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Three in Death by J.D. Robb
Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars · 30 ratings#1 New York Times bestselling author J. D. Robb delivers a potent combination of futuristic suspense, thrills, and passion in these three favorite In Death stories—together in one volume for the first time.INTERLUDE IN DEATHLieutenant Eve Dallas is resigned to the fact that she’s been ordered to give a seminar at a police conference—and that she’ll have to leave Earth to do it...Categorized as:
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![Lady Luck by K.C. Cross, J.A. Huss]()
Lady Luck by K.C. Cross, J.A. Huss
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsLuck knew two things when he left Harem Station months ago. One. The silver-haired Cygnian Princess Nyleena was still safely frozen away in her cryopod. And two. There was a good chance she was his soul mate. He left anyway. Nyleena is what you might call feisty. Or sassy. Or maybe just… feral. She is wild. Much too wild for Luck’s taste. But now that he’s home there’s no way to deny it...Categorized as:
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![Blood Charged by Lindsay Buroker]()
Blood Charged by Lindsay Buroker
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 28 ratingsSardelle Terushan, sorceress and healer, should be lying low. Magic is forbidden in Iskandia, and magic users are drowned, shot, or otherwise slain. The problem? She's fallen in love with ace fighter pilot and national hero, Colonel Ridge Zirkander, a man whom everybody notices, including the king. It's not long before Sardelle has spies dogging her steps and people trying to blow her up...Categorized as:
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![Jovah's Angel by Sharon Shinn]()
Jovah's Angel by Sharon Shinn
Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars · 32 ratingsThis is a standalone sequel to Archangel , set 150 years later in proverbially interesting times. Samaria is industrialized; the Manadavvi and Jansai are wealthier; the Edori are marginalized, their roaming lifestyle disrupted; and Jovah seems to be turning a deaf ear to his angels' prayers for abatement of increasingly destructive storms...Categorized as:
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![The Fifty-Seven Lives of Alex Wayfare by M.G. Buehrlen]()
The Fifty-Seven Lives of Alex Wayfare by M.G. Buehrlen
Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars · 16 ratings"Beautiful prose, an intelligent plot, and a heroine as fabulous as she is unique—I couldn't put it down!" —C. J. Redwine, The Defiance Trilogy For as long as she can remember, 17-year-old Alex Wayfare has had visions of the past...Categorized as:
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![Meant to Be by Megan Derr]()
Meant to Be by Megan Derr
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe Draconis are a race of unexpected power and ability, complicated by their tendency to ‘match’ with other magics capable beings. The trial to decide whether or not they should be exterminated is about to begin, and both sides have gathered some of the brightest minds in the galaxy to argue before the Star Assembly of the Infinitum Government... -
![The Butterfly Code by Sue Wyshynski]()
The Butterfly Code by Sue Wyshynski
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsShivering, I wind my arms around my ribs.That's when I see him. Dr. Hunter Cayman.The man the town has been whispering about. The man no one really seems to know. The man my father despises.He's across the street, leaning against a steel monster--a low-slung black car, its curves somehow wicked in the night. Rain sparkles like fire on the front hood under the glow of the orange streetlamps...Categorized as:
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![The Silver Spider by Emma Alisyn]()
The Silver Spider by Emma Alisyn
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsBook 2 of the Dragon, Stone & Steam series coming soon! Excerpt... She turned, spiders skittering up the loose sleeves of her formal black jacket. She'd refused to wear another gown. Look what had happened last time she'd been trapped in a dress—Cinvarra almost kidnapped and Sere hunting her prey with fancy skirts tripping her up... -
![Nefertiti's Heart by A.W. Exley]()
Nefertiti's Heart by A.W. Exley
Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsLibrarian's note: Alternate cover edition of ASIN B00BFTMRBA. A steampunk adventure with a serial killer, romance, and a few broken hearts. Cara Devon has always suffered curiosity and impetuousness, but tangling with a serial killer might cure that. Permanently. London, 1861...Categorized as:
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![Different Senses by Ann Somerville]()
Different Senses by Ann Somerville
