Happy Canada Day and Fourth of July! My Canada Day was spent in my pyjamas playing Cityville on Facebook (the very, very last thing I needed was to start playing a game. I already spend hours a day at the computer).
So, looks like we have a trio of new series getting fired up this week. This first one is from Kate Locke. God Save the Queen is part of her new The Immortal Empire series.
Synopsis…
Queen Victoria rules with an immortal fist. The undead matriarch of a Britain where the Aristocracy is made up of werewolves and vampires, where goblins live underground and mothers know better than to let their children out after dark. A world where being nobility means being infected with the Plague (side-effects include undeath), Hysteria is the popular affliction of the day, and leeches are considered a delicacy. And a world where technology lives side by side with magic. The year is 2012 and Pax Britannia still reigns.
Xandra Vardan is a member of the elite Royal Guard, and it is her duty to protect the Aristocracy. But when her sister goes missing, Xandra will set out on a path that undermines everything she believed in and uncover a conspiracy that threatens to topple the empire. And she is the key-the prize in a very dangerous struggle.
The Immortal Empire reading list can be found HERE.
Hannah Martine‘s Elementals series, starting with Liquid Lies, makes its debut this week as well.
Synopsis…
Magic is corporate America’s best-kept secret, and Gwen Carroway is superior at selling it …
Gwen possesses the unique ability to pick up any language in an instant—a power that will globally expand the profitable family business. As dutiful future leader of her race of water elementals, she’ll do anything to protect her people’s secrets and bloodlines—including enter an arranged marriage. Inside, however, she yearns for forbidden human men.
Reed is a mercenary addicted to the money and adrenaline rush of his work. After he inadvertently saves Gwen’s life, he ignites her taboo desire for men without magic—and with bodies of gods. Just as things heat up, Reed discovers that Gwen is exactly who he’s been hired to kidnap. He resolves to put work before lust, yet her luscious beauty and fiery spirit unravel him…
But there is a terrible truth behind Gwen’s family business—and now, caught between the kinsmen she no longer trusts and an enemy bent on vengeance, the only ally she has is her abductor…
The Elementals reading list can be found HERE.
This last one is from Alexis Morgan. With her Paladins of Darkness series finished, she will be focusing on The Warriors of the Mist. Book one is called My Lady Mage.
Synopsis…
A cursed destiny. A band of warriors. And one troubled kingdom.
It is whispered in Agathia that the legendary warriors of the mist-cursed by the gods-can be summoned only when a champion is needed and the cause is just. Gideon, their captain, knows this to be the one path that will lead his men to redemption-lest they face an eternity of damnation.
Years have passed since anyone has journeyed to the river’s edge, but times are desperate. Oppressed by a cruel guardian whose dark magic threatens to destroy her people, the beautiful and courageous Merewen calls upon the bespelled warriors. In Gideon she finds more than a champion, and in his arms, more than protection. However, their enemies are fighting with a power darker than anything than they imagined, and should Gideon fail, she will lose everything she holds dear-including her heart.
The Warriors of the Mist reading list can be found HERE.
“Alexis Morgan. With her Paladins of Darkness series finished,” – just want to point out that the series was not finished, it was dropped due lack of a interested publisher. I hated it because I was obviously one of the few people that read it and totally enjoyed it. there was no “ending” one day there was an announcement that there would be no more books.
That would suck. Especially if there was no “end”…following a series through several books and then just having it stop seemingly out of nowhere really doesn’t do it justice. From what I understand, it is happening more and more, too…publishers are pulling the plug way before the series has run its course. And yet others can and do go on forever.
You are absolutely correct; an example is Christine Feehan’s Dark series and Kenyon’s Dark-Hunters. Mind you I love them both, but because they’ve been going on for sooooooo long I tend to get bored. I liked the Morgan series; the publisher must really suck. The least they could have done was allow her to give a decent ending and not left us hanging.
Looks like Seressia Glass is another one whose series got dropped in the middle. She is turning to self publishing now, and hopes to have the next Shadow Hunters book out by this December. I do know what you mean about loving a series and still recognizing that its time has come. Mine would be Feehan’s Dark series, too. It would give her more time to concentrate on her other works, which are getting pushed way, way back.
“She is turning to self publishing now” – I wish Ms Morgan had decided to go that way, she gave us a bit of a book on her website but an actual novel would have been much better and there are still several storylines that were not finished/explored
I saw where Alexis Morgan had one final story to “give closure”, as it were, but I never heard much about it. It seemed to go out with a whimper, which is a shame. I think the self publishing has its own set of hazards, though – less advertising, sometimes crap editing and covers, etc. Alyssa Day has been trying to get her e-novella formatted and made public for well over six months now, but they keep running into issues.