After a hiatus I relaunched my Indie Author Spotlight and the response was huge! I thought it would be fun to gather all the new and upcoming releases for the season in one megapost. Whatever your favorite genre, you’ll find Indies there pushing the limits of storytelling. It’s a venue for traditionally excluded voices and a powerful human expression in our mediated world (no AI here–this is not a safe space for clankers!) So have a browse, and you may just find your next favourite author.
NEW RELEASES
Asha Kapoor’s travel tours are high on fun and (allegedly) light on history. Her co-worker Callum Kelly’s tours are heavy on history and (most certainly) lacking in whimsy. Luckily, they both run their own tours and don’t have to worry about each other’s distinct styles.
Until their boss combines both tours into one grand European expedition. Suddenly, Asha and Callum have to find a way to lead the tour without ruining the experience for the guests, throwing the other off a castle turret, or making out in the front of the bus.
But they are professionals, and the tour must go on. Now if only they could figure out what will happen to their budding vacation-ship.
When a routine mission to the past goes awry, time traveler Cal Hunter returns to the 26th century to find he’s wiped out nearly all of humanity, and the colony on Mars he’s called home for seven years is failing. Their only hope of fixing the past comes in the form of 14-year-old Renata Carr, a time traveler who is put under Cal’s reluctant care. In the end, he must decide–sacrifice all of humanity for Renata, or send her to a certain death.
America’s heartthrob, Jace Wilder, and Britain’s bad boy, Lennox Rome, have been cast in the most anticipated movie adaption of the year. Will these two rivals find a way to get along? Maybe a little too much …
Poppy Thomas has spent years hiding behind stories instead of living one. A struggling writer battling depression, she’s shocked when she recognizes Summoner, the reclusive British rock legend who vanished from the spotlight years ago, in her local coffee shop.
Hoping an exclusive interview will revive her career, Poppy finds herself drawn into Summoner’s quiet world instead. As an unlikely friendship turns into something deeper, they help each other confront the loneliness, grief, and expectations they’ve spent years carrying.
But falling in love with one of the world’s most famous musicians comes with a price. Between relentless public scrutiny, their age gap, and the fears they’re both still trying to outrun, Poppy and Summoner must decide whether love is worth risking the lives they’ve carefully built, or if some songs are meant to remain unfinished.
Fate brought them together. War divided them for decades. Nothing can keep them apart.
To save her runaway brother from an angry Crown, Charlotte Ashley disguises herself and takes his place as a runner in the Great War, never expecting to find her soulmate in the trenches of France: sullen sniper Alex Rook. Torn from him in battle, convinced her love has perished, Ashley spends the next twenty years haunted by the ghosts of what might have been. When the two are unexpectedly reunited, can their battle-scarred hearts overcome the deception of the past and fear of the future, or will the clouds of the next great war sever their connection once and for all in this sweeping tale of the pain and poetry of war, and connection that transcends time?
COMING SOON
British Sign Language interpreter Ben Cooper excels at sticking to the background. Keeping quiet is literally the gig. And he loves it. The only problem is his unwieldy, unethical, entirely unrequited crush on his sole client, Simon Azie.
Overachieving Simon is everything Ben’s not. Career-forward and composed, the deaf PR agent sparkles through life, reversing celebrity scandals with a wink and a grin – until, that is, his insta-perfect image glitches.
Tagged in an anonymous sex tape filmed in a closeted client’s country pile, the agency cues Simon for cancellation before their reputation gets as muddy as a music festival. Panicked they’ll never work together again, Ben blunders in with the worst idea he’s ever had: what if the unidentified other man is him?
Alex Mercer was supposed to be untouchable: the golden heir to his family’s powerful law firm in Los Angeles, two years of associate experience under his belt, dispatched to Las Vegas to bring the chaotic Global Combat League to heel.
Instead, he met Jack Doyle.
What started as an interview ended with Alex stripped bare on Jack’s desk, claimed so thoroughly he could still feel it weeks later. What started as a contract became something neither of them had a name for. And what started in Las Vegas wasn’t going to stay there.
A dark MM romance about power, possession, and the cost of being chosen by a man who doesn’t share what he claims.
Love often appears where you least expect it—and sometimes, it brings more than you bargained for.
Arlo’s never bought into the idea that Alphas and Omegas are destined for each other. In his experience, Alphas are good for one-night stands and little else. But when he stumbles across Liam, the most alluring Alpha he’s ever met, he seriously considers breaking his one-night rule.
If only Arlo knew that Liam isn’t just a handsome, charming fling—he’s also the new head of one of the most powerful crime organizations in the city. And he’s convinced Arlo is his fated mate.
After years of supporting her ex-husband’s dream of being a pro ball player, Jane Morris has returned home to the small city of Red Rock, Alberta to fulfill hers, running her bakery Batter Up! and chasing a multi-year contract with the local Triple A club. Finding her old friend Carter on the team is an unexpected bonus.
After a car accident left him badly injured, all Carter Cook he wants is to prove he can still play at the highest level, and return to the big leagues.
When Jane invites Carter to move in with her — platonically, of course–their chemistry can’t be denied. But Jane’s life is in Red Rock, and Carter will be gone as soon as the big club calls, forcing them to ask: Is chasing your dream worth giving up a chance at love?
As a child, Cassiel Lim named himself after the angel of time. Now he repairs watches, and his life runs like clockwork. He’s autistic, keeps his world quiet and manageable, and his mother is afraid he’ll die alone. When a family dinner for a major Korean holiday looms, he books a date through an app.
May Huang is a dishwasher in Chinatown, managing a brain injury and ADHD with color-coded notebooks and phone alarms. He’s chatty, good with parents, and needs the money, so he takes the gig. They meet on a Thursday to build their cover story, then again the next Thursday.
It was meant to end after one dinner. Instead the days stretch into Christmas, then into a new year. The fake life is starting to look real, built on money neither mentions and a story that was never true. Neither of them is ready for what happens when the arrangement stops being one.
Dr. Lacey Bonds is a respected pediatric cardiologist, good girl, who has never been allowed to want anything for herself. She was taught that desire was shameful. On discovering infidelity, something long buried in her cracks open. Or maybe it finally wakes up. Guided by her hedonistic, pansexual best friend, Lacey begins saying yes to the desires she has suppressed her entire life. Soon she’s saying yes to everything. Every temptation. Every fantasy. Every dangerous impulse. As shame transforms into arousal and arousal spirals into obsession, Lacey’s carefully ordered world starts to unravel under the weight of cravings she can no longer control. She does not know how to stop. She is not sure she wants to.
This all changes when she finds herself falling for the formidable father of her favorite little patient, a desire very much not allowed.
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