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  • The High King's Tomb by Kristen Britain

    The High King's Tomb by Kristen Britain

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 48 ratings
    For Karigan G'ladheon, the call of magic in her blood is too strong to resist. Karigan returns to the Green Riders, the magical messengers of the king, to find she's badly needed. Rider magic has become unstable, many Riders have been lost, and the Rider corps is seriously threatened. The timing couldn't be worse. An ancient evil, long dormant, has reawakened, and the world is in peril...
  • Reign of Ice by L.P. Dover

    Reign of Ice by L.P. Dover

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Two courts to four is what needs to be … to save the land so shall we see. The scroll has been found and now the fae know how to defeat the dark sorcerer, to end his evil existence in the Land of the Fae. However, the only thing standing in the way is the one bond that must be formed; the one that will empower all four courts together and make them invincible...
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  • Blackveil by Kristen Britain

    Blackveil by Kristen Britain

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 40 ratings
    Read Kristen Britain's blogs and other content on the Penguin Community. The long-awaited sequel to Green Rider, First Rider's Call, and The High King's Tomb. Once a simple student, Karigan G'ladheon finds herself in a world of deadly danger and complex magic, compelled by forces she cannot understand when she becomes a legendary Green Rider-one of the magical messengers of the king...
  • The Evanescence by Jessica Sorensen

    The Evanescence by Jessica Sorensen

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Book two in the Fallen Souls Series. My name is Gemma Lucas and everything in my life is falling apart. Lost Souls are roaming the world, possessing people and the fey have made it their mission to torture the innocent. Death and suffering is becoming a way of life and no matter what I do, things keep tearing Alex and me apart...
  • Catch & Hold by Claudy Conn

    Catch & Hold by Claudy Conn

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Radzia MacDaun’s mission of vengeance has turned into a rescue operation… but will she need to be rescued, too? When Gaiscioch killed her father, Radzia—Z to her friends—vowed to take the Seelie traitor down as painfully as possible. Plans for revenge were put on hold, however, when Gaiscioch abducted her housekeeper and friend, and Z had no choice but to dive into the pit to save her...
  • Alphabet of Thorn by Patricia A. McKillip

    Alphabet of Thorn by Patricia A. McKillip

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    Deep inside a palace on the edge of the world, the orphan Nepenthe pores over books in the royal library, translating their languages and learning their secrets. Now sixteen, she knows little of the outside world—except for the documents that traders and travelers bring her to interpret...
  • Scorched by Darkness by Alexandra Ivy

    Scorched by Darkness by Alexandra Ivy

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Book 2 in the USA Today Bestselling series, The Dragons of Eternity As a half-breed dragon, Torque never had the luxury of choosing his future. Not only did his father barter him to the highest bidder, but a rare Shinto fey claimed to see him in a vision that involved recovering a lost treasure for the powerful dragon, Synge...
  • In the Coils of the Snake by Clare B. Dunkle

    In the Coils of the Snake by Clare B. Dunkle

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    Clare Dunkle's acclaimed fantasy trilogy-- now available in paperback For thousands of years, young women have been vanishing from Hallow Hill, never to be seen again. Now Kate and Emily have moved there with no idea of the land's dreadful heritage--until Marak decides to tell them himself...
  • Healed by Fire by Catherine Banks

    Healed by Fire by Catherine Banks

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    “The dark approaches. Fire will consume and restore, happiness and pain must be experienced collectively. Death for three will be the end.” Her memory taken and her whereabouts unknown Artemis is taken in by a coven of witches who give her the name Chandra...
  • Frost by Kathryn James

    Frost by Kathryn James

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Last time Nell went into the mist she rescued her sister. This time she’ll have to go farther than the Elven forest, farther than the frozen wastes beyond and onto a lake of primal ice so treacherous she’ll be lucky to return at all. It’s the New Year, Woodbridge School is closed and the country is snowed in...
  • Compel by Rachel Van Dyken, Patti Stanger

    Compel by Rachel Van Dyken, Patti Stanger

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    From #1 New York Times bestselling author Rachel Van Dyken and bestselling author Patti Stanger comes a gripping love story of cursed soulmates who are forced to relive tragedy over and over again until their curse is broken…Compelled to seduce, designed to kill...
  • Once Upon a Marigold by Jean Ferris

    Once Upon a Marigold by Jean Ferris

    Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars
    · 40 ratings
    Christian was clueless when he started spying on the royal family through his telescope. He lives in a cave with a troll for a dad, after all. If his dad had only warned him about all that mind-boggling love stuff, maybe things wouldn't be such a mess. Although then, maybe, Princess Marigold would be dead. But Christian wasn't warned...
  • Wick by Megan Derr

