Aristotle believed that the mark of an educated mind was the ability to entertain a thought without accepting it. Books have been doing exactly that for readers for centuries—challenging, expanding, and occasionally upending everything you thought you knew. This week’s releases are no exception.
I have 4 amazing books launching this week, and the first release is already here! That’s pretty sweet for a Monday!
This Week’s New Releases
Title: Dragon of Fire
Series: Dragon of Legacy Book 7
Release Date: 10/26/2026
Using Magic is great, but only if you can control it.
After Penthia defeated the phase monster, the corruption’s right hand warrior, Penthia didn’t expect to get stuck in the wrong phase. Despite all the help her allies can give, she finds herself alone, not even her beloved battle cat able to see her.
With the enemy trying to wipe out the dragon Protectorate and everything they steward, Penthia is running out of time. Her friends are doing everything they can, scientists and fighters alike, but they need her help.
A strange virus is sweeping the dragon lands, the corrupted the carriers that deliver a dose with every attack. Can Penthia get back to her people in time to help them fight it and heal the infected? Or is this finally a response from the enemy that none of them can stop?
The only lead Penthia has is talking to the enemy once more. Entering into the dream world to talk once more, Penthia demands to know what trap she was led into, but even more importantly, how to get out.
When magic isn’t enough, what will Penthia do to get back to her people? Pick up Dragon of Fire and find out.
Title: Bad Blood
Series: The Helsing Vampire Legacy
Release Date: 10/27/2026
Someone is hunting vampires in Chicago, again.
As a Helsing, Dave Holden should probably send them a thank-you note. Instead, it’s turning into his biggest headache yet.
Ashford’s buried secrets have supernatural factions at each other’s throats, and brand-new tracking tech is suddenly exposing beings who’ve hidden in plain sight for centuries. But the dead fangs aren’t the worst omen in town. That honor belongs to the Hollow Folk.
Tiny, blue, and whispering from inside the walls, the creatures only surface when the magical balance is in danger. When they start answering Dave’s harmonica, their warning is chillingly clear: something is coming to put things back in order.
Surviving that correction won’t be simple. Dave’s inherited Helsing abilities are changing into something he doesn’t understand, Mari is developing magic of her own, and Leon is trying to keep Chicago’s vampires from turning on each other while everyone else seems determined to help them along.
Worst of all, Dave has an engagement ring burning a hole in his pocket and can’t find five uninterrupted minutes to propose.
He’d better work fast.
Because when ancient magic decides to reset the scales, it doesn’t bother separating the good guys from the bad. It just clears the board.
Title: Rogues and Pirates
Series: Empire’s Rogues Book 5
Release Date: 10/28/2026
Everyone trusts the Sorchan. Chendo has spent years trying not to be one.
The token in his pocket means people tell him the truth. It also means they flinch when he takes it out. But when a dying man entrusts Chendo with a name, Chendo is forced to act.
A pirate friend has called in a favor from the Rogues. Someone is raiding ships under Shan’s name, killing the crews, feeding the survivors into a scrapyard nobody can locate. Two governments are hunting Shan with a warrant for his capture, dead or alive. His flagship went looking for answers and never came back.
Chendo is returning to a station that no longer feels like home, to ask a clan he abandoned for help he has no right to request.
The trail runs from a corpse in a salvage yard to a stripped breaker yard on a dead world, where racks built for animals were bolted to the floor. Someone used them on people. The missing crews are alive out there, working until they stop being useful. The man who owns them has decided it is time to clean house.
The plan gets worse after that. It requires sending one of his own people into captivity and praying he survives long enough to rescue.
Will Chendo’s gamble bring those crews home, or cost him the team that made him something other than an enforcer? Dive into Rogues and Pirates.
Title: A Matter of Record
Series: Penelope Covens Mystery Book 6
Release Date: 10/30/2022
Her neighbors want her to dress as a vampire. Awkward.
Penelope Covens has kept her secret for most of a century by staying off the record. Crimson Canyon, a desert retirement community where gossip outruns the golf carts, was supposed to be where she unpacked for good.
Then a stranger at the pool bar grabs her hand and calls her by a name she buried in the seventies. The front-desk clerk who kept every file in the canyon turns up dead in her armchair. The county says her heart gave out. Penelope has heard that one before. Friday morning, a typed note under her door asks for $72,500 by Saturday. It even says thank you.
Her friends have a plan. March Penelope into the Halloween party in a cape, and let the whole canyon applaud.
Running has always worked. This time, she promised to stay.
Can Penelope unmask a killer without unmasking herself, or will the canyon learn exactly what’s under the costume? Grab A Matter of Record and pull up a stool at the pool bar.