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Readers who enjoyed A Clockwork Christmas by J.K. Coi, Angela James, P.G. Forte, Stacy Gail & Jenny Schwartz also liked the following books featuring the same tropes, story themes, relationship dynamics and character types.
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Dragons Beyond the Pale by Maria Grace
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSmugglers. A kidnapping. A fire-breathing fairy dragon? The Blue Order is falling apart at the seams.After months in Bath mentoring Dragon Keepers and Friends, Dragon Sage Elizabeth Darcy actually anticipates traveling to London for the Keeper’s Cotillion. Which says a great deal considering the she-dragons who make up the Cotillion board would very much like to show the Sage her proper place... -
The Kraken King and the Abominable Worm by Meljean Brook
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAs they continue their expedition across Australia, Ariq is determined to stay close to Zenobia and figure out what kind of game she’s playing—even as his admiration for the enigmatic woman starts to override his suspicion...Categorized as:
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Lycans and Legends by Melanie Karsak
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSomeone is trying to assassinate the Queen.After stopping a mysterious preternatural assailant wielding an enchanted dagger, Clemeny is on the hunt. Why is someone after Victoria? To find answers, Clemeny Louvel must travel to the one place she's been avoiding, the Summer Country. Among the mist and standing stones, secrets about her case-and herself-are hiding... -
Mandrake Company by Ruby Lionsdrake
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSeven sizzling science-fiction romance novels!If you loved Star Wars and Firefly, but wanted way more romance, this is the series for you...Categorized as:
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Wrighting Old Wrongs by Maria Grace
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsControlling Fire, Earth, Water, and Air with a simple touch would have been much more impressive if it paid the bills.For nearly 200 years, the Wrights have controlled the Elements, shaping them to their will. But, the new era of industrialization threatens their extinction...Categorized as:
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All Fun and Games by Honor Raconteur
Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIt’s all fun and games until someone gets murdered.Well, the Queen’s Own certainly isn’t having fun, because what’s worse than one case? Two, of course. And what’s worse than two? Whatever madness Jamie’s currently in.The body count is rising, all the MO’s are different, and cleaning charms have wiped the murder scenes of clues... -
Lover from the Waves by Tiffany Roberts
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA lonely widow. A determined kraken. An attraction they can’t resist.Long ago, the sea took Kathryn’s husband. She never thought it would give anything back. But now that her children are grown with little ones of their own, she finds her eyes drawn more and more to those restless waters—and she sees part of herself reflected in them. Something out there calls to her... -
Howls and Hallows by Melanie Karsak
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsYou're invited to the All Hallows Ball.*Werewolves prohibited.Busy tracking down thieving werewolves in London, Clemeny is surprised when Edwin asks her to lead a new case in the Fenlands of east England.The Cabell family is haunted by a curse. Something in the misty moors surrounding Cabell Manor has come howling just days before the exclusive All Hallows Ball. How gauche... -
The Kraken King and the Empress's Eyes by Meljean Brook
Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsExperience the incredible adventure and heart-stopping romance of the Iron Seas in this thrilling steampunk tale from New York Times bestselling author Meljean Brook.The Kraken King, Part VIIThe Kraken King and the Empress’s EyesIn the imperial city, nothing escapes the attention of the empress’s spies...Categorized as:
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The Chronothon by Nathan Van Coops
Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsRun from the past. Run from the future. Run for your lives. He’s a novice time traveler in a big universe.Ben just wants time with the scientist’s daughter who got him into this, but when he’s rooked into competing in a chronothon–an Amazing Race through time–getting the girl means he’ll need to make the finish line... -
The Kraken King and the Greatest Adventure by Meljean Brook
Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsExperience the incredible adventure and heart-stopping romance of the Iron Seas in this thrilling steampunk tale from New York Times bestselling author Meljean Brook. The Kraken King, Part VIII The Kraken King and the Greatest AdventureArriving in Krakentown with their enemies in hot pursuit, Zenobia doesn’t know how they can even hope to win...Categorized as:
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Finding You in Time by Bess McBride
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsREVISED AND UPDATED (No new content) Book Four of the best-selling Train Through Time series, a historical time travel romance series set in and around Seattle, Spokane, Wenatchee and Montana in the early 1900s. Nathan Carpenter has lost the woman he loves...on a train...to another time. He has lost everything, even himself as he cannot find a way to return to his own time...to 1906... -
