Newsletter for August 2026

Featured Books

When Sophie Allard is accused of murder, her only chance of surviving is to trust the last man on earth she should.  Trying to bury her past and build a future, medical student and military officer Sophie Allard lives by precision, discipline, and instinct—until a dying gunshot victim whispers a message in her ear meant for someone else. By sunrise, she is suspended, framed for murder, and hunted by people who don't leave witnesses. Evidence vanishes. Someone is tying off loose ends—and Sophie just became one of them.

 

Three years off the grid hasn't erased Kai Lovac’s name from the kill lists. Cold, disciplined, and lethal, he knows exactly what happens to people who uncover the wrong secret. His friend died protecting Dossier 1627—a file powerful enough to expose the Third Estate, a covert syndicate that kills to remain invisible. Lovac once worked in their shadows. Now they want him erased.

 

Driven together by a shared threat and a past neither can escape, Sophie and Lovac are pulled into a labyrinth where assassins close in, hidden labs bury the truth, and betrayal waits at every turn. Each clue pulls them deeper. Alliances fracture without warning. Every step demands perfect timing. A single misstep carries a body count. And when the music stops, one wrong move will end everything.

 

Relentless, cinematic, and razor-sharp, Devil's Tango is a high-stakes thriller of precision, power, and survival—where every turn is calculated, every secret is lethal, and trusting the wrong person can be your last mistake.

 

 

A girl. A goddess. A question that will cost everything.

1913 Crimea. Thirteen-year-old Oksana Mangupli enters the legendary cavern of blue light and answers an ancient calling from a forgotten goddess.

 

From the polar north to Moscow to the Black Sea, she will search for Her truth.

 

As revolution tears Russia apart, Oksana is haunted by Zoran Murometz — a man of terrifying power who will destroy everything she loves to take the truth she carries.

 

The man seemingly destined to love her will become the reason she must question everything.

 

Because the goddess didn't give Oksana just a mission.

She gave her a question.

What is love?

The answer will cost everything.

 

For readers of Kate Quinn and Alice Hoffman — from the award-winning author of The Matriarch Messiah and The Matriarch Matrix.

 

Perfect for readers who believe history is hiding something:

• Romanov shadows, Bolshevik terror, and the sacred secrets both wanted to destroy

• A destined love forged in revolution — and the sacrifice it demands

• The divine feminine, erased from history, alive in the blue light of a hidden cavern

 

Through Oksana's eyes you will discover the mythology and the divine feminine that powers an entire award-winning saga.

 

Fire Breathes Stone and Storm by Teresa Hakaraia

 

A romantasy of found family and elemental dragon-shifters — four dynasties, four forms, one sleeping god beneath the world.

 

Sekya has spent her life making herself small.

 

Raised in an orphanage alongside Khala, Riva, and Lio, she has done whatever it takes to keep them together — even if it means surviving in Silk House, on the edge of the fire dominion of Eratari.

 

Then one night, watching from the balcony, they see the Queen return in Taniva form, her wounded son carried on her back.

 

And time stops.

 

Only Sekya moves through the stillness. Across the frozen city, Prince Kairon turns and finds her as though he already knew where she would be.

 

When the Queen comes searching for the girl from her son's visions, she finds more than Sekya. Khala, Riva, and Lio carry powers of their own — powers unlike anything Eratari has seen before.

 

Summoned to the palace, the four uncover what they truly are, and what their existence could mean for a world of four dominions holding a peace none of them fully trust.

 

But the thread between Sekya and Kairon runs deeper than magic.

 

And Sekya is beginning to understand that falling for the wrong person might be the one thing she cannot undo.

 

 

 

A team of superbeings are all that stands between Earth and total annihilation at the hands of a predatory alien species.

 

An alien ship crashed into Alaska’s Mendenhall Glacier 150,000 years ago and froze within the ice…until glacial melting thawed out its deadly inhabitants in the present day.

 

Kai and Jules Bevins, both professors of astrobiology at Caltech, are roused from their home and whisked away to the site where a special division of the army has taken charge. But not before something escaped through a breach in the hull.

 

Meanwhile, a pair of Alaska state troopers locate a missing Amazon driver fifteen miles away on the Juneau Icefield and trace his movements to a nearby village with a population of less than fifty. Arriving in town, they are greeted by the bodies of villagers who were killed in an impossible, horrific way.

 

Thousands of miles away, under a remote archaeological find in Pakistan, the Nine—a team of superbeings placed on Earth a million years ago by intergalactic colonizers that seeded our planet to create human life—are lifted from their long slumber. The kind of threat they’ve been waiting for has finally come.

 

The Nine find unexpected allies culled from the ancient history of their home world in the form of a teenage boy and godlike entity. All this leads to a confrontation on a volcanic island that will determine the fate of civilization, even as the Nine uncover the shattering truth behind their own tragic paths and learn of a much greater battle to come.

 

Will they be enough to stem the apocalyptic menace threatening all of mankind?

 

 

So You Want To Be A Marine Biologist by Linda Soules

 

Seventy-one percent of this planet is ocean, and most of it has never been seen by human eyes. If your kid has ever stood at the water's edge and wondered what lives beneath the surface, and whether they could be the scientist who finds out, this book was written for them.

 

Written for young readers ages 10 to 14, this illustrated nonfiction guide shows what a career in marine biology really looks like: not the glossy documentary version, but the years of science classes before the first research dive, the patience of observing animals in a world never built for human bodies, and the teamwork among biologists, data analysts, divers, and conservationists.

 

Each chapter goes deeper into the daily reality, from mapping coral reefs and monitoring ocean ecosystems to living aboard a research vessel for weeks at a time, and shows why precise, patient observation matters more than any piece of equipment. It also tackles the urgent science of ocean conservation: why coral reefs are disappearing, how pollution threatens sea life, and what marine scientists are doing right now to protect it. The physical demands and intellectual rigor are treated honestly, with no talking down.

 

Young readers also learn what they can do today to explore marine science, because the best time to start thinking like a marine biologist is long before you ever pull on a wetsuit.

 

The ocean still holds more questions than answers, and somewhere out there is the young scientist who will spend a lifetime chasing them. This book is where that journey begins.

Ages 10 to 14. Illustrated nonfiction. Careers, science, and the sea.

 

 

 

You don't become a zookeeper because you like animals. You become one because you can't imagine doing anything else.

Written for kids ages 10 to 14, this illustrated STEM nonfiction book reveals what animal care really looks like: the pre-dawn feeding rounds, the behavioral science, and the daily responsibility of keeping wild creatures healthy under human care. Readers learn to read the signals that tell a keeper whether an animal is thriving or unwell, and meet the veterinarians, nutritionists, and biologists behind modern zoos, which run breeding programs for endangered species and help fund habitat preservation worldwide.

 

It answers the questions kids ask most: How do I get there? What should I study? What does the work feel like when it's hard? The answers are honest, specific, and never watered down. No glossy simplification. No talking down. Just a clear-eyed look at a profession built on science and a real commitment to the natural world.

 

For the kid who knows every animal at the zoo by name and wonders what it's like on the other side of the glass. That world is closer than you think.

 

 

Book Giveaways for August

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