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  • The Forgotten Kingdom by Signe Pike

    The Forgotten Kingdom by Signe Pike

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 31 ratings
    The story continues in The Forgotten Kingdom, the second book in the astonishing Lost Queen trilogy, already hailed as “Outlander meets Camelot” (Kirsty Logan) and “The Mists of Avalon for a new generation” (Linnea Hartsuyker).AD 573. Imprisoned in her chamber, Languoreth awaits news in torment. Her husband and son have ridden off to wage war against her brother, Lailoken...
  • Age of War by Michael J. Sullivan

    Age of War by Michael J. Sullivan

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 45 ratings
    Rich in magic and adventure, Michael J. Sullivan’s soaring fantasy novels are masterworks of heroism, love, and sacrifice. Now, in Age of War, the epic battle between humankind and the cruel godlike beings who once ruled them finally ignites in all its fury.The alliance of humans and renegade Fhrey is fragile—and about to be tested as never before...
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  • The Veil of Violence by Marilyn Marks

    The Veil of Violence by Marilyn Marks

    Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 13 ratings
    You must always trust in Jaevidan. This is the only way to remain in the light. After the Morrigan revealed themselves and her true nature became known, Adeline Colton is on the run. Seeking revenge for their fallen sister, they will hunt her to the end of the world. But there is another who pursues Adeline—the man with golden eyes and dangerous power...
  • The Rose and the Thorn by Michael J. Sullivan

    The Rose and the Thorn by Michael J. Sullivan

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 46 ratings
    TWO THIEVES WANT ANSWERS. RIYRIA IS BORN.For more than a year Royce Melborn has tried to forget Gwen DeLancy, the woman who saved him and his partner Hadrian Blackwater from certain death. Unable to get her out of his mind, the two thieves return to Medford but receive a very different reception --- Gwen refuses to see them...
  • Exile's Honor by Mercedes Lackey

    Exile's Honor by Mercedes Lackey

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 39 ratings
    Alberich had spent most of his youth in the Karsite military schools training to be an officer. As the son of an impoverished mother, he had no other career choice open to him. And Alberich had risen in the ranks with almost unnatural speed. He developed expertise with many weapons and excelled in academic subjects with an ease that was the envy of his classmates...
  • Shattered Moments: An utterly emotional and gripping historical page-turner by Irina Shapiro

    Shattered Moments: An utterly emotional and gripping historical page-turner by Irina Shapiro

    Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    She never planned to return…To save her husband’s life, Valerie Whitfield makes the momentous decision to travel to the twenty-first century. But disaster follows when a time-traveling accident leaves her and Alec stranded there, far from their beloved family and home in seventeenth-century Virginia...
  • A Game of Shadows: A totally unforgettable historical time-travel novel by Irina Shapiro

    A Game of Shadows: A totally unforgettable historical time-travel novel by Irina Shapiro

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Can she keep her family safe?Devoted wife and mother Valerie Whitfield is torn between two centuries. Born in twentieth-century America, Valerie once believed her adventuring days were over when she settled down with her husband, Alec, in colonial Virginia. But when her grown-up children become embroiled in dangerous affairs, Valerie faces unimaginable challenges...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • The Black Raven by Katharine Kerr

    The Black Raven by Katharine Kerr

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    For the devoted followers of the dazzling Deverry and Westlands cycle, Katharine Kerr continues the magical epic saga she began in The Red Wyvern .In her latest tale, the scene shifts seamlessly between the shattered land of the Rhiddaer and the historic end of the Civil Wars, when Lilli, newly apprenticed to dweomer, fought with her untried powers to save her beloved Prince Maryn from evil...
  • From the Ashes by Sabrina Flynn

    From the Ashes by Sabrina Flynn

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 27 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 Fire Dragon by Katharine Kerr

    The Fire Dragon by Katharine Kerr

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Katharine Kerr has enchanted readers with her magical Deverry and Westlands cycle, and now she brings to a breathtaking conclusion the epic saga begun with The Red Wyvern and The Black Raven .The final chapter begins in the holy city as it rises from the ashes of Deverry's long wars. Prince Maryn prepares to claim the high kingship, but still the rebel Boar clan stands fast against him...
  • 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...
  • 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 Gold Falcon by Katharine Kerr

    The Gold Falcon by Katharine Kerr

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    The cholera epidemic that ravaged the city of TrevHael has left many orphans in its wake, including Neb, the scribe's son, and his brother. Sent to the desolate farm of their last living relative, they soon learn that a worse plague lurks beyond the western border of Deverry...
  • 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...
  • Court of Death and Dreams by Meg Anne

