Today’s showcase features 7 new reads releasing this week. The covers are to die for, and I can’t wait to get lost in these!
The Songbird & the Heart of Stone by Carissa Broadbent
The Songbird & the Heart of Stone
Carissa Broadbent
Series: Crowns of Nyaxia (#3)
Release Date: November 19, 2024
Genre/s: Fantasy, Romance, Paranormal
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Synopsis: Mische lost everything when she was forcibly Turned into a vampire – her home, her humanity, and most devastating of all, the love of the sun god to whom she had devoted her life. Now, sentenced to death for murdering the vampire prince who Turned her, redemption feels impossible.
But when Mische is saved by Asar, the bastard prince of the House of Shadows with a past as brutal as his scars, shes forced into a mission worse than execution: a journey to the underworld to resurrect the god of death himself.
Yet, Mische’s punishment may be the key to her salvation. In a secret meeting, her sun god commands her to help Asar in his mission, only to betray him…by killing the very death god she’ll help resurrect.
Mische and Asar must travel the treacherous path to the underworld, facing trials, beasts, and the vengeful ghosts of their pasts. Yet the most dangerous of all is the alluring call of the darkness – and her forbidden attraction to Asar, a burgeoning bond that risks invoking the wrath of gods.
As her betrayal looms, the underworld closes in and angry gods are growing restless. Mische will be forced to choose between the redemption of the sun or the damnation of darkness. (Goodreads)
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The Half King by Melissa Landers
The Half King
Melissa Landers
Series: The Half King (#1)
Release Date: November 19, 2024
Genre/s: Fantasy, Romance, New Adult Fiction
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Synopsis: The Great Betrayal changed everything for the Allied Realm. Long ago, the kingdom’s noble houses rose up against the goddess…and for their treachery, the firstborn of each noble family was cursed.
One with perilous beauty.
One with destructive knowledge.
One with insatiable bloodlust.
But the royal house Mortara received the worst affliction of all. For while the king exists during the day, he fades into nothingness at night…until his twenty-first birthday, when he will be lost to the shadows forever.
Now an acolyte has arrived at court. Like all the second-born children of the Allied Realm, she’s destined to serve the goddess and become a Seer…only Cerise Solon has no gift of foretelling. In fast, she has no magical gift at all.
Instead she’s surrounded by courtiers and priests – smiling sycophants whose hearts are filled with secrets and lies. And at the center of it all sits His Majesty Kian Hannibal Mortara, with his haunting eyes, sharp tongue, and an unerring ability to send her pulse skittering at the worst possible moments.
Falling for him is unthinkable. Because the King is the last of his line, as as the specter of twenty-first birthday – and the full force of his curse – approaches, the kingdom holds its breath.
But there’s only one way to save a dying king…and it lies with the one person who’s hiding the biggest secret of all. Cerise. (Goodreads)
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The Serpent & the Wolf by Rebecca Robinson
The Serpent & the Wolf
Rebecca Robinson
Release Date: November 19, 2024
Genre/s: Fantasy, Romance, Adult Fiction
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Synopsis: All her life, Vaasa Kozar has been sharpened into a blade.
After losing her mother – her only remaining parent – to a mysterious dark magic that has since awakened within her, Vaasa is certain death looms. So is her merciless brother, who aims to eliminate Vaasa as a threat to his crown. In one last political scheme, he marries her off to Reid of Mireh, a ruthless foreign leader, in hopes that he can use her death as a rallying cry to finally invade Reid’s nation. All Vaasa has to do is die.
But she is desperate to live. Vaasa enters her new marriage with every intent to escape it, wielding the hard-won political prowess and combat abilities her late father instilled in her. But to her surprise, Reid offers her a deal: help him win the votes to rise in power, and she can walk free. In exchange, he will share his knowledge about the dark magic running through her veins – and help keep it at bay.
