Just in case you missed them, here are the July Releases. I missed one, which you’ll find below. And to look into the future, check my Reading Wishlist. Please note that I haven’t found summaries for Stephenie Meyer’s Breaking Dawn or Jeanne C. Stein’s Legacy, but I tried. The only book on the list I own is Chris Howard’s Seaborn, but I haven’t read it yet.
Melissa de la Cruz
Masquerade (Blue Bloods, Book 2)
Hyperion (US: 1 Jul 2008)
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Schuyler Van Alen wants an explanation for the mysterious deaths of young Blue Bloods. Her search brings her to Venice, Italy, in the hopes of finding the one person who can help. Meanwhile, back in New York, preparations are feverishly underway for the famous Four Hundred Ball, an exclusive gala hosted by the city’s wealthy, powerful, and unhuman – a true Blue Blood affair. But it’s at the after-party masquerade that the true danger lurks. Hidden behind the masks is a revelation that will change the course of a young vampire’s destiny. Rich with glamour, attitude, and vampire lore, this second installment in the Blue Bloods saga will leave readers thirsty for more.
Stephenie Meyer
Breaking Dawn (The Twilight Saga, Book 4)
Hachette Little, Brown (US: 2 Aug 2008); Hachette ATOM (UK: 4 Aug 2008)
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Questions will be answered and the fate of Bella and Edward will be revealed.
Chris Howard
Seaborn (Saltwater Witch, Book 1)
Prime/Wildside Juno (US: 3 Aug 2008)
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There is a world deep under the sea, a kingdom that has endured thousands of years without the modern world knowing it exists. Those who dwell there are Thalassogenêis: SEABORN. Kassandra is the Seaborn king’s granddaughter – the one he wishes he’d killed when he’d had the chance. She comes from the sea, but she has spent her whole life in exile on the surface, learning to control strange and frightening powers she barely understands. But now she’s ready to declare war on the murderous king. Corina Lairsey is a scuba-diving Californian who has freed herself from a controlling relationship…and finds herself in another. Only this time, Aleximor, an ancient Seaborn sorcerer, is literally inside her head and wearing her body. Corina must strive for control of her self, fighting against time as Aleximor trades pieces of her life away in exchange for power over the path between the worlds of the living and the dead. Aleximor wants revenge for his 400-year imprisonment and his dangerous machinations threaten to destroy both young women and the world of the Seaborn.
Rachel Caine
Gale Force (Weather Warden, Book 7)
Penguin Roc (US: 5 Aug 2008)
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Weather Warden Joanne Baldwin is on vacation when her Djinn lover, David, asks Joanne to marry him. She’s thrilled to say yes, even if some others may be less than happy about it. Unfortunately, Joanne’s pre-marital bliss is ended by a devastating earthquake in Florida. And she can’t ask David and his kind for assistance. Because the cause of the quake is unlike anything Joanne has ever encountered – and a power even the Djinn cannot perceive.
Jennifer Estep
Hot Mama (Bigtime, Book 2)
Penguin Berkley (US: 5 Aug 2008)
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By day, Fiona Fine is a successful couture designer. By night, she’s Fiera, who can create and manipulate fire with her bare hands. Now, with two new ubervillains in town who are intent on raising hell, Fiona’s love life might just crash and burn.
