Top 10 Tuesday: 2015 Books I Wanted

It's that time again!  Top Ten Tuesdays hosted by the ladies of The Broke And The Bookish

This week's topic: Top Ten 2015 Releases I Meant To Get To But Didn't

 So the Top four books were ones I really really wanted but most of my book were all hardcover so I had to draw the line. 
 
1. Nowhere but Here by Katie McGarry

2. Deceptions by Kelley Armstrong 

3. November 9 by Collen Hoover

4. The Drafter by Kim Harrison

5. Vanishing Girls by Lauren Oliver

6. All the Rage by Courtney Summers

7. Black Iris by Leah Raeder 

8. Hero by Samantha Young

9. Hotel Ruby by Suzanne Young

10. Every Last Breath by Jennifer L Armentrout

I almost didn't get the most talk books of the year which were

Red Queen
An Ember in the Ashes
Six of Crows 

However I got them before the new year came along.  

Top 10 Tuesday: 2016 Debut Novels

It's been a long time since I participated in the Top 10 Tuesday meme, I guess some of the subject weren't that interesting to me but also I rarely have time to blog anymore. I spend a lot of time online but mostly for school related stuff so after awhile I get tired of being on the computer.

This week is 2016 Debut Novels! Although I don't know if I'll get to 10 but we will see how far I can get in this post.

I knew once I did a search on Goodread it would help me figure out what are the 2016 debut novels!

1. This Is Where It Ends by Marieke Nijkamp

 

2. Riders by Veronica Rossi

 

3. The Shadow Queen by CJ Redwine

  

4. Reign of Shadows by Sophie Jordan

 

5. The Forbidden Wish by Jessica Khoury

  

6. Bluescreen by Dan Wells

 

7. Hear the Crickets by B.J Sheldon

 

I don't think I can think of any more! But some of these I know aren't debut authors but they are debut novels or new series by some of these authors. 

Top 10 Tuesday: Fall Shows I'd look forward to

After seeing Two Chicks on Books, she inspires me to do this post because quite honestly I haven't done much blogging. I've read few books these past two months and done minimum reviews.

So today Top 10 Tuesday post is all about what Fall shows I'm looking forward to seeing and I honestly HOPE that I have 10.

#1. The Walking Dead of course, I'm over the Fear the Walking Dead just over it.
 

#2. Quantico
 

#3. Code Black, let's hope this is what I'm looking for since Night Shift didn't cut it for me


#4. Flipping Vegas which is my new current obsession show to watch when its on
 

#5.  Right now Cake Boss is one of the shows that just started and I'm glad its back finally!
 

#6. Reign although I'm behind on season 2
 


#7. The Originals although I'm behind on both seasons


#8. Blindspot might be a show I'll watch

#9. House of DVF

#10. Keeping Up with the Kardashian

Can I also say that The X-Files is one of the highly anticipated show I'm waiting to see?!?!?!?

Top 10 Tuesday: Anticipating Releases

It's another Tuesday! and that means it's time for Top 10 Tuesday meme hosted by The Broke and Bookish. Today topic is Top Ten Most Anticipated Releases For the Rest of 2015

Thirty-Five and a Half Conspiracies by Denise Grover Swank 

No Synopsis yet

Released date plan is November 2015

Six of Crows (The Dregs #1) by Leigh Bardugo 

Game of Thrones meets Ocean's Eleven in this brand-new book in the world of the Grisha by New York Times-bestselling author Leigh Bardugo.

Ketterdam: a bustling hub of international trade where anything can be had for the right price—and no one knows that better than criminal prodigy Kaz Brekker. Kaz is offered a chance at a deadly heist that could make him rich beyond his wildest dreams. But he can't pull it off alone...

A convict with a thirst for revenge.

A sharpshooter who can't walk away from a wager.

A runaway with a privileged past.

A spy known as the Wraith.

A Heartrender using her magic to survive the slums.

A thief with a gift for unlikely escapes.

Six dangerous outcasts. One impossible heist. Kaz's crew is the only thing that might stand between the world and destruction—if they don't kill each other first. 