The proposal may be too good to refuse, yet Vaasa and Reid’s undeniable attraction threatens to break their rules of their arrangement. As her brother’s lethal machinations take form, everything is at stake: Vaasa must learn to trust her new husband, but how can she, especially when their perfect political marriage begins to feel like the real thing? (Goodreads)
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The Mirror by Nora Roberts
The Mirror
Nora Roberts
Series: The Lost Bride Trilogy (#2)
Release Date: November 19, 2024
Genre/s: Romance, Fantasy, Paranormal, Mystery
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Synopsis: When Sonya MacTavish inherits the huge Victorian mansion on the coast of Maine, she has no idea that the house is haunted. The footsteps she hears at night, the doors slamming, the music playing, are not figments of her imagination. In her dreams she sees glimpses of the past. In the present she finds portraits of brides. And when she has visions of an antique mirror, she is drawn to it, sensing it holds dark family secrets.
Then one night the mirror appears and Sonya glides through this looking glass, into the past – and sees a bride murdered on her wedding day, the circle of gold torn from her finger. It is a scene that will play out again and again – a centuries-old curse that must be broken – and a puzzle she must solve if there is any hope of breaking the curse. (Goodreads)
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A Chill in the Flame by Piper C. J.
A Chill in the Flame
Piper C. J.
Series: Villains (#1)
Release Date: November 19, 2024
Genre/s: Fantasy
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Synopsis: Shattered by her sister’s murder, Princess Ophir’s gift for fire magic spirals in her grief, threatening to incinerate the castle. That is, until mysterious siren Dwyn arrives from the sea, pledging both assistance and something more. They work to quench Ophir’s flames, all the while Dwyn’s longtime rival watches from the shadows: Tyr, who has tracked Dwyn’s abilities across the continent and now finds himself embroiled in a sinister competition with her for Ophir’s heart.
But everything changes when Dwyn’s calculated lessons unlock a second power in Ophir, the most rare and dangerous of all magic…manifestation.
Ophir knows three things for certain. One, she burns passionately for both the beautiful siren and the rugged master of secrets. Two, with their powers combined, the trio can seek revenge against her sister’s killers.
And three, no one can be trusted. (Goodsreads)
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Variation by Rebecca Yarros
Variation
Rebecca Yarros
Release Date: November 19, 2024
Genre/s: Contemporary Romance, Adult Fiction
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Synopsis: Elite ballerina Allie Rousseau is no stranger to pressure. With her mother’s eyes always watching, perfection was expected, no matter the cost. But when an injury jeopardizes all she’s sacrificed for, Allie returns to her summer home to heal and recover. But the memories she’s tried to forget rush in and threaten to take her under.
As a Coast Guard rescue swimmer, Hudson Ellis knows that hesitation can mean the difference between life and death. He’s always prided himself on being in the right place at the right time, especially when it came to Allie Rousseau…until the night he left for basic. After the biggest regret of his life, the secrets he keeps mean he can never be with the one woman he wants more than his next breath.
When Hudson’s niece shows up on Allie’s doorstep, desperate to find her birth mother, Allie finds herself in an unimaginable position. Allie and Hudson’s past and present might be endlessly complicated. The thread that tied them to each other all those years ago may have unraveled, but the truth could pull them back together, or drive them apart forever. (Goodreads)
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The Mr. Right Checklist by Melissa Foster
The Mr. Right Checklist
Melissa Foster
Series: Romantic Comedy Series Collection (#2)
Release Date: November 19, 2024
Genre/s: Contemporary Romance
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Synopsis: Dog groomer and budding marriage-proposal planner Destiny Amor believes in true love and happily ever afters. Though it’s not in the stars for her yet—honestly, who can live up to the criteria on her Mr. Right Checklist?—she wants it for others. When Destiny’s first misguided attempt at romance concierge ends in disaster, she’s ready to call it quits, until the supposed groom-to-be steps in with a proposal of his own.
Ryan “Fletch” Fletcher, a divorced-and-never-going-there-again professor, needs to get his matchmaking family off his back, and the disorganized, too-in-love-with-love proposal planner is the perfect solution. He offers to help Destiny get her business on track, if she’ll play the part of his adoring girlfriend at his brother’s wedding.
A professional situationship with her grumpy dog-grooming client? Destiny adores his pup, and she could put up with him to get her business off the ground. With any luck, she might even get that chip about love off his shoulder. (Goodreads)
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