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  • Ponniyin Selvan- Whirlwinds : Part 2 by Kalki

    Ponniyin Selvan- Whirlwinds : Part 2 by Kalki

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings
    Whirlwinds, the exciting second part of Kalki R Krishnamurthy's historic magnum opus Ponniyin Selvan, our hero Vallavarayan Vandhiyathevan's adventures continue as he rides into marshy quagmires, befriends a mysterious girl, becomes the object of intense suspicion by the wily Pazhuvettarayars - and meets the hero of his dreams...
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    mystery  suspense  historical  fantasy  war  length-long
  • Whirlwinds by Kalki

    Whirlwinds by Kalki

    Rated: 4.65 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    Whirlwinds, the exciting second part of Kalki R Krishnamurthy's historic magnum opus Ponniyin Selvan, our hero Vallavarayan Vandhiyathevan's adventures continue as he rides into marshy quagmires, befriends a mysterious girl, becomes the object of intense suspicion by the wily Pazhuvettarayars - and meets the hero of his dreams...
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  • Sword of Slaughter by Kalki

    Sword of Slaughter by Kalki

    Rated: 4.66 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Kalki Krishnamurthy’s Ponniyin Selvan is a masterpiece that has enthralled generations of Tamil readers. Many authors have written phenomenal books in Tamil literature after Kalki Krishnamurthy, but Ponniyin Selvan remains the most popular, widely-read novel...
  • The Art of a Lie by Laura Shepherd-Robinson

    The Art of a Lie by Laura Shepherd-Robinson

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    In 18th-century England, a widowed confectioner is drawn into a web of love, betrayal, and intrigue and a battle of wits in this masterful historical novel from the author of the “delicious puzzle-box of a novel” (The New York Times) and USA TODAY bestseller The Square of Sevens...
  • The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton

    The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 72 ratings
    A lost child: On the eve of the First World War, a little girl is found abandoned on a ship to Australia. A mysterious woman called the Authoress had promised to look after her - but has disappeared without a trace. A terrible secret: On the night of her twenty-first birthday, Nell Andrews learns a secret that will change her life forever...
  • Kellynch Dragon Persuasion by Maria Grace

    Kellynch Dragon Persuasion by Maria Grace

    Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Keeping a hibernating dragon should have been a simple thing.Should have been, but it was not. Apparently, nothing involving dragons was ever simple, at least not for Anne Elliot, junior Keeper to dragon Kellynch.With the estate in debt, Anne’s father in denial, and the dragon’s treasure missing, Kellynch’s awakening is shaping up to be nothing short of catastrophe...
    Categorized as:
    regency  mystery  fantasy  historical  length-long
  • A.D. 33 by Ted Dekker

    A.D. 33 by Ted Dekker

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    New York Times bestselling author Ted Dekker delivers the gripping story of Maviah, a slave who becomes a queen in Arabia, A.D. 33. They call her the Queen of the Outcasts. Maviah, a woman whose fate was sealed on her birth by this world-unwanted, illegitimate, female, a slave-subject to the whims of all. But then she met a man named Yeshua who opened her eyes...
  • Dovetail by Karen McQuestion

    Dovetail by Karen McQuestion

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    From the bestselling author of Hello Love comes a spellbinding new novel of enduring love, family secrets, and mysterious death.Joe Arneson’s ordinary life is upended by troubling dreams of himself as a different man in another place and time. It isn’t until he visits his estranged grandmother, Pearl, in her Wisconsin hometown that a startling connection emerges...
  • A.D. 30 by Ted Dekker

    A.D. 30 by Ted Dekker

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    A sweeping epic set in the harsh deserts of Arabia and ancient Palestine. A war that rages between kingdoms on the earth and in the heart.The harrowing journey of the woman at the center of it all. The story of Jesus in a way you have never experienced it. Step back in time to the year of our Lord, Anno Domini, 30...
  • Requiem of the Rose King, Vol. 3 by Aya Kanno

    Requiem of the Rose King, Vol. 3 by Aya Kanno

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Richard, the ambitious third son of the House of York, believes he is cursed, damned from birth to eternal darkness. But is it truly fate that sets him on the path to personal destruction? Or his own tormented longings? Based on an early draft of Shakespeare’s Richard III, Aya Kanno’s dark fantasy finds the man who could be king standing between worlds, between classes, between good and evil...
  • Ticket Out by Michelle Diener

