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Kiss of the Highlander by Karen Marie Moning
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... -
The Ballad of Smallhope and Pennyroyal by Jodi Taylor
Rated: 4.73 of 5 stars · 28 ratingsFrom 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... -
A Family Oath by Auburn Tempest, Michael Anderle
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... -
A Gilded Cage by Auburn Tempest, Michael Anderle
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... -
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The Long and Short of It by Jodi Taylor
Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsFollow 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 BornA jump back to 1066 to witness the coronation of William the Conqueror goes slightly astray... -
The Great St Mary's Day Out by Jodi Taylor
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsAlso available in The Long and Short of It.Everyone deserves to get away for a bit. Even the miscreants at St Mary's. Astonishingly, Dr Bairstow has declared a holiday. Even more astonishingly - he's paying for it. Needless to say, there are strings attached. They have to record the 1601 performance of Hamlet, with Shakespeare himself in the role of the Ghost. It doesn't go well, of course...Categorized as:
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The Steam Pump Jump by Jodi Taylor
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsNot one to let being banged up in Sick Bay stop her, Max has had a brilliant idea. But she needs Markham to execute it on her behalf. The subject of this cunning plan is Peterson, struggling with another bereavement and not doing very well. What’s needed to get him through it is sympathy, sensitivity, tact and understanding. Step forward Mr Markham, for whom sympathy, sensitivity, etc...Categorized as:
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Spellbound Falls by Janet Chapman
New York Times bestselling author Janet Chapman takes us to charming Spellbound Falls, where strange things have started happening ever since Maximilian Oceanus came to town… Maximilian Oceanus arrives in Spellbound Falls just in time to save Olivia Baldwin from an overly aggressive suitor, only to find himself attracted to the beautiful, if rather aloof, widow...Categorized as:
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When a Child is Born by Jodi Taylor
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsIt's Christmas Day 1066 and a team from St Mary's is going to witness the coronation of William the Conqueror.Or so they think.However, History seems to have different plans for them and when Max finds herself delivering a child in a peasant's hut, she can't help wondering what History is up to... -
Markham and the Anal Probing by Jodi Taylor
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsMarkham and the Anal ProbingAnd then there was the day when Markham managed to get himself snatched by aliens – or so we thought at the time.I was summoned to Dr Bairstow’s office to find Markham and Peterson already present. We looked at each other.‘Any clues?’ I asked.They shrugged.‘You can go in now,’ said Mrs Partridge, so in we went.He looked up from his desk. ‘There you are...Categorized as:
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Bump in the Night by H.P. Mallory, J.R. Rain
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 4 ratingsBook #4 in the “Midlife Spirits Series” by New York Times bestselling author, H.P. Mallory (co-author of the Haven Hollow Series)Abandon hope, all ye who enter here... With the ghost of Drake Montague possessing my body, I’ve broken the barrier between this plane and the next... -
Ghostly Gathering by H.P. Mallory, J.R. Rain
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 4 ratingsBook #7 in the “Midlife Spirits Series” by New York Times bestselling author, H.P. Mallory (co-author of the Haven Hollow Series)A murder most foul in the Big Apple…I’m still stuck in 1910 New York, trying to solve the mystery of what happened to Dorothy Arnold and her baby... -
Mischief Brewing by H.P. Mallory, J.R. Rain
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 4 ratingsTwo is better than one; unless the second is hitching a ride in your body.Then one is definitely better than two.After agreeing to let the spirit of Drake Montague inhabit my body (probably not one of my better ideas), I soon discover the twentieth-century French policeman may be dead, but his lothario longings sure aren’t... -
Kilty Secrets by Amy Vansant
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 3 ratingsThe secrets of Broch and Catriona's time-traveling past bubble to the surface in this latest urban fantasy thriller by USA Today and Wall Street Journal best-selling author Amy Vansant. After discovering the shocking consequences of their lark in Las Vegas, Catriona and Broch find themselves on the hunt for a serial killer thought dead... -
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Breath of Magic by Teresa Medeiros
Precocious Puritan and aspiring witch Arian Whitewood spends her lonely nights dreaming of magic and excitement. She gets more excitement than she bargains for when she crash lands straight out of a witch hunt into the 20th century and the arms of Tristan Lennox, a reclusive billionaire...Categorized as:
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Fire of the Dragon by Lori Dillon
