The first book ever sold on Amazon in 1995 was a science textbook called Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies by Douglas Hofstadter. One modest sale quietly launched the biggest book marketplace in human history. This week, your next great read is just as easy to find—and considerably easier on your wallet than a 1995 shipping fee.
I have 4 amazing books launching this week and the first one is already here! That’s pretty sweet for a Monday!
This Week’s New Releases
Title: A Question of Loyalty
Series: Empire’s Rogues Book 4
Release Date: 08/24/2026
He planned to handle it alone. His team had other ideas.
The Rogues thought they’d stopped the conspiracy against the League/Empire alliance. They were wrong—it went deeper underground. Llen has spent his whole life being other people’s weapon: informant, operative, assassin, expendable double agent. The Rogues were the first place he belonged. When the trail picks back up, he walks away—sure that leaving is the only way to keep them safe.
The Rogues can’t agree on what to do. Kailin calls him a traitor and means it—at first. But as the hunt for Llen turns up more of the conspiracy than expected, she starts seeing what Lei saw all along: a man who’s risked everything to protect them.
Llen is about to learn what some of the Rogues never doubted—that the things one person can’t survive alone, a team can. As the trail leads deeper into a plot aimed at the League’s incoming president, Llen has to decide if he knows how to let people in—and Kailin has to decide if trust, once broken, can be rebuilt in time to matter.
Will Llen’s gamble save the alliance — or cost him the only family he’s ever had? Grab A Question of Loyalty, Book 4 of the Empire’s Rogues series, and find out.
Title: Tidebound
Series: The Saltmarsh Circle Book 2
Release Date: 08/25/2026
Five horses stood where six belonged. She counted them three times.
Wren Baker came to Saltmarsh to bury her grandmother and stayed for reasons she has stopped trying to write down. She knows what stands in the Preserve barn at night. She has never once said it aloud, on this island or anywhere.
Then the Song goes wrong at first light, machines come up the old logging path, and the golden stallion at the head of the Herd does not come home.
She walks out onto mud that swallows grown men, and it holds her up, and something buried under it says here with every step.
What she pulls out of that marsh is a man who cannot get warm, an ancient bargain fraying at its worst seam, and a bill neither of them saw coming. Every reason Clyde Cooper has to stay a man is a reason the horse will not come back.
Can he keep her and keep himself? Or does the covenant collect what it is owed? Boots on. Walk the shell line in Tidebound.
Title: Brush With Death
Series: Penelope Covens Mystery Book 4
Release Date: 08/26/2026
In a 55+ community, the newest resident is three centuries old.
Penelope Covens does not explain herself, and she does not answer questions about where she was during the war. Any of them. Nine months in a 55+ desert community have suited her nicely—potlucks, the re-roof assessment, a garden club that is not a garden club. A very long life has taught her that the safest thing a woman can be is uninteresting.
Then the community’s worst painter is found dead at the foot of his own front steps at ninety-four, and the letter he left behind gets read aloud at his wake. Something hidden in Crimson Canyon is worth a great deal of money. It was never his. Whoever finds it must give it back.
The neighbors reach for their metal detectors. Penelope was listening. Every honest heart in that room jumped at the word murdered. One didn’t. One already knew.
The county has closed the file. The only other soul calling it murder is the woman building one on her.
Does the wrong heart surface before the trail gets raked over? Or does a whole community erase a crime while being kind? Grab Brush With Death and find out.
Title: Fractured Faith
Series: House of Gray Book 7
Release Date: 08/28/2026
Four years dead, and still the last to know.
Everyone who loves Amy Davenport has decided what she’s strong enough to hear.
She has always known her father’s memory of her was sealed. Nobody told her a seal decays, that this one was redone once already, or that no date for reunion was ever coming. She hears it from a stranger—a High Council liaison who has already sat in his living room and given him the truth Amy wasn’t allowed to. Nic has had a man watching that door for months. He calls it protection.
Amy has made the same call herself. Lola never learned what she was, because Amy decided the knowing would break her. Now Lola has torn through the estate wallpaper with claws she doesn’t remember growing and vanished, and the doctor treating her is dead, drained on his own kitchen floor.
Then Nic’s father, whose mind the Serpents took apart, gives up the piece they buried deepest. They never wanted her island. They wanted Amy, and they knew what she was long before she did.
Dive into Fractured Faith, Book Seven of House of Gray, and find out what the secret-keeping costs when the season opens and everyone is watching.