    Ticket Out by Michelle Diener

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    It’s the summer of 1963 and Gabriella Farnsworth is a newly-minted London traffic warden. She’s used to temper tantrums, swearing, and threats, but finding a dead body is an entirely new low...
  • Captivating the Scoundrel by Darcy Burke

    Captivating the Scoundrel by Darcy Burke

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 9 ratings
    Daphne Foliot has always known she’ll be married off to a man who, like her, descended from one of King Arthur’s fabled knights. That doesn’t mean she wants to be, even if it is her beloved father’s wish. Raised without a mother, she owes everything to the man who encouraged and funded her education and supports her dream of becoming the first female member of the Order of the Round Table...
  • How to Tame a Beastly Lord by Bree Wolf

    How to Tame a Beastly Lord by Bree Wolf

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    A fallen lady...A beastly lord...And a night out in the woods. Unmarried and with child, Lady Eugenie enters into a marriage of convenience to save herself and her unborn child from society's censure...
  • Main Gauche and Other Tales by Megan Derr

    Main Gauche and Other Tales by Megan Derr

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Tales of brothers, swords, and the men they most desire...Main Gauche — Though he was born to nobility, the loss of first his father, and then his mother, has left Dagger a peasant. His stepfather is cruel and greedy, and refuses to claim Dagger as his own...
  • A Place Called Freedom by Ken Follett

    A Place Called Freedom by Ken Follett

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 42 ratings
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER   Scotland, 1766. Sentenced to a life of misery in the brutal coal mines, twenty-one-year-old Mack McAsh hungers for escape. His only the beautiful, highborn Lizzie Hallim, who is trapped in her own kind of hell. Though separated by politics and position, these two restless young people are bound by their passionate search for a place called freedom...
  • Deceived by Megan Derr

    Deceived by Megan Derr

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    AUTHOR'S NOTE: This book has been revised. The story Deceived has a new, longer ending. The story The Highwayman is now it's own book, and the following stories have been added to this volume: The Wager, Seconds, Runaways . This book also contains all the free ficbits posted to my website...
  • Echo in Onyx by Sharon Shinn

    Echo in Onyx by Sharon Shinn

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A Murder and a Masquerade Brianna loves her new job as maid to Lady Marguerite. Like many high nobles, Marguerite is attended by echoes, silent creatures who look exactly like her and move in perfect synchronicity. News soon comes that Marguerite has been invited to the royal city as a potential bride for the crown prince...
  • 참아주세요, 대공 1 [Cham-ajuseyo, Daegong 1] (Finding Camellia (Novel) #1) by Soye Jin, 진소예

    참아주세요, 대공 1 [Cham-ajuseyo, Daegong 1] (Finding Camellia (Novel) #1) by Soye Jin, 진소예

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    키에런 소후작의 모조품.베일 후작 부인의 실패작.루버의 부랑아.그 모든 것이 그녀. 아니, 그를 칭하는 말이었다.적어도 클로드 델 이하르를 만나기 전까지는.클로드는 잠든 카닐리언을 고요하게 응시했다. 머리카락과 같은 금색 속눈썹이 하얀 얼굴에 연한 그림자를 만든다.제아무리 야외 활동을 싫어한다 해도, 지나치게 하얗고 가늘다. 목엔 변성기의 상징도 도드라지지 않았으며, 무엇보다 사내들의 땀 냄새와는 질적으로 다른 향기가 났다.후작저 곳곳에 피어난 라벤더 향일까? 아니면 강가에 흐드러지게 핀 양귀비의 향기일까.향을 더 음미하듯 고개 숙인 그의 코끝에 닿은 보드라운 뺨. 카닐리언이 내뱉은 가는 숨결이 그의 관자놀이를 간질인다. 덩달아 맥박이 빠르게 뛰어대기 시작했다...
  • Deceived and Other Tales by Megan Derr

    Deceived and Other Tales by Megan Derr

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Five stories of men and the secrets and lies that shape their lives… Deceived – The hatred between Prince Benedict and his secretary Rae is well-known, and the source of much gossip at court. Each one too stubborn to walk away, determined to make the other one the first to break, they spend their days fighting or ruthlessly ignoring one another...
  • Highlander Sworn by Jayne Castel

