There are a several September releases I’m keen to read.
Hot Island Nights by Sarah Mayberry
Why I Want to Read It: Sarah Mayberry is one of my favourite Harlequin authors. I’ve already bought this book digitally from the Harlequin website and I’m saving it to read on my holidays.
Blurb: Elizabeth Morgan didn’t intend to abandon her very proper life. But that’s the best way to find her true—and less proper—self. So here she is in Australia, standing in front of a man who’s clad only in a towel. Nathan Jones is so tempting he could be the ideal candidate to help this good girl be very bad!
Sure enough, thanks to Nathan’s talented hands, Elizabeth is living all her sensual fantasies. And while the sex is great, something more is developing. She trusts him, and wants to share her secrets with him, and… Suddenly this feels more like a real relationship than some fun in the sun. Luckily, there’s a cure for too much commitment—more wickedness!
The Lawman by Patricia Potter
Why I Want to Read It: I’ve enjoyed other historical Blazes, and I’ve heard good things about Patricia Potter’s work. Like Sarah Mayberry’s book, this is officially a September release, but it’s already available for purchase on the Harlequin site.
Blurb: 1876 Colorado is home to some wild characters. And Samantha Blair is one of them. After all, how many girls find themselves being raised by outlaws? But she’s happy…until U.S. Marshal Jared Evans comes to town. He’s got one thing on his mind—revenge. And unfortunately, it’s Sam’s adoptive father he’s after.
Luckily, Samantha’s a crack shot. The good thing? She only hits Jared’s leg. The bad thing? He makes her insides quiver and melt like she never knew was possible….
Still, Jared’s out for her family’s blood. She has to stop him. And if it means keeping the good marshal on his back—and in her bed—well then, Sam will just have to do what needs to be done.
Even if she loses her heart in the process…
Warrior by Zoe Archer
Why I Want to Read It: At the risk of sounding weird, I honestly don’t know. This is the first book in a quartet of paranormal historical romances which will be released back-to-back between September and December. When I first read about Zoe Archer’s The Blades of the Rose series, I was intrigued by the premise and the unusual settings, particularly that of the third book, Rebel, which is set on the Canadian frontier on 1875.
Blurb: To most people, the realm of magic is the stuff of nursery rhymes and dusty libraries. But for Capt. Gabriel Huntley, it’s become quite real and quite dangerous…
The vicious attack Capt. Gabriel Huntley witnesses in a dark alley sparks a chain of events that will take him to the ends of the Earth and beyond—where what is real and what is imagined become terribly confused. And frankly, Huntley couldn’t be more pleased. Intrigue, danger, and a beautiful woman in distress—just what he needs.
Raised thousands of miles from England, Thalia Burgess is no typical Victorian lady. A good thing, because a proper lady would have no hope of recovering the priceless magical artifact Thalia is after. Huntley’s assistance might come in handy, though she has to keep him in the dark. But this distractingly handsome soldier isn’t easy to deceive…
Heartstone by C.J. Sansom
Why I Want to Read It: I love C.J. Sansom’s Tudor mystery series featuring Matthew Shardlake.
Blurb: Summer, 1545. England is at war. Henry VIII’s invasion of France has gone badly wrong, and a massive French fleet is preparing to sail across the Channel. As the English fleet gathers at Portsmouth, the country raises the largest militia army it has ever seen. The King has debased the currency to pay for the war, and England is in the grip of soaring inflation and economic crisis.
Meanwhile Matthew Shardlake is given an intriguing legal case by an old servant of Queen Catherine Parr. Asked to investigate claims of “monstrous wrongs” committed against a young ward of the court, which have already involved one mysterious death, Shardlake and his assistant Barak journey to Portsmouth.
Once arrived, Shardlake and Barak find themselves in a city preparing to become a war zone; and Shardlake takes the opportunity to also investigate the mysterious past of Ellen Fettipace, a young woman incarcerated in the Bedlam. The emerging mysteries around the young ward, and the events that destroyed Ellen’s family nineteen years before, involve Shardlake in reunions both with an old friend and an old enemy close to the throne. Events will converge on board one of the King’s great warships, primed for battle in Portsmouth harbour . . .
Trick of the Dark by Val McDermid
Why I Want to Read It: Val McDermid is one of my favourite mystery authors. I’m particularly fond of her stand alone thrillers, and this will be her first in over two years.
Blurb: When Charlie Flint is sent a mysterious package of press cuttings about a brutal murder, it instantly grabs her attention. The murder occurred in the grounds of her old Oxford college – a groom battered to death just hours after his wedding. As his bride and wedding guests sipped champagne, his alleged killers were slipping his bloodstained body into the river.
Charlie doesn’t know who sent the package, or why, but she can’t get the crime out of her head. And with her professional life as a clinical psychiatrist in tatters, she has plenty of time on her hands to investigate.
But as she delves deeper, and steps back into the closeted, mysterious world of Oxford colleges, she realises that there is much more to this crime than meets the eye. And every step she takes towards the truth is a step closer to danger…
I also have a few ARCs of September releases: Burning Up by Susan Andersen; Reckless by Anne Stuart; Finding Perfect by Susan Mallery; and Body Heat by Brenda Novak (I’ve added a link to my review).
What’s on your wish list for September?
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Oooo! *jots down the Sarah Mayberry* LOVE her books. Some of the best contemporaries.
Appreciate the heads up!
I am really looking forward to Zoe Archer’s series, because it’s different and sounds like fun. And reminds me of crazy Victorian adventure novels I’ve enjoyed, like Rider Haggard’s She.
Patricia Potter is a fantastic writer … I’ll be interested to hear what you think! I have clearly Got To read Sarah Mayberry. One of these days. Unfortunately my library gets most of these books as “e” and I’m not there yet.
My embarrassing moment at the Romance Writers of Australia dinner on Saturday night just past was gushing in a hopeless fan girl way over Sarah Mayberry. She was very gracious.
I ordered the Mayberry and Potter for myself from Harlequin, and my order just came last week. Am very excited to read both of these!
What Janet W says!! I already have this one in the TBR pile. She wrote some great Westerns and when I saw another one, I simply had to get it. She’s not an author that gets a lot of buzz, but I think she should!
And the Archer and Mayberry books are two I’m looking forward to also.