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  • Villains Are Destined to Die, Vol. 6 by Gyeoeul Gwon, SUOL

    Villains Are Destined to Die, Vol. 6 by Gyeoeul Gwon, SUOL

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 31 ratings
    Following the conditions of a contract between herself and Winter, Penelope is once again leaving the duchy! She joins the marquis for volunteer work in a war-stricken nation, and while their time there is hectic, the two are able to grab a moment alone at the seaside...
  • Die With Your Lord by Sarah K.L. Wilson

    Die With Your Lord by Sarah K.L. Wilson

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 15 ratings
    A DEATH TOO TERRIBLE TO CONTEMPLATE. A LIFE GAMBLED FOR EVERYTHING.DIE WITH YOUR LORD is the last book in the Bluebeard's Secret series following the eerie and romantic story of GIVE YOUR HEART TO THE BARROW.Description coming soon.Warning: This is the last book in the series, but that doesn't mean you're safe. These books are intense. Read at your own risk...
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  • Dance With The Sword by Sarah K.L. Wilson

    Dance With The Sword by Sarah K.L. Wilson

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 17 ratings
    A GRIM BETRAYAL. A DYING KING. A HUSBAND WHO WON'T LET HER GO. With the heart of the Wittenhame still ringing from Izolda's actions and her new husband shocked at her betrayal, the future seems very grim indeed...
  • Give Your Heart to the Barrow by Sarah K.L. Wilson

    Give Your Heart to the Barrow by Sarah K.L. Wilson

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 14 ratings
    A LOSS UNBEARABLE. A DESPERATE PLAN. A WOMAN DETERMINED NOT TO LOSE. Alone and with her hopes dragged to the bottom of the sea, along with the husband she just realized she loves, Izolda finds herself in the mortal world as princess and counselor to her brother Svetgin, now king of Pensmoore. But Izolda is not the practical girl she once was who would have been happy for a home and a place...
  • Fly with the Arrow by Sarah K.L. Wilson

    Fly with the Arrow by Sarah K.L. Wilson

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 39 ratings
    A STOLEN BRIDE. A TERRIFYING BRIDEGROOM. THE GAME THAT WILL DETERMINE THEIR FATES.No one told her the most important law of the court - the Law of Greeting.If they had, maybe she wouldn't have greeted Bluebeard when he arrived to claim a mortal wife. And if she hadn't greeted him, she wouldn't have become his sixteenth wife or been swept away to the lands of the Wittenhame...
  • Outplayed by Hayley Osborn

    Outplayed by Hayley Osborn

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    The story continues in this ROBIN HOOD meets OUTLANDER retelling. Grab your new reading obsession now.When the past haunts your dreams, how do you live in the present?Just when Maryanne Warren has made her choice--stay in the twelfth century with Robin Hood--she's dragged back to live in her own time...
  • Echo North by Joanna Ruth Meyer

    Echo North by Joanna Ruth Meyer

    Rated: 3.81 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings
    Echo Alkaev’s safe and carefully structured world falls apart when her father leaves for the city and mysteriously disappears. Believing he is lost forever, Echo is shocked to find him half-frozen in the winter forest six months later, guarded by a strange talking wolf—the same creature who attacked her as a child...
  • Furyborn by Claire Legrand

    Furyborn by Claire Legrand

    Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 75 ratings
    The stunningly original, must-read fantasy of 2018 follows two fiercely independent young women, centuries apart, who hold the power to save their world...or doom it.When assassins ambush her best friend, Rielle Dardenne risks everything to save him, exposing herself as one of a pair of prophesied queens: a queen of light, and a queen of blood...
  • Shards of Time by Lynn Flewelling

    Shards of Time by Lynn Flewelling

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    Acclaimed author Lynn Flewelling brings her beloved Nightrunners series to a close—at least for now—with a thrilling novel of murder, mystery, and magic.   The governor of the sacred island of Korous and his mistress have been killed inside a locked and guarded room...
  • Anastasia by Sophie Lark

