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  • The Valkyrie by Carrie Cotten

    The Valkyrie by Carrie Cotten

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 8 ratings
    Can the truth-speaker’s promise of life from death really be for them?After a year in captivity, Isa Bjorndottir feels dead inside. Restored to her mother, the Shieldmaiden of Volfsby, Isa watches life happening all around her, yet wants nothing more than to avoid every look or touch, even from those she loves...
  • Tindr by Octavia Randolph

    Tindr by Octavia Randolph

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    Book Five of the Circle of Ceridwen SagaThe Lady of the Forest, Freyja, the Goddess of all woodland beasts, appears here on Midgard as a white hind. So great is her love for her deer that she herself comes in their guise. None has ever seen her; but if she permitted man but a glance, that is what they would see...Tindr is handsome, kind, and the best hunter on 9th century Gotland...
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  • Eye of the Wolf by A.E. Rayne

    Eye of the Wolf by A.E. Rayne

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 25 ratings
    Book 1 of 6: The Lords of AlekkaAlys de Sant has never revealed her secret, knowing it could get her killed… but what if that secret could save a kingdom?Trapped in a small village, Alys makes plans to escape her cruel husband, unaware of the growing danger in the turbulent Kingdom of Alekka...
  • Shield-Maiden: Gambit of Shadows by Melanie Karsak

    Shield-Maiden: Gambit of Shadows by Melanie Karsak

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A kingdom at war.A conflict forged in the tragedies of the past.A shield-maiden thrust into the heart of all.Just when Ervie was beginning to break free of the shadows that plagued her, the Gauls set fire to her world. With King Harald murdered, the warhorn calls for revenge. From Skagen to Grund, the Vikings will rally to avenge the heinous attack...
  • Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation Vol. 18 by Rifujin na Magonote

    Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation Vol. 18 by Rifujin na Magonote

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    In the years since Ariel took the throne, Rudeus has been keeping busy carrying out missions for Orsted and even finding time to save an old friend from slave traders...
  • Under the Strawberry Moon by Melanie Karsak

    Under the Strawberry Moon by Melanie Karsak

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Under the strawberry moon, the gods of Asgard whisper to me.Balder murmurs love.Bragi blesses my voice.Sif gifts me with beauty.But these blessings go wasted in the sleepy village of Dalr where I am simply Svafa, the jarl’s daughter. A völva tells me I am destined to marry a hero, that my child’s name will become legendary. How I’m supposed to achieve this enormous fate is beyond me...
  • Winter's Maiden by Morgan L. Busse

    Winter's Maiden by Morgan L. Busse

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Warrior. Survivor. Daughter of the North.From the moment she is born, Brighid fights to survive in the wastelands of Nordica as a clanless one. But when a new power arrives offering a trial to join the Nordic warriors, Brighid enters, hoping to rise above her station. Soon she becomes one of their fiercest fighters and joins the war against the south...
  • Healer's Blade by Kyrie Wang

    Healer's Blade by Kyrie Wang

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    2023 Page Turner Book Awards - FINALIST2023 Wishing Shelf Awards - FINALISTA healer on the run. A rebel knight after her heart. Will she betray him to save the England she loves?Eighteen-year-old healer Aliwyn lives in shame after her medical failures. Despite a rebellion brewing against William the Conqueror, she yearns to practice medicine in peace...
  • Taboo by Tara Maya

    Taboo by Tara Maya

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    A DEVASTATING SETBACK Enemy tribesmen attacked during the Initiation. Dindi used the magic of the corn cob doll to protect herself and others but at a terrible price. Now her dreams are in shambles. In despair, she decides to step into the forbidden faery ring, and dance herself to death with the fae. Then she discovers another choice that saves her life…but breaks the ultimate taboo...
  • Scarbound by Evie Marceau

    Scarbound by Evie Marceau

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 9 ratings
    Duty comes before love . . . or does it?Bryn has been thrust into the center of attention—and danger—as the heir to the Mir throne. She struggles with placing duty above love, as the entire Baer kingdom must reckon with Rangar’s wrath at her decision.But winter brings a shocking tragedy that forces Bryn and Rangar apart...
  • Arcanist Fables by Shami Stovall

