Here are some newer paranormal, steampunk and sci-fi romance, compiled for you and HEA by some of our favorite authors (info provided by publishers and/or their websites):

Deep Midnight by Heather Graham (Zebra). USA TODAY best-selling author Heather Graham sweeps readers to exotic Venice and the sensuous and threatening world of vampires, as she combines powerful paranormal romance with compelling classic adventure.

Guardian by Nancy Northcott (Forever Yours). A personal case forces FBI agent Camellia "Mel" Wray to work with Dr. Stefan Harper, the only man she ever loved, and lost. When something dark and otherworldly threatens humans, Stefan must use his secret mage powers to keep everyone safe. Will Mel be able to trust him again? Or will their love cost him even more than it did the first time?

Virtual Heaven by Ann Lawrence (Ellora's Cave Blush). Book one in the Perfect Heroes series. Nothing extraordinary has ever happened to Maggie O'Brien until the day she plays a fantasy game called Tolemac Wars. When something goes awry, Maggie finds herself a slave in a very frightening world engulfed in war. How can she escape this strange place where men carry swords and others perform magic? When Kered comes to Maggie's rescue, she cannot fight the attraction she feels for him. He casts a spell over her heart that has nothing to do with magic, and when she falls in love, she realizes she must choose…his world or hers.


The Genie Smolders by Kellyann Zuzulo (Boroughs Publishing Group). Zubis. A creature of fire. A genie lover who touched her body and soul like no man ever could. Such forbidden passion might sear the very insides of a human woman, but Bethany O'Brien is not just any woman. He swore to love her forever, but they were torn apart. Two years later, the only token of their love is the child she carried and Bethany's broken heart. Reunited in a storm of desire and a web of intrigue, Zubis and Bethany will soon set each other ablaze—and try to protect the rest of humanity.

The following new paranormal releases were complied for HEA by Brynna Curry, author of Fire's Ice. Her website is

Avery by Charlotte McConaghy (Random House Australia). The people of Kaya die in pairs. When one lover dies, the other does too. So it has been for thousands of years until Ava. For although her bondmate, Avery, has been murdered and Avas soul has been torn in two, she is the only one who has ever been strong enough to cling to life. Vowing revenge upon the barbarian queen of Pirenti, Avas plan is interrupted when she is captured by the deadly prince of her enemies. Prince Ambrose has been brought up to kill and hate. But when he takes charge of a strangely captivating Kayan prisoner and is forced to survive with her on a dangerous island, he must reconsider all he holds true . . .In a violent country like Pirenti, where emotion is scorned as a weakness, can he find the strength to fight for the person he loves . . . even when shes his vengeful enemy?

Beautiful Danger by Michele Hauf (Harlequin Nocturne). As a member of an ancient order of hunters, Lark has found that eliminating dangerous vampires is about more than duty. It's personal-a kill for every day her husband was held captive before his death. Staking her prey isn't a challenge until she confronts Domingos LaRoque. Mad with vengeance and the blood of a powerful phoenix, Domingos tests her skills...and seduces her soul.

Forsaken by the Others by Jess Haines (Kensington Books Zebra). The Others–vampires, werewolves, things that go chomp in the night–don't just live in nightmares anymore. They've joined with he mortal world. And for private investigator ShiarraWaynest, that means mayhem…Have a one night stand with a vampire, and you can end up paying for it for eternity. P.I. ShiarraWaynest, an expert on the Others, knows that better than most. Yet here she is, waking up beside charismatic vamp Alec Royce with an aching head…and neck. Luckily, Shia has the perfect excuse for getting out of town–namely, a couple of irate East Coast werewolf packs who'd like to turn her into a chew toy.


Hidden Fire by Alexis Fleming (Harlequin Enterprises Australia). Gili Adams is willing to do anything to protect her parents, even travel to Australia in search of the mythical opal, the Dreamtime Fire. But her resolve is tested when she has to enlist the help of anthropologist Morgan Hunt, the Guardian of the opal and the man who once accused her of using her feminine wiles to steal a priceless artefact. She's faced with an impossible choice: lie to the man she never wanted to lose or risk her parents' lives. Nothing can be allowed to stand in her way... not even her own heart.


