The Baroness’ Choices of New Books Publishing This Week
2022, Week 33’s New Books
My choices for this week include Paranormal Mystery, YA Sports Romance, Romantic Comedy, YA Fantasy, Sweet Romance, MG Horror, Cozy Paranormal Mystery, Cozy Culinary Paranormal Mystery, and Cozy Animal Mystery. This week we have a mix-match of books. I find that sometimes it’s nice to switch it up. I hope you are enjoying your summer. It has been beautiful here in Montana.
Here are my choices for New Books Publishing Week 33 of 2022!
Touched by Carolyn Haines
Jexville Chronicles #2
Publication Date: August 15, 2022
Genre: Paranormal Mystery
Conflicts in a small Southern town bubble to the surface in this tale of repression and prophecy, the second book in The Jexville Chronicles trilogy. Sixteen-year-old Mattie comes to Mississippi in the summer of 1926 as a mail-order bride and finds a quiet, deeply religious community wrapped in rigid views of a woman’s proper role. When Duncan McVay, the nine-year-old daughter of Jexville’s most controversial woman, is struck by lightning while dancing, the townspeople are horrified when she doesn’t die but survives—and is given the gift of prophecy. Abused and mistreated by her handsome husband, Mattie defends Duncan. She finds comfort in her friendship with JoHanna and the McVay family, but defying the town has consequences. When a hurricane lashes the area, the townspeople blame Duncan. Action leads to tragedy. For both Mattie and Johanna, the future holds heartache, but ultimately a long-awaited and stunningly executed revenge.
A Heartbeat away from You by Ann M. Miller
Publication Date: August 16, 2022
Genre: YA Sports Romance
Fearless Ali—implanted with a pacemaker—sets her sights on a return to the diamond, but her overprotective dad throws her a curveball when he enlists her childhood nemesis to keep her out of the game.
After a daredevil play on the baseball field leads to a four-minute long cardiac arrest, seventeen-year-old Ali Benton is lucky to be alive. Now she wants to make the most of her second chance—and she’s not going to let a pesky little pacemaker, or her helicopter dad, slow her down.
Between chairing multiple school clubs and working two jobs to help his single mother pay the bills, Max Delaney has got every second of every day planned. His childhood nemesis, Ali, doesn’t figure into any of them. But when her overprotective father offers him cash to keep an eye on her and steer her away from baseball, his plans change.
Ali can’t figure out why Max, the condescending know-it-all, is sticking to her side like Krazy Glue, and Max can barely tolerate headstrong Ali. But opposites attract, and before long, fighting turns to kissing. Even as sparks fly, the secrets they’ve been keeping threaten to tear them apart. When Max learns Ali’s been putting herself in harm’s way and playing ball in secret, he struggles with how to tell her father. If he tattles, he’ll lose her trust. If he doesn’t, he may lose her heart…in more ways than one.
A Royal Pain by Laura Heffernan
Retail to Riches #2
Publication Date: August 16, 2022
Genre: Romantic Comedy
Being a Princess is for the birds…
As if meeting your mother-in-law isn’t terrifying enough, Lila’s happens to be Queen of Corchenne. Her Royal Highness is less than thrilled that her favorite son Pierre married a commoner and is renouncing his title. Winning her over is a tall order, but Lila’s up for the challenge—until her scheming, no-good brother arrives in town. And he brought a flock of emus into the throne room.
Caleb’s never met a rich person he doesn’t want to dupe, and unlike his sister, he makes a great first impression. Suddenly, instead of worrying about embarrassing Pierre or accidentally declaring war on Spain, Lila has to stop the royal family from falling under her brother’s spell. Pierre claims to love Lila despite her relatives, but if she can’t fix her brother’s mess, it could destroy the royal family—not to mention the economy of Corchenne. Can their marriage survive the monarchy’s disapproval and the weight of royal obligations?
Fans of Melanie Summers or Teri Wilson will love this witty, charming series.
Ashfall Prophecy by Pittacus Lore
Publication Date: August 16, 2022
Genre: YA Fantasy
Pittacus Lore finished telling the story of the Lorien Nine in the New York Times bestselling I Am Number Four and Lorien Legacies Reborn series. Now he’s back with the second installment in an all-new adventure duology rooted in the real mysteries surrounding Roswell, New Mexico, that will enthrall fans of Brandon Sanderson, Jay Kristoff, and Amie Kaufman.
Syd Chambers grew up on Earth with his human mother and barely remembers his alien father from Denza, who left on a mission when Syd was very young. After leaving Earth, Syd learned the truth of his father’s disappearance on the planet Ashfall—his father had died protecting a devastating secret about the history between humans and Denzans.
Syd is now faced with a choice—free humanity from imprisonment on Earth, which will allow them to come into physical power beyond their wildest dreams; or destroy Earth so that humans never have a chance to enslave, torment, and kill other species again. It has been prophesied that Syd is destined to become a world-killer, but Syd is determined to choose his own fate, and knows there must be another path forward that will honor his father’s sacrifice.