    Arcanist Fables by Shami Stovall

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Strange places. New arcanists. The rise of the Second Ascension.Volke Savan has proven himself time and time again, but now the others of the Frith Guild want their opportunity. Illia wants to recover a lost runestone, Master Zelfree hopes to learn the magics of the Mother of Shapeshifters, and Adelgis surprises himself with the new depths of his dreamweaving abilities...
  • Dragonfly by Resa Nelson

    Dragonfly by Resa Nelson

    Rated: 3.77 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    In a medieval fantasy world where a handful of refugees from a Viking-like world now live in peace in a village of Shining Star people in the Great Turtle Lands, Greeta faces a dilemma. Although she longs to be married and have children, her sweetheart is balking. Something is wrong, and she suspects it’s because she looks nothing like any other young women...
  • A Most Personal Property by Darrah Glass

    A Most Personal Property by Darrah Glass

    Rated: 3.60 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    In the heat of August 1900, Henry Blackwell—rich, handsome, and painfully shy—anticipates the purchase of his companion slave, that most personal of properties, with equal parts excitement and dread. There are limits to what a gentleman might do with his slave and still remain a gentleman, and what Henry craves goes far beyond what’s allowed...
  • The Half-Drowned King by Linnea Hartsuyker

    The Half-Drowned King by Linnea Hartsuyker

    Rated: 3.74 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Since the death of Ragnvald Eysteinsson's father in battle, he has worked hard to protect his sister Svanhild and planned to inherit his family's land when he comes of age. But when the captain of his ship tries to kill him on the way home from a raiding excursion, he must confront his stepfather's betrayal, and find a way to protect his birthright...
  • Hush: An Irish Princess' Tale by Donna Jo Napoli

    Hush: An Irish Princess' Tale by Donna Jo Napoli

    Rated: 3.60 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 32 ratings
    Melkorka is a princess, the first daughter of a magnificent kingdom in mediæval Ireland -- but all of this is lost the day she is kidnapped and taken aboard a marauding slave ship. Thrown into a world that she has never known, alongside people that her former country's laws regarded as less than human, Melkorka is forced to learn quickly how to survive...
  • A Light in the Flame by Jennifer L. Armentrout

    A Light in the Flame by Jennifer L. Armentrout

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 451 ratings
    From #1 New York Times bestselling author Jennifer L. Armentrout comes book two in her Flesh and Fire series…The only one who can save Sera now is the one she spent her life planning to kill.The truth about Sera’s plan is out, shattering the fragile trust forged between her and Nyktos. Surrounded by those distrustful of her, all Sera has is her duty...
  • Of War and Ruin by Ryan Cahill

    Of War and Ruin by Ryan Cahill

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings
    Solian ata'yar. Dauv ata'yar. Nur temen vie'ryn valana.Live as one. Die as one. For those we've lost.The city of Kingspass burns, and Calen Bryer's world has been shaken to its core. With Valerys at his side, Calen must battle his demons and push forward. There are people who need him, people who need what he must become, and he will not let them stand alone...
  • Heartless Sky by Caroline Peckham, Susanne Valenti

    Heartless Sky by Caroline Peckham, Susanne Valenti

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 268 ratings
    The winds of fate are shifting, and it finally seems like they’ve been twisted in our favour.On the run and cast out from society, we’ve been forced to hide from the mad man who stole our throne. But as more secrets come to light and my sister and I work harder than ever before to reach our potential and claim our birth right, the end is finally drawing closer...
  • Plague Arcanist by Shami Stovall

    Plague Arcanist by Shami Stovall

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Deserts. Rogues. A secret hidden in an underground maze.Every moment counts as Volke Savan races south to the city of New Norra. His goal: find Theasin Venrover, the famous artificer who may have a cure for the arcane plague. Separated from most of the Frith Guild—and even his sister—Volke must rely on the crew of the airship, the Sun Chaser, to help him find Theasin in time...
  • The Goddess of Magic by Michelle Madow

    The Goddess of Magic by Michelle Madow

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    Summer Donovan is the only person who can save the world from a war that will end it all.If she can figure out who to trust. And who to lie to. And survive long enough to fight her way out of the Underworld.Piece of cake.The war between the Greek and Norse gods rages on with no end in sight.No one is safe from the carnage...
  • World Serpent Arcanist by Shami Stovall

