Review: The Orphans of Raspay

Title: The Orphans of Raspay
Author: Lois McMaster Bujold
Series: Penric and Desdemona #7
Genre: Fantasy
Length: Novella
Available: Now

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When the ship in which they are traveling is captured by Carpagamon island raiders, Temple sorcerer Penric and his resident demon Desdemona find their life complicated by two young orphans, Lencia and Seuka Corva, far from home and searching for their missing father. Pen and Des will need all their combined talents of mind and magic to unravel the mysteries of the sisters and escape from the pirate stronghold.

This novella follows about a year after the events of “The Prisoner of Limnos”.

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Review: Desire and the Deep Blue Sea

Title: Desire and the Deep Blue Sea
Author: Olivia Dade
Series: Love Unscripted #1
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Length: Novella
Available: Now

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Thomas McKinney has never wanted a woman the way he wants Callie Adesso. Since she started working alongside him at the Colonial Marysburg Research Library, he’s spent his desk shifts fumbling pencils, tripping over his own feet, and struggling to remember both the Dewey Decimal System and the existence of her inconvenient boyfriend. Now, however, Callie is suddenly single–and in need of a last-minute faux-boyfriend for an episode of HATV’s Island Match. Thomas is more than happy to play the part…and in the process, convince Callie that a week together isn’t nearly long enough.

Callie has never found a man as irritating as she finds Thomas. He may be brilliant, kind, and frustratingly handsome, but the absent-minded librarian also makes every workday an anxiety-inducing exercise in stress. Even seven days in paradise by his side won’t change her opinion of him. Really. No matter how attentive he is. And gentle. And sexy.

One plane ride later, the two of them are spending long, hot days under the sun and on display, pretending to be in love for a television show. This may be a vacation, but it’s also an act–as well as Thomas’s last chance to persuade the woman of his dreams to include him in hers. And soon, the island heat isn’t the only thing steaming up HATV’s cameras…

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Review: Tikka Chance on Me

Title: Tikka Chance on Me
Author: Suleikha Snyder
Series: – –
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Length: Novella
Available: Now

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He’s the bad-boy biker. She’s the good girl working in her family’s Indian restaurant. On the surface, nothing about Trucker Carrigan and Pinky Grover’s instant, incendiary, attraction makes sense. But when they peel away the layers and the assumptions—and their clothes—everything falls into place. The need. The want. The light. The laughter. They have more in common than they ever could’ve guessed. Is it enough? They won’t know until they take a chance on each other—and on love.

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Review: Mrs. Martin’s Incomparable Adventure

Title: Mrs. Martin’s Incomparable Adventure
Author: Courtney Milan
Series: Worth Saga #2.5
Genre: F/F Historical Romance
Length: Novella
Available: Now

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Mrs. Bertrice Martin—a widow, some seventy-three years young—has kept her youthful-ish appearance with the most powerful of home remedies: daily doses of spite, regular baths in man-tears, and refusing to give so much as a single damn about her Terrible Nephew.

Then proper, correct Miss Violetta Beauchamps, a sprightly young thing of five and sixty, crashes into her life. The Terrible Nephew is living in her rooming house, and Violetta wants him gone.

Mrs. Martin isn’t about to start giving damns, not even for someone as intriguing as Miss Violetta. But she hatches another plan—to make her nephew sorry, to make Miss Violetta smile, and to have the finest adventure of all time.

If she makes Terrible Men angry and wins the hand of a lovely lady in the process? Those are just added bonuses.

Author’s Note: Sometimes I write villains who are subtle and nuanced. This is not one of those times. The Terrible Nephew is terrible, and terrible things happen to him because he deserves them. Sometime villains really are bad and wrong, and sometimes, we want them to suffer a lot of consequences.

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Review: White Knight

Title: White Knight
Author: Maple Marr
Series: – –
Genre: F/F Paranormal
Length: Novella
Available: Now

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University life is hard enough to without catching the attention of the Villains that call the campus home. Rosey and Lilly, fourth year seniors and best roomies since first year, are preparing to graduate when Lilly decides once and for all that she will be a Super. She is determined to protect the innocent, help those in need, and create a safe place for everyone—even though she doesn’t have powers.

