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  • Ponniyin Selvan- Whirlwinds : Part 2 by Kalki

    Ponniyin Selvan- Whirlwinds : Part 2 by Kalki

    Rated: 4.66 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    Whirlwinds, the exciting second part of Kalki R Krishnamurthy's historic magnum opus Ponniyin Selvan, our hero Vallavarayan Vandhiyathevan's adventures continue as he rides into marshy quagmires, befriends a mysterious girl, becomes the object of intense suspicion by the wily Pazhuvettarayars - and meets the hero of his dreams...
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    suspense  historical  fantasy  war  mystery  length-long
  • Whirlwinds by Kalki

    Whirlwinds by Kalki

    Rated: 4.65 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    Whirlwinds, the exciting second part of Kalki R Krishnamurthy's historic magnum opus Ponniyin Selvan, our hero Vallavarayan Vandhiyathevan's adventures continue as he rides into marshy quagmires, befriends a mysterious girl, becomes the object of intense suspicion by the wily Pazhuvettarayars - and meets the hero of his dreams...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  historical  fantasy  war  mystery  length-long
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  • Sword of Slaughter by Kalki

    Sword of Slaughter by Kalki

    Rated: 4.66 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Kalki Krishnamurthy’s Ponniyin Selvan is a masterpiece that has enthralled generations of Tamil readers. Many authors have written phenomenal books in Tamil literature after Kalki Krishnamurthy, but Ponniyin Selvan remains the most popular, widely-read novel...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  historical  fantasy  war  mystery  length-long
  • The Evening and the Morning by Ken Follett

    The Evening and the Morning by Ken Follett

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 68 ratings
    #1 New York Times BestsellerAn Amazon Best Book of 2020 The thrilling and addictive prequel to The Pillars of the Earth--set in England at the dawn of a new era: the Middle AgesJust as transporting as [The Pillars of the Earth] . . . A most welcome addition to the Kingsbridge series. --The Washington PostIt is 997 CE, the end of the Dark Ages...
  • Troy by Stephen Fry

    Troy by Stephen Fry

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 44 ratings
    The story of Troy speaks to all of us - the kidnapping of Helen, a queen celebrated for her beauty, sees the Greeks launch a thousand ships against the city of Troy, to which they will lay siege for ten whole years. It is a terrible war with casualties on all sides as well as strained relations between allies, whose consequences become tragedies...
    Categorized as:
    ancient times  historical  war  fantasy  humor
  • The Temple of Fortuna by Elodie Harper

    The Temple of Fortuna by Elodie Harper

    Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    The final, dramatic installment in Elodie Harper's Sunday Times bestselling Wolf Den Trilogy.Amara's journey has taken her far; from enslavement in Pompeii's wolf den brothel to her new life as a high-powered courtesan in Rome, but her story is not over yet. While Amara plays for power in Rome's imperial palace, those dearest to her remain in Pompeii...
  • Joanna by Katrina D. Hamel

    Joanna by Katrina D. Hamel

    Rated: 4.61 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    She's bound to the infamous Herodian dynasty, but her bold faith will carve her name in the gospel.Joanna must pay the price for her brother's crime. Claimed as a hostage, she's forced from the verdant slopes of her beloved vineyard to serve Herod Antipas' neglected wife. In an opulent palace where Roman culture supersedes the commands of God, Joanna struggles to express her Jewish faith...
  • Dreamers by Angela Elwell Hunt

    Dreamers by Angela Elwell Hunt

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Tuya came as a teenaged slave to Potiphar's household, a personal gift from the Pharaoh. Tall and slender, the young girl had eyes that shone like a stream of gold. She knew nothing about her past, except that she had always been a slave...
    Categorized as:
    christian  ancient times  historical  fantasy
  • Dreamers by Angela Elwell Hunt

    Dreamers by Angela Elwell Hunt

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    In the exotic land of Pharaoh, Tuya, a slave girl, is sold into servitude as a playmate to a wealthy child. Betrayed and cast out as she ascends into womanhood, Tuya finds herself belonging to Potiphar, captain of Pharaoh's guard. Yet she soon gives her heart to handsome Joseph, a man sold into slavery by his own brothers...
  • Queen of Ash and Iron by Melanie Karsak