    Highlander Sworn by Jayne Castel

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Letting her instincts rule could mean her ruin. A prisoner, a clan-chief’s daughter, and an impossible love.Beautiful yet flighty, Eilidh Munro has caught a chieftain’s eye—but it’s not him she wants. Instead, she longs for the enigmatic Gunn hostage, who works the fields by day and is locked away in the dungeons beneath her keep at night...
  • Dreaming Death by J. Kathleen Cheney

    Dreaming Death by J. Kathleen Cheney

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    In the Novels of the Golden City, J. Kathleen Cheney created a “mesmerizing” (Publishers Weekly) realm where magic, history, and intrigue combine. Now, she presents a new world ruled by psychic talents and fatal magic... Shironne Anjir's status as a sensitive is both a gift and a curse...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  mystery  fantasy  historical  magic  length-long
  • The Smoke Hunter by Jacquelyn Benson

    The Smoke Hunter by Jacquelyn Benson

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    "Indiana Jones meets Lara Croft in Benson's engrossing action thriller."-RT Book Reviews, Top Pick THE DEBUT OF A CAPTIVATING VOICE AND RIVETING STORYTELLER!Frustrated suffragette and would-be archaeologist Ellie Mallory stumbles across a map to a city that shouldn't exist, a jungle metropolis alive and flourishing centuries after the Mayan civilization mysteriously collapsed...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  mystery  historical  fantasy  length-long
  • The Emperor’s Aeronaut by Shelley Adina, R.E. Scott

    The Emperor’s Aeronaut by Shelley Adina, R.E. Scott

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Napoleon is determined to conquer the world with his steam-powered weapons. Nothing in England can stop him … except two young lady inventors.In 1819, France is surrounded by armies. With Russia in the north, the Karlsruhe Confederacy in the east, and a pirate kingdom in the south, Napoleon cannot break out, nor can the English Navy seem to break in. Europe teeters on the edge of a sword...
  • The Fair Botanists by Sara Sheridan

    The Fair Botanists by Sara Sheridan

    Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Could one rare plant hold the key to a thousand riches?It's the summer of 1822 and Edinburgh is abuzz with rumours of King George IV's impending visit. In botanical circles, however, a different kind of excitement has gripped the city. In the newly-installed Botanic Garden, the Agave Americana plant looks set to flower - an event that only occurs once every few decades...
  • The Burning Chambers by Kate Mosse

    The Burning Chambers by Kate Mosse

    Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    Carcassonne 1562: Nineteen-year-old Minou Joubert receives an anonymous letter at her father’s bookshop. Sealed with a distinctive family crest, it contains just five words: SHE KNOWS THAT YOU LIVE. But before Minou can decipher the mysterious message, a chance encounter with a young Huguenot convert, Piet Reydon, changes her destiny forever...
  • The Third Wife of Faraday House by B.R. Myers

    The Third Wife of Faraday House by B.R. Myers

    Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 11 ratings
    The Edgar Award–winning author of A Dreadful Splendor blends mystery and spooky thrills with friendship and romance in this delicious love letter to Gothic fiction, featuring two brides who must band together to unravel the ghostly secrets at the heart of a crumbling island manor. 'Til death do us part..
  • Crown Jewel by Megan Derr

    Crown Jewel by Megan Derr

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Lazzaro has a talent for catching criminals, a talent that has gained him as much trouble as it has acclaim in the years since he arrived at the royal palace to attend his mother, infamous concubine to the King...
  • The Mummy by Max Allan Collins

    The Mummy by Max Allan Collins

    Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Based on the universal studios major motion picture starring brendan fraser!Rick O'Connell, dashing American and legionnaire, is in Egypt looking for a good time. His discovery of the Lost City of the Dead is a fluke--but to British librarian Evelyn Carnarvon it's the archaeological find of the century. The city contains all the treasures of Egypt and possibly the secrets of life and death...
  • Blodhevn by Margit Sandemo

    Blodhevn by Margit Sandemo

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    (Description from the back of the book) SAGAEN OM ISFOLKET - etterkommerne til den onde Tengel, som hadde inngått en pakt med djevelen... Et ulykkelig kjærlighetsforhold gjorde at Villemo Kalebsdatter ble innblandet i drapet på den mektige Woller-bondens sønn. Woller svor hevn - for enhver pris...
  • Limelight by Emily Organ

