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Magician Rising by Renée des Lauriers Publication date: May 25th 2021 Genres: New Adult, Urban Fantasy Dark powers she can’t control. Deadly hunters tracking her down. Can she rip the target off her back before it turns fatal? Jun Bear has lived with bad luck all her life. And when a professor threatens to give her a failing grade, the college senior sees her hopes for graduating in two months going down another ill-fated drain. But her fortunes plunge further when an unnatural earthquake shakes the campus and unleashes cold-blooded assassins after her head… Unsure what’s happening, Jun finds herself facing a trained killer intent on exposing the wielder of the dangerous magic. And when she’s provoked into revealing her unexpected new abilities, she’s determined to prove her innocence before she’s permanently eliminated. Can she win over an ally and survive a bloodthirsty secret society fixated on wiping her out? Goodreads / Amazon EXCERPT: Jeff scowled. If this punk stole somethin...

Mind Fields  by David-Matthew Barnes Genre: New Adult, M/M Romance,              Suspense Thriller Publisher: Blue Dasher Press  Date of Publication: May 18, 2021  ISBN: TBD ASIN: TBD Word Count: 48,500 Cover Artist: Darn Good Covers Sometimes love can blow you away.  When struggling college student Adam Parsh accepts a tutoring position, he is lured into the unknown world of a wealthy family.  Fighting off the sexual advances of Dario Vassalo, a Greek tycoon and patriarch, Adam finds himself the object of the dangerous desires of one of the most powerful men in the world—his married employer.Torn between his attraction to Dario and his deepening love for his best friend, Victor Maldonado, Adam is forced to choose between right and wrong.  Surrounded by lust, glamour, and greed, Adam uncovers dark secrets strong enough to destroy many lives, including his own. Excerpt Although the schedule at the Ravenswood Metra station s...

Crystal’s House of Queers by Brooke Skipstone Publication date: May 24th 2021 Genres: Coming of Age, Contemporary, LGBTQ+ Three senior girls in rural Alaska escape their abusive pasts by raising their dyke flag for themselves and their community. Crystal Rose woke up at three in the morning today, drenched in sweat and breathless after another sex dream with Haley Carson. Later at school in the tiny town of Clear, Alaska, Crystal saves Haley from an assault by her abusive boyfriend. The two girls renew a love started years ago that had to stay hidden until now. But with Crystal’s grandparents in the hospital with Covid and the possibility of her drug addict parents returning from a 14-year absence, Crystal needs Haley as much as she needs Crystal. They connect with Payton Reed, a gun-toting artist who helps them feel proud to be gay and willing to stand up to anyone. Together they struggle to make Crystal’s house safe for those who are hated for their love. Goodreads / Amazon EXCER...

    Middle-Grade Fantasy Date Published: 5/22/21 An innocent naiad. A wounded boy. An adventure that will change their lives forever. Plip is a naiad of the Great Waterfall, destined to one day sing the songs that send rain out into the world. Akino isn’t destined for anything but trouble. His father long gone, his mother working on a plantation far away, he doesn’t really belong in the village below the Waterfall. And the villagers don’t let him forget it. When Akino convinces Plip to travel down the mountain with him, for his own selfish purposes, he launches them into a world more dangerous than either of them could imagine. A world where people are not always what they seem and the rain does not fall evenly across the land. Excerpt The Great Waterfall The village of Fells stretched up and down for nearly a kilometer on either side of the Great Waterfall. Its crooked little houses perched precariously one above the other, bolted to the mossy rock face in a manner th...

A Shiver of Shadows by Hunter J. Skye (The Hell Gate Series, #2) Published by: The Wild Rose Press Publication date: May 24th 2021 Genres: Adult, Paranormal, Romance, Urban Fantasy You’d think stopping Armageddon would buy a girl a bit of R&R with her freshly resurrected boyfriend. But things go south again when celebrity soul wrangler, Melisande Blythe, is abducted and dragged to Europe. There’s more to the darkness hiding in the reclusive, mountaintop country of Andorra than just garden variety evil. There’s something dangerously wrong with her beautiful immortal hosts too. Gifted with flesh again by the Grace of God, three-hundred-year-old former ghost, Colonel William Grayford, will move heaven and earth to find his beloved. But Europe’s most wicked monsters stand in his way. Something more painful than death awaits Mel, if Grayford can’t find her in time. The world’s been living on fifteen thousand years of borrowed time and it’s just run out. Goodreads / Amazon / Barnes ...

This post is part of a virtual book tour organized by Goddess Fish Promotions . Maggie Thom will be awarding a $20 Amazon or B/N GC to a randomly drawn winner via rafflecopter during the tour. Click on the tour banner to see the other stops on the tour.   Her teenage sister has run away. It's her fault. And on her watch. Shyla thought she was doing the right thing by helping her teenage sister get a little freedom. She never expected she'd bolt on her. Desperate to keep their mom from discovering she has a missing daughter, Shyla sets out to find her wayward sister. A fluke encounter gives Shyla a clue. Only she gets a lot more than she bargained for. She finds her sister, but she gets pulled into doing a heist. An impossible heist. And not just any heist but that of stealing her mom's million-dollar jewelry. Ones that recently arrived, with no explanation. Damien is a good guy running from an awful past. When his brother ends up in the hospital, Damien is determined...

Dead Wolf Walking by Rory Miles (Bad Moon Academy, #1) Publication date: May 18th 2021 Genres: Adult, Paranormal, Reverse Harem, Romance One bite changed my life. I was living life to the fullest when a wolf attacked. Now I’ve been ripped from my home and shipped off to Bad Moon Academy, a place for changed wolves. Or so I’m told. There’s something sinister lurking within the confines of the academy, and I’m starting to think I was brought here as a sacrifice. This is a dark academy reverse harem with dangerously possessive shifters. Goodreads / Amazon EXCERPT: “Pack magic prevents unauthorized people from leaving. You haven’t been granted permission to leave.” He runs a finger over one of the cuts on my palm. I hiss. “The whole stabbing part seems a bit extreme.” He hums and sniffs my palm. “This won’t do.” Slipping his tongue past his lips, he licks my hand. “Hey, gross. Don’t.” I try to yank away again, but his hold tightens. Lifting his gaze to meet mine, he hovers his mouth abo...