The Baroness’ Choices for Upcoming Releases for September 2019
Are you ready for autumn? Pumpkin spice everything is back!
September has so many fabulous books coming out. I can’t wait! I found some romances, cozy mysteries, some paranormal cozies, young adult fantasies, holiday and Halloween books. Look for my reviews and the blog tours for some of these books in September.
I hope you find a book or two that you like from my choices for Upcoming Releases for September 2019.
After the Rodeo by Claire McEwen
Heroes of Shelter Creek #2
Publication Date: September 1, 2019
Genre: Romance, Contemporary, Clean & Wholesome, Sweet
Her passion for her job…
…could cost him everything
Former rodeo champion Jace Hendricks has six weeks to turn his run-down ranch around or he could lose custody of his nieces and nephew. But biologist Vivian Reed has to survey his land first—and she won’t be rushed. Vivian’s optimism and wonder start to win over the kids…and even Jace. But with all that’s at stake, can he risk getting any more involved with Vivian?Summary
Christmas Trifle by Heather Haven
Snow Lake Romantic Suspense #1
Publication Date: September 1, 2019
Genre: Mystery, Romantic Suspense
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When chefs Charly and Cliff Harding divorce, she gets custody of their upscale restaurant and its namesake, Felix, the cat. He gets custody of their dog, Oscar. What they both still have custody of is each other’s heart. But they seem to be the only two people in the small ski resort town of Snow Lake, Nevada, that don’t know it.
When Cliff opens his own restaurant in direct competition with Charly, bad things start to happen. Death threats, accidents, and murder are now on the menu. Their ‘if-you-can’t-take-the-heat-then-get-out-of-the-kitchen’ battles are backfiring, and regrets consume the two of them. But can they find their way back to each other? Or is it too late? Because they just might spend the rest of their lives in prison unjustly accused of killing someone. Or can love triumph over even murder?
Safe in His Arms by Anna J. Stewart
Butterfly Harbor #6
Publication Date: September 1, 2019
Genre: Romance, Contemporary, Clean & Wholesome, Sweet
She’s pushed everyone away…
…but is he her forever?
Ex-soldier Kendall craves solitude after a heartbreaking accident, and she finds it in the small town of Butterfly Harbor. That’s until handsome writer Hunter MacBride moves into town with his orphaned niece, Phoebe. Their arrival triggers painful memories for Kendall of the family and life she lost—but Hunter also shows her the promise of a life she could still have, if she’s prepared to take the risk…
Wearing the Greek Millionaire’s Ring by Jennifer Faye
Greek Island Brides #3
Publication Date: September 1, 2019
Genre: Romance, Contemporary
A convenient engagement…
An inconvenient attraction!
In this Greek Island Brides story, widow Stasia Marinakos is learning to enjoy life again aboard a Mediterranean cruise. Her chemistry with gorgeous Greek tycoon, Roberto Carrass, is a pleasant surprise – until she’s mistaken for his fiancée! Nevertheless, the guarded bachelor asks Stasia to continue the charade to stop his family matchmaking. As their attraction grows, their fake romance feels ever more real…but what will happen when the vacation ends?
A Night’s Tail by Sofie Kelly
Magical Cats #11
Publication Date: September 3, 2019
Genre: Mystery, Cozy, Animal, Amateur Sleuth
In the charming town of Mayville Heights, librarian Kathleen Paulson and her two cats pounce on clues to catch a killer, in the eleventh installment of this New York Times bestselling series.
Spring is coming to Mayville Heights, and Kathleen’s brother, Ethan, has arrived in town with his band, The Flaming Gerbils. But not everything goes as scheduled when one of Ethan’s bandmates gets into a fight with a man interested in investing in the town. When the businessman’s body is later found, Ethan’s friend is implicated in the crime.
Kathleen wants to help her brother by solving the case, but she has no shortage of suspects from which to choose. Prior to his death, the investor was fighting like cats and dogs with lots of people. If this librarian wants more than a whisker’s chance of solving the case, she will need to rely on her trusty feline sidekicks, Owen and Hercules.
