Winter Urban Fantasy/Paranormal Fiction: New Releases from Patricia Briggs, Laurell K. Hamilton, Katie MacAlister, Kinley MacGregor and Michele Bardsley…
Latest paranormal suspense fiction, lots of faves with new releases yay!
Book 5 of Patricia Briggs awesome Mercy Thompson series releases March 30th, Silver Borne:
From Amazon:
All-new action in the #1 New York Times bestselling urban fantasy series
When mechanic and shapeshifter Mercy Thompson attempts to return a powerful Fae book she’d previously borrowed in an act of desperation, she finds the bookstore locked up and closed down.
It seems the book contains secret knowledge-and the Fae will do just about anything to keep it out of the wrong hands. And if that doesn’t take enough of Mercy’s attention, her friend Samuel is struggling with his wolf side-leaving Mercy to cover for him, lest his own father declare Sam’s life forfeit.
All in all, Mercy has had better days. And if she isn’t careful, she might not have many more to live…
Latest Anita Blake by Laurell K. Hamilton releases Feb 2nd (Hardcover), Flirt:
From Amazon:
The New York Times bestselling series.
When Anita Blake meets with prospective client Tony Bennington, who is desperate to have her reanimate his recently deceased wife, she is full of sympathy for his loss. Anita knows something about love, and she knows everything there is to know about loss. But what she also knows, though Tony Bennington seems unwilling to be convinced, is that the thing she can do as a necromancer isn’t the miracle he thinks he needs. The creature that Anita could coerce to step out of the late Mrs. Bennington’s grave would not be the lovely Mrs. Bennington. Not really. And not for long.
A new title by Katie MacAlister, Steamed: A Steampunk Romance, releases Feb 3rd:
From Amazon:
Katie Macalister takes on Steampunk-and romance gets hotter than ever…
When one of Jack Fletcher’s nanoelectromechanical system experiments is jostled in his lab, the resulting explosion sends him into the world of his favorite novel-a seemingly Victorian-era world of steampower, aether guns, corsets, and goggles. A world where the lovely and intrepid Octavia Pye captains her airship straight into his heart…
The latest in Michele Bardsley’s Broken Heart, Oklahoma series, Come Hell or High Water releases tomorrow, Jan 5th. 
From Amazon:
The newest paranormal romance in the national bestselling broken heart series
Everybody makes mistakes-and my first one was named Connor, a heart- stealing Scottish hottie. I thought our night together was the beautiful beginning to a love story, which turned out to be my second mistake. I, Phoebe Allen, lifelong Broken Heart resident and vampire, am now mated to a half-demon.
Thankfully Phoebe’s four-year-old son Danny is safely away at Disneyworld with his human father. Because Phoebe’s right in the middle of major paranormal drama, helping Connor and his rag-tag group of friends retrieve part of an ancient talisman in order to ward off Connor’s vicious stepmother, an uber-demon named Lilith. Phoebe swears she isn’t falling for any of Connor’s demon charm. But still, he’s willing to do anything to protect her and prevent demons from storming into Broken Heart. And her undead heart can’t resist a bad boy with identity issues…
More after the break:
Winter/Spring Fiction-Urban Fantasy: Karen Chance, Laurell K. Hamilton, Patricia Briggs…
January 5th – Inked– anthology: Karen Chance et al:
Editorial Review:
From today’s most provocative authors come four tales of urban fantasy and paranormal romance exploring body art that is more than it seems-in a world of magic and mayhem that always leaves its mark.
This captivating tattoo theme surrounds each author’s popular characters and worlds: Karen Chance‘s war mage Lia de Croissets, Marjorie M. Liu‘s demon-hunter Maxine Kiss, Yasmine Galenorn‘s Otherworld Intelligence Agency operative Camille D’Artigo, and Eileen Wilk‘s Lupi world.
February 2, 2010 Anita Blake! Laurell K. Hamilton ‘Flirt’ no cover art yet. No plot details yet.