    Anastasia by Sophie Lark

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 46 ratings
    Anastasia is the princess no one needs: the fourth daughter born to an emperor without a son, and the only royal lacking a magical gift.Until she collides with a young Cossack rebel, changing both their lives forever.Damien is taken from everything he knows and raised as a ward of the Romanovs.Anastasia develops a strange kind of magic shared only by the Black Monk Rasputin...
  • The Book of Life by Deborah Harkness

    The Book of Life by Deborah Harkness

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 169 ratings
    After traveling through time in Shadow of Night , the second book in Deborah Harkness’s enchanting series, historian and witch Diana Bishop and vampire scientist Matthew Clairmont return to the present to face new crises and old enemies. At Matthew’s ancestral home at Sept-Tours, they reunite with the cast of characters from A Discovery of Witches --with one significant exception...
  • A Map of Days by Ransom Riggs

    A Map of Days by Ransom Riggs

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 47 ratings
    Having defeated the monstrous threat that nearly destroyed the peculiar world, Jacob Portman is back where his story began, in Florida. Except now Miss Peregrine, Emma, and their peculiar friends are with him, and doing their best to blend in...
  • The Conference of the Birds by Ransom Riggs

    The Conference of the Birds by Ransom Riggs

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 45 ratings
    “Do you trust me?”With his dying words, H—Jacob Portman’s final connection to his grandfather Abe’s secret life entrusts Jacob with a mission: Deliver newly con­tacted peculiar Noor Pradesh to an operative known only as V. Noor is being hunted. She is the subject of an ancient prophecy, one that foretells a looming apocalypse. Save Noor—Save the future of all peculiardom...
  • The Desolations of Devil's Acre by Ransom Riggs

    The Desolations of Devil's Acre by Ransom Riggs

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 40 ratings
    The fate of peculiardom hangs in the balance in this epic conclusion to the Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children series.The last thing Jacob Portman saw before the world went dark was a terrible, familiar face.Suddenly, he and Noor are back in the place where everything began - his grandfather's house. Jacob doesn't know how they escaped from V's loop to find themselves in Florida...
  • East by Edith Pattou

    East by Edith Pattou

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 70 ratings
    Rose has always been different. Since the day she was born, it was clear she had a special fate. Her superstitious mother keeps the unusual circumstances of Rose's birth a secret, hoping to prevent her adventurous daughter from leaving home... but she can't suppress Rose's true nature forever...
  • The Book of Doors by Gareth Brown

    The Book of Doors by Gareth Brown

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 61 ratings
    If you could open a door to anywhere, where would you go? In New York City, bookseller Cassie Andrews is living an unassuming life when she is given a gift by a favourite customer. It's a book - an unusual book, full of strange writing and mysterious drawings...
  • A Curse So Dark and Lonely by Brigid Kemmerer

    A Curse So Dark and Lonely by Brigid Kemmerer

    Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 166 ratings
    An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here.Fall in love, break the curse.Cursed by a powerful enchantress to repeat the autumn of his eighteenth year, Prince Rhen, the heir of Emberfall, thought he could be saved easily if a girl fell for him. But that was before he turned into a vicious beast hell-bent on destruction...
  • The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman

    The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman

    Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 103 ratings
    Throughout the worlds, the forces of both heaven and hell are mustering to take part in Lord Asriel's audacious rebellion. Each player in this epic drama has a role to play—and a sacrifice to make. Witches, angels, spies, assassins, tempters, and pretenders, no one will remain unscathed.Lyra and Will have the most dangerous task of all...
  • Never a Hero by Vanessa Len

    Never a Hero by Vanessa Len

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 32 ratings
    This sequel to the contemporary fantasy Only a Monster will take Joan deeper into the monster world, where treacherous secrets and even more danger await. Despite all of the odds, Joan achieved the impossible. She reset the timeline, saved her family – and destroyed the hero, Nick. But her success has come at a terrible cost. She alone remembers what happened...
  • The Invasion of the Tearling by Erika Johansen