Shifter’s Desire by Louise Cypress
Fight or Flight #3
Publication Date: September 3, 2019
Genre: Young Adult, Paranormal, Shifters
A heartbroken Rolf experiments with interspecies dating and makes a new friend who endangers everyone.
It’s been a hot minute since his girlfriend’s dramatic departure, and Rolf Byrd is crushed. Senior year was supposed to be spectacular, but instead of spending Homecoming with his dream girl, Rolf hangs out with her dog. To make matters worse, Desperate Dawn is finished, and without his short film to work on, Rolf feels aimless.
When his sister calls him from the Rancho Bernardo Inn, Rolf rushes to Dory’s rescue. The Ferrells have Dory surrounded, and she retaliates by capturing their rat prince, Nick Ratonie. Nick claims to have valuable information that will bring down Rolf and Dory’s worst enemy, but he wants a favor in return.
Rolf will do anything for revenge—even trust a Ferrell. But when wild parties and a hot new girlfriend get Rolf in trouble, he wonders if his alliance with Nick is worth it. The three shifter families have a complicated relationship that stretches across centuries. Can a dog ever become friends with a rat?
Lick old wounds. Make new friends. Hound the enemy. It’s a good thing that Rolf can hunt like a dog.
Close Encounters of the Curd Kind by Kirsten Weiss
A Wit’s End Cozy Mystery #3
Publication Date: September 5, 2019
Genre: Mystery, Cozy, Culinary, Paranormal
The truth is out there…
Way out there.
Susan Witsend, owner of the best little UFO-themed B&B in the Sierras, is absolutely, positively, not going to get involved in another murder case. Not with her small-town sheriff threatening jail time if she interferes in one more investigation.
So when her neighbor is murdered, Susan exerts all her willpower to stay out of the sheriff’s business. But her neighbor’s daughter, Clare, needs Susan’s help. Clare’s been experiencing lost time, a sure sign of alien abduction. Helping Clare is only neighborly… and totally not interfering.
Right?
Worse, Clare’s not the only one with UFO issues. Weird lights in the sky, vanishing cows, and little green men are bringing the mountain town of Doyle to the edge of a panic. Can Susan unearth the truth before her town spirals into chaos?
If you like laugh-out-loud mysteries with complicated heroines (and breakfast recipes), you’ll love Close Encounters of the Curd Kind, book 3 in the Wits’ End series of cozy mystery novels. Read this twisty cozy caper today!
A Corporate Courtship by Amy Craig
Publication Date: September 6, 2019
Genre: Romance, Holiday
Mayor Gloria Holding and British executive Alexander Hayworth are struggling to keep their relationship professional while they work to revitalize a facility in Stoneblock, NJ. She knows everything about her constituents and he likes to keep his distance. When outside activists threaten the project, they devise a solution, but it’s not their final call.
Can she learn to trust her abilities and can he find a place amid her impassioned constituents and Mexican-American family? Time is running out as the town council considers the facility project amid a backdrop of snowflakes, tamales, and the optimism of Christmas.
A Curio Killing by Mary Ellen Hughes
A Keepsake Cove Mystery #3
Publication Date: September 8, 2019
Genre: Mystery, Cozy
Callie finds treble in Keepsake Cove when her ex-boyfriend is framed for murder
Callie Reed is looking forward to her first Keepsake Cove spring festival. But her excitement dims considerably when she learns that her ex-boyfriend, Hank, will be performing with one of the hired country-western bands. Callie vows to keep her distance, but that changes when the band’s manager, Bobby Linville, is found dead, killed with the music box Hank bought at Callie’s shop.
Hank is soon singing a sad tune in a detention center with Callie his only lifeline. Though thoroughly aware of his many faults, she knows violence and murder aren’t in his blood. But that means one of her fellow Keepsake Cove residents must be hiding a dark secret―something Callie desperately needs to uncover.
