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Bookshops & Bonedust by Travis Baldree
When an injury throws a young, battle-hungry orc off her chosen path, she may find that what we need isn't always what we seek. In Bookshops & Bonedust, a prequel to Legends & Lattes, New York Times bestselling author Travis Baldree takes us on a journey of high fantasy, first loves, and second-hand books...Categorized as:
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![When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain by Nghi Vo]()
When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain by Nghi Vo
"Dangerous, subtle, unexpected and familiar, angry and ferocious and hopeful. . . . The Empress of Salt and Fortune is a remarkable accomplishment of storytelling. "—NPR. The cleric Chih finds themself and their companions at the mercy of a band of fierce tigers who ache with hunger... -
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![Hives & Heroism by Benjamin Medrano]()
Hives & Heroism by Benjamin Medrano
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsDemons loom over Dorma. Despite Joy’s victory over Alethus’s servants, his plans haven’t been stopped. Even so, a glimmer of hope lies before her, and she and her friends are determined to grasp it. That doesn’t mean it will be easy, though. An army is invading Dorma, one with the same destination as Joy. Their goals are sinister, but they aren’t going to stop Joy and her friends... -
![A Game of Proposals and Parties by Ruby Roe]()
A Game of Proposals and Parties by Ruby Roe
An extra steamy epilogue to A Game of Hearts and Heists. Find out how Scarlett and Quinn get engaged. -
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![Talyn: Unyielding by Benjamin Medrano]()
Talyn: Unyielding by Benjamin Medrano
Rated: 4.71 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsSuccess can be dangerous. After surviving the depths of Castra's dungeon, Talyn has returned to the surface and caused a seismic change in the city. Now she has to deal with the consequences. But after her last life, she will not bow to anyone. -
![Talyn: Descent by Benjamin Medrano]()
Talyn: Descent by Benjamin Medrano
Talyn’s in over her head. Talyn is finally beginning to take control of her life in a new world. Learning that her problems aren't natural is a first step, but before she can take true measures, her life takes a turn for the worse. Cast into the depths of Castra's dungeon, she survives only on the sufferance of others... -
![Webs & Wards by Benjamin Medrano]()
Webs & Wards by Benjamin Medrano
Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsJoy can’t get a break. Having survived a chance encounter with a demon lordling, and made an immense sacrifice, one might expect Joy to at least have some time to rest and recover. Instead, when Joy’s friends learn what she sacrificed, they decide they’ll repay her, no matter what it takes, and they take the adventurous bee-girl on a quest to find another apis hive which can help her... -
![The Apple Diary by Gerri Hill]()
The Apple Diary by Gerri Hill
Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsFollowing the death of her grandmother, reluctant heiress Madilyn Marak agrees to stay with her grandfather at the estate for the summer. While there, she finds a diary—The Apple Diary—written by her great-grandmother Isabel, telling the story of a long ago love affair with a woman named Lorah... -
![Daughter of the Sun by Effie Calvin]()
Daughter of the Sun by Effie Calvin
Orsina of Melidrie is a paladin of the Order of the Sun, sworn to drive out corruption and chaos wherever she finds it. She has been ordered to leave her home and travel around Vesolda in search of a great evil she is supposedly destined to destroy. But after two years of fighting monsters and demons and evil gods, she does not seem to be any closer to her goal—or ever returning home... -
![Left to Burn by Nikki Stavros]()
Left to Burn by Nikki Stavros
“If you can hear me, I’m coming for you. I will paint Ezuria in your blood. ”. Theia would sacrifice anything for her kingdom. She’d give her magic, her sword, and even her life. It's what she was raised for, after all. It’s only a matter of time. When a night out ends in her being captured by rebels, her time may be up... -
![A Crown of Deceit & Ruin by Jessaca Willis]()
A Crown of Deceit & Ruin by Jessaca Willis
