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Once Upon a Time in the Weird West by Tricia Kristufek, Astrid Amara
This isn’t the same old Wild West. The usual suspects are all present: cowboys, outlaws, and sheriffs. There’s plenty of dust, tumbleweeds, horses, and cattle on the range, but there are also magical gems, automatons, elementals, airships… even dinosaurs and genetically modified insects...Categorized as:
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Legend by Jude Deveraux
From one of the world's most beloved novelists comes a triumphant historical romance that sweeps from modern-day Virginia to 1873 Colorado, weaving a time-travel tale filled with adventure, tenderness, and passion that only New York Times bestselling author Jude Deveraux could deliver...Categorized as:
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Seconds to Act by Stephanie Flynn
She's sent back in time to prevent an innocent man's murder, but she wasn't supposed to fall for him...or was she?Starving artist April McCall tolerates her job for her brother's sake, and when her boyfriend proposes, she can't decide if good enough is good enough any longer...Categorized as:
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Diana's Hound by Moira Rogers
Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsThe female of the species is more deadly... Bloodhounds, Book 4 Nate Powell lived one full life as a world-class inventor before a disaster born of magic and science returned him to his prime—and turned him into a half-vampire, half-bloodhound abomination...Categorized as:
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Hunter's Prey by Moira Rogers
Rated: 3.78 of 5 stars · 9 ratings"He can't fight his inner beast, but she can tame it. " "Bloodhounds, Book 2" Ophelia retired from life as a prostitute, but her new position is even more complicated. Managing the bloodhound manor in Iron Creek is difficult and time-consuming, a job she enjoys less with each passing day. Then there s her inconvenient attraction to Hunter...Categorized as:
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Cowgirl Omega by Lizzy Bequin
She hired the alphas for protection.But can they protect her from themselves?Shannon Duffy has a secret. She’s an omega. And in the wild west of 1888, an omega is a dangerous thing to be. For fifteen years, Shannon’s kept her true identity hidden, but now if she wants to save her family ranch from ruin, she’s going to have to lay it all on the line... -
Archer's Lady by Moira Rogers
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsShe's looking for redemption. He doesn't believe in it. Accused of betraying the Bloodhound Guild, Archer's only chance to regain the trust of his fellow hounds is to earn it--one dangerous job at a time. Crystal Springs may be the worst yet. The town has been deserted by all but the poor and the desperate, yet the vampires stalking the edges of the settlement haven't closed in for the kill...Categorized as:
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The Engineer by C.S. Poe
1881—Special Agent Gillian Hamilton is a magic caster with the Federal Bureau of Magic and Steam. He’s sent to Shallow Grave, Arizona, to arrest a madman engineer known as Tinkerer, who’s responsible for blowing up half of Baltimore. Gillian has handled some of the worst criminals in the Bureau’s history, so this assignment shouldn’t be a problem... -
The Serpent in Heaven by Charlaine Harris
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 29 ratings#1 New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author Charlaine Harris returns to her alternate history of the United States where magic is an acknowledged but despised power in this fourth installment of the Gunnie Rose series... -
Sexy Beast VI by Kate Douglas, Anya Howard
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWild and untamed, these men like the hunt—but it's the capture they love even more. For that is when they can indulge in their most primal sexual instincts... "Chanku Honor" by Kate Douglas By invitation of Mik, Tala and AJ, a new group of six young people are discovering their Chanku heritage...Categorized as:
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A Longer Fall by Charlaine Harris
#1 New York Times bestselling author Charlaine Harris returns with the second of the Gunnie Rose series, in which Lizbeth is hired onto a new crew, transporting a crate into Dixie, the self-exiled southeast territory of the former United States. What the crate contains is something so powerful, that forces from across three territories want to possess it... -
Hunted by Lindsay Buroker
Self-taught tinkerer Kali McAlister is determined to build an airship and escape the frigid Yukon forever. Unfortunately, she’s the heir to the secrets of flash gold, an alchemical energy source that tends to make her a popular target for bandits, gangsters, and pirates...Categorized as:
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The Doctor by C.S. Poe
1882—Gillian Hamilton, magic caster and Special Agent with the Federal Bureau of Magic and Steam, has been stripped of his title, badge, and freedom. Gillian’s true name and powers have been exposed, so now he’s kept under lock and key. To make a tragedy worse, Gunner the Deadly has returned to his life out in the Wild West and has not been heard from since... -
Running Wild by Sarah McCarty
Three stories of sensual erotic romance. Three werewolves who feed a wild hunger? Donovan must bring the Pack Alpha home and nothing more. But when he catches the sexy scent of Lisa Delaney, he's hers, body and soul - and ready to risk both on an erotic desire that will shatter all boundaries... -
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Legacy by Lois McMaster Bujold
Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars · 42 ratingsOne of the most respected writers in the field of speculative fiction, Lois McMaster Bujold has won numerous accolades and awards, including the Nebula and Locus Awards as well as the fantasy and science fiction genre’s most prestigious honor, the Hugo Award for Best Novel, four times (most recently for Paladin of Souls)...Categorized as:
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Magnificent Devices by Shelley Adina
Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsAn air voyage to remember turns into a disaster no one may survive. With her orphaned charges, Lady Claire Trevelyan joins the Earl of Dunsmuir’s family on an airship voyage to the Americas. If she can stay out of Lord James Selwyn’s way until her eighteenth birthday, she will be of age and cannot be forced into marriage...Categorized as:
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Wild Nights by Kate Douglas, Sharon Page
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThey come in the night, without warning. With one thing on their minds—mortal flesh. Sexy, sensual, and hungry for pleasure, they are the men who bring out the animal in every woman. Let them. Camille’s Dawn, Kate Douglas A restless, sensual spirit, held captive by one who binds her with both love and hate, Camille yearns for freedom beyond the earthly plane...Categorized as:
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Flash Gold by Lindsay Buroker
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsEighteen-year-old Kali McAlister enters her steam-powered "dogless sled" in a race, intending to win the thousand-dollar prize and escape remote Moose Hollow forever. The problem? Fortune seekers and airship pirates are after her for the secret to flash gold, her late father's alchemical masterpiece...Categorized as:
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No Place Like Home by Seanan McGuire
Road trips are wonderful things, filled with adventure, excitement, and questionable lodgings, but there comes a time in every man's life where all he wants is the chance to sleep in his own bed, eat at his own table, and reunite his colony of talking pantheistic mice with their fellows, thus making sleep a little bit more likely...Categorized as:
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Song of Oestend by Marie Sexton
Symbols have power... Aren Montrell has heard tales of the Oestend wraiths - mysterious creatures which come in the night and kill anyone who's not indoors. Aren's never had reason to believe the stories, but when he takes a job as a bookkeeper on the BarChi, a dusty cattle ranch on the remote Oestend prairie, he soon learns that the wraiths are real... -
Elysium Girls by Kate Pentecost
Rated: 3.78 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsIn this sweeping Dust Bowl-inspired fantasy, a ten-year game between Life and Death pits the walled Oklahoma city of Elysium-including a girl gang of witches and a demon who longs for humanity-against the supernatural in order to judge mankind.When Sal is named Successor to Mother Morevna, a powerful witch and leader of Elysium, she jumps at the chance to prove herself to the town... -
Primal Heat by Crystal Jordan
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWith the ability to shapeshift into white tigers, the Kiths have arrived on Earth in search of their "One" —the soul mates who are destined to satisfy their scorching lust... Wicked Lord? U.S...Categorized as:
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Walk on Earth a Stranger by Rae Carson
Rated: 3.84 of 5 stars · 46 ratingsGold is in my blood, in my breath, even in the flecks in my eyes. Lee Westfall has a strong, loving family. She has a home she loves and a loyal steed. She has a best friend--who might want to be something more. She also has a secret. Lee can sense gold in the world around her. Veins deep in the earth. Small nuggets in a stream. Even gold dust caught underneath a fingernail...Categorized as:
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Karen Memory by Elizabeth Bear
“You ain’t gonna like what I have to tell you, but I’m gonna tell you anyway. See, my name is Karen Memery, like memory only spelt with an e, and I’m one of the girls what works in the Hôtel Mon Cherie on Amity Street. Hôtel has a little hat over the o like that. It’s French, so Beatrice tells me...Categorized as:
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An Easy Death by Charlaine Harris
#1 New York Times bestseller Charlaine Harris (Sookie Stackhouse mysteries, True Blood, Midnight Crossing) delivers the first thriller in a new trilogy that presents a chilling alternate history of the United States where everyone believes in magic—but no one is sure whether they can trust it...Categorized as:
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The Damnation Affair by Lilith Saintcrow
Rated: 3.51 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThis novel is set in the same world as the Bannon & Clare novels but is stand alone with different characters. The West is a wild place, where the poison wind blows and the dead walk. But there is gold, and whiskey, and enough room for a man to forget what he once was--until he can no longer can...Categorized as:
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Her Sky Cowboy by Beth Ciotta
Rated: 3.44 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsAmelia Darcy has no interest in marrying well. Her heart belongs to the sky and the dirigibles of brass and steel that swoop over Victorian England. But when her father, an eccentric inventor, dies, the Darcy siblings are left with scrap metal—and not a penny to their names...Categorized as:
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The Dead of Winter by Lee Collins
Rated: 3.35 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsCora and her husband hunt things – things that shouldn’t exist.When the marshal of Leadville, Colorado, comes across a pair of mysterious deaths, he turns to Cora to find the creature responsible. But if Cora is to overcome the unnatural tide threatening to consume the small town, she must first confront her own tragic past as well as her present...Categorized as:
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Wilder's Mate by Moira Rogers
Rated: 3.52 of 5 stars · 22 ratingsWilder Harding is a bloodhound, created by the Guild to hunt down and kill vampires on America’s frontier. His enhanced abilities come with a high price: on the full moon, he becomes capable of savagery beyond telling, while the new moon brings a sexual hunger that borders on madness...Categorized as:
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The Hunter by Theresa Meyers
Rated: 3.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThey're the Chosen—Winchester, Remington and Colt—brothers trained to hunt down supernatural beings using the latest steam-powered gadgetry. It's a hard legacy to shoulder, and it's about to get a lot more dangerous... A Devil Of A Job Colt Jackson has gotten his name on many a wanted poster with success in the family business: hunting supernaturals across the frontier...Categorized as:
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