Cursed Brides and Alibis by Amy Boyles
Southern Belles and Spells Matchmaker Mystery #2
Publication Date: September 8, 2019
Genre: Mystery, Paranormal
Escape to Witch’s Forge, a magical town tucked deep in the heart of Tennessee’s Smoky Mountains.
Only Witch’s Forge isn’t a supernatural paradise—here spells backfire, kudzu bites and magic is broken.
That is, until Charming Calhoun arrives.
Everything is going great for Charming. Matchmaking successful witches and wizards? Done. Avoiding a dangerous and sexy vampire police chief? Taken care of. Feeding Pig chocolate?
Wait. Charming does not feed potbellied pigs chocolate.
Life is smooth sailing for Charming until a mail-order bride winds up murdered. Charming feels responsible–after all, she brought the bride to Witch’s Forge. Now it’s up to her and her crazy family to solve the mystery and stay out of Thorne’s way. But when Thorne shows romantic interest in Charming, she’s unsure of her own feelings for the vampire. Can Charming solve the mystery and figure out her tangled feelings for Thorne? Or will she wind up the murderer’s next victim?
Find out now!
A Tangle in the Vines by Anna Celeste Burke
Calla Lilly Mystery #2
Publication Date: September 10, 2019
Genre: Mystery, Cozy, Animal, Romance
The curtain may fall on the Calla Lily Players’ first season unless Lily and Austin can find a killer on the loose in California’s wine country.
Torrential rains threaten to put a damper on The Calla Lily Players’ first outdoor theater production. When the ground suddenly shifts, buried secrets revealed amid the tangled vines put the spotlight on murder. As Lily and Austin dig deeper into the mystery, drama unfolds onstage and off. The race is on to find a killer before opening night.
Grab your copy of the second book in the Calla Lily Mystery series by USA Today and Wall Street Journal Bestselling Author, Anna Celeste Burke and join the race!
Recipes Included.
Free to read in Kindle Unlimited.
Buried in the Stacks by Allison Brook
A Haunted Library Mystery #3
Publication Date: September 10, 2019
Genre: Mystery, Cozy, Ghost, Craft & Hobby
Librarian Carrie Singleton is building a haven, but one of her neighbors is misbehavin’. Can resident spirit Evelyn help Carrie catch the culprit who made her a ghost?
In winter, the Haunted Library is a refuge for homeless townspeople. When a group purchases a vacant house to establish a daytime haven for the homeless, Carrie offers the library as a meeting place for the Haven House committee, but quickly learns that it may be used for illegal activities.
As the new Sunshine Delegate, Carrie heads to the hospital to visit her cantankerous colleague, Dorothy, who had fallen outside the local supermarket. She tells Carrie that her husband tried to kill her–and that he murdered her Aunt Evelyn, the library’s resident ghost, six years earlier.
And then Dorothy is murdered–run off the road as soon as she returns to work. Evelyn implores Carrie to find her niece’s killer, but that’s no easy task: Dorothy had made a hobby of blackmailing her neighbors and colleagues. Carrie, Evelyn, and Smoky Joe the cat are on the case, but are the library cards stacked against them?
Fatal Cajun Festival by Ellen Byron
A Cajun Country Mystery #5
Publication Date: September 10, 2019
Genre: Mystery, Cozy, Culinary, Animal, Craft & Hobby
Louisiana B&B owner Maggie Crozat kicks up her heels at a country music festival–but she’ll have one foot in the grave if she can’t bring the killer of a diva’s hanger-on to heel.
Grab your tickets for Cajun Country Live!, the pickers’ and crooners’ answer to the legendary New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival. Maggie Crozat, proprietor of the Crozat Plantation B&B, plans to be in the cheering section when her friend Gaynell Bourgeois takes the stage with her band, Gaynell and the Gator Girls.