    Wick by Megan Derr

    Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Four tales of men who refuse to be molded... Swordwick is the story of a prince who dares to wield both blade and wick—until he must pretend to be something else for the sake of his sister. Odd Wick tells the tale of a wick of extraordinary genius who wants nothing more than the ordinary Captain serving as his escort...
  • Close Kin by Clare B. Dunkle

    Close Kin by Clare B. Dunkle

    Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    For years, Emily has been living happily in the underground goblin kingdom. Now she is old enough to marry, but when her childhood friend, Seylin, proposes, she doesn't take him seriously. Devastated, Seylin leaves the kingdom, intent on finding his own people: the elves. Too late, Emily realizes what Seylin means to her and sets out in search of him...
  • The Princess Tales, Volume I by Gail Carson Levine, Mark Elliott

    The Princess Tales, Volume I by Gail Carson Levine, Mark Elliott

    Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Once upon a time... A kind sister and a cruel one. A charming prince. A spiteful fairy. A hundred-year snooze. A pea under a pile of mattresses. A kiss...
  • Stone of Destiny by Laura Howard

    Stone of Destiny by Laura Howard

    Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Allison thought it was crazy enough when she found out her father, Liam, wasn't entirely human. But now she has to join his magical allies to unravel his former mistress's plans. Aoife wants to keep Allison's parents apart forever. Despite Allison's efforts to keep Ethan, the only guy she's ever cared about, out of this supernatural mess, fate keeps throwing him back into the mix...
  • All the Paths of Shadow by Frank Tuttle

    All the Paths of Shadow by Frank Tuttle

    Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    “Walk warily, walk swiftly, walk away.” The king’s orders were clear enough. “Move the tower’s shadow,” he bellowed. “I refuse to deliver my commencement speech from the dark.” As the newly appointed mage to the Crown of Tirlin, Meralda Ovis has no choice but to undertake King Yvin’s ill-conceived task...
  • The Ancient Fae by Terry Spear

    The Ancient Fae by Terry Spear

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    Princess Ritasia misses the adventure of getting her brother and cousins out of trouble, but when the hawk fae king arrives to court her, she becomes involved in trouble nothing like she's ever faced before...
  • The Goblin Wood by Hilari Bell

    The Goblin Wood by Hilari Bell

    Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    It began with the chiming of the tiny copper bell on the mantel, warning them someone was passing the ward stone her mother had placed on the path to their house ... One terrible day, Makenna, a young hedgewitch, witnesses her mother's murder at the hands of their own neighbors. Striken with grief and rage, Makenna flees the village that has been her home...
  • Dark Promise by Julia Crane, Talia Jager

    Dark Promise by Julia Crane, Talia Jager

    Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    Rylie has it all - great friends, dream boy, loving family. But on the eve of her sixteenth birthday, her perfect little world shatters. A stranger claiming to be her real mother appears with a secret: Rylie is a faery whose powers will be unleashed on her birthday...
  • Queen in Exile by Donna Hatch

    Queen in Exile by Donna Hatch

    Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Rumors of War hang over Princess Jeniah's peaceful country of Arden, a land that shuns both magic and warfare. Following a lifelong dream, Jeniah forms a telepathic bond with a revered creature called a chayim, who is prophesied to save her kingdom. But when a Darborian knight comes upon Jeniah with her chayim, he sees only a vicious monster about to devour a maiden, and he slays the beast...
  • The Phoenix Charm by Helen Scott Taylor

    The Phoenix Charm by Helen Scott Taylor

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Paranormal Romance. HE'S PURE TEMPTATION. Cordelia has sworn she'll abstain from looking into Michael's future--particularly when the image in the gilded smoke of her divination mirror shows him half naked...
  • Traitor by Megan Curd

    Traitor by Megan Curd

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Ashlyn never believed in fairy tales until she was in one. They say ignorance is bliss, but not when you're on a centuries old hit list...and there's a traitor in your midst. Ashlyn must decide what's most important: trusting the allies she has, or siding with those she thought were enemies...
  • Drastically Redefining Protocol by rageprufrock

    Drastically Redefining Protocol by rageprufrock

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Merlin (BBC), Modern AU, Fan FictionIn which Prince Arthur meets Merlin and all hell promptly breaks lose...
  • Talon of the Unnamed Goddess by J.R. Tomlin, C.R. Daems

    Talon of the Unnamed Goddess by J.R. Tomlin, C.R. Daems

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Aisha is the newest Talon of the Raptor Clan, mercenaries prized by rulers, nobles, and the wealthy as elite bodyguards. Her skill with a blade and her magical rune have won her a prized place as a Talon, but she wins her fights through wits as much as her skill. Guarding a spoiled young princess is Aisha's first assignment for the clan...
  • Mist by Kathryn James