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsJaven Ythen is an angry man. A shooting on the job triggered his genetic empathy, and as a result, he lost his career as a cop, and his lover. Now he has to find something to do with his life, while coming to terms with losing the job and the man he loved, as well as a racial heritage unsuspected by anyone in his family. He lives in a society divided by class and race... -
![Things Not Seen by Andrew Clements]()
Things Not Seen by Andrew Clements
Bobby Phillips is an average fifteen-year-old boy. Until the morning he wakes up and can't see himself in the mirror. Not blind, not dreaming. Bobby is just plain invisible... There doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason to Bobby's new condition; even his dad the physicist can't figure it out. For Bobby that means no school, no friends, no life. He's a missing person. Then he meets Alicia...Categorized as:
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![Wrecked by Meljean Brook]()
Wrecked by Meljean Brook
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsElizabeth has spent the past five years running from her father; her father's huntsman, Caius, has spent the past five years pursuing her. But when he finally catches up to her on an airship flying above Europe's zombie-infested cities, Elizabeth discovers that Caius isn't the only danger she has to fear—and now that he's found her, Caius doesn't intend to let her go.. -
![Keys by Amber Kell]()
Keys by Amber Kell
Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsCity of Keys: Book One My name is Octavius Septimus Stalk, but my friends call me Oss. I live in the City of Keys, a town of gears, keys, locks, and wonder. Our forefathers banished magic long ago, bolted the doors and locked everything up tight to keep people out and the town’s secrets in. Four Lock Lords control what information is left, and everyone else is left struggling to survive... -
![Escapement by Ciara Knight]()
Escapement by Ciara Knight
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsTen years after the great war of 2185 the queen’s reign is threatened by uprisings and fear. In celebration of my sixteenth birthday it is my duty as princess to sacrifice a slave to be initiated into the ruling council, solidifying my mother’s empire. When my own erratic powers surface I’m captured and tried for treason... -
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![Armored Hearts by Pauline Creeden, Melissa Turner Lee]()
Armored Hearts by Pauline Creeden, Melissa Turner Lee
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen a crippled young lord rescues a girl falling from a tree, it reveals a secret about himself and his mother's side of the family that could put him at the center of a war with beings he thought only existed in fairy tales. Tristan Gareth Smyth lived his entire life stuck at home at Waverly Park, left behind while his Grandfather makes trips to London, all because of his blasted wheelchair... -
![Miss Bramble and the Leviathan: A Steampunk Romance by Kristen Painter]()
Miss Bramble and the Leviathan: A Steampunk Romance by Kristen Painter
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe last thing she planned to steal was his heart. When Pandora Bramble steps aboard the Company’s premiere airship Daedalus it’s not for the exclusive VIP tour. It’s to secure proof that the Company stole the regulator valve her father designed—even if it means tearing the engine apart...Categorized as:
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![Dark Shadows by Marilyn Ross]()
Dark Shadows by Marilyn Ross
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDespite warnings from the townspeople, Victoria Winters accepts the offer to come to the strange Collins House as governess. For some curious reason she feels the secret of her past may be uncovered in the bleak manor high on Widow's Hill. From the moment she arrives, Victoria becomes the target of someone in the house determined to destroy her... -
![Moonlight & Mechanicals by Cindy Spencer Pape]()
Moonlight & Mechanicals by Cindy Spencer Pape
Rated: 3.82 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsLondon, 1859 Engineer Winifred "Wink" Hadrian has been in love with Inspector Liam McCullough for years, but is beginning to lose hope when he swears to be a lifelong bachelor. Faced with a proposal from a Knight of the Round Table and one of her closest friends, Wink reluctantly agrees to consider him instead... -
![Breath of Iron by Kate Cross]()
Breath of Iron by Kate Cross
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSworn to protect England from all enemies, the Wardens of the Realm are ever vigilant. But not all battles are fought on a battlefield; sometimes they are fought in the heart. As chief surgeon for the Wardens, Evelyn Stone fears her own life is on the line when she is kidnapped by a band of pirates—only to discover that the airship captain is Gavin “Mac” MacRae—her former lover... -
![The Blushing Bounder by Meljean Brook]()
The Blushing Bounder by Meljean Brook
