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The Veil of Violence by Marilyn Marks
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 Fae Artifactor by Honor Raconteur
Rated: 4.61 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsPeople really have to stop kidnapping her…. Sevana has quite enough on her plate, what with her wonky magical core still spastically melting or exploding things on her. She has every intention of seeking professional help, if such a thing exists, but is stopped before she can even go back home. That is to say, she’s kidnapped. AGAIN... -
The First Witch of Boston by Andrea Catalano
A gripping and intimate novel based on the true story of Margaret Jones, the first woman to be found guilty of witchcraft in seventeenth-century Massachusetts.Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1646. Thomas and Margaret Jones arrive from England to build a life in the New World. Though of differing temperaments, cautious Thomas and fiery Margaret, a healer, are bound by a love that has lasted decades... -
The Healer's Secret by Helen Pryke
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsBook #1 in the Healer series.From medieval times to present day, the Healer saga spans generations of the Innocenti family, telling the stories of the women healers whose lives are entwined with legends, curses, and tragedy.Jennifer’s life isn’t going as she planned. Fired from her job and on the brink of divorce, her only salvation lies at the bottom of a wine bottle... -
외과의사 엘리제 2 by Mini, 유인
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 24 ratings“내 사람을 살리는 일이다.‘자신의 사람’을 구하는 건데 고작 이런 일 하나 못 하겠는가?”드디어 테레사 병원의 견습으로 자리를 잡은 엘리제. 이쪽 세계의 병원 시스템에 익숙해지고 주변에도 조금씩 인정을 받아가던 때, 황가의 문장을 소지한 남성이 총격당한 긴급 환자를 데리고 병원을 찾는다. 한시가 급한 순간. 엘리제는 환자를 위해 결단을 내리고……“반드시 살려낼 테니 한 번만 저를 믿어주세요.”“정말 할 수 있나? 무책임한 만용은 용서치 않아.”“믿어주십시오. 최선을 다하겠습니다.”“…좋다. 반드시 살려내라.”엘리제는 과연 수술을 성공시키고, 환자를 무사히 살릴 수 있을 것인가... -
A Whisper and a Curse by Darcy Burke
Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsHadrian Becket, the Earl of Ravenhurst, has always scorned the supernatural—until a head injury left him with the unnerving ability to see visions through touch. Though he loathes the curse, it’s proven invaluable in solving murder investigations alongside Miss Matilda Wren...Categorized as:
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Reign by Donna Grant
Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsNew York Times and USA Today bestselling author Donna Grant blends the magic of Scottish and Norse tradition in the final installment of her acclaimed The Fated series.Magic holds both beauty and danger…As Lady of the Varroki, Malene was powerful and revered. But after a battle, she awakens in Norway as Dagny, a witch with no memories of her past...Categorized as:
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The Witchwood Knot by Olivia Atwater
Olivia Atwater returns to the world of Half a Soul with “a sharp and beautiful gothic romance” (Alix E. Harrow). Dive into The Witchwood Knot, and enjoy a dark faerie tale set in a magical version of Victorian England.The faeries of Witchwood Manor have stolen its young lord. His governess intends to steal him back.Victorian governess Winifred Hall knows a con when she sees one... -
Love-in-a-Mist by Victoria Goddard
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsMagic is out of fashion.Murder, like romance, is always a possibility.The journey home from Orio City was supposed to be straightforward. Avoid being captured by brigands or agents of the criminal gangs; try not to cause any further spiritual or magical shocks; and make it over the mountains before winter closes in... -
Coven of Consequence by S.L. Prater
There’s something terribly wrong with the Castleway Circus.When mortals happen inside its big billowy tents, they don’t always come out again, and the clown specters who haunt it won’t leave me alone. My partner, Quiet, insists we go and investigate. I’d rather have my hands nailed to a moving train—better chance of surviving that as a vampire than whatever haunts the circus...Categorized as:
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Through Dark Storms by Clare Sager
No home. No hope. No safe harbours. Just one final clue.Castaway on a desert island, Vice has lost everything and everyone. If she’s going to live – truly live, she must not only fight to survive but also battle her inner demons. Only then can she escape her island… and her past.Without the woman he loves, Knigh is unravelling like a frayed rope... -
Tears of the Moon by Nora Roberts
With over one hundred and twelve million books in print and forty-two New York Times bestsellers to date, Nora Roberts is indisputably the most celebrated and loved women's fiction writer today. Tears of the Moon is her second book in the enchanting Irish trilogy featuring the Gallagher siblings of Ardmore, Ireland...Categorized as:
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Plum Duff by Victoria Goddard
Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsMagic is out of fashion.Except, obviously, at Winterturn.Winterturn in Ragnor Bella is a holiday for family, feasting, and a few religious festivities.Jemis Greenwing and Mr. Dart are both quite ready for a quiet week or two after their adventures going to and coming home from Orio City. Jemis in particular is looking forward to the first Winterturn spent with his father since he was a child... -
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Mariana by Susanna Kearsley
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 46 ratingsFrom the winner of the Catherine Cookson Fiction Prize, this mesmerizing, suspenseful, and richly atmospheric tale of time travel draws us into the heart of a heroine we won't soon forget... The first time Julia Beckett saw Greywethers she was only five, but she knew that it was her house. And now that she’s at last become its owner, she suspects that she was drawn there for a reason... -
Wit'ch Gate by James Clemens
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsThe dazzling epic of The Banned and the Banished has established James Clemens as an exciting new voice in fantasy fiction. Now his remarkable skills reach their peak with Wit’ch Gate, as one girl remains her realm’s only hope against the forces of darkness . . -
Ruin by Donna Grant
Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsNew York Times and USA Today bestselling author Donna Grant seamlessly blends the magic of Scottish and Norse tradition in the enchanting new installment of her instantly acclaimed Kindred: The Fated series.Love…against all odds.Banished by his father and laird, Rory Sutherland does what he swore he’d never do—return to Scotland...Categorized as:
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The Hanging Tree by Irina Shapiro
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn 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... -
Thus with a Kiss I Die by Christina Dodd
The delightfully irreverent eldest daughter of the not-so-ill-fated Romeo and Juliet returns to sleuth another day in fair Verona, in this hugely entertaining historical mystery series with a refreshingly bold premise.“Woe, for I am the bug that meets the windshield's might,No longer the speeding glass, smooth, clean and bright . . .”You’re right...Categorized as:
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The Witch of Tin Mountain by Paulette Kennedy
In Depression-era Arkansas, something wicked has come to a haunted mountain town in a novel of uncanny suspense by the author of Parting the Veil.Blood and power bind three generations of women in the Ozark Mountains. So does an evil that’s followed them across the decades.1931. Gracelynn Doherty lives peacefully on Tin Mountain, helping her adoptive granny work her cures... -
Victorian Faerie Tales by Olivia Atwater
Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsOlivia Atwater returns to the world of Half a Soul. Dive into The Witchwood Knot, and enjoy a dark faerie tale set in a magical version of Victorian England. The faeries of Witchwood Manor have stolen its young lord. His governess intends to steal him back. Victorian governess Winifred Hall knows a con when she sees one... -
Opening Gambit by Tilly Wallace
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThis pawn is going to take control of the game… Seraphina Winyard is an abomination—a female mage. The first magic wielder of her sex to reach adulthood in three hundred years, she is treated like a zoological exhibit and leads a restricted life. Determined to escape and control her own destiny, she seizes a chance for freedom. But when her guardian is murdered, suspicion falls on the young mage... -
Master of Restless Shadows: Book One by Ginn Hale
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFreshly 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... -
The Two Lives of Florence Grace by Tracy Rees
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsFlorrie Buckley is an orphan, living on the wind-blasted moors of Cornwall. It's a hard existence but Florrie is content. But when she is fourteen, she inherits a never-imagined secret: she is related to a wealthy and notorious London family, the Graces. Overnight, Florrie's life changes and she moves from country to city, from poverty to wealth...Categorized as:
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From the Ashes by Sabrina Flynn
Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsAshes 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 Forbidden by Heather Graham
Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsShe 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... -
Tempests & Tea Leaves by Rachel Morgan
Bridgerton meets cozy fae fantasy with a dash of Pride & Prejudice in this sparkling, no-spice tale of magical debuts, an enchanted tea house, and banter-filled romance. In a world where both race and magic determine one's place in society, half-fae Iris Starspun has always known she doesn't belong. Having a human mother is bad enough, but being magicless as well? That’s simply unforgivable... -
