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The Runaway King by Jennifer A. Nielsen
A kingdom teetering on the brink of destruction. A king gone missing. Who will survive? Find out in the highly anticipated sequel to Jennifer A. Nielsen's blockbuster THE FALSE PRINCE! Just weeks after Jaron has taken the throne, an assassination attempt forces him into a deadly situation... -
The Kraken King and the Greatest Adventure by Meljean Brook
Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsExperience the incredible adventure and heart-stopping romance of the Iron Seas in this thrilling steampunk tale from New York Times bestselling author Meljean Brook. The Kraken King, Part VIIIThe Kraken King and the Greatest Adventure Arriving in Krakentown with their enemies in hot pursuit, Zenobia doesn’t know how they can even hope to win... -
The Kraken King and the Scribbling Spinster by Meljean Brook
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA former smuggler and thief, Ariq—better known as the Kraken King—doesn’t know what to make of the clever, mysterious woman he rescues from an airship besieged by marauders... -
The Kraken King and the Abominable Worm by Meljean Brook
Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsAs they continue their expedition across Australia, Ariq is determined to stay close to Zenobia and figure out what kind of game she’s playing—even as his admiration for the enigmatic woman starts to override his suspicion... -
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Black Heart by Justin Somper
Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars · 28 ratingsThere's a new ship of vampirates roaming the seas, leaving a trail of fear and devastation in its wake. When a high-profile pirate is slain, the Pirate Federation takes decisive action and begins training up a ship of dedicated vampire hunters. The team will be led by newly appointed Captain, Cheng Li and will include pirate prodigy Connor Tempest... -
Hook's Pan by Marie Hall
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsTrishelle Page has known pain in her life, but instead of it making her weak, she's stronger. Confident. That is until the day a fairy kidnaps her during her staring role in Peter Pan's play and tells her not only do fairy tales exist, but that she's the soulmate of the pirate they call Hook, making her question everything she ever thought she knew...Categorized as:
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Half Upon a Time by James Riley
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsLife’s no fairy tale for Jack. After all, his father's been missing ever since that incident with the beanstalk and the giant, and his grandfather keeps pushing him to get out and find a princess to rescue. Who'd want to rescue a snobby, entitled princess anyway? Especially one that falls out of the sky wearing a shirt that says "Punk Princess," and still denies she's royalty... -
Crazy for You by Jane Fenton
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsKate would feel silly for having a crush on a fictional pirate—if he wasn’t standing right in front of her. After discovering that her long-term boyfriend has been cheating on her, psychologist Dr. Kate Barnes decides she’s still going on their romantic Bahamas getaway—alone... -
Justice For Skylar by Sandrine Gasq-Dion
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsSkylar Foxx has been on his own for years, ever since he had been kicked out of his home just shy of turning sixteen. He worked the streets for food and warmth, certain that one day his life would take a better path. That day arrived in the form of a flyer smacking him in the face after enduring a particularly rough trick... -
Dead Tide by Leighann Dobbs
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFor three hundred years, the Blackmoore house has harbored a valuable secret ... The Blackmoore sisters learn about this secret from the dying lips of the historian they hired to decipher their centuries old family journal. Too bad he never gets the chance to tell them exactly what he has uncovered...or where to find it... -
Ghost Night by Heather Graham
Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars · 28 ratingsA slasher movie turns real when two young actors are brutally murdered on a remote island film set. Their severed heads and arms are posed in macabre homage to a nineteenth-century pirate massacre. Two years later, survivor Vanessa Loren is drawn back to South Bimini by a documentary being made about the storied region... -
Behind the Mask (The Masked) by Megan Derr
Kasumi is an elite warrior, trained in skills that very little of the world even knows exists. The price for his skills is high, and they are not sold lightly. Given into the service of a famous scholar, Kasumi travels the world at his side, a secretive, deadly shadow, his only defining trait a mask that no one can remember in detail the very moment they have looked away.. -
Should There Be by Jackie Ivie
