Waiting on Wednesday

Waiting On" Wednesday is a weekly event, that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating.

This week's pre-publication "can't-wait-to-read" selection are:

Dark Taste of Rapture (Alien Huntress 7) [Mass Market Paperback]


Product Description 

New York Times bestselling author Gena Showalter captivates with a dark, tantalizing world of humans, otherworlders, and a powerful AIR agent consumed by his desire for a woman he can never have . . . .

With one caress, he can give unforgettable pleasure . . . or unending pain. . . . 
Hector Dean is shaved, tattooed, and totally ripped — and he has a deadly secret. He is a walking weapon, capable of killing with a single brush of his fingertips. Little wonder he’s determined to remain on his own. But Noelle Tremain is a temptation like no other. She is beautiful and rich, with a party girl smile that hides a shocking vulnerability, and from the beginning his sizzling attraction to her is undeniable. For the first time, his stone-cold resistance is tested. But to be with her, he risks destroying her.

When a wealthy businessman is murdered in New Chicago’s seediest district, the two are partnered, and there’s no escaping what they both want: each other. Yet neither Hector nor Noelle knows what to fear more — the killer case, or their own lethal desires. . . .

Product Details
Mass Market Paperback: 464 pages
Publisher: Pocket Star; Original edition (August 23, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1439175780
ISBN-13: 978-1439175781

Lord of the Vampires (Harlequin Nocturne) [Mass Market Paperback]


Product Description

Once upon a time … the Blood Sorcerer vanquished the kingdom of Elden.

To save their children, the queen scattered them to safety and the king filled them with vengeance.

Only a magical timepiece connects the four royal heirs … and time is running out.…

Nicolai the Vampire was renowned for his virility, but in a twist of fate "The Dark Seducer" had become a sex slave in the kingdom of Delfina — stripped of his precious timepiece and his memory. All that remained was a primal need for freedom, revenge — and the only woman who could help him.

In her dreams, a wanton vampire called to Jane Parker, drawing her to his dark sexuality and his magical realm.

But for a human, all was not a fairy tale in Delfina. Jane was the key to Nicolai's memory…but exploiting her meant dooming the only mortal he craved.

Product Details
Mass Market Paperback: 288 pages
Publisher: Harlequin (August 23, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0373618662
ISBN-13: 978-0373618668

The Shadow Wolf: The Shadow Wolf\Darkness of the Wolf (Harlequin Nocturne) 

Book Description

On the run from authorities, gutsy Megan Moraine knows shadow wolves like herself have no place in this world. But she's still prepared to do anything to protect her young charges. That resolve is tested when the trio is captured by Gabriel Robichaux. Everyone knows that Gabriel is a ruthless bounty hunter, a member of an elite group called the Enforcers. Why then is Megan so attracted to her enemy — a wolf who hunts his own people? A wolf whose languid, sexy drawl makes her dream the impossible?
Product Details
Mass Market Paperback: 288 pages
Publisher: Harlequin (August 23, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0373618670
ISBN-13: 978-0373618675

The King's Courtesan (Hqn) [Mass Market Paperback]

Product Description

Her body is the battleground

Sensuous, beautiful and determined, Hope Matthews is a favored mistress of the king. Her many charms have helped her rise from the gutter to the king's bed. But with the new queen's impending arrival, her nights in the royal chamber — and her hopes for security — will swiftly come to an end.

His honor a distant memory

Haunted by his past, hardened by the recent civil war, Captain Robert Nichols lives only for revenge. When told he must marry the king's courtesan to provide a cover for their affair, he's faced with a new low. Both are pawns of a great man, but married to their dreams of independence, their clash is inevitable. Can these two wounded sou

Product Details
Mass Market Paperback: 384 pages
Publisher: HQN Books; 384 edition (August 23, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0373775598
ISBN-13: 978-0373775590

Deep Disclosure [Mass Market Paperback]

Book Description

After spending years in prison under deep cover, black ops agent Tucker Flynn joins A-Tac, an elite CIA unit masquerading as faculty at an Ivy League college. Nothing can shake him-except a vulnerable young woman marked for death.
DUAL DECEPTION

When Tucker is assigned to protect-and secretly investigate-Alexis Markham, he expects a routine mission. But this mysterious beauty has a past even darker than his: her father created a horrifying new biochemical weapon-and was murdered to keep it secret.

Alexis has spent the last decade racing to stay one step ahead of the shadowy operatives who will stop at nothing to possess her father's formula. She can trust no one, not even her handsome new bodyguard. But the heat that flares between them is impossible to resist. Will giving in to passion bring her the safety she's always craved, or will her love for Tucker draw him into a killer's sights?

Product Details
Mass Market Paperback: 368 pages
Publisher: Forever (August 23, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0446582921
ISBN-13: 978-0446582926

Manga:

Bloody Monday 1 [Paperback]

Product Description

A Russian spy is found murdered in Japan, with the only clue to the reasons for his death being a memory chip he managed to hide from his murderer. The Third-I branch of the Public Security Intelligence Agency recruit Fujimaru Takagi, a brilliant hacker known as "Falcon", to decode the chip, which contains a video file documenting a viral outbreak in Russia where thousands are killed, known as the Christmas Massacre.
Things become further complicated when Fujimura's father, a high ranking official within Third-I, is falsely accused of murdering his superior when he receives further information related to the Christmas Massacre, and the code name "Bloody Monday".

The terrorist Maya Orihara, who was responsible for the incident in Russia, is now in Tokyo in order to recover the memory stick to stop Third-I from knowing the truth of a terrorist plot in Japan. She goes under cover as a teacher at Fujimaru Takagi's High School. From there it becomes difficult for Fujimaru to determine who he can trust as he uses his high-level hacking skills to try and save the country and unravel the mystery of Bloody Monday and the cult behind it.

Product Details
Paperback: 208 pages
Publisher: Kodansha Comics (August 23, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1935429221
ISBN-13: 978-1935429227

Until the Full Moon 1 [Paperback]

Product Description

Marlo, a teenage half-vampire, half-werewolf, discovers that during the full moon, he turns into a girl. His family betrothe him to the playboy vampire and son of a family friend, David.
Product Details
Paperback: 240 pages
Publisher: Kodansha Comics (August 23, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1935429892
ISBN-13: 978-1935429890