Good morning, everyone! As we head into the weekend, I thought I’d leave you with a few suggestions for new reading material. I’ve either read the books listed below (or, in once case, wrote the book) or I know the author’s other works and can recommend the book based on their past performance. So here goes.
Sam Schall
As a Marine, Ashlyn Shaw knew the day would come when she might not return from a mission. As an officer in the Fuerconese Marine Corps, all too often she faced the difficult duty of sending the men and women under her command to their deaths. Both were nightmares she, and so many like her, lived with. War was a cruel and costly endeavor, but one well worth the cost if it meant keeping their homeworld free.
What Ash hadn’t been prepared for was betrayal. Betrayal by members of her own government. Betrayal by certain members of the military. Betrayal by supposed allies. Betrayals that had cost the lives of too many she cared for.
Unluckily for her enemies, that betrayal has cut too deeply to be allowed to go unpunished. The berserker she’s held in close check has been let out. As a Marine, it was her duty to protect her homeworld and its citizens. Now she has a new duty: to find and deal with those who betrayed Fuercon and her beloved Corps.
Honor and duty. Death before dishonor.
And vengeance for the fallen.
Whoever said retirement was quiet never met John Cronin…
The old man may have retired for the final time from the Sheriff’s office, but there are still cows to run, court cases to testify at, and consultation calls to tap decades of experience. And that’s not even counting the cold cases he’s still trying to solve…
With his granddaughter Jesse running the gun store and managing the ranch books, and her husband leaning how to fill Cronin’s shoes on investigations and arrests, John is keeping busy training the next generation, while settling a few old scores!
Elizabeth Bruner
After centuries of warfare, the Fae were banished from the human world, taking most of the magic with them.
Not all of them made it through the gates to the fairy lands. And not all of the magic is gone. A group of warriors vowed to protect humanity from the remaining fae and so they have over the centuries.
Christopher Chevalier, a descendent of one of those warriors, has spent his life studying combat and magic to fight the fae. When he comes across humans acting like fae, using magic he’s never heard about, he has to swallow his pride and ask for help from Listrial, the Fairy Queen and one of the fae who got trapped in the human world.
Dan Ben-David just wants his refrigerator to work consistently. When it reveals another world, one he forgot he’d lived in, he finds more questions than answers about his past.
Winifred Andersdotter wanted nothing more than a nice evening out with her boyfriend. When they’re set upon by thugs who’d taken exception to her boyfriends red cap, they fight back and everything begins to change.
Julie Pascal
“Complete your tasks and you will be released. We have summoned you and you must serve us.”
“Never.” The word caught against the fangs in her lengthening jaw and became a growl. She looked down at her tormentors below her and knew them. Fox ears and cat eyes.
“Never!” She bellowed defiance that started deep within her scaled body and expanded with her to fill the sky.
T. L. Knighton
When the kingdom of Altria falls before an expansionist lord, the champion Korr is tasked with spiriting off the next in line to the throne as well as a princess who could be used to legitimize the duke’s claim to the throne. Joined by his childhood friend, one of the legendary Rangers of Altria, Korr seeks shelter with the man who trained him to fight many long years ago.
Korr is charged with raising the young king and readying him to take back his kingdom, but a chieftain of the Bohgan people becomes something of an obstacle to that purpose. Can Korr keep King Darvos and Princess Lauranna safe?
Melissa Michelle Green
Fate is a bunch of crap.
Don’t you think?
Ghostwriter Remington Chase tells other people’s stories for a living – anything to avoid telling her own, yet again. When a hottie with an attitude corners her at a party with news of her father’s death, Remi walks away.
But the cursed dagger her father was searching for has already lured too many people into its powerful web, and soon she has no choice.
Hart has never encountered a weapon as dangerous as the blade he’s promised to recover, or a woman as intriguing as this one that he feels so protective of.
Little do they know, a long-dead princesses curse has bound their souls together – forever.
Soon Remi and Hart discover that there is more to her father’s death, and the dagger, than either of them, realized – but they’ll have to trust each other in order to protect the world from the growing evil, and to fight for their happily ever after.
Sarah A. Hoyt
Like all Private Detectives, Seamus Lebanon [Leb] Magis has often been told to go to Hell. He just never thought he’d actually have to go.
But when an old client asks him to investigate why Death Metal bands are dressing in pink – with butterfly mustache clips – and singing about puppies and kittens in a bad imitation of K-pop bands, Leb knows there’s something foul in the realm of music.
When the something grows to include the woman he fell in love with in kindergarten and a missing six-year-old girl, Leb climbs into his battered Suburban and like a knight of old goes forth to do battles with the legions of Hell.
This is when things become insane…. Or perhaps in the interest of truth we should say more insane.
Margaret Ball
An old enemy, a new threat… When their son Aleksi is kidnapped, Thalia and Lensky are left wondering if the reason is ransom (bad) or revenge (worse). It’ll take all Thalia’s genius for applied topology (aka magic) to retrieve their baby – and meanwhile, the other topologists are turning into cats, getting jailed in the eighteenth century, and otherwise keeping life interesting.
Mad Genius Club 
Reblogged this on According To Hoyt and commented:
A few books from my friends. Blog post a little later.
Funny thing about Deep Pink’s cover blurb is it makes it sound like a fantasy parody of the Sad Puppies affair.
Of course I’ll have to read it to be sure. 😉
Dammit Mike, you had to go and say that. ~:D Now I’ve got an idea grinding away in here.
Sure, sure. Evil conspiracy by the Ministry of Truth to defraud wrong thinking authors, like budding writer Winston Smith, who were hoping for a career change and to wiggle out for the thumb of Big Brother as his brainwashing begins to wear off.
Thanks for promoting my little short story, Wyrm!
-Julie
Thank you! Cross posted in a couple of FB groups!