BP Note: The Arts lost two incredible members recently. They touched countless lives across various mediums and what they gave of themselves has fed hopes, dreams, and souls. Thank you creators! Your impact is much greater than it appears.
We are approaching the turning of the seasons once more. Here scorching hot days have turned into muggy confused weather days. Maybe if I go water my tiny yard it will stop flirting and just commit to raining or if I forget my umbrella at home the skies are bound to open up. Pumpkins, gourds, thick skinned squash, apples, and Italian plums are starting to appear. Some mornings call for a cozy flannel or fleece and the birds are starting to gather. School buses are running their routes full of students as commuters adjust around the school rhythm and remember how much earlier they need to start their treks to arrive on time.
We have a small but mighty list for you this month. Each with their own twist for the present day, the past, or the future. Let us know what you are looking forward to this month or even as the seasons shift. As always take care of yourself and let people know they matter.
Happy reading!
~E
- Cozy Fantasy
- Fantasy Romance
- Paranormal Romance
- Romantic Fantasy
- Science Fiction
- Space Opera
- Urban Fantasy
Cozy Fantasy
The Scattered Register of the Namekeeper (Enchanted Post Chronicles #4) by Paula Lester – 10 Sep (Self)
In Mosshollow, every letter knows the name of its recipient. Lately, some of them have started to forget.
Phoenix Firebolt has walked every route in her mother’s old ledger and made the word Hearthkeeper her own at last. She thought she knew the whole of the work. Then the names begin to slip.
A letter turns up with its address bright and its recipient worn to a ghost. A neighbor gropes for a name he has said ten thousand times and finds nothing but weather to blame. One at a time, quietly, the village is losing the smallest and most necessary thing it owns: the way its people find their way back to one another.
The trouble leads to a keeper Mosshollow forgot it ever had and a flame that has guttered low. And the timing is merciless because Sorrel and Pim are to be married, and a wedding is the one day no village can hold without names. The invitations. The vows. The register that makes it true.
To save the wedding, Phoenix has to save the keeper. To save the keeper, she has to recover what a whole village let itself forget before the names she holds most dear go dark for good.
Fantasy Romance
Wanted: Rogues and Bards (E.V.I.L. #1) by AJ Sherwood and Jocelynn Drake – 11 Sep (Self)
Welcome to E.V.I.L! (Every Villain is Legendary.) Mission
Be evil. (Except, y’know, when someone’s in trouble, or might need a rescue out of an open grave, things like that.) Adopt new members. (At least, Fenric would love to keep the sexy bard, but would Lirion even want to join them?)Retrieve Fenric’s mother’s stolen treasures (and beat up the heroes who stole them if possible)Rescue Lirion’s sister and wait, what do you mean breaking up a sex ring and helping a village from being overrun by finfolk LOWERED our villain rankings overnight? Future climb the villain rankings, find a lair, get revenge, and trash talk The Box
Welcome and try not to die (but if you do our necromancer will raise you).
This book questionable baking practices, Tub Time™, and emotional support pecs.
Guarded by My Gargoyle (Fairhaven Falls #13) by Honey Phillips – 24 Sep (Self)
He returned to Fairhaven Falls with a fortune and a plan. Falling for the widowed plant nursery owner next door was not part of it.
But her little boy sees him as a guardian.
And she sees the softness beneath the stone.And once a gargoyle puts down roots… nothing will move him.
Paranormal Romance
Between Two Barbarians (Savagely Sweet Barbarians #4) by Amy Padilla – 1 Sep (Self)
My father thought he was punishing me by sending me to stay with the barbarians for a period of time. He said it was to better understand them so that we could care for them properly. To me, it sounded like a great deal of fun. I didn’t expect to be swayed by one of them, much less by two. I wanted to enjoy my life, not be tied down. But the two barbarians who wanted me weren’t so easily deterred. And they were willing to fight each other for the honor of keeping me. What were the chances that I could have them both?
Captured by the Werewolf Highwaymen (Den of Thieves #2) by Eva Leigh – 9 Sep (Blue Silver Publishing)
When a gang of highwaymen show up at Clara Ballantine’s door in the middle of the night, taking over her house, she has no choice but to obey. Shy and widowed, Clara is at first terrified of these dangerous men holding her captive.
Yet Clara can’t help herself from being drawn to handsome, roguish Des… and gentle Gideon… and playful Hugh. Is it possible for her to strip away a lifetime of shoulds and should nots, and allow herself to desire more than one man?
But these are no ordinary men. They’re werewolves. And as tensions erupt within the gang, Clara finds herself in the middle of a supernatural battle for supremacy, one that could claim her heart… and her life…
Romantic Fantasy
The Court of Venus by Bel Banta – 29 Sep (Tor Books)
In Alvion, magicians have always ruled beside kings. Blessed at birth by one of the seven planets, their abilities are miraculous and extremely rare. Magicians born under Jupiter influence luck. Saturnborn can speak to the dead. Venusborn read the desires of the living.
