Friday Book Club

 

It's time for the Friday Book Club! What reads are you loving this week?

Cold Redemption

 

Alt Text - quote from Cold Redemption (USA & Canada Dec1/International Dec 3): A flat, empty gaze holding his own, the standoff silent. And then...a sudden, shocking smile. "I like you, Pax Marshall. You're interesting."

Only three weeks to go!!

~Ashwini

Thriller Bundle Giveaway: A Madness of Sunshine, Quiet in Her Bones, & There Should Have Been Eight

 

Alt text: image of three paperback books placed in upright postion on a pale wooden table against a white background, with spines facing outward - A Madness of Sunshine, Quiet in Her Bones, and There Should Have Been Eight.

It's giveaway time! To celebrate the paperback release of Such A Perfect Family, up for grabs are two bundles consisting of signed paperback copies of Nalini's standalone thrillers A Madness of Sunshine, Quiet in Her Bones, and There Should Have Been Eight.

To enter the random draw, simply leave a comment on this post or on the Goodreads feed of this blog post. If you usually leave comments as Anonymous, please leave your first name and the initial of your last name on your comment in case you are the winner. 

Entries close Sunday 15th November at 10pm New Zealand time. One entry per person. Giveaway open internationally. Void where prohibited. Two winners will be chosen from the combined blog and Goodreads comments. Winners' names will be posted on the blog on Monday 16th November New Zealand time. The winners will have one week from the notification date to claim their prize. Cost of postage of prize to winner will be paid by Nalini. (Any customs or other charges imposed by your own country will be your responsibility so please be aware of that before entering.) 

Good luck!

~Ashwini

She Reads Best of 2026 Nomination: Such A Perfect Family

Alt text: She Reads Best of 2026 I've been nominated - Such a Perfect Family.

I've been nominated for a She Reads Award for Best Mystery, Thriller, Suspense Book of 2026! If you loved Such A Perfect Family, make sure to vote.

Friday Book Club

 

It's time for the Friday Book Club! What reads are you loving this week?

Such A Perfect Family - Paperback Out Now in North America

 

Alt text: "With lush language and disquieting detail, Singh peels back the layers of respectability, exposing rot, but themes of love and devotion run deep too. Both longtime fans and newcomers will be hard-pressed to take breaks while on this engrossing tension-laced ride." - Booklist. Such a Perfect Family, Paperback Out Now.

One handsome stranger.
A string of dead lovers.
And a new wife in the ICU… 

Such A Perfect Family  is  now out in paperback in North America! Also available in ebook and on audio. 

Giveaway Featuring Cold Redemption

 

Alt text: Must Read Books of December Giveaway, featuring: In Every Future It's Us by Katie Naymon, Til Quest Do Us Part by Ivelesse Housman, Barbarian's Choice by Ruby Dixon, No Good Deed by Nekesa Afia, Cold Redemption by Nalini Singh, The Soul Mate by Lana Ferguson, The Empire Burns At Dawn by Fatima Al-Shemary. No purchase necessary. US Residents 18+. Ends 11/10/26. See official rules at official website. 

US residents: Berkley is running a Must Read Books of December giveaway which includes the upcoming Psy-Changeling Trinity novel, Cold Redemption! Click here to enter. Good luck!! 

~Ashwini

Friday Book Club

 

It's time for the Friday Book Club! What reads are you loving this week?

Cold Redemption - East City Bookshop Pre-Order Special

 

Alt text: East City Bookshop Pre-Order - Cold Redemption by Nalini Singh. Each pre-order comes with a signed bookplate. Releases Dec 1, 2026.

Cold Redemption releases in just over a month! Pre-order from East City Bookshop and receive a signed bookplate with your copy!

~Ashwini

Long Weekend

 

Alt text - Collage of photos from a park in springtime: 1) Lush green grass with a large tree in the left foreground, and a walking path winding up a gentle hill; 2) A herd of brown cows on a lush green hill. In the background is the A-shape of a dormant volcano; 3) A walking/cycling pathway bordered by tall trees, with green grass on either side.

How was your weekend? 

We had a long weekend in New Zealand, and I spent most of my time tidying the garden and splitting my dahlia tubers to share. 

Ashwini and I also went for a lovely walk with a very good friend through Cornwall Park - an enormous and sprawling green space in the city complete with a herd of cows, and flocks of sheep.  