The Grave Winner by Lindsey Loucks (Crescent Moon Press). Leigh Baxton is terrified her mom will come back from the dead — just like the prom queen did. While the town goes beehive over the news, Leigh bikes to the local cemetery and buries some of her mom's things in her grave to keep her there. When the hot and mysterious caretaker warns her not to give gifts to the dead, Leigh cranks up her punk music and keeps digging. She should have listened. Two dead sorceresses evicted the prom queen from her grave to bury someone who offered certain gifts. Bury them alive, that is, then resurrect them to create a trio of undead powerful enough to free the darkest sorceress ever from her prison inside the earth. With help from the caretaker and the dead prom queen, Leigh must find out what's so special about the gifts she gave, and why the sorceresses are stalking her and her little sister. If she doesn't, she'll either lose another loved one or have to give the ultimate gift to the dead — herself.

My Big Fat Demon Slayer Wedding by Angie Fox (Angie Fox). Lizzie Brown is about to have the destination wedding her dreams. But as this former preschool teacher knows, being a demon slayer makes everything more complicated. The vengeful Earl of Hell is still on her tail. And now it seems that one of the guests at the eccentric, seaside mansion is possessed and trying to kill her. Maybe she should just elope. The groom, studly shape-shifting griffin Dimitri Kallinikos, vows to protect her at all costs. Yet even he is acting suspiciously. And minions of the devil are popping up everywhere. Now Lizzie must protect her socialite mother, her Greek in-laws and her grandmother's gang of biker witches – all of whom are convinced they know what's best for her, and her big day. As the wedding draws closer, Lizzie has to learn who is behind the attacks – and fast – or risk losing everyone she loves.

Portals of Oz by Sheri Fredericks (Temple Publishing). Wood Nymph Abelia came to Willow Bay to satisfy her curiosity of human life, and got more than she bargained for. Jack can't wait to leave Pennsylvania and return to his explorations in Australia, where life is filled with dingoes and roos. Human hunters stalk the enthralling Abelia, and Jack comes to her rescue. The hunters back off, but she suddenly vanishes, and he's left confused as he returns home to the rugged Outback. When Abelia magically appears in Jack's kitchen, she must divulge who she really is. Can she risk the mythic people's secret for his help to return home?


The Light Ages by Ian R. MacLeod (Open Road Media). Light Ages reimagines Industrial Age England transformed by magic, as two lovers find themselves on opposite sides of a violent class struggle that could destroy their world. The discovery of aether changed everything; magic mined from the ground, it ushered in an Industrial Age seemingly overnight, deposing kings and rulers as power was transferred to the almighty guilds. Soon, England's people were separated into two distinct classes: those who dug up and were often poisoned by the miraculous substance, and those who profited from it.

Explosion (Part 3 of the Colliding Worlds Trilogy) by Berinn Rae (Crimson Romance). Earth's final war is here and time is running out… Talla Kolhm is a Draeken warrior-woman, beaten down but never broken. Jax Jerrick is a human soldier with his own share of scars. Together, they discover a forbidden passion. But when a deadly toxin is released across Earth, all aliens are quickly blamed and ordered to be executed. With the help of her human, Talla escapes and they join the resistance. Jax and Talla will do anything for Earth's survival, even sacrifice their love, which may be the only way to save us all… And so the fight begins.

25 Perfect Days by Mark Tullius (Vincere Press). A totalitarian state doesn't just happen overnight. It's a slow, dangerous slide. 25 Perfect Days chronicles the path into a hellish future of food shortages, contaminated water, sweeping incarceration, an ultra-radical religion, and the extreme measures taken to reduce the population. Higher taxes, strict gun control, an oppressive healthcare system. Complete media control, genetically modified food, experimentation on citizens. The push of depersonalizing technology, unending wars, government sanctioned assassinations. Through these twenty-five interlinked stories, each written from a different character's point of view, 25 Perfect Days captures the sacrifice, courage, and love needed to survive and eventually overcome this dystopian nightmare.