Return To Yellowstone by Peggy L. Henderson
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLetting go might harder than they thought... Everything she'd hoped for has come true. Aimee Donovan's mountain man of her dreams came to 2010 to find her and take her home, and now they can live together forever. But a life two hundred years in the past is filled with challenges... -
A Gentleman of Means by Shelley Adina
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsBook 8 in the Magnificent Devices steampunk series!How much must one sacrifice for the sake of friendship?Lady Claire Trevelyan has had to deal with betrayal before, in small ways and large. But none is quite so painful as the belief that Gloria Meriwether-Astor had deserted her and her friends and left them to die under the waters of Venice...Categorized as:
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A Knack for Metal and Bone by Kim McDougall
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA royal tinker and a rogue soldier must unite to stop the monsters threatening their city—and unravel the secrets lurking within it. Rowan doesn’t just work with machines—she hears them. The hum of engines, the whisper of gears and wires—they speak to her through the magic that flows from her mech hand... -
Liberty by Lindsay Buroker
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsKali has been working toward her dream of building an airship and escaping the frozen Yukon for so long that she can scarcely believe it’s close to becoming a reality. There’s just one problem. Cedar, her friend and business partner (and maybe a little more), is in jail, and the American authorities are on their way to hang him...Categorized as:
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Nyssa Glass and the House of Mirrors by H.L. Burke
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsNyssa Glass is a reformed cat burglar turned electrician's apprentice, settled into a life repairing videophones and radio-sets. However, when her past comes calling, she finds herself forced into one last job. No one has entered Professor Dalhart's secluded mansion in almost a decade, at least not and returned to tell the tale... -
Chasing the Green Fairy by Melanie Karsak
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA sabotaged airship.A recovering opium addict.A messenger with life-shattering news.With the 1824 British airship qualifying race only weeks away, Lily Stargazer is at the top of her game. She’s racing like a pro, truly in love, and living clean. But on one ill-omened day, everything changes...Categorized as:
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The Iron Fin by Anne Renwick
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA vampiric octopus hunting selkies. A torrid love affair. Traitors who prey on those closest to them in a bid for power. Isa McQuiston is caught between two worlds. Strange creatures are attacking her people, their injuries beyond her medical expertise. More than one fisherman has been tossed ashore by the waves, drained of blood, a severed tentacle piercing his flesh...Categorized as:
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Shadow of the War Machine by Kristin Bailey
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMeg has come a long way from her days as a lowly housemaid, driven to learn the truth behind her parents’ murder. She’s since discovered that they were part of the Secret Order of Modern Amusementists — an underground society of inventors...Categorized as:
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Clara's Heart by Kitty Margo
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsRipped from the arms of the man she loves, Clara returns to her family, and her fiancé... -
Burning Hope by Kathryn Ann Kingsley
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsNero is a madman and a murderer…and now Hope belongs to him.Hope's life as an enslaved priestess in the Temple of Hera is all she has ever known. Born to slavery and the golden chain she wears around her neck, very little ever came as a surprise. But when she meets Nero, the only thing she can trust is that everything is about to change... -
Cursed Opal by Kathryn Ann Kingsley
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHugo Finch saved Opal’s life…but now his dark secret might kill them both.Opal had received a lot of propositions in her career, but none were as tempting as when the commander of the West Wind Dominion offered to save her life. But like all things, it would come at a price. What he would have to do to save her would leave her...not human.But Hugo Finch was not entirely what he seemed... -
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This Time Forever by Constance O'Day-Flannery
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsConstance O'Day-Flannery has touched millions of readers' hearts with her magical romances that stir the imagination. Now, she delivers the story of a fiery Irish woman who travels forward in time to the 20th century and meets the man who will change her fate--forever... -
A Lesson in Pride by Jennifer Connors
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBook #8 of the Lesson SeriesAs terrifying as it is to enter someone else's life in the middle of it, Ginny never imagined it would be her character's wedding night. Alone in a room with candles and champagne, Ginny realizes that's exactly what's happened.Grant Montgomery was the spare and never tried to be anything more... -