March 30, 2010 – A new Mercy Thompson, Patricia Briggs ‘Silver Borne’ Book 5 in the series. no cover image yet.
Editorial Review:
When mechanic and shapeshifter Mercy Thompson attempts to return a powerful Fae book she’d previously borrowed in an act of desperation, she finds the bookstore locked up and closed down.
It seems the book contains secret knowledge-and the Fae will do just about anything to keep it out of the wrong hands. And if that doesn’t take enough of Mercy’s attention, her friend Samuel is struggling with his wolf side-leaving Mercy to cover for him, lest his own father declare Sam’s life forfeit.
All in all, Mercy has had better days. And if she isn’t careful, she might not have many more to live…
Summer Fiction: Urban Fantasy Anthology – ‘Strange Brew’ featuring Charlaine Harris, Jim Butcher, Patricia Briggs and more…
Release date July 7, 2009
Available on Amazon for $10.19
- Paperback: 384 pages
- Publisher: St. Martin’s Griffin (July 7, 2009)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0312383363
- ISBN-13: 978-0312383367
Editorial Review:
Product Description
Today’s hottest urban fantasy authors come together in this delicious brew that crackles and boils over with tales of powerful witches and dark magic!In Charlaine Harris’ “Bacon,” a beautiful vampire joins forces with a witch from an ancient line to find out who killed her beloved husband. In “Seeing Eye” by Patricia Briggs, a blind witch helps sexy werewolf Tom Franklin find his missing brother—and helps him in more ways than either of them ever suspected. And in Jim Butcher’s “Last Call,” wizard Harry Dresden takes on the darkest of dark powers—the ones who dare to mess with his (sic) favorite beer.
For anyone who’s ever wondered what lies beyond the limits of reality, who’s imagined the secret spaces where witches wield fearsome magic, come and drink deep. Let yourself fall under the spell of this bewitching collection!
Summer Reading: Laurell K. Hamilton, Patricia Briggs, MaryJanice Davidson, Sherrilyn Kenyon…
Bad news is TSCC is cancelled. Good news is there is a slew of summer fiction coming our way from the *supernatural/paranormal/lycan/vampire/Arthurian Alternate Universe/Romance/Thriller* genre for plenty of page turning/ Kindle flipping reading pleasure :0)
Laurell K. Hamilton: Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Series, #17 : Skin Trade – Release Date: June 2, 2009 ( and the next Merry Gentry novel will be released in time for the Holidays, December 8, 2009- Divine Misdemeanors, Book 8 available for preorder on Amazon)
Mary Janice Davidson – Undead and Unwelcome: Queen Betsy, Book 8: Release Date: June 2, 2009 (I know MJD changed the cover art work b/c so many authors bit the style, but I really miss the old artwork!) This will crossover with the Wyndham Wolves series…
Sherrilyn Kenyon –Bad Moon Rising:A Dark Hunter Novel: (the story of Fang Kattalakis)- Release Date: August 4, 2009
Patricia Briggs: Mercy Thompson Series: Homecoming: Release Date: August 25, 2009
New Release: Bone Crossed (Mercy Thompson, Book 4) by Patricia Briggs
Book Four in the Mercy Thompson series is out!
From Amazon:
Review
“In the increasingly crowded field of kick-ass supernatural heroines, Mercy stands out as one of the best.”
—Locus“The best new urban fantasy series I’ve read in years.”
—New York Times bestselling author Kelley Armstrong“I love these books.”
—New York Times bestselling author Charlaine Harris“Top-notch paranormal mystery.”
—Publishers WeeklyProduct Description
New in the #1 New York Times bestselling urban fantasy series.In a world where “witches, vampires, werewolves, and shape-shifters live beside ordinary people” (Booklist), it takes a very unusual woman to call it home. By day, Mercy Thompson is a car mechanic in Eastern Washington. By night, she explores her preternatural side. As a shape-shifter with some unusual talents, Mercy’s found herself maintaining a tenuous harmony between the human and the not-so- human on more than one occasion. This time she may get more than she bargained for.
Moderate in the Middle 