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Ilsa J. Bick: WHITE SPACE: 11th February 2014: Buy (US)
Kira Brady: HEARTS OF CHAOS: 4th March 2014: Buy (US)
Laurie Cinotto: ITTY BITTY KITTY COMMITTEE: 11th March 2014: Buy (US)
Jeaniene Frost: UP FROM THE GRAVE: 28th January 2014: Buy (US)
Claudia Gabel & Cheryl Klam: ELUSION: 18th March 2014: Buy (US)
Kim Harrison: THE UNDEAD POOL: 25th February 2014: Buy (US)
Jill Hathaway: IMPOSTOR (paperback): 25th February 2014: Buy (US)
Michele Lang: FADE AWAY AND RADIATE: 27th May 2013: Buy (US)
A. D. Robertson: CAPTIVE: 22nd October 2013: Buy (US)
Veronica Rossi: INTO THE STILL BLUE: 28th January 2013: Buy (US)
Megan Shepherd: THE MADMAN’S DAUGHTER (paperback): 23rd December 2013: Buy (US)
Megan Shepherd: HER DARK CURIOSITY: 28th January 2014: Buy (US)
Jeri Smith-Ready: THIS SIDE OF SALVATION: 1st April 2014: Buy (US)
Jenny Trout: SUCH SWEET SORROW: 4th February 2014: Buy (US)
Susan Vaught: ASYLUM: 18th February 2014: Buy (US)

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

Done with March 2013 Releases? Here are April 2013 Releases. For future titles, check Reading Wishlist.

March 2013 Releases

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

5 New Covers (Bick, Day, Hathaway, Knight, Tayler)

3 New Deals (Cremer, Hathaway, Reisz)

Andrea Cremer‘s adult erotic trilogy to Dutton (World). Set within the Nightshade world of the author’s YA books, about the lives, passions, and betrayals of lovers whose very desires invite their dooms. The first book is scheduled for October 2013.

Jill Hathaway‘s next two novels to Balzer + Bray (NA) for publication in 2014 and 2015.

Tiffany Reisz‘s four new books to MIRA. There’ll also be ten short stories in The Mistress Files – memoirs of Mistress Nora and her misadventures with her sexy clients. The four novels will continue The Original Sinners, including The Mistress and The Priest (Books 4 and 5). The Mistress: Mistress Nora is in the worst trouble of her life. She’ll need all her courage and all her training if she’s going to make it out alive. The Priest (a prequel to Books 1-4): Fifteen-year-old Eleanor Schreiber only has one desire in life – get out of the Catholic Church and never EVER go back. Everything goes according to plan until she gets one look at Father Stearns, the new priest at Sacred Heart, and she knows her life will never be the same again.

11 New Covers (Armstrong, Brewer, Clifford, Coley, Cremer, Driza, Grant, Hathaway, Lang, Marr, Rossi)

March 2012 Releases

Done with February 2012 Releases? Here are March 2012 Releases. To see future titles, check Reading Wishlist.

[REVIEW] Slide – Jill Hathaway

Jill Hathaway
Slide
HarperCollins (UK & AU: 1st March 2012; CA: 14th March 2012; US: 27th March 2012)
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Vee Bell is a psychometrist of sorts – she can touch an object and, if the owner’s emotion was strong enough to imprint on the item, Vee can “slide” into their consciousness to see what they’re doing right now. When a cheerleader dies, supposedly a suicide, Vee knows better…because she slid into the murderer, only she can’t identify who that is.

I was not expecting to like this. The concept is so familiar (Melinda Metz’s Fingerprints/Echoes series comes to mind) that it seems common as muck, and on the very first page is one of my major pet peeves: characters reading classic literature that reflects what’s happening to them (in this case, Julius Caesar). Also, there are so many ’90s music references that it’s easy to tell the author grew up in that decade and makes her characters grow up on it, too. Which would’ve been okay if it was Madonna’s music, but instead it’s grunge.

But I actually really enjoyed this, because Slide is a well-crafted mystery: it’s difficult to pick whodunit as there’s plenty of shady characters. There does seem to be a lot of focus on mothers…