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The First Chronicles of Druss the Legend by David Gemmell
Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars · 38 ratingsHe was known as Druss. The Deathwalker. Though the blood of merciless butchers coursed through his veins, he had found a fragile peace through his love for beautiful, mystical Rowena. Then came the day when Druss returned to their village and found everyone dead--massacred by slavers who had stolen the women to sell for gold. Rowena was among the missing... -
Age of Swords by Michael J. Sullivan, Marc Simonetti
A Goodreads Choice Award Nomination for Best Fantasy Novel of 2017. The gods have been proven mortal and new heroes will arise as the battle continues in the sequel to Age of Myth--from the author of the Riyria Revelations and Riyria Chronicles series. In Age of Myth, fantasy master Michael J. Sullivan launched readers on an epic journey of magic and adventure, heroism and betrayal, love and loss... -
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A Man's Skin by Hubert, Zanzim
Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars · 33 ratingsIn Renaissance Italy, Bianca, a young lady from a good family, is of marriage age. Her parents find her a fiancé to their liking: Giovanni, a rich merchant, young and pleasant. The wedding looks set to go smoothly even though Bianca can’t hide her disappointment at having to marry a man she knows nothing about... -
Boy of Chaotic Making by Charlie N. Holmberg
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsA boy like no other embarks on a transformative journey of magic and self-discovery in the next enchanting Whimbrel House novel by Amazon Charts and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Charlie N. Holmberg. Merritt Fernsby’s life has changed considerably since he inherited Whimbrel House. He’s engaged to Hulda Larkin, who opened his eyes to the uncanny... -
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The Sleeping Beauty by Trina Schart Hyman
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 34 ratingsThe story of the beautiful princess who sleeps for a hundred years has captured the imaginations of children for an even longer period of time... -
Witch Light by Susan Fletcher
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 30 ratings1692. Corrag, a wild young girl from the mountains of Scotland, has been imprisoned as a witch. Terrified, in a cold, filthy cell, she awaits her fate of death by burning – until she is visited by Charles Leslie, a young Irishman, hungry to question her. For Corrag knows more than it seems: she was witness to the bloody and brutal Massacre of Glencoe... -
The Words of Kings and Prophets by Shauna Lawless
The sequel to the critically acclaimed The Children of Gods and Fighting Men , The Words of Kings and Prophets is the powerful new historical fantasy novel by Shauna Lawless. Ireland, 1000 AD. Gormflaith is unhappily married to Brian Boru, High King of Ireland, and although a queen she struggles with her limited position... -
The Price of Valour by Django Wexler
Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars · 35 ratingsIn the latest Shadow Campaigns novel, Django Wexler continues his “epic fantasy of military might and magical conflict”* following The Shadow Throne and The Thousand Names, as the realm of Vordan faces imminent threats from without and within. In the wake of the King’s death, war has come to Vordan... -
The Last Highlander: Scottish Paranormal Romance by L.L. Muir
Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratings"Heaven save me from moody Highlanders! "Dezi MacInnes has a wedding to plan and time's a tickin'. She's dealing with an unknown venue, which means a lot of time on site with a tape measure. But a cranky Highlander guards every inch like a Doberman, and if she can't get him out of her way, he's going to drive her to drink. .. and one of her biggest events could end up a giant disaster... -
Champion of the Scarlet Wolf Book One by Ginn Hale
Five years after abandoning the Sagrada Acedemy ( Lord of the White Hell universe ), Elezar Grunito has become infamous in the sanctified circles of noble dueling rings for his brutal temper and lethal blade. Men and women of all ranks gather to cheer and jeer, none of them knowing Elezar’s true purpose... -
Infinity by Maggie Shayne
Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars · 22 ratingsFor five centuries, Immortal High Witch Nicodimus has been suspended in an eternity of darkness. His heart was stolen away in the ultimate betrayal by his love Arianna. .. Now Arianna discovers a way to bring him back. But the power that returns Nicodimus to her arms also summons an ancient enemy. To fight this dark danger, they must confront the past--and reclaim infinity. .. -
Finding Home Volume 4: The Gardener by Hari Conner
Rated: 4.71 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsThe final volume of the award-winning LGBT romance series. In the final volume, secrets come out, and the characters find physical distance can’t break their emotional closeness. Chepi realises he must finally face his feelings to be able to grow. -
