New Releases ~ week of 03/05/2018

A Brush With Shadows by Anna Lee Huber (#6 Lady Darby)

A Rogue of Her Own by Grace Burrowes (#4 Windham Brides)
As You Wish by Jude Deveraux (#2 Summer Hill)
Bad Moon Rising by Mandy M Roth (#2 Tempting Fate)
Beast of Stone by Linda Sue Park (#3 Wing & Claw)
Brandon's Bliss by Dale Mayer (#14 Heroes for Hire)
Burn Bright by Patricia Briggs (#5 Alpha and Omega)
Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi (#1 Children of OrÏsha)
Close to Home by Cara Hunter (#1 DI Fawley)
Dark Tracks by Philippa Gregory (#4 Order of Darkness)
Dipped to Death by Kelly Lane (#3 An Olive Grove Mystery)
Faith in Sweetwater County by Ciara Knight (#10 Sweetwater County)

Flight of the White Wolf by Terry Spear (#24 Heart of the Wolf)
Forbidden Stranger by Megan Hart (#3 The Protector)
Four of a Kind by Kate Kessler (#4 Audrey Harte)
Funeral in Montova by David P Wagner (#5 Rick Montoya Italian Mystery)
Genesis by Brendan Reichs (#2 Project Nemesis)
Hero at the Fall by Alwyn Hamilton (#3 Rebel of the Sands)
High Voltage by Karen Marie Moning (#10 MacKayla Lane (Fever))
Highland Dragon Master by Isabel Cooper (#3 Dawn of the Highland Dragon)
If I Live by Terri Blackstock (#3 Casey Cox)
In Places Hidden by Tracie Peterson (#1 Golden Gate Secrets)
Inkmistress by Audrey Coulthurst (#0.5 Of Fire and Stars)
Killing in C Sharp by Alexia Gordon (#3 Gethsemane Brown Mystery)

Lady Henterman's Wardrobe by Marshall Ryan Maresca (#2 Streets of Maradaine)
Lake Silence by Anne Bishop (#6 Others)
Marinating in Murder by Linda Wiken (#3A Dinner Club Mystery)
Marrying the Wedding Crasher by Melinda Curtis (#11 Harmony Valley)
Not Quite Crazy by Catherine Bybee (#6 Not Quite)
Obeying Rowen by Becca Jameson (#2 Club Zodiac)
On the Brink of Passion by Tamsen Parker (#5 Snow & Ice Games)
Plum Tea Crazy by Laura Childs (#19 Tea Shop Mysteries)
Restore Me by Tahereh Mafi (#4 Shatter Me)
Scorned by Laura Marie Altom (#7 SEAL Team: Disavowed)

Second Chance Soldier by Linda O. Johnston (#1 K-9 Ranch Rescue)
Secret Service Setup by Jessica R Patch (#2 Security Specialists)
Southern Discomfort by Caroline Fardig (#1 A Southern B&B Mystery)
Summer Storm by Izzy Shows (#8 Codex Blair)
Switched by Jen Calonita (#4 Fairy Tale Reform School)
The Bags of Tricks Affair by Bill Pronzini (#6 Carpenter and Quincannon Mysteries)
The Case for Jamie by Brittany Cavallaro (#3 Charlotte Holmes)
The Convent's Secret by C. J. Archer (#5 Glass and Steele)
The Darling Dahlias and the Unlucky Clover by Susan Wittig Albert (#7 Darling Dahlias)
The Double Deal by Catherine Mann (#2 Alaskan Oil Barons)

The Longest Silence by Debra Webb (#5 Shades of Death)
The Punishment She Deserves by Elizabeth George (#20 Inspector Lynley)
The Witch Doesn't Burn in This One by Amanda Lovelace (#2 Women Are Some Kind of Magic)
Trap by Scarlett Dawn (#5 Origin)
Treacherous Trails by Dana Mentink (#2 Gold Country Cowboys)
Tricks for Free by Seanan McGuire (#7 Incryptid)
Twins for the Rancher by Trish Milburn (#13 Blue Falls, Texas)
Until Harmony by Aurora Rose Reynolds (#4 Until Her)
Virgin Territory by Lia Riley (#3 Hellions Angels)
What's a Highlander Got to Do by Sabrina York (#5 Untamed Highlanders)
Who Moved My Goat Cheese? by Lynn Cahoon (#1 A Farm-to-Fork Mystery)
Wrath of Empire by Brian McClellan (#2 Gods of Blood and Powder)