In The Iron Duke, Constable Newberry helped save all of England. But before the events of that novel, Constable Newberry’s faced a danger of another kind: to his heart, by the woman forced to marry him. What will it take for this prudish bounder to convince his wife to stay? The Blushing Bounder was previously published in the anthology Wild & Steamy...Categorized as:
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![Moonlight & Mechanicals by Cindy Spencer Pape]()
Moonlight & Mechanicals by Cindy Spencer Pape
Rated: 3.78 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsLondon, 1859 Engineer Winifred "Wink" Hadrian has been in love with Inspector Liam McCullough for years, but is beginning to lose hope when he swears to be a lifelong bachelor. Faced with a proposal from a Knight of the Round Table and one of her closest friends, Wink reluctantly agrees to consider him instead...Categorized as:
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![Resurrection by Sara Reinke]()
Resurrection by Sara Reinke
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsJay Frances can resurrect the dead. One touch is all it takes to restore life to even long-since cold flesh. Jay has always considered this ability more of a curse than a gift -- that is, until the night he finds JoBeth Montgomery brutally murdered in a darkened stairwell and raises her. Jo is the first he is able to restore fully, body, mind and soul... -
![The Runestone Incident by Neve Maslakovic]()
The Runestone Incident by Neve Maslakovic
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWe found ten men, red from blood and dead… At the center of an expanding mystery: a fabled Viking runestone left behind in the Minnesota woodland of ages past. In this much anticipated second installment of Neve Maslakovic’s time travel series, St...Categorized as:
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![Dark Life by Kat Falls]()
Dark Life by Kat Falls
A thrilling futuristic adventure set deep undersea, Dark Life follows the settlers of the world's first subsea settlement as they defend their homesteads against a brazen band of outlaws...Categorized as:
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![Kidnapped by Megan Derr]()
Kidnapped by Megan Derr
Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsInfinitum Government Code 3.18.21.512: Genetic Experimentation Shall Be Strictly Forbidden No job is more arduous than that of Rehab Guard—those appointed to guard the many and varied prisoners within the Infinitum Government, the ruling power of a vast interplanetary alliance. To be a Rehab Guard requires very specific qualifications and years of specialized training... -
![The Chronological Man: The Monster In The Mist by Andrew Mayne]()
The Chronological Man: The Monster In The Mist by Andrew Mayne
Rated: 3.74 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIt's 1890 and the citizens of Boston are beginning to go missing in the fog. The police are confounded. The public is frightened. The city is on the edge of hysteria. It's up to the mysterious Smith, inventor and adventurer, to figure out what's going on with the help of his assistant, April Malone...Categorized as:
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![Dragons & Dirigibles by Cindy Spencer Pape]()
Dragons & Dirigibles by Cindy Spencer Pape
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsBook seven of The Gaslight Chronicles When airship engineer Melody McKay's dirigible explodes and plunges her into the yard of a gothic manor, she suspects foul play. With her ankle injured--an indignity far too feminine for her taste--she resolves to crack the mystery while in the care of Victor Arrington, the stuffy-yet-disarming Earl of Blackwell...Categorized as:
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![Ether & Elephants by Cindy Spencer Pape]()
Ether & Elephants by Cindy Spencer Pape
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsA Gaslight Chronicles NovelSir Thomas Devere and Eleanor Hadrian have loved each other most of their lives—but sometimes love doesn't conquer all.Their chance at happiness was ruined by Tom's hasty marriage to someone else. Heartbroken, Nell left home, finding a new life as a teacher at a school for the blind... -
![Gossamer Wing by Delphine Dryden]()
Gossamer Wing by Delphine Dryden
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA Spy. An Airship. And a Broken Heart. After losing her husband to a rogue French agent, Charlotte Moncrieffe wants to make her mark in international espionage. And what could be better for recovering secret long-lost documents from the Palais Garnier than her stealth dirigible, Gossamer Wing ? Her spymaster father has one condition: He won’t send her to Paris without an ironclad cover... -
![His Clockwork Canary by Beth Ciotta]()
His Clockwork Canary by Beth Ciotta
