Books like 'Lightbringer'
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Firebrand by Kristen Britain
Green Rider Karigan G’ladheon, not yet recovered in heart or mind from her unexpected trip through time, is assigned a new mission. She must seek out the legendary creatures called p’ehdrosian to renew an alliance of old in the face of dire threats from enemies who seek to destroy Sacoridia using dark magic... -
Die With Your Lord by Sarah K.L. Wilson
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... -
Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World-, Vol. 2 by Tappei Nagatsuki
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsBreaking free of his death loop in the royal city, Subaru awakes in an opulent mansion, being tended to by the twin maids Ram and Rem. After sustaining terrible injuries, he has been taken to the home of the Margrave Roswaal, Emilia's guardian... -
Fly with the Arrow by Sarah K.L. Wilson
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... -
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I Swear I Won't Bother You Again! (Manga), Vol. 3 (I Swear I Won't Bother You Again! (Manga) #3) by Haru Harukawa, Reina Soratani
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsOne noblewoman's attempt to rewrite the past--and avoid her descent into villainy. (And don't miss the original light novels, also from Seven Seas!)Succumbing to long-simmering jealousy over her younger sister, noblewoman Violette snaps and does something terrible... -
Outplayed by Hayley Osborn
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsThe 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... -
Wind Daughter by Joanna Ruth Meyer
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn the dark, cold reaches of the north lives a storyteller and his daughter. He told his daughter, Satu, many stories--romances like the girl who loved a star and changed herself into a nightingale so she could always see him shining--but the most important story he told her was his own... -
Outlawed by Hayley Osborn
Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsOUTLANDER meets ROBIN HOOD in the first book in this new trilogy keeping readers up late at night.Changing history is easy. It's what comes after that's difficult. Traveling through time to twelfth century England was never on Maryanne Warren's to do list. Not that modern-day life's going so well, but at least her little brother is in it. He's the only reason she's climbed out of bed recently... -
Ghosted by Emily Barr
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAriel's accidental meeting with a handsome stranger called Joe is completely perfect; they have a connection like she's never known before. They exchange numbers and agree to meet when he is back from a trip to France. But when Ariel messages him, the number Joe gave her is disconnected. He's ghosted her. She assumes she will never see him again.Except she does. Again and again... -
Echo North by Joanna Ruth Meyer
Rated: 3.81 of 5 stars · 32 ratingsEcho 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...Categorized as:
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Furyborn by Claire Legrand
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...Categorized as:
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The Blackened Blade by Isla Davon
Not many people get a second chance, let alone a second life.I died. Burning in a prison cell I spent years of my life rotting away in.I had been beaten, battered and bruised beyond repair...but not broken.Never broken.By whatever miracle, I’ve been brought back ten years into my past and before I was locked away...But to a different kind of hell…Wensridge Academy...Categorized as:
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Devils' Day Party by C.M. Stunich
I crashed my shitty yellow VW Beetle into Calix’s Aston Martin. To be fair, he deserved it. But Calix and his friends, Barron and Raz, they don’t see it that way. Not that it matters. They’ve bullied me for years, and I’ve never known why. At least today, they have something real to be pissed about. All of which would be fine, if today was a normal day. But it’s not. It’s far from normal...Categorized as:
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The Eternal Witch by Chandelle LaVaun
Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsAll is fair in war and magic.I’m the Aether Witch. I have power no other witch has had in thousands of years.But even I can’t do this job alone. Salem’s Prophecy says the fate of the world lies on mine and my twin’s hands. Despite our Coven-mates thriving power and Heavenly intentions...In the end, the decision is ours. And ours alone... -
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End of Days by Susan Ee
End of Days is the explosive conclusion to Susan Ee’s bestselling Penryn & the End of Days trilogy. After a daring escape from the angels, Penryn and Raffe are on the run. They’re both desperate to find a doctor who can reverse the twisted changes inflicted by the angels on Raffe and Penryn’s sister... -
Shards of Time by Lynn Flewelling
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 31 ratingsAcclaimed 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 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... -
Incipient by Bianca Scardoni
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsDarkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that.Welcome Back to Season Two of The Marked SagaMy name is Jemma Blackburn and my life's just been turned on its head again. With my boyfriend back from the dead, and the vampire I'm bonded to being forced to shut his emotions off, the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse arriving in town is really just the beginning of my problems...Categorized as:
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Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
Alternative cover editions for this ASIN can be found here and hereJason Dessen is walking home through the chilly Chicago streets one night, looking forward to a quiet evening in front of the fireplace with his wife, Daniela, and their son, Charlie—when his reality shatters...Categorized as:
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Wonder by Cameron Jace
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsEver Wondered... Who You Really Are? Alice Wonder gets an offer from a Wonderland Monster. A little help to locate the Six Impossible Keys in exchange of knowing who she really is and why she killed her classmates in the school bus. Alice agrees, knowing the consequences might put the whole world in danger.One step into the truth, she realizes she needs the Pillar for help... -
Library of Souls by Ransom Riggs
boy with extraordinary powers. An army of deadly monsters. An epic battle for the future of peculiardom.The adventure that began with "Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children" and continued in "Hollow City" comes to a thrilling conclusion with "Library of Souls... -
The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman
Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars · 99 ratingsHIS DARK MATERIALS IS NOW AN HBO ORIGINAL SERIES STARRING DAFNE KEEN, RUTH WILSON, ANDREW SCOTT, AND LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA!The spellbinding sequel to The Golden Compass, the modern fantasy classic that Entertainment Weekly named an "All-Time Greatest Novel" and Newsweek hailed as a "Top 100 Book of All Time," continues the epic adventure, catapulting readers between worlds, and toward a devastating... -
Iniquitous by Bianca Scardoni
Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars · 33 ratingsTHE MARKED SAGA, BOOK 3 The end came at me jagged and skewed like puzzle pieces to a game I didn’t know I was playing. There was a distinct method to the madness, every move propagated to force my hand, to lure me out of hiding with the sweet promise of finality. I took solace in knowing that something better waited for me on the other side, something as pure and deep as the ocean itself...Categorized as:
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A Map of Days by Ransom Riggs
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... -
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Stranger Skies by Pascale Lacelle
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsNinth House meets The Hazel Wood in this riveting sequel to the New York Times bestselling dark academia fantasy Curious Tides, following Emory, Baz, Romie, and Kai on their desperate quests through space and time!Opening locked doors has a price—even for those who hold a key... -
The Conference of the Birds by Ransom Riggs
“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 Book of Life by Deborah Harkness
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... -
The Desolations of Devil's Acre by Ransom Riggs
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... -
The Nemesis by S.J. Kincaid
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsIn the heart-pounding conclusion to the New York Times bestselling Diabolic series, the Empire teeters on the edge of destruction as rumors spread that Nemesis is still alive.Three years ago, Tyrus Domitrian shocked the galaxy by killing the woman he swore to love forever. The woman for whom he upended the Empire. The woman with whom he wanted to build a new and brighter future... -
Fear by Michael Grant
It's been one year since all the adults disappeared. Gone.Despite the hunger and the lies, even despite the plague, the kids of Perdido Beach are determined to survive. Creeping into the tenuous new world they've built, though, is perhaps the worst incarnation yet of the enemy known as the Darkness: fear...
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