Title: Throne of Oak
Author: Dana Marie Bell
Series: Maggie’s Grove, #2
Genre: paranormal romance
Release date: June 11, 2013 by Carina Press

Description:

Vampire Dragos Ibanescu, Mayor of Maggie’s Grove, is about to lose his mind. His mate, the dryad queen Mina Chainey, refuses to have anything to do with him after her ordeal at the hands of an evil witch. If he doesn’t mate with her soon, he may lose control of the beast within him—a force far more dangerous than anyone in town knows…

Mina’s nightmares of her time with the witch haunt her. The Queen of the Forest can’t muster the strength needed to fight her terror. Unable to leave the Throne, she vows she will not accept Dragos until she can stand at his side as an equal. But the nightmares are only growing in strength, and soon she realizes that there’s more to her pain than simple fear.

Dark forces are converging on Maggie’s Grove, and a horde of hunters stalk supernaturals from the shadows. Only by uniting in body and mind will Mina and Dragos find the strength to defend their home.

…

A Matter of Days by Amber Kizer (YA)
Another Little Piece by Kate Karyus Quinn (YA)
Bad Monkey by Carl Hiaasen

Being Me (Inside Out Trilogy, #2) by Lisa Renee Jones
Belle Epoque by Elizabeth Ross (YA)
Born Of Illusion (Born of Illusion, #1) by Teri Brown (YA)

Burning by Elana K. Arnold (YA)
Dance of the Red Death (Masque of the Red Death, #2) by Bethany Griffin (YA)
Defiance (Defiance #1) by Stephanie Tyler

Destiny (The League of Illusion, #3) by Vivi Anna (YA)
Flirting with Disaster (Camelot, #3) by Ruthie Knox
Forever Too Far (Too Far, #3) by Abbi Glines

Full Moon (Second Chances, #2) by Mari Carr
Her Grace’s Stable (A Jane Austen Space Opera, #2) by Joely Sue Burkhart
How (Not) to Find a Boyfriend by Allyson Valentine Schrier (YA)

Infamous (Fame Game, #3) by Lauren Conrad (YA)
Linked by Imogen Howson (YA)
Love Minus Eighty by Will McIntosh

My Chemical Mountain by Corina Vacco (YA)
One Heart to Win by Johanna Lindsey
One Tiny Lie (Ten Tiny Breaths, #2) by K.A. Tucker (YA/NA)

Playing the Part by Robin Covington
Rush (The Game, #1) by Eve Silver (YA)
She’s the One (Counting on Love, #1) by Erin Nicholas

Spies and Prejudice by Talia Vance (YA)
The Last Original Wife by Dorothea Benton Frank
The Registry by Shannon Stoker (YA)

. . .

Hm. Many YA titles, as expected during the mid-month. Interesting premises both new and familiar, including Linked by Imogen Howson (about a young woman who sees through someone else’s eyes–literally); My Chemical Mountain (about teens and their local industrial wasteland); and Rush (a Hunger Games-style adventure–with aliens!).

If the YA is not your thing this week, there are a few adult titles, mostly themed romances. Contemporary (Playing the Part), romantica (Being Me, the follow-up to the popular If I Were You); western (One Heart to Win); and paranormal (Throne of Oak, follow-up to Blood of the Maple).

Throw in the unusual–Bad Monkey looks like like a wild, weird ride (the title alone suggests it)–and this week presents a bit of a varied set of releases.

. . .

Anything in this set of new releases to sink your teeth into?  

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