28th May 2013 Releases

Happy Release Day to:

Kady Cross
The Girl with the Iron Touch (Steampunk Chronicles, Book 3)
Harlequin Teen (US: 28th May 2013)
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In 1897 London, something not quite human is about to awaken. When mechanical genius Emily is kidnapped by rogue automatons, Finley Jayne and her fellow misfits fear the worst. What’s left of their archenemy, The Machinist, hungers to be resurrected, and Emily must transplant his consciousness into one of his automatons – or forfeit her friends’ lives. With Griffin being mysteriously tormented by the Aether, the young duke’s sanity is close to the breaking point. Seeking help, Finley turns to Jack Dandy, but trusting the master criminal is as dangerous as controlling her dark side. When Jack kisses her, Finley must finally confront her true feelings for him…and for Griffin. Meanwhile, Sam is searching everywhere for Emily, from Whitechapel’s desolate alleyways to Mayfair’s elegant mansions. He would walk into hell for her, but the choice she must make will test them more than they could imagine. To save those she cares about, Emily must confront The Machinist’s ultimate creation – an automaton more human than machine. And if she’s to have any chance of triumph, she must summon a strength even she doesn’t know she has…

Sophie Littlefield
Horizon (Aftertime, Book 3)
Harlequin Luna (US: 28th May 2013)
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Cass Dollar is a survivor. She’s overcome the meltdown of civilisation, humans turned mindless cannibals and the many evils of man. But from beneath the devastated California landscape emerges a tendril of hope. A mysterious traveller arrives at New Eden with knowledge of a passageway North – a final escape from the increasingly cunning Beaters. Clutching this dream, Cass and many others follow him into the unknown. Journeying down valleys and over barren hills, Cass remains torn between two men. One – her beloved Smoke – is not so innocent as he once was. The other keeps a primal hold on her that feels like Fate itself. And beneath it all, Cass must confront the worst of what’s inside her – dark memories from when she was a Beater herself. But she, and all of the other survivors, will fight to the death for the promise of a new horizon…

Katie McGarry
Dare You To (Pushing the Limits, Book 2)
Harlequin Teen (US: 28th May 2013)
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If anyone knew the truth about Beth Risk’s home life, they’d send her mother to jail and seventeen-year-old Beth who knows where. So she protects her mom at all costs. Until the day her uncle swoops in and forces Beth to choose between her mom’s freedom and her own happiness. That’s how Beth finds herself living with an aunt who doesn’t want her and going to a school that doesn’t understand her. At all. Except for the one guy who shouldn’t get her, but does… Ryan Stone is the town golden boy, a popular baseball star jock – with secrets he can’t tell anyone. Not even the friends he shares everything with, including the constant dares to do crazy things. The craziest? Asking out the Skater girl who couldn’t be less interested in him. But what begins as a dare becomes an intense attraction neither Ryan nor Beth expected. Suddenly, the boy with the flawless image risks his dreams – and his life – for the girl he loves, and the girl who won’t let anyone get too close is daring herself to want it all…

Susanne Winnacker
Impostor
Penguin (US & CA: 28th May 2013)
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Tessa is a Variant, able to absorb the DNA of anyone she touches and mimic their appearance. Shunned by her family, she’s spent the last two years training with the Forces with Extraordinary Abilities, a secret branch of the FBI. When a serial killer rocks a small town in Oregon, Tessa is given a mission: she must impersonate Madison, a local teen, to find the killer before he strikes again. Tessa hates everything about being an impostor – the stress, the danger, the deceit – but loves playing the role of a normal girl. As Madison, she finds friends, romance, and the kind of loving family she’d do anything to keep. Amid action, suspense, and a ticking clock, this super-human comes to a very human conclusion: even a girl who can look like anyone struggles the most with being herself.

8 New Deals (Crewe, Hoover, Jones, Kittredge, Littlefield, McGarry, Ryan, Vincent)

Megan Crewe‘s Earth & Sky to Amazon Children’s Publishing’s Skyscape imprint (World English rights, excluding Canada) and Penguin Razorbill Canada in a three-book deal. Publication beginning in 2014. A romantic sci-fi adventure about a girl who discovers that visitors from beyond the stars have been altering Earth’s history, and she teams up with an alien rebel to save the world as she knows it.

Colleen Hoover‘s two stand-alones to Atria for publication in 2014. Maybe Someday is a New Adult contemporary romance, about an intense relationship carried on via text messaging. The other book is Ugly Love.

Darynda Jones has sold three more Charley Davidson novels.

Caitlin Kittredge‘s Black Dog, the first in a new urban fantasy series. A century-old Hellhound must serve her reaper boss by collecting souls. A necromancer approaches her with a plan for revenge.

