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  • The Lost Tower by Irina Shapiro

    The Lost Tower by Irina Shapiro

    Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    When Nicole visits Stiles Castle, the stately home of Lady Caroline Seaton, she doesn’t expect to stumble upon a centuries-old mystery hidden in the noble family’s genealogical tree. Once she finds that some vital details have been removed from the ancestral records, Nicole can’t refuse her friend’s plea to discover the truth and help her save the floundering family business...
  • Her Scandalous Pursuit by Candace Camp

    Her Scandalous Pursuit by Candace Camp

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 9 ratings
    The long-awaited prequel to the Mad Morelands series—the story of Thisbe, the oldest Moreland daughter. Thisbe Moreland is used to men not taking her seriously. As a scientist, she’s accustomed to being the only woman at lectures and meetings, her presence met with scorn and derision...
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  • Magic in the Stars: Unexpected Magic Book #1 by Patricia Rice

    Magic in the Stars: Unexpected Magic Book #1 by Patricia Rice

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    As an astrologer, Lady Azenor Dougall sadly realizes her stars are a danger to her beloved siblings and has banished herself from her Scots home. As the Malcolm family librarian, she dutifully creates zodiac charts for her often eccentric and mysterious relations—until the day she realizes a dire conjunction of planets spells a fatal threat in a distant branch of the family...
  • Garden of Lies by Amanda Quick

    Garden of Lies by Amanda Quick

    Rated: 3.69 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 41 ratings
    The New York Times bestselling author of Otherwise Engaged and The Mystery Woman presents an all-new novel of intrigue and murder set against the backdrop of Victorian London…   The Kern Secretarial Agency provides reliable professional services to its wealthy clientele, and Anne Clifton was one of the finest women in Ursula Kern’s employ...
  • Disturbing the Dead by Kelley Armstrong

    Disturbing the Dead by Kelley Armstrong

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Disturbing the Dead is the latest in a unique series with one foot in the 1890s and the other in the present day. The A Rip Through Time crime novels are a genre-blending, atmospheric romp from New York Times bestselling author Kelley Armstrong.Victorian Scotland is becoming less strange to modern-day homicide detective Mallory Atkinson...
  • The Convent's Secret by C.J. Archer

    The Convent's Secret by C.J. Archer

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 37 ratings
    To find the one man who can fix the magic in Matt's watch, he and India are led to a convent where the nuns will do anything to keep their secrets private. Including murder? Matt and India must uncover the truth behind the disappearance of the mother superior and two babies given to her care many years ago. But sometimes, the truth is painful and its exposure can have deadly consequences...
  • Murder in Tuscany by L.B. Hathaway

    Murder in Tuscany by L.B. Hathaway

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Under the Tuscan sun, ice-creams melt and dark secrets unravel…March, 1925Pregnant, bored, and longing for an adventure, Posie Parker accepts a rather last-minute Wedding Invitation from an old friend who is getting married out in the gorgeous town of San Gimignano, Tuscany.But what Posie -and her husband, Richard Lovelace- arrive into is not a blissfully happy wedding party at all...
  • The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton

    The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 76 ratings
    A foundling, an old book of dark fairy tales, a secret garden, an aristocratic family, a love denied, and a mystery. The Forgotten Garden is a captivating, atmospheric and compulsively readable story of the past, secrets, family and memory from the international best-selling author Kate Morton. Cassandra is lost, alone and grieving...
  • The Prison of Buried Hopes by C.J. Archer

    The Prison of Buried Hopes by C.J. Archer

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    In the fifth instalment of this epic fantasy series, a journey south brings together nine eclectic friends and leads them ever closer to answers – and danger. On their journey south to Freedland, Josie, Dane and their friends sense that someone is following them. Hiding in the twin cities of Merrin Fahl seems like their best course of action – until they’re recognized by strangers...
  • A Bitter Draught by Sabrina Flynn

