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I have 3 amazing books launching this week and, once again, you have a little reprieve before the books arrive, but not much of one. The first release comes out tomorrow!

• Fragile Ascension
• Wild Unknown
• Watership – Not on preorder

This Week’s New Releases

Title: Fragile Ascension
Series: House of Gray Book 6
Release Date: 07/14/2026

Crime doesn’t happen on Gray Haven. This summer, it won’t stop.

The thief broke into the studio and stole nothing but Amy Davenport’s gown. It isn’t about the dress. It’s a message.

A car accident should have killed her three years ago. Instead it pulled her into a hidden world of vampires, old money, and older grudges—and made her heir to its most powerful estate. Now, one season from being crowned the next Lady Gray, Amy watches someone pick the island apart in plain sight: a sealed museum, a stolen car, a barefoot woman whispering that they found her. The only steady thing is Nicolas Davenport, home at last, torn between the family destroying him and the kiss last winter neither will name.

The Brotherhood she swore to bring down has sent its reminder. Three words. Enjoy your summer.

Can Amy hold the island together before it takes everything she loves—or has she already let the enemy through her own door? Step onto Gray Haven and find out whether this is the summer Amy is crowned—or the one that breaks her.

Title: Wild Unknown
Series: The Wolves of Blackpine Book 5
Release Date: 07/16/2026

He was sent to protect her. He wasn’t supposed to feel the pull.

Stephanie Mercer doesn’t do distractions. She’s the sharpest biotech dealmaker in Portland, and she keeps her life locked down tight. Then a quiet man at the corner diner starts asking questions no stranger should know to ask. She tells herself he’s nothing. Her body, inexplicably, disagrees.

Danny Cruz has spent five months at that table, sent by her own pack to guard a woman who doesn’t know she’s being hunted, or that she’s a wolf who hasn’t yet shifted. He’s memorized how she takes her coffee, the set of her shoulders, the moment she almost catches him. The assignment was surveillance.

Wanting her was never supposed to be part of it.

When the danger finally closes in, Stephanie has to run home to the pack that exiled her, straight into the truth about what she is, and a bond that’s pulled at them both since the first cup of coffee.

The slow burn is over. What comes next will either save them or break them both.

Will she let herself claim the man who’s watched over her from across a room—or lose him the moment she finally understands what she was born to be?

Fall into Wild Unknown and surrender to the pull.

Title: Watership
Series: The Mermaid Detective Book 2
Release Date: 07/17/2026

Candy Lovelace makes a living finding missing people, cheating husbands, and the occasional magical idiot around Austin.

Finding out what happened to her own mother is proving a lot harder, even with a little mermaid magic.

A missing gambler drags Candy into the backrooms of Austin’s magical underground, where pixies cheat at cards, Willen pass secrets through the tunnels beneath the city, and powerful families make problems disappear permanently.

Then Candy discovers her mother may have uncovered dark magic tied to the powerful Marchetti family before she vanished.

Now a mysterious locket, buried family secrets, and a string of threats aimed directly at Candy are pulling her toward answers someone killed to protect.

Turns out bringing a mermaid to a gunfight is a lot less crazy than it sounds.

Candy’s got Bluebell, her magic-sniffing pit bull, a gnomeish crime crew with questionable hobbies, a dangerously charming cop hiding more than one secret, and enough stubbornness to turn bad ideas into full-time career choices.

Unfortunately, Austin’s magical underground is waking up fast, and Candy’s about to learn that some family secrets don’t stay buried.

If you love urban fantasy packed with humor, found family, dangerous magic, supernatural mystery, and action with heart, dive into the next adventure in Watership today.