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  • Bitterthorn by Kat Dunn

    Bitterthorn by Kat Dunn

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 23 ratings
    Blumwald is a town overshadowed by an ancient curse: in a sinister castle in the depths of the wild wood lives a monstrous Witch. Once a generation, she comes to claim a companion to return with her – never to be seen again. Now that time is drawing near once more. .. Mina, daughter of the duke, is grieving and lonely. She has lost all hope of any future for herself in Blumwald...
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    paranormal  dark  magic  mystery  queer  fantasy  f-f  witches
  • Sword in the Stars by A.R. Capetta, Cori McCarthy

    Sword in the Stars by A.R. Capetta, Cori McCarthy

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    In this epic sequel to Once & Future, Ari and her Rainbow knights must pull off a Holy Grail heist thousands of years in the past -- without destroying their own destinies. Ari Helix may have won her battle against the tyrannical Mercer corporation, but the larger war has just begun...
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  • Pride and Prejudice and Pittsburgh by Rachael Lippincott

    Pride and Prejudice and Pittsburgh by Rachael Lippincott

    Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 40 ratings
    From the New York Times bestselling coauthor of Five Feet Apart and She Gets the Girl comes a fresh and inventive sapphic romantic comedy that’s “a gem of a book” (Booklist, starred review) “perfect for fans of Outlander and Bridgerton” (Kirkus Reviews). What if you found a once-in-a-lifetime love…just not in your lifetime? Audrey Cameron has lost her spark...
  • Everybody Wants to Rule the World Except Me by Django Wexler

    Everybody Wants to Rule the World Except Me by Django Wexler

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 19 ratings
    Dark Lord Davi rules the kingdom, but she must now break the time loop that binds her in this hilariously bloody conclusion to the Dark Lord Davi duology. After countless failures (let’s not dwell on it), Davi has finally saved the kingdom from evil–by becoming the Dark Lord herself. But now, the hordes of wilders are at her command, and they still want blood. Human blood...
  • The Crown of Valencia by Catherine Friend

    The Crown of Valencia by Catherine Friend

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Ex-lovers can really mess up your life. Kate Vincent's ex, Anna, certainly does. Not only does Anna interfere in Kate's love life, but she totally screws up the world by traveling back in time to 11th century Spain and changing one crucial event. As any sane person knows, you cannot alter an event in history without altering everything that follows—but Anna has an agenda, and a score to settle...
  • The Spanish Pearl by Catherine Friend

    The Spanish Pearl by Catherine Friend

    Rated: 3.84 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Lesbian adventure romance. When Kate Vincent and her partner travel to Spain, Kate is accidentally transported back in time. .. way back in time. .. to 1085. What does a woman like Kate do in a world of no antibiotics, no feminism, no Diet Coke? She denies it as long as possible, then sets her mind to getting home. Tricky with her now useless twenty-first century skills. Things don't go well...
  • One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston

    One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston

    Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 241 ratings
    From the New York Times bestselling author of Red, White & Royal Blue comes a new romantic comedy that will stop readers in their tracks. .. Cynical twenty-three-year old August doesn’t believe in much. She doesn’t believe in psychics, or easily forged friendships, or finding the kind of love they make movies about...
  • This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone

    This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone

    Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 274 ratings
    Two time-traveling agents from warring futures, working their way through the past, begin to exchange letters—and fall in love in this thrilling and romantic book from award-winning authors Amal-El Mohtar and Max Gladstone. Among the ashes of a dying world, an agent of the Commandant finds a letter. It reads: Burn before reading...
  • 入赘 | Rùzhuì | Matrilocal Marriage by 请君莫笑

    入赘 | Rùzhuì | Matrilocal Marriage by 请君莫笑

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 5 ratings
    Yun An was a volunteer chosen among thousands by the space time research institute. Simply planning to record the true historical events of the military revolt in the year nine hundred and sixty, she signed the consent form, stepped into the time machine, but a peculiar thing happened during her travel through time, causing Yun An to be sent to an unknown place and time…...
  • Forget This Ever Happened by Cassandra Rose Clarke

    Forget This Ever Happened by Cassandra Rose Clarke

    Rated: 3.82 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 15 ratings
    Sometimes there's a town called Indianola. And sometimes there isn't. Summer, 1993. Claire has been dumped in rural Indianola, Texas, to spend her whole vacation taking care of mean, sickly Grammy. There's nothing too remarkable about Indianola: it's run-down, shabby, and stifling hot, a pin-dot on the Gulf Coast. Well, there is one remarkable thing, she discovers. Something otherworldly...
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