Desperate Magic by Rebecca York (Carina Press). Book three of The Chronicles of Arandal Willow was left behind when her sister Rowan fled Valleyhold and became Queen of Arandal. Now she's receiving broken telepathic messages from the new queen, begging for help. She'll do anything to reach her, even if that means risking her life to break through Valleyhold's protective magic. As Willow and Cullendor draw closer to Rowan, Cullendor begins to wonder whether power is really more important to him than love. But once Willow discovers the secrets he's been hiding, how will he convince her that his feelings are real?


Hindsight by Sarah Belle (Harlequin Enterprises/Escape Publishing). Juliette's career is on fire, her marriage and family are in melt-down, and a red-hot goddess wants her husband. But those are the least of her worries when she wakes up on her lounge room floor in the year 1961. Without any of her modern conveniences — nanny, housekeeper, surgically attached mobile phone, designer wardrobe, and intravenous lattes — Juliette is just over fifty years out of her comfort zone. But as she takes on the role of a 1961 housewife, with gritted liberated teeth, she discovers an unexpected truth: slower doesn't mean boring, at home doesn't mean dull, and priorities don't mean sacrifices.

Threaded Through Time by Sarah Ettritch (Norn Publishing). "For those who were born before or after their time…" That described Pam. She'd always felt that she'd been born too late—there was no chivalry in the world anymore. She'd only wanted to commune with the universe while reading a "moon rhyme" in the antique book she'd purchased from the local New Age shop. She had not expected guests—especially not Jasper and Margaret, summoned one hundred years into the future by the rhyme just as Jasper was proposing to Margaret. Now the displaced visitors insist that they be returned to 1910, and Pam and her roommate Robin agree. But the rhyme won't work until the next moon cycle, and in the intervening month, forbidden love blooms between Pam and Jasper, and Robin and Margaret.



Godspeed by February Grace (Booktrope). What is a heart if not the ultimate clockwork? Abigail's young life was saved by the kindness of strangers: Schuyler Algernon, the man who found her collapsed on cold city streets, and Quinn Godspeed, the doctor who risked everything by breaking the law to keep her fragile heart beating. As the truth about what she's become and her feelings for her savior overtake her, Abigail is forced to ask what constitutes life, living, and what dark secrets are contained within Godspeed's past and the walls of Schuyler's house.




Ruby's Fire by Catherine Stine (Konjur Road Press). If everything about you changes, what remains? Seventeen year-old Ruby, long-pledged to the much older Stiles from the Fireseed desert cult, escapes with only a change of clothes, a pouch of Oblivion Powder and her mute little brother, Thorn. Arriving at The Greening, a boarding school for orphaned teens, she can finally stop running. Or can she? The Greening is not what it seems. Students are rampaging out of control and as she cares for the secret Fireseed crop, she experiences frightening physical changes. She's ashamed of her attraction to burly, hard-talking Blane, the resident bodyguard, and wonders why she can't be happy with the gentler Armonk. She's long considered her great beauty a liability, a thing she's misused in order to survive. And how is she to stop her dependence on Oblivion to find a real beauty within, using her talent as a maker of salves, when she has nightmares of Stiles without it?




Urban Fantasy new releases compiled for HEA by Gabrielle Bisset, author of Blood Prophecy (Sons of Navarus #4). Her website is


The Armies of Heaven by Jane Kindred (Entangled). Full-scale war has broken out in Heaven, and Anazakia must embrace her destiny, leading an army of Virtues into battle against a Host of enemies to restore the House of Arkhangel'sk. Furious with her for putting her trust in the angel who has done them all irreparable harm, Vasily tries to ignore his growing resentment, while Belphagor returns to the world of Man with a cadre of beautiful androgynous Virtues to restore the sundered alliance between the Fallen and the gypsy underground. Without their help in enlisting the terrestrial forces of Grigori and Nephilim, Anazakia's Virtues are hopelessly outnumbered. But there are more things in Heaven and Earth than any of them have dreamt of, and those they cannot see will mean the difference between victory and losing everything.