The festival’s headliner, native daughter Tammy Barker, rocketed to stardom on a TV singing competition. She has the voice of an angel…and the personality of a devilish diva. But Maggie learns that this tiny terror carries a grudge against Gaynell. She’s already sabotaged the Gator Girls’ JazzFest audition. When a member of Tammy’s entourage is murdered at the festival, Tammy makes sure Gaynell is number one on the suspect list.
Gaynell has plenty of company on that list–including every one of Tammy’s musicians. Posing as a groupie, Maggie infiltrates Tammy’s band and will have to hit all the right notes to clear her friend’s name.
Mirror Bound by Monica Sanz
The Seventh Born #2
Publication Date: September 10, 2019
Genre: Young Adult, Romance, Paranormal
Conspirator. Failure. Murderer.
Seraphina Dovetail is used to being called all these things. As the seventh-born daughter to a witch, and the cause of her mother losing both her powers and her life, Sera has always felt isolated. Until Nikolai Barrington.
The young professor not only took an interest in Sera―he took her into his home, hired her for his moonlighting detective agency, and gave her the one thing she’d always dreamed of: a chance. Under Barrington’s tutelage, Sera can finally take the School of Continuing Magic entrance exam to become an inspector and find her family. Now if only she could stop her growing attraction to her maddening boss―which is about as easy as this fiery elementalist quitting setting things on fire.
But when ghosts start dragging Sera into possessions so deep she can barely escape, and then the souls of lost witches and wizards appear trapped in mirrors, these two opposites will have to work together to uncover a much deeper secret that could destroy the Witchling world…
The House on Hallowed Ground by Nancy Cole Silverman
A Misty Dawn Mystery #1
Publication Date: September 1, 2019
Genre: Mystery, Cozy, Amauter Sleuth, Woman Sleuth
FROM DUST TO DAWN
When Misty Dawn, a former Hollywood Psychic to the Stars, moves into an old craftsman house, she encounters the former owner, the recently deceased Hollywood set designer, Wilson Thorne.
Wilson is unaware of his circumstances, and when Misty explains the particulars of his limbo state, and how he might help himself if he helps her, he’s not at all happy. That is until young actress Zoey Chamberlain comes to Misty’s door for help.
Zoey has recently purchased The Pink Mansion, a historic Hollywood Hills home, and believes it’s haunted. But when Misty arrives to search the house, it’s not a ghost she finds, but a dead body.
The police are quick to suspect Zoey of murdering her best friend. Zoey maintains her innocence and fears her friend’s death may have been a result of the ghost…and a long-time family curse.
Together Misty and Wilson must untangle the secrets of The Pink Mansion or submit to the powers of the family curse.
Limbonian by Mikki Noble
A Vessel of Souls #2
Publication Date: September 15, 2019
Genre: Young Adult, Romance, Paranormal, Urban Fantasy
I am not completely useless.
Although, I feel like it lately. I lose more and more control over my emotions every day and I don’t know why. Is it because my best friend was murdered just steps away from me, or because my father has been taken? Maybe it’s because I had magic for about five minutes and lost it.
Everyone has a plan to follow. Me? Try to get my powers back or sit around waiting with my tail between my legs—and that’s just not going to happen. If getting my magic back is going to help my friends, then that’s what I have to do.
How do I fend off an anger that is so compelling and powerful it makes me forget just who the heck I am before I chase off everyone I love? How can I save two people I am destined not to?
The Babysitters Coven by Kate Williams
The Babysitter’s Coven #1
Publication Date: September 17, 2019
Genre: Young Adult, Fantasy, Mystery
Adventures in Babysitting meets Buffy the Vampire Slayer in this funny, action-packed novel about a coven of witchy babysitters who realize their calling to protect the innocent and save the world from an onslaught of evil.
Seventeen-year-old Esme Pearl has a babysitters club. She knows it’s kinda lame, but what else is she supposed to do? Get a job? Gross. Besides, Esme likes babysitting, and she’s good at it.
And lately Esme needs all the cash she can get, because it seems like destruction follows her wherever she goes. Let’s just say she owes some people a new tree.