Manners and Monsters by Tilly Wallace
A lady never reveals the true extent of her decay...Hannah Miles lives a quiet existence, helping her parents conduct research into a most terrible affliction - until a gruesome murder during her best friend's engagement party pulls her from the shadows. With her specialist's knowledge and demure disposition, Hannah is requested to aid the investigation... -
Hour of the Witch by Chris Bohjalian
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 38 ratingsA young Puritan woman--faithful, resourceful, but afraid of the demons that dog her soul--plots her escape from a violent marriage in this riveting and propulsive historical thriller from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Flight Attendant.Boston, 1662. Mary Deerfield is twenty-four-years-old. Her skin is porcelain, her eyes delft blue, and in England she might have had many suitors... -
The Cutthroat King by Nicole McKeon
A hidden heart. A captive soul. A chance for redemption.Beneath the glittering streets of New London, the Cutthroat King rules the criminal underground with a heart as cold as ancient stone. They say he is a monster. And Willow Bowbriar needs a monster... -
The Glass Butterfly by A.G. Howard
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFor close to a decade, twenty-five-year-old Felicity Lonsdale has masqueraded as a dowager almost twice her age--selling caterpillars to butterfly consortiums--enabling her to hide an ill-fated past while raising her late brother's daughters. Together, the three live on an isolated Irish estate bequeathed by a dying earl... -
Stealing Time by B.W. Haggart
Shackled and dressed in a neon orange jumpsuit, art thief Cassie Sinatore awaits extradition at Heathrow Airport. An accident with a nearby experimental radar plane throws Cassie back in time, dumping her in a wooded countryside. The rider who discovers her is charismatic, more compelling than any man she has ever met... -
Shadows Stir at Seven Sisters by M.L. Bullock
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsSeven Sisters, an antebellum restoration in downtown Mobile, has come to life recently...and not in ways historian Carrie Jo Jardine had expected. After battling and surviving a dangerous encounter with a visitor from the past, Carrie Jo and Seven Sisters’ handsome owner Ashland Stuart have one last mystery to uncover... -
An Illusion of Love by Patricia Rice
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsNYT bestselling author Patricia Rice presents the third book in her beloved School of Magic series: Victorian Edinburgh belongs to staid professors, not the flamboyant daughter of a Hindu princess.Lacking any of her Malcolm family's psychic abilities, Azmin Dougall flees her ancestral home of India for Edinburgh, fearing she'll be a pigeon in a family of peacocks... -
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Moonlight Falls on Seven Sisters by M.L. Bullock
Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsWhen a young, wealthy heiress, Calpurnia Cottonwood, disappears from Seven Sisters in 1850, rumors swirl. But no trace of the girl had ever been found--until now. Historian Carrie Jo Jardine and her handsome employer, Ashland Stuart, find clues to the heiress' whereabouts and even more mysteries are revealed. With Carrie Jo's ability to dream about the past, she watches a sinister plot unfold... -
Taming the Marquess, Season 1 by Rofan Gourmet, Golji
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsLaranora Ador gets more than she bargained for when she rescues a young boy from being sold off in an infamous auction house. The boy is actually Eskal Van Dyck, the "Crazy Marquess," in disguise! Unaware of his violent and heartless true nature, Laranora takes Eskal under her wing... -
Unmasking Miss Appleby by Emily Larkin, Rosalyn Landor
Rated: 3.99 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsBook #1 from the series: Baleful Godmother🎧Listening Length = 11 hours and 37 minutesA captivating Regency romance from a USA Today bestselling author! Performed by Audie-winning narrator Rosalyn Landor. When she turns 25, Charlotte is bestowed with an extraordinary gift: the ability to change shape... -
Dark Prince by Eve Silver
Innkeeper’s daughter Jane Heatherington is sold into indentured servitude to cover her father’s debts, sold to Aidan Warrick, a man whose handsome face and form mock the rumors that skulk in his shadow, rumors that paint him a smuggler, a pirate…and worse... -
The Alpha’s Bullied Pregnant Mate by Alexa Griffin
Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsHe tormented me for years. Now I have to pretend I’m his mate and carry his baby…His bullying made me an outcast in the pack until it almost broke me.Now he’s the Alpha and under pressure to find a mate. So he grabs the first female he sees—me.He tells me to pretend I’m his luna. And soon my curves can’t hide my growing belly…He chose to bully me because I’m the sunshine to his thunder...Categorized as:
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Dunmoor: A compelling journey in gothic suspense by London Clarke
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsA lush gothic from bestselling author London Clarke set in the Regency era, Dunmoor is a tale of generational curses that threaten to destroy the most innocent and vulnerable.England, 1818. Lady Helena Winters hasn’t seen her husband in over a year—not since he disappeared without a trace... -
Deadlight Hall by Sarah Rayne
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA long-ago crime continues to menace the present in this spine-chilling tale of supernatural suspense. When Michael Flint is asked by a colleague to investigate a reputedly haunted house, he is intrigued. Leo Rosendale’s childhood was blighted by a macabre tragedy in the grim Deadlight Hall – a tragedy that occurred towards the end of World War II, involving a set of twins who vanished... -
Tales of a Monstrous Heart by Jennifer Delaney
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsBe careful of the dark and those that call it friend.Katherine Woodrow is Fey, and all she wants is to graduate from the Institute of Magic. But when the prejudiced mortal council threaten her position at the institute, she is left with only one option: accept a Mage Partnership with the elusive Lord Blackthorn.Emrys Blackthorn is a riddle Kat is fearful of solving... -
The Nanny's Handbook to Magic and Managing Difficult Dukes by Amy Rose Bennett
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsMary Poppins meets Bridgerton in a feel-good blend of cozy fantasy magic, historical romance, humor, and Victorian era charm, as a recent graduate of the Parasol Academy for Exceptional Nannies and Governesses finds her supernatural abilities are little help when it comes to falling for the shy, mysterious inventor who happens to be her employer . .Categorized as:
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Desire Me by Robyn DeHart
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsThe Legend Hunters . . . The Men of Solomon's meet in secret, their very existence only a rumor among the best of Victorian society. They are treasure hunters, men of wealth and title, seekers of myths and legends. And no legend is as mystifying as the lost city of Atlantis . . -
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House of Shadows by Darcie Coates
Sophie’s world is shattered when disaster bankrupts her family. She’s still reeling from the news when she’s offered an unexpected solution: Mr Argenton, a wealthy stranger, asks for her hand in marriage... -
The Eight by Katherine Neville
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 46 ratingsWhen two young women in France of 1790 discover the Montglane Chess Service in Montglane Abbey, they recognize its mystic ability to provide anyone playing it with unlimited power and desperately scatter its pieces around the world. But in 1972, computer expert Catherine "Cat" Velis is hired to recover the chess pieces--and is caught up in a nefarious, globe-spanning conspiracy... -
The Lady Who Lived Again by Thomasine Rappold
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsMadeleine Sutter was once the belle of the ball at the popular resort town of Misty Lake, New York. But as the sole survivor of the community’s worst tragedy, she’s come under suspicion. Longing for the life she once enjoyed, she accepts a rare social invitation to the event of the season... -
The Traitor's Game by M.J. Scott
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsMagically bound to the man who should be her enemy. Chloe de Montesse thought her new life would be peaceful. But now she has an inconvenient marriage no one wants to let her end, a diplomatic scandal to navigate, and old troubles swirling around her. As well as trying to determine who might want her dead... -
I'll Never Be Your Crown Princess! (Manga) Vol. 2 (王太子妃になんてなりたくない!! [Outaishi-hi ni Nante Naritakunai!!] (Comic) #2) by Saki Tsukigami, Enn Tsutamori
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIn this sexy isekai romcom manga, a noblewoman loses her virginity to a mystery man to avoid marrying a prince--but he turns out to be the prince himself! A scandalous romance in another world! The noblewoman Lidiana, daughter of a duke, is actually the reincarnation of a modern Japanese woman who was tossed into this fantasy world... -
The Glass Woman: A Novel by Caroline Lea
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsRósa has always dreamed of living a simple life alongside her Mamma in their remote village in Iceland, where she prays to the Christian God aloud during the day, whispering enchantments to the old gods alone at night...
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