Paranormal New Releases: December 30th + Feature Rename Poll

Posted December 30, 2014 by Carmel in Fresh Meat / 52 Comments

Paranormal Romance:

Crouching Tiger, Forbidden Vampire
(Love at Stake #16)
by Kerrelyn Sparks
Paranormal Romance
[learn_more caption=”Book Description”]New York Times bestselling author Kerrelyn Sparks delivers the exciting conclusion in the Love at Stake series, where a Marine-turned-vampire finds love with the shifter princess forbidden to him . . .




Russell wakes from a coma to find he’s become a vampire. Now he has a thirst for revenge. Determined to hunt down the master vampire who turned him, he’s used to working alone . . . until he meets Jia. She is after the same vampire for murdering her parents and insists she can help Russell on this mission. Reluctantly, he agrees, and sets up some ground rules:




Rule #1: Their partnership is strictly business. If he holds her a little too close . . . if she looks at him with those exotic eyes . . . well, that has to stop.




Rule #2: He’s in charge. Jia isn’t used to taking orders and questions every move he makes. So he stops her the only way he knows how.




Rule #3: Don’t fall in love. But the kiss that was supposed to quiet her awakens something else in him . . . something forbidden. Because Jia is engaged. To someone else.[/learn_more]


Hot Blooded Part 4 (Dark Kings #4)
by Donna Grant
Paranormal Romance
[learn_more caption=”Book Description”]The breathtaking conclusion to New York Times bestselling author Donna Grant’s HOT BLOODED e-series!




Iona’s heart pounded in her ears like a drum. Her life was being dismantled one piece at a time. What was she going to be when it was all said and done?




Laith squatted beside her and cupped her face in his hands. “Look at me. Look into my eyes. What do you see?”
“You,” she said. “I see you.”




“Remember that, Iona Campbell,” he whispered before he kissed her.




A DARK KING AND HIS MATE




In HOT BLOODED: Part IV, the situation goes from bad to worse. Laith, Iona and the Dark Kings are preparing for a showdown. Winner takes all, but neither Laith nor Iona can stand to lose, especially if it means losing each other.[/learn_more]


Hot Blooded (Dark Kings #4)
by Donna Grant
Paranormal Romance
[learn_more caption=”Book Description”]Laith was powerless not to respond.




Their eyes met again, held. He felt an uncontrollable, undeniable pull to this woman and he fought against it.　 Hard. It was more than just lust. This…feeling…was on another plane all together…




DARKNESS AND SECRETS SURROUND HIM




His name is Laith. To most, he’s known as the owner of a local pub near Dreagan. But little do his patrons know that beneath his handsome, charming exterior Laith has the heart and soul of a Dragon King—one who wields control by keeping his friends close and his enemies closer. Until a beautiful, mysterious stranger enters the picture, and sets his whole world on fire…




SHE IS HIS SALVATION




To learn the truth about her dead father, Iona has returned to Scotland only to learn that she’s part of an ancient pact with Dreagan—one that will threaten the fragile peace with the Dragon Kings. Gorgeous, sly Iona isn’t like anyone Laith has ever met before…and she harbors a secret that others would kill to possess. Will she complete him—or destroy him? Passion always comes with a price…in　Hot Blooded　by Donna Grant.[/learn_more]


Desires of the Soul
Desires of the Soul
(Prophecy of Souls #1)
by Gina L. Maxwell
Paranormal Romance
[learn_more caption=”Book Description”]For a half-angel who’s prophesied to save humanity, Angelica Hart leads a fairly predictable life as a pediatric oncologist. Until the night her dead best friend resurfaces as a vampire—and his new presence stirs up feelings a lot more intense than those of friendship. But the cryptic instructions of the prophecy tell her that to fulfill her destiny, she must have a child with her one true love.




Dom Russo finally has the woman he loves in his arms, and he’s not about to let anything happen to her. But protecting Angelica becomes increasingly difficult as the vampire clan attempting to strip the souls of all mankind struggles to take out the one woman who stands in their way. And their relationship comes to a grinding halt when he finds out he isn’t the one in the prophecy.




Angelica refuses to accept a fate she doesn’t want, so Dom tries pushes her toward saving humankind the only way he knows how—by driving her away. But his body doesn’t get the memo, and he begins to wonder how long he can keep denying his desire before the vampire in him takes what he wants, to hell with the rest of the world. Literally. [/learn_more]


Unexpected Eden (Eden #1)
by Rhenna Morgan
Paranormal Romance
[learn_more caption=”Book Description”]Paradise, love and power…and a prophecy with a price.