Hardcover, 480 pages

Expected publication: September 29th 2015 by Henry Holt and Company 

Every Last Breath (The Dark Elements #3) by Jeniffer L. Armetrout 

Some loves will last ’til your dying breath

Every choice has consequences—but seventeen-year-old Layla faces tougher choices than most. Light or darkness. Wickedly sexy demon prince Roth, or Zayne, the gorgeous, protective Warden she never thought could be hers. Hardest of all, Layla has to decide which side of herself to trust.

Layla has a new problem, too. A Lilin—the deadliest of demons—has been unleashed, wreaking havoc on those around her…including her best friend. To keep Sam from a fate much, much worse than death, Layla must strike a deal with the enemy while saving her city—and her race—from destruction.

Torn between two worlds and two different boys, Layla has no certainties, least of all survival, especially when an old bargain comes back to haunt them all. But sometimes, when secrets are everywhere and the truth seems unknowable, you have to listen to your heart, pick a side—and then fight like hell...

Paperback, 400 pages

Expected publication: July 28th 2015 by Harlequin Teen 

The Stars Never Rise by Rachel Vincent

Sixteen-year-old Nina Kane should be worrying about her immortal soul, but she's too busy trying to actually survive. Her town's population has been decimated by soul-consuming demons, and souls are in short supply. Watching over her younger sister, Mellie, and scraping together food and money are all that matters. The two of them are a family. They gave up on their deadbeat mom a long time ago.

When Nina discovers that Mellie is keeping a secret that threatens their very existence, she'll do anything to protect her. Because in New Temperance, sins are prosecuted as crimes by the brutal Church and its army of black-robed exorcists. And Mellie's sin has put her in serious trouble.

To keep them both alive, Nina will need to trust Finn, a fugitive with deep green eyes who has already saved her life once and who might just be an exorcist. But what kind of exorcist wears a hoodie?

Wanted by the Church and hunted by dark forces, Nina knows she can't survive on her own. She needs Finn and his group of rogue friends just as much as they need her.

Hardcover, 368 pages

Expected publication: June 9th 2015 by Delacorte Press 

Menagerie (Menagerie #1) by Rachel Vincent

From New York Times bestselling author Rachel Vincent comes a richly imagined, provocative new series set in the dark mythology of the Menagerie…

When Delilah Marlow visits a famous traveling carnival, Metzger's Menagerie, she is an ordinary woman in a not-quite-ordinary world. But under the macabre circus black-top, she discovers a fierce, sharp-clawed creature lurking just beneath her human veneer. Captured and put on exhibition, Delilah in her black swan burlesque costume is stripped of her worldly possessions, including her own name, as she's forced to "perform" in town after town.

But there is breathtaking beauty behind the seamy and grotesque reality of the carnival. Gallagher, her handler, is as kind as he is cryptic and strong. The other "attractions"—mermaids, minotaurs, gryphons and kelpies—are strange, yes, but they share a bond forged by the brutal realities of captivity. And as Delilah struggles for her freedom, and for her fellow menagerie, she'll discover a strength and a purpose she never knew existed.

Renowned author Rachel Vincent weaves an intoxicating blend of carnival magic and startling humanity in this intricately woven and powerful tale. 

Paperback, 400 pages

Expected publication: September 29th 2015 by MIRA 

The Veil (Devil's Isle #1) by Chloe Neill 

Seven years ago, the Veil that separates humanity from what lies beyond was torn apart, and New Orleans was engulfed in a supernatural war. Now, those with paranormal powers have been confined in a walled community that humans call the District. Those who live there call it Devil's Isle.

Claire Connolly is a good girl with a dangerous secret: she’s a Sensitive, a human endowed with magic that seeped through the Veil. Claire knows that revealing her skills would mean being confined to Devil’s Isle. Unfortunately, hiding her power has left her untrained and unfocused.

Liam Quinn knows from experience that magic makes monsters of the weak, and he has no time for a Sensitive with no control of her own strength. But when he sees Claire using her powers to save a human under attack—in full view of the French Quarter—Liam decides to bring her to Devil’s Isle and the teacher she needs, even though getting her out of his way isn’t the same as keeping her out of his head.

But when the Veil threatens to shatter completely, Claire and Liam must work together to stop it, or else New Orleans will burn…

Paperback, 336 pages

Expected publication: August 4th 2015 by NAL Trade 

Hotel Ruby by Suzanne Young 

Stay Tonight. Stay Forever.

