Prepare Yourself For "The Gathering Storm" (& Other New Releases)

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Winter has us firmly in her grips with all her mystery. Is that scarf to shield from the bitter cold or to conceal one's identity? What stories lay buried in the bleak white expanse? Well here at Strange Lands, we have the perfect reads as thrilling and chilling as the stark weather outside your window -- beginning with book one in the Katerina Trilogy,The Gathering Storm.
"This book was, in a word, phenomenal." -- Leah St. Petersburg, Russia, 1888. As she attends a whirl of glittering balls, royal debutante Katerina Alexandrovna, Duchess of Oldenburg, tries to hide a dark secret: she can raise the dead. No one knows. Not her family. Not the girls at her finishing school. Not the tsar or anyone in her aristocratic circle. Katerina considers her talent a curse, not a gift. But when she uses her special skill to protect a member of the Imperial Family, she finds herself caught in a web of intrigue. The time has come for Katerina to embrace her power, but which side will she choose? Watch the trailer Read an excerpt Buy the book
"'Fallen in Love' was just what I needed to make it through the next few months before the final book, 'Rapture', hits the shelves." -- Amanda Welling Just in time for Valentine's Day, it's Fallen in Love, four wholly original new stories collected in a new novel set in the Middle Ages by Lauren Kate. Fallen in Love gives fans the much-talked about but never-revealed stories of Fallen characters as they intertwine with the epic love story of Luce and Daniel. The stories include: "Love Where You Least Expect It: The Valentine of Shelby and Miles", "Love Lessons: The Valentine of Roland"; "Burning Love: The Valentine of Arriane"; and "Endless Love: The Valentine of Daniel and Lucinda". Chat with Lauren Kate on Random Buzzers Read an excerpt Buy the book
Malora knows what she was born to be: a horse wrangler and a hunter, just like her father. But when her people are massacred by batlike monsters called Leatherwings, Malora will need her horse skills just to survive. The last living human, Malora roams the wilderness at the head of a band of magnificent horses, relying only on her own wits, strength, and courage. When she is captured by a group of centaurs and taken to their city, Malora must decide whether the comforts of her new home and family are worth the parts of herself she must sacrifice to keep them. Chat with Kate Klimo on Random Buzzers Read an excerpt Buy the book
Warped by Maurissa Guibord Tessa's life is about to unravel. 7 Souls By Barnabas Miller and Jordan Orlando Murder is only the beginning of Mary's ordeal Throat by R. A. Nelson Is Emma now a half-vampire girl? X-Isle by Steve Augarde X-Isle, where terrible things can happen at any moment
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