Enter Cassandra Heaven. She’s Instagram-model hot, dresses like she found her clothes in a dumpster, and has a rebellious streak as gnarly as the cafeteria cooking. So why is Cassandra willing to do anything, even take on a potty-training two-year-old, to join Esme’s babysitters club?
The answer lies in a mysterious note Cassandra’s mother left her: “Find the babysitters. Love, Mom.”
Turns out, Esme and Cassandra have more in common than they think, and they’re about to discover what being a babysitter really means: a heroic lineage of superpowers, magic rituals, and saving the innocent from seriously terrifying evil. And all before the parents get home.ummary
15 Days With You by Ara Grigorian
Publication Date: September 24, 2019
Genre: Young Adult, Coming of Age, Beach Reads
A mother’s dying wish. A son in search of answers. A fifteen-day surf odyssey with the California girl who will dare him to rethink everything.
Alone after his mother’s unexpected death, seventeen-year-old Shep leaves Texas to crash with his uncle’s family in Malibu. Before he can hang his cowboy hat, Shep learns something that blows his mind—in her youth, his hard-working single mom was a gifted surfer on her way to international fame. And her dying wish was for him to recreate the surf tour she completed when she was eighteen—the summer she got pregnant with him.
Along with his cousin Carmen (the red-blooded competitive surfer) and her best friend Samantha (the opinionated and mildly annoying beach goddess), Shep hits the road for a surf trip up and down Pacific Coast Highway. Armed with his mother’s ashes and fifteen sealed envelopes—each containing a page from her high school diary—Shep will discover a new side of the complex woman he’d only thought of as Mom, and might finally learn the identity of a man he’s never met—his father.
But each time he paddles out into the waves, a nagging question haunts him—the one he may not be ready to answer: Is he learning to surf because he wants to honor his mother’s dying wish, or running from the real reason he can’t go back to Texas—his own terrible mistake?
Have Yourself A Beary Little Murder by Meg Nancy
A Teddy Bear Mystery #3
Publication Date: September 24, 2019
Genre: Mystery, Cozy, Holiday
This holiday season, teddy bear shop manager Sasha Silverman must solve the slaying of Santa Bear . . .
Sasha and her sister Maddie are thrilled that the Silver Bear Shop and Factory has won the Teddy Bear Keepsake Contest, which means they get to produce a holiday specialty toy, a wizard bear named “Beary Potter.” Promising to be just as magical is Silver Hollow’s annual tree-lighting ceremony and village parade. Only one hitch: the parade’s mascot, Santa Bear—played by Mayor Cal Bloom—is missing.
After a frantic search among the floats, Bloom is found dead. When the outfit is removed, it’s clear the mayor’s been electrocuted. Who zapped hizzoner and then stuffed him into his Santa Bear suit? While the police investigate the grisly crime, Sasha attempts to track down the murderer herself, with some help from the Guilty Pleasures Gossip Club. Can they wrap up this case in time for Christmas—or will Sasha meet her own shocking end?
Late Checkout by Carol J Perry
A Witch City Mystery #9
Publication Date: September 24, 2019
Genre: Mystery, Cozy, Animal, Ghost
A dead ballplayer means foul play in Salem . . .
Field reporter Lee Barrett is not happy that her hours are being cut back at WICH-TV, although it is nice to spend more time volunteering with Aunt Ibby, a research librarian at Salem’s main branch. But Lee’s least favorite task is going up to the stacks, a spooky, seldom-frequented upper section of the library. On this day she has good reason to be afraid—she finds a dead man, surrounded by hundreds of scattered books and torn-out pages.
Her police detective beau, Pete Mondello, is soon on the scene, and the deceased is identified as a former minor league baseball player—and ex-con—named Wee Willie Wallace, who hasn’t been seen in Salem for twenty years. With help from her friend River’s Tarot reading, her clairvoyant cat O’Ryan, and Lee’s own psychic gifts, she steps up to the plate to catch the killer who took the old ballplayer out of the game . . .