Alphas and Airships by Melanie Karsak
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWith Lionheart as the new alpha, the streets of London are quiet. But above the realm, mischief is brewing. While airship pirates are a common plague upon the kingdom, the Airship Fenrir proves particularly troublesome--especially on a full moon.Clemeny must take to the skies before these shape-shifting Vikings kick off a new Ragnarok... -
Vinyl by Sophia Elaine Hanson, Sophia Slade
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAll citizens within the soaring black walls of Revinia have metal Singers grafted into their skulls at birth. The parasitic machines issue a form of auditory hypnosis called The Music, which keeps their minds malleable and emotions flat. All artistic expression—especially real music—is strictly prohibited... -
A Lady of Integrity by Shelley Adina
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsBook 7 in the Magnificent Devices steampunk series! Will a daring rescue put a wedding and a future at risk? Lady Claire Trevelyan and renowned scientist Andrew Malvern are looking forward to domestic felicity in London when they are surprised by an unexpected visitor...Categorized as:
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Rebel Magisters by Shanna Swendson
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsTea, Love ... and Revolution!The Rebel Mechanics aren’t the only group plotting revolution against the magical British Empire. There are rebel magisters, as well, and Verity Newton and her magister employer, Lord Henry, know that the only way for the revolution to succeed is if both groups work together...Categorized as:
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Beauty and Beastly: Steampunk Beauty and the Beast by Melanie Karsak
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn this tale as old as time, Isabella Hawking must tinker a solution to a heartbreaking mystery. When Isabelle and her papa set out from London on a sea voyage, Isabelle was thrilled. Visiting foreign courts, learning from master tinkers, and studying new ways to manipulate mechanicals sounded like a dream. But an unexpected gale turns the waters violent, and the ship is lost...Categorized as:
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Hunted by Lindsay Buroker
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsSelf-taught tinkerer Kali McAlister is determined to build an airship and escape the frigid Yukon forever. Unfortunately, she’s the heir to the secrets of flash gold, an alchemical energy source that tends to make her a popular target for bandits, gangsters, and pirates...Categorized as:
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Claimed by Lindsay Buroker
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsAfter years on the hunt, Cedar Kartes is finally within striking distance of Cudgel Conrad, the criminal who slew his brother and framed him for murder. With the help of Kali McAlister, his business partner and the woman he’s mustering the courage to court, he believes he can finally rid the world of a bloodthirsty felon. But nothing is ever easy in the Yukon...Categorized as:
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Golden Braids and Dragon Blades: Steampunk Rapunzel by Melanie Karsak
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsBeing the heir to Camelot is a tangled mess. Rapunzel has spent her entire life living in Merlin's cave on the coast of Cornwall. Under the protection of her faerie guardian, Gothel, she’s stayed safe. Safe and bored. Dreaming of a life that looks more like a Jane Austen novel, Rapunzel fears she'll never have the chance to explore Victorian England's modern delights. Or meet a man. Or be kissed... -
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The Last Bloodcarver by Vanessa Le
Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsThe tantalizing romance of These Violent Delights meets the mechanical wonders of Cinder in The Last Bloodcarver, the first in a two-book debut -- with a riveting medical magic system and lush Vietnam-inspired fantasy world.Nhika is a bloodcarver. A cold-hearted, ruthless being who can alter human biology with just a touch... -
Blood and Steam by Jamie Sedgwick
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFive Stars: "Cannot say enough about how much I enjoyed this book. Author knows how to write an interesting story."-Goodreads ReviewFive Stars: "Sedgwick's imagination soars for this tale..."-Amazon ReviewFive Stars: "... the best series I've read in a long while... This series gets top marks from me..Categorized as:
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The Silver Skull by Anne Renwick
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAn illegal border crossing.A fake marriage.A mad German count determined to create an army of unbreakable soldiers.Lady Olivia is not all she seems.Trained for marriage to an assigned political target, her skills lie in programming household steambots to serve tea, dress her hair...and sound the alarm while she picks locks and listens at doors... -
Devices Brightly Shining by Shelley Adina