    Queen of Ash and Iron by Melanie Karsak

    Rated: 4.78 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Fated to lead a rebellion against Rome.Destined to become a legend.Britain, A.D. 47All at once, everything changes.The rebellion of the Northern Iceni under King Caturix results in dire consequences for Boudica. Without Aulus Plautius’s protection, Boudica must face the new, more severe Roman Governor Scapula...
  • The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton

    The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 72 ratings
    A lost child: On the eve of the First World War, a little girl is found abandoned on a ship to Australia. A mysterious woman called the Authoress had promised to look after her - but has disappeared without a trace. A terrible secret: On the night of her twenty-first birthday, Nell Andrews learns a secret that will change her life forever...
  • The Blackthorn Queen by Melanie Karsak

    The Blackthorn Queen by Melanie Karsak

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Britain, AD 38, Princess Cartimandua—Carti—of the Brigantes tribe faces an uncertain future when her father’s sudden death ignites turmoil. Suspicion falls on the Crow People of the Votadini tribe, straining the fragile peace between the factions. But they’re not the only ones bearing a grudge. A tangled web of political games soon unfolds...
  • Heir of Hope by Morgan L. Busse

    Heir of Hope by Morgan L. Busse

    Rated: 4.61 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    What would you sacrifice to save mankind?The great city of Thyra has fallen and shadows spread across the land. Rowen Mar, the last Truthsayer, is taken before the Shadonae. But the Shadonae are not who she thought they were, and now they want to claim her as their own. Caleb Tala, former assassin and prince, is now a Guardian of mankind...
  • Heretic by Bernard Cornwell

    Heretic by Bernard Cornwell

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    With Calais in English hands, hostilities are suspended, but Thomas' quest to find the Holy Grail continues. His cousin Guy of Vexille still pursues him with deadly purpose, convinced that there is a link between Thomas and what he covets...
  • A.D. 33 by Ted Dekker

    A.D. 33 by Ted Dekker

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    New York Times bestselling author Ted Dekker delivers the gripping story of Maviah, a slave who becomes a queen in Arabia, A.D. 33. They call her the Queen of the Outcasts. Maviah, a woman whose fate was sealed on her birth by this world-unwanted, illegitimate, female, a slave-subject to the whims of all. But then she met a man named Yeshua who opened her eyes...
  • Little Black Girl Lost 4: The Diary of Josephine Baptiste by Keith Lee Johnson

    Little Black Girl Lost 4: The Diary of Josephine Baptiste by Keith Lee Johnson

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Revealing the roots of Johnnie Wise's family tree, the author takes readers to Nigeria where a beautiful sixteen-year-old girl, preparing to marry a much older man, escapes with her young lover on the night before the arranged marriage is to take place on a Dutch slave ship bound for America where she becomes Josephine Baptiste...
  • Dovetail by Karen McQuestion

    Dovetail by Karen McQuestion

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    From the bestselling author of Hello Love comes a spellbinding new novel of enduring love, family secrets, and mysterious death.Joe Arneson’s ordinary life is upended by troubling dreams of himself as a different man in another place and time. It isn’t until he visits his estranged grandmother, Pearl, in her Wisconsin hometown that a startling connection emerges...
  • Cloaked in Beauty by Karen Witemeyer

    Cloaked in Beauty by Karen Witemeyer

    Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    In the heart of the Piney Woods of Texas, Letty Hood has spent the last fifteen years of her life hidden away with her grandmother to escape the deadly schemes of an uncle who wants her dead...
  • Birds Without Wings by Louis de Bernières

    Birds Without Wings by Louis de Bernières

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    In his first novel since Corelli’s Mandolin, Louis de Bernières creates a world, populates it with characters as real as our best friends, and launches it into the maelstrom of twentieth-century history. The setting is a small village in southwestern Anatolia in the waning years of the Ottoman Empire. Everyone there speaks Turkish, though they write it in Greek letters...
  • The Souls of Lost Lake by Jaime Jo Wright

    The Souls of Lost Lake by Jaime Jo Wright

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Wren Blythe has long enjoyed being among the Northwoods, helping her father with programming at a youth camp. But when a little girl in the area goes missing, an all-out search ensues, reviving the decades-old campfire story of Ava Coons, the murderess, who still roams the woods. Joining the search, Wren stumbles upon the Coons cabin ruins and a rotting porcelain doll...
  • Fairest of Heart by Karen Witemeyer