Richelle Mead
Storm Born (Dark Swan, Book 1)
Kensington Zebra (US: 5 Aug 2008); Random House Bantam (UK: 14 Aug 2008)
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Eugenie Markham is a powerful shaman who does a brisk trade banishing spirits and fey who cross into the mortal world. Mercenary, yes, but a girl’s got to eat. Her most recent case, however, is enough to ruin her appetite. Hired to find a teenager who has been taken to the Otherworld, Eugenie comes face to face with a startling prophecy – one that uncovers dark secrets about her past and claims that Eugenie’s first-born will threaten the future of the world as she knows it. Now Eugenie is a hot target for every ambitious demon and Otherworldy ne’er-do-well, and the ones who don’t want to knock her up want her dead. Eugenie handles a Glock as smoothly as she wields a wand, but she needs some formidable allies for a job like this. She finds them in Dorian, a seductive fairy king with a taste for bondage, and Kiyo, a gorgeous shape-shifter who redefines animal attraction. But with enemies growing bolder and time running out, Eugenie realizes that the greatest danger is yet to come, and it lies in the dark powers that are stirring to life within her…
Kat Richardson
Underground (Greywalker, Book 3)
Penguin Roc (US: 5 Aug 2008); Hachette Piatkus (UK: 7 Aug 2008)
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Harper Blaine was your average small-time P.I. until she died – for two minutes. Now Harper is a Greywalker – walking the thin line between the living world and the paranormal realm. And she’s discovering that her new abilities are landing her all sorts of “strange” cases. Pioneer Square’s homeless are turning up dead and mutilated, and zombies have been seen roaming the underground – the city buried beneath modern Seattle. When Harper’s friend Quinton believes he may be implicated in the deaths, he persuades her to investigate. But the killer is no mere murderer – it is a creature of ancient legend. And Harper must deal with both the living and the dead to stop the monster and its master…unless they stop her first.
Charlaine Harris
From Dead to Worse (Southern Vampire Mysteries, Book 
Thorndike Wheeler (US: 6 Aug 2008)
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After the natural disaster of Hurricane Katrina and the manmade explosion at the vampire summit, everyone – human and otherwise – is stressed, including Louisiana cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse, who is trying to cope with the fact that her boyfriend Quinn has gone missing. It’s clear that things are changing – whether the weres and vamps of her corner of Louisiana like it or not – and Sookie is caught up in the changes.
Patricia Briggs
Iron Kissed (Mercy Thompson, Book 3)
Hachette Orbit (UK: 7 Aug 2008)
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Mercy Thompson enjoys life as a mechanic, but life is never simple given her increasing closeness to the local werewolf pack, and her ability to change into coyote form at will. And when a member of the fae community calls in a favour, needing her skills for a covert murder investigation, she jumps into the hunt. But the dangers multiply and she clashes with shadowed creatures of great power. When her old boss Zee is charged with a brutal assassination, Mercy find herself fighting alone. There are those who love her, who would keep her safe, but she is wary and holds her freedom precious. Until, that is, she has nothing left to lose but her life…
Jennifer Rardin
Bitten to Death (Jaz Parks, Book 4)
Hachette Orbit (US: 12 Aug 2008; UK: 4 Sep 2008)
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Jaz Parks here. My latest mission has taken me to the ancient Greek city of Patras; but instead of soaking up its splendor, I’m here to infiltrate a Vampere Trust. Only two vamps have ever escaped the tightly bound communities and lived to tell the tale: Edward “The Raptor” Samos, the most reviled criminal mastermind in recent memory, and Vayl, the CIA’s number one assassin who also happens to be my boss. The Raptor is trying to take over Vayl’s former Trust. Unfortunately the Trust’s new leader has her own plans. This job is going to be the death of me.
Ann Aguirre
Wanderlust (Sirantha Jax, Book 2)
Penguin Ace (US: 26 Aug 2008)
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Sirantha Jax is a “Jumper,” a woman who possesses the unique genetic makeup needed to navigate faster than light ships through grimspace. Jax has worked for the Farwan Corporation her entire career. But now the word’s out that the Corp deliberately crashed a passenger ship, and their stranglehold on intergalactic commerce has crumbled – which means that Jax is out of a job. She’s also broke, due to being declared dead a little prematurely. So when the government asks her to head up a vital diplomatic mission, Jax takes it. Her mandate: journey to the planet Ithiss-Tor and convince them to join the Conglomerate. But Jax’s payday is light years away. First, she’ll have to contend with Syndicate criminals, a stormy relationship with her pilot, man-eating aliens, and her own grimspace-weakened body. She’ll be lucky just to make it to Ithiss-Tor alive…
Rosemary Clement-Moore
Hell Week (Maggie Quinn: Girl vs. Evil, Book 2)
Random House Delacorte (US: 26 Aug 2008)
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Maggie Quinn is determined to make her mark as a journalist. The only problem? The Ranger Report does not take freshmen on staff. Rules are rules. But when has that ever stopped Maggie? After facing hellfire, infiltrating sorority rush should be easy. It’s no Woodward and Bernstein, but going undercover as the Phantom Pledge will allow her to write her exposé. Then she can make a stealth exit before initiation. But when she finds a group of girls who are after way more than “sisterhood,” all her instincts say there’s something rotten on Greek Row. And when Hell Week rolls around, there may be no turning back. If there is such a thing as a sorority from hell, you can bet that Maggie Quinn will be the one to stumble into it.