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA PIRATE’S CREED Piracy is Rafaele de Jesus y Santiago’s world. His motto. His creed. All he’s known. Vampirism only expanded his wake of destruction and his booty potential. There’s no order to his eternity. No goal. No direction. He’s got all he needs with the Brethren Code: Pillage, plunder, deceit, and self-gratification. He doesn’t even realize he’s lonely... -
Wolf's Bounty by Shannon West
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLarsson Balenescu is trying hard to get over the fact that his fated mate is not only a Tygerian, and one of the Alliance’s most bitter enemies, but also the fact that he’s Tarr Bonnet, one of the worst pirates and sex slave traffickers in the known galaxies... -
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Twilight Guardian by R.G. Alexander
Rated: 3.91 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsNot even the Goddess can save him…but maybe love can. A Sariel guard, Kit has spent centuries fulfilling his people’s oath to protect the Trueblood Clan. Not Vampire, not Were, and certainly not human, Kit is something altogether…different. And when he is called back home to honor his obligations one last time, he can do none other than obey. Jesse experiences life behind the lens of a camera... -
Highland Heart by Heather McCollum
Alec Munro, chieftain of the Munros, has captured the Englishman who swindled his father. Set on retribution, he’s caught off-guard by the thief’s beautiful daughter, a lass whose beauty and spirit leave him questioning the value of revenge. Rachel Brindle has a secret: she can heal people with her magic... -
Ghost Memories by Heather Graham
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsNew York Times bestselling author Heather Graham presents the prequel the Bone Island Trilogy.... In the early nineteenth century, pirates and privateers still wreaked havoc in the Caribbean. Bartholomew Miller had been one of them. After years of plying the seas for England as a privateer, he finally found a home and love on Bone Island off the Florida coast... -
Solo Tu by Mandy M. Roth, Randy M. Roth
Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsSolo Tu By Mandy M. Roth A witch by birth, Francy Montgomery feels she's merely a fledgling in the eyes of the supernatural world. Only one man has ever believed in her abilities, a man who a few years ago ignited a magical fire within her that burns for his touch, despite his rejection...Categorized as:
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Going Back for Romeo by L.L. Muir
Rated: 3.82 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsAlone, with a Highlander, in his castle, on a cold dark night... (Okay, so it wasn’t that cold.) Jillian MacKay is being conned by a pair of eighty-year-old witches. They’re convinced she’s the perfect sucker to test a prophecy and they’re willing to bury her alive to prove it... -
The Alpha's Punishment by Renee Rose
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsIt started with a small deception… Now, five long months later, Ashley’s alpha shifter fiancé still thinks they’ve been trying to conceive a pup when she’s secretly been taking the pill the whole time. When he finds out, there’s going to be hell to pay, and that means a hot punishment from her dominant wolf... -
The Ballad of Rosamunde by Claire Delacroix
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA pirate queen trapped in the realm of Faerie, Rosamunde can only be freed by true love. The man she loved is lost to her forever so she believes herself doomed. Padraig, long in love with Rosamunde, believes his life to be worthless since she disappeared... -
For Sale: Old Manor House by Merabeth James
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsGothic collides head-on with 21st century high tech in the isolated Cornish manor house hunkered on the cliffs above the restless sea, where the dead have their own plans for the living, as American paranormal investigator, Caitlin McLeod, is about to find out, when she accepts the assignment of ‘debunking’ a haunting at Mor Alys Manor... -
Phantom Universe by Laura Kreitzer
Rated: 3.78 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsSold into slavery to pirates at the young age of four, Summer learns to survive the rough seas of subterfuge and thieves through silence. When the boat she's lived on most of her life is destroyed, Summer finds herself washed up on the shore of a new world, a phantom universe full of the bizarre and extraordinary. She meets Gage, the one boy who understands the girl with no speech... -
The Reinvented Miss Bluebeard by Minda Webber
When your father is not only an infamous pirate but the husband of six vanished wives, respectability s hard to come by. That s why Eve invented herself a husband. How else was a nineteenth-century gal to follow her dreams and become one of those newfangled psychiatrists? Certainly she will never run The Towers, London s preeminent asylum for potty paranormals... -
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Looking for a Hero by Patti Berg
