Book Cover Reveal: Starlight Saga #1: Lost In Starlight by Sherry Soule

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Today bestselling author, Sherry Soule has some exciting news to share with us! She will be publishing a brand new Upper YA / Sci-Fi romance series: the “Starlight Saga” with scorching-hot character chemistry, exciting suspense, and epic romance on June 26, 2014.

To help promote this interstellar love story, “LOST IN STARLIGHT,” Sherry is doing this fun guest post to share the news with fellow booklovers. Here's the funky cover!

Please mark your calendars to buy your copy of LOST IN STARLIGHT on June 26^th 2014!

Read the first 3 chapters on wattpad: http://www.wattpad.com/43691448-lost-in-starlight-ya-syfy-romance-lost-in

VOLUME ONE: Starlight Saga

Is a star-crossed romance worth sacrificing your own life?

High school senior Sloane Masterson lives a quiet existence. She has awesome friends, gets excellent grades, and writes a column for the Haven Gazette. But her life goes from dullsville to bizarro when she witnesses mysterious loner Hayden Lancaster performing some freaky superhuman feats.

Like any good journalist, Sloane sets out to uncover the truth, and she’s not above stalking. But one look into Hayden’s remarkable eyes, and she’s crushing hard.

Even at the swoonworthy hunk’s insistence that hanging out with girls like Sloane is “off limits” by his strange family, she can’t resist him or wanting to solve the mystery.

Things get really complicated when a beautiful alien sets her sights on Hayden—and this devious girl’s not looking for a green card!

Now Sloane’s dealing with creepy government agents, über snobby extraterrestrials, and getting a crash course on the rules of interstellar dating. As their diverse worlds collide and the romantic sparks fly, Sloane must decide if Hayden’s secrets are worth risking her life to protect.

Places you can cyberstalk Sherry Soule:

Official Blog: http://www.sherrysoule.blogspot.com/

Twitter @SherrySoule: http://twitter.com/SherrySoule

Add to your TBR on goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20707942-lost-to-starlight

Keir by Pippa Jay (Science-fiction Romance)

May 2012, Lyrical Press
258 Pages, eBook
Review copy

Themes: space travel, different species, varying customs, funky technology, telepathy & telekinesis etc, unknown powers, longevity, death, cruelty, heartache, necessary betrayal, island paradise, kidnapping, lots of high peril situations, love, some moderate violence, 1 strong adult romance scene, a lot of humour and tears

Summary from Lyrical Press

Outcast. Cursed. Dying. Is Keir beyond redemption?

For Keirlan de Corizi--the legendary 'Blue Demon' of Adalucien--death seems the only escape from a world where his discolored skin marks him as an oddity and condemns him to life as a pariah. But salvation comes in an unexpected guise: Tarquin Secker, a young woman who can travel the stars with a wave of her hand. 

But Quin has secrets of her own. She's spent eternity searching through space and time with a strange band of companions at her back. Defying her friends' counsel, Quin risks her apparent immortality to save Keir. She offers him sanctuary and a new life on her home world, Lyagnius. 

When Keir mistakenly unleashes his dormant alien powers and earns instant exile from Quin's home world, will she risk everything to stand by him again?

Nayuleska's thoughts

I havn't read this genre for a while, and the reasons why I love it came flooding back. I love all the space travel which in this case didnt really use space ships. I enjoyed the different species, learning how their differences to more humanoid species provided Quin with an advantage when times were tough. Discovering the kind of person Quin is was an enjoyable & often surprising journey. She is absolutely hilarious, she doesn't take no for an answer, she'll fight for what she believes in and sacrifice everything for those she cares about. Her powers are phenomenal - you seriously do not want to annoy her. And the ending is very good. Although I had a theory on how it happened, it didn't pan out yet I still loved it & will just have to save the theory for one of my own wips. (What? Reading is fuel for my Muse). This is a 10/10 read.

You can find out more on Pippa's website.

Suggested read

For a story involving island hopping, kidnapping & a strong minded heroine try the Crystal Singer trilogy by Anne McCaffrey. I've read it many times, and hope to re-read and review it here on NRC in the future.

Even Villains Fall In Love by Liana Brooks (Science Fiction Romance)

6th April 2012, Breathless Press 

word count 28k, eBook, 

Review copy

Themes: life of a villain, the troubles a villain has suppressing his evil nature, children having accidents with seemingly catastrophic consequences,  a superhero for a mother, mother's returning to work for the family, quadruplets, paranormal powers, perceptive children, heroes wanting to eliminate villains, family in danger, thinking outside the box, pluses and minuses of having minions, moderate amount adult relationship (including innuendo), stacks of hilarity

Summary from Breathless Press

A super villain at the top of his game must choose between the world he wants and the woman he loves.

If you believe the rumors you know that Doctor Charm, the wickedly sexy super villain, retired in shame seven years ago after his last fight with the super hero Zephyr Girl. The fact that the charming Evan Smith—father of four and husband of the too-beautiful-to-be-real Tabitha—bears a resemblance to the defeated Doctor is pure coincidence. And, please, ignore the minions.

Everything is perfect in the Smith household, until Tabitha announces her return to work as a super hero. Evan was hoping to keep her distracted until after he rigged the 2012 presidential election, but—genius that he is—Evan has a backup plan. In his basement lab, Evan has a machine whose sole purpose is keeping Tabitha hungry for him.

But children and labs don’t mix. The machine is broken, and Tabitha storms out, claiming she no longer knows him. World domination takes a back seat to meeting his daughters’ demands to get Mommy back right now. This time his genius isn’t going to be enough—he’s going to need both his evil alter-ego, and the blooming super abilities of his children to save his wife. But even his most charming self might not be enough to save their marriage.

Nayuleska's thoughts

Apart from the beginning which had slightly less fun when the children or Tabitha weren't involved (I like female protagonists a lot), this was an awesome read. I loved the hilarity of Evan keeping his supposedly finished with villainry a secret. I felt sad that he feels he needed machines to keep Tabitha attracted to him. My heart breaks when Everything Goes Very Wrong in the story. But I was soon smiling again because the stars of the show are the children. 4 not so normal little girls. It was so funny the way that they revealed their powers to Evan - and also the names they chose to be called by. This book is wonderful because it is family orientated, something which I quite enjoy in books but don't always see a lot of. This is an entertaining 10/10 read. 

You can find out more about Liana and her book on her website. 

Suggested read

For those who love the antics of villains check out Ardyth DeBrun's A School for Villains