What are some of your favourite spots in your city? 

Friday Book Club

 

It's time for the Friday Book Club! What reads are you loving this week?

Psy-Changeling Trinity Sweepstakes

 

Alt text: Psy-Changeling Trinity Sweepstakes. No purchase necessary. US residents, 18+. Ends 10/30/26. See official rules at official website.

US residents: Berkley is running a Psy-Changeling Trinity sweepstakes, featuring all the previous titles in the Trinity series, as well as the upcoming release, Cold Redemption! Click here to enter. The sweepstakes will run until October 30th. Good luck!! 

~Ashwini

Cold Redemption

 

Alt text - quote from Cold Redemption: "Which me is the real me? Which version can I trust to exist today, tomorrow, and into the future?" USA & Canada Dec 1, Internationa Dec 3.

Friday Book Club

 

Time to talk books! What are you reading and loving this week?

Alpha Night

Alt text - excerpt from Chapter 19, Psy-Changeling Trinity #4 Alpha Night. Selenka Durev: BlackEdge Alpha, 5'11", brown-eyed, and sexy enough to fry your brains. Our sources tell us that she once went head-to-head with a bear in a bad temper and shredded the bear so badly that he's still growing back his fur. Is it any surprise that she's a bad*ss who holds territory in an area that houses both a bear clan and Kaleb Krychek?

Our spies in BlackEdge also inform us that being one of Selenka's wolves is a badge they wear with pride. "Our alpha is our claws and she is our heart. She know how to love with a ferociousness that encompasses us all—but she won't brlink at tearing our enemies to bleeding, whimpering shreds. Don't mess with BlackEdge unless you want to end up missing a body part or five." —From the "Scary but Sexy" column in the December 2082 issue of Wild Woman magazine: "Skin Privileges, Style & Primal Sophistication" 

2027 New Zealand Event: Brimstone & Bookshelves

 

Alt text: Brimstone & Bookshelves 2027. Saturday 22 May - Crimson Masquerade ball. Sunday 23 May - Full day signing. Shed 10, Auckland, NZ.

Join Nalini and a host of other authors for Brimstone & Bookshelves, an enchanted fantasy-themed book signing and reader event. Happening May 2027 in Auckland, New Zealand. Tickets on sale now! Click here for more details.

~Ashwini

Friday Book Club

 

It's time for the Friday Book Club! What reads are you loving this week?

Archangel's Viper

 

Alt text - quote from Archangel's Viper: "It's been said that once you go Venom, you never go back."

Catch Up Time

 

Alt text: Close up of branches showing pale pink cherry blossoms against a bright, pale blue sky.

Cherry blossoms outside my study window. They make so happy. 

Spring has sprung in New Zealand. How’s it going in your corner of the world? 

Friday Book Club

 

It's time for the Friday Book Club! What reads are you loving this week?

Upcoming Virtual Event: Cold Redemption

 

Alt text: Nalini Singh Virtual Event. November 30, 7:30PM ET. East City Bookshop in Conversation wtih Gretchen Schreiber.

Virtual event alert for a discussion on Amara and Pax!! My two *completely* expected and straightforward characters. 

Can’t wait to talk Cold Redemption with the awesome Gretchen Schreiber on November 30th 7.30pm ET! Hosted by East City Bookshop. Click here for details.

So, any theories and thoughts on these two and their story? 

Cold Redemption Pre-Order Special (International Edition)

 

Alt text: Chapter Book & Tea Shop -Pre-Order a Signed Copy of Cold Redemption

Pre-order a signed copy of the international edition of Cold Redemption from Chapter Book & Tea Shop and receive a special price of NZ$29.00 (excluding shipping) while the first shipment stocks last! 

~Ashwini

Friday Book Club

 

Time to talk books! What are you reading and loving this week?

Silver Silence

Alt text - excerpt from Silver Silence, Chapter 15 epigraph: Ain't no party like a bear party. It's the hangover that's the problem. Worth it. Carpe-the-diem! Wolves are cool, bears are fools. Didn't get an invite to the party, huh? -Graffiti on a Moscow wall, each line written by a different unknown individual over successive days prior to erasure by the city works department.

