My bookshelves are currently giving me the side-eye, and I suspect yours are too. Why? Because the sheer volume of amazing new releases is threatening to topple them over! If you’re like me and suffer from chronic TBR expansion, get ready to add a few (or a lot!) more titles to your ever-growing list.
Roped In (Cottonwood Creek)
Wes Dawson
Most kids have summer camp. I had Cottonwood Creek. Helping Pops on the ranch, roping at the county fair, and raising hell with my best friend. It’s been over a decade since I set foot on Dawson Ranch, but when Pops suffers a heart attack, I reluctantly head back to convince him it’s time to sell. I don’t expect to get swept back into the ranch life again, but the fresh air, long horseback rides through the fields, and a fiery redhead down the road have me questioning if the life I built in the city is worth holding on to.
Sawyer Addams
Horses don’t judge, and they don’t disappoint, which is why I prefer to spend my days training them and lending my neighbor, Pops, a hand around his ranch. When Wes Dawson rolls up to my place with a flat tire and bad attitude, his condescending sneer is impossible to ignore, no matter how hard I try. As much as I’d love to send this city boy packing, Pops made him a deal, and now I’m stuck working with him. But the more time I spend with Wes, the easier it is to see through the hardened city veneer to the country boy he used to be, and resisting him in those Levi’s and that Stetson becomes a lot harder.
Four Names of Fortune: Tales of Luck and Destiny (What’s in a Name?)
Once upon a time, a fairytale name generator spun a fourth challenge to a band of intrepid authors. This time, the wheel of fate turned fourfold, bringing new legends and adventures.
In this enchanting clean YA anthology, venture into tales where fate and fortune intertwine. Each story is a journey into the unknown, where magic, mystery, and adventure await. From quests filled with ghostly encounters, time loops that offer fourth chances, battles against ancient curses, and enchanted forests with hidden secrets, unlikely heroes emerge, and prophecies unfold in unexpected ways.
Whether it’s siblings reuniting to save a kingdom, witches on a perilous mission, or fairytale elements reimagined in fresh and exciting ways, these characters face trials that test their courage and shape their destinies.
Prepare to be charmed by this collection of fantastical tales by award-winning and up-and-coming authors, and transported to realms where fortune favors the brave!
All proceeds are donated to charity in support of reading and literacy.
The Dozen Damsels: A Retelling of The 12 Labors of Hercules & The 12 Dancing Princesses (The Fairmyth Chronicles Book 4)
Hercules meets the 12 Dancing Princesses
When Hawthorne’s half-brother successfully traps him in a crime, the only way he can repay his debts is by performing a task given to him by the great queen of Olympia. All he has to do is locate the twelve runaway daughters of a wicked prisoner. It should be simple enough, except that he has no clues to find them other than an abandoned cloak.
Trinity always knew her father’s crimes would catch up with her and her sisters, but when the day finally came that Queen Helena tracked them down, it was far more difficult to escape than she had hoped. Her sisters are innocent, but their father refuses to let them run free. In a final attempt to spare himself from punishment, he places a divine curse on his children, binding his soul to theirs and successfully shackling their fates together.
With their father imprisoned, their shared curse traps each sister in a soul-binding cage. Trinity’s divine gift that allows her to communicate with three minds at once helps keep them connected, but she’ll need to reach out to someone who isn’t confined if they’re ever going to be free. Can Hawthorne save a dozen damsels? Or are all twelve souls forever lost?
The Fairmyth Chronicles is a collection of clean interconnecting fantasy romance novels that can be read in any order. For more updates on The Fairmyth Chronicles and my other series, sign up for my free newsletter atabigailmanningauthor.com
Sasha vs the Whole Wide World (and Dragons) (Set in the (and Dragons) World Book 1)
Eighteen-year-old Sasha Clems didn’t mean to steal a seadragon’s magic. Or err… More correctly, she did. She just didn’t mean to get caught.
Sasha is tired of being poor. Tired of foreclosure notices tacked to her family’s fridge, tired of working four jobs, tired of dreaming about college rather than attending.
When one morning she witnesses a dying seadragon expel its magic in the form of a basketball-sized jewel, she grabs it. The last time this happened, the jewel sold in the high nine-figures, but only after a kidnapping, three deaths, and an international manhunt by the Magic-Handlers’ Alliance.
No reward without a little risk.
Sasha bolts off on a cross-country race to the single person she trusts to help auction off the jewel. Chasing her is the government, the Magic-Handler’s Alliance, more dragons, and the hottest teenage magician on the face of the planet.
Even worse, the more Sasha discovers about the world of magic and the nature of the seadragon itself, the more she realizes there are things and people that just might be more important than money.
Maybe…? Because Sasha is really done with being poor.
Love, Unicorns, and Other Dangerous Things
She’s got amnesia and a killer instinct. He’s a sweet healer with a unicorn problem.
Harper is… someone, on a mission to do… something. Possibly. Dumped unconscious on the mountains surrounding Mystic Hollow, WA, she wakes up with a pounding headache and a single name rattling around in her skull: Nicholas Walsh. Who is he? Why does she feel this desperate need to track him down? What’s a girl to do but find him and try to piece together her shattered memories?
Nicholas didn’t hide. Not exactly. But having magic that can grant health and extend life meant there were always those who coveted his power. So he built a safe, quiet life in the small, peaceful town of Mystic Hollow – a life he cherished. Until Harper crashed into it, bringing with her an unhealthy dose of danger. Which is a shame, because his unicorn is screaming at him – Possess and protect!
Besides, nothing brings out feelings like a botched spell, a target on your back, and a brush with death. Big, forceful feelings that don’t blossom but explode. Don’t whisper but demand. Don’t ask, but claim. And are scarier than any enemy after his powers.
Welcome to Mystic Hollow! Love, Unicorns, and Other Dangerous Things is an opposites attract, touch him and d!e, sweet cinnamon roll hero, small town story with low angst (but a few sniffles).
Part of the Monster Brides Series
Monstrous grooms and beastly brides? Don’t be afraid of falling in love… it’s super-natural! Explore the entire Monster Brides series, one tantalizing happily-ever-after at a time!
Heirs of Illusion (Heirs of the Fallen Kingdom Book 2)
Ro’in
Home of the Druids
Standing for the ages of the world
Impenetrable
Secure
Safe
Or is it?
Kiona races to save her sister in the Heart of Ro’in
Traveling across Velendia, chased by shadows and enemies
Little does she know the danger she races towards
Enemies lurk around every corner
Who can she trust as dangers mount?
Not only must she divine friend from foe,
With the ultimate fight between good and evil
looming on the horizon,
She must face off against the strongest magic casters Velendia has ever seen
How is that possible
When…
her magic is non existent?
Hath no Fury (Monsters in the Darkness Book 5)
Patient 33’s whole life is a gray, dreary cell. She’s a caged monster, the ideal test subject for privately funded scientists, trading obedience for simple comforts. Hope beckons when a voice in her dreams provides the key to escape.
The only catch? She must also help three other monsters find their freedom. She agrees to a short-lived alliance, rage leaving her no patience for shadowy figures, mind-readers, or silent predators. Freedom and fate pull her in different directions once the shackles are obliterated.
With an unlikely sanctuary on one side, and wilderness calling on the other, can old bonds be salvaged, even as new ones are forged? Patient 33’s very nature is put to the test when danger threatens their new home. Will her unleashed fury be enough to keep the darkness at bay, or will the wild monsters be caged once more?
So, what are you waiting for? Grab your favorite reading nook, a warm beverage, and get ready to dive into these fantastic new releases. Let me know in the comments which books you’re most excited to read! Happy reading!