The Indie Books & Authors Newsletter #50
New indie releases! Celebrating and promoting indie authors!
Editor’s Note
The next issue will be an indie book recommendations special to celebrate the 1st anniversary of the Newsletter.
Due to limitations on the Editor’s time and resources, news round-up and book reviews will now be mostly on a submissions basis. If there has been none submitted any given week, it cannot be guaranteed that any will be included in that week’s edition. All the more reason to submit your content, which is always welcome!
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New Releases
Bound to the Fate of Kings by Jamie Jackson
In the beginning, there is no known year. There is no known location. There is only Aisa and her two sisters: three witches whose lives are tied to Fate.
Aisa is awakened one night, and drawn outside to witness the portent of what she and her sisters are to bring to pass: to find a king who is not yet king, and crown him.
What finds them is Beolin, a lord in service to King Duncan, and Malcolm, a man who is marked by the blood and breath of the dragon he wishes he was.
As Aisa leads Beolin to the crown destined for Malcolm will bear in his brother's place, she will have to choose: fight an unstoppable force or follow the only path she's ever known to take.
Merciless Waters by Rae Knowles
Aboard the ship Scylla, there is no future or past. Jaq, her fickle lover Lily, and their all-female crew exist in an endless present. It's better this way. At least it keeps Lily by Jaq's side, where she belongs. But the meddling gods care little for Jaq's longing, and despite her protective rituals, their punishmentarrives all the same:
A man, adrift on the open ocean. Delivered to snatch Lily from Jaq's arms forever.
Jaq knows what to do. She's lost Lily before. Her lover will return-when this interloper, this distraction, is snuffed out. But Jaq's murderous schemes may not be enough. The intruder's presence infects her crew with a plague her spells cannot cure: memory. And as the women recall how they came to Scylla, their minds bend one by one towards revenge.
Seventh Contact (Galactic Civilizations Book 3) by Mark Raines
Another alien species has achieved interstellar flight, and the League of Galactic Civilizations is waiting to greet them. But without warning, the alien colony ship disappears. Now the League is on edge, fearful the disappearance could reopen hostilities that led to the Galaxy Wars of the last fifteen hundred years.
While the League debates what to do, General Dash Cricken and the crew of The Prometheus try to solve the mystery of the disappearing ship and prevent a galaxy on the brink from falling back into war. But their investigation puts them in peril as many want the mystery of the vanishing ship to remain unsolved. No matter what happens, the galaxy will never be the same.
Seventh Contact is the third novel in the Galactic Civilizations series, building on the events of Felan’s Rescue and The Descendants of Prontoth, while taking the reader on a new adventure, exploring new corners of the galaxy, and getting a better understanding of the alien species that populate it.
Jurassic Jemma and the Mysteries of Time (The Jurassic Jemma Mysteries Book 2) by John J Delaney
Revenge is a dish best served cold.
Fossil hunter, ‘Jurassic’ Jemma Thorne is filming a live edition of ‘The Rock Detectives’ covering the excavation of a fossilised Spinosaurus on the Isle of Wight. Things don’t go to plan as she makes an unexpected discovery.
The find sets off a chain of events that threatens her freedom, her family and her life. Someone is after revenge. How far will they go to destroy everything that Jemma holds dear? Can she protect her loved ones in a race against time?
A page-turner with plenty of spills and thrills.
Pre-Order Now
Nameless Queen: A Prophecies of Ragnarok Story by Marie Sinadjan, release date November 30th
All things end, and all must die. But death is not always the end.
When Geiravor Lokisdottir was stripped of her name and cast out of Asgard, torn from her family and the life she had known, she thought she’d lost it all. But in the shadows of Niflheim she discovers the path to her destiny, and what it truly means to be queen.
This is a prequel short story to THE PROPHECIES OF RAGNAROK trilogy by Meri Benson and Marie Sinadjan, and a retelling of the myths involving Hel, the Norse goddess of death and the queen of the underworld.
Book Review
Don’t Lie by Sarah Jules, reviewed by N S Ford
A dark, disturbing and entertaining thriller! It’s the kind of book where you think you know where it’s going but then the author throws in a huge twist and shock ending. Although it’s described as a ‘young adult horror novel’, the content and strong language in the book, plus the main characters being university students, suggest to me that it’s more suitable for adults nostalgic for slasher movies such as Halloween and Scream.
The story is from the viewpoints of a group of students staying in a caravan. One of them is the subject of a prank which, inevitably, escalates into a nightmare. They are hiding secrets and their mysterious stalker is determined to expose them all. There is no let-up in this fast-paced, jump-scare, claustrophobic novel. The characters are given just enough background to ensure they are differentiated and flawed, but not enough to make you care whether they are murdered or not, which is ideal for this kind of story! I’d recommend it if you’re looking for a quick, page-turning horror thriller.
Free Book
Strangers Like Us (Reunion Gap Book 1) by Mary Campisi
Free on Amazon US and UK at the time of composing this edition of the Newsletter.
The Indie Books & Authors Newsletter is compiled and edited by N S Ford, indie author and book blogger.