Sophie Littlefield‘s Down in the Moon Pool to Gallery (NA) and Head of Zeus (UK). Two young men from the North Dakota oil fields go missing, and their mothers must bridge the class divide and form an uneasy alliance to discover the truth behind their disappearance, amidst the desolate and hostile landscape of man camps.

Katie McGarry four-book new series to Harlequin Teen (World). The first book (for publication in 2014), is pitched as West Side Story meets Sons of Anarchy. A teen boy brought up in the rough and tumble world of motorcycle clubs finds love with a girl raised outside of this world, when he’s tasked with not only protecting her for the summer she visits her father (the leader of the group), but also with preventing her from learning the truth about her father’s past and the gang he used to lead.

Carrie Ryan‘s Turnabout (2015) in a two-book, World English deal to Dutton Children’s. YA romantic thriller Turnabout follows a young woman who is thrust into a web of intrigue in a dangerous campaign to avenge her parents’ murders.

Rachel Vincent‘s two urban fantasies, Anathema and Pandemonia, to Delacorte Press (North American rights) for publication in 2015. A 16-year-old girl discovers not only that the Church is run by demons and she is one of the very few who can exorcise them, but also that she must join forces with other rogue exorcists to save her younger sister and, ultimately, humanity.

30th April 2013 Releases

Happy Release Day to:

A. A. Aguirre
Bronze Gods (Apparatus Infernum, Book 1)
Penguin Ace (US & CA: 30th April 2013)
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Janus Mikani and Celeste Ritsuko work all hours in the Criminal Investigation Division, keeping citizens safe. He’s a charming rogue with an uncanny sixth sense; she’s all logic – and the division’s first female inspector. Between his instincts and her brains, they collar more criminals than any other partnership in the CID. Then they’re assigned a potentially volatile case in which one misstep could end their careers. At first, the search for a missing heiress seems straightforward, but when the girl is found murdered – her body charred to cinders – Mikani and Ritsuko’s modus operandi is challenged as never before. It soon becomes clear the bogeyman has stepped out of nightmares to stalk gaslit streets, and it’s up to them to hunt him down. There’s a madman on the loose, weaving blood and magic in an intricate, lethal ritual that could mean the end of everything…

Kady Cross
The Girl in the Clockwork Collar (Steampunk Chronicles, Book 2)
Harlequin Teen (US: 30th April 2013)
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Sixteen-year-old Finley Jayne and her “straynge band of mysfits” have journeyed from London to America to rescue their friend Jasper, hauled off by bounty hunters. But Jasper is in the clutches of a devious former friend demanding a trade – the dangerous device Jasper stole from him…for the life of the girl Jasper loves. One false move from Jasper and the strange clockwork collar around Mei’s neck tightens. And tightens. From the rough streets of lower Manhattan to elegant Fifth Avenue, the motley crew of teens with supernatural abilities is on Jasper’s elusive trail. And they’re about to discover how far they’ll go for friendship. More than ever, Finley Jayne will rely on powerful English duke Griffin King to balance her dark magic with her good side. Yet Griffin is at war with himself over his secret attraction to Finley…and will risk his life and reputation to save her. Sam, more machine than man, finds his moody heart tested by Irish lass Emily – whose own special abilities are no match for the darkness she discovers on the streets. Now, to help those she’s come to care for so deeply, Finley Jayne must infiltrate a criminal gang. Only problem is, she might like the dark side a little too much…

Jordana Frankel
The Ward
HarperCollins Katherine Tegen (US & CA: 30th April 2013)
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A catastrophic flood has washed out Manhattan, leaving the rivers polluted, and entire neighbourhoods underwater. Some areas are quarantined because of an outbreak of a deadly disease. The illness, known as the Blight, is killing sixteen-year-old Ren’s sister. Desperate to save her sister’s life, Ren agrees to lead a secret mission from the government to search for a cure. But her quest leads to a confounding mystery beneath the water and an unlikely friendship with a passionate scientist.

Colleen Hoover
This Girl (Slammed, Book 3)
Simon & Schuster Atria (US, UK & CA: 30th April 2013)
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Slammed from Will’s point of view.

Karen Ann Hopkins
Belonging (Temptation, Book 2)
Harlequin Teen (US: 30th April 2013)
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I left everything I knew behind. But it was worth it. He was worth it. No one thought an ordinary girl like me would last two minutes living with the Amish, not even me. There are a lot more rules and a lot less freedom, and I miss my family and the life I once had. Worst of all, Noah and I aren’t even allowed to see each other. Not until I’ve proven myself. If I can find a way to make it work, we’ll be Noah & Rose together forever. But not everybody believes this is where I belong.

