There's so many amazing books coming out next year! Here are a few that I am looking forward to (excluding some continuous series I follow).
Aurelia Ryder #1
January 12, 2021
Atlanta was always a
dangerous city. Now, as waves of magic and technology compete for
supremacy, it’s a place caught in a slow apocalypse, where monsters
spawn among the crumbling skyscrapers and supernatural factions struggle
for power and survival.
Eight years ago, Julie Lennart left
Atlanta to find out who she was. Now she’s back with a new face, a new
magic, and a new name—Aurelia Ryder—drawn by the urgent need to protect
the family she left behind. An ancient power is stalking her adopted
mother, Kate Daniels, an enemy unlike any other, and a string of
horrifying murders is its opening gambit.
If Aurelia’s true
identity is discovered, those closest to her will die. So her plan is
simple: get in, solve the murders, prevent the prophecy from being
fulfilled, and get out without being recognized. She expected danger,
but she never anticipated that the only man she'd ever loved could
threaten everything.
One small misstep could lead to disaster. But for Aurelia, facing disaster is easy; it’s relationships that are hard.
As a fussy baby, Anne
de Bourgh’s doctor prescribed laudanum to quiet her, and now the young
woman must take the opium-heavy tincture every day. Growing up sheltered
and confined, removed from sunshine and fresh air, the pale and overly
slender Anne grew up with few companions except her cousins, including
Fitzwilliam Darcy. Throughout their childhoods, it was understood that
Darcy and Anne would marry and combine their vast estates of Pemberley
and Rosings. But Darcy does not love Anne or want her.
After her
father dies unexpectedly, leaving her his vast fortune, Anne has a
moment of clarity: what if her life of fragility and illness isn’t truly
real? What if she could free herself from the medicine that clouds her
sharp mind and leaves her body weak and lethargic? Might there be a
better life without the medicine she has been told she cannot live
without?
In a frenzy of desperation, Anne discards her laudanum
and flees to the London home of her cousin, Colonel John Fitzwilliam,
who helps her through her painful recovery. Yet once she returns to
health, new challenges await. Shy and utterly inexperienced, the wealthy
heiress must forge a new identity for herself, learning to navigate a
“season” in society and the complexities of love and passion. The once
wan, passive Anne gives way to a braver woman with a keen edge—leading
to a powerful reckoning with the domineering mother determined to
control Anne’s fortune . . . and her life.
An extraordinary tale
of one woman’s liberation, The Heiress reveals both the darkness and
light in Austen’s world, with wit, sensuality, and a deeply
compassionate understanding of the human heart.
In 1897, a fiery British aristocrat and an inept US spy search for a stolen invisibility serum that could spark a global war.
Miss
Constance Haltwhistle is the last in a line of blue-blooded rogue
inventors. Selling exotic firearms under her alias, the ‘Brass Queen,’
has kept her baronial estate’s coffers full. But when US spy, Trusdale,
saves her from assassins, she’s pulled into a search for a scientist
with an invisibility serum. As royal foes create an invisible army to
start a global war, Constance and Trusdale must learn to trust each
other. If they don’t, the world they know will literally disappear
before their eyes
February 9, 2021
In this game of seduction, the rules don't apply...
As
owner of the most scandalous club in London, the last thing the
notorious Marquess of Roth wants is a wife. Keeping up his false
reputation as a rake brings in the clients with the deepest
pockets—money he needs to fund a noble cause. Even though everything
inside tells him not to leave his beautiful, innocent wife behind at his
country estate...he must.
But three years later, tired of her
scoundrel of a husband headlining the gossip rags, Lady Isobel Vance
decides enough is enough. She is no longer a fragile kitten, but as the
anonymous author of a women’s sexual advice column, she’s now a roaring
tigress...and she can use her claws.
Isobel decides to go to him
in London, channeling her powers of seduction to make him beg to take
her back. But she didn’t expect her marauding marquess to be equally
hard to resist. Now the game is on to see who will give in to the other
first, with both sides determined like hell to win.
A Dark and Hollow Star #1 February 23, 2021
Choose your player.
The “ironborn” half-fae outcast of her royal fae family.
A tempestuous Fury, exiled to earth from the Immortal Realm and hellbent on revenge.
A dutiful fae prince, determined to earn his place on the throne.
The prince’s brooding guardian, burdened with a terrible secret.
For
centuries, the Eight Courts of Folk have lived among us, concealed by
magic and bound by law to do no harm to humans. This arrangement has
long kept peace in the Courts—until a series of gruesome and ritualistic
murders rocks the city of Toronto and threatens to expose faeries to
the human world.
Four queer teens, each who hold a key piece of
the truth behind these murders, must form a tenuous alliance in their
effort to track down the mysterious killer behind these crimes. If they
fail, they risk the destruction of the faerie and human worlds alike. If
that’s not bad enough, there’s a war brewing between the Mortal and
Immortal Realms, and one of these teens is destined to tip the scales.
The only question is: which way?
Wish them luck. They’re going to need it.
Jordan Baker grows up
in the most rarefied circles of 1920s American society―she has money,
education, a killer golf handicap, and invitations to some of the most
exclusive parties of the Jazz Age. She’s also queer, Asian, adopted, and
treated as an exotic attraction by her peers, while the most important
doors remain closed to her.
But the world is full of wonders:
infernal pacts and dazzling illusions, lost ghosts and elemental
mysteries. In all paper is fire, and Jordan can burn the cut paper heart
out of a man. She just has to learn how.
June 15, 2021
The first daughter is for the Throne.
The second daughter is for the Wolf.
As the only Second Daughter born in
centuries, Red has one purpose-to be sacrificed to the Wolf in the Wood
in the hope he'll return the world's captured gods.
Red is almost
relieved to go. Plagued by a dangerous power she can't control, at
least she knows that in the Wilderwood, she can't hurt those she loves.
Again.
But the legends lie. The Wolf is a man, not a monster. Her
magic is a calling, not a curse. And if she doesn't learn how to use
it, the monsters the gods have become will swallow the Wilderwood-and
her world-whole.
Brie hates the Fae and
refuses to have anything to do with them, even if that means starving on
the street. But when her sister is sold to the sadistic king of the
Unseelie court to pay a debt, she'll do whatever it takes to get her
back—including making a deal with the king himself to steal three
magical relics from the Seelie court.
Gaining unfettered access
to the Seelie court is easier said than done. Brie's only choice is to
pose as a potential bride for Prince Ronan, and she soon finds herself
falling for him. Unwilling to let her heart distract her, she accepts
help from a band of Unseelie misfits with their own secret agenda. As
Brie spends time with their mysterious leader, Finn, she struggles to
resist his seductive charm.
Caught between two dangerous courts, Brie must decide who to trust with her loyalty. And with her heart.
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