Franny's Favorite August Releases

August is another BIG month as far as book releases go. Squee!!! I am uber excited! My personal FAVORITES are highlighted in BLUE:

	Biting Cold by Chloe Neill Release Date: August 7 Turned into a vampire against her will, twenty-eight-year-old Merit found her way into the dark circle of Chicago’s vampire underground, where she learned there was more to supernaturals than met the ...more
	The Iron Wyrm Affair by Lilith Saintcrow Release Date: August 7 Emma Bannon, Prime sorceress in the service of the Empire, has a mission: to protect Archibald Clare, a failed, unregistered mentath. His skills of deduction are legendary, and her own sorcery is not ...more
	Widow’s Web by Jennifer Estep Release Date: August 21 I used to murder people for money, but these days it’s more of a survival technique. Once an assassin, always an assassin. So much for being plain old Gin Blanco. With every lowlife in Ashland gunnin...more
	The Heroes of Olympus by Rick Riordan Release Date: August 14 What dangers do runaway demigods Luke and Thalia face on their way to Camp Half-Blood? Are Percy and Annabeth up to the task of rescuing stolen goods from a fire-breathing giant who doesn't take kindl...more
	Foretold by Richelle Mead Release Date: August 28 Have you ever been tempted to look into the future? To challenge predictions? To question fate?It's human nature to wonder about life's twists and turns. But is the future already written—or do you ha...more
	Kitty Steals the Show by Carrie Vaughn Release Date: August 1 Kitty has been tapped as the keynote speaker for the First International Conference on Paranatural Studies, taking place in London. The conference brings together scientists, activists, protestors, an...more
	Endgame by Ann Aguirre Release Date: August 28 REGRET NOTHING. Sirantha Jax has the J-gene, which permits her to “jump” faster-than-light ships through grimspace. She loves nothing more than that rush, but the star roads have to wait… Her final ...more
	Third Blood by Kalayna Price Release Date: August 1 Going home after five years is difficult. It's harder still if you've changed species in the interim. Kita Nekai, once the smallest shifter in Firth but now the newest vampire in the city of Haven, h...more
	Seawitch by Kat Richardson Release Date: August 7 A quarter century ago, the Seawitch cruised away from her dock and disappeared with everyone on board. Now, the boat has mysteriously returned to her old berth in Seattle and the insurance company has...more
	Two Weeks' Notice by Rachel Caine Release Date: August 7 After dying and being revived with the experimental drug Returne, Bryn Davis is theoretically free to live her unlife—with regular doses to keep her going. But Bryn knows that the government has every...more
	Stranger in the Moonlight by Jude Deveraux Release Date: August 28 An enchanting new contemporary romance set in Edilean, about two childhood friends who are reunited after years apart, only to discover that the spark they felt even as kids still remains... When Kim...more
	Blade Song by J.C. Daniels Release Date: August 1 Kit Colbana—half breed, assassin, thief, jack of all trades—has a new job: track down the missing ward of one of the local alpha shapeshifters. It should be a piece of cake. So why is she so nervous?...more
	Immortally Yours by Angie Fox Release Date: August 28 IN THE WAR BETWEEN THE GODS…  No one patches up the incoming wounded like Dr. Petra Robichaud. Recruited by the gods for her uncanny medical skills, she’s the best M*A*S*H surgeon in the army. Along ...more
	Precinct 13 by Tate Hallaway Release Date: August 7 Recent college grad Alex Conner is thrilled to have landed a job as the Hughes County coroner/medical examiner in Pierre, South Dakota. But when her first day on the job ends with a missing corpse, Al...more
	Blame It On Texas by Christie Craig Release Date: August 28 Zoe Adams has always been content with her quiet nights at home, watching TV alone-until her life turns into a real-life episode of Unsolved Mystery Hunters. The story of a kidnapped girl triggers une...more
	Sweet Talk by Julie Garwood Release Date: August 7 In the new contemporary romance from #1 New York Times bestselling author Julie Garwood, a detective and a lawyer are falling in love— and making a federal case out of it.When FBI agent Grayson Kincai...more
	Blood Bath & Beyond by Michelle Rowen Release Date: August 7 Sarah Dearly is adjusting to life as a fledgling vampire, satisfying her cravings at vampire-friendly blood banks. But when her fiancé Thierry takes a job with the Ring—the secret council in charge of...more
	Close Enough to Touch by Victoria Dahl Release Date: August 28 Can a city girl make it in the wild, wild West? For makeup artist Grace Barrett, Hollywood is less the land of golden opportunity and more the land of difficult divas, cheating boyfriends and unemploy...more
	Dying For You by MaryJanice Davidson Release Date: August 7 Collected in this anthology of death-defying passion are four of MaryJanice Davidson’s wildest novellas of paranormal romance, featuring an amorous ghost, a witch and witch-hunter, a love-struck psych...more
	Biting Oz by Mary Hughes Release Date: August 14 Real vampires do musicals. Biting Love, Book 5 Gunter Marie “Junior” Stieg is stuck selling sausage for her folks in small-town Meiers Corners. Until one day she’s offered a way out—the chance to pl...more
	Feels Like Home by Vicki Lewis Thompson Release Date: August 1 City slicker Rafe Locke is no cowboy. When he arrives at the Last Chance Ranch for his brother’s wedding, Rafe refuses to buy into the whole cowboy “thing.” That is, until he sees engineer Meg Seymour...more