    Mist by Kathryn James

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A chilling fairy-tale thriller for 10+ girls. Midnight: a mist-haunted wood with a bad reputation. A sweet sixteen party, and 13 year old Nell is trying to keep her sister, spoilt birthday-girl Gwen, out of trouble. No chance. Trouble finds Gwen and drags her through the mist. Only Nell guesses who’s behind the kidnap - the boy she hoped was her friend, the cute but mysterious Evan River...
  • Memory's Wake by Selina Fenech

    Memory's Wake by Selina Fenech

    Rated: 3.87 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Lost in a world full of monstrous fairies, a troubled sixteen year old has to find out who she is and why her memories were stolen before she is found by those who want her dead. She takes the name "Memory" and knows she has just one goal - to find her way home, wherever that is. But this land is strange...
  • Through Time-Pursuit by Claudy Conn

    Through Time-Pursuit by Claudy Conn

    Rated: 3.82 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Milesian immortal Chancemont LeBlanc is determined to avenge his sister’s death at the hands of Dark Prince Pestale, who remains free after the war between the Seelie Fae and the Dark Fae. Nothing will stop Chance from fulfilling his mission of vengeance, not even the time barrier...
  • Illusion by Paula Volsky

    Illusion by Paula Volsky

    Rated: 3.85 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 20 ratings
    One of fantasy's brightest new stars makes her Bantam debut with a colorful, sweeping high fantasy epic set against the fires of revolution. In the land of Vonahr, the Exalted have ruled by virtue of their legendary magical abilities for centuries, heedless of the misery of the lower classes. Now revolution is in the air. . .
  • The Fire King by Amber Jaeger

    The Fire King by Amber Jaeger

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    From the author of The Cold King comes a dark tale of passion, vengeance and redemption. Revenge can be its own poison… Katiyana Nix was a princess but only wanted what every other little girl had—a mother to love and teach her and a father to care for her. Instead, she grew up lonely in the shadow of her mother’s death while her father was absent in his grief...
  • Dark Love by Claudy Conn

    Dark Love by Claudy Conn

    Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    One goal consumes Chazma Donnelly: find the dark sorcerer who murdered her parents. When the trail leads her to Ireland, she takes a job cataloging a private library. But she doesn't expect to find a manor house that eerily echoes one in her dreams, or an employer whose touch awakens a savage darkness within her...
  • Twice a Prince by Sherwood Smith

    Twice a Prince by Sherwood Smith

    Rated: 3.78 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 13 ratings
    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...
  • Voice of the Lost by Andrea K. Höst

    Voice of the Lost by Andrea K. Höst

    Rated: 3.78 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 17 ratings
    Medair an Rynstar wants only to leave. Five hundred years after the Empire she served fell to the Ibisian invaders, Medair has betrayed her Emperor's memory by helping the descendants of the invaders. She knows she will be reviled, that to thousands she is hero-become-villain...
  • Princess at Sea by Dawn Cook

    Princess at Sea by Dawn Cook

    Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    One 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...
  • Rua by Miranda Kavi

    Rua by Miranda Kavi

    Rated: 3.76 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    A girl with an unknown destiny. A boy from a hidden world. When Celeste starts at a new school in a small, Kansas town, she hears whispering voices, has vivid nightmares, and swarms of blackbirds follow her every move. She is oddly drawn to aloof Rylan, the other new student who has his own secrets...
  • Dust by Devon Ashley

    Dust by Devon Ashley

    Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    4. The number of times my delicate wings have been broken and clamped behind my back. 68. The number inked upon my skin, marking me the sixty-eighth pixie to be stolen. 87. The number of days I’ve been wrongfully imprisoned. 88. The first day the faeries will regret stealing me. Healthy. Cheery. Vivacious...
  • Radiant Desire by Inara Scott

    Radiant Desire by Inara Scott

    Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The object of every man’s fantasy just lost her wings… Kaia Verde is one of the four Faerie Handmaids of Zafira, Queen of the Fey. To redress an ancient wrong done to Zafira by a human king, the Handmaids make sport of mortal men, seducing and humiliating them. When Kaia sets out to seduce Garrett Jameson, but ends up being the one surrendering to pleasure, Zafira is furious...
  • Song of the Fairy Queen by Valerie Douglas

    Song of the Fairy Queen by Valerie Douglas

    Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    It's said of Fairy that if you're in dire need and you call their name they'll come. With his castle under siege and his young son in his arms, High King Oryan couldn't be in more dire need. With only his High Marshal, Morgan, and a handful of Morgan's men at his back, he has only one direction left to run...up. And only one ally to whom he can turn. Kyriay, the Queen of the Fairy...
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  • Mark of the Princess by B.C. Morin