Most people believe Eden no longer exists. Lexi Merrill’s about to learn they’re wrong. A hard-working bartender with a self-sufficient backbone and a wary nature, she knows pickup lines like a second language. So, when Eryx Shantos barges into her world with too-smooth words and a body to back it up, she locks up her libido and vows to keep her distance.




Eryx has other ideas. As king of the Myren race, Eryx is duty-bound to enforce the laws preventing exposure of their existence to humans. Yet The Fates have led him through his dreams to Lexi, a temptation he doesn’t want to resist. The question is, is she Myren, or human – which makes her forbidden fruit?




When Eryx’s nemesis tags Lexi as his next target, Eryx insists on taking her home where he can keep her safe. Lexi had no idea “home” would mean the one-and-only land of creation…or that she’d trigger a prophecy that could doom her newfound race.[/learn_more]



Urban Fantasy:

Bounty Hunt
(Otherworld Stories #13.2)
by Kelley Armstrong
Urban Fantasy
[learn_more caption=”Book Description”]After the Australian Pack murdered Reese William’s parents, the young werewolf fled and took refuge with the American Pack. Three years later, the Australians have tracked him down and dispatched a bounty hunter to bring him back. That bounty hunter, though, isn’t the lone wolf who owes them a debt, but his twenty-one-year-old daughter, Madison. Maddie is determined to bring in the rogue Reese for her ailing father. Now Reese has to show her the truth behind her client’s lies…and avoid being the cause of an all-out war for Elena and the rest of the American Pack.[/learn_more]


Low Midnight (Kitty Norville #13)
by Carrie Vaughn
Urban Fantasy
[learn_more caption=”Book Description”]Cormac, the Kitty Norville series’ most popular supporting character, stars in his first solo adventure.




Carrie Vaughn’s Low Midnight spins out of the series on the wave of popularity surrounding Kitty’s most popular supporting character, Cormac Bennett, a two-minded assassin of the paranormal who specializes in killing lycanthropes. In his first solo adventure, Cormac, struggling with a foreign consciousness trapped inside him, investigates a century-old crime in a Colorado mining town which could be the key to translating a mysterious coded diary…a tome with secrets that could shatter Kitty’s world and all who inhabit it. With a framing sequence that features Kitty Norville herself, Low Midnight not only pushes the Kitty saga forward, but also illuminates Cormac’s past and lays the groundwork for Kitty’s future.[/learn_more]


Cold Hillside
by Nancy Baker
Urban Fantasy
[learn_more caption=”Book Description”]“With them, there are no happy endings.”




In the remote city of Lushan, they know that the Fey are not fireside tales but a dangerous reality.




Generations ago, the last remnants of a dying empire bargained with the Faerie Queen for a place of safety in the mountains and each year the ruler of Lushan must travel to the high plateau to pay the city’s tribute. When an unexpected misfortune means that the traditional price is not met, the Queen demands the services of Teresine, once a refugee slave and now advisor to the Sidiana. Teresine must navigate the treacherous politics of the Faerie Court, where the Queen’s will determines reality and mortals are merely pawns in an eternal struggle for power.




Years later, another young woman faces an unexpected decision that forces her to discover the truth of what happened to Teresine in the Faerie Court, a truth that could threaten everything she loves.




From the acclaimed author of The Night Inside and A Terrible Beauty comes a new novel about the price of safety and the cost of power.[/learn_more]



Sci Fi / Fantasy:

The Tejano Conflict (Cutter’s Wars #3)
by Steve Perry
Sci Fi
[learn_more caption=”Book Description”]At the end of the twenty-fourth century, war is fought in a civilized manner: Each side hires mercenaries to engage in combat in specifically designated areas. To the victor go the spoils—whatever they may be…




After a couple of assignments involving more intrigue and skulduggery than the Cutter Force Initiative ever wanted, the unit is looking forward to being part of a straight-up, short-term industrial war on Earth.




Cutter agrees to a support role offered by an old Army comrade who’s now a general in a larger military force. The pay is good, the unit happy. All they have to do is basic ranger stuff: sneak and peek, shoot and scoot.




But what starts out as a corporate fight to occupy a valuable piece of contested territory quickly goes sideways, and once again Cutter and crew find themselves in the middle of situations in which things aren’t as they seem, and the unit must determine the truth—or lose more than just a battle.[/learn_more]


For a Few Souls More
(Heaven’s Gate Trilogy #3)
by Guy Adams
Sci Fi / Steampunk
[learn_more caption=”Book Description”]THE THRILLING CONCLUSION TO THE HEAVEN’S GATE TRILOGY!




