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The Kraken King and the Fox's Den by Meljean Brook
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 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...Categorized as:
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The Kraken King and the Iron Heart by Meljean Brook
Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars · 15 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 V The Kraken King and the Iron Heart With their lives and the fate of an empire at stake, Ariq is forced to leave Zenobia behind...Categorized as:
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The Kraken King and the Inevitable Abduction by Meljean Brook
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe Kraken King has declared that Zenobia Fox is under his protection—and with her identity revealed, she needs that protection more than ever. But it comes with a price when Ariq demands that Zenobia reveal her secrets in return.Ariq wants nothing more than for Zenobia to trust him, and he knows exactly which sensual tricks will breach her defenses...Categorized as:
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![A Stitch in Time by Kelley Armstrong]()
A Stitch in Time by Kelley Armstrong
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsThorne Manor has always been haunted...and it has always haunted Bronwyn Dale. As a young girl, Bronwyn could pass through a time slip in her great-aunt’s house, where she visited William Thorne, a boy her own age, born two centuries earlier. After a family tragedy, the house was shuttered and Bronwyn was convinced that William existed only in her imagination... -
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![Long Live the Queen by Kate Locke]()
Long Live the Queen by Kate Locke
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsXandra Vardan thought life would be simpler when she accepted the goblin crown and became their queen, but life has only become more complicated. Everyone -- vampires, werewolves and humans -- wants the goblins on their side, because whoever has the goblins -- wins... -
![The Queen Is Dead by Kate Locke]()
The Queen Is Dead by Kate Locke
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsNothing lasts forever---and immortality isn't all its cracked up to be.When her brother Val gets in over his head in an investigation of Half-Blood disappearances and goes missing himself, it's up to Xandra, newly crowned Goblin Queen, to get him back and bring the atrocities to light...Categorized as:
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![A Twist of Fate by Kelley Armstrong]()
A Twist of Fate by Kelley Armstrong
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsFour years ago, Rosalind Courtenay stumbled from the nineteenth century to the twenty-first, where she has been trapped ever since, leaving her husband and infant son behind. Now she’s found her way back.The problem, of course, is how to explain her absence to her husband... -
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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... -
![Heart of Steel by Meljean Brook]()
Heart of Steel by Meljean Brook
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe Iron Duke introduced the gritty, alluring adventure of the Iron Seas, where nanotech fuses with Victorian sensibilities—and steam.As the mercenary captain of Lady Corsair, Yasmeen has learned to keep her heart as cold as steel, her only loyalty bound to her ship and her crew...Categorized as:
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![A Darkness Strange and Lovely by Susan Dennard]()
A Darkness Strange and Lovely by Susan Dennard
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsPerfect for fans of Libba Bray's The Diviners and Cassandra Clare's The Infernal Devices series, this spellbinding sequel to Something Strange and Deadly delivers a mix of supernatural forces and intense romance, set against the enchanting backdrop of nineteenth-century Paris.With her brother dead and her mother insane, Eleanor Fitt is alone...Categorized as:
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![The Rift Walker by Clay Griffith, Susan Griffith]()
The Rift Walker by Clay Griffith, Susan Griffith
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsPrincess Adele struggles with a life of marriage and obligation as her Equatorian Empire and