    A Bitter Draught by Sabrina Flynn

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    San Francisco, 1900. Isobel has faked her own death, and is relishing her second life, but when a mysterious woman writes her last words in sand, Isobel risks her freedom to uncover the truth. As she plunges into a storm of betrayal, the winds are determined to throw Atticus Riot on her course, and the two detectives collide in a sea of madness and murder...
  • Asylum for a Duchess by Nellie H. Steele

    Asylum for a Duchess by Nellie H. Steele

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    When her haunting past returns, will it destroy her future?Lenora Fletcher brims with joy. Embracing motherhood, the young woman is determined to give her child the love and attention she never received. But a chance meeting with her assumed-to-be deceased father rips away her happiness and plunges her into roiling confusion...
  • Heir of Uncertain Magic by Charlie N. Holmberg

    Heir of Uncertain Magic by Charlie N. Holmberg

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 34 ratings
    One man is on a journey to unravel his magical lineage in the next novel of the Whimbrel House series.Thanks to house tamer Hulda Larkin, the mischief infesting Whimbrel House has calmed...
  • Letter to a Duchess by Nellie H. Steele

    Letter to a Duchess by Nellie H. Steele

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Only she can prove his innocence, but will it make her the killer’s next victim?Lenora Fletcher’s new role as Duchess of Blackmoore is put to the test when her brother-in-law is framed for murder. Desperate for help, he begs her to use her power to communicate with the dead to prove his innocence...
  • A Dangerous Ruse by Tilly Wallace

    A Dangerous Ruse by Tilly Wallace

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Her opponents have her cornered, unless Sera makes an unexpected move… Seraphina continues to pick at the secrets entangling her. Then, during a ball, she spots a piece of enchanted jewellery eerily similar to the bracelet she once wore. But before she can find out about its origins, its owner is murdered. At least this time no one is blaming Sera...
  • Shadow Schemes by Tilly Wallace

    Shadow Schemes by Tilly Wallace

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    A lost child will uncover old secrets.... After her triumphant performance as goddess of the night at a royal banquet, Sera is instructed by the Mage Council to stay out of public sight. She is tasked with settling a restless spirit who has been roused by the fate of a descendant...
  • Moseh's Staff by A.W. Exley

    Moseh's Staff by A.W. Exley

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    All things must come to an end... London is in the frozen grip of an unnatural winter and Queen Victoria wants answers. Cara and Nate know who - the Curator. The queen's artifact hunters just don't know what is responsible. Cara is on the trail of an ancient and powerful artifact capable of freezing a city and stirring demons. First she must confront her past and her father's history...
  • From the Ashes by Sabrina Flynn

    From the Ashes by Sabrina Flynn

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Ashes to ashes; dust to dust. Unfortunately, memories aren’t so easily buried.San Francisco, 1900. Atticus Riot returns home with death on his heels and grief in his heart. After twenty years of roaming the Barbary Coast, the gambler-turned detective is about to toss the game for good. But man plans and God laughs: the case of a missing heiress draws him in its wake...
  • The Three Brooches by Katherine Lowry Logan

    The Three Brooches by Katherine Lowry Logan

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    When Kit MacKlenna returned to her soul mate in the 19th century, Elliott Fraser thought he would never see his beloved goddaughter again. But when a message from Kit is discovered in a 135-year-old painting, Elliot must either ignore Kit's request for help or test the Legend of the Three Brooches...
  • The Missing Brides by Helen Goltz

    The Missing Brides by Helen Goltz

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    From author Helen Goltz comes an exciting new series about love, fate, and putting to rest more than the dead, with a hint of magic, mystery and visions.Miss Phoebe Astin and her brothers, Julius and Ambrose, lead an unconventional life working in the family funeral business – The Economic Undertaker...
  • The Unforgiven by Heather Graham

    The Unforgiven by Heather Graham

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A tragic past. An uncertain futureTwelve years after the grisly murder of her parents, Kaitlyn Delaney has finally found peace. She has friends, a good job, a place to call home and a new life to live. But then a shadow creeps in from Katie’s past, reminding her that she will never completely escape its terrifying grip...
  • Turning Darkness Into Light by Marie Brennan