    Limelight by Emily Organ

    Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    “Miss Green, the actress Lizzie Dixie has been murdered.” I stared at the young inspector. “But it’s impossible. She drowned. Years ago.”London, 1883. Fleet Street’s pioneering lady reporter Penny Green is stunned when a long-dead actress is found murdered in Highgate Cemetery...
  • Murder at the Mayfair Hotel by C.J. Archer

    Murder at the Mayfair Hotel by C.J. Archer

    Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    It was the most fashionable place to stay in London, until murder made a reservation. Solve the puzzle in this new cozy historical mystery from USA Today bestselling author of the Glass and Steele series.December 1899. After the death of her beloved grandmother, Cleopatra Fox moves into the luxury hotel owned by her estranged uncle in the hopes of putting hardship and loneliness behind her...
  • Lady Rose Just Wants to Be a Commoner! (Manga) Volume 3 (Lady Rose Just Wants to Be a Commoner! (Manga) #3) by Yura Kiyose

    Lady Rose Just Wants to Be a Commoner! (Manga) Volume 3 (Lady Rose Just Wants to Be a Commoner! (Manga) #3) by Yura Kiyose

    Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    After a successful battle of wits with Melvin Crabitt, Fii Crow enjoys a whole week of baking without any love interests in her hair. But when you’re the (unwilling) heroine of an otome game, peace never lasts long. Two especially dangerous bachelors come knocking at her Prince Nolan and his trusted aide Zero...
  • Lady Rose Just Wants to Be a Commoner! (Manga) Volume 2 (Lady Rose Just Wants to Be a Commoner! (Manga) #2) by Yura Kiyose, Kooriame

    Lady Rose Just Wants to Be a Commoner! (Manga) Volume 2 (Lady Rose Just Wants to Be a Commoner! (Manga) #2) by Yura Kiyose, Kooriame

    Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    Life as a commoner isn’t cushy, but it was supposed to be peaceful—at least, that’s what Fii Crow had hoped for. Unfortunately, as the heroine of an otome game, the love interests have come a-knocking at her door one after another...
  • The Dark Enquiry by Deanna Raybourn

    The Dark Enquiry by Deanna Raybourn

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 39 ratings
    Partners now in marriage and in trade, Lady Julia and Nicholas Brisbane have finally returned from abroad to set up housekeeping in London. But merging their respective collections of gadgets, pets and servants leaves little room for the harried newlyweds themselves, let alone Brisbane’s private enquiry business...
  • Rop av stumme røster by Margit Sandemo, Bente Meidell

    Rop av stumme røster by Margit Sandemo, Bente Meidell

    Rated: 3.84 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    (Description from the back of the book) SAGAEN OM ISFOLKET - etterkommerne til den onde Tengel, som hadde inngått en pakt med djevelen... Nataniel Gard av Isfolket var en syvende sønns syvende sønn, og utvalgt til å lede den endelige kampen mot Tengel den onde. Men ennå var han umoden og trengte vanskelige oppgaver å trene seg på...
    Categorized as:
    mystery  m-f  historical  fantasy  length-medium
  • What Dreams May Come by Christina Dodd

    What Dreams May Come by Christina Dodd

    Rated: 3.78 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 9 ratings
    With a boldly refreshing premise and a daring heroine to match, this delightful mystery series features the eldest daughter of the not-so-ill-fated Romeo and Juliet—20-year-old Rosie Montague, a young woman possessed of an irreverent wit, an independent spirit—and a penchant for sleuthing . .
  • The Matchmaker by Megan Derr

    The Matchmaker by Megan Derr

    Rated: 3.82 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Upon the request of Queen Marianna, Joss has traveled home with her to analyze the small group of men who are her closest friends. The men immediately resent the presence of a stranger intent upon asking personal questions, especially as Joss bears the title of Matchmaker and they are all quite available for matching..
  • Jego wysokość pirat by Gaelen Foley

    Jego wysokość pirat by Gaelen Foley

    Rated: 3.84 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    When Allegra Monteverdi, the daughter of Lazar's sworn enemy, throws herself on his mercy, the pirate prince Lazar di Fiori agrees to spare the lives of her family but only if she sails away with him. Alone at sea with this dark, intriguing man, moving between seduction and fear, Allegra realizes it will take more than her growing love for this pirate prince to bring peace to her beloved home...
  • A Secret Life by C.J. Archer

