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Our new releases this week

Traveling unexpectedly aboard the luxury liner Nebula Dream on its maiden voyage across the galaxy, Sectors Special Forces Captain Nick Jameson is ready for ten relaxing days, and hoping to forget his last disastrous mission behind enemy lines. He figures he’ll gamble at the casino, take in the shows, maybe even have a shipboard fling with Mara Lyrae, the beautiful but reserved businesswoman he meets.

All his plans vaporize when the ship suffers a wreck of Titanic proportions. Captain and crew abandon ship, leaving the 8000 passengers stranded without enough lifeboats and drifting unarmed in enemy territory. Aided by Mara, Nick must find a way off the doomed ship for himself and several other innocent people before deadly enemy forces reach them or the ship’s malfunctioning engines finish ticking down to self destruction.

But can Nick conquer the demons from his past that tell him he’ll fail these innocent people just as he failed to save his Special Forces team? Will he outpace his own doubts to win this vital race against time?

Links of Interest

In case you're not sick of the coverage yet... 50 Shades of Grey: Why Is It News That Women Like Sex?

The concept on this is great. The execution...well, I'll let you decide. I may not have the necessary breast fixation to fully appreciate it: Corset-wearing superwomen from the Age of Steam

Loved this one: Your Brain on Fiction "The brain, it seems, does not make much of a distinction between reading about an experience and encountering it in real life; in each case, the same neurological regions are stimulated."

Some cool new-ish romance websites: Romance Cooks and Wonk-O-Mance.

Here Be Magic Group Announcements

2012 EPIC ebook Awards finalists: Congratulations to Here Be Magic authors Tia Nevitt (The Sevenfold Spell), Cindy Spencer Pape (Eagle's Redemption and Steam and Sorcery) and Jody Wallace (One Thousand Kisses)!!!

An extended excerpt (20%-the first five chapters) of Nicole Luiken's upcoming fantasy romance Gate to Kandrith is now available from Carina Press.

Melinda Leigh's She Can Run has been nominated for BEST action R/S of 2011 at The Romance Reviews! If you'd like to vote, you can do so here.