    Fairest of Heart by Karen Witemeyer

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Once upon a time in Texas . . .Beauty has been nothing but a curse to Penelope Snow. When she becomes a personal maid for a famous actress whose troupe is leaving Chicago to tour the West, she hides her figure beneath shapeless dresses and keeps her head down. But she still manages to attract the wrong attention, leaving her prospects in tatters--and her jealous mistress plotting her demise...
  • A.D. 30 by Ted Dekker

    A.D. 30 by Ted Dekker

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    A sweeping epic set in the harsh deserts of Arabia and ancient Palestine. A war that rages between kingdoms on the earth and in the heart.The harrowing journey of the woman at the center of it all. The story of Jesus in a way you have never experienced it. Step back in time to the year of our Lord, Anno Domini, 30...
  • The Forgotten Palace by Alexandra Walsh

    The Forgotten Palace by Alexandra Walsh

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    In an underground labyrinth a lost soul wanders, waiting for revenge, waiting for love… London 1900Alice Webster has made the worst decision of her life. When her Aunt Agatha offers her the chance to go on a Grand Tour she jumps at the opportunity to get away from the glare of scandal...
  • She Walks in Majesty by MaryLu Tyndall

    She Walks in Majesty by MaryLu Tyndall

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Danger around every corner. Intrigues in everyone’s past. And a romance that’s swoon worthy. She Walks in Majesty is all that and more, with a plot that twists and turns and truths that are hard-hitting...
  • The Plight of a Scottish Lass by Keira Montclair

    The Plight of a Scottish Lass by Keira Montclair

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    In his quest for vengeance, a Scottish chieftain finds something unexpected. Love.Thane MacQuarie, chieftain of Clan MacQuarie, has his sights set on taking over Duart Castle and exacting vengeance on the mother who abandoned him. But when he witnesses a cruel man leave his wife, Tamsin Garvie, to drown on a rock in the sea, Thane can’t ignore the plight of the red-haired beauty...
  • The Condemned by Irina Shapiro

    The Condemned by Irina Shapiro

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    2015. Dr. Quinn Allenby thinks she’s seen it all, but when the remains of a young woman and her newborn are discovered in a cave in Cornwall, the only clue to her death is a smooth-edged hole in the top of the skull and the indisputable evidence that the victim was still alive, and possibly in labor, when the coffin was sealed...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  fantasy  historical  length-long
  • Blood Eagle by Tim Hodkinson

    Blood Eagle by Tim Hodkinson

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Einar and the Wolf Coats undertake a dangerous mission to war-torn Northern France in this thrilling Viking adventure from Tim Hodkinson.936 AD. Brittany is torn apart by war. Many nobles have sought refuge in King Aethelstan's England, including Louis, prospective king of Francia. Einar and the Wolf Coats, disillusioned by events in Norway, are also at Aethelstan's court...
  • The Myths of Ophelia by Nicole Platania

    The Myths of Ophelia by Nicole Platania

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Book 4 in the Epic Romantic Fantasy series, The Curse of Ophelia...
  • The Premonition at Withers Farm by Jaime Jo Wright

    The Premonition at Withers Farm by Jaime Jo Wright

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    In 1910 Michigan, Perliett VanHilton is a self-proclaimed rural healer, leaving the local doctor, George Wasziak, convinced she practices quackery. It doesn't help that her mother, Maribeth VanHilton, is a Spiritualist who regularly offers her services to help others speak to their dearly departed...
  • Magdalen Rising: The Beginning by Elizabeth Cunningham

    Magdalen Rising: The Beginning by Elizabeth Cunningham

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Magdalen Rising( The Beginning) <> Paperback <> ElizabethCunningham <>...
  • A Man Called Blessed (The Caleb Books Series Book 2) by Ted Dekker