The uprising in Heaven is at an end and Paradise has fallen, becoming the forty-third state of America. Now angels and demons must learn to get along with humans. The rest of the world is in uproar. How can America claim the afterlife as its own? It’s certainly going to try as the President sets out for the town of Wormwood for talks with its governor, the man they call Lucifer.
Hell has problems of its own. There’s a new evangelist walking its roads, trying to bring the penitent to paradise, and a new power is rising. Can anyone stand up to the Godkiller?[/learn_more]


Hunter of Sherwood: The Red Hand
(Guy of Gisburne #2)
by Toby Venables
Fantasy
[learn_more caption=”Book Description”]Guy of Gisburne, knight and agent to Prince John, is all that stands between England and anarchy, fighting a shadow battle to protect the kingdom from those who would destroy it.




Returning to England after foiling a plot to destroy Jerusalem, Guy of Gisburne is arrested and hauled to the Tower of London; John, England’s regent in the absence of its monstrous King, needs his knight once more. A killer has broken into the Prince’s most secure castle in the north and left a message, drawn on the skin of one of his victims: ‘the circle is closing,’ signed with a handprint in blood. Is the threat genuine? Who or what is the Red Hand? Someone is killing John’s men, and the obvious culprit—the most dangerous man in the Kingdom, Hood himself—has an alibi even Guy can’t deny.[/learn_more]


Things Half in Shadow
by Alan Finn
Historical / Paranormal
[learn_more caption=”Book Description”]Postbellum America makes for a haunting backdrop in this historical and supernatural tale of moonlit cemeteries, masked balls, cunning mediums, and terrifying secrets waiting to be unearthed by an intrepid crime reporter.




The year is 1869, and the Civil War haunts the city of Philadelphia like a stubborn ghost. Mothers in black continue to mourn their lost sons. Photographs of the dead adorn dim sitting rooms. Maimed and broken men roam the streets. One of those men is Edward Clark, who is still tormented by what he saw during the war. Also constantly in his thoughts is another, more distant tragedy—the murder of his mother at the hands of his father, the famed magician Magellan Holmes…a crime that Edward witnessed when he was only ten.




Now a crime reporter for one of the city’s largest newspapers, Edward is asked to use his knowledge of illusions and visual trickery to expose the influx of mediums that descended on Philadelphia in the wake of the war. His first target is Mrs. Lucy Collins, a young widow who uses old-fashioned sleight of hand to prey on grieving families. Soon, Edward and Lucy become entwined in the murder of Lenora Grimes Pastor, the city’s most highly regarded—and by all accounts, legitimate—medium, who dies mid-séance. With their reputations and livelihoods at risk, Edward and Lucy set out to find the real killer, and in the process unearth a terrifying hive of secrets that reaches well beyond Mrs. Pastor.




Blending historical detail with flights of fancy, Things Half in Shadow is a riveting thriller where Medium and The Sixth Sense meet The Alienist—and where nothing is quite as it seems…[/learn_more]



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I would like to rename this weekly feature in 2015 because it no longer showcases exclusively Paranormal titles, and I would like it to be wolfier. I polled Twitter & Facebook over the weekend, and the results were split, so I’m opening it up to blog visitors too. My favourite is Fresh Meat, however criminalelement.com uses this tag for their review posts, and xpressoreads.com has a similar feature that’s called “Fresh Batch”, so now I’m torn. Please help me decide or submit your own!





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52 responses to “Paranormal New Releases: December 30th + Feature Rename Poll”

      • Jennifer from The Book Nympho  

        I was thinking you tried it and didn’t like it so much. Must have been someone else. I like my library has some of them. I’ll have to look again to see if they have the 1st book on audio. But I have to catch up a few other series 1st.

  11. Amber Elise from Du Livre  

    I really like Fresh Meat but I understand your hesitation, it would be a bit close to other bloggers’ tags. Blah.

    I voted for Weekly Hunt, because we’re basically hunting at physical stores or online stores every Tuesday. 🙂
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  13. Pili  

    I think the only book that’s this week for me is Marked by Sarah Fine, and it’s good because I really need to save money!

    And I voted for On The Prowl because I think it sounds very wolfish and even sexy! 😉
    Pili recently posted…Tell Me Tuesdays #22!!

  17. Mogsy from BiblioSanctum  

    Last Tuesday release for the year so I’m not surprised I haven’t heard of any of these except for one or two. I like all the new names, but I had to choose On The Prowl for being a little off the cuff and sexy sounding! Fresh Meat is good too, but it’s a bit too conventional.
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    • Carmel  

      I didn’t make it past book 1 either, so yeah, it’s pretty crazy how far along Kitty is. Maybe I’ll just change the name every week until something sticks. LOL!