    Court of Death and Dreams by Meg Anne

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 8 ratings
    The battle for love might be the deadliest game of all.Taken captive by the Lord of Death, Reyna must do the impossible: convince the vengeful god she’s still his faithful Shadow. But that’s only the beginning. In addition to pulling off the deception of a lifetime, she must also secretly secure allies, arrange a prison break, and somehow avoid ending up a madman’s wife...
  • The Lost by Irina Shapiro

    The Lost by Irina Shapiro

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    2018. When a skeleton is found entangled in the roots of an ancient tree on Rhys Morgan’s country estate, Quinn is persuaded to come out of retirement to film one more episode of the Echoes from the Past series. But the nameless skeleton proves to be the least of her problems when secrets from the past suddenly come to light and a new threat looms over her family.1777...
  • The Hanging Tree by Irina Shapiro

    The Hanging Tree by Irina Shapiro

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    In 1640, Alys Bailey was accused of witchcraft and sentenced to hang. Today, Alys is said to haunt Lockwood Hall, the Tudor manor house where she died. When Nicole Rayburn travels to Lockwood Hall and begins to research Alys’s story for a new book, she discovers startling irregularities in Alys’s case. Nicole’s suspicions mount as every answer leads to more questions...
  • Shifter Agents by Nancy Corrigan

    Shifter Agents by Nancy Corrigan

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Meet four alpha shifters who know their way around the darkness... They know pleasures can be found in the shadows. Danger, too. But they will do anything—risk everything—to lure their chosen mates into the dark. And once they have the keepers of their soul wrapped in the veil of night, they'll never—ever—let them go.Rescued - One bad choice landed me in a lifetime of servitude...
  • Echo Moon by Laura Spinella

    Echo Moon by Laura Spinella

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 9 ratings
    A past life, a past war, and a past love. Peter St John can’t foresee a future until he confronts his past sins. When photojournalist Peter St John returns home after a two-year absence, the life he’s been running from catches up. For years his mother’s presence, coupled with Pete’s own psychic gift, has triggered visits to 1917...
  • The Jeweler of Stolen Dreams by M.J. Rose

    The Jeweler of Stolen Dreams by M.J. Rose

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A captivating tale of two passionate women separated by decades but united by a shared vision. One, the famous jeweler Suzanne Belperron, fighting to protect her company and rescue the man she loves. The other, a young auctioneer whose exceptional gifts reveal a secret that endangers her very life.“Only one thing saves you, and that is not losing sight of beauty.”Paris, 1942...
  • Dreaming Death by Heather Graham

    Dreaming Death by Heather Graham

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    SWEET DREAMS AREN’T MADE OF THISEver since she was a child, Stacey Hanson has had strange dreams—and sometimes they come true. Her skills and experience led her straight to the FBI’s Krewe of Hunters. Now a serial killer is stalking Washington, DC, and people are scared. And it will be Stacey’s first case...
  • Master of Restless Shadows: Book One by Ginn Hale

    Master of Restless Shadows: Book One by Ginn Hale

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Freshly graduated Master Physician Narsi Lif-Tahm has left his home in Anacleto and journeyed to the imposing royal capitol of Cieloalta intent upon keeping the youthful oath he made to a troubled writer. But in the decade since Narsi gave his pledge, Atreau Vediya, has grown from an anonymous delinquent to a man renowned for penning bawdy operas and engaging in scandalous affairs...
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  • Heaven's Net is Wide by Lian Hearn

    Heaven's Net is Wide by Lian Hearn

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings
    The new beginning-and the grand finale-to the beloved Tales of the Otori series. Heaven's Net Is Wide is the new first volume of the now complete Tales of the Otori- prequel to Across the Nightingale Floor, the book that first introduced Hearn's mythical, medieval Japanese world...
  • The Forbidden by Heather Graham

    The Forbidden by Heather Graham

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    She is someone's darkest desire Playing the victim of a vampire king on an island off New Orleans is actress Avalon Morgan’s creepiest role to date. It’s also scary good fun—until the victim of a real killer is discovered on set, laid out for all to see. With production shut down, Avalon can’t stop thinking about the chilling crime scene, or Finley Stirling, the FBI agent working the case...
  • The Girl On Legare Street by Karen White

    The Girl On Legare Street by Karen White

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    Acclaimed author Karen White returns with the sequel to the national bestseller The House on Tradd Street. Melanie has grown accustomed to renovating old houses, but she never imagined she'd have to renovate her own life to include her estranged mother. Ginnette Prioleau Middleton left Charleston thirty-five years ago...
  • Winds of Fury by Mercedes Lackey