    A Man Called Blessed (The Caleb Books Series Book 2) by Ted Dekker

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    One man holds the key to locating the Ark of the Covenant—but he’s hidden deep in the desert and no one has seen him since he was a boy. In this explosive sequel to Blessed Child, Jewish soldier-turned-archaeologist Rebecca Soloman leads a team deep into the Ethiopian desert to find the one man who may know the final resting place of the Ark of the Covenant...
  • Daughter of the Gods: A Novel of Ancient Egypt by Stephanie Marie Thornton

    Daughter of the Gods: A Novel of Ancient Egypt by Stephanie Marie Thornton

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Egypt, 1400s BC. The pharaoh’s pampered second daughter, lively, intelligent Hatshepsut, delights in racing her chariot through the marketplace and testing her archery skills in the Nile’s marshlands. But the death of her elder sister, Neferubity, in a gruesome accident arising from Hatshepsut’s games forces her to confront her guilt...and sets her on a profoundly changed course...
  • Havah: The Story of Eve by Tosca Lee

    Havah: The Story of Eve by Tosca Lee

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    A single decison has the power to unravel mankind.Created, not born.The world's first woman, without flaw, until one fateful choice. Now all humanity must pay for the mistake.From paradise to exile, from immortality to the death of Adam, experience the dawn of mankind through the eyes of Eve -- the woman first known as Havah...
    Categorized as:
    christian  historical  fantasy  length-medium
  • She Walks in Power by MaryLu Tyndall

    She Walks in Power by MaryLu Tyndall

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    From Award-Winning Author, MaryLu Tyndall, comes an exciting Medieval Romance surrounding the Spear of Destiny! Alexia D'Clere didn't ask to be Protector of the Spear, but after her dying mother gave her the tiny metal object and made her promise to keep it safe, she had no choice...
  • The Wall by Adrian Goldsworthy

    The Wall by Adrian Goldsworthy

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Britannia, AD 117: Roman centurion Flavius Ferox is trying to live a quiet life of dignified leisure, overseeing his wife's estate and doing his best to resist the urge to murder an annoying neighbour – until someone else does it for him...
  • King's Blood by Jill Williamson

    King's Blood by Jill Williamson

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    After the foretold destruction of the Five Realms, the remnant that escaped by sea searches for a new home. As the king's health worsens, Sar Wilek assumes command and struggles to rule the disjointed people, while assassination attempts and dark magic endanger his life...
  • Titans of War by Wilbur Smith, Mark Chadbourn

    Titans of War by Wilbur Smith, Mark Chadbourn

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A brand-new Ancient Egyptian epic from the master of adventure, Wilbur Smith. Global bestselling author of River God and The New Kingdom, Wilbur Smith, returns with the next epic book in his brand-new Ancient Egyptian series.AN UNSTOPPABLE ENEMY. A CIVILISATION IN RUINS. A QUEST FOR SALVATION...
  • For the Gods' Sake by Rory L. Scott

    For the Gods' Sake by Rory L. Scott

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 5 ratings
    For the Gods' Sake is a fake dating, reluctant allies fantasy romance novel. It is the third book in the Tempt the Gods series and can be read as a standalone, but it is recommended to read the recap at the beginning of the book.A god and a princess. Working together.The Greek and Roman gods have co-existed for over two thousand years until the unthinkable happens...
  • Island of Ghosts by Gillian Bradshaw

    Island of Ghosts by Gillian Bradshaw

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Ariantes is a Sarmatian, a barbarian warrior-prince, uprooted from his home and customs and thrust into the honorless lands of the Romans. The victims of a wartime pact struck with the emperor Marcus Aurelius to ensure the future of Sarmatia, Ariantes and his troop of accomplished horsemen are sent to Hadrian's Wall...
  • A Place Called Freedom by Ken Follett

    A Place Called Freedom by Ken Follett

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 42 ratings
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER   Scotland, 1766. Sentenced to a life of misery in the brutal coal mines, twenty-one-year-old Mack McAsh hungers for escape. His only the beautiful, highborn Lizzie Hallim, who is trapped in her own kind of hell. Though separated by politics and position, these two restless young people are bound by their passionate search for a place called freedom...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  historical  mystery  fantasy  length-long
  • Painting Rain by Annette K. Larsen