    A Secret Life by C.J. Archer

    Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Minerva Peabody needs a man. Unfortunately she picked the wrong one. The impoverished playwright has a dream to see her plays performed on stage but in Elizabethan England, not only are women considered the inferior sex, they simply do NOT write plays...
  • The Fourth of July by Cami Checketts

    The Fourth of July by Cami Checketts

    Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    When eight parade floats explode during the annual Fourth of July celebrations, Agent Chris Harmer must find who planted the bombs before the terrorists strike again. His troubles aren't isolated to terrorism. Chris falls in love with the FBI's feisty psychiatrist, Alexis Osborne. She won't commit to someone who doesn't share her religious values, and Chris has no desire to convert...
  • Christie, Agatha - Three Act Tragedy by Christie Agatha

    Christie, Agatha - Three Act Tragedy by Christie Agatha

    Rated: 3.84 of 5 stars
    · 42 ratings
    At an apparently respectable dinner party, a vicar is the first to die...Thirteen guests arrived at dinner at the actor's house. It was to be a particularly unlucky evening for the mild-mannered Reverend Stephen Babbington, who choked on his cocktail, went into convulsions and died...
  • Husband, Be A Gentleman by 苏行乐, Su Xing Le

    Husband, Be A Gentleman by 苏行乐, Su Xing Le

    Rated: 3.69 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Pei Jin is a black bellied prince. To outsiders he is a kind gentleman and always calm.Yan Shi Ning is a wolf in sheep’s clothing. To outsiders she is a gentle bred young lady and always docile.Pei Jin and Yan Shi Ning are the perfect couple but behind closed doors…Pei Jin: Wife, you’re an expert liar.Yan Shi Ning: Husband, it’s because you taught me well...
  • 원수를 사랑하게 된 이유에 대하여 [Wonsureul Saranghage Doen Iyue Daehayeo] by Mieun Lee, 이미은

    원수를 사랑하게 된 이유에 대하여 [Wonsureul Saranghage Doen Iyue Daehayeo] by Mieun Lee, 이미은

    Rated: 3.57 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    부모님이 마차 사고로 돌아가시고, 가문을 지키기 위해 검을 든 리아.제국 유일의 여기사 단장이 되어 인정받았다 생각하고 한시름 놓았더니,사사건건 시비를 거는 원수 같은 공작 에드가 때문에 하루하루 속만 터져간다!그런데 리아를 보고 얼굴을 붉히는 이 원수...
  • The Guardian by Joan Wolf

    The Guardian by Joan Wolf

    Rated: 3.56 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Annabelle and Stephen have loved each other since first they met as children. When Stephen gets into trouble with the law and is sent to Jamaica by his family, Annabelle marries his elder brother, the Earl of Weston. The book opens with the death of Gerald and the naming of Stephen as guardian to Annabelle’s son, Giles...
    Categorized as:
    regency  m-f  historical  fantasy  length-medium
  • Lady Pirate by Lynsay Sands

    Lady Pirate by Lynsay Sands

    Rated: 3.66 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 39 ratings
    Circumstances have changed; they re worse. Valoree has been named heir to Ainsley Castle. And the will distinctly states that in order to inherit, she must be married to a nobleman...and pregnant. Upon learning that, the virgin captain is ready to return to the seas, but her crew puts the issue to a vote-and for those rascally cusses she will do anything. Reluctantly, she agrees...
  • The Bracelet by AkashaTheKitty

    The Bracelet by AkashaTheKitty

    Rated: 2.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Hermione has everything she could possibly want... Except a life. People are getting sick of her superior attitude, especially Draco Malfoy, who schemes to get her down, once and for all. And then there's the thing with The Bracelet... 7th year AR...
  • Viridis by Calista Taylor

    Viridis by Calista Taylor

    Rated: 2.82 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    In steampunk Victorian London, Lady Phoebe Hughes develops an herbal elixir, Viridis, unlike any other. London’s elite flock to her club to experience the euphoria and heightened senses the drink brings. Imagine an orgasm brought on by a single kiss...
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