What an
epic week for new releases!!!
Date: Monday,
March 26th, 2012
Title: The Outcast Blade
Series: Assassini
Trilogy #2
Genre: Dark
Fantasy
Author: Jon
Courtenay Grimwood
As the Byzantine and German emperors plot war against each other, Venice's future rests in the hands of three unwilling people:
The newly
knighted Sir Tycho. An ex-slave and trained assassin who defeated the Mamluk
navy but cannot make the woman he loves love him back. Tortured by secrets,
afraid of the daylight, he sees no reason to save a city he hates.
The
grieving Lady Giulietta. Impossibly rich, deeply spoilt. A virgin, a mother, a
widow... Both emperors want her hand for their sons in marriage. All she wants
is to retire from the poisonous world of the Venetian court to mourn her
husband in peace.
And
finally a naked, mud-strewn girl who crawls from a paupers' grave on an island
in the Venetian lagoon and begins by killing the men who buried her.
All love
affairs are complicated at times but on this one hangs the fate of Europe’s
richest city and two empires.
Date: Tuesday, March 27th, 2012
Title: Deliverance
Series: Mortal
Path #3
Genre:
Urban Fantasy
Author:
Dakota Banks
A demon's
assassin for centuries, Maliha Crayne has gone rogue, determined to save a life
for every one she's destroyed in order to free herself from an eternity of
enslavement, damnation, and excruciating torment. But as the powers that
sustained her in the past fade, she is wary of trusting those closest to
her-especially her lover, Jake. Should Maliha listen to her heart or the alarms
going off in her head? Then her closest friends begin to disappear, one by one.
Amid her anger, suspicion, and sorrow, she feels her life spiraling out of
control.
Worse still,
a beautiful, Renaissance murderess is recruiting Maliha as her new assassin.
Maliha is turning into a lethal puppet with an evil Immortal pulling the
strings, forced to kill innocents or see her missing friends die horribly.
Suddenly trapped in a moral no-man's land, Maliha is damned if she does and
damned if she doesn't…and time is rapidly running out.
Date:
Tuesday, March 27th, 2012
Title: Lover Reborn
Series: Black
Dagger Brotherhood #10
Genre:
Paranormal Romance
Author:
JR Ward
In the
darkest corners of the night in Caldwell, New York, a conflict like no other
rages. The city is home to a band of brothers born to defend their race: the
warrior vampires of the Black Dagger Brotherhood.
Now back in
the Brotherhood - and unrecognizable as the vampire leader he once was -
Tohrment is physically emaciated and heartbroken beyond despair. When he begins
to see his beloved in his dreams - trapped in a cold, isolating netherworld -
Tohr turns to a self-serving fallen angel in hopes of saving the one he has
lost. When he's told he must learn to love another to free his former mate,
Tohr knows they are all doomed . . .
Except then a female with a shadowed
history begins to get through to him.
Against the
backdrop of the raging war with the lessers, and with a new clan of vampires
vying for the Blind King's throne, Tohr struggles between the buried past, and
a very hot, passion-filled future . . . but can his heart let go and set all of
them free?
Date: Tuesday, March 27th, 2012
Title: Bear Meets Girl
Series: Pride
series #7
Genre:
Paranormal Romance
Author:
Shelly Laurenston
He's big,
burly, and way smarter than your average shapeshifting bear. He's also about to
get trapped by own his game. . .
Lou
Crushek is a reasonable, mellow, easygoing kind of guy. But once someone starts
killing the scumbags he works so hard to bust, that really gets under his fur.
Especially when that someone is a curvy she-tiger with a skill set that's
turning Crush's lone-bear world upside down--and bringing his passion out of
hibernation. . .
As a member
of an elite feline protection unit, Marcella Malone has no problem
body-dropping anyone who hunts her kind. But Crush is proving one major pain in
her gorgeous tail. The only reason she's joined forces with him is to track
down the wealthy human who's got her entire species in his ruthless sights. It
sure isn't because Crush's stubborn and contrary attitude is rubbing Cella in
all the right ways. . .
Date: Tuesday, March 27th, 2012
Title: Sacrificial Magic
Series: Downside
Ghosts #4
Genre: Urban
Fantasy
Author: Stacia
Kane
When Chess
Putnam is ordered by an infamous crime boss—who also happens to be her drug
dealer—to use her powers as a witch to solve a grisly murder involving dark
magic, she knows she must rise to the challenge. Adding to the intensity:
Chess’s boyfriend, Terrible, doesn’t trust her, and Lex, the son of a rival
crime lord, is trying to reignite the sparks between him and Chess.