When Audrey Casella arrives for an unplanned stay at the grand Hotel Ruby, she’s grateful for the detour. Just months after their mother’s death, Audrey and her brother, Daniel, are on their way to live with their grandmother, dumped on the doorstep of a DNA-matched stranger because their father is drowning in his grief.

Audrey and her family only plan to stay the night, but life in the Ruby can be intoxicating, extending their stay as it provides endless distractions—including handsome guest Elias Lange, who sends Audrey’s pulse racing. However, the hotel proves to be as strange as it is beautiful. Nightly fancy affairs in the ballroom are invitation only, and Audrey seems to be the one guest who doesn't have an invite. Instead, she joins the hotel staff on the rooftop, catching whispers about the hotel’s dark past.

The more Audrey learns about the new people she's met, the more her curiosity grows. She’s torn in different directions—the pull of her past with its overwhelming loss, the promise of a future that holds little joy, and an in-between life in a place that is so much more than it seems…

Welcome to the Ruby. 

Hardcover, 288 pages

Expected publication: November 3rd 2015 by Simon Pulse 

The Masked Truth by Kelley Armstrong

 
Riley Vasquez is haunted by the brutal murder of the couple she was babysitting for.

Max Cross is suffering under the shadow of a life-altering diagnosis he doesn’t dare reveal.

The last thing either of them wants is to spend a weekend away at a therapy camp alongside five other teens with “issues.” But that’s exactly where they are when three masked men burst in to take the group hostage.

The building has no windows. The exits are sealed shut. Their phones are gone. And their captors are on a killing spree.

Riley and Max know that if they can’t get out, they’ll be next—but they’re about to find out that even escape doesn’t equal freedom.

Hardcover, 320 pages

Expected publication: October 13th 2015 by Doubleday Canada

Passenger (Passenger #1) by Alexandra Bracken

Violin prodigy Etta Spencer had big plans for her future, but a tragedy has put her once-bright career at risk. Closely tied to her musical skill, however, is a mysterious power she doesn't even know she has. When her two talents collide during a stressful performance, Etta is drawn back hundreds of years through time.

Etta wakes, confused and terrified, in 1776, in the midst a fierce sea battle. Nicholas Carter, the handsome young prize master of a privateering ship, has been hired to retrieve Etta and deliver her unharmed to the Ironwoods, a powerful family in the Colonies--the very same one that orchestrated her jump back, and one Nicholas himself has ties to. But discovering she can time travel is nothing compared to the shock of discovering the true reason the Ironwoods have ensnared her in their web.

Another traveler has stolen an object of untold value from them, and, if Etta can find it, they will return her to her own time. Out of options, Etta and Nicholas embark on a perilous journey across centuries and continents, piecing together clues left behind by the mysterious traveler. But as they draw closer to each other and the end of their search, the true nature of the object, and the dangerous game the Ironwoods are playing, comes to light -- threatening to separate her not only from Nicholas, but her path home... forever. 

Hardcover, 464 pages

Expected publication: January 5th 2016 by Disney-Hyperion

Riders (Riders #1) By Victoria Rossi 

For eighteen-year-old Gideon Blake, nothing but death can keep him from achieving his goal of becoming a U.S. Army Ranger. As it turns out, it does.
Recovering from the accident that most definitely killed him, Gideon finds himself with strange new powers and a bizarre cuff he can’t remove. His death has brought to life his real destiny. He has become War, one of the legendary four horsemen of the apocalypse.
Over the coming weeks, he and the other horsemen—Conquest, Famine and Death—are brought together by a beautiful but frustratingly secretive girl to help save humanity from an ancient evil on the emergence.
They fail.
Now—bound, bloodied, and drugged—Gideon is interrogated by the authorities about his role in a battle that has become an international incident. If he stands any chance of saving his friends and the girl he’s fallen for—not to mention all of humankind—he needs to convince the skeptical government officials the world is in imminent danger.
But will anyone believe him?

Hardcover, 384 pages

Expected publication: February 2nd 2016 by Tor Teen

Top 10 Tuesday

Top 10 Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by The Broke and Bookish, today topic is Top Ten Books I'd Love To See As Movies/Tv Shows.

This is extremly hard because there's so many books that I have read and all of them could be contenders for Movie/TV shows.