    Winds of Fury by Mercedes Lackey

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 46 ratings
    Valdemar is once again in peril, threatened by Ancar of Hardorn, who has long sought to seize control of the kingdom by any means at his command...
  • Prisoner of Steel and Shadow by Meg Anne

    Prisoner of Steel and Shadow by Meg Anne

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 11 ratings
    A Kidnapped QueenA vengeful god has stolen everything from the queen of assassins. Her title. Her power. Her memories.Even her name.Now merely a ghost of her former self, Shadow must enter a deadly game and fight for her freedom or risk spending the rest of her life as a madman’s prisoner.But, in order to win, she may be forced to lose what’s left of her true self in the process...
  • Death at a Highland Wedding by Kelley Armstrong

    Death at a Highland Wedding by Kelley Armstrong

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 19 ratings
    Death at a Highland Wedding is the fourth installment in New York Times bestselling author Kelley Armstrong's gripping Rip Through Time Novels.After slipping 150 years into the past, modern-day homicide detective Mallory Atkinson has embraced her new life in Victorian Scotland as housemaid Catriona Mitchel...
  • Dragon Fire by Bianca D'Arc

    Dragon Fire by Bianca D'Arc

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Book 2 in The Sea Captain's Daughter Trilogy * There’s something very wrong in the Southern Lair. The blind dragon refuses to choose a new knight partner, but only he can save Gryphon Isle from the deadly pirate menace. His human friends accompany him to the home of the last wizard, fighting on shore as he swims beneath the pirate ships, rising to flame them into oblivion...
  • The Forsaken by Irina Shapiro

    The Forsaken by Irina Shapiro

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    2014. When skeletal remains are unearthed at her husband’s ancestral home, Dr. Quinn Allenby must use her psychic gift to discover what led to Gabe's ancestor's secret burial in an unmarked grave...
  • Winds of Change by Mercedes Lackey

    Winds of Change by Mercedes Lackey

    Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars
    · 45 ratings
    In The Mage Winds trilogy, which began with the best-selling novel, Winds of Fate , author Mercedes Lackey continues the epic that started with her first published book, Arrows of the Queen introduced readers to the remarkable land of Valdemar, the kingdom protected by its Heralds--men and women gifted with extraordinary mind powers--aided and served by their mysterious Companions--horselike...
  • The Color of Light by Karen White

    The Color of Light by Karen White

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    At thirty-two, pregnant and recently divorced, Jillian Parrish and her seven-year-old daughter find refuge and solace on Pawleys Island, South Carolina. Jillian had experienced her best childhood memories here-until her best friend Lauren Mills disappeared, never to be found. At the time, Linc Rising, Lauren's boyfriend and Jillian's confidant, had been a suspect in Lauren's disappearance...
  • The Devil's Diadem by Sara Douglass

    The Devil's Diadem by Sara Douglass

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    In a world gone mad, is the Devil′s word the only one you can trust? A foolish monk stole the devil′s favourite diadem and the devil wants it back. It is mid-twelfth century Europe and Maeb Langtofte joins an aristocratic household to attend Adelie, the wife of the Earl of Pengraic. The earl is a powerful Lord of the Marches, the dark Welsh borderlands...
  • The Winter Laird: A time travel romance (Mists of Fate) by Nancy Scanlon

    The Winter Laird: A time travel romance (Mists of Fate) by Nancy Scanlon

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    THE PRESENTSuccessful matchmaker Brianagh O’Rourke believes in happy-ever-afters – just not her own. Though she thrives on helping her clients find the partner of their dreams, her own dreams remain firmly in her head, not in her life. She's fine loving only her business–at least, that's what she tells herself when she agrees to her lackluster boyfriend's proposal...
  • A Marriage of Necessity: Two Princes this time by Lisa Oliver

    A Marriage of Necessity: Two Princes this time by Lisa Oliver

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 9 ratings
    A Marriage of Necessity - Jasper and Avalon I owe my mother everything. Jasper, the youngest Prince from Lowenthorp, had one driving need - to get away from the castle. After being abducted, abused, and having lost an eye, Jasper believed his only chance of keeping his Mother safe was to be as far away from her as possible...
  • The Darkest Hour by Barbara Erskine

    The Darkest Hour by Barbara Erskine

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    From the Sunday Times bestselling author comes an epic tale of love, passion and heartbreak.In the summer of 1940, eyes are focussed on the skies above the South of England: the Battle for Britain has just begun. But Evie Lucas has eyes for no-one but a dashing young pilot called Tony...
  • Echoes of Magic by Donna Grant

