Hey everyone,

I've got some exciting news for you all, or what I hope is exciting news anyway. Since December 2016, I have been working on a new book in-between writing two contracted books, DAMIEN (Slater Brothers, #5), SHELTERED (Quick Construction, #1) and DATELESS (Collins Brothers, #1). This is a book that's been in my head for a long time, but I have never acted on writing it because it's part of a genre that I've never worked in before: Science Fiction Romance.

It got to a point where I couldn't not write it, so to get it out of my head, I started to write it. At this point, I had never planned to realise it. I guess the fear of a new genre, and worry that I couldn't do it justice plagued me in the back of my mind, and I settled for just writing the book instead. Writing books is my passion, so even if I never released it to the world, it wouldn't have bothered me because sitting down and writing it in the first place was fun for me... but then my friend read it and asked why I wasn't publishing it. My answer sounded stupid to me, so I changed that answer, and decided to go ahead and publish it.

It is titled OUT OF THE ASHES, and it will be the first book in a new Science Fiction Romance series called Maji.

In this series, humans are not the only intelligent life in the Universe—not even close. The setting will only be on a chaotic Earth—not the Earth we know in the real world—for a short time before the characters travel through Space to a new home world where they face challenges that are difficult to overcome.

OUT OF THE ASHES will be my next release, and I know that worries Slater Brothers fans, but please, don't worry. DAMIEN is coming. This book is, to me, the most important book of the entire series next to BROTHERS, and I need time to do Damien and Alannah, and their story, justice. Have patience, and know that it is coming. I'm not releasing a release date for DAMIEN until the book is finished, and in editing. I know it's annoying to not know when it will be out, but I've had issues in the past where I haven't met publication deadlines, and I do not want repeats of that happening with any of my future books so I'm never going to release dates until my books are written.

Below is the synopsis for the OUT OF THE ASHES, and very soon I will be posting the first chapter on my website for all to read so you can get a feel for it. The day I post the first chapter, I will also be revealing the cover, and posting all pre-order links for the novel.

OUT OF THE ASHES

For Nova, a twenty-three-year-old survivalist, wandering a barren wasteland was a lonely existence. But her day-to-day life was about to drastically change forever. Gone were the days when her only worries were rabid animals, augmented humans, the unforgiving scorching sun, and rogue watchmen. Now, Nova found herself faced with a new threat, and he was tall, grey, and horribly stubborn.

For Kol, a two-hundred-year-old daredevil, sailing the never-ending waves of deep space was a vast and thrilling life to lead. He had one objective on Earth—rescue as many human females as possible and return them to his home planet. It was supposed to be simple, but no one told Kol that a human female’s tongue could slice a male like a blade. His charge was short, strikingly attractive, and she talked way too much.

Nova wasn’t going to be kidnapped without putting up a fight, but Kol was more than ready to go toe to toe with her. These two species set out on a collision course that would redefine the phrase "The Big Bang" forever.

~ Lee