1. Soul Screamers Series 
It would probably be better off doing it as a TV show unless the producers can find a way to fit 300+ into 120 pages which is the max for when converting a book into a movie. The journey that Kaylee had to go through during her High School life had a lot of ups and downs, and learning about something she never knew but had always thought that she was crazy with her panic attack.

2. The Naturals 
Honestly I love this series although there's only two books so far, it's a crime/thriller/paranormal book and I tend to do like some crime/thrillers shows. This series could go on forever since there's really no ending of this series, so which way would it be? Most likely a TV show because you can come up with different plots and if it were to be a Movie, you're really narrowed down to just what the book plot is with no expansion.

3. Fire and Blood series
MOVIE . . . Enough said

4. Lux Series
I know it's in the works for a Movie and I agree with it being a Movie AS LONG THEY DON"T FREAKING MESS IT UP!

5. The Selection Series
It was option for a TV show on CW but didn't get the green light for a first season and I think I know why proabaly because they also have presented Reign as a TB show as well and that one won in favor

6. The Rose Gardner Series
TV SHOW!!!! that way everything goes at its own pace rather than forced during the movie.

7. Shfiters Series
I don't know which way i would want it, maybe movie or maybe TV show. I just don't know. 

8. The Depossessed series
It can go either way . . . but it would probably rave better as a movie but Gargoyles was a TV show and a MOVIE before it really went into an TV show. So would you want to see Gargoyles on the big screen? Me personally YES.

9. Pushing the Limits Series
I can't make up my mind on TV or Movie . . . each book is different

10. A Wicked Saga
Definitely a TV show . . . but it could face competition with the other shows set in New Orleans.

Top 10 Tuesday

Top 10 Tuesday is hosted by The Broke and the bookish, and today topic is listing your 10 top Authors YOU REALLY REALLLY (donate an arm and leg or even blood) to MEET.

I'm going to add a little bit of Authors that I have met as well . . .

First my Top 10 Authors I want to meet

1. Rachel Vincent of course
2. Kristin Miller Gotta love her
3. Jennifer L Armentrout
4. Sophie Jordan
5. Denise Grover Swank I know I'll meet her at some point 
6. Jennifer Lynn Barnes
7. Chloe Neill
8. Katie McGarry
9. Victoria Scott
10. Page Morgan

Now after attending UtopYA last year, I met many authors that I would have never imagine meeting so many! Some I knew from social media and facebook so that was really great to meet the author face to face.

Authors that I've met at UtopYA

1. Megan Curd
2. Mindy Ruiz
3. Rachel Harris
4. Michele Miller
5. Casey Bond
6. Heather Hildenbrand 
++++ SO MUCH MORE!!!!!

Authors that I've met locally . . .

1. Andrea Creamer
2. Amanda Hockling 
3. Heather Anastasiu (she didn't host an book event but she was at one of Andrea Creamer book event) 
4. Jeri Smith-Ready

So yeah it's hard t0 believe that my "Author I have met" is growing compare to when I first started reading back in 2009 and it wasn't until 2014 when I met a whole load of writers in one place.

Top 10 Tuesday

Top 10 Tuesday is a meme hosted by The Broke and Bookish, today topic is what are the top 10 books you won't ever read.

1. I am Number Four (Lorien Legacies Sereis) by Pitacus Lore. I had saw the movie that feature Alex Pettyfer and the movie was good and it was enough for me to say "Now I want to read that book" but I am Number Four came out in 2011 practically four years ago and I've obtain at least all five books give or take as gifts. It's been four years, so I doubt I'll ever read it.

2. The Tiger's Saga by Colleen Houck. Again all were given to me as gifts and now they rest in crates in my closet so I had more space for books that I do really want to read but I kept adding on my To Be Read list.

3. The Iron Fey by Julia Kagawa. Again given as gifts, now I might still read it but I got a ton of other books that are on my shelves. Plus I've listed To Be Read list since 2012, more long wait.

4. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. Yes I have seen the movies but I don't have any desire to read the books. I have always had no desires to read the books, I almost didn't want to see the movie but Catching Fire was by far my most favorite movie. 

