Please add books here

[Susan]

Share your favourites with us.

Please add links, cover and blurb then tell us why you think this book deserves to be in this category and what you like so much about it.

Authors: feel free to add your own books too. :)

[Nicole]

It was just after reading one of Melinda Lo's blog posts on this site that I remembered I'd just recently signed up to this group, so I think I'll plug a couple of her books:

This is a YA retelling of Cinderella. Not explicit due to the YA of it, but definitely in the fantasy genre.

And this is Ash's prequel in the same verse, but far more fantasy than fairy tale retelling.

[Julia]

I was going to wait a bit longer to add Kostas, because it's genre is a little weird, but I didn't. I've got it down as a military-themed romantic fantasy, but it's being categorized more as a spy-ish, pseudo-historical romance so, uh... I hope this is in the right place? Genre classification is not my strong suit. Also I hope it qualifies for the group.

Also, you can check out the website for free stories of varying heat-levels, recipes from the book, and the occasional semi-relevant nattering: jcstryker.com


When Dominicus Galen fell at Esras Cole's feet on the battlefield, rival generals became reunited lovers.

Reunited, perhaps, but not reconciled, for Galen didn't fall alone; the Comid Republic, a federation of the faithful carved from Ainjir, Cole's secular homeland, by bloody rebellion, fell with him. Whether or not they are, or even could be, lovers again, with five years of war between them Cole knows one thing for certain:

Treason is too simple a plan for Dominicus Galen.

Galen can't even tell him how right he is - surrendering to Cole is a gesture as calculated as it is hopeful. Galen has put his life in the hands of the lover he spent five years fighting. If anyone can save him, it is Esras Cole, but even for Galen, the question remains: Should he be saved?

From the moment Galen hits the ground before him, Cole has ten days – six to march to the Capitol, four for Galen's torture, trial, and execution – to unravel the plot of cross and double-cross that condemns Galen to die for his disloyalty. The closer he comes to a solution, the more apparent it becomes that the cost of Galen's life may be the country Cole fought to save – a price the kingdom should be wary of asking him to pay.

What else could he do but pay it gladly when the man he fought a war against is the one person who would never betray him?

[Elin]

J.C. wrote: "I was going to wait a bit longer to add Kostas, because it's genre is a little weird, but I didn't. I've got it down as a military-themed romantic fantasy, but it's being categorized more as a spy..."

That looks to me to be in exactly the right place. It also looks like a cracking read. Thanks for adding it to the list.