Welcome to February 2021 new releases.
Congratulations to all who have new or recent releases this month. Please check the end of the post to see if you were a winner in January.
Scarlet Love by Elaine Fraser
Publisher: Beautiful Books, (Release date: February 2021)
An LA fashion influencer with a secret mission, a girl who doesn’t speak, and an unlikely friendship.
Scarlett wants an adventure. When she agrees to go to Australia on a secret mission, she has no idea she’ll become the target of an online journalist.
Jaya wants to help Scarlett, but she hasn’t spoken for four years and has her own secrets.
When they join forces to expose a bullying gossip writer, will they find more in common than they ever imagined?
When their secrets threaten to thrust Jaya into the limelight, she is pushed to the edge. If she can’t be heard, then why be here at all?
Can Scarlett save Jaya and complete her mission?
If you enjoy stories with a spiritual edge and characters who wrestle with real-life issues, you’ll love the latest instalment in Elaine Fraser’s Beautiful Lives Series.
Life isn’t a polished essay. It’s a first draft and a pretty messy one at that.
Phoena’s Quest 1: First Spark by Chrissy Garwood
Publisher: Chrisolite Books (Release date: 17 January 2021)
The quest begins with a first spark. It flares in isolation, untended and unknown. Too late, the darkness tries to smother it…
The Westernbrooke Academy for Young Noblemen is the only home Phoena has known. An orphaned servant without a past, lacking magical talent and protections, the teenager is often the target of student trickery. After years of torment, she longs for invisibility.
Lord Karilion, the Academy’s best student, has beaten all challengers. The wealthy heir is also a champion swordsman. Viscount Baraapa, secure in second place, has no magic – but his scientific mastery gives him an unexpected advantage. The foreigner, Lord Oramis, threatens the balance when he refuses to be tested. What is the Emberite Ambassador’s son hiding?
The quest selects its champions: a servant girl, and three noblemen who think winning her loyalty is a game.
And there’s a dragon in the back garden…
Salamanda Appreciation Society: A collaborative anthology. By Dunalley Primary School SAS (eleven 11-12-year-old primary school students), Compiled and edited by Chrissy Garwood.
Publisher: Chrisolite Books, (Release date 17 January 2021)
Welcome to the first book by the Salamanda Appreciation Society (SAS). Within these pages, you will meet a surprising cast of characters brought to you by eleven young authors. Strap on your amour and activate your shields, gather your scientific gadgets, and suspend reality as you struggle across sandy deserts or speed through time and space in search of the elusive shape-shifter.
Salamanda has sent an invitation, and these student-storytellers are responding to his summons. Where else would you find a suspicious koala, a sassy bilby, a skilled superhero, a spy who collects camels, a couple of school boys seeking adventure, an elf and a sword-bearer (both selected by prophecy), a sympathetic girl, and a secretive team of special agents working together?
Is Salamanda a strong hero or a sneaky villain? Will the strategies to capture him or her succeed? Read on to find out.
Testimonial from one of the students:
“This book will keep you thinking long after you put it back on the shelf.” – Abel
The Sword in His Hand by J. J. Fischer
Publisher: Ambassador International, (Release date 9 February 2021)
“One is an opportunity. Two is a threat. Three is an invasion.”
For hundreds of years, strange things have been washing up on the shores of Darcentaria. But when a young foreign woman named El is found unconscious on the beach amidst the burning wreckage of a strange metal craft, the villagers of Odessa are immediately suspicious—is she an agent of the Dalriadan Empire, their cruel oppressors for as long as they can remember? Or does she come from the Outside, the vast and legendary lands beyond their borders from which no man or woman alive has ever returned?
Torsten Eiselher, a talented young swordsman, has spent the last nine years of his life wrongfully imprisoned by his uncle, the Empire’s ruler. Betrayed and deceived at every turn, Torsten has survived by keeping a firm grip on his sword—and by staying well away from anything to do with the Outside. But when his young sister is murdered, Torsten finds himself irrevocably drawn to El despite her Outsider heritage—and he begins to question everything he has been told about her world.
Intrigued by the existence of a powerful and dangerously advanced world within his reach, the Empire’s ruler, Jurien Arminius, launches a hunt for El and the two Outsiders that arrived with her—the ones who could help him win his war against Torsten and the rebellion that threatens to topple his Empire.
Suddenly, Torsten is forced to choose between defeating his long-term enemy or saving the woman he has come to love . . .
Winners
The winner of the January gift card is Beth Nunn. Congratulations, please contact us via the contact form to claim your voucher.
