Happy Tuesday!
It’s a short week for us in terms of releases; only four! However, looking ahead to August, it looks like the first week is going to be particularly beefy for book releases. Get ready!
What books are you excited for this week? Let us know in the comments!
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The Earl Who Isn’t
Author: Courtney Milan
Released: July 30, 2024 by Femtopress LLC
Genre: Historical: European, Romance
Series: Wedgeford Trials #3Nobody knows that Andrew Uchida is the rightful heir of an earl. Not his friends, not his neighbors, not even the yard-long beans growing in his experimental garden. If the truth of his existence became public, the blue-blooded side of his family would stop at nothing to make him (and anyone connected with him) disappear. He shared one passionate night with the woman he loved…and allowed himself that only because she was leaving for Hong Kong the next morning.
Then Lily Bei returns, armed with a printing press, her irrepressible spirit, and a sheaf of inconvenient documents that prove the very thing Andrew wants that he is actually the legitimate, first born son of the Earl of Arsell.
What’s Andrew to do, when the woman he’s always desired promises him everything he’s never wanted? Andrew’s track record of saying no to Lily is nonexistent. The only way he can avert impending disaster is by stealing the evidence… while trying desperately not to fall in love (again) with the woman he shouldn’t let into his life.
Aarya: I think this is the final book in the series? I’m sad if so.
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The Fiancé Dilemma
Author: Elena Armas
Released: July 30, 2024 by Atria Books
Genre: Contemporary Romance, Romance
Series: The Long Game #2A small town romance with fake dating and the second book in The Long Shot series.
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Sanctuary
Author: Ilona Andews
Released: July 30, 2024 by NYLA
Genre: Novella, Urban Fantasy
Series: Roman's Chronicles #1It’s not easy serving the Chernobog, the God of Destruction, Darkness and Death…especially during the holidays; and especially when you’re out of eggnog and one of your pesky, freeloading mythic creatures has eaten your last cookie.
Roman would like nothing more than to be left alone, but when a wounded boy stumbles into his yard and begs for sanctuary, Roman takes him in. Now elite mercenaries are camped out on his property, combat mages are dousing the house with fire, and strange priests are unleashing arcane magic. They thought Roman was easy pickings, just a hermit in the woods, but they chose the wrong dark priest to annoy. For while Roman might be patient, he is the Black Volhv, filled with the love of his terrible god. For his adversaries, it’s a fight to the death, but for him, it’s just another day in the neighborhood.
Aarya: Interested to try this since I never expected Roman to get his own story in the Kate Daniels world.
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Untamed
Author: Lisa Rayne
Released: August 1, 2024 by Fire Sign Press
Genre: Historical: American, Western, RomanceThe Best Little Whorehouse in Texas meets Shane in this fun and adventurous historical romance featuring the classic, enigmatic cowboy of the Old West.
Proper eastern lady Mary Catherine Templeton is on the verge of being destitute when she inherits a saloon out west. She’s determined to take her bachelor’s degree and make a success of the struggling liquor joint, even after her innocent sensibilities are shocked to discover its other sinful commodity.
All burnt-out bounty hunter Blaaze Lassiter wants is to retire in a quiet, uneventful town, catch up on his reading, and try a little whittling. He thought he’d found the perfect place to abandon his live-by-the-gun ways. But ever since that she-devil changed the rules for the amenities in her establishment, the townsmen have started a ruckus detrimental to his peaceful existence.
When the backlash against Mary Catherine becomes life-threatening, Blaaze feels duty-bound to strap on his guns again to protect the woman who’s got his blood riled in more ways than one. And once he puts down this insurrection, he’s gonna take up a new leisure activity—one that involves giving the prissy college graduate a whole different kind of education.
Shana: This is the same author who wrote Never Cross a Highlander, which I loved. But this had me at Bookish heroine + protective hero.
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Such charming Liars by Karen McManus:
“When mother-daughter grifters set out on their final job, the heist gets deadly and dangerously personal.
For all of Kat’s life, it’s just been her and her mother, Jamie—except for the forty-eight hours when Jamie was married and Kat had a stepbrother, Liam. That all ended in an epic divorce, and Kat and Liam haven’t spoken since.
Now Jamie is a jewel thief trying to go straight, but she has one last job—at billionaire Ross Sutherland’s birthday party. And Kat has figured out a way to tag along. What Kat doesn’t know, though, is that there are two surprise guests at the dazzling Sutherland compound that weekend. The last two people she wants to run into. Liam and his father—a serial scammer who has his sights set on Ross Sutherland’s youngest daughter.”
McManus writes awesome YA thrillers.
SLOW DANCE by Rainbow Rowell is out today. It’s her first adult romance in 10 years.
Seconding SusanS — I’m *so* excited for SLOW DANCE! Planning to go to an actual physical bookstore to pick it up today after work. 🙂
All on my TBR!
Courtney’s is already on my e-reader! * HEART EYES *
Celia Lake has a 1920s cosy fantasy romance out today, Facets of the Bench. It’s got the Whitby jet industry in it, which should be interesting.
Oops, sorry, the Lake book isn’t out until the 2nd.
Mimi Matthews A Lady of Conscience. (Book 5 in the Somerset Stories) is out today. Builds on prior stories but can be read as stand alone. She is a great writer 🙂
The Courtney Milan was a pre-order, though I may wait to read it until an audio is out.
Also, Becka Mack’s FALL WITH ME is out today. I have loved this series of m/f hockey romances, which starts with CONSIDER ME, and I’m not an easy sell on sports romances. These are a little longer than usual, and the depth feels commensurate to me. I’ve found them worth my time.