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsBeing sent back in time to the Middle Ages wouldn't be so bad if the knight in shining armor who comes to your rescue didn't swoop down in the form of a fire-breathing dragon. Unfortunately for Jill Donahue, that's just the way things have been going in her life lately... -
Sacre Bleu by Christopher Moore
Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars · 44 ratingsDer Pariser Bäcker Lucien Lessard und der Künstler Henri Toulouse-Lautrec haben eines gemeinsam: beide sind erschüttert über den Tod ihres Freundes Vincent van Gogh... -
A Highlander for Hannah by Mary Warren
Hannah Glenn is ready for a change. After quitting her job and breaking up with her slacker boyfriend, she moves to her family’s farm. In her search for clarity, she let her best friend talk her into buying a love spell. Hannah doesn’t believe in magic but decides to perform the spell anyway...Categorized as:
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Not Another Vampire Book by Cassandra Gannon
What’s worse than editing the stupidest supernatural romance novel ever written? Getting stuck inside of it. Karalynn Donnelly has somehow been transported into Eternal Passion at Sunset, a vampire love story filled with enough clichés, anachronisms, and run-on sentences to drive any hardworking book editor insane...Categorized as:
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Lies, Damned Lies, and History by Jodi Taylor
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 29 ratings'I've done some stupid things in my time. I've been reckless. I've broken a few rules. But never before have I ruined so many lives or left such a trail of destruction behind me.' As Max would be the first to admit, she's never been one for rules. They tend to happen to other people. But this time she's gone too far and everyone is paying the price... -
A Trail Through Time by Jodi Taylor
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 32 ratingsSt Mary’s is back and is facing a battle to survive in this, the fourth instalment of the Chronicles. Max and Leon are re-united and looking forward to a peaceful lifetime together. But, sadly, they don’t even make it to lunchtime... -
Magic and the Shinigami Detective by Honor Raconteur
When the Night Foxes boldly break into the Fourth Precinct’s Evidence Building, it causes quite the stir. The break-in is daring enough, but their method shreds the magical wards and protections on the building like confetti paper. To say the police are ‘alarmed’ by this is the understatement of the century.As a Magical Examiner, Henri Davenforth is of course immediately called in... -
Knight of Darkness by Kinley MacGregor, Sherrilyn Kenyon
For countless centuries, I've been the assassin for the infamous Merlin, even though the woman who birthed me sits at the right hand of our enemy, Morgen le Fey. Now both my mother and Morgen have decided that it's time I take my place on their side of this conflict... -
Julian of Macedon by Sherrilyn Kenyon
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 62 ratingsCursed into an eternity of slavery by his own brother, Julian of Macedon has spent centuries in hell, where the only respite he knows is measured in a handful of weeks whenever he's summoned through an arcane spell. With the modern age, those summonings are becoming fewer and fewer, and he lives in fear of the day when they'll stop for good. Grace Alexander doesn't believe in much of anything...Categorized as:
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The Magician's Diary by C.J. Archer
India and Matt thought all their problems would come to an end once they found Chronos. But the watch magician brings with him as many questions as answers, and a load of trouble. To fix Matt's magic watch, they must find an old diary that once belonged to a doctor magician murdered decades ago. The hunt drags them into a sordid mystery involving two of London's craft guilds... -
The Secret Chapter by Genevieve Cogman
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 39 ratingsA Librarian’s work is never done, and once Irene has a quick rest after their latest adventure, she is summoned to the Library. The world where she grew up is in danger of veering deep into chaos, and she needs to obtain a particular book to stop this from happening... -
Besieged by Kevin Hearne
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 31 ratingsThe ancient gods are alive and well in the modern world in this hilarious, action-packed collection of original short stories featuring Atticus O’Sullivan, the handsome, tattooed, two-thousand-year-old Irishman with extraordinary magic powers from Kevin Hearne’s New York Times bestselling Iron Druid Chronicles... -
One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston
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...Categorized as:
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The Book of Life by Deborah Harkness
After traveling through time in Shadow of Night , the second book in Deborah Harkness’s enchanting series, historian and witch Diana Bishop and vampire scientist Matthew Clairmont return to the present to face new crises and old enemies. At Matthew’s ancestral home at Sept-Tours, they reunite with the cast of characters from A Discovery of Witches --with one significant exception... -
Ruby Red by Kerstin Gier, Anthea Bell
Gwyneth Shepherd's sophisticated, beautiful cousin Charlotte has been prepared her entire life for traveling through time...Categorized as:
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