Plus
there’s the little matter of Chess’s real job as a ghost hunter for the Church
of Real Truth, investigating reports of a haunting at a school in the heart of
Downside. Someone seems to be taking a crash course in summoning the dead—and
if Chess doesn’t watch her back, she may soon be joining their ranks.
As Chess is
drawn into a shadowy world of twisted secrets and dark violence, it soon
becomes clear that she’s not going to emerge from its depths without making the
ultimate sacrifice.
Date: Tuesday, March 27th, 2012
Title: Shadow’s Fall
Series: Shadow
World #3
Genre:
Urban Fantasy
Author:
Diane Sylvan
For three
years, Miranda Grey-Solomon has kept her role as Vampire Queen of the South
separate from her Grammy-winning music career. But now, her dual lives are
starting to collide, threatening everything Miranda and David, her Prime, have
worked for.
The entire
Signet Council has descended upon Austin for its ten-year summit, bringing with
it Prime James Hart of the Northeast, a sworn enemy come to take his revenge on
those who defied him. But Miranda and David receive an unexpected offer of help
from David's sire, an ancient and powerful vampire with knowledge that may be
their salvation-or their doom.
Date: Tuesday, March 27th, 2012
Title: Sins of the Son
Series: Grigori
Legacy #2
Genre:
Urban Fantasy
Author:
Linda Poitevin
When
homicide detective Alexandra Jarvis sees a photo of Seth Benjamin on a police
bulletin, she knows that Heaven's plan to halt Armageddon has gone terribly
wrong. As the only mortal who knows of Seth's true nature, only she can save
him. Aramael was a hunter of Fallen Angels until a traitor forced him into
earthly exile. Now, with no powers and only a faint memory of Alex, his mortal
soulmate, he will stop at nothing to redeem himself-even if it means destroying
Seth in the name of the Creator...
Date: Tuesday, March 27th, 2012
Title: Run Wild
Series: The
Bounty Hunters #4
Genre: Romantic
Suspense
Author: Lorie
O’Clare
Hot on the trail of a cold-blooded killer, a small-town sheriff risks
his life—and his heart—with one sexy partner…
Raised in
a family of professional bounty hunters, Natasha King knows the dangers of
tracking down fugitives—especially when they’re wanted for murder. But this is
no ordinary mission. This time, it’s personal. The suspect is her own long-lost
father—and the lawman hunting him down is dangerously close to catching her
off-guard…
In all his
years as sheriff, Trent Oakley has never seen a woman as strong-willed—or as
scorching hot—as Natasha. With her big-city experience and black-belt training,
she’s his best chance for tracking down the Trinity Ranch killer. Problem is:
Can he trust her? As the trail gets hotter, their attraction burns wilder, and
soon Trent’s not sure who’s hunting who. But one thing’s for sure: Natasha is
one woman who always gets her man…
Title: Hellbound
Series: Guardians
of the Seven Seals #2
Genre: Paranormal
Romance
Author: Berinn
Rae
Everyone
has monsters under the bed...
The Seven
Seals are said to be all that stands between humanity’s survival and the end of
days. Led by a reclusive angel, the Seven are immortals, enhanced by the marks
they bear. After centuries of bloodshed, the Seven and their Guardians have
brought down the nefarious Dominion. But the world isn’t safe yet. Now, a rogue
hellhound is building an army to claim the Seven Seals for himself.
But what
if you're one of them?
In one
night, Lana Wolfe’s life was destroyed and she was reborn a walking nightmare.
A year later, she dedicates her life to destroying others like her. That is, until
she discovers Orion Benandanti, the Alpha of all hellhounds and host to the
Third Seal. But when the hunter becomes the hunted and Orion’s Seal is put at
risk, the only way to survive is for Lana to trust the man who very well may
destroy her soul. Will she let him claim her—for the Seal’s protection and for
a passion forged in hell’s hottest fires?
How about you? What
are you looking forward to this week?
Oh The Outcast Blade caught my attention right away! :) Thanks for sharing that one. And I have a few on here I need to start the series for, and I need to get my hot little hands on Stacia Kane's book. :D Great list! Thank you!
ReplyDeleteI have the first one in Jon Courtenay Grimwood's series that i have to read and after seeing the description of The Outcast Blade, i'm moving it way up my list!! Come back and let me know what you thought when you read it ok? So many great books so little time...
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