At the moment of Bianca Mortlake’s birth, the stars and planets aligned just so, making her the first Moonborn magician in over a thousand years. A sorcery so rare that even the history books cannot say what she is capable of.
After a childhood training under the realm’s most powerful magician—and alongside a most insufferable Venusborn named Roland—Bianca lives a quiet life far from court. Until a chilling missive arrives in the night, summoning her back.
A mad and deadly court awaits. Two queens have met the executioner’s blade, and one wrong move could see any of them next beneath its steel. As power is pulled between ruthless royals and courtiers like the tides by the moon, Bianca must rely on the last person she would ever want to—the infuriatingly alluring Roland.
Because something is terribly wrong in Alvion. And only this moon-blessed magician and her oldest rival can save the court—and each other—from the dark fate they see written in the stars.
Science Fiction
Massif by Garth Nix – 8 Sep (Harper Voyager)
Caught me a mountain
Rode it to the starsIt’s business as usual for Ship Leader Parnell Shi-Sawahla and the crew of the corvette Sassafras. Ride a Massif to a new system, fight the enemy, repeat. For more than two hundred years humans have been hitching rides on these sentient, starfaring mountain ranges, colonizing planets and exporting an on and off again war between Earth and Mars.
But the big questions are always there, behind every battle, every new colony, every new star system discovery.
Why do the Massifs carry humans to the stars?
Why do they help us export our wars?
What’s in it for the Massifs?
Ship crews aren’t supposed to ask these questions, they aren’t supposed to think about these questions, and they definitely aren’t supposed to go deep and talk to Massif avatars. But now Parnell and his tight-knit crew must try to find the answers, to save not only themselves but the future of humanity.
Space Opera
Spark Transform (Central Galatic Concordance #6) by Carol van Natta – Self (15 Sep)
She just triggered a target on their backs. He’s her paid protection. Caught in a violent trap, can they find their place together among the stars?
Arco Charrasco’s pursuit of the truth is uncompromising. Determined to expose galaxy-wide corruption, the relentless investigative journalist uncovers dangerous truths about a ruthless military agency. But when retaliation swiftly shows up as suspicious accidents, she and her attractive bodyguard race to escape before martial law seizes the city in a deadly lockdown.
Faraday Brenner lives for revenge. Vowing retribution after being left for dead by the uncaring agency, the former enforcer reluctantly agrees to guard the woman who saved his life. But as buildings collapse around them and systematic violence ensues, he finds the tables turned when captured by an underworld crew.
Risking everything to negotiate his release, Arco confronts her feelings for the courageous but reserved man. And if he survives, Brenner fears continuing the fight at her side means letting go of his deserved vengeance.
With enemies hot on their heels, can they reveal secrets without dying in the process?
Urban Fantasy
Move Your Ash (Scales of Justice #2) by Lara McKenzie – 2 Sep (Self)
The toughest thing a perimenopausal woman with zero patience left can grow—other than chin hair—is roots.
Charlotte Marelli has a new house, nosy neighbours, and a legal clinic at White Flag House.
After years in a cage of her own making, she’s determined to live, not hide.
But someone wants what Charlotte is protecting, and they’re willing to tear through everything she’s building to get it.
They have no idea who they’re dealing with.
A Killer Heart (Cat Lady Chronicles #5) by Helen Harper – 18 Sep (Self)
What happens when the hunters become the hunted?
Kit McCafferty is an upstanding citizen of the magical city of Coldstream. Mostly.
She’s a good neighbour. She has a fabulous partner, an occasionally tidy home, and only a moderately alarming number of cats. Her days as a professional assassin with Eagle Enforcers and Liquidators are behind her. Or so she thinks.
When Kit volunteers to assist local law enforcement with crowd control, she comes face-to-face with her former life. Someone is trying to destroy EEL — the discreet but deadly firm of assassins she once called home — and they’re not concerned about collateral damage. They’re willing to raze Coldstream to the ground to finish the job.
Whoever is targeting EEL knows its inner workings and its secrets. Kit’s old friends and colleagues, as well as the citizens of Coldstream, are at risk. To stop blood from spilling onto the city’s glittering streets and shadowed alleyways, Kit must decide who she is now – a heroic citizen determined to protect her city or a stone cold killer.
Walking away might not be an option.
The monthly Must Have list is a compilation of the upcoming release titles that we, The Book Pushers, just can’t wait to get our hands on. Don’t see a title you’re excited about listed here? Add it to the comments section below. Let us know what you’re looking forward to!