And while Rosey struggles to keep Lily from getting creamed by people like Darklaw and Arson Invitation, the secrets she’s been hiding since their first year threaten to emerge.

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DNF: The Dragon’s Legacy

Title: The Dragon’s Legacy
Author: Robin White
Genre: Fantasy
Length: Novella
Available: 30th May
DNF @ 25%

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Valgaforis wants to be left in peace. And if he must be bothered, he would prefer goblins to humans. But these humans come searching for something that sounds like it just might help him figure out what happened to the rest of his kind. He can tolerate some bothersome humans for a little while to answer that burning question.

Things just seem to keep going wrong for Alessio. While on the hunt for the regalia of his bloodline, which will finally secure him the throne, he stumbles across Erik, who’s somehow already discovered the dragon cave Alessio seeks. Erik, a native of the Northland, offers to help, and Alessio gratefully accepts, despite the unexpected complications added to his already difficult journey.

Along the way they encounter spirits, hobs, a river bride, and even trolls. In fact, the only thing they don’t seem to encounter is the dragon Alessio expected to find when they finally reach their destination…

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Review: The Gift of Your Love

Title: The Gift of Your Love
Author: Kayla Bashe
Series: – –
Genre: F/F Fantasy
Length: Novella
Available: Now

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Neely has always been able to see things—the details others miss, flashes of color that tell her how people feel, and more. She’s been called everything from witch to psychic to freak. But a lifetime of seeing what the rest of the world misses still didn’t prepare her for being taken hostage mid-escape by a man with tentacles.

And it definitely didn’t prepare her for the intriguing woman who comes to her rescue.

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Review: Planet Dragos

Title: Planet Dragos
Author: Thea Harrison
Series: Elder Races #9.8
Genre: Paranormal Romance
Length: Novella
Available: Now

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From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Thea Harrison comes the final novella featuring Pia and Dragos…

Pia’s latest pregnancy has become a daily challenge, her relationship with Dragos strained with argument. That hasn’t stopped them from achieving a compromise and traveling to Las Vegas to celebrate their friend Rune’s wedding to his mate Carling.

From the moment they arrive, the trip goes awry. Death walks in Vegas, and Pia is kidnapped as an ancient enemy makes a move to destroy the Great Beast once and for all.

But the Great Beast has other plans.

On Planet Dragos everything goes the way he arranges it—unless someone decides to cross him, and God help them then, because he doesn’t know how to back down, and he doesn’t ever, ever let up….

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Review: Knights Erring

Title: Knights Erring
Author: Jason Half
Series: – –
Genre: LGBTQ+ romance
Length: Novella
Available: 2nd May

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While celebrating their victory after a Middle Ages-themed trivia contest, Damian, Sammy, and Landon bet each other they can’t uphold chivalric vows for two weeks.

Damian is tasked with the vow of chastity, and immediately put to the test when he picks up, and falls for, Marcus. Sammy is challenged by the vow of obedience, which soon puts unexpected strains on his relationship with his fiancée. And Landon, who has always taken his wealthy upbringing and trust fund for granted, is given the vow of poverty.

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Review: The Chosen

Title: The Chosen
Author: Thea Harrison
Series: Elder Races #9.7
Genre: Fantasy Romance
Length: Novella
Available: 19th March

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From New York Times bestselling author Thea Harrison 

A Wolf on the hunt… 
Wulfgar Hahn, better known as the Wolf of Braugne, is a man on a mission. Determined to avenge the murder of his brother, he stops at Camaeline Abbey to meet with the Chosen of Camael, goddess of the Hearth. Unfortunately, it appears the Chosen wants nothing to do with him. 

A leader in disguise… 
Captivated by the Wolf of Braugne despite herself, Lily poses as an unassuming priestess in order to learn more about this ruthless man. But things are not as they seem, and after foiling an assassination attempt, Lily must decide if Wulf is the destroyer from her visions, or the hero of her dreams. 

A choice to be made… 
As war looms on the horizon, passion sparks between them, but an enduring relationship between a soldier on the march and a leader who reveres hearth and home is impossible—or is it? Among the swirling snows of the winter Masque, the gods and goddesses of the Elder Races dance, and love will find a way..

The Chosen is the single title release of the novella that was previously published in the holiday anthology AMID THE WINTER SNOW in December, 2017.

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