordan Castillo Price
Length: 450 pages
Publisher: DSP Publications
Genre: Anthology / Gay / Horror / Paranormal /
Notes:
Blurb: Temptation lurks around every corner in worlds sometimes dark, sometimes lurid. Giving in is both dangerous and satisfying, though never in the ways one expects. While these enticements offer a vast range of benefits and boons, the cost is a soul and the devil expects his due. Sometimes suave and charming or calculating and cruel, these devils have schemes and desires of their own. They can be creatures to run away from… or toward.
Join the most unique and celebrated authors of LGBT urban fantasy and paranormal fiction for a fast-paced and unpredictable ride, from a city on the other side of reality, to a world suspended in dusk, to a twisted version of the 1960s and 70s.
Meet devils in top hats and waistcoats, a defrocked motorcycle-riding priest, and a genderfluid antihero—among many more. Full of humor, romance, horror, action, intrigue, and magic, these stories have one common element….
They’re one hell of a good time.
Series: Out of Underhill, 2
Author(s): Mell Eight
Length: 40k
Publisher: LT3 Press
Genre: Romance / Gay / Paranormal / Fantasy /
Notes: releases November 14th
Blurb: Merridy has always loved music, but can't sing. The only job in the music business he can get is as a security guard for The Bard and Sons, a premier record label. He keeps their secrets and patrols their hallways, always secretly wishing for a big break he knows will never come.
Changeling's Court is a brand new band struggling to cut their first single and record. Merridy chances upon a scrap of their lyrics without accompanying music notes and can't help composing a simple ballad for them. If he's found out he'll probably get fired.
Instead, he finds himself in a strange new world of magic and faeries—and danger.
Series:
Author(s): Irene Wendy Wade
Length: 55k
Publisher: LT3 Press
Genre: Romance / Sci-Fi / Non-binary / Pansexaul /
Notes: releases September 11th
Blurb: Myrdu is an Avlan, part of a proud warrior race. He has family on Avla, mothers, broodmates, a daughter. But one day he finds that it's all a lie—that Myrdu himself is a lie. Myrdu's lifetime is only one of many in the unfolding memory of Okka, the shapeshifter, Okka, the spy. But Okka's mission on Avla has come to a bitter end, and xir homeworld has fallen. Xe cannot stay on Avla now that xe knows what xe is.
Okka flees to Earth, hoping to buy xemself time, hoping against hope to find some way to save the Mimica homeworld. Okka does not expect to find humans that xe can call family, not in the way that Mimica can be to each other.
Okka does not expect Waverly Kemp.
Series: Robert & Caleb, 1
Author(s): E.S. Hutch
Length: 232 pages
Publisher:
Genre: Romance / Paranormal / Gay
Notes:
Blurb: Robert Layton is dead.
But at the same time, he isn’t. He eats and breathes, walks and talks, but to the rest of the world he might as well not even exist. He’s forgotten as soon as he’s out of sight.
A former cop, Robert’s arrogant ways led to him being possessed and then destroyed by an ancient evil, a demon that preys on man’s deepest desires. Now that same demon has led him to its latest victim, the first person capable of remembering Robert since his death.
Caleb Miller has made some monumentally stupid decisions, all before the age of twenty-three. He dropped out of college, is stuck in an affair with a married man, and struggles to make ends meet as a folk singer at the same coffee shop he slings drinks at all day.
When a handsome stranger shows up and claims Caleb’s been possessed by a strange sex demon, he’s obviously skeptical. But Robert turns out to be the man of his dreams, and Caleb can’t believe his luck. Too bad Robert has vowed never to touch him.
Forced to live together while battling their intense attraction, they must find a way to stop the demon before it’s too late to save Caleb’s life and his memory of Robert.
Series: Morrighan House Witches, 0
Author(s): Amir Lane
Length: 232 pages
Publisher:
Genre: Romantic Elements? / Fantasy / Urban Fantasy / Gay
Notes:
Blurb: "You never knew what it meant to get involved with a witch."
Grad student Ekkehard Schneider doesn't believe in magic until he discovers his boyfriend, Zven, is a pyromancer. When Zven panics and sets a police officer on fire at a riot he didn't intend to be at, Ekkehardt can't bear the thought of a life without him. Attempting to flee to West Germany together, Zven is killed and Ekkehart is left with a bullet in his chest, a heavy survivor's guilt, and the ability to see spirits.
Recovering in his parents' home in Leipzig, Ekkehardt finds an old journal belonging to his late aunt, where she describes bringing her boyfriend back from the dead. Though the last pages are missing, Ekkehardt knows he has to make things right. He doesn't expect it to work, and he certainly doesn't expect to wake up battered and bruised with no idea of how he got home.
Zven isn't the only spirit he brought home, and they want his blood.
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