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Daeos by Hattie Jacks
He's a warrior of mayhem, a broken alien dragon shifter, and he needs to claim me to be whole again.Taken from everything I knew and dropped in the middle of an alien prison maze, what's a girl to do?Get stuck in of course! My assistance is needed everywhere and I love to help...Categorized as:
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![The Surviving Trace by Calia Read]()
The Surviving Trace by Calia Read
Contemporary Romance/Time TravelWill is my fiancé. The shy man I met years ago in college. The person I’m supposed to spend the rest of my life with. This is the life I’ve always wanted until finding a picture of four men changes everything…Etienne says he’s my husband and the year is 1912. He can’t stand the sight of me, but I don’t know why. Oh, and he’s one of the men from the picture... -
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![High Roller: A Dark Fated Mates Mafia Romance by Delta James]()
High Roller: A Dark Fated Mates Mafia Romance by Delta James
Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAxel gave Victoria the impossible choice, and she chose him.VictoriaMy brother is dead. He’s been dead for five years and no one seems inclined to bring those who killed him to justice. Well, no one except me.AxelI’m in negotiation with the Albanian mob. They think I’m going to stand with them against the others. They’re wrong. Atlantic City is my town… or at least it’s going to be... -
![Shadow Eagle by Michael-Scott Earle]()
Shadow Eagle by Michael-Scott Earle
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsReeling for the news of his fate, Adam decides to chase the one clue that might lead him toward answers: his sister. But the other Nordar clans have heard of the change in power, and they come to challenge his rule. The tiger will have to assert control over his new empire and kill all that stand in his way. Before he goes insane... -
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![Defiant Vow by Delta James]()
Defiant Vow by Delta James
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsShe had long ago given up on finding her hero. He would make her believe in happy-ever-after again.SerenaThere was a time, a very long time ago when I believed in fairytales and happily-ever-afters. Those dreams died a painful death the night my parents were murdered. I need to get close to Aries Borgia in order to get information about my parents' murderer...Categorized as:
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![The Artifact Hunters Boxed Set by A.W. Exley]()
The Artifact Hunters Boxed Set by A.W. Exley
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsIn a steam and mechanical powered Victorian England, Feisty Cara Devon is on the trail of powerful ancient artifacts in this bestselling historical fantasy series. This set contains the first three novels.1: Nefertiti's HeartA killer stalks the nobility seeking a legendary diamond said to have once belonged to Queen Nefertiti and rumoured to hold the key to immortality... -
![Parallel by Elizabeth O'Roark]()
Parallel by Elizabeth O'Roark
They've had multiple lives together, but this may be their last. As a neurologist, Nick Reilly believes everything can be explained by science. But he can’t explain her—Quinn Stewart, an irresistible patient who knows things about him she shouldn’t. And insists that at some point, she was his wife. Something else he can’t explain: he remembers her too... -
![Frozen Dawn by Kathryn Ann Kingsley]()
Frozen Dawn by Kathryn Ann Kingsley
Her people murdered his family. He vowed to destroy them. But now, a curse binds them together.Life in the far northern reaches of the Dominion is unkind, and life under the reign of Morten, the dreaded ruler of the North Wind, is worse... -
![Cold Stone and Ivy by H. Leighton Dickson]()
Cold Stone and Ivy by H. Leighton Dickson
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsJack the Ripper gave her his heart. Now he wants it back. The year is 1888, the clockwork British Empire is crumbling and young writer Ivy Savage has literally received a heart in the post. Terrified, her father sends her north to a strange sanitarium in Lancashire where the brilliant but unpredictable “Mad Lord of Lasingstoke” makes his home...Categorized as:
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![Caught in Time by Julie McElwain]()
Caught in Time by Julie McElwain
Still stranded in 1815, FBI agent Kendra Donovan finds herself on the trail of a vicious murderer with a shocking secret. October 1815: There is only one place Kendra Donovan wants to travel—back to her own time period in the twenty-first century. But since that’s not happening, she agrees instead to travel with her new guardian, the Duke of Aldridge, to one of his smaller estates in Lancashire... -
![Dragon Storm by Delta James]()
Dragon Storm by Delta James