Cold Redemption - East City Bookshop Pre-Order Special

 

Alt text: East City Bookshop Pre-Order - Cold Redemption by Nalini Singh. Each pre-order comes with a signed bookplate. Releases Dec 1, 2026.

Pre-order Cold Redemption from East City Bookshop and receive a signed bookplate with your copy!

~Ashwini

Friday Book Club

 

It's time for the Friday Book Club! What reads are you loving this week?

Fiji

Alt text - collage of five photos: 1) Gentle, clear blue ocean waves coming into soft powdery sand, the scene framed by coconut fronds. 2) Jetty going out into a pristine clear ocean in jewelled blue and green, with a small bure (traditional Fijian thatched house) at the end. 3) Pale pink hibiscus flower. 4) Vivid magenta double petalled bougainvillea flowers. 5) Brilliant sunlit blue-green ocean framed by lush green tropical foliage.

Fiji, how I've missed you.

Quiet in Her Bones

 

Alt text - quote from Quiet in Her Bones: What if I'm the monster I'm chasing?

In this gripping thriller set in New Zealand, New York Times bestselling author Nalini Singh takes you into the twisted world of an exclusive cul-de-sac located on the edge of a sprawling forest.

My mother vanished ten years ago.
So did a quarter of a million dollars in cash.
Thief. B*tch. Criminal.
Now, she’s back.
Her bones clothed in scarlet silk.

When socialite Nina Rai disappeared without a trace, everyone wrote it off as another trophy wife tired of her wealthy husband. But now her bones have turned up in the shadowed green of the forest that surrounds her elite neighborhood, a haven of privilege and secrets that’s housed the same influential families for decades.

The rich live here, along with those whose job it is to make their lives easier. And somebody knows what happened to Nina one rainy night ten years ago. Her son Aarav heard a chilling scream that night, and he’s determined to uncover the ugly truth that lives beneath the moneyed elegance…but no one is ready for the murderous secrets about to crawl out of the dark.

Even the dead aren’t allowed to break the rules in this cul-de-sac.

Friday Book Club

 

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September Newsletter

 

Alt Text: centre image of a stack of three newspapers, with a cup and saucer next to it filled with a hot drink with steam rising from it, with text "Nalini's Newsletter" above it, surrounded by five "clouds" with the following text inside them: Reading Recs!, Appearances!, Travel Photos!, Breaking News!, Exclusive Extras!

The September newsletter went out yesterday and included a super early excerpt of Cold Redemption!

If you want to be sure you get all the news and updates from Nalini, make sure to subscribe (it’s free to join via the blog or the front page of the website, and you can download two ebooks worth of free newsletter shorts when you sign up). 

~Ashwini

Slave to Sensation Twenty Year Anniversary

 

Alt text: white bookshelf with selection of Psy-Changeling and Psy-Changeling Trinity paperback and hardcover books, with Slave to Sensation placed with cover facing forwards.

Nalini posted this on her Facebook page over the weekend. Sharing here for those of you who aren't on FB.

~Ashwini

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This book of my heart released exactly twenty years ago today. I wrote it compulsively, obsessively, with intense love for the world and the characters, at a time when my writing career wasn’t in a great place. I didn’t know if anyone would ever read SLAVE TO SENSATION, but I had to write it. 

I could’ve never imagined that I’d one day take this photo where STS would be surrounded by multiple bookshelves of books that all began with a scared Psy and an angry changeling and a world on the brink of unstoppable change. 

It seems fitting that just this past week, I wrote a scene featuring Lucas and Sascha for the 2027 Psy-Changeling book. How far they’ve come!

I’m so incredibly grateful to all of you who picked up this book, and who continue to walk with me into the Psy-Changeling world. You are the reason I can do what I love, and why this world continues to burn bright. 

A very special shoutout to my agent Nephele Tempest and my editor Cindy Hwang, who loved STS from day one, and have been an integral part of this journey. 

Also a big virtual hug to Deidre Knight, who was the one who saw my manuscript come into The Knight Agency submission inbox way back when, and said, I have just the agent for you. Deidre, you were so right.

And to my family - thank you for being here from day dot, when I declared I was going to be a writer, despite not knowing any writers or anything about the publishing industry. You rock so hard. 

Happy Birthday SLAVE TO SENSATION!!!

I’d love to hear your memories of finding STS and this series!