I’m a Villainous Daughter, so I’m going to keep the Last Boss (Manga) Vol. 3 (I'm the Villainess, So I'm Taming the Final Boss (Manga) #3) by Anko Yuzu, Sarasa Nagase
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThird volume of an exciting romantic story. Avoid the BAD END! That's the goal of the villainess in this plot-twisting story! ! She has been reborn into the world of an otome game as the villainess, Irene... -
Eris : The Lost Goddesses by Alessa Thorn
Eris, the goddess of chaos, has given up hope of ever breaking free of the curse that’s haunted her for centuries—until the Fates offer her an unexpected chance at redemption. Enter Enzo Silviano, a charming bartender and failed therapist with a hidden lineage going back to ancient Troy...Categorized as:
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Traitor of the Drowned Empire by Frankie Diane Mallis
After the devastating events of the arena, Lyriana Batavia is trying to live in a world where her soulmate, Rhyan Hart, has become a soulless akadim. The Empire has named Lyr a forsworn traitor, and every soldier in Lumeria has been ordered to hunt her down... -
The Immortality Trials: The Complete Collection by Eliza Raine
Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsWhat if Hercules wasn’t the hero we all thought he was? His daughter, Lyssa, knows just how cruel he can be. But she has left that life behind and now her battered smugglers ship, the Alastor, flies under everyone’s radar - just how she likes it. The Gods have a different plan for her though... -
어느 날 공주가 되어버렸다 6 by Plutus, 스푼
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 13 ratings아빠가 쓰러진 이유가 나 때문이었다고? ! 아빠는 루카스 덕분에 눈은 떴지만,. 여전히 날 기억하지 못하고…. 아빠에게 걸린 저주를 치료할 방법을 찾기 위해. 제니트를 곁에 두고 있었지만…. “아빠! !! ”. 피를 토하며 쓰러져 버린 아빠. 알려줘, 루카스! 아빠를 살리려면 어떻게 해야 하는 거야? ! Chapter: 69-83. -
어느 날 공주가 되어버렸다 8 by Plutus, Spoon
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 12 ratings세계수와의 접촉. 위험하지만 이 방법만이 아빠를 구할 수 있는 유일한 길이다. 세계의 본질과 마주하면서 점차 나의 존재를 망각해가던 그때―! 아빠가 죽지 않도록 곁을 지켜왔던 엄마와 마주하게 되는데…! Chapters 98-111. -
Blood Feast by Vela Roth
This release date is a placeholder and will be moved earlier when the official launch day is announced. Her Grace is in danger - and her fangs are ready for battle. Cassia has risen from the ashes of her human life as a Hesperine with magic the world has never seen. The Gift of immortality from Lio seals their fated Grace bond and frees her from the ancient necromancer known as the Collector... -
어느 날 공주가 되어버렸다 9 by Plutus, Spoon
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 11 ratings오벨리아에 평화가 찾아왔다. 그리고 이어지는 나의 황태자 대관식! 대관식 도중, 하늘에서 성스러운 빛이 내려오는데…. "너는 틀리지 않았단다. 네가 믿는 길을 걸어가렴. " 이건 그동안 잊고 있었던 세계수의 계시…? ! Chapters 112-124. -
Prophecy's Daughter by Richard Phillips
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsThe epic fantasy continues as Lorness Carol’s burgeoning magical powers are the only hope in a destined war between good and primordial evil…. “The silent one in the west has awakened. ” A tantalizing message reignites Kragan’s centuries-old fury to find and exterminate the unwitting young adversary prophesied to destroy him... -
A Time of Omens by Katharine Kerr
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 32 ratings“This grand saga is by a wide margin the best Celtic fantasy around. ”— Chicago Sun-Times. In Deverry the volatile history of humanity continues as a dashing young king journeys to his throne in disguise, fulfilling an ancient prophecy... -
어느 날 공주가 되어버렸다 7 by Plutus, Spoon
Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars · 12 ratings아빠는 의식불명. 루카스도 내 옆에 없는 지금, 이해할 수 없는 일이 벌어졌다. “그간 무탈히 지내셨는지요? 아타나시아 공주님. 똑똑하게 자란 조카가 기특해서 그만…”. 오벨리아를 집어 삼키려는 거대한 검은 그림자― 죽은 줄로만 알았던 선황의 등장! “…세계수 열매라면…” 침착하자, 아타나시아. 아빠를― 사랑하는 모두를 지키기 위해선 내가 더 강해져야 해! ! Chapters 84-97. -
Elemental Shadowed by Helen Scott
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAn ancient secret and a set of murals could save the world or doom them all. Tessa doesn’t have much to go by if she’s going to rescue humanity. The prophecy she needs to understand is a closely guarded secret and the murals she found are giving nothing away. After barely surviving her last fight with the demons, she’s thrown into this one before she’s ready...Categorized as:
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Clary Sage by Victoria Goddard
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsNorthwest Oriole is a land of small countries and many universities, where scholarship is greatly regarded. Choosing a school is thus a matter of great weight, no matter your rank or wealth. Hal has always known where he’s going, because he is the Imperial Duke of Fillering Pool, and the dukes have always gone to either Zabour or Tara. Since Zabour fell into the sea, it’ll have to be Tara... -
The Elysean Dream by D.N. Hoxa
A year ago I was dragged into what I thought was hell against my will—the Daedalus Palace in the Elysean city of Idaea. Turns out that was just a place, but there’s an actual hell here, so now I'm going in there, too. This time, though? Death is pretty much guaranteed, and I'm going in willingly...Categorized as:
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Days of Blood and Fire by Katharine Kerr
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 31 ratingsIn the peaceful land of the Rhiddaer, Jahdo the ratcatcher's son stumbles upon a secret meeting between a city council man and a dangerous, mysterious woman. Suddenly the boy is tangled in a web of intrigue and black magic that drags him far from home. In the company of a blind bard, Jahdo must travel to Deverry to unravel the evil that binds him... -
Blackveil by Kristen Britain
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 41 ratingsRead 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... -
Charon by Alessa Thorn
The ferryman of the dead is on the hunt for the cursed sorceress of Aeaea. .. but he's going to find a lot more than he bargained for. CHARON is the sixth book in a new paranormal romance series, based in a dark, sexy city ruled by Hades and his court of gods and monsters... -
Spice & Wolf, Vol. 6 by Isuna Hasekura, Juu Ayakura
Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAs Lawrence and Holo put the final phase of their plan to extricate themselves from the jaws of financial ruin into motion, they are confronted by an unforeseen obstacle... -
A Curse of Ashes by Sariah Wilson
For a princess, becoming the savior of a nation could mean sacrificing love and life in this breathtaking conclusion to the epic Eye of the Goddess trilogy by USA Today bestselling author Sariah Wilson. Princess Lia of Locris is the unlikeliest person to be Ilion’s defender. Once, she’d have gladly seen the entire adversarial nation burn. But much has changed... -
Carter Beats the Devil by Glen David Gold
Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsGlen David Gold's literary debut dazzled critics and fans from coast to coast. Now Carter's center stage for a spectacular paperback . . . The response to Glen David Gold's debut novel, Carter Beats the Devil , was extraordinary. He hypnotized us with his portrait of a 1920s magic-obsessed America and of Charles Carter--a. k. a... -
Eternal Love: The Immortal Witch Series by Maggie Shayne
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsRaven is a witch from the 1690s who flees the hangman’s noose in England to find a haven in Massachusetts Bay where the witch hysteria is about to tear her and her lover apart. Arianna’s beginnings were in the Scottish Highlands where her sister died to save her, and an immortal warrior loved her beyond reason and life itself... -
Copper Chain by James Maxwell
Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsWhen a desperate king threatens Dion and everything he loves, only dangerous magic can keep him safe. Dion, now king of Xanthos, is finally in command of the naval fleet he’s always dreamed of. But his hopes for peace are jeopardized when King Palemon, in dire need of ships to rescue his starving people from the frozen wastelands of the north, invades the Salesian city of Malakai...Categorized as:
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Dead Serious Halloween Special by Vawn Cassidy
It’s Halloween and Chan’s hosting a party at Harrison’s newly inherited occult bookshop. Tristan is looking forward to a night of music, food and fun costumes with his husband and their friends. What they actually get is chaos on the streets of Whitechapel when they accidentally open the Gospodar, the master copy of all fairy tales and let all of the creatures loose... -
A Heart So Wicked by Chasity Bowlin
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsOne youthful indiscretion has left Kit Wexford with a reputation in tatters and an unfortunate nickname—Wicked Wexford. But it was her father’s financial ruin that altered her life irrevocably and saw her scrubbing floors in her cousin’s country home. Treated worse than the servants, she tolerates the lowering existence because to do otherwise would see her brother and herself in the workhouse... -
Redemption by Rachel Callahan
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsRomulus has left us no choice. Our forces are about to collide, and only one of us will survive. I’m back with my mates and I should be able to breathe easier, except I know our days of peace are numbered. Romulus will soon discover that the blade he holds—the one he thinks will kill a dark god—is nothing more than an illusion... -
Laverna by Alessa Thorn
Rome has always had two rulers - Romulus, the god of the above, and Laverna, the goddess of the below. But the time for their hostile peace is at an end, and if they don't come together, the whole city will burn. Laverna, the goddess of thieves, has always ruled Rome's underground with her army of outcasts...Categorized as:
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Bibliophile Princess (Manga) Vol 5 (Princess Bibliophile (Manga) #5) by Yui