Pretty Kate Cameron was looking for a man to sweep her off her feet, but she never expected him to be wielding a cutlass and claiming to be the infamous Morgan "Black Heart" Farrell, a pirate captain who lived nearly three hundred years before. Danger may have followed him from the past, but he's not about to leave while Kate needs him...Categorized as:
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Daughter of Satan by Jean Plaidy
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEven Tamar's mother believed that the child had been forced on her by the Devil when, against her judgement, she was persuaded to attend a midsummer sabbat of witches. In a world of superstition and intolerance, Tamar, growing into a wild and beautiful girl, seemed doomed to violent death when the witch-pricker came to Plymouth... -
Love Rising (Isla Sagrario) by Piper Vaughn
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAn Isla Sagrario Story In the 1700s on the island of Sagrario, men who love other men find safe haven. For Francis Holland, an escaped indentured servant, Sagrario offers nothing but loneliness. His life begins to change when he finds Wick, a merman, washed ashore. When Wick awakens under Francis’s care, Francis returns him to the sea at his request... -
Tiger, Tiger, Tiger, Innocent by Dawn Steele
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTHREE GORGEOUS SHIFTER TRIPLETS AND ONE INNOCENT INTERN. WHAT CAN POSSIBLY HAPPEN? Plus-sized Katya James has just gotten the intern job of her dreams. Her boss is the handsome, dynamic, and super-rich tiger shifter, Dean Masters. He is energetic and electrifying, and he makes her want to climb mountains. Katya has to work closely with Dean. VERY closely... -
Twice a Prince by Sherwood Smith
Sasha's prince is wicked, Sun's is missing--they take up the sword, L.A. style! Sasharia En Garde Book 2 In the magical world of Khanerenth, there's a long way to go before Sasha and her dream prince, Jehan, can get to perfect. Jehan's deception has left her unable to trust him, and grimly determined to search for her missing father...Categorized as:
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Princess at Sea by Dawn Cook
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsOne day Tess was the crown princess of Costenopolie, and the next she discovered she was a beggar's child, reared as a decoy to keep the real princess safe from assassins. But Tess's flair for politics, self-defense, and shopping--and her recently discovered magical powers thwarted the kingdom's enemies and restored the real princess to the throne... -
The Last Will of Moira Leahy by Therese Walsh
Rated: 3.76 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsThis haunting debut novel explores the intense bond of sisterhood as a grieving twin searches for her own identity in the ruins of her sister's past. A LOST SHADOW Moira Leahy struggled growing up in her prodigious twin's shadow; Maeve was always more talented, more daring, more fun... -
Call of the Untamed by Michelle M. Pillow
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsCall of the Untamed Michelle M. Pillow "Book 2 in the Call of the Lycan series." Roark O'Connell is a lycan on the prowl. For what, he's not always sure. His job within the clan keeps him moving around and boredom often sets in. It's boredom that causes him to make a bet with his brother James to hire an etiquette coach... -
Stealing the Wind by Shira Anthony
Rated: 3.73 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsTaren Laxley has never known anything but life as a slave. When a lusty pirate kidnaps him and holds him prisoner on his ship, Taren embraces the chance to realize his dream of a seagoing life...Categorized as:
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Hook & Jill by Andrea Jones
Rated: 3.66 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn this startling new vision of a cultural classic, Wendy intends to live happily ever after with Peter Pan. But Time, like this tale,behaves in a most unsettling way. As Wendy mothers the Lost Boys in Neverland, they thrive on adventure. She struggles to keep her boys safe from the Island's many hazards, but she finds a more subtle threat encroaching from an unexpected quarter. . . -
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Love By Accident by Michelle Beattie
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLauren McKinnon’s life changed four years ago when the car she was driving spun off the road and killed her lover, Gil and left their best friend, Matt paralyzed. Overwhelmed by guilt, Lauren leaves town, leaves Matt and lives a life as a shadow of the woman she used to be. Matt Skarpinksy overcame all odds and learned to walk again... -
The Ghost Pirate's Treasure: Mystery of the Jaguar Warrior by Barbara Ivie Green
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLibrarian Note: Previously published as Treasure of the Jaguar Warrior - Mystery of the Mayan Calender (ASIN B00AOW6DY6.) A delightfully enchanting, ghostly tale, full of light hearted humor, heartwarming romance, haunted histories, and ancient mysteries... -
Finding Destiny by Jean Johnson
