Saturday, May 25, 2019

What is on the reading Radar? #Wishlist

What am I up to?Actually, nothing changed from last week to this week. My reading slump is ongoing though I still look. Some new to me authors with new releases are on the list. I really want Vampires.

Title: Chronicles of Fen: Cernuin
Series: 
Author: YW Lumaris
Length: 156 pages
Publisher: 

Genre: Slow Burn Romance / Fantasy / Magic / Action & Adventure / Redemption / Gay / 

Notes: 

Blurb: He broke the laws of magic. He made the gods mortal.Now the world pays for his crimes.

Fen, a powerful mage and rare harpy, spent thirty years as a prisoner tasked with undoing what he'd done. With only three cities remaining, the time finally comes that he is granted his chance to put his plans in action. The king gives him leadership over a special unit trained to fight the plague of monsters threatening mankind.

Yet, hated and mistrusted by the soldiers for his past, Fen must earn their loyalty. To do that, he needs their general's trust.

With this as his only chance to kill the gods and right what he wronged, he stands saint and sinner. Will he succeed, or is this the end of humanity?

-o-

Sci-fi/fantasy blend heavy in fantasy,
Towers, gods, guns, and radios.
Infectious monsters. and spiders
adventure and m/m slow romance.

--- this is a novella, first part of four in a series, 35,000 words ---


Title: Matchmaking Beyond the Veil
Series: TellTale Ghosts, 1
Author: Mara Townsend
Length: 36 pages
Publisher: 

Genre: Slow Burn / Urban Fantasy / Enemies to Lovers / Haunting / 

Notes: releases may 28th

Blurb: Endure the company of his rival…or suffer ghostly retaliation.

Emery Belmont is a snarky, uptight realist who likes his life ordinary. Like any skeptic, he’s content using mundane explanations to write off signs of paranormal activity. That’s no longer an option when the spirit haunting his house wrecks his new kitchen, forcing Emery closer to facing the supernatural truth. Desperate for a new handyman, he unknowingly hires his hot ex-rival from high school to fix it. Paxton Santos, Emery’s former lacrosse team captain, followed in his father’s footsteps to take over the family business. Annoyingly, Emery requires his talented hands more than he needs to keep Paxton out of his life. However, getting Paxton to leave after the repairs may prove difficult with the meddlesome ghost taking a shine to him, which Paxton seems to take in his grating, good-natured stride, remaining irritatingly unruffled by numerous weird occurrences.

Emery is bombarded by mysterious paranormal hijinks, keeping Paxton at arm’s length, and deciphering things that aren't quiet what they seem. There’s nothing Emery hates more than an unfinished puzzle. In his determination to solve this one, Emery reluctantly opens himself up to new possibilities all while trying to remain firmly rooted in life the way he prefers it—orderly, logically explainable, and, above all else, ghost-free.

Join Emery and Paxton as they face off with a spirit that has no limits to how far it will go to push them together, enduring locked doors, faulty plumbing, and sharing a bed. Together they are determined to navigate their way out of this mess using any means necessary to send the ghost packing. Will they make it out of the traps awaiting them before their pesky tormenter gets any other ideas to make things worse and further blur the line between them?

Matchmaking Beyond the Veil is a 107k slow burn MM romance of rivals to friends to lovers told in single POV. Featuring a meddling ghost playing at matchmaker, forced proximity, bed sharing, ghost tours that totally aren’t dates, and tongue-in-cheek humor. This story ends on a HFN ending with a soft cliffhanger. Emery and Paxton’s story will continue in the next book of the series, Telltale Ghosts Book 2. This book contains denial, an unreliable narrator, two men experimenting with sex magic, fighting what the heart wants, steamy explicit sexual scenes and colorful language intended for adults 18 and older.


Title: Bedswerver
Series: 
Author: Camilla Quinn
Length: 70 pages
Publisher: LT3 Press

Genre: Romance / Contemporary / Holiday / Bisexual / Asexual / Biromantic / 

Notes: 

Blurb: Frost is used to doing whatever he can to survive. An ex-con turned bartender, he hops from fling to fling. It's not so easy for a guy who doesn't like sex, but it beats sleeping behind a dumpster. At least he knows he can turn up at his favorite diner for a plate of pancakes and a conversation with Max, a quirky young waiter who's managed to worm his way under Frost's skin.

Then Max shows up at Frost's bar on Christmas Eve, drunk and in desperate need of help getting home. Frost sees it as a chance to help a friend and maybe spend the night on Max's couch—but getting Max home proves to be a much greater challenge than anticipated.