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsYou cannot escape your fate. Especially when it involves a dragon who claims to be your fated mate.Aria’s visions of something old, powerful, and angry coming combined with her seriously sexy dream sharing with a dragon shifter have confused her. Her visions have proven true too often to ignore. But dragon shifters can’t be true...Categorized as:
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![The Return of the Discontinued Man by Mark Hodder]()
The Return of the Discontinued Man by Mark Hodder
Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsThe Philip K. Dick Award-winning steampunk series continues as past and future collide—and the world itself may be altered forever. Years ago, a madman from the future assassinated the beloved Queen Victoria?an act which inadvertently thrust England into a technological age beyond anything ever imagined...Categorized as:
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![Time Ship, Book One by Ian C.P. Irvine]()
Time Ship, Book One by Ian C.P. Irvine
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsGripping, Enthralling, Imaginative & Hard to Put Down! A rip-roaring, page-turning thriller! If you don't believe time travel is possible, based upon the infamous US Defence Department's 'Project Rainbow', this book will make change your mind..Categorized as:
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![Tu'ver by Elin Wyn]()
Tu'ver by Elin Wyn
When you know you’re going to die young, you can react in a few ways.Harden your heart. Fight destiny.Or roll with the hand you’re dealt and enjoy what time you have.Archivist Mariella thought all hope of a cure for her disease had been lost long before the Xathi invaded.The war sped up her timeline, nothing more.The warriors of the Vengeance? Friends only... -
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![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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![From London, With Love by Bec McMaster]()
From London, With Love by Bec McMaster
**London Steampunk Epilogue novella available to newsletter subscribers as an ebook. Paperback copies are available on Amazon**With London finally at peace, there is only one threat remaining to the stability of the monarchy... The queen is without an heir.Queen Alexandra is done with marriage, but as always, the Duke of Malloryn has a plan... -
![Of Blood and Light by C. Monk]()
Of Blood and Light by C. Monk
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsArthurian legend, bodice-ripping, and capybaras: welcome to Thule!A girl with a secret . . .In the back of an ambulance, River Greer counts each breath her little sister takes until the final one: Sage’s body is giving up, ravaged by a mysterious illness... -
![King of the South by Calia Read]()
King of the South by Calia Read
The year is 1919, and the Great War has ended. As everyone picks up the pieces of their lives, I have only copious amounts of alcohol and women keeping me together. Most of the men I went to war with didn’t make it home, including my best friend, Miles. I thought I knew everything about him until I discovered he made me the executor to his little sister Rainey’s dowry...Categorized as:
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![On Stranger Tides by Tim Powers]()
On Stranger Tides by Tim Powers
Rated: 3.91 of 5 stars · 34 ratings“Powers writes action and adventure that Indiana Jones could only dream of.”—Washington Post“Tim Powers is a brilliant writer.”—William GibsonThe remarkable Tim Powers—who ingeniously married the John Le Carrè spy novel to the otherworldly in his critically acclaimed Declare—brings us pirate adventure with a dazzling difference... -
![The Gargoyle Protector by Rebecca F. Kenney]()
The Gargoyle Protector by Rebecca F. Kenney
THE GARGOYLE PROTECTOR is a steamy romance set in alternate-history steampunk France during a magical civil war.When Noémie, Third Princess of Normandy, is forced to accept a gargoyle as her bodyguard, she is determined to hate him... -
![Alien Warlord's Claim by Presley Hall]()
Alien Warlord's Claim by Presley Hall
Savage. Brutal. Possessive.This alien barbarian will stop at nothing to make me his.When I caught my fiancé cheating on me with my best friend right before our wedding, I thought my day couldn’t get any worse.I was wrong. It got a lot worse. Like, alien abduction worse.Now I’m being held captive by a tribe of fierce alien warriors with striped skin, piercings, and horns...Categorized as:
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![Lord John and the Brotherhood of the Blade by Diana Gabaldon]()
Lord John and the Brotherhood of the Blade by Diana Gabaldon
From the exquisitely talented and award-winning author of the Outlander Saga come two additions to the oeuvre, both featuring Lord John Grey. This dashing character first appeared in Gabaldon’s blockbuster, Voyager, and readers cheered him on in the New York Times bestselling Lord John and the Private Matter... -