Caitlin Kittredge
Pure Blood (Nocturne City, Book 2)
Macmillan St. Martin’s (US: 26 Aug 2008)
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In the shadows of Nocturne City, witches lurk and demons prowl, and homicide detective Luna Wilder must keep the peace – while living life as a werewolf. Now bodies are turning up all over town, the brutal murders linked by a cryptic message: We see with empty eyes… To make matters worse for Luna, she can’t get wolfishly handsome Dmitri Sandovsky out of her mind. The last time he helped her with a case, Dmitri suffered a demon bite that infected him with a mysterious illness…and now his pack elders have forbidden him from associating with Luna. But she’ll need his help when high-level witches start turning up slaughtered. Because a war is brewing between rival clans of blood witches and caster witches – a magical gang war with the power to burn Nocturne City to the ground.
Marianne Mancusi
Razor Girl
Dorchester SHOMI (US: 26 Aug 2008)
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Molly Anderson is not your average twenty-one-year-old. It’s been six years since she and her family escaped into a bunker, led by her conspiracy theorist father and his foreknowledge of a plot to bring about the apocalypse. But her father’s precautions didn’t stop there. Molly is now built to survive. Yes, Ian Anderson’s favorite book gave him ideas on how to “improve” his daughter. Molly is faster, stronger, and her ocular implants and razor-tipped nails set her apart. Apart, when – venturing alone out of the bunker and into a plague ravaged, monster-ridden wilderness – what Molly needs most is togetherness. Chase Griffin, a friend from her past, is her best bet. But while he and others have miraculously survived, the kind boy has become a tormented man. Together, these remnants of humanity must struggle toward trusting each other and journey to the one place Molly’s father believed all civilization would be reborn: the Magic Kingdom, where everyone knows it’s a small world after all.
Lilith Saintcrow
Hunter’s Prayer (Jill Kismet, Book 2)
Hachette Orbit (US: 26 Aug 2008; UK: 4 Sep 2008)
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An ancient evil looms over Santa Luz. Prostitutes are showing up dead and eviscerated. And Jill Kismet just might be able to get her revenge against an old enemy. There’s just one problem. Someone wants Jill dead – again. And if they have to open up Hell itself to kill her, they will.
Jeanne C. Stein
Legacy (Anna Strong Vampire Chronicles, Book 4)
Penguin Ace (US: 26 Aug 2008)
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Liz Williams
Precious Dragon (Detective Inspector Chen, Book 3)
Night Shade (US: 30 Aug 2008)
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Chen and Zhu are given a major assignment to escort an emissary from heaven on a diplomatic mission to hell. Zhu tries to dodge his demonic family’s overtures, but ends up embroiled in hell’s political intrigues. At the same time, a young boy born to ghostly parents in Hell is sent to live with his grandmother in Singapore Three. The boy, Precious Dragon, is being chased by Hell’s most dangerous creatures and ends up being the key to unlock the mystery that is quickly spiraling out of control. Chen and Zhu find themselves in the middle of a struggle much bigger then they can fully comprehend, and when the dust finally settles, neither heaven nor hell will be the same.
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