Title: Siren's Debt
Series: (Dylan Rivers Chronicles Book 1)
Author: Richard Amons
Length: 258 pages
Publisher: 

Genre: Romantic Elements / Urban Fantasy / Gay / Multiple Partners / 

Notes: 

Blurb: What do you do when you're the last of your kind, hunted every day of your life?Become a famous pop star!

Dylan Rivers is the last siren in existence. His family were slaughtered by the evil oil barons, his homeland ravaged and stolen from him. He is a target for hatred, the last thorn in the side of those who just want to see him a corpse. 


For him to survive is the biggest middle finger to his enemies. He could hide in the dark, be terrified of his own shadow, but that isn’t Dylan Rivers.


Music is Dylan’s life, as are the pleasures that can be found with his celebrity lifestyle—good food, beautiful clothes, fabulous parties, and gorgeous men. He particularly enjoys the company of his two favourite bodyguards—a handsome fae and a delicious werewolf—who are always on hand to look after his body in more ways than one.

Something is stirring…

Pleasure of the flesh drowns out pain, pushes away the sting of broken memories. He cannot fully remember what had happened to bring down his once glorious realm, but one day the opportunity to discover the full truth presents itself, and everything points to him.

Dylan must travel the river of prophecy…

There is change in the air, whispers on the water. His life is about to be turned upside down, for the idea of hope has risen...

The last siren has a debt to pay…

Join singing sensation Dylan Rivers in a journey of discovery, danger and seduction!

A dark and steamy urban fantasy tale, with a Why Choose? MM romance.

*This series is set in the same universe as Coldharbour Chronicles. However, there is no need to have read that series to enjoy this one.*



Title: Mosquito District
Series: Mosquito District, 1
Author: Leona Bentley
Length: 52k
Publisher: 

Genre: Romance / Paranormal / Vampires / Gay

Notes: releases May 29th

Blurb: Lee is a jaded young man living in a district owned and overseen almost exclusively by vampires. When he mouths off to one of their flunkies, his life loses all of its carefully constructed order. His next shift at the library where he works brings Ira, a millennia-old vampire who is new to that part of the world and looking for answers that Lee just might be able to help uncover—if they can learn to trust one another.


Title: Theo's Beloved: A Draconian Love Story
Series: 
Author: Adella Dratianos
Length: 162 pages
Publisher: 

Genre: Romance / Paranormal / Poly / Gay / 

Notes: releases June 1st

Blurb: Theo Dratianos is heartbroken. Four years ago, his Bondmate Mikhail disappeared on his thirteenth birthday. Each year, another blood ritual, another blood-oath to him. When all hope of Mikhail’s return is lost, Theodore meets his love, the equally-handsome Ricky Vargas. What will happen when Ricky dies, and Mikhail comes back? How about when Ricky and Mikhail meet? Who will be Theodore’s Beloved then?


Title: Double Edged
Series: The Bulari Saga
Author: Jessie Kwak
Length: 266 pages
Publisher: 

Genre: Sci-Fi / Romantic elements / Futuristic / Gangster-Crime drama / Gay

Notes: releases may 28th

Blurb: Thala Coeur—Blackheart—is dead.Willem Jaantzen has been waiting to hear those words for almost twenty years. But he was also hoping they’d hold more satisfaction. Because it turns out his arch enemy has died as she lived—sowing chaos and destruction—and when a mysterious package arrives on his doorstep, he realizes she’s sent him one last puzzle from beyond the grave. As Jaantzen and his crew are plunged back into a game he thought they’d left far behind, one thing becomes painfully clear: Solving Coeur’s puzzle could be key to preventing the city from crumbling back into another civil war—or it could be the thing that destroys them all. Because this secret isn’t just worth killing for. It’s worth coming back from the dead for.

The Bulari Saga series is part of Jessie Kwak’s Durga System universe, a fast-paced series of gangster sci-fi stories set in a far-future world where humans may have left their home planet to populate the stars, but they haven’t managed to leave behind their vices. And that’s very good for business.



Title: Eight Lives
Series: (Match Made In Hell Book 1)
Author: Autumn Breeze, Ashley Chamblee
Length: 112 pages
Publisher: 

Genre: Romance / Urban Fantasy / Vampires / Gay /

Notes: 

Blurb: Two Hearts. One Curse. Zero Time.

A century ago a spiteful witch cursed Edmund. Ever since, he has lived as an immortal house cat--short one life. Anselm is a mildly depressed vampire with a soft spot for the feline he calls friend.

They live together as equals, companions for eternity--or so they hope. Then, the witch who cursed Edmund long ago dies. And suddenly, he is human again.

In a race against times cruel hand, Anselm and Edmund must make a decision. Do they find a dark witch and reenact the curse that plagued Edmund so they can be together for eternity? Or . . . does Edmund give up forever as a cat to be with Anselm for now as a man?