Summer by the Beach by Jennifer Faye
Bell Family of Bluestar Island #5
Publication Date: August 16, 2022
Genre: Sweet Romance
A charming second-chance romance!
When Summer Turner returns to Bluestar Island to start her Beach Love Yoga studio, she doesn’t expect her former childhood friend, Greg Hoover, to be one of her students. With their friendship in tatters, a family emergency draws them closer. Maybe this summer will be the season for forgiveness…and love.
This Appearing House by Ally Malinenko
Publication Date: August 16, 2022
Genre: MG Horror
From the author of Ghost Girl comes another standalone spooky middle grade for fans of Nightbooks and Ghost Squad, about a terrifying house and the girl haunted by her experience with cancer, grief, and healing. Are you brave enough to step inside?
For as long as anyone could remember there wasn’t a house at the dead end of Juniper Drive . . . until one day there was.
When Jac first sees the House, she’s counting down to the five-year anniversary of her cancer diagnosis, when she hopefully will be declared NED, or “no evidence of disease.” But with a house appearing, and her hands shaking, and a fall off her bike, Jac is starting to wonder if these are symptoms—or if something stranger is happening.
Two classmates dare Jac and her friend Hazel to enter the House. Walking through the front door is the way in. It’s definitely not the way out. There’s something off about the House; Jac can feel it. The same way she knows it’s no coincidence that the House appeared for her five-year marker. It wants something from her. And she won’t be able to get out until she figures out what.
Tw’Elf Knight by Nova Nelson
Magical Renaissance Faire Mystery #5
Publication Date: August 16, 2022
Genre: Cozy Paranormal Mystery
This earthbound angel’s next investigation just fell from the sky.
Autumn Knight Olivia Swift finally feels her angelic powers returning, and just in time. Because when an elf is found dead on a pile of feathers, the falconer who makes Olivia’s heart flutter falls accused of the crime. Certain he’s not the culprit, she must search through the tall tales of the Renaissance Faire to find a killer on the loose.
When she senses her sweetheart isn’t telling her everything he knows, her gift of truth-seeing feels more like a curse. And the deeper she digs, the less she can trust anyone around her, including herself…
Can this fallen angel unravel the case of the fallen elf before the wrong person goes down for the crime?
Tw’Elf Knight is the fifth book in the humorous paranormal cozy series, Magical Renaissance Faire Mysteries. If you like brave heroines, supernatural snark, and a sprinkle of romance, then you’ll love Nova Nelson’s delightful tale.
Murder Among Friends by Michele Pariza Wacek
Charlie Kinglsey Mysteries #4
Publication Date: August 18, 2022
Genre: Cozy Culinary Paranormal Mystery
Five friends went into the woods. Only four came back.
There’s a reason why Redemption, Wisconsin, is the home of all sorts of odd occurrences, including disappearances, murders, and general weirdness.
It all started back in 1888, when all the adults vanished, leaving behind only the children. No one knows what happened to the adults, but there is no end to the rumors flying around.
One particularly persistent rumor involves a cabin in the woods, and what supposedly lives in it. Some say if you can find it, you’ll be granted your deepest wish.
Others say to beware. It will come with too high a cost.
Needless to say, that warning has never stopped people from hunting for the cabin over the years, including five friends celebrating one last hurrah before m0ving on to the next chapter of their lives.
It’s a few days to party, to make memories …. and maybe even change their lives, should their greatest wishes actually be granted.
Except … one doesn’t return.
Is this someone’s idea of a joke? Or is there something else going on?
Luckily, Charlie is not only on the case but fueled with tea, as this will prove to be one of her most puzzling crimes to date.
Meet Charlie. Better known as “Aunt Charlie” from the award-winning Secrets of Redemption series. She’s back, making teas and solving cases in this funny, twisty, cozy mystery series set in the 1990s in Redemption, Wisconsin.
Bagels and Betrayal by Wendy Meadows
Snow Falls Alaska Mystery #3
Publication Date: August 19, 2022
Genre: Cozy Animal Mystery
A remote lake house, a threatening phone call, and a terrifying mystery that could be her last.
Desperate to protect her best friend Julie after a strange threatening phone call, Bethany Lights flees Alaska to a small town nestled in the North Carolina mountains. But they’re not out of the woods yet. Somebody wants them dead… and Bethany is about to be catapulted into a terrifying fight for survival.
Held hostage by masked madmen and trapped in a remote lake house, Bethany and Julie find themselves dragged into a confusing mystery with life-changing consequences. As the bodies begin to pile up, Bethany knows that their time is running out.
Faced with murder, betrayal, and a deadly case filled with hungry scorpions, Bethany is horrified to realize that this time, the mystery involves her own mother…
Can Bethany outsmart her captors and unravel the truth behind the killers? Or will her next case prove too much for her to beat?
As the third riveting novel in the Snow Falls Alaska Mystery series, Bethany Light’s next adventure is a page-turning who-dun-it that’s brimming with head-scratching clues, a determined heroine, and all the twists and turns of a captivating cozy mystery.
Well, that’s it for the New Books Releasing Week 33 of 2022
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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