    Turning Darkness Into Light by Marie Brennan

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Marie Brennan's Turning Darkness Into Light is a delightful fantasy of manners, the heir to the award-winning Natural History of Dragons series, a perfect stepping stone into an alternate Victorianesque fantasy landscape."Overwhelmingly fun...
  • Sagan om isfolket by Margit Sandemo

    Sagan om isfolket by Margit Sandemo

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The Legend of the Ice People (in Norwegian language Sagaen om Isfolket) is a 47-volume story of a family bloodline. The author of the series is Margit Sandemo. The novels are based in historical facts, mostly occurring in Scandinavia, but the fantastic is never far off. The series first began as a feuilletonin the Norwegian magazine Hjemmet...
  • Death of a Duchess by Nellie H. Steele

    Death of a Duchess by Nellie H. Steele

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    My name is Lenora Fletcher. And I can communicate with the dead. Lenora expected her unique ability would condemn her to a life of solitude, shunned by society. But when she receives an unexpected marriage proposal hinging on it, Lenora is shocked...
  • The Ink Master's Silence by C.J. Archer

    The Ink Master's Silence by C.J. Archer

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 35 ratings
    It should be a happy time for India and Matt, but forces beyond their control conspire to ruin their future. A distraction from their troubles comes in the form of murder. When the editor of The Weekly Gazette is killed, controversial journalist and ink magician Oscar Barratt asks India and Matt to investigate...
  • The Potent Perfume by Helen Goltz

    The Potent Perfume by Helen Goltz

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Miss Phoebe Astin of The Economic Undertaker found herself charmed by the recently deceased perfume salesman, Mr Edward 'Teddy' Tate, as were many of his former clients...
  • The Watery Grave by Helen Goltz

    The Watery Grave by Helen Goltz

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Miss Phoebe Astin is quite accustomed to speaking with spirits as they leave this life on their way to the next. As the mortician at The Economic Undertaker, Phoebe and her brothers, Julius and Ambrose, find themselves inundated with victims from a ferry disaster on the river...
  • The Book of Lost Enchantments by Jessica Dodge

    The Book of Lost Enchantments by Jessica Dodge

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    At twenty-nine, Nora Cameron's life feels adrift, her days are spent working in her parents’ bakery, and her nights are spent alone watching Hallmark movies. She yearns for something beyond her predictable existence, though she has no idea what that might be. That is, until fate intervenes, and Nora is swept into an unforeseen adventure to Scotland...
  • The Book of Lost Enchantments by Jessica Dodge

    The Book of Lost Enchantments by Jessica Dodge

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    At twenty-nine, Nora Cameron's life feels adrift, her days are spent working in her parents’ bakery, and her nights are spent alone watching Hallmark movies. She yearns for something beyond her predictable existence, though she has no idea what that might be. That is, until fate intervenes, and Nora is swept into an unforeseen adventure to Scotland...
  • The Mysterious Bakery on Rue de Paris by Evie Woods, Evie Gaughan

    The Mysterious Bakery on Rue de Paris by Evie Woods, Evie Gaughan

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Edie is … not in Paris?Edie Lane left everything behind in Ireland for a once-in-a-lifetime job at a bakery in Paris. Except, thanks to a mistranslation, the bakery is not in Paris, and neither is Edie.The tiny town of Compiègne, complete with its local bakery on the Rue de Paris, holds many secrets...
  • Beyond The Grave by C.J. Archer

    Beyond The Grave by C.J. Archer

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    At the request of Lady Harcourt, Charlie and Lincoln begin searching for her missing stepson. Still recovering from her ordeal at the hands of a diabolical villain, Charlie is supposed to be resting. But resting is dull, so she throws herself into the task at hand, much to Lincoln's frustration. The search leads them down a dark path littered with family secrets and titillating scandal...
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