It’s a new week, which means new excuses to avoid reality by diving into someone else’s fictional problems. Why deal with your own life when you could be worrying about whether the protagonist survives chapter twelve? Priorities. We get it, and we’re here to help you procrastinate productively.
I have 5 amazing books launching this week, and the first book is already out! That’s pretty sweet for a Monday that’s also a holiday for many folks!
This Week’s New Releases
Title: Hiring the Dead
Series: The Helsing Vampire Legacy Book 2
Release Date: 05/25/2026
Someone is killing vampires with Helsing weapons.
Dave Holden knows his family’s mark when he sees it—but the Helsings scattered decades ago. Didn’t they?
His girlfriend Mari isn’t waiting around to find out. She’s done being the target. Now she’s calling the shots, and Dave is right beside her, pushing abilities he barely understands and hoping instinct is enough.
They build a team that shouldn’t work. A mole inside enemy ranks. A vampire who used to work night security and can still outdance anyone in the room. Gnomes with long memories and opinions nobody asked for.
Labs burn. Prisoners walk out. And Ashford—four hundred years old and always one step ahead—keeps digging into Dave’s past like he already owns it.
The deeper Dave goes, the more his family history falls apart. Gran lied about something. His mother died for it. And the truth might be worse than anything hunting them now.
If you like fast-paced urban fantasy with action, humor, and found family, jump into Hiring the Dead, Book 2 of The Helsing Vampire Legacy and join the hunt
Title: The Blade and the Throne
Series: House Drakonen Book 4
Release Date: 05/26/2026
Peter Drakonnen knows how to win battles. Running a kingdom is another matter entirely.
Drakonnen Castle is overflowing with refugees, grain stores are dwindling, and the monstrous army sworn to Peter’s banner consumes more with each passing day. The fragile peace holding his realm together depends on an alliance with the dwarves of Khaz-Gundahr—and that alliance is on the verge of collapse.
When a captured enemy commander and a mysterious assassin reveal that House Kaelen is attacking the dwarven stronghold from within, Peter faces an impossible choice. Ride to Khaz-Gundahr’s rescue and leave his own people vulnerable, or stay behind and lose the allies, trade, and strength keeping his kingdom alive.
As Elara, Nyxara, and Iridessa fight beside him, each harboring powers and secrets that could change the war, Peter must decide who to trust before everything he has built is torn away.
If he chooses wrong, Khaz-Gundahr will fall, Drakonnen will stand alone, and the kingdom he bled to forge will crumble.
But House Kaelen isn’t trying to win the next battle.
They’re trying to make him lose everything.
Dive into The Blade and The Throne, an action-packed epic fantasy filled with kingdom-building, dangerous magic, political intrigue, and high-stakes romance, where one wrong move could cost a king everything.
Title: Echo
Series: Animus Book 14
Release Date: 05/27/2026
Ancient threats don’t scare Kaiden Jericho. His partner does.
Kaiden Jericho never called himself a hero. Street kids from nowhere survive, scrape, find people worth protecting—and do anything to keep them alive.
The job had red flags from the start. A Mirai executive with a grudge. Payment too generous. A Helion facility gone dark for reasons nobody believed. What Jericho Solutions found inside wasn’t corporate data—it was a name. The Harvester. Ancient. Patient.
Bearing down on a humanity that has 180 years to prepare for something that ended civilizations far older than theirs.
Chief has been changing since Echo-7. Kaiden feels it through their bond: his partner’s consciousness reaching into systems it shouldn’t touch, processing things he won’t share. Mirai, Helion, and a government agency called Trinity are hunting them now. Whatever Chief is becoming, everyone wants to control it.
Jericho Solutions isn’t hiding anymore.
Can they build something capable of surviving what’s coming–or will the enemies behind them destroy humanity’s only advantage before the real war begins? Dive in and find out.
Title: Shadow’s Mate
Series: The Wolves of Blackpine Book 3
Release Date: 05/28/2026
Eighteen years of isolation. One woman who sees through every wall.
Reid Webb buried his entire pack with his bare hands when he was eighteen. His parents. His twelve-year-old sister. Everyone he loved, slaughtered by hunters while he was away at college. He’s spent nearly two decades keeping everyone at arm’s length because losing someone again might actually kill him.
Zara Washington lost her mother and her career in the same brutal year. The MIT aerospace engineer fled to Montana to figure out who she is when no one’s watching, when there’s no one left to impress.
She doesn’t expect the quiet man who fixes her generator to look at her like she’s the answer to a question he didn’t know he was asking.
Reid knows three truths: he’s a wolf shifter, Zara is his fated mate, and telling her the truth could destroy the first real connection he’s felt in eighteen years. Every shared book, every philosophical debate, every moment working side by side pulls them closer to something neither can deny.
The mate bond doesn’t care about fear or timing or the walls they’ve built to survive their grief.
Can two broken souls heal each other? Or will Reid’s secrets shatter what they’re building?
Claim this soul-deep shifter romance today.
A deeply emotional paranormal romance for readers who love broken heroes and fated love that won’t be denied.
Title: Across the Realms
Series: Atlantis University Book 2
Release Date: 05/29/2026
Dimensional rifts tear. Ancient conspiracies crumble.
Jackson Bach’s raw glyph energy shouldn’t exist.
At Atlantis University, students master dimensional magic across infinite realms.
Jackson’s Earth-coded powers summon impossible phantoms. Einstein’s ghost teaches forbidden physics.
Joan of Arc’s specter guides his blade.
Each portal jump triggers more historical echoes.
Squad Infinity hunts salvage through storm-wracked dimensions and crystal gravity wells.
Zaena’s feline reflexes slice interdimensional pirates. Kix’s plasma arsenal melts war-machines.
Talia’s hacking infiltrates quantum archives.
Cosmic forces hunt them back.
The Veil Mechanism–spanning galaxies–fractures under Jackson’s presence. Memory vaults whisper of burning worlds and exodus fleets. The Academy’s greatest secret unravels: Earth wasn’t lost.
It was erased from dimensional records.
Now Jackson’s abilities expose millennia-old conspiracies. Dominion warlords rise from mirror-realm tombs. Ancient powers that ruled star-clusters stir in quantum shadows, drawn by Earth’s awakening echo.
Academy debt becomes galactic manhunt.
Will Jackson master his impossible heritage before dimensional war ignites? Or will humanity’s cosmic exile shatter interstellar civilization’s foundations?
Academy adventures on an epic scale–where personal growth ignites galactic revelation.