History is repeating itself. For ambitious engineer Simon Darcy, winning Queen Victoria’s competition to recover lost inventions of historical significance is a matter of prideand redemption. After all, it was Simon’s failed monorail project that left his family destitute, and winning the tournament would surely restore the Darcys’ reputation... -
![Volume One: Miltic by A.S. Oren]()
Volume One: Miltic by A.S. Oren
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratings*Not recommended for my readers under 18. Strong Language and sexual situations warning for entire series* A Reverse Harem Story. Sandra Serling--genius and moody girl of the century--finds herself in an an Alice and Wonderland esque situation when the utterly sexy Steampunk knight Stillan comes blasting through her closet door while she's in the middle of changing clothes...Categorized as:
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![Timepiece by Heather Albano]()
Timepiece by Heather Albano
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA steampunk time travel adventure about a girl, a pocket watch, Frankenstein’s monster, the Battle of Waterloo, and giant clockwork robots taking over London. * Elizabeth Barton longs to escape the endless round of social ritual that defines life in the village of Hartwich during the Regency of Prince George... -
![Heart of the Kraken by A.W. Exley]()
Heart of the Kraken by A.W. Exley
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsLegend says if you consume the heart of a mermaid, you will know all the secrets of men Ailin doesn't care if the legend is true or not - she's stuck in a crate on her way to feature as the main course at a lavish banquet. Her heart to be served while still beating for a cruel noble while the rest of her is sliced into sashimi. Unless she can escape... -
![Chasing the Star Garden by Melanie Karsak]()
Chasing the Star Garden by Melanie Karsak
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAn opium-addicted beauty. An infamous poet living in self-imposed exile. An ancient treasure about to fall into the wrong hands. Melanie Karsak's Chasing the Star Garden takes readers on a thrilling adventure from the gritty opium dens of gaslamp London to the gem-colored waters of the ancient world... -
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![Cards & Caravans by Cindy Spencer Pape]()
Cards & Caravans by Cindy Spencer Pape
Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsBelinda Danvers isn't a witch. But that won't stop them burning her at the stake… Connor McKay can tell at a glance that Belinda's magickal powers are minimal at best. She can't be guilty of murdering village children. There's something suspicious about her arrest and lightning-quick sentence. Unfortunately, telling anyone how he knows would mean revealing his own powers... -
![The Psychology of Time Travel by Kate Mascarenhas]()
The Psychology of Time Travel by Kate Mascarenhas
Rated: 3.81 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsPerfect for fans of Naomi Alderman's The Power and Margot Lee Shetterly’s Hidden Figures comes The Psychology of Time Travel, a mind-bending, time-travel debut. In 1967, four female scientists worked together to build the world’s first time machine...Categorized as:
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![Ashes & Alchemy by Cindy Spencer Pape]()
Ashes & Alchemy by Cindy Spencer Pape
Rated: 3.56 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsA Gaslight Chronicles novella London, 1860 Police inspector Sebastian Brown served Queen and country in India before returning to England to investigate supernatural crimes alongside the Order of the Round Table. If his wifeless, childless life feels a little empty sometimes, that's not too great a price to pay in the name of duty...Categorized as:
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![In the Garden of Iden by Kage Baker]()
In the Garden of Iden by Kage Baker
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 31 ratingsThis is the first novel in what has become one of the most popular series in contemporary SF, now back in print from Tor. In the 24th century, the Company preserves works of art and extinct forms of life (for profit of course). It recruits orphans from the past, renders them all but immortal, and trains them to serve the Company, Dr. Zeus. One of these is Mendoza the botanist... -
![Apocalypse Island by Mark Edward Hall]()
Apocalypse Island by Mark Edward Hall
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsA Maine city has turned into a killing ground.Is it a serial killer, someone with a penchant for the macabre and a need to destroy?Or is it a darker force, an ancient legend from a mysterious Island come ashore to wreak havoc upon the unsuspecting?Amid the backdrop of Portland's burgeoning night scene, Police Lieutenant Rick Jennings discovers that no one is safe, and that evil has many faces...Categorized as:
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![The Pearl Savage by Tamara Rose Blodgett]()
The Pearl Savage by Tamara Rose Blodgett