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe most dangerous monsters wear crowns. For nineteen years, Kestrel Graeme has been locked away in a tower, fed stories of cursed beasts and corrupted magic. But when she escapes, she discovers the real threat isn’t monsters—it’s the royals who rule through lies and bloodshed...Categorized as:
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![Of Flesh and Fable: Book 1 of The Darkling Series by Emily M. Syn]()
Of Flesh and Fable: Book 1 of The Darkling Series by Emily M. Syn
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA Fae cursed huntress and her captive, both ensnared by the grips of fate and immortal power. .. Elowen was born with a blood debt hanging over her head, one the Shade Lord will collect upon her twenty-first year... -
![Clematis and the Queen of the Void by Hiyodori]()
Clematis and the Queen of the Void by Hiyodori
"I’ve been your enemy before. I can be your enemy again. "Clematis and the Queen of the Void continues the Clem & Wist series with a horror-tinged saga of lovers to enemies (and back again). In this slow-burn f/f romance, devoted partners transform into devious adversaries—but opposition only serves to deepen their bond. The best place to take a mage on a country without magic... -
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Thorn by Anna Burke
On a cold day deep in the heart of winter, Rowan’s father returns from an ill-fated hunting trip bearing a single, white rose. The rose is followed by the Huntress, a figure out of legend. Tall, cruel, and achingly beautiful, she brings Rowan back with her to a mountain fastness populated solely by the creatures of the hunt... -
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![The Sovereign by C.L. Clark]()
The Sovereign by C.L. Clark
The Sovereign brings princess Luca and soldier Touraine together one last time in the thrilling conclusion to C. L. Clark's beloved queer political fantasy trilogy. Luca is the new queen of Balladaire. Her empire is already splintering in her hands. Her uncle wasn’t the only traitor in the court, and the Withering plague will decimate her people if she can’t unearth Balladaire’s magic... -
![Branches of Betrayal by Sarah James]()
Branches of Betrayal by Sarah James
The sequel to the explosive, enemies-to-lovers dark romance novel Seeds of Sorrow. Loosely inspired by the Hades and Persephone myth. Peyton Dimitra is no longer a good girl. She was ruined the second she met Hadina Adis. After her life imploded and a lifetime of secrets were uncovered, Peyton found herself running from her problems...Categorized as:
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![The Queen of Rhodia by Effie Calvin]()
The Queen of Rhodia by Effie Calvin
It has been sixteen months since Princess Esofi arrived in Ieflaria, and eight since her marriage to Crown Princess Adale. The princesses have a peaceful life together, preparing to become co-regents and raising their baby dragon, Carinth. Their peace is shattered when Esofi’s mother, Queen Gaelle of Rhodia, arrives in Birsgen...Categorized as:
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![The Lingering Dark by Jade Church]()
The Lingering Dark by Jade Church
Saiph must kill the mortal queen. Sent to the mortal plane by her mother, Saiph finds herself caught in a bargain with one of the people she has been told to destroy – Auren, the rebel queen’s guard. After a string of magick users disappear, Saiph is forced to work with Auren to uncover the culprit...Categorized as:
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![Driven by Duty by Mia West]()
Driven by Duty by Mia West
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsA woman’s place is with those she’s willing to fight for…. A warlord’s daughter has responsibilities. No one knows that better than Gwen, only daughter and political pawn of her father, Uthyr. But with her husband banished and her brother gone after him, Gwen isn’t leaving her fate in Uthyr’s hands one moment longer. She has a plan and needs an accomplice she can trust... -
![A Kiss of the Siren's Song by E. A. M. Trofimenkoff]()
A Kiss of the Siren's Song by E. A. M. Trofimenkoff
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Kraken's Fang is all that stands between Drakkon Stormson, Captain of the Vindicta, and his reign over the seas. When a professional thief strikes the wrong target, she is forced to flee land, unknowingly returning to her home at sea. Aboard the Vindicta, she meets a sailor hell-bent on avenging her father... -
![Pearls Beneath the Ice by Sofia Rose]()
Pearls Beneath the Ice by Sofia Rose