EIGHT LIVES: MATCH MADE IN HELL #1 is a sweet m/m romance of 35K words featuring vampires, shifters, witches, magic and a powerful curse that could rip two men apart or bring them together for eternity.



Title: Dragon Stones
Series: Prince Enki Chronicles, 3
Author: AE Hazel Wood
Length: 244 pages
Publisher: 

Genre: Fantasy / Sci-Fi / Horror / Comedy / Coming of Age / LGBT

Notes: When I grabbed this off of Amazon, the title did not give the number the book fell in the series. I did not notice until I added it here. The blurb says it can be read as a standalone but I have added the first two books in this series below. The blurbs of the other two are curious.

Blurb: After millions of years, Ancient Ones finally reached a verdict: The Soul-Prison encasing Earth would no longer be tolerated. And out of all the begins in the Milky Way, the Ancients chose only one to oversee Earth’s deliverance—Prince Enki.There’s just one catch…more than one powerful interested party shares Warden duties over Earth, and they’ll stop at NOTHING to maintain status quo.Ten others have banded with the wise Prince Enki, to pull off this miracle. Three of his most powerful allies are all from Cetrilli Prime…powerful if they can learn to fully tap into and control their powers when most needed.

Mostly fantasy, with a touch of sci-fi, horror, straight and gay romance, coming of age and comedy, makes this third installment fit for the well-rounded and open-minded Ideal Reader.Though a series installment, this book can be read as a Standalone Book, for it contains enough backstory content.

Title: Tethered Treachery
Series: Prince Enki Chronicles, 1
Author: AE Hazel Wood
Length: 175 pages
Publisher: 

Genre: Fantasy / Sci-Fi / Horror / Comedy / Coming of Age / LGBT

Notes:

Blurb: The name’s EA. I’m over 500,000 of your Earth-years old. We call your planet, Ki. I was sent here for one purpose: gold. That’s why your kind crave it. It’s learned behavior. 

So, after years of meticulous terraforming and mining modifications, I finally struck a balance between our labor pool and our mining work load. That’s when my countrymen dubbed me “The Prince of Ki,” ergo “EN.KI.” We had some macro and micro interruptions since then, but overall, things remained relatively quiet until this morning when I received some curious news. One of my many eyes on the ground in every major metropolitan area, said they spotted what looked like a child with the power to stop time. My spy said it appeared the child delivered a warning to four young humans. He said he was able to get within arm’s reach of the four, and during his keen observations he said he’d best describe them as one impertinent Mexican woman, one jaded Japanese woman, one licentious Persian man and one asshat of a German man. When I feigned ignorance of that ‘asshat’ slight, my spy confessed his indulgence in that paranormal show. I can’t wait until he finds out next season’s their last run. I don’t overshare. 


What I did want someone to overshare about was why these four were so important? Who or what was that “child” seen warning the four? And did this phenomenon portend trouble?


Whatever it means, I’m getting the sense that nothing will be as it seems…like it’s a small puzzle from a…


TETHERED TREACHERY.

*******
Note: If the use of the color white for evil and black for good, startles you…good!
My fiction is full of truths.
As this book draws closer to its end, the chapters fall under a strong “tethering” spell.

Series Title: PRINCE ENKI CHRONICLES
Tethered Treachery (Book 1)
Draco Sinkholes (Book 2)
Dragon Stones (Book 3) – coming in two weeks from the time you see this.
Overcoming Treachery (Book 4) – coming three months after you see this.


Title: Draco Sinkholes
Series: Prince Enki Chronicles, 2
Author: AE Hazel Wood
Length: 233 pages
Publisher: 

Genre: Fantasy / Sci-Fi / Horror / Comedy / Coming of Age / LGBT

Notes:

Blurb: It’s me again. The Father of mankind, often either misunderstood, underestimated or misnomered. But you may call me Prince EN.KI.

This story started like all the others. Something seemingly benign and ordinary, turns out to be the tip of a horrific and insidious plan with widespread implications of the worst kind. Such was the case today.

I miss the early days on your planet, which we call Ki (Oh, did you know that my other name is EA…sounds like…never mind). Back in the simpler times, the fathers or elders would take their sons, and daughters if they were like my sister, NIN.MAH, to the family fishing holes. They would bait their hooks, swat away the insects and, if all went as expected, at the end of their day, they’d come home with a nice addition to the dinner meal. This story begins much like this, except you humans and the fish, and….well, to find out more read…


DRACO SINKHOLES.

******* OTHER PRINCE ENKI CHRONICLES BOOKS *******
TETHERED TREACHERY (BOOK 1)
DRAGON STONES (BOOK 3) – COMING SOON
OVERCOMING TREACHERY (BOOK 4) – COMING LATER


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