    Mark of the Princess by B.C. Morin

    Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The feisty and determined Princess Alannah is many things, but she never thought she would be the key to her people’s destruction. Kidnapped for a power she does not yet possess, Alannah finds herself in the clutches of the most malevolent sorcerer of her time. Maligo. Alannah escapes her prison with help from the handsome and stalwart warrior fae, Brennus...
  • Captured by Maggie L. Wood

    Captured by Maggie L. Wood

    Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Fifteen-year-old Willow Kingswell has been listening to her Nana's tales of faeries and enchanted kingdoms for as long as she can remember. But when she is magically transported to the realm of Mistolear, she is stunned to learn that the stories were true, and that she is actually a princess...
  • The Elf and Shoemaker by M.L. Rhodes

    The Elf and Shoemaker by M.L. Rhodes

    Rated: 3.69 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Logan Shoemaker’s honest, hardworking, and loves what he does. Though he never expects to get rich, he’s fared well enough to stay comfortable with his quirky metaphysical store, Shoemaker’s Magick Shoppe. But when the economy falls on hard times, his store pays the price...
  • Bridger by Megan Curd

    Bridger by Megan Curd

    Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Ashlyn McVean doesn’t believe in fairy tales. That is, until Ashlyn is thrown into the crosshairs of grudges her grandmother created long ago. After finding out she is one of two people able to cross between faerie realms, Ashlyn is faced with trying to understand her abilities, along with navigating a new relationship with her boyfriend, Liam...
  • Bride By Command by Linda Winstead Jones

    Bride By Command by Linda Winstead Jones

    Rated: 3.61 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    There can be but one empress... Finally willing to choose a bride, Emperor Jahn of Columbyana has decided to have a last bit of fun by going undercover as a sentinel to collect his next candidate. Unfortunately, the young and beautiful Lady Morgana Ramsden has no interest in becoming an empress...
  • My Eternal Love by Stormy Glenn

    My Eternal Love by Stormy Glenn

    Rated: 3.59 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Brandon Thomas liked his job as an orderly at the Gervais Institute of Study, but then, things had started to get a little weird. The military moved in, and armed soldiers roamed the halls. Told to report to his supervisor, he's surprised to learn that he has received a promotion...
  • Twice Upon a Marigold by Jean Ferris

    Twice Upon a Marigold by Jean Ferris

    Rated: 3.73 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Since Queen Olympia's fateful fall into the river, newlyweds Christian and Marigold have been living happily ever after. And they had every intention of keeping it that way--until they find out that Olympia may not be as gone as they thought.            Turns out Olympia is alive and well in a faraway village, having lost her memory after her ill-timed tumble...
  • Caller of Light by T.J. Shaw

    Caller of Light by T.J. Shaw

    Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Carina McKay is an outsider. With one parent of royal blood, she's not nobility, yet not a servant either. The only comfort in her mundane existence is her love of Critons, the large fire-breathing creatures that protect the border of her homeland. But her destiny changes forever the day she catches the eye of King Marek Duncan. Marek's heart is closed to love...
  • Princess Ben by Catherine Gilbert Murdock

    Princess Ben by Catherine Gilbert Murdock

    Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars
    · 38 ratings
    "My gown suited me as well as I could ever hope, though I could not but envy the young ladies who would attract the honest compliments of the night. My bodice did not plunge as dramatically as some, and no man--no man I would ever want to meet, surely--could fit his hands round my waist. What I lacked in beauty I would simply have to earn with charm..
  • Thornspell by Helen Lowe

    Thornspell by Helen Lowe

    Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Helen Lowe reimagines the Sleeping Beauty story from the point of view of the prince who is destined to wake the enchanted princess in this lush, romantic fantasy-adventure. Prince Sigismund has grown up hearing fantastical stories about enchantments and faie spells, basilisks and dragons, knights-errant and heroic quests...
  • Rumplestiltskin by Jenni James

    Rumplestiltskin by Jenni James

    Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    A young prince crippled by a witch— When Fredrico watches his cruel family mourn his false death and announce to the kingdom their cursed prince has died, is the day he truly embraces his new life and new name Rumplestiltskin. How could he be known by anything else? —His skin is completely rumpled and stilted now...
  • Stay by C.C. Jackson, Shannon Hicks

    Stay by C.C. Jackson, Shannon Hicks

    Rated: 3.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Callie is shocked when she is ripped from her home in the middle of the night. She is taken to a city that she never knew existed only to find that she has a strange connection to her sexy captor. To top it all off, he tries to convince her that she is not even human. She learns that she is actually a fairy. Not just any fairy, but a fairy who has been destined to become queen of the fairies...
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