Luck of the Dragon by Susannah Scott (Entangled). Luciana de Luca has a PhD in sass and gemology--and a problem. Her twin brother's gambling debts have gotten out of hand, and a mob enforcer is blackmailing her to rob the latest, greatest mega-casino on the Strip. Although Lucy has worked her whole life to get away from her family's grifter past, to save her brother, she dons three-inch heels and a sluts-r-us dress and struts into Alec's Gerald's casino, determined to put her long-forgotten thieving ways to the test again.

Damn Him To Hell (Saturn's Daughter) by Jamie Quaid (Pocket Books). Tina Clancy hardly has a chance to celebrate passing the bar exam when an explosion at Acme Chemical sends a noxious pink and green cloud billowing over Baltimore's radioactive Zone. It is not as if the place was normal to begin with, but as the poisonous fumes overtake the sky, her neighbors start falling comatose—and Acme is plucking them off the streets faster than Tina and her friends can save them. Just because Tina's a lawyer now doesn't mean she's going to miraculously morph into a respectable, law-abiding citizen. She once accidentally damned her own boyfriend to hell, for heaven's sake. Now that Max is back—in the body of his evil cousin, a U.S. senator with family ties to Acme—she needs him more than ever. And what does it mean to be one of Saturn's daughters? Tina knows she's obligated to use her powers to save the Zone, no matter the cost, but there's a real possibility that victory will happen over her dead body.

Asmodeus: Demon of Lust, Part 1 by Sara Humphreys (Sara Humphreys). When Kai Kelly inherits her estranged grandfather's estate in Bliss, Idaho, life becomes anything but blissful. The discovery of a beautiful but unusual ring in the attic, leads to much more than she bargained for. Kai may not realize what she has in her possession, but the boys in Hell sure got the message.

Enthralled by Lora Leigh, Alyssa Day, Meljean Brook, Lucy Monroe (Penquin). Lora Leigh returns to her sensual world of the Breeds…as one stubborn Breed meets her match, and can no longer deny her mate—or the fierce desires of her own heart. Alyssa Day introduces the League of the Black Swan…and the dangerous game one woman plays when her family's curse dooms her to kill the man she loves. Meljean Brook delivers a new story in her steampunk world of the Iron Seas…as a man who's lost everything returns home to find that not only is his marriage in jeopardy, but he must now fight air pirates who intend to steal his one remaining treasure—his wife. And Lucy Monroe, national bestselling author of the Children of the Moon novels…unleashes the feral passions of a werewolf on the body, mind, and soul of his prey, his lover, his lifemate.


Duality (Cordelia Kelly #1) by ER Pierce (Fused Publishing). Duality walks the line between urban fantasy and paranormal romance. This dark world features elemental empaths, and a realistic world full of believable characters. You'll find no fluffy bunnies, shooting stars, or unicorns walking on rainbows, but what you will find is love, betrayal, honor, light and dark, good versus evil, as well as intrigue. Step into Cordelia Kelly's world and be prepared to never leave. Watch her manifest from a confused, lonely, elemental empath, into a righteous, kick-ass woman. With Sol by her side, anything is possible. Even fulfilling her destiny...

Lucifer and the six other princes of Hell, existed for several millennium believing that the Ring of Solomon–an object with the power to control demons– had been destroyed. However, the moment Kai slips the ring on her finger, the tremor of it's power ripples through the underworld. When Asmodeus, the Demon of Lust, meets Kai along a deserted section of highway in Magic Valley, it's more than the ring she wears that catches his eye. He plans to woo the ring out from under her but before long, the lines between lust and love blur.