October is marching right along, my fellow reading friends. Almost too fast! Eleven more days and it will be November. A blink after that, it will be Christmas and then 2026. What? Where did the year go? Apparently right past me while I read all the new releases that have been coming our way!
Speaking of new releases, I have 4 amazing books launching this week and two of those books start new series! The first book is already out which makes for a pretty sweet Monday!
This Week’s New Releases
Title: Second Serve
Series: Pickled Hearts Book 1
Release Date: 10/20/2025
He thought grief was his only opponent.
Bestselling novelist Jack Harrington’s world stopped the day he became a widower. No more words. No more stories. Just endless days in a house that feels too empty and too full at the same time.
Enter pickleball—his friends’ absurd intervention. Enter Iris Reyes—a fierce competitor who doesn’t do pity. Together, they’re the worst doubles team in Sandia Park. Until suddenly, they’re not.
As Jack and Iris fight their way from humiliation to triumph, an undeniable connection forms. She makes him want to write again. To live again. To love again.
Something doesn’t want Jack to move forward. Strange things happen when Iris gets too close. Impossible things. Things that make him question his sanity and push away the one person who makes him feel alive.
Is Jack losing his mind to grief, or is something more powerful at play? Can new love bloom when the past won’t stay buried?
Pick up Second Serve today and discover whether Jack can win the most important match of his life—the one for his future.
Title: Renegades at the Gate
Series: The Chaos Squad Book 3
Release Date: 10/21/2025
Professional soldiers fail. Send in the lunatics.
Marc Black doesn’t lead heroes—he leads problems. Five mercenaries too valuable to fire, too dangerous to promote, too unpredictable to trust with anything important.
Until now.
The Aegis Yard is impenetrable. A fortress where something deadly is being built, protected by automated defenses that have already eliminated two elite infiltration teams. The Vanguard Syndicate needs an unconventional solution. They need chaos.
They need Spear-Zero.
What starts as a desperate smash-and-grab becomes something else entirely when Marc’s team discovers they’re not just stealing weapons—they’re walking into a trap decades in the making. Someone has turned the entire station into a killing floor, someone who knows their reputation for impossible victories.
The conventional playbook is useless. The smart money says run. Every tactical assessment screams failure.
Marc’s team has a different plan: if you can’t beat the system, break it. If you can’t win the game, flip the board. If you’re going to die anyway, make it legendary.
In space, no one can hear you improvise.
Will Spear-Zero’s gift for catastrophic solutions forge a new legend in the stars? Or will they learn that some enemies don’t just expect chaos—they feast on it?
Join the mission where standard operating procedure is a death sentence, trust is earned in explosions, and the only way out is through everything.
Title: Shattered Reflections
Series: The Excommunicated Witch Savant
Release Date: 10/23/2025
Something is hunting witches in California. It started with her neighbor.
The old woman liked to collect magical artifacts. Harmless trinkets, she said. Until the night she disappeared, leaving only ransacked rooms and blood on the carpet.
Jo Locket knows she should stay out of it. She has a school to run, students to protect, and enough problems being an excommunicated witch in a world that doesn’t forgive. When the deputy asks for her help, when more collectors vanish, when an entire coven dies in Salem, Jo can’t look away.
Someone is systematically targeting anyone connected to magical artifacts. They move like smoke. They kill without hesitation. They’re getting closer.
Jo has something they want: an ancient mirror that fills her dreams with darkness, that pulls at her mind even through protective wards. She doesn’t know what it does. She only knows her mother died hiding it, and now people are dying to possess it.
The ley lines under Mount Shasta are stirring. Shadows move where shadows shouldn’t exist. The mirror’s call grows stronger every night.
When the hunters finally come for Jo, will she be ready for what steps out of the darkness? Or will she discover that some doors, once opened, can never be closed?
Join thousands of readers who couldn’t put this book down. Find out what waits in the mirror. Begin your journey into the shadows today.
Title: Spawn Point
Series: A New Eternity Book 1
Release Date: 10/24/2025
Topha’s last chance starts in five…four…three…
A chance at immortality, an unpopular world, and hidden forces that want you gone. What’s not to love?
If Topha doesn’t face the harrowing Trial of Wires, she’ll forfeit her dream of becoming an External—an immortal adventurer within the boundless worlds of the Singularity. Her reward for succeeding? Entering a beautiful new world teeming with possibilities and perils.
When she arrives, she can’t locate any other Externals.
Worse, a fatal encounter exposes Topha’s true nature to the denizens of the planet, and they sentence her to death.
An unlikely alliance with a sharp-tongued, always-hungry serpent made of leaves and vines is her only chance to survive…if they can defeat the looming threat before it destroys Topha’s new home.
Otherwise, her first adventure might be her last.
Four against one seems like pretty rough odds, however if you are a master trickster then it should be no problem.