Rated: 3.56 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsFour brand-new novellas, from the national bestselling author of the Sons of Destiny series. The slave ...Chanson, a privileged Arbran dyara, discovers an unexpected connection with the excitingly different Eduor, a bracingly sexy war-slave who desires his freedom. The knight ...The Arbran diplomat Sir Zeilas must turn the Guildaran people from former enemies into allies... -
Your Wish Is My Command by Donna Kauffman
Rated: 3.43 of 5 stars · 7 ratings"For every soul there is one true mate." So says Sebastien Valentin, a former privateer destined to spend eternity bringing soul mates together. Hexed by a voodoo priestess nearly two centuries ago, he is summoned by anyone who unsheathes the Sword of Hearts ... Former powerboat racing champion Jamie Sullivan has seen enough of the world that she doesn't believe in happy endings... -
Call of the Sea by Michelle M. Pillow
Rated: 3.53 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsIan O'Connell, heir prince to his clan, has no plans to settle down even though his untamed nature keeps him on the prowl for female company. The only woman he could ever want saved him from a watery grave before disappearing from his life forever. But that was a long time ago, too long for a mortal woman to have survived. Though he searched for her, in the end it was in vain... -
The Peacock Prince by John Tristan
Prince Alessander's twin sister Celandine has long been promised to the pirate lord Dagon Blackstone, who demanded a royal bride as the price for peace. On the night they are first meant to meet, she convinces Alessander to don her clothes and go in her place, as a prank on the sea monster that is to be her husband...Categorized as:
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Sureblood by Susan Grant
Rated: 3.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFive years ago rival space pirate captains Val Blue and Dake Sureblood stole one incredible night together. But their brief, passionate history ended with the assassination of Val's father and the condemnation of Dake's clan. Now Val struggles to prove her mettle—to herself and to the dissenters amid her own people... -
Sword of Fire and Sea by Erin Hoffman
Rated: 3.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThree generations ago Captain Vidarian Rulorat’s great-grandfather gave up an imperial commission to commit social catastrophe by marrying a fire priestess. For love, he unwittingly doomed his family to generations of a rare genetic disease that follows families who cross elemental boundaries... -
The Never by Kristina Circelli
Rated: 3.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratings"Out of nothing, we create something." Arianna has spent her entire life being called a dreamer, an artist who created a world no one else can see. And for her entire life, she has taken the medication that keeps that world - and the one who brought her there - at bay. Now an adult, Arianna reawakens that part of herself kept locked away in the darkest corners of her mind... -
Pregnant with His Werewolf's Baby by Anya Byrne
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsGavin Price’s had enough. He’s lost countless relationships because he can’t seem to take that last step into intimacy. Never again. He’s going to get rid of his pesky virginity. It’s a simple enough plan. Go into a club, pick up a handsome guy. Shouldn’t be hard. Other people do it all the time...Categorized as:
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The Island by Heather Graham
Rated: 3.68 of 5 stars · 28 ratingsA slasher movie turns real when two young actors are brutally murdered on a remote island film set. Their severed heads and arms are posed in macabre homage to a nineteenth-century pirate massacre.Two years later, survivor Vanessa Loren is drawn back to South Bimini by a documentary being made about the storied region... -
Tumbling Through Time by Gwyn Cready
In her sparkling and hilarious debut, author Gwyn Cready introduces Persephone "Seph" Pyle, a total control freak who plans for everything -- until a pair of killer heels sends her back in time and into the arms of a ruggedly handsome sea captain straight from the pages of a romance novel... -
Doll Bones by Holly Black, Eliza Wheeler
Rated: 3.68 of 5 stars · 38 ratingsZach, Poppy and Alice have been friends for ever. They love playing with their action figure toys, imagining a magical world of adventure and heroism. But disaster strikes when, without warning, Zach’s father throws out all his toys, declaring he’s too old for them. Zach is furious, confused and embarrassed, deciding that the only way to cope is to stop playing . . -
A Distant Magic by Mary Jo Putney
Rated: 3.39 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsMary Jo Putney’s passionate, vivid characters and captivating stories have earned enthusiastic acclaim from reviewers and readers everywhere. Now the New York Times bestselling author weaves a new tale in the Guardian series–a dazzling romantic fantasy that takes readers not only from the elegant streets of London to a dangerously tempting Mediterranean island but across time...
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