New Releases ~ week of 01/16/2017

A Love for Leah by Emma Miller (#4 Amish Matchmaker)

A Merciful Death by Kendra Elliot (#1 Mercy Kilpatrick)
A Puzzle to Be Named Later by Parnell Hall (#18 Puzzle Lady)
Adoring Ink by Carrie Ann Ryan (#6.5 Montgomery Ink)
All He Needs by Shirley Hailstock (#3 Weddings by Diana)
Bewitching Bedlam by Yasmine Galenorn (Bewitching Bedlam #1)
Carve the Mark by Veronica Roth (#1 Carve the Mark)
Contract Signed by Marie Harte (#1 Triggerman, Inc.)
Empire Games by Charles Stross (#1 Empire Games)
Feversong by Karen Marie Moning (#9 Fever)
Five O'Clock Twist by Joanne Pence (#5 Rebecca Mayfield Mystery)
Flawed by Tracy Wolff (#4 Ethan Frost)
Her Lakeside Family by Lenora Worth (#5 Men of Millbrook Lake)

Hollow by Robert J. Crane (#12 Out of the Box)
Hot Combat by Elle James (#1 Ballistic Cowboys)
Into the Abyss by Dale Mayer (#10 Psychic Visions)
Law And Disorder by Heather Graham (#1 Finnegan Connection)
Let It Burn by Ruth Cardello (#4 The Barrington Billionaires)
Martians Abroad by Carrie Vaughn
Red's Salvation by Kennedy Layne (#7 Red Starr)
Savage Sacrifice by Ellis Leigh (#5 Dire Wolves Series)
Scheduled to Death by Mary Feliz (#2 Maggie McDonald Mystery)
Secret Origins by James Riley (Story Thieves #3)
Spurred On by Sabrina York (#3 Stripped Down)
Tangled Up by Erin Nicholas (#2 Taking Chances)
The Nowhere Man by Gregg Hurwitz (#2 Evan Smoak)
The Rising by Heather Graham, Jon Land
Thirst by Jacquelyn Frank (#1 Energy Vampires Series)

New Releases ~ week of 01/18/2016

A Painted Goddess by Victor Gischler (#3 Fire Beneath the Skin)

A Raging Dawn by CJ Lyons (#2 Fatal Insomnia)
A Soldier's Promise by Karen Templeton (#7 Wed in the West)
A Song for the Brokenhearted by William Shaw (#3 Been and Tozer)
Appealed by Emma Chase (#3 Legal Briefs)
Body by Joey W Hill (#1 Naughty Wishes)
Brooklyn on Fire by Lawrence H. Levy (#2 Mary Handley Mystery)
Cunning by Aleatha Romig (#2 Infidelity)
Darker Cravings by Candice Gilmer (#2 Mythical Knights)
Dirty Sexy Saint by Carly Phillips (#1 Dirty Sexy Series)
Dr. Forget-Me-Not by Marie Ferrarella (#16 Matchmaking Mamas)
Enraptured by Candace Camp (#3 Secrets of the Loch)
Falcone Strike by Christopher Nuttall (#2 Angel in the Whirlwind)

Feverborn by Karen Marie Moning (#8 Fever)
Forgotten Promises by Jessica Lemmon (#2 Lost Boys)
Funeral Games by Jay Allan (#3 Far Star Trilogy)
Hot Protector by Lynn Raye Harris (#10 Hostile Operations Team)
On the Meldon Plain by Pam Brondos (#2 The Fourline Trilogy)
Rapturous by Marie Force (#4 Quantum Trilogy)
Sutherland's Secret by Sharon Cullen (#1 Highland Pride)
The Doctor's Valentine Dare by Cindy Kirk (#13 Rx for Love)
The Sons of Sora by Paul Tassi (#3 The Earthborn Trilogy)
To Have and the Master by Sparrow Beckett (#3 Masters Unleashed)
Who Killed Shelly Sinclair? by Carla Cassidy (#12 Scene of the Crime)
Wickedly Ever After by Deborah Blake (#2.5 A Baba Yaga Novel)
Will to Survive by Eric Walters (#3 The Rule of Three)

This Week's Reads

**I managed to read/start all my books from last week,I don't think I will get to all of this week's.

House Immortal (House Immortal #1) by Devon Monk
Goodreads
**I've just started this one. It is interesting so far. Still in the early stages trying to figure out how the world is set up and works.

