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9th September 2014 Releases

Happy Release Day to:

Ilsa J. Bick
Monsters (Ashes, Book 3)
Random House Egmont (US & CA: 9th September 2014)
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When her parents died, Alex thought things couldn’t get much worse – until the doctors found the monster in her head. She headed into the wilderness as a good-bye, to leave everything behind. But then the end of the world happened, and Alex took the first step down a treacherous road of betrayal and terror and death. Now, with no hope of rescue – on the brink of starvation in a winter that just won’t quit – she discovers a new and horrifying truth. The Change isn’t over. The Changed are still evolving. And…they’ve had help.

Laura Bickle
The Outside (Hallowed Ones, Book 2)
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (US: 9th September 2014)
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After a plague of vampires was unleashed in the world, Katie was kicked out of the safe haven of her Amish community for her refusal to adhere to the new rules of survival. She enters an outside world of unspeakable violence with only her two friends and a horse by her side. And yet through this darkness come the shining ones: luminescent men and women with the power to deflect vampires and survive the night. But can they be trusted, and are they even people at all?

Kim Harrison
The Witch with No Name (Hollows, Book 13)
HarperCollins Voyager (US & CA: 9th September 2014)
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Rachel Morgan’s come a long way from the klutzy runner fleeing a bad job. She’s faced vampires and werewolves, banshees, witches, and soul-eating demons. She’s crossed worlds, channelled gods, and accepted her place as a day-walking demon. She’s lost friends and lovers and family, and an old enemy has become something much more. But power demands responsibility, and world-changers must always pay a price. That time is now. To save her best friend Ivy’s soul and the rest of the living vampires, to keep the demonic ever-after and our own world from utter destruction at the hands of fanatics, Rachel Morgan will risk everything.

Marie Lu
Champion (Legend, Book 3)
Penguin (US & CA: 9th September 2014)
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June and Day have sacrificed so much for the people of the Republic – and each other – and now their country is on the brink of a new existence. June is back in the good graces of the Republic, working within the government’s elite circles as Princeps Elect while Day has been assigned a high level military position. But neither could have predicted the circumstances that will reunite them once again. Just when a peace treaty is imminent, a plague outbreak causes panic in the Colonies, and war threatens the Republic’s border cities. This new strain of plague is deadlier than ever, and June is the only one who knows the key to her country’s defence. But saving the lives of thousands will mean asking the one she loves to give up everything he has.

Jessica Verday
Of Monsters and Madness
Random House Egmont (US & CA: 9th September 2014)
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Annabel Lee is summoned from Siam to live with her father in 1820s Philadelphia shortly after her mother’s death, but an unconventional upbringing makes her repugnant to her angry, secretive father. Annabel becomes infatuated with her father’s assistant Allan, who dabbles in writing when he’s not helping with medical advancements. But in darker hours, when she’s not to be roaming the house, she encounters the devilish assistant Edgar, who bears an uncanny resemblance to Allan, and who others insist doesn’t exist. A rash of murders across Philadelphia, coupled with her father’s strange behaviour, leads Annabel to satisfy her curiosity and uncover a terrible truth: Edgar and Allan are two halves of the same person – and they are about to make the crimes detailed in Allan’s stories come to life. Unless Annabel stops them.

September 2014 Releases

Done with August 2014 Releases? Here are September 2014 Releases. For future releases, check Reading Wishlist.

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4 New Covers (Grace, Hoover, Verday)

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Now Available for US Pre-Order

Keri Arthur: FIREBORN: 1st July 2014: Buy (US)
Ilsa J. Bick: MONSTERS (paperback): 9th September 2014: Buy (US)
Máire Claremont: THE TWELVE DAYS OF SEDUCTION: 30th December 2013: Buy (US)
Lauren DeStefano: INTERNMENT NOVELLA 1: 29th July 2014: Buy (US)
Jeaniene Frost: THE BEAUTIFUL ASHES: 26th August 2014: Buy (US)
Teri Hall: THE ISLAND: 17th December 2013: Buy (US)
Avery Hastings: FEUDS: 2nd September 2014: Buy (US)
Colleen Hoover: UGLY LOVE: 5th August 2014: Buy (US)
Imogen Howson: UNRAVEL: 8th July 2014: Buy (US)
J. Kenner: TAME ME: 11th March 2014: Buy (US)
Kat Richardson: POSSESSION: (paperback): 1st July 2014: Buy (US)
Veronica Roth: FOUR: 8th July 2014: Buy (US)
Diana Rowland: HOW THE WHITE TRASH ZOMBIE GOT HER GROOVE BACK: 1st July 2014: Buy (US)
Jessica Verday: OF MONSTERS AND MADNESS: 9th September 2014: Buy (US)

Rachel Caine in Melbourne & 4 New Deals (Despain, Fitzpatrick, Verday)

Rachel Caine came to Dymocks Melbourne on Wednesday 14th November. Mainly here to promote her latest Morganville Vampires release, Bitter Blood, but reportedly her Revivalist series is full of science, so I need to get on it!

Bree Despain‘s Into the Dark trilogy to Egmont (NA). A reimagining of the Persephone myth, delivered in duelling narratives. In the myth, Persephone (daughter of Demeter, goddess of the harvest) is kidnapped by Hades; here, one thread follows a character named Daphne (based on Persephone), while the other narrative follows Haden (standing in for Hades). The first book in the series is scheduled for 2014.

Becca Fitzpatrick‘s Hush, Hush series optioned to LD Entertainment.

Jessica Verday‘s untitled stand-alone spinoff from her The Hollow series to Simon Pulse (NA) for publication in 2013. Featuring Cyn and Avian, one of the original Revenants.

Jessica Verday‘s Of Monsters and Madness to Egmont for publication in 2014. A series of romantic YA Gothic thrillers inspired by The Strange Case of Dr Jeckyll and Mr Hyde, Frankenstein, and the works of Edgar Allan Poe. As told by Annabel Lee, a young girl who moves to Philadelphia in 1826 to live with her father, and discovers that he may be implicated in a series of murders across the city, and only she can prove his innocence and protect him from the true evil he has created in his basement lab.