![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... -
![A Laird for all Time by Angeline Fortin]()
A Laird for all Time by Angeline Fortin
After ten long years of education and residency, Dr. Emmy MacKenzie feels the time is long overdue for a vacation. A little “me” time. A little alone time...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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![Songbird in a Storm: A captivating 1920s time travel romance by Ophelia Lockheart]()
Songbird in a Storm: A captivating 1920s time travel romance by Ophelia Lockheart
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 9 ratings"A beautiful cross between Outlander and Peaky Blinders." [Audible Reviewer]When paramedic, Roseanna Chapman is tossed back in time and witnesses a murder, she finds herself stranded and under the watchful eye of London's most notorious crime boss.In 1921, Daniel Alderman’s a feared and ruthless gangster...Categorized as:
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![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... -
![The Golden Spider by Anne Renwick]()
The Golden Spider by Anne Renwick
London papers scream of dirigible attacks, kraken swarms, and lung-clogging, sulfurous fogs. But a rash of gypsy murders barely rates a mentionLady Amanda is tired of having both her intelligence and her work dismissed.After blackmailing her way into medical school, she catches the eye of her anatomy professor from the moment she walks into his lecture hall... -
![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... -
![Beautiful Wreck by Larissa Brown]()
Beautiful Wreck by Larissa Brown
sweeping love story that crosses time, from a bleak 22nd century to 10th century Iceland - a land of rugged beauty and ax-hewn justice. In a desolate future built on virtual reality, Ginn is a romantic who yearns for something real. She designs environments for people who play at being Vikings...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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![A Flash of Silver by Silk Aubrey, Ezra O'Neil]()
A Flash of Silver by Silk Aubrey, Ezra O'Neil
Fae magic thrust a human man upon us. We four fae males make up the most powerful Anam Cara on Thrae. But we move through life in a fog since the loss of our fifth fae mate two years ago and now wait to join him in death. How can we possibly survive the addition of a human male to our lifelong soul bond, our Cara? The magic that drew us together is broken. We are broken... -
![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... -
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![The Affair of the Mysterious Letter by Alexis Hall]()
The Affair of the Mysterious Letter by Alexis Hall
Rated: 3.68 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsIn this charming, witty, and weird fantasy novel, Alexis Hall pays homage to Sherlock Holmes with a new twist on those renowned characters. Upon returning to the city of Khelathra-Ven after five years fighting a war in another universe, Captain John Wyndham finds himself looking for somewhere to live, and expediency forces him to take lodgings at 221b Martyrs Walk. His new housemate is Ms...Categorized as:
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![A Letter to the Luminous Deep by Sylvie Cathrall]()
A Letter to the Luminous Deep by Sylvie Cathrall
A charming fantasy set in an underwater world with magical academia and a heartwarming penpal romance, perfect for fans of A Marvellous Light and Emily Wilde's Encylopaedia of Faeries...Categorized as:
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![A Murder in Time by Julie McElwain]()
A Murder in Time by Julie McElwain
Beautiful and brilliant, Kendra Donovan is a rising star at the FBI. Yet her path to professional success hits a speed bump during a disastrous raid where half her team is murdered, a mole in the FBI is uncovered and she herself is severely wounded. As soon as she recovers, she goes rogue and travels to England to assassinate the man responsible for the deaths of her teammates...Categorized as:
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![Luffs by Shay Savage]()
Luffs by Shay Savage
Once upon a time, you fell in love with a caveman.His needs were basic, his ambitions primal, his love fierce.Now, fall in love with Ehd all over again…through Beh’s eyes...Categorized as:
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![A Lady Can Never Be Too Curious by Mary Wine]()
A Lady Can Never Be Too Curious by Mary Wine
Rated: 3.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsBeneath the Surface of Victorian Life Lies a Very Different World… Hated and feared by the upper classes, the Illuminists guard their secrets with their lives. Janette Aston’s insatiable quest for answers brings her to their locked golden doors, where she encounters the most formidable man she’s ever met...
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