#SixForSunday // March #3

Six For Sunday – March – Around the world in 80 books

Six for Sunday (#SixForSunday) is a weekly meme hosted by Steph over at A Little But a Lot. The prompts for each week are up well in advance and they are a great way to share your love of all things book.

Today’s theme is “Characters you think deserve a holiday“

The Messenger Chronicles by Pippa DaCosta

Sci-Fi/Fantasy Reverse Harem Romance
Goodreads – https://www.goodreads.com/series/222402-the-messenger-chronicles


Kesh, Kellee, Talen, Sota and Sirius most certainly deserve a holiday after their epic battles to save humanity from the fae. This is one of my favourite book series’ and I’m sure it’s due a re-read soon.


Synopsis
(Book #1)
“Lies aren’t her only weapons against the fae…”
In the Halow system, one of Earth’s three sister star systems, tek and magic—humans and the fae—are at war.
Kesh Lasota is a ghost in the machine. Invisible to tek, she’s hired by the criminal underworld to carry illegal messages through the Halow system. But when one of those messages kills its recipient, Kesh finds herself on the run with a bounty on her head and a quick-witted marshal on her tail.
Proving her innocence should be straightforward—until a warfae steals the evidence she needs. The fae haven’t been seen in Halow in over a thousand years. And this one—a brutally efficient killer able to wield tek—should not exist. But neither should Kesh.
As Kesh’s carefully crafted lie of a life crumbles around her, she knows remaining invisible is no longer an option. To hunt the fae, to stop him from destroying a thousand-year-long fragile peace, she must resurrect the horrors of her past.
Kesh Lasota was a ghost. Now she’s back, and there’s only one thing she knows for certain. Nobody shoots the messenger and gets away with it.

Beast Horde Trilogy by Cari Silverwood

Dystopian/Science Fiction Romance
Goodreads – https://www.goodreads.com/series/274981-beast-horde


Cyn, Vargr and Rutger definitely deserve a holiday after saving what is left of Earth and humanity from the ravenous, planet stripping Ghoul Lords.


Synopsis
(Book #1)
“Sleeping Beauty with a grim-dark twist.”
Cyn falls from the top floor of the world into the arms of Vargr, a beaster who rates a diamond 10 on the Scale of Hardness. In her hands is a piece of Ghoul Lord.
She’s forgotten the last five years of her life, the years of the invasion of the Ghoul Lords.
The beast horde was meant to save Earth. Once human, they now carry gene-warping nanomachines in their blood. No one told them they’d also been injected with the remnants of myths and legends.
They tried and they failed. What can Cyn with her amnesia and sparkly eyes possibly do? Vargr isn’t sure, but he’s beginning to see the pros of nailing a naked Cyn to the wall and floor, over and over, until he gets some good answers.
A crumbling world steeped in gothic sci-fi darkness, packed with throbbing, brutal males.

Overload Flux by Carol Van Natta

SFR/ Space Opera
Goodreads – https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33012415-overload-flux

After all the attempts to stop Luka and Mairwen in their investigation, including several attempts on their lives, this intrepid duo certainly deserve a holiday. Somewhere exotic, warm and very, very quiet.

Synopsis
The Central Galactic Concordance has been stable for two centuries, but trouble is brewing. A pandemic is affecting hundreds of civilized planets, and someone is stealing the vaccine…
Brilliant investigator Luka Foxe’s hidden mental talent is out of control, making him barely able to function in the aftermath of violence, and the body count is rising. The convoluted trail leads to a corrupt pharma industry and the possibility of an illegal, planet-sized laboratory. In the face of increasing threats, he must rely on an enigmatic, lethal woman he just met, but she has deep secrets of her own.
Mairwen Morganthur hides extraordinary skills under the guise of a dull night-shift guard. The last thing she wants is to provide personal security for a hot-shot investigator, or to be plunged into a murky case involving sabotage, treachery, and the military covert operations division that would love to discover she’s still alive.
Two more lives in a rising death count won’t bother their enemies one bit. Their only hope for survival lies in revealing their dark secrets and learning to trust one another.

The Velvet Collar by C.P. Mandara

Contemporary Romance
Goodreads – https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44639143-the-velvet-collar

Jen and Mark, bless them, have been so put through the wringer in this series. So many plots against them, all of them involving pain, humiliation and lots of kinky fun!

Synopsis
I made a bet with my newlywed submissive wife. I told her that if she could behave herself impeccably for a week, she could wear the trousers for a day. That included being able to dominate me. The bet was almost guaranteed to be impossible to achieve, and yet somehow she did it. It looks like I’m in for a fun night, doesn’t it?
If that wasn’t bad enough, Kyle has been spotted near our home. It scares me. I can feel the net closing in, and I’m still no closer to unravelling the pieces. We need to figure out what Redcliff wants, and fast.
In order to do this, I’m going to have to talk to my mother-in-law, who still isn’t speaking to me. I have no idea what her problem is. She tried to kill me, not the other way around…

The Black Prince by Ariana Nash

MM Fantasy Romance
Goodreads – https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50979555-the-black-prince

Zane and Akiem certainly had to fight for everything they now have. This pair definitely need a holiday. It would be really great if the author wrote a story of them visiting Eroan and Lysander back in the UK (hint, hint).

Synopsis
In the war-torn rubble of the human world, can a rebel elf and a lost dragon prince find love, or will a dark threat tear them and their world apart forever?
A new land, a new court, a new king, but some things never change.
Broken in all ways, Akiem fled his life as the amethyst prince only to land at the mercy of the beautiful but deadly diamond king, Luceran.
Akiem knows dragons. He knows he’ll die today, tomorrow, whenever Luceran’s executioner brings down his axe, and maybe it’s all he deserves. He’s ready for death, craves it even, like he craves the elf with flame-red hair and a sly smile, the damn elf whose stolen kiss lit Akiem up in ways he didn’t know were possible.
Akiem doesn’t do males and he definitely doesn’t do elves. But some things do change.
Drifter, mercenary, lover — Zane is all those things. He’ll do almost anything for coin. But he doesn’t do dragons and he definitely doesn’t do love.
It’s not such a bad life for an elf. Better than the rest of his kin, living under the rule and whims of the dragon king, Luceran. Working as a bodyguard in Bayston should have been quick coin in his pocket before moving on. But King Luceran has a new toy he parades at court. A dragon with eyes of gold and scales as black as night.
He probably shouldn’t have kissed him. Definitely should have killed him. And now, moving on is the farthest thought from Zane’s mind. Because Luceran’s new toy is not like the other dragonkin. And maybe, just maybe, the terrible, beautiful beast has the key to freeing all the persecuted elves and unlocking Zane’s restless heart.
Zane doesn’t do love and he doesn’t do dragons. But with the arrival of the Black Prince, everything is about to change.

The Kingmaker Saga by London Miller

Romantic Suspense/ Organised Crime
Goodreads – https://www.goodreads.com/series/146040-the-kingmaker-saga

The series isn’t quite complete yet, but Uilleam and Karina thoroughly deserve some quite time to reconnect and heal the wounds of the past.

Synopsis (Book #1)
As an investigative journalist, Karina Ashworth’s job involves delving into New York’s black market of criminals and mischief where sin is almost too tempting to ignore. When she crosses paths with a man whose smile is a little too cunning—and his power a little too vast—she learns very quickly that dancing with the devil is far more enjoyable than she had ever imagined.
But Uilleam Runehart is not at all what he seems, and as a notorious fixer with a thirst for power, he’ll do anything to obtain his title.
Ruthless.
Sinful.
Seductive.
How much would you pay to be a king?