Rated: 3.66 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsSeventeen-year old princess, Clara Williamson, lives an old-fashioned existence in a biosphere of the future. When her sadistic mother, Queen Ada, betroths her to an abusive prince of a neighboring sphere, Clara determines to escape Outside, where savages roam free...Categorized as:
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![Kilts & Kraken by Cindy Spencer Pape]()
Kilts & Kraken by Cindy Spencer Pape
Rated: 3.57 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsMagnus, Baron Findlay, longs to bring the wonders of the steam age to his remote island home, but his hands are full fighting the vicious kraken ravaging the coast. When he's swept to sea during battle and washes up on the shore of an isle in the Hebrides, he is near death. Struggling to establish herself as one of the first female physicians in Edinburgh, Dr... -
![A Matter of Circumstance and Celludrones by Claire Robyns]()
A Matter of Circumstance and Celludrones by Claire Robyns
Rated: 3.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA Victorian Steampunk/Paranormal adventure with strong elements of romance... Lady Lily d'Bulier is prim, proper, and prefers to think of herself as pragmatic rather than timid. And avoiding life-threatening situations at all costs is just plain practical. But everything changes when Lord Adair tracks her down in London; searching for answers he seems to think she has... -
![The Far Time Incident by Neve Maslakovic]()
The Far Time Incident by Neve Maslakovic
Rated: 3.43 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWhen a professor’s time-travel lab is the scene of a deadly accident, the academic world and the future of St. Sunniva University get thrown into upheaval...Categorized as:
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![Like Clockwork by Bonnie Dee]()
Like Clockwork by Bonnie Dee
Rated: 3.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsVictoria's work with automatons has gained her renown and changed the face of London. But her concern that the clockworks are taking too many jobs away from humans, creating social unrest, is ignored. Given the ugly mood of the underclass, she fears more outbreaks of violence similar to the murder spree of the notorious Southwark Slasher...Categorized as:
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![The Red Garden by Alice Hoffman]()
The Red Garden by Alice Hoffman
Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars · 39 ratings"The Red Garden" introduces us to the luminous and haunting world of Blackwell, Massachusetts, capturing the unexpected turns in its history and in our own lives...Categorized as:
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![A Captain and a Corset by Mary Wine]()
A Captain and a Corset by Mary Wine
Rated: 3.00 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsThere’s Trouble in the Skies… For Sophia Stevenson, there’s no going back to the life she knew. She never asked for the powers that make her a precious commodity to the secret society of Illuminists—and their archenemies. Captain Bion Donkova would give anything to possess the powers that have fallen in Sophia’s lap...Categorized as:
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![Brain Camp by Susan Kim, Laurence Klavan]()
Brain Camp by Susan Kim, Laurence Klavan
Rated: 3.62 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsNeither artistic, dreamy Jenna nor surly, delinquent Lucas expected to find themselves at an invitation-only summer camp that turns problem children into prodigies. And yet, here they both are at Camp Fielding, settling in with all the other losers and misfits who've been shipped off by their parents in a last-ditch effort to produce a child worth bragging about...Categorized as:
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![Synthetic: Dark Beginning by Shonna Wright]()
Synthetic: Dark Beginning by Shonna Wright
Rated: 3.11 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsTen years ago, scientific genius Kora Lazar awoke with amnesia at Mirafield Synthetics and since then, it's been nonstop work creating artificial fairies, mermaids, and centaurs for her elite clientele, but never vampires—nasty things—no matter how much money anyone waves in her face. Now, one week before her wedding to her boss, Kora is leaving work for the first time... -
![An Evil Guest by Gene Wolfe]()
An Evil Guest by Gene Wolfe
Rated: 3.04 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsLovecraft mets Blade Runner. This is a stand-alone supernatural horror novel with a 30s noir atmosphere. Gene Wolfe can write in whatever genre he wants--and always with superb style and profound depth. Now following his World Fantasy Award winner, Soldier of Sidon, and his stunning Pirate Freedom, Wolfe turns to the tradition of H.P. Lovecraft and the weird science tale of supernatural horror...
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