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  • Voyager by Diana Gabaldon

    Voyager by Diana Gabaldon

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 273 ratings
    From the author of the breathtaking bestsellers Outlander and Dragonfly in Amber , the extraordinary saga continues. Their passionate encounter happened long ago by whatever measurement Claire Randall took. Two decades before, she had traveled back in time and into the arms of a gallant eighteenth-century Scot named Jamie Fraser...
  • Beware of Chicken 2 by CasualFarmer

    Beware of Chicken 2 by CasualFarmer

    Rated: 4.69 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 37 ratings
    A laugh-out-loud, slice-of-life martial-arts fantasy about . . . farming? ?? ? Jin Rou wanted to be a cultivator. A man powerful enough to defy the heavens. A master of martial arts. A lord of spiritual power. Unfortunately for him, he died, and now I’m stuck in his body. And you know what? Things ain’t actually all that bad. I mean, last year was pretty hectic...
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  • The Ballad of Smallhope and Pennyroyal by Jodi Taylor

    The Ballad of Smallhope and Pennyroyal by Jodi Taylor

    Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 33 ratings
    From the globally bestselling author of the Chronicles of St Mary's and Time Police series - the origin story of bounty hunters Smallhope and Pennyroyal. Meet Lady Amelia Smallhope, for whom there is no problem that can't be solved by a drink and a think. And Pennyroyal, for whom there is no problem. Ever. Everyone's favourite bounty hunters. Sorry - recovery agents. No bad guy they can't handle...
  • Kiss of the Highlander by Karen Marie Moning

    Kiss of the Highlander by Karen Marie Moning

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 209 ratings
    A laird trapped between centuries. .. Enchanted by a powerful spell, Highland laird Drustan MacKeltar slumbered for nearly five centuries hidden deep in a cave, until an unlikely savior awakened him. The enticing lass who dressed and spoke like no woman he'd ever known was from his distant future, where crumbled ruins were all that remained of his vanished world...
  • Returner's Defiance by Bruce Sentar

    Returner's Defiance by Bruce Sentar

    Rated: 4.65 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 29 ratings
    Five hundred years of fighting demons and humanity has been pushed to the brink of extinction. As the last bastion of the remaining humans is shattered, Bran Heros, the Wandering King, decides to enact a last ditch effort. He’s going to send his soul back in time to two years before the demon invasion comes to earth. This time when the demons first come he’s going to be waiting...
  • Saviour of the Pack by Heather G. Harris

    Saviour of the Pack by Heather G. Harris

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 33 ratings
    My mum told me I could be anything I wanted to be – and it turns out that I want to be an alpha werewolf. I’m finally starting to get a hang of this alpha malarkey when destiny sticks her oar in once again. There’s a prophecy about me, and it’s time for me to find out what it says...
  • Hope for the Best by Jodi Taylor

    Hope for the Best by Jodi Taylor

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    The tenth book in the bestselling Chronicles of St Mary's series which follows a group of tea-soaked disaster magnets as they hurtle their way around History. If you love Jasper Fforde or Ben Aaronovitch, you won't be able to resist Jodi Taylor. You can't change History. History doesn't like it. There are always consequences. Max is no stranger to taking matters into her own hands...
  • Plan for the Worst by Jodi Taylor

    Plan for the Worst by Jodi Taylor

    Rated: 4.54 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    The eleventh book in the bestselling Chronicles of St Mary's series. I would have trusted this man with my life. Until a couple of days ago, anyway. You know what they say - hope for the best, but plan for the worst. Max is quite accustomed to everything going wrong. She's St Mary's, after all. Disaster is her default state...
  • An Argumentation of Historians by Jodi Taylor

    An Argumentation of Historians by Jodi Taylor

    Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    Behind the seemingly innocuous facade of St. Mary’s Institute of Historical Research, a different kind of academic work is taking place. Just don’t call it “time travel”―these historians “investigate major historical events in contemporary time. ” And they aren’t your harmless eccentrics either; a more accurate description, as they ricochet around history, might be unintentional disaster-magnets...
  • A Family Oath by Auburn Tempest, Michael Anderle

