Fresh Batch (Jan 27th - Feb 2nd)

Exclusively titled for Xpresso Reads, Fresh Batch features the hottest releases of this upcoming week.

Flavor of the week:

Sins & Needles

Karina Halle

Series: The Artists Trilogy, #1
Publication date: January 28th 2013
by Metal Blonde Books

Ellie Watt is used to starting over. The daughter of a grifting team, Ellie spent her childhood being used as a pawn in her parents' latest scam. Now she’s much older, wiser and ready to give her con artist life a rest. But returning to the dry desert town of Palm Valley, California means one more temptation than she bargained for – Camden McQueen. Once known as the high school weirdo, Camden is bigger and badder than the boy he used to be and a talented tattoo artist with his own thriving business. Ellie’s counting on Camden still being in love with her but what she’s not counting on is how easily unrequited love can turn into obsession over time. When Camden discovers Ellie’s plan to con him, he makes her a deal she doesn’t dare refuse, but her freedom comes with a price and it’s one that takes both Ellie and Camden down a dangerous road.

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The daughter of a Norwegian Viking and a Finnish Moomin, Karina Halle grew up in Vancouver, Canada with trolls and eternal darkness on the brain. This soon turned into a love of all things that go bump in the night and a rather sadistic appreciation for freaking people out. Like many of the flawed characters she writes, Karina never knew where to find herself and has dabbled in acting, make-up artistry, film production, screenwriting, photography, travel writing and music journalism. She eventually found herself in the pages of the very novels she wrote (if only she had looked there to begin with).

Karina holds a screenwriting degree from Vancouver Film School and a Bachelor of Journalism from TRU. Her travel writing, music reviews/interviews and photography have appeared in publications such as Consequence of Sound, Mxdwn and GoNomad Travel Guides. She currently lives on an island on the coast of British Columbia where she's preparing for the zombie apocalypse.

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 Other releases this week (Click on title links for Goodreads):

*In no particular order*  *Purchase links are for The Book Depository*

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- Shadowhunters and Downworlders: A Mortal Instruments Reader (The Mortal Instruments) by Cassandra Clare [Purchase]

- Focus (The Crescent Chronicles #2) by Alyssa Rose Ivy [Purchase]

- Heatseeker by Lucy Monroe [Purchase]

- Here I Go Again by Jen Lancaster [Purchase]

- Nobody But Us by Kristin Halbrook [Purchase]

- Prodigy (Legend #2) by Marie Lu [Purchase]

- The Voice by Jennifer Anne Davis [Purchase]

- Othermoon (Otherkin #2) by Nina Berry [Purchase]

- A Teaspoon of Earth and Sea by Dina Nayeri [Purchase]

- Front Page Fatality (A Nichelle Clarke Headlines in Heels Mystery #1) by LynDee Walker [Purchase]

- Entice (Exquisite #2) by Ella Frank

- Stolen Nights (Vampire Queen #2) by Rebecca Maizel [Purchase]

- Undone by Cat Clarke [Purchase]

- Fresh Off the Boat: A Memoir by Eddie Huang [Purchase]

- Blaze (or Love in the Time of Supervillains) by Laurie Boyle Crompton [Purchase]

- Asunder (Newsoul #2) by Jodi Meadows [Purchase] 

- Haunted Moon (Otherworld #13) by Yasmine Galenorn [Purchase]

- What the Spell? (Life's a Witch #1) by Brittany Geragotelis [Purchase]

- Austensibly Ordinary by Alyssa Goodnight [Purchase]

- Love Unrehearsed (Love #2) by Tina Reber [Purchase]

 

- One Good Earl Deserves a Lover (The Rules of Scoundrels #2) by Sarah MacLean [Purchase]
- Blood Moon (Silver Moon #3) by Rebecca A. Rogers

- 'Til The World Ends (Blood of Eden #0.5) [Purchase]

- The Eldritch Conspiracy (Blood Singer #5) by Cat Adams [Purchase]

- Insane City by Dave Barry [Purchase]

- Shadows in the Silence (Angelfire #3) by Courtney Allison Moulton [Purchase]

- Stories from Jonestown by Leigh Fondakowski [Purchase]

- The Winter Witch by Paula Brackston [Purchase]

- Rebecca’s Lost Journals, Volume 1: The Seduction (Inside Out Novellas #1) by Lisa Renee Jones

- The Prey (The Hunt #2) by Andrew Fukuda [Purchase]

- The Madman's Daughter (The Madman's Daughter #1) by Megan Shepherd [Purchase]

- Hooked (Hooked #1) by Liz Fichera [Purchase]

- Don't Hate the Player...Hate the Game by Krista Ashe

- A Shimmer of Angels (Angel Sight #1) by Lisa M. Basso [Purchase]

- Ruining You (Ruining #2) by Nicole Reed

- Unbroken (Ruined #2) by Paula Morris [Purchase]

- Into the Dark: A Novel of Suspense (Brenna Spector #2) by Alison Gaylin [Purchase]

- The Seventh Victim by Mary Burton [Purchase]

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