    Painting Rain by Annette K. Larsen

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A proper, clean romance, How do you heal your heart after tragedy leaves you broken? When the person you loved didn’t deserve it and they can’t earn your forgiveness because they’re already dead? How do you move on, and heal, and love? If you’re Princess Lorraina, you paint. A year ago Lorraina watched Tobias die, and she still doesn't know how she's supposed to heal—or forgive...
    Categorized as:
    christian  fantasy  historical  clean  length-short
  • The Secret History: A Novel of Empress Theodora by Stephanie Marie Thornton

    The Secret History: A Novel of Empress Theodora by Stephanie Marie Thornton

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Where Theodora went, trouble followed… In sixth-century Constantinople, one woman, Theodora, defied every convention and all the odds and rose from common theater tart to empress of a great kingdom, the most powerful woman the Roman Empire would ever know...
  • J.R.R. Tolkien: A Biography by Humphrey Carpenter

    J.R.R. Tolkien: A Biography by Humphrey Carpenter

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    The authorized biography of the creator of Middle-earth. In the decades since his death in September 1973, millions have read THE HOBBIT, THE LORD OF THE RINGS, and THE SILMARILLION and become fascinated about the very private man behind the books. Born in South Africa in January 1892, John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was orphaned in childhood and brought up in near-poverty...
  • A Year of Ravens by Ruth Downie, Stephanie Dray

    A Year of Ravens by Ruth Downie, Stephanie Dray

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Britannia: land of mist and magic clinging to the western edge of the Roman Empire. A red-haired queen named Boudica led her people in a desperate rebellion against the might of Rome, an epic struggle destined to consume heroes and cowards, young and old, Roman and Celt . . . and these are their stories. A calculating queen sees the sparks of revolt in a king’s death...
  • Feast of Sorrow: A Novel of Ancient Rome by Crystal King

    Feast of Sorrow: A Novel of Ancient Rome by Crystal King

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Set amongst the scandal, wealth, and upstairs-downstairs politics of a Roman family, Crystal King’s seminal debut features the man who inspired the world’s oldest cookbook and the ambition that led to his destruction.On a blistering day in the twenty-sixth year of Augustus Caesar’s reign, a young chef, Thrasius, is acquired for the exorbitant price of twenty thousand denarii...
  • The Dreaming Beauty by Anneka R. Walker

    The Dreaming Beauty by Anneka R. Walker

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 9 ratings
    Once upon a dream, two cursed people fell in love...Tansy White doesn't want to end up alone like her three aunts who raised her, but when she is betrayed by her would-be betrothed, she fears she might never change her fate. At her aunts' suggestion, she seizes the chance to visit Rose Cottage, the country home of her late mother...
  • The Emperor's Games by Damion Hunter, Amanda Cockrell

    The Emperor's Games by Damion Hunter, Amanda Cockrell

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The strong will triumph. The weak will die. Correus and Flavius, half brothers and rivals, have won respect in service to the Empire. Correus, esteemed soldier in the Roman Army of Eagles, has been entrusted with the honoured task of running the Emperor’s brutal games. Flavius, a Centurion at his brother’s side, has risen to become the Emperor’s most trusted advisor...
  • Of Daggers and Deception by A.L. Sowards

    Of Daggers and Deception by A.L. Sowards

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    After years as a soldier and mercenary, Rasheed has retired from battle to run the bathhouse in Thebes with his friends Gillen and Eudocia. The simple life suits them, so when Venetian strangers come to town looking to hire the renowned crew, their answer is no...
  • The Pasha of Cuisine: A Novel by Saygun Ersin

    The Pasha of Cuisine: A Novel by Saygun Ersin

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A deliciously sweeping, satisfyingly succulent novel full of passion, intrigue, history, politics, astrology, medicine, and the magic of a perfect meal.A Pasha of Cuisine is a rare talent in Ottoman lore. Only two, maybe three are born with such a gift every few centuries...
  • The Ghost Ship by Kate Mosse

    The Ghost Ship by Kate Mosse

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    The Barbary Coast, 1621. A mysterious vessel floats silently on the water. It is known only as the Ghost Ship. For months it has hunted pirates to liberate those enslaved by corsairs, manned by a courageous crew of mariners from Italy and France, Holland and the Canary Islands.But the bravest men on board are not who they seem. And the stakes could not be higher...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  historical  fantasy  pirates  queer  length-long
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