If you thought August was going to break your piggy bank better pawn your china because September has some awesome new releases that WILL be on my bookshelf.

Blameless by Gail Garriger

Genre:Horror/Paranormal

#3 in Parasol Protectorate

Release September 1st

I’ve been practically foaming at the mouth to read Blameless especially the way things ended with Alexia and Lord Maccon.

Quitting her husband’s house and moving back in with her horrible family, Lady Maccon becomes the scandal of the London season.

Queen Victoria dismisses her from the Shadow Council, and the only person who can explain anything, Lord Akeldama, unexpectedly leaves town. To top it all off, Alexia is attacked by homicidal mechanical ladybugs, indicating, as only ladybugs can, the fact that all of London’s vampires are now very much interested in seeing Alexia quite thoroughly dead.

While Lord Maccon elects to get progressively more inebriated and Professor Lyall desperately tries to hold the Woolsey werewolf pack together, Alexia flees England for Italy in search of the mysterious Templars. Only they know enough about the preternatural to explain her increasingly inconvenient condition, but they may be worse than the vampires — and they’re armed with pesto.

No Mercy by Sherrilyn Kenyon

Genre: Paranormal Romance

#20 in Dark Hunter Series

Releases September 7^th

Ladies and gentleman you can’t see it but I’m raising the roof.  How excited are we to getting our hands on another Peliter story?!  I have it on good authority there won’t be 200 pages of ‘flashbacks’ with this one.

BTW am I the only one that remembers the Amazon chikie-poo being a leisbian…?

Live fast, fight hard and, if you have to die, then take as many of your enemies with you as you can. That is the Amazon credo and it was one Samia lived and died by. Now in contemporary New Orleans, the immortal Amazon warrior is about to learn that there’s a worse evil coming to slaughter mankind than she’s ever faced before.

Shapeshifter Dev Peltier has stood guard at the front of Sanctuary for almost two hundred years and in that time, he’s seen it all. Or so he thought. Now their enemies have discovered a new source of power–one that makes a mockery of anything faced to date.

The war is on and Dev and Sam are guarding ground zero. But in order to win, they will have to break the most cardinal of all rules and pray it doesn’t unravel the universe as we know it.

Venom by Jennifer Estep

Genre: Urban Fantasy

#3 in Elemental Assassin

Releases September 28^th

All you need to know is that I’ve read it and yeah, be prepared to get your panties blown off ‘cause it’s that good. *coughs Jennifer Estep is coming to Smokinhotbooks in October with a Giveaway!)

What kind of assassin works pro bono?It’s hard to be a badass assassin when a giant is beating the crap out of you. Luckily, I never let pride get in the way of my work. My current mission is personal: annihilate Mab Monroe, the Fire elemental who murdered my family. Which means protecting my identity, even if I have to conceal my powerful Stone and Ice magic when I need it most. To the public, I’m Gin Blanco, owner of Ashland’s best barbecue joint. To my friends, I’m the Spider, retired assassin. I still do favors on the side. Like ridding a vampire friend of her oversized stalker—Mab’s right-hand goon who almost got me dead with his massive fists. At least irresistible Owen Grayson is on my side. The man knows too much about me, but I’ll take my chances. Then there’s Detective Bria Coolidge, one of Ashland’s finest. Until recently, I thought my baby sister was dead. She probably thinks the same about me. Little does she know, I’m a cold-blooded killer . . . who is about to save her life.

Double Cross by Carolyn Crane

Genre: Urban Fantasy

#2 in The Disillusionits Trilogy

Release September 28th

Gasp, I need to get my hands on Packard er…I mean Double Cross.

Justine Jones has lived her life as a fearful hypochondriac until she’s lured into the web of a mysterious mastermind named Packard. He gifts her with extraordinary mental powers-dooming her to fight Midcity’s shadowy war on paranormal crime in order to find the peace she so desperately craves.

But now, serial killers with unheard-of skills are terrorizing the most powerful beings in Midcity, including mastermind Packard – and his oldest friend and worst enemy, Midcity’s new mayor, who has the ability to bend matter itself to his will.

As the body count grows, Justine faces a crisis of conscience as she tests the limits of her new powers and faces an impossible choice between two flawed but brilliant men . . . one on a journey of redemption, and the other descending into a pit of moral depravity.

Bayou Moon by Ilona Andrews

Genre: Paranormal/Urban Fantasy

#2 The Edge Series

Releases September 28^th

Ok, it took me ten minutes to figure out that Bayou Moon did not have the same characters as On the Edge.  But, I’m still excited * fist pump*

Cerise Mar and her unruly clan are cash poor but land rich, claiming a large swathe of the Mire, the Edge swamplands between the state of Louisiana and the Weird. When her parents vanish, her clan’s long-time rivals are suspect number one.

But all is not as it seems. Two nations of the Weird are waging a cold war fought by feint and espionage, and their conflict is about to spill over into the Edge—and Cerise’s life. William, a changeling soldier who left behind the politics of the Weird, has been forced back into service to track down a rival nation’s spymaster.

When William’s and Cerise’s missions lead them to cross paths, sparks fly—but they’ll have to work together if they want to succeed … and survive.

Honorable mention

Dark Peril by Christine Feehan (Carpathians #21)

Releases September 9 or Pre-order August 31

This one is about Solange (remember she was the jaguar that was abused…) and Dominic of the Dragonseeker lineage.

PS I’m still waiting for Skyler’s story, which seems like a chousand years (Hawaiian for mucho time)

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