26th November 2013 Releases

Happy Release Day to:

Kelley Armstrong
Wild Justice (Nadia Stafford, Book 3)
Penguin Plume (US: 26th November 2013); Hachette Little, Brown Sphere (UK: 26th November 2013); Random House Vintage (CA: 26th November 2013)
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Protect the innocent. If there is any one principle that drives hit-woman Nadia Stafford it’s this. When she was 13 she failed to protect her older cousin Amy from being raped and murdered. Now, she fails again, disastrously, when she botches a hit on a man who’s been beating his wife. Before she’s had a chance to fix things, the wife is murdered and Nadia plunges into despair. To help her find equilibrium again, her mentor, Jack, brings her a gift: the location and new identity of the serial predator that killed her cousin. Vengeance, justice? With the predator in her sights, nothing seems more right, more straightforward, more simple. But fierce as Nadia is, she is shaken to the core by what she discovers about the real events of her past. The wounds inscribed on her soul during the long night when her cousin was killed have shaped her, and justice is wild indeed.

Katie McGarry
Crash into You (Pushing the Limits, Book 3)
Harlequin (US & UK: 26th November 2013)
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The girl with straight As, designer clothes and the perfect life – that’s who people expect Rachel Young to be. So the private-school junior keeps secrets from her wealthy parents and overbearing brothers…and she’s just added two more to the list. One involves racing strangers down dark country roads in her Mustang GT. The other? Seventeen-year-old Isaiah Walker – a guy she has no business even talking to. But when the foster kid with the tattoos and intense gray eyes comes to her rescue, she can’t get him out of her mind. Isaiah has secrets, too. About where he lives, and how he really feels about Rachel. The last thing he needs is to get tangled up with a rich girl who wants to slum it on the south side for kicks – no matter how angelic she might look. But when their shared love of street racing puts both their lives in jeopardy, they have six weeks to come up with a way out. Six weeks to discover just how far they’ll go to save each other.

Joan Frances Turner
Frail (Dust, Book 2)
Penguin Ace (US & CA: 26th November 2013)
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Since a devastating, morphing plague swept through human and zombie populations, almost everyone who survived is an “ex” these days. Ex-human. Ex-zombie. Both creatures crave flesh, have the strength and speed of predators – and are seemingly immortal. Pierced skin and broken bones mend, but their all-consuming hunger never dies… Amy is the only purely human survivor from her town: a frail. For a girl used to going it alone, trusting anyone isn’t easy, but Amy will have to. She has secrets from her past she can’t afford to face by herself, and secrets in her future that will cost her just about everything – including her humanity…

November 2013 Releases

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6th November 2012 Releases

Happy Release Day to:

Keri Arthur
Darkness Hunts (Dark Angels, Book 4)
Penguin Signet (US & CA: 6th November 2012); Hachette Little, Brown Piatkus (UK: 6th November 2012; AU: November 2012)
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Risa Jones, half-Aedh/half-werewolf, can enter the realm between life and death. She can speak to the dying and the dead, and she can see the reapers, collectors of souls. What she can not yet see is the identity of a stranger murdering women and draining their blood. Now Risa must summon her gifts to find him, even if it means putting her own life in danger. But Risa needn’t look far. The killer knows who she is. He tells her his victims are infected by darkness and he’s fated to destroy them. Fascinated by Risa, he engages her in a sinister game: the chance to save the life of his next victim by deciphering his series of clues. In a race against time, she enlists the help of the reaper Azriel. But as an attraction between them grows, so does the fear that the stranger’s motives are only part of a larger, more dangerous stratagem – one that that has lured Risa and Azriel into the dark.

Rachel Caine
Bitter Blood (Morganville Vampires, Book 13)
Penguin NAL (US: 6th November 2012); Allison & Busby (UK: 6th November 2012)
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Thanks to the eradication of the parasitic creatures known as the draug, the vampires of Morganville have been freed of their usual constraints. With the vampires indulging their every whim, the town’s human population is determined to hold on to their lives by taking up arms. But college student Claire Danvers isn’t about to take sides, considering she has ties to both the humans and the vampires. To make matters worse, a television show comes to Morganville looking for ghosts, just as vampire and human politics collide. Now, Claire and her friends have to figure out how to keep the peace without ending up on the nightly news…or worse.

Joan Frances Turner
Frail (Resurgam, Book 2)
Penguin (US & CA: 6th November 2012; AU: 21st November 2012)
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Since a devastating, morphing plague swept through human and zombie populations, almost everyone who survived is an “ex” these days. Ex-human. Ex-zombie. Both creatures crave flesh; have the strength and speed of predators – and what seems like immortality. Pierced skin and broken bones mend, but their all-consuming hunger never dies… Amy is the only purely human survivor from town – a frail. Her mother is gone, but she won’t believe that she’s dead. Feral dogs stalk her, in reality and in her imagination. Amy thinks she’s losing her mind. But when an ex-human named Lisa saves her life, a fragile friendship forms, a bond that will save Amy over and over again when she and Lisa are abducted into a makeshift community run by exes who use humans as their slaves. For a girl who is used to going it alone, trusting anyone isn’t easy, but Amy will have to. She has secrets from her past she can’t afford to face by herself, and secrets in her future that will cost her just about everything – including her humanity…

November 2012 Releases

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September 2012 Releases

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4 New Covers (Bick, Littlefield, Mahoney, Turner)

October 2011 Releases

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8 New Covers: Hart, Jones, Littlefield, Ryan, Stiefvater, Tentler & Turner

5 New Deal Announcements

Lauren Dane‘s next 2 contemporary erotic romances & next futuristic erotic romance in a 3-book deal to Leis Pederson at Berkley Heat (world rights), for publication beginning 2011.

Marie Lu‘s LEGEND in a 3-book deal to Jennifer Besser at G. P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers (world rights). A dystopian set in 2130 Los Angeles, submerged by flooding. A girl who is a prodigy being groomed for government work meets a boy who is 1 of the state’s most-wanted criminals. The main characters’ love story (she’s tasked with finding his brother’s killer) is loosely based on Les Misérables. Scheduled for December 2011.

Kelly Meding‘s WARDEN’S TRANCE in a 2-book deal to Jennifer Heddle at Pocket. The 1st book in a new series, in which adult children of the world’s slaughtered heroes suddenly regain their lost superpowers after a mysterious 15-year absence, only to face a fearful public, a leery government, & the villain responsible for the deaths of their parents.

Jackson Pearce‘s PURITY to Julie Scheina at Little, Brown Children’s (world rights), for publication in 2012. A 16-year-old struggles with her conservative father’s expectations & decides to live on the wild side by losing her virginity, pitched as written in the style of Saved! & Juno.

Joan Frances Turner‘s FRAIL, again to Ace. The lone human survivor of a small town must make her way across a land ravaged by the “feeding plague” & contend with dangerous humans & zombies alike.