    A Family Oath by Auburn Tempest, Michael Anderle

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 27 ratings
    Ye screw with this lass, ye get put on yer ass. Since being marked as the heir apparent I’ve been stabbed, kidnapped, black-listed, tortured, targeted, and accused of being the cause of pretty much every magical mishap that’s hit the streets of Toronto. To some, I’m a nuisance, to others a curiosity, and others still—a problem to be eliminated. Whatevs, haters gotta hate...
  • Twice by Mitch Albom

    Twice by Mitch Albom

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 45 ratings
    What if you got to do everything in your life —twice? The heart of Mitch Albom’s newest novel is a stunning love story that dares to explore how our unchecked desires might mean losing what we’ve had all along. When he is eight years old, Alfie Logan discovers the magical ability to get a second chance at everything. He can undo any moment and live it again...
  • And the Rest Is History by Jodi Taylor

    And the Rest Is History by Jodi Taylor

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    No one knows quite how, but Max and her baby are safe at last. No one knows quite how, but Peterson has persuaded Dr Foster to marry him. No one knows quite how, but Markham’s marital status remains unknown. Certainly no one knows quite how a twelve-foot-high teapot could mysteriously materialise on the South Lawn, but it does. But they do know that Clive Ronan is back...
  • A Gilded Cage by Auburn Tempest, Michael Anderle

    A Gilded Cage by Auburn Tempest, Michael Anderle

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 35 ratings
    Ye screw with this lass, ye get put on yer ass. Life sucker-punched me. .. I have family I didn’t know about, a magical heritage laying its claim, and a mystery I apparently need to solve. There are three things I love most in life…my wild and crazy Irish family, Redbreast Whiskey at Shenanigans, and living in Toronto...
  • No Time Like the Past by Jodi Taylor

    No Time Like the Past by Jodi Taylor

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 42 ratings
    Jodi Taylor’s best-selling series The Chronicles of St Mary is back with a bang…. St Mary’s has been rebuilt and it’s business as usual for the History department. But first, there’s the little matter of a seventeenth-century ghost that only Mr Markham can see...
  • A Dragon's Dare by Auburn Tempest, Michael Anderle

    A Dragon's Dare by Auburn Tempest, Michael Anderle

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    Life is a balance—at least that’s what I’m told by people smarter than me. Try as I might to spend quality time with Sloan, family, friends, and companion animals my magnet of mayhem often has other ideas. Adulting is hard. So when I move an adolescent dragon into my backyard why don’t I anticipate the craziness that will ensue? Maybe Sloan’s right and I am ridiculous...
  • What Could Possibly Go Wrong? by Jodi Taylor

    What Could Possibly Go Wrong? by Jodi Taylor

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 38 ratings
    Join Max in the sixth instalment in the off-the-wall bestselling Chronicles of St Mary’s series by Jodi Taylor...
  • The Long and Short of It by Jodi Taylor

    The Long and Short of It by Jodi Taylor

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    Follow the disaster magnets of St Mary's as they hurtle around history! The ninth book in The Chronicles of St Mary's Series collects the bestselling short stories in print for the first time. When a Child Is Born. A jump back to 1066 to witness the coronation of William the Conqueror goes slightly astray. Roman Holiday...
  • Good Spirits by B.K. Borison

    Good Spirits by B.K. Borison

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 167 ratings
    The USA Today bestselling author of Business Casual, B. K. Borison is back with a whimsical new holiday romance—this time with a magical twist—that will have everyone falling in love with the Ghost of Christmas Past. He’s the Ghost of Christmas Past. She’s not exactly Scrooge...
  • Kamisama Kiss, Vol. 1 by Julietta Suzuki

    Kamisama Kiss, Vol. 1 by Julietta Suzuki

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 74 ratings
    Nanami Momozono is alone and homeless after her dad skips town to evade his gambling debts and the debt collectors kick her out of her apartment. So when a man she's just saved from a dog offers her his home, she jumps at the opportunity...
  • Vardaesia by Lynette Noni