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe scheming at the Autumn Hunting Festival comes to a head! Danger waits at every turn, and Elianna finds herself in the crosshairs of not only foreign threats but domestic ones as well. Not everyone can be trusted, not even the fabled Ghost of Eidel! Will Elianna be able to handle jumping through the hoops of high society while also dodging the very real danger posed by people out for her life? -
Once Found: The Pocket Watch Chronicles by Ceci Giltenan
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsElsie thought she had found love. The handsome young minstrel awoke her desire and his music fed her soul. But just as love was blossoming, the inconceivable happened—Elsie awoke more than seven hundred years in the future, in the body of Dr. Elizabeth Quinn. Gabriel Soldani thought he had found love several times, only to have it slip from his grasp... -
Barbarian Princess by Damion Hunter, Amanda Cockrell
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe epic second Roman adventure in The Centurions series Correus and Flavius, half brothers and rivals, have found the life of a Centurion to be a dangerous one. After imprisonment and torture, Flavius has found his strength and proven his mettle. Correus, son of a slave, has found glory on the battlefield...Categorized as:
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The Rebel's Prize by M.J. Scott
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsHunting traitors is easier than facing the man she never meant to love…. In the wake of treachery and broken bonds, Chloe de Roche has fled Illvya and a marriage that was never supposed to be real, to hunt the rebel mages trying to topple the empire. Bringing them to justice is the only way to clear her name and salvage something of the life she's been fighting for... -
Bibliophile Princess (Manga) Vol 6 (Princess Bibliophile (Manga) #6) by Yui
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsOur Bibliophile Princess spent her days thinking her relationship with Crown Prince Christopher was merely a facade, but now Elianna knows their feelings are mutual. She was serving as his proxy at the Autumn Hunting Festival, but then another noble lady locked her inside an old castle where she was then assailed by foreign rabble-rousers... -
Silver Road by James Maxwell
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsChloe’s quest to escape the Oracle’s prophecy leads her to a magus with a secret: the eldren are not the only race to use magic in warfare. An ancient power is rediscovered, and a forgotten people will return. Meanwhile, cursed by his birth, Dion tries to forge a new life at sea, away from both the eldren and his former life in Xanthos, but the one thing he can’t leave behind is his heritage...Categorized as:
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Thanatos by Alessa Thorn
The titan of Death, a goddess of the magic and mystery. .. an impossible crush that might finally have a chance. THANATOS is the fifth book in a new paranormal romance series, based in a dark, sexy city ruled by Hades and his court of gods and monsters... -
The Savior's Sister by Jenna Moreci
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsLeila Tūs Salvatíraas, Savior of Thessen and magical Queen of Her realm, is worshiped by all. Except Her father. He wants Her dead. The Sovereign’s Tournament—a centuries-long tradition designed to select The Savior’s husband—is days away, but Brontes’s plan to overthrow his daughter ignites, shifting the objective of the competition from marriage to murder...Categorized as:
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The Brothers Bane by Ophelia Bell
Thrust into a world beyond her understanding, Nemea Jones struggles to come to terms with her newfound powers of chaos. Believing she finally understands where she belongs, she gives into the inexorable desires to surrender to the monsters and gods alike who guard the depths of Tartarus... -
A Time of Exile by Katharine Kerr
Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars · 31 ratingsThe world of an intricate tapestry of fate, past lives, and unfathomable magic. With A Time Of Exile , Katharine Kerr opens new territory in The Deverry Saga , exploring the history of the Elcyion Lacar, the elves who inhabit the country west of Deverry. It is years since the half-elven Lord Rhodry took the throne of Aberwyn... -
Warlock by Wilbur Smith
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 37 ratingsOne of the world's most acclaimed adventure writers returns to the world of ancient Egypt with the stunning sequel to the New York Times bestselling River God. In the wake of a sixty-year war over the reign of the kingdoms of Egypt, two young pharaohs have risen to claim power, but only one can succeed, deciding the fate of his empire forever. . -
Dahlia in Bloom: Crafting a Fresh Start With Magical Tools Volume 5 by Hisaya Amagishi
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsDahlia learns more about magical toolmaking under the tutelage of Oswald, all while developing a slime farm with head researcher Idaea. She also begins making new connections as a result of her encounter with Volf’s brother Guido and his attendant...
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