    The Invasion of the Tearling by Erika Johansen

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 76 ratings
    Kelsea Glynn is the Queen of the Tearling. Despite her youth, she has quickly asserted herself as a fair, just and powerful ruler.However, power is a double-edged sword, and small actions can have grave consequences...
  • Hollow City by Ransom Riggs

    Hollow City by Ransom Riggs

    Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 113 ratings
    Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children was the surprise best seller of 2011—an unprecedented mix of YA fantasy and vintage photography that enthralled readers and critics alike. This second novel begins in 1940, immediately after the first book ended...
  • The Cursed Witch by R.L. Perez

    The Cursed Witch by R.L. Perez

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Brielle Gerrick can’t access her magic. In an effort to awaken her powers, she gets sucked into a time portal—to a castle in Spain in the year 1735.The castle is attacked by demons. Their leader is a shape-shifting vampire named Leo Serrano, an arrogant creep who enjoys taunting Brielle.When Brielle’s dark powers awaken, the others in the castle turn on her...
  • Twisted by Time by R.L. Perez

    Twisted by Time by R.L. Perez

    Rated: 3.60 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    A fall through time. A reckless witch. A war of monsters.17-year-old witch Desiree Campbell tries to cast a spell to go to Miami for spring break.But she ends up in Cuba a hundred years in the past.The year is 1898. The Spanish-American War rages. Demons thrive in the city, preying on humans. Desi is caught between the war of mortals and the war of monsters...
  • Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch

    Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch

    Rated: 3.85 of 5 stars
    · 76 ratings
    Probationary Constable Peter Grant dreams of being a detective in London’s Metropolitan Police. Too bad his superior plans to assign him to the Case Progression Unit, where the biggest threat he’ll face is a paper cut. But Peter’s prospects change in the aftermath of a puzzling murder, when he gains exclusive information from an eyewitness who happens to be a ghost...
  • Midwinterblood by Marcus Sedgwick

    Midwinterblood by Marcus Sedgwick

    Rated: 3.73 of 5 stars
    · 38 ratings
    Have you ever had the feeling that you've lived another life? Been somewhere that has felt totally familiar, even though you've never been there before, or felt that you know someone well, even though you are meeting them for the first time? It happens...
  • The First Bright Thing by J.R. Dawson

    The First Bright Thing by J.R. Dawson

    Rated: 3.62 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    If you knew how dark tomorrow would be, what would you do with today?The First Bright Thing by J. R. Dawson is a spellbinding debut for fans of The Night Circus and The Invisible Life of Addie La Rue.Welcome to the Circus of the Fantasticals.Ringmaster – Rin, to those who know her best – can jump to different moments in time as easily as her wife, Odette, soars from bar to bar on the trapeze...
  • Winds of Salem by Melissa de la Cruz

    Winds of Salem by Melissa de la Cruz

    Rated: 3.58 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 32 ratings
    Modern-day witch Freya Beauchamp is cast back in time to 1692 amongst the Salem Witch Trials by an enemy spell, as her present-day family attempts to reopen the passages of time to bring her home. SOON TO BE A LIFETIME TELEVISION SERIES! Freya Beauchamp is trapped in 1692, in Salem of all places, with no recollection of her past...
  • Serpent's Kiss by Melissa de la Cruz

    Serpent's Kiss by Melissa de la Cruz

    Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 38 ratings
    Joanna and her daughters, bookish Ingrid and wild-child Freya, are just settling into the newfound peace that has been cast over their small, off-the map town of North Hampton. With the centuries-old restriction against practicing magic lifted, casting spells, mixing potions, and curing troubled souls has never felt so good for the three witches...
  • Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs

    Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs

    Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 271 ratings
    A mysterious island. An abandoned orphanage. A strange collection of curious photographs. It all waits to be discovered in "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children," an unforgettable novel that mixes fiction and photography in a thrilling reading experience...
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