5. The Vampire Diaries by LJ Smith. I have read the first two books but when the show came on I was totally lost until someone pointed out that the show wasn't following the books. Now I'm behind on the show at least two seasons behind and with Nina Dobvre leaving the show, you wonder how is the show going to go on without her as Elena? That was the whole purpose of the books, Elena, Stefan and Damon love triangle.

6. Crusade by Nancy Holder. Seriously I read the first book and like it but when starting book two I lost touch with it but who knows I might pick it up again. But as of right now? No it's just a book that not on my radar.

7. Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia. OMG like really? it was so confusing! and I hadn't read it but I thought maybe if I watch the movie it might spark interest NOPE. That movie should be ashamed of how they went on with it, From what I read as the book summary I really thought that it would be a good for me.

8. Mercy by Rebecca Lim. Sighs I pick up this book because of angels and being in and out of different people bodies BUT it was so hard to find the next book! Like her books do not exist in any of my stores that I visit so I gave up on trying to even start it because what would happen if I started it and like it but couldn't buy the others? There's so foriegn rights issues since she is an Australia writer.

9. Starcrossed by Josephine Angelini. I've had this one under my Barnes and Noble wishlsit and honestly I don't know why I haven't taken it off. It's been on that wishlist since August 2013, maybe it was a rec that I gotten but really I never look for that book.

10. The Hollow Trilogy by Jessica Verday. Another Barnes and Noble wishlist but this one been on my list since September 2011. I think it's safe to say I'll never read nor buy this book.I can't even recall to why I wanted to read that book to begin with.

Top 10 Tuesday

Today Top 10 Tuesday post is all about your top 10 favorite authors! Top 10 Tuesday is hosted by The Broken and the Bookish.

My Top 10 Favorite Authors are . . .

1. Rachel Vincent
The author of  Shifters Series, Soul Screamers, Lion's Share (werecats/spin-off of shifters), upcoming future releases/New series; The Stars Never rises comes out June 9th, 2015, Menagerie comes out sometimes in 2015. 

2. Kristin Miller
Author of Seattle Pack: Gone with the Wolf (#1), Four Wedding and a werewolf (#2), and So I married a werewolf (#3). New/spin off series San Franisco Pack; The Werewolf wears Prada (#1), and the Blue Lake Series.

 
3. Jennifer L Armentrout
Author of Covenant series, Lux series, Dark Elements series, A Wicked Saga, as well NA books under her pen name J. Lynñ

4. Denise Grover Swank

Author of The chosen series, curse keepers, but most of all my favorite series the Rose Gardner series. She also has some upcoming books coming out. 

5. Page Morgan

Author of the dispossessed series, all about gargoyles how can you turn that down? The last book is or has been release this month. 

6. Jennifer Lynn Barnes

Author of raised by wolves and among others titles, but the series that she got me hooked is The Naturals, like seriously it's a great mixture of paranormal abilities and FBI cases. 

 
7. Sophie Jordan

She got a few titles under her belt, the books I read by her is Uninvited seriously love the whole idea of the book and Foreplay which is know as the ivy chronicles which I yet have to dive into the next two book or is it three now? 

8. Mindy Ruiz

Indie author of The Games of Heart, an highly influence Greek mythology and the houses of cards. Vegs-style. One of my favorite top 10 read of 2014.

9. Katie McGarry

Author of the best of contemporary, romance, young love, straight down to the core of emotions type books/series Pushing the limits consist of 5 books and two novella? Plus her upcoming book Nowhere but here is an mixture of bad guys and motorcycles

10. Victoria Scott

Author of Dnate walker severed which I yet still have to read but I'm a huge huge fan of her fire and blood series and I still haven't got my hands on Salt and Stone. 

Top 10 Tuesday

Top 10 Tuesday
Top 10 Tuesday Meme is hosted by The Broke and the bookish
Today topic is who are the Top 10 Characters I would like to check back in with . . .

First it would be with my favorite YA book/series,

1. Soul Screamers

Everyone

Kaylee & Tod, Nash & Sabine, Emma, yes even Sophie(Kaylee's wicked cousin so to speak) as well all the adults that were involved in the series. Harmony, Brendan, Aiden.
I practically grew up with these guys or at least through my last year of high school while I spend a time rereading the books before the next one came out. Then ending with everybody in 2013, where everyone got a happy ending.

What is Kaylee and Tod are doing in their eternal life?. . . probably spending every waking moment.