    Vardaesia by Lynette Noni

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 35 ratings
    Embrace the wonder. “When Day and Night combine and fight against one Enemy,. then Dark and Light shall meet mid-strike and set the Captives free. ”. In the wake of loss and devastation, Alex must cast aside her grief to seek aid from those who banished the Meyarins long ago...
  • The All Souls Trilogy Boxed Set by Deborah Harkness

    The All Souls Trilogy Boxed Set by Deborah Harkness

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 46 ratings
    A Discovery of Witches, Shadow of Night, and The Book of Life, now available in a beautiful boxed set. With more than two million copies sold in the United States, the novels of the number one New York Times –bestselling All Souls Trilogy have landed on all the major bestseller lists, garnered rave reviews, and spellbound legions of loyal fans...
  • The Hanged Man by K.D. Edwards

    The Hanged Man by K.D. Edwards

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 39 ratings
    The last member of a murdered House tries to protect his ward from forced marriage to a monster while uncovering clues to his own tortured past. The Tarot Sequence imagines a modern-day Atlantis off the coast of Massachusetts, governed by powerful Courts based on the traditional Tarot deck...
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  • The Blackened Blade by Isla Davon

    The Blackened Blade by Isla Davon

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 167 ratings
    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...
  • Toilet-bound Hanako-kun, Vol. 8 by AidaIro

    Toilet-bound Hanako-kun, Vol. 8 by AidaIro

    Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 31 ratings
    Kou has seemed depressed ever since he, Nene, and Hanako-kun returned from the Hell of Mirrors three days prior. To cheer him up, the three friends decide to go to a Tanabata festival held within one of the school’s Boundaries...
  • Saving Time by Jodi Taylor

    Saving Time by Jodi Taylor

    Rated: 4.61 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings
    Life is good for Team Weird, now heroes and fully fledged Time Police officers. Luke can't wait to bear arms. Jane has a date. And Matthew still hasn't had his hair cut. But Time waits for no one and neither do criminal masterminds. A major threat to the Timeline is looming, one far deadlier than mere idiots who want to change history...
  • Sacrifice of the Septimus, Part 2 by Stephanie Hudson

    Sacrifice of the Septimus, Part 2 by Stephanie Hudson

    Rated: 4.65 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 28 ratings
    The Sands of Time are filled with dangers and new enemies to face. But for Keira to stand tall in a world she does not know, she must first brave the differences in loving the man she calls Draven and the man she must now call her King. Join Keira as she is thrown into an ancient time and faces her biggest challenge yet…. How to get a Demon King to fall for a human girl he is forbidden to love.
  • Dark Queen by Faith Hunter

    Dark Queen by Faith Hunter

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 35 ratings
    Jane Yellowrock used to hunt vampires, but now she must fight--and win--beside them. As Enforcer to the vampire Master of the City of New Orleans, Jane Yellowrock stakes her reputation and her life on keeping her territory safe. But Leo has been issued a blood challenge by the emperor of the European vampires, who seeks to usurp all of his power and possessions...
  • The Dragon Queen by Michelle Madow

    The Dragon Queen by Michelle Madow

    Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 27 ratings
    The final battle is here. Prepare yourself for a mind-bending adventure full of magic, romance, and twists you’ll never see coming. Gemma and her soulmate Ethan have remembered the true past they shared together. So everything in her life should be perfect. Right? Wrong. Gemma’s worst nightmare has come true. Her twin sister Mira has gone dark and joined forces with Lilith and the demons...
  • Drums of Autumn by Diana Gabaldon

    Drums of Autumn by Diana Gabaldon

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 225 ratings
    In this breathtaking novel—rich in history and adventure— The New York Times bestselling author Diana Gabaldon continues the story of Claire Randall and Jamie Fraser that began with the now-classic novel Outlander and continued in Dragonfly in Amber and Voyager . Once again spanning continents and centuries, Diana Gabaldon has created a work of sheer passion and brilliance. ..
  • Charm by Tracy Wolff

    Charm by Tracy Wolff

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 52 ratings
    The instant #1 New York Times Bestselling Series. Goodreads Most Anticipated YA Book of November. Finally find out what happened during those missing four months, as the thrilling adventure continues! He’s under my skin…. After Katmere, I shouldn’t be surprised by anything. Including the existence of a world beyond my world called the Shadow Realm...
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