Down The Rabbit Hole ~ Anthology
J.D. Robb, Mary Blayney, Elaine Fox, Mary Kay McComas, R.C. Ryan
Goodreads
**Picked this up for the J.D Robb story. Will try a few of the others but might not read them all.

Iced (Fever #6) by Karen Marie Moning
Goodreads
**I really enjoyed reading the original 5 books from this series. I'm worried about this living up to those books.

The Crown Tower (The Riyria Chronicles) by Michael J. Sullivan
Goodreads
** Came across these and decided to give them a try. I'm going to try reading them in chronological order rather than release date order.

New Releases ~ week of 01/19/2015

A SEAL's Secret by Tawny Weber (#6 Uniformly Hot SEALs)

All Fall Down by Ally Carter (#1 Embassy Row)
Bound to be Tested by Becca Jameson (#3 Emergence)
Burned by Karen Marie Moning (#7 Fever)
Confessions by Cynthia Eden (#1 Battling McGuire Boys)
Consume Me by Ryan Michele (#3 Ravage MC)
Fear the Darkness by Becky Masterman (#2 Brigid Quinn)
First Frost by Sarah Addison Allen (#6 Waverley Family)
Hero By Night by Sara Jane Stone (#3 Independence Falls)
Last Hit: Reloaded by Jessica Clare, Jen Frederick (#2.5 Hitman)
Lethal Consequences by Elisabeth Naughton (#2 Aegis Security)
Mr. Kiss and Tell by Jennifer Graham (#2 Veronica Mars)
Nisekoi: False Love, Vol. 10: Shu's Crush by Naoshi Komi (#10 Nisekoi)

Once Loved by Cecy Robson (#2 Shattered Past)
Once Upon a Highland Christmas by Lecia Cornwall (#3 Once Upon a Highland Season)
One Last Thing by Kim Baldwin (#7 Elite Operatives)
Playing by the Greek's Rules by Sarah Morgan (#0.5 Puffin Island)
Playing it Kale  Keary Taylor #4 in McCain Saga
Polaris by Mindee Arnett (#2 Avalon)
Revealing Ruby by Lavinia Kent (#1.5 Bound and Determined)
Ripper by Lexi Blake (#1 Hunter)
Serial, Volume 3 by Jaden Wilkes (#5 Serial)
The City of Blood by Frédérique Molay (#3 Paris Homicide)
The Magician's Secret by Carolyn Keene (#8 Nancy Drew Diaries)

The Prey by Tom Isbell (#1 The Hatchery)
The Prince by Sylvain Reynard (#0.5 The Florentine)
White Knight by Kelly Meade (#3 Cornerstone Run Trilogy)

Armchair BEA 2014 ~ Beyond the Borders

*Find out more about Armchair BEA here

Today's prompt: Tell us about the books that transported you to a different world, taught you about a different culture, and/or helped you step into the shoes of someone different from you. What impacted you the most about this book? What books would you recommend to others who are ready or not ready to step over the line? In essence, let’s start the conversation about diversity and keep it going!

For me the first books that jumped into thought when I read this were The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini. Even though I usually don't venture into contemporary for my reading time, I really enjoyed these books. There was just something about them that grabbed my attention and even when I found them uncomfortable I had to continue reading.

On the lighter side, I've always enjoyed reading books set in Ireland. From many Nora Roberts books (romance or PNR) to Karen Marie Moning's Fever and Highlander series, I love the settings almost as much as the stories themselves.
Another set I enjoyed was Eon and Eona by Alison Goodman. They are fantasy but based on and in Asian astrology.

I know there are others I'm forgetting and will probably see them as I'm visiting other blogs today but here are just a few of the ones I've read.