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsOn the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me Dreadful relations, high expectations, And a sudden urge to pull up ropes and flee. It is the event of the season—on Twelfth Night, the Dunsmuirs have invited the cream of London society to celebrate the marriage of Lady Claire and Andrew Malvern at a reception to which the Prince Consort himself is expected... -
The Mysterious Madam Morpho by Delilah S. Dawson
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsTaking place after Wicked as They Come, this original eBook features a mysterious lady and a reclusive mechanical genius who find love and danger in a traveling circus. An elusive woman arrives at Criminy’s doorstep with a steamer trunk, begging for a position in the caravan to perform her unique new act. She opens her trunk to reveal a menagerie of brilliantly colored butterflies... -
Sweeter Savage Love by Sandra Hill
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsTHE STROKE OF SURPRISINGLY GENTLE HANDS ...THE FLASH OF FATHOMLESS BLUE EYES ...THE SCORCH OF WHITE-HOT KISSES ...And once again, Harriet Ginoza was swept away into rapturous fantasy. The up-to-date psychologist knew the object of her desire was all she should despise, yet time after time, she lost herself in visions of a dangerously handsome rogue straight out of a historical romance... -
Rebels Rising by Shanna Swendson
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsRisking all for freedom – and love.The governor has disbanded the Colonial Assembly, removing the last shred of representative government from American shores. The Rebel Mechanics and their magister allies can’t let the Empire get away with that. The time has come to act...Categorized as:
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Ice and Embers: Steampunk Snow Queen by Melanie Karsak
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIt takes more than passion and pixie dust to thaw a frozen heart.With the 1814 London Frost Fair in full swing, actress Elyse McKenna's performance in A Midwinter Night's Dream thrills the crowd. But Elyse's backstage has life is beginning to take on a distinctly Shakespearean flavor.When she fell in love with Lord John Waldegrave, Elyse was prepared to keep their affair secret...Categorized as:
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Paniha's Taniwha by A.W. Exley
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsCaptain Lachlan Hawke, notorious rogue and airship pirate, is about to explore uncharted territory… inside his own headLoki pilots a long-range airship to the farthest reaches of the globe and touches down in an alternate Aotearoa under Maori rule... -
Time Ship, Book One by Ian C.P. Irvine
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsGripping, Enthralling, Imaginative & Hard to Put Down! A rip-roaring, page-turning thriller! If you don't believe time travel is possible, based upon the infamous US Defence Department's 'Project Rainbow', this book will make change your mind.. -
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The Peculiar Pets of Miss Pleasance by Delilah S. Dawson
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA lady with a penchant for pets meets a sexy fireman in this magical and saucy steampunk eNovella from the author of Wicked as They Come.In a world ruled by blood, live pets are rare and kindness rarer still. London pet shop owner Frannie Pleasance has a mysterious way with animals and keeps her charges (and heart) locked in a veritable Eden... -
Rise of the Arcane Fire by Kristin Bailey
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAfter her parents died in a fire and her grandfather disappeared, Meg Whitlock thought her life had come to a standstill. But when she learned that the pocket watch her grandfather left her was really an intricate key, Meg, with the help of a stable hand named Will, uncovered the Amusementists: members of an elite secret society dedicated to discovery and shrouded in mystery...Categorized as:
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Wicked Ever After by Delilah S. Dawson
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDelilah S. Dawson’s award-winning Blud series comes full circle as Tish and Criminy, stars of Wicked as They Come, embark on a sexy and harrowing final adventure in a world RT Book Reviews called “delightfully edgy with hidden charms.”Ever since landing in the magical world of Sang and falling in love with dashing ringmaster Criminy Stain, Tish has been waiting for the axe to fall... -
Time-Kept Promises by Constance O'Day-Flannery
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBearing a striking resemble to Christina O'Mara, a beautiful woman who disappeared without a trace years ago, Kristine Gavin is transported back in time into the body of her double and falls for Christine's devastatingly handsome husband Sean O'Mara--a man who might be a murderer. Reissue... -
A Touch of Death by Rebecca Crunden
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA thousand years in the future, the last of humanity live inside the walls of the totalitarian Kingdom of Cutta. The rich live in Anais, the capital city of Cutta, sheltered from the famine and disease which ravage the rest of the Kingdom. Yet riches and power only go so far, and even Anaitians can be executed... -
Cogling by Jordan Elizabeth
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen fifteen-year-old Edna Mather tears an expensive and unfamiliar pocket watch off her little brother's neck, he crumbles into a pile of cogs right before her eyes...
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