    Echoes of Magic by Donna Grant

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    From bestselling, award-winning author Donna Grant comes a trilogy of three women who happen to be a dying race of witches that were cursed by one of their own, and the men who stood by their side. Hiding a secret so awful that his only hope for survival is to remain hidden, Grayson has lived most of his life pretending to be someone he isn't...
  • Dreamspell by Tamara Leigh

    Dreamspell by Tamara Leigh

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    A TIME TO LIVE. A TIME TO DIE. A TIME TO DREAM. Sleep disorders specialist Kennedy Plain has been diagnosed with a fatal brain tumor. When her research subject dies after trying to convince her he has achieved dream-induced time travel and her study is shelved, she enlists herself as a subject to complete her research...
  • The Path of Flames by Phil Tucker

    The Path of Flames by Phil Tucker

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    A war fueled by the dark powers of forbidden sorcery is about to engulf the Ascendant Empire. Agerastian heretics, armed with black fire and fueled by bitter hatred, seek to sever the ancient portals that unite the empire - and in so doing destroy it.Asho--a squire with a reviled past--sees his liege, the Lady Kyferin, and her meager forces banished to an infamous ruin...
  • The Crusader by Kathryn Le Veque

    The Crusader by Kathryn Le Veque

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Along the ancient Pilgrim Trail traveled by countless crusaders from Europe to The Holy Land, Dr. Rory Osgrove is in charge of her first archaeological dig. A Biblical Archaeologist by degree, her target is a holy relic of unimaginable power. But what she discovers instead is the tomb of a long-buried Crusader, one of the thousands who came to this desert land in search of glory and riches...
  • Magpie Lane by Lucy Atkins

    Magpie Lane by Lucy Atkins

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    When the eight-year-old daughter of an Oxford College Master vanishes in the middle of the night, police turn to the Scottish nanny, Dee, for answers...
  • Everkin (The Kindred .5) by Donna Grant

    Everkin (The Kindred .5) by Donna Grant

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    To live in the light, they hunt in the dark… When natural-born witch Edra is approached by others who share her gifts, she jumps at the chance to join a Coven. Until she discovers that they’re not what they seem. They’re hell-bent on destruction, and in order to save herself and those she loves, Edra must leave her home, and the only man she’s ever loved...
  • Violent Delights by Rebecca Massey

    Violent Delights by Rebecca Massey

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 5 ratings
    "I didn’t deserve to live. Not after this. This was the final sin to damn my soul."Cherry is running away from her abusive boyfriend when she picks up a stranded hitchhiker on an Indiana highway.Kasper is an escaped murderer from a Kentucky prison trying to make his way across the Canadian border...
  • Mistress of Darkness: A Gothic Romance by Hazel Hunter

    Mistress of Darkness: A Gothic Romance by Hazel Hunter

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    Gwen Archer does not fear the curse of Dredthorne Hall. Instead it is the message she must deliver that gives her pause: she will inform her future brother-in-law, Christopher, that her sister has run away. But what Gwen discovers at the Hall is far worse than being the bearer of bad tidings. She finds Christopher’s older brother, the reticent and rude Robert Sheraton, there to greet her...
  • Legacy of Kings by C.S. Friedman

    Legacy of Kings by C.S. Friedman

    Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    The young peasant woman Kamala has proven strong and determined enough to claim the most powerful Magister sorcery for herself-but now the Magisters hunt her for killing one of their own. Her only hope of survival lies in the northern Protectorates, where spells are warped by a curse called the Wrath that even the Magisters fear...
  • Dark Horse by Mary H. Herbert

    Dark Horse by Mary H. Herbert

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    After her entire clan was massacred, a young woman assumes her brother's identity and becomes a warrior - all to exact revenge upon the chieftain who ordered her family slain. But the chieftain, Lord Medb, has resurrected the forbidden art of sorcery and plans to destroy all who oppose him in this dark ages fantasy world...
  • The Frozen People by Elly Griffiths

    The Frozen People by Elly Griffiths

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Cold cases are a lot easier to solve when you can travel back in time to find new evidence—unless, that is, you get stuck in the nineteenth century.Ali Dawson and her cold case team investigate crimes so old they’re frozen—or so their inside joke goes...
  • Conspiracy To Murder by Heather Graham

    Conspiracy To Murder by Heather Graham

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Don’t miss this heart-racing story from “the queen of romantic suspense,” New York Times bestselling author Heather Graham. Is she a suspect or a target? A year after the chilling death of her mentor, criminologist Harley Frasier is still rattled. Secretly she’s suspected murder all along...
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