Caitlin Kittredge
Dark Days (Black London, Book 6)
Macmillan St. Martin’s (US: 30th April 2013)
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Jack Winter and his girlfriend Pete Caldecott have encountered a lot of strange creatures in the Black – primordial demons, hungry ghosts, witch hunters, and the Prince of Hell himself, Belial. When Belial asks Jack for one last favour to help him keep his throne, Jack may have finally met his match because Belial’s rival is something that no one – human or demon – has ever seen before… There’s a revolution brewing in Hell, and Jack might be the only one who can stop Belial’s rival from ripping a hole between the Black and the mortal world – a catastrophe that could be worse than Armageddon. But to win, Jack will have to do the one thing he swore he never would: become a servant to the Morrigan, and risk losing everything he knows and loves…including Pete.

Sophie Littlefield
Rebirth (Aftertime, Book 2)
Harlequin Luna (US: 30th April 2013)
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Civilisation has fallen, leaving California an unforgiving, decimated place. But Cass Dollar beat terrible odds to get her missing daughter back – she and Ruthie will be happy. Yet with the first winter, Cass is reminded that happiness is fleeting in Aftertime. Ruthie retreats into silence. Flesh-eating Beaters still dominate the landscape. And Smoke, Cass’s lover and strength, departs on a quest for vengeance, one that may end him even if he returns. The survivalist community Cass has planted roots in is breaking apart, too. Its leader, Dor, implores Cass to help him recover his own lost daughter, taken by the totalitarian Rebuilders. And soon Cass finds herself thrust into the dark heart of an organisation promising humanity’s rebirth – at all costs. Bound to two men blazing divergent paths across a savage land, Cass must overcome the darkness in her wounded heart, or lose those she loves forever.

Joan Frances Turner
Dust (Resurgam, Book 1)
Penguin Berkley (US & CA: 30th April 2013)
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Nine years ago, Jessie was in a car crash and died. After she was buried, she awoke and tore through the earth to arise, reborn, as a zombie. And there are others – gangs of undead roaming the Indiana woods, fighting, hunting, hidden. But when a mysterious illness threatens the existence of both zombies and humans, Jessie must decide whether to stay and fight or flee to survive…

Rachel Vincent
Oath Bound (Unbound, Book 3)
Harlequin Mira (US: 30th April 2013)
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The secret daughter of the head of an infamous Skilled crime family, Sera Brandt has hidden her past, her potential and especially her powers. But when a tragedy strikes her other family, Sera needs justice. And the only way to get it is to reveal her heritage – including a rare Skill – and take the reins of the TowerSyndicate from her cunning and malicious aunt. Kristopher Daniels might have the answer. He’s fought the syndicate to protect his sisters, but he’d never realised just how close to the new heir he needed to get… Neither is used to trusting. But there’s something between them that can’t be ignored. And so Sera is on the run with a man she can’t figure out, a target on her back and the new knowledge of just how powerful she really is…

May 2013 Releases

Done with April 2013 Releases? Here are May 2013 Releases. For future releases, check Reading Wishlist.

26th March 2013 Releases

Happy Release Day to:

Rinda Elliott
Dweller on the Threshold (Beri O’Dell, Book 1)
Samhain (US: 26th March 2013)
Beri O’Dell is working on the side investigating paranormal creatures because she wants to know what she is. She’s taller and stronger than most men, she astral projects with an annoyingly real instead of metaphysical cord, and she can peel through dimensional layers to see the creatures and spirits beyond. She once helped her foster sister, Detective Elsa Remington, track down killers in Jacksonville, Florida, but stopped when a nasty fire elemental turned her strength against her. Now, she finds herself pulled back when something steals Elsa’s soul and puts her into a coma. This thing has put a lot of people into comas and beings called Dweller Demons are coming through the bodies. With little time to spare, Beri battles Dweller Demons while searching for the truth. She has help in her spirit guides Fred and Phro, but others come along for the ride, including a pyro-nervous witch, and an androgynous necromancer. With all this on her hands, the last thing Beri needs is to fall in love with a centuries-old Minoan warrior – one who has something scary wrong with him. But unfortunately, Nikolos knows what creature she’s after because he battled it before on what is now known as Crete. It’s bad. Really, really bad. He calls it the Dweller on the Threshold.

Jill Hathaway
Impostor (Slide, Book 2)
HarperCollins Balzer + Bray (US & CA: 26th March 2013)
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Vee Bell’s gift (or curse) of “sliding” – slipping into the mind of another person and experiencing life, briefly, through his or her eyes – has been somewhat under control since she unwillingly witnessed the horrific deaths of her classmates six months ago. But just as things are getting back to normal – and her relationship with her best friend, Rollins, is heating up – Vee has a bizarre experience: She loses consciousness and finds herself in a deserted area, at the edge of a cliff, staring down at the lifeless body of the boy who had taken advantage of her last year. As Vee finds herself in stranger and stranger situations with no memory of getting there, she begins to suspect that someone else she knows has the ability to slide. And this “slider” is using Vee to exact revenge.