    World Serpent Arcanist by Shami Stovall

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Death. Destiny. The rise of god-arcanists.Volke Savan has reunited with the Frith Guild just in time to help fight the Second Ascension, a group of power-hungry dastards bent on controlling the newly created god creatures. The world serpent is the first on their list, and if the Second Ascension manages to harness its power, the world will forever be changed for the worse...
  • Trial by Fire by Jada Fisher

    Trial by Fire by Jada Fisher

    Rated: 4.49 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    In a world full of darkness, the light of the sun is the only thing that can keep the Dark at bay. And dragons are the only thing that can protect the light.The first book in an epic new dragon rider series from bestselling author Jada Fisher.Tennegan Felter (Ten) is a humble servant in Epoch Sol, a beacon of light in a world full of darkness...
  • Redeemer by Leia Stone, S.T. Bende

    Redeemer by Leia Stone, S.T. Bende

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Hunt down the weapon pieces, destroy the night goddess, protect Midgard (Earth). That was always the mission... When an unexpected sacrifice turns Allie’s world on its head, she discovers her true function within the Asgardian world. Her new purpose has much higher stakes — and significantly bigger dangers — than she ever could have imagined...
  • Mark of the Hunter by A.E. Rayne

    Mark of the Hunter by A.E. Rayne

    Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    The Lords of Alekka continues with this action-packed second volume...Trapped in the forest, surrounded by vengeful gods and evil spirits, Hakon Vettel is dying. His dreams of the Alekkan throne in tatters, he must fight for his life while those around him plot their next move...
  • Kushiel's Chosen by Jacqueline Carey

    Kushiel's Chosen by Jacqueline Carey

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 48 ratings
    Following hard on the heels of Kushiel's Dart, Jacqueline Carey's spectacular debut novel, comes Kushiel's Chosen, a glittering and riveting historical fantasy.The land of Terre d'Ange is a place of unsurpassed beauty and grace. It is said that the angels found the land and saw it was good, and the ensuing race that rose from the seed of angels and men live by one simple rule: Love as thou wilt...
  • The Queen of Magic by Michelle Madow

    The Queen of Magic by Michelle Madow

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Her soulmate spied on her people. Now she’s going to do the same to his.After Zane and Summer journeyed through the Immortal Mountains together, she finally recognized him as her soulmate and let him into her life. Then he told her he loved her and left her in the woods, shattering her heart.But the game isn’t over...
  • Touching Oblivion by Albany Walker

    Touching Oblivion by Albany Walker

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 85 ratings
    The road to hell is paved with good intentions.She gave, we took, then I demanded more.I had my reasons, but none of them are good enough to validate what happened.I need her to forgive me, but I don’t know if I went too far this time.Going through the motions...
  • The Second Blind Son by Amy Harmon

    The Second Blind Son by Amy Harmon

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 28 ratings
    A lost girl and a blind boy discover their greatest strength is their bond with each other in a beguiling fantasy by the New York Times bestselling author of The First Girl Child.An insidious curse is weakening the Norse kingdom of Saylok, where no daughters have been born in years. Washing up on these plagued shores is Ghisla, an orphaned stowaway nursed back to health by a blind cave dweller...
  • Night of Masks and Knives by L.J. Andrews

    Night of Masks and Knives by L.J. Andrews

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    Wicked men stole the boy she loved. But when she found him again, he'd become more wicked than them all.Malin Strom has been searching for Kase, her childhood sweetheart, since he was lost at the annual masquerade years ago.With her gift for stealing memories, Malin crosses more than one dangerous line to take secrets from those who know what goes on behind the curtain of the wicked festival...
  • Hexed by Kevin Hearne

    Hexed by Kevin Hearne

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 68 ratings
    In the second novel in the New York Times bestselling Iron Druid Chronicles, two thousand-year-old Druid Atticus O’Sullivan faces off against witches, Bacchants, and a ravenous fallen angel.“A page-turning and often laugh-out-loud-funny caper through a mix of the modern and the mythic...
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