Mischief in New Orleans by Lucy Quinn
Accidentally Undercover Mysteries #2
Publication Date: September 24, 2019
Genre: Mystery, Cozy, Animal
There’s trouble in New Orleans. When Evie and Dora arrive in the French Quarter eager to secure the evidence to clear Dora’s name they walk right into the middle of a murder. Now they must put their plans on hold to solve the case that no one else seems to be investigating. With an adorable dog by their side, a crazy mardi gras krewe, and plenty of beignets, it’s up them to solve the crime before they become the next targets.
The Tyrant’s Tomb by Rick Riordan
Trials of Apollo #4
Publication Date: September 24, 2019
Genre: Children’s, Fantasy, Mythology, Magic
It’s not easy being Apollo, especially when you’ve been turned into a human and banished from Olympus. On his path to restoring five ancient oracles and reclaiming his godly powers, Apollo (aka Lester Papadopoulos) has faced both triumphs and tragedies. Now his journey takes him to Camp Jupiter in the San Francisco Bay Area, where the Roman demigods are preparing for a desperate last stand against the evil Triumvirate of Roman emperors. Hazel, Reyna, Frank, Tyson, Ella, and many other old friends will need Apollo’s aid to survive the onslaught. Unfortunately, the answer to their salvation lies in the forgotten tomb of a Roman ruler . . . someone even worse than the emperors Apollo has already faced.
Two Bites Too Many by Debra H. Goldstein
Sarah Blair Mystery #2
Publication Date: September 24, 2019
Genre: Mystery, Cozy, Animals, Supernatural
Far from a domestic goddess, Sarah Blair would rather catch bad guys than slave over a hot stove. But when a dangerous murder boils over in Wheaton, Alabama, catching the killer means leaving her comfort zone …
Things are finally looking up for Sarah Blair following her unsavory divorce. Settled into a cozy carriage house with her sassy Siamese cat, RahRah, she has somehow managed to hang on to her modest law firm receptionist job and—if befriending flea-bitten strays at the local animal shelter counts—lead a thriving social life. For once, Sarah almost has it together more than her enterprising twin, Emily, a professional chef whose efforts to open a gourmet restaurant have hit a real dead end …
When the president of the town bank and city council is murdered after icing Emily’s business plans, all eyes are on the one person who left the scene with blood on her hands—the Blair girls’ sharp-tongued mother, Maybelle. Determined to get her mom off the hook ASAP, Sarah must collect the ingredients of a deadly crime to bring the true culprit to justice. But as neighbors turn against her family, can she pare down the suspects before another victim lands on the chopping block?
Includes quick and easy recipes!
Valleys, Vehicles, and Victims by Tonya Kappes
Campers & Criminals #9
Publication Date: September 27, 2019
Genre: Mystery, Cozy
Welcome to Normal, Kentucky where nothing is normal!
Join Mae West and the Happy Trails Campground gang on another southern murder mystery adventure.
Coastal Corpse by Rena Leith
A Cass Peake Cozy Mystery #2
Publication Date: September 30, 2019
Genre: Mystery, Cozy, Animal, Ghost
Happily settled in her cozy cottage with its resident ghost, Cass Peake looks forward to Halloween. Then another corpse is found on her beachfront. With the support of family and her ghostly roommate, Cass investigates. To her dismay, she finds the murder victim handled her goofy neighbor’s trust fund and he was in dire need of money. The suspect list grows with a former husband, another needy relative, and a maybe shady accountant who suddenly disappears. To top it all off, rumors circulate about treasure hidden in Cass’s cottage.
Detective George Ho doesn’t like his ex-girlfriend snooping around. Despite that, sparks still fly between him and Cass. But superstitious George has no idea Cass’s home is haunted. Can Cass solve the mystery and renew the romance with her ghost-adverse ex?
Well, that’s it for the Upcoming Releases for September 2019
Drop a comment if you like one of the books above or if you have one to recommend.
Thank you for stopping by,
Happy Reading!
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