Sophie Littlefield
Aftertime (Aftertime, Book 1)
Harlequin Luna (US: 26th March 2013)
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Awakening in a bleak landscape as scarred as her body, Cass Dollar vaguely recalls surviving something terrible. Wearing unfamiliar clothes and having no idea how many days – or weeks – have passed, she slowly realises the horrifying truth: Ruthie has vanished. And with her, nearly all of civilisation. Where once-lush hills carried cars and commerce, the roads today see only cannibalistic Beaters – people turned hungry for human flesh by a government experiment gone wrong. In a broken, barren California, Cass will undergo a harrowing quest to get her Ruthie back. Few people trust an outsider, let alone a woman who became a zombie and somehow turned back, but she finds help from an enigmatic outlaw, Smoke. Smoke is her saviour, and her safety. For the Beaters are out there. And the humans grip at survival with their trigger fingers. Especially when they learn that she and Ruthie have become the most feared, and desired, of weapons in a brave new world…

Emily Murdoch
If You Find Me
Macmillan St. Martin’s Griffin (US: 26th March 2013)
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A broken-down camper hidden deep in a national forest is the only home fifteen-year-old Carey can remember. The trees keep guard over her threadbare existence, with the one bright spot being Carey’s younger sister, Jenessa, who depends on Carey for her very survival. All they have is each other, as their mentally ill mother comes and goes with greater frequency. Until that one fateful day their mother disappears for good, and two strangers arrive. Suddenly, the girls are taken from the woods and thrust into a bright and perplexing new world of high school, clothes and boys. Now, Carey must face the truth of why her mother abducted her ten years ago, while haunted by a past that won’t let her go…a dark past that hides many a secret, including the reason Jenessa hasn’t spoken a word in over a year. Carey knows she must keep her sister close, and her secrets even closer, or risk watching her new life come crashing down.

Rachel Vincent
With All My Soul (Soul Screamers, Book 7)
Harlequin Teen (US: 26th March 2013)
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After not really surviving her junior year (does “undead” count as survival?), Kaylee Cavanaugh has vowed to take back her school from the hellions causing all the trouble. She’s going to find a way to turn the incarnations of Avarice, Envy and Vanity against one another in order to protect her friends and finish this war, once and forever. But then she meets Wrath and understands that she’s closer to the edge than she’s ever been. And when one more person close to her is taken, Kaylee realises she can’t save everyone she loves without risking everything she has…

Blythe Woolston
Black Helicopters
Candlewick (US: 26th March 2013)
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Ever since Mabby died while picking beans in their garden – with the pock-a-pock of a helicopter overhead – four-year-old Valley knows what her job is: hide in the underground den with her brother, Bo, while Da is working, because Those People will kill them like coyotes. But now, with Da unexpectedly gone and no home to return to, a teenage Valley (now Valkyrie) and her big brother must bring their message to the outside world – a not-so-smart place where little boys wear their names on their backpacks and young men don’t pat down strangers before offering a lift.

April 2013 Releases

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26th February 2013 Releases

Happy Release Day to:

Sophie Littlefield
Garden of Stones
Publisher (US: 26th February 2013)
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Lucy Takeda is just fourteen years old, living in Los Angeles, when the bombs rain down on Pearl Harbor. Within weeks, she and her mother, Miyako, are ripped from their home, rounded up – along with thousands of other innocent Japanese-Americans – and taken to the Manzanar prison camp. Buffeted by blistering heat and choking dust, Lucy and Miyako must endure the harsh living conditions of the camp. Corruption and abuse creep into every corner of Manzanar, eventually ensnaring beautiful, vulnerable Miyako. Ruined and unwilling to surrender her daughter to the same fate, Miyako soon breaks. Her final act of desperation will stay with Lucy forever…and spur her to sins of her own.

Eileen Rendahl
Dead Letter Day (Messenger, Book 3)
Penguin Ace (US & CA: 26th February 2013)
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Melina Markowitz, messenger for the underworld, delivers the goods for the supernatural beings in our midst – no questions asked. It’s more than a job; it’s a mission. Safety be damned. Melina’s missing friend, Paul, could just be taking a little werewolf “me time,” but her investigation yields something more sinister. Suspicions first fall on Paul’s wolf-pack rival. But that wouldn’t explain the sudden windstorms rattling Melina’s nerves – or the ominous, shrieking crows that keep appearing. The clues lead Melina to a mermaid, a damaged and possibly deranged police officer and patterns for Norwegian doilies – finally bringing her to the realisation that she may be dealing with the most powerful enemy she has ever faced.

March 2013 Releases

Done with February 2013 Releases? Here are March 2013 Releases. For future releases, check Reading Wishlist.

February 2013 Releases

Done with January 2013 Releases? Here are February 2013 Releases. For future titles, check Reading Wishlist.

7 New Covers (Held, Jay, Littlefield, Malley, Parker, Scott)