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Tuesday 2 January 2018

DarkSider News for January!



Welcome to the first DarkSider News for 2018!

A brand new year to bring you some fabulous news and stories.




NEW RELEASES


Crashed on an Ice World by Anna Hackett is a stand alone book set in The Phoenix Adventures series world. It was released on the 28th December 2017.






He’s her boss. She’s his best friend. These two deep-space convoy security specialists are fighting their simmering attraction…until a starship crash on a deadly ice world changes everything.

Elana Korra loves her security job as a medic on the convoy ship, the Sky Nomad…except for the fact that she’s in love with her boss. Rynan is tough, loyal, and protective, and she knows he will never cross the line with her despite her deepest fantasies. But one scorching kiss sets up a smoldering tension, and as they head off into uncharted space on a treasure hunt to find an invaluable old Earth treasure, Elana knows it is time to make a change—get Ry to admit how he feels about her or leave. But a deadly attack leaves Ry and Elana on a damaged, out-of-control ship hurtling toward an unforgiving ice world.

Rynan Phoenix lives for his job of keeping the Phoenix Deep-Space Convoy safe. The nightmare of his childhood has taught him to steer well clear of romantic relationships, and he’s forced himself to ignore Elana’s compact body and gorgeous face. But when they find themselves stranded on an ice world with passengers to protect and space pirates hunting them down, Ry is forced to confront just how he feels about the most important woman in his life.

Ry and Elana will need all of their training in order to keep themselves alive. As they find hints to the old Earth treasure, their desire turns hotter and deeper…but then they discover that far more dangerous things call this ice planet home…


Available from:  Amazon US | Amazon Aus




366 Days of Flash Fiction by C.M. Simpson is a flash fiction anthology. It will be released by C.M. Publishing on 28th December 2017. 


Inside these covers is a short story for every day of the leap year, some of which tell of the fantastic, others which take us to the stars and a myriad of other world, and still others that horrify with creeping tales of the undead. Every story is an exploration of something that might have been and never was, or something that might yet be. Take a break from the world that is, and explore other possibilities.


Available from: Smashwords | Amazon US | Amazon Aus





RE-RELEASE

Lusting the Enemy by Mel Teshco is Book1 of the Nightmix series It was re-released 31 December 2017 (originally published in 2012). 




Akeisha is on a mission to be chosen as part of a harem for the desert king, Judas. She’ll use her body to entice and beguile, do anything it takes to save the near-extinct larakytes, her shape-shifting silver panther tribe, from Judas’ human subjects, who are trying to eradicate them.

She never expects to succumb to the wild ecstasy in his arms, a pleasure that threatens to expose her inner cat even as it transcends anything she’s ever felt from one of her own kind.


Falling in love with a human enemy was never part of the plan, but maybe there’s more to Judas than meets the eye.

Available from: Amazon US | Amazon Aus



PRE-ORDERS

The Queen's Game by C.M. Simpson is a short story set in the Pixie Dust and Trollhunter world, and explores the darker side of the Trollhunter tales. t It will be released by C.M. Publishing in January 2018. 




Never get involved with the Otherworld Fey. Take my word for it. I saved the Queen of Summer, and was betrothed to a lord of Winter by way of thanks—and then the human underworld got involved. So what do I do, when every choice is bad? What would youchoose: death by troll, or the mercy of an elf?


Pre order at Smashwords



Welcome to the Fruit Platter 
by Ellie Moonwater 
is book 2 in the Downtown Weres and Wizards series. It will be released by C.M. Publishing on 28th January. 



Swept into a whirlwind courtship with two werewolves, Louise has just one problem—the secret she is keeping from the pack. When her mates discover what she’s been holding back, will they stand by her? And what of the pack? Louise must choose: trust in them, or run? Either way, a sanctuary seems a lifetime away.

WARNING: Welcome to the Fruit Platter contains explicit, consensual and kinky sex, some spanking, two very lust-driven werewolves, multiple scenes of menage, mfm, and some wizards on the prowl.


Pre-order at Smashwords.



A Planet's Ransom by Carlie Simonsen is book 2 in the Space Adventure series. It will be released by C.M. Publishing on 13th January. 



Made hostages for a world whose international leaders didn’t know how to behave, we ended up on a new world, one we have to make our own, where every step of civilisation has to be earned, all over again. It’s meant to be a world to hide the secret of our survival—but not all the aliens believe we have a right to survive. Torn between two rival factions of an alien race, we have to save our keepers, defeat our hunters, and get a message to the stars.

And that’s just if we want to live.

Pre-order at Smashwords




In Full Flight
 by Carlie Simonsen 
is book 3 in the Wings series. Details of release coming soon.



Jack’s dad has a secret—a sad secret. He has never told Jack how he lost his wings. One day he does, and Jack’s world changes. At the same time, someone from his parents’ past comes into their present, and they must work out how to stop things from the past happening all over again.


Pre-order at Smashwords.



Scent of a Jaguar by S.E. Gilchrist is Book 2 of the Deadly Forces series It is expected to be released on 25th January. (Book 1 was released in December 2017 by Erin O'Hara Moira)


When a plane crash-lands in a remote area of the Amazon, a female archaeologist joins forces with a man she suspects is an artefact smuggler in order to survive. 

On route to her new dig, Bernadette Ashford’s dream job morphs into a nightmare after a message warns her life is in danger. A last-minute decision catapults her onto the ill-fated plane and separates her from her beloved sister. Zane MacIntosh is on a mission - expose a major drug cartel and identify the man who murdered his mother. He’ll allow nothing and no-one to divert him from his goal.

Lost in the jungle together, they and other passengers are being hunted by ruthless mercenaries who have no intention of allowing anyone to escape. In their desperate struggle to live, a new-found love blooms and a deadly secret is unearthed. But with a killer in their midst, will their love survive the heavy cost of freedom? 


Pre-order from Amazon US | Amazon Aus 




ANTHOLOGY 

Ripples is an anthology by the Rockingham Writers Centre. Our own D.D. Line has a story in it. It was released in December. Copies are available from the Rockingham Writers Centre.






FREE READ

A Broken Star a short story by D.D. Line is available on her blog. 






Congratulations to all our DarkSiders!


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1 comment:

  1. Thank you so much for including my release. Congratulations to Mel, DD, Carlie, CM, Anna and Ellie on your new releases - may they fly high.

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