In 1752, Benjamin Franklin founded one of America’s first lending libraries so that people who couldn’t afford books could still access them. Over 270 years later, the spirit of that idea lives on—this week, we’re making sure great books land in as many hands as possible, at prices Franklin himself would appreciate.

I have 3 amazing books launching this week, That’s pretty sweet for a Monday!

• Feral Forever
• The Hound Affair
• Watershed – Not on preorder

This Week’s New Releases

Title: Feral Forever
Series: The Feral Princess Book 9
Release Date: 09/29/2026

A hydra attacks. A dragon returns. Tetra’s done playing nice.

Tetra’s got this whole duchess thing under control. Mostly. Sure, she forgot her kid at school again, and sure, a hydra just tore through Caerleon during the biggest event the city’s ever hosted but the opening ceremony went great, so, you know. Wins.

The trail leads straight back to Jahalzabel, the dragon Tetra thought she’d already handled. This time, Jahalzabel’s not just holding a grudge—she’s blackmailing a desperate athlete and daring anyone in Caerleon to get in her way.

Between covering for a champion who can’t stop lying to her, running interference on a corrupt police commissioner with a body count,Tetra’s stress levels are doing just fine, thanks for asking.

When Jahalzabel goes to ground in the tunnels beneath New York, it’s Tetra who follows her into the dark. She built this city. She’s not letting a dragon burn it down.

But can she outrun a grudge four years in the making? Grab Feral Forever and watch the fae who runs Caerleon hunt a dragon through the bones of the city.

Title: The Hound Affair
Series: Penelope Covens Mystery Book 5
Release Date: 09/30/2026

Nobody steals a champion they can’t sell. Somebody did it anyway.

Bougie is a grand champion standard poodle, and anybody who can afford him knows his face on sight. The night his owner tells a dinner full of breeders he’s done breeding him, Bougie vanishes from a shut yard in Crimson Canyon, and the kid who walks every dog on the lane goes down at dawn with a fractured skull and an empty key clip.

Penelope Covens should have heard it.

Now five motorhomes of dog people have buried her senses under diesel and coat spray, and the HOA president is lining her doorway with iron.

They took his keys and left his phone. Whoever came down that path wanted a door. Penelope has a murder board with no murder on it, a three-hundred-year-old with opinions about her hair, and a row of motorhomes that won’t all let a vampire in.

Can she find who put the boy down before her senses come back? Did somebody at that dinner take the dog to reach something worth a boy’s skull?

Every door on the lane is on that ring. Grab The Hound Affair and find out which one it opens.

Title: Watershed
Series: The Mermaid Detective Book 3
Release Date: 10/01/2026

Mermaids have problems. Candy Lovelace gets paid to fix them.

Tracking down a missing magical, chasing a bail skip across Austin, or convincing someone twice her age and half her size to stop swinging their fists at her.

Fool around and find out, mermaids have mad skills.

But something ugly is working its way through the city, and Candy keeps finding pieces scattered in odd places. Bluebell can smell the magical residue everywhere. The local magicals are acting squirrelier than usual. And the answers Candy is digging up are starting to circle dangerously close to home.

At least Oscar Portnoy keeps bringing tacos.

The bail bondsman is also becoming considerably harder to file under just a friend. Detective Peter Nelson isn’t making that any simpler.

Dark magic. Bad secrets. Complicated men. 

And Candy’s hardest case yet. One missing mermaid who needs to come home, dead or alive.

Just another week at Last Chance Investigations.