Some hearts need winter to learn how to melt. Former Olympic skater Ruby Callahan retreats to a lakeside cabin to escape the spotlight and the noise in her own head. All she wants is silence, solitude, and the cold comfort of a frozen lake. But the ice isn’t empty. Beneath it waits Eira, a siren bound to the water she guards, her song full of longing and light...Categorized as:
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![A Thorn Among Roses by Hayley Anderton]()
A Thorn Among Roses by Hayley Anderton
At seventeen, Alana single-handedly defeated the biggest army that Thornwood had ever seen. By sunrise the very next day, she'd been shunned by her own people, forced to become a recluse and reside in the castle where she was supposed to rule over them... -
![Vow of Celibacy: A Novel by Erin Judge]()
Vow of Celibacy: A Novel by Erin Judge
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsNatalie has made a promise: a vow of celibacy, signed and witnessed by her best friend. After a string of sexual conquests, she is determined to figure out why the intense romantic connections she’s spent her life chasing have left her emotionally high and dry... -
![The Masked Minotaur by Chace Verity]()
The Masked Minotaur by Chace Verity
Odelia Aster runs her confectionery store with pride, even though profits are now practically non-existent. The hundred-year-old store has been in Odelia’s family from the invention of steamboats to the exile of magical creatures. She would do anything to protect her store and its famous candy geode recipe from the bandits now raiding the kingdom...Categorized as:
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![Never Anyone But You by Rupert Thomson]()
Never Anyone But You by Rupert Thomson
Rated: 3.82 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsThe true story of a love affair between two extraordinary women becomes a literary tour deforce in this novel that recreates the surrealist movement in Paris and the horrors of the two world wars with a singular incandescence and intimacy. In the years preceding World War I, two young women meet, by chance, in a provincial town in France... -
![I Want to Love You Till Your Dying Day 1 by Nachi Aono]()
I Want to Love You Till Your Dying Day 1 by Nachi Aono
Rated: 3.28 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsAn orphanage for girls is actually a boot camp, turning out magical child soldiers for a gruesome war. Yet love finds a way to blossom amid bloodshed, in this dramatic, much-anticipated yuri manga that is spiritual kin to the likes of Revolutionary Girl Utena, Otherside Picnic, and Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch From Mercury. Vulnerable and Exploited... -
![The Beauty's Blade: Mei Ren Jian by Feng Ren Zuo Shu]()
The Beauty's Blade: Mei Ren Jian by Feng Ren Zuo Shu
The baihe/Girls’ Love novel originally written in Chinese and available in English for the first time! Two powerful swordswomen face off in this enemies-to-lovers historical tale. Brash, brilliant, and beautiful, Fu Wanqing is an unconventional choice to inherit leadership of the most prestigious martial sect...Categorized as:
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![A Hero's Tale by Catherine M. Wilson]()
A Hero's Tale by Catherine M. Wilson
In Book III of the trilogy, Tamras must make her own hero’s journey. She ventures into the unknown and encounters a more formidable enemy than any she has ever faced. Character is destiny, and the destiny of Tamras and all her people will depend upon choices that come less from the skills she has been taught than from the person she has become, from her own heart. -
![Iron Heart by Nina Varela]()
Iron Heart by Nina Varela
For too long, Automae have lorded over the kingdom of Rabu, oppressing its human citizens. But the human revolution has risen, and at its heart is Ayla. Once a handmaiden, now a fugitive, Ayla narrowly escaped the palace of Lady Crier, the girl she would’ve killed if she hadn’t fallen in love first... -
![The One Who Eats Monsters by Casey Matthews]()
The One Who Eats Monsters by Casey Matthews
Long ago, before history broke in half, elder gods exiled the vengeful deity Erynis to a far corner of Earth. When Ryn is found weakened after saving the life of an innocent villager, the U. S. military mistakes the battered immortal for a feral teenager and places her in New Petersburg, a decaying city full of monsters...Categorized as:
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