What is Nash and Sabine doing? . . . Finishing up college, Nash is living an addicted free life & maybe wedding bells?

What is Emma doing? . . . Who knows where she'll go

What is Sophie doing? . . . probably enjoying her time being a big sister and smooching her necromancer Lucas

2. Lux Series

Daemon and Katy BLACK

Daemon and Katy story hit me like wildfire!  So there series has ended with Opposition, people were still like what about an Alien Baby? Now Jennifer did give us an unoffical future down the down and katy and Daemon "will' have a baby. But I left wondering what been going on in their world?

Beyond having babies, what is everyone doing in their daily lives?

3. Prequel Nightshade series

 Ember and Barrow

Rise was just a little too leave me hanging, I know the author will try to get back to that world after she fulfill her other books committees because really the War has just begun.  I want wedding bells between Barrow and Ember, I want the epic finale that lead up to Calla's story.

So will there be wedding bells? Will there be an epic finale?

4. Hex Hall 

Sophie Mercer 

This series was by far the best book I had read that involves witchcraft/warlocks with a special school for all those growing parents. This was an alternative of Harry Potter world so I was very into it when I began reading it. The only thing I didn't really see an offical happy ending so I have no idea what's going on in Sophie's world.

So what's new in the world of Hex Hall and what's Sophie been up to?

How about some urban fantasy/Adult novels?

1. Shifters/werecats

Right now I'm getting a little peek into Faythe's world as Alpha, a wife and clearly a mom! In Lion's Share so I'm beyond happy to see everything is all and well at the Lazy S even with a few kids running around. Go Figures!

2. Seattle Wolf Pack

I'm writing a fan-fic of this series so I kind of had a mind of what's going on in some of my favorite couple Emelia and Drake. Even when they appears in the next two books of the Seattle pack. So far it's three kids right? I'd expect more in the near future, it would be nice if Kristin could write just a little novella of them down the road but I think I'm already doing that kind of

3. Blood Bound series

Cam and Olivia, now clearly these two have gone through hell and back for each other. They were nearly engaged but then suffer a tragic breakup then got back together again and serving one of the most powerful people sharing their committed time. You wonder where anyone after their service binding is done, what do they do next? And that goes for the same with Kori and Ian, Sera and Kris.
But also I would love if the author did an book on Noelle who was killed but had a relationship thus having a child with one of the powerful men. I believe there's a story there but who knows maybe it will be another fan-fic project for me.



I really can't think of 10 characters from 10 books, I got seven . . .

Top 10 Tuesday

Top 10 Tuesday

This is my first or second attempt to participate in this Top 10 Tuesday that is hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. Today Top 10 Tuesday post is about what you recently added to your TBR pile, now I'm going to cheat a little because some of my recent TBR list add-on were actual purchase I've made and listed them in a certain list on my goodreads and also on books that should have been on my TBR way before but was too lazy to add them on.

How to Love by Katie Cotugno 

Before:
Reena Montero has loved Sawyer LeGrande for as long as she can remember: as natural as breathing, as endless as time. But he's never seemed to notice that Reena even exists until one day, impossibly, he does. Reena and Sawyer fall in messy, complicated love. But then Sawyer disappears from their humid Florida town without a word, leaving a devastated—and pregnant—Reena behind.

After:
Almost three years have passed, and there's a new love in Reena's life: her daughter, Hannah. Reena's gotten used to being without Sawyer, and she's finally getting the hang of this strange, unexpected life. But just as swiftly and suddenly as he disappeared, Sawyer turns up again. Reena doesn't want anything to do with him, though she'd be lying if she said Sawyer's being back wasn't stirring something in her. After everything that's happened, can Reena really let herself love Sawyer LeGrande again?

In this breathtaking debut, Katie Cotugno weaves together the story of one couple falling in love—twice. 

Hardcover, 389 pages

Published October 1st 2013 by Balzer + Bray (first published 2013)

Bumped by Megan McCafferty 

When a virus makes everyone over the age of eighteen infertile, would-be parents pay teen girls to conceive and give birth to their children, making teens the most prized members of society. Girls sport fake baby bumps and the school cafeteria stocks folic-acid-infused food.

Sixteen-year-old identical twins Melody and Harmony were separated at birth and have never met until the day Harmony shows up on Melody’s doorstep. Up to now, the twins have followed completely opposite paths. Melody has scored an enviable conception contract with a couple called the Jaydens. While they are searching for the perfect partner for Melody to bump with, she is fighting her attraction to her best friend, Zen, who is way too short for the job.

Harmony has spent her whole life in Goodside, a religious community, preparing to be a wife and mother. She believes her calling is to convince Melody that pregging for profit is a sin. But Harmony has secrets of her own that she is running from.

When Melody is finally matched with the world-famous, genetically flawless Jondoe, both girls’ lives are changed forever. A case of mistaken identity takes them on a journey neither could have ever imagined, one that makes Melody and Harmony realize they have so much more than just DNA in common.

From New York Times bestselling author Megan McCafferty comes a strikingly original look at friendship, love, and sisterhood—in a future that is eerily believable. 

Hardcover, 323 pages

Published April 26th 2011 by Balzer + Bray

Persuasion by Martina Boone

Grieving the death of her godfather and haunted by her cousin Cassie’s betrayal, Barrie returns from a trip to San Francisco to find the Watson plantation besieged by reporters and ghost-hunters. Some are hoping to see the ancient spirit who sets the river on fire each night, while others are chasing rumors of a stolen shipment of Civil War gold that may be hidden at Colesworth Place. Chaos descends as Cassie hires a team of archeologists to excavate beneath the mansion ruins. But more is buried there than treasure.

A mysterious, magical man appears at Watson’s Landing, claiming the key to the Watson and Beaufort gifts and the Colesworth curse also lies beneath the mansion. With a mix of threats and promises, he engages Barrie and Cassie in a midnight visit, but the spell he conjurs has potentially deadly consequences.

While Barrie and dreamy Eight Beaufort struggle to make sense of the escalating danger and their growing feelings for each other, Barrie has to figure out not only whom to trust, but which gift is more reliable—Eight’s or her own. With millions of dollars and the fate of the founding families at stake, she must choose between what she feels deep in her heart and what will keep her loved ones safe. 

Hardcover, 464 pages

Expected publication: October 27th 2015 by Simon Pulse

Adamant by Emma L Adams

On an alternative 21st-century Earth in which our world is one of many in the Multiverse, the Inter-World Alliance exists to keep the peace between the worlds, and keep the monsters out.

Ada Fletcher is twenty-one, keeps a collection of knives in her room, and is more interested in fighting than her day job as a cashier. She also risks her life on a daily basis, helping refugees from a devastating magical war on her homeworld hide on the low-magic Earth. But when she’s taken into custody by the Alliance, her unusual magic makes her a prime suspect for a supervisor’s suspicious death.

For Kay Walker, whose family founded the organization, there has never been any doubt that his future is with the Alliance – even if it means dealing with sarcastic centaurs and dangerous monsters in the dark Passages between worlds. But when his supervisor is murdered, Kay discovers that a research project might have been the reason, and faces the choice of whether to ignore his instincts or risk becoming the next target, not to mention digging into the Alliance’s history and memories he’d rather keep buried. And there’s something not quite right about the strange, fierce girl he arrested as a suspect.

The last thing Ada wants is to help the infuriating Alliance guard who arrested her, but it soon becomes clear that the Alliance knows too much about Ada’s offworld origins. More, in fact, than she knows herself. Now she has to choose between loyalty to her family, and helping the Alliance save the Earth – and the Multiverse – from a deadly enemy. 

ebook

Published March 2015

Charmed by Michelle Krys

Indie has spent the last few weeks frantically searching for Paige. She's tried every spell imaginable, but witchcraft has gotten her nowhere, and she's going crazy with guilt. Despite what her warlock boyfriend, Bishop, tells her, Indie knows it's her fault her best friend was kidnapped by the Priory. And with the Priory destroyed, finding Paige feels more hopeless than ever-especially when Indie discovers that Paige isn't even on Earth. She's trapped in Los Demonios, an alternate dimension of Los Angeles filled with evil paranormals. No one who has gone there has ever come out.

Fueled by terror and loyalty, Indie is desperate to find a way into the underworld prison. She'll worry about getting out later. But facing the dark world's most dangerous witches and warlocks on her own means keeping her plan hush-hush-and forging alliances with some sketchy people, including a seriously sexy sorcerer.

Sometimes a witch must keep secrets from the people she cares about most. And sometimes she isn't the only one with secrets… 

Hardcover, 368 pages

Expected publication: May 26th 2015 by Delacorte Press

The Glass Arrow by Kristen Simmons

 
 The Handmaid’s Tale meets Blood Red Road in Glass Arrow, the story of Aya, who lives with a small group of women on the run from the men who hunt them, men who want to auction off breeding rights to the highest bidder.

In a world where females are scarce and are hunted, then bought and sold at market for their breeding rights, 15-year old Aya has learned how to hide. With a ragtag bunch of other women and girls, she has successfully avoided capture and eked out a nomadic but free existence in the mountains. But when Aya’s luck runs out and she’s caught by a group of businessmen on a hunting expedition, fighting to survive takes on a whole new meaning.

Hardcover, 336 pages

Published February 10th 2015 by Tor Teen

All In by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

Three casinos. Three bodies. Three days.

After a string of brutal murders in Las Vegas, Cassie Hobbes and the Naturals are called in to investigate. But even with the team's unique profiling talents, these murders seem baffling: unlike many serial killers, this one uses different methods every time. All of the victims were killed in public, yet the killer does not show up on any tape. And each victim has a string of numbers tattooed on their wrist. Hidden in the numbers is a code—and the closer the Naturals come to unraveling the mystery, the more perilous the case becomes.

Meanwhile, Cassie is dealing with an equally dangerous and much more painful mystery. For the first time in years, there's been a break in her mother's case. As personal issues and tensions between the team mount, Cassie and the Naturals will be faced with impossible odds—and impossible choices.

Hardcover, 320 pages

Expected publication: November 3rd 2015 by Disney-Hyperion 

 

 

 

The Drafter by Kim Harrison   

 

The Bourne Identity meets Minority Report in this first highly anticipated installment in #1 New York Times bestselling author Kim Harrison’s sexy new suspense trilogy, featuring a brilliant special task agent at the top of her field and set in a futuristic Detroit.

Hardcover, 432 pages

Expected publication: September 1st 2015 by Gallery Books

Hotel Ruby by Suzanne Young

Stay Tonight. Stay Forever.

When Audrey Casella arrives for an unplanned stay at the grand Hotel Ruby, she’s grateful for the detour. Just months after their mother’s death, Audrey and her brother, Daniel, are on their way to live with their grandmother, dumped on the doorstep of a DNA-matched stranger because their father is drowning in his grief.

Audrey and her family only plan to stay the night, but life in the Ruby can be intoxicating, extending their stay as it provides endless distractions—including handsome guest Elias Lange, who sends Audrey’s pulse racing. However, the hotel proves to be as strange as it is beautiful. Nightly fancy affairs in the ballroom are invitation only, and Audrey seems to be the one guest who doesn't have an invite. Instead, she joins the hotel staff on the rooftop, catching whispers about the hotel’s dark past.

The more Audrey learns about the new people she's met, the more her curiosity grows. She’s torn in different directions—the pull of her past with its overwhelming loss, the promise of a future that holds little joy, and an in-between life in a place that is so much more than it seems…

Welcome to the Ruby. 

Hardcover, 288 pages

Expected publication: November 3rd 2015 by Simon Pulse

The Fixer by Jennifer Lynn Barnes 

When sixteen-year-old Tess Kendrick is sent to live with her older sister, Ivy, she has no idea that the infamous Ivy Kendrick is Washington D.C.'s #1 “fixer,” known for making politicians' scandals go away for a price. No sooner does Tess enroll at Hardwicke Academy than she unwittingly follows in her sister's footsteps and becomes D.C.'s premier high school fixer, solving problems for elite teens.

Secrets pile up as each sister lives a double life. . . . until their worlds come crashing together and Tess finds herself in the middle of a conspiracy with one of her classmates and a client of Ivy's. Suddenly, there is much more on the line than good grades, money, or politics, and the price for this fix might be more than Tess is willing to pay.

Perfect for fans of Pretty Little Liars and Heist Society, readers will be clamoring for more in this exciting new series. 

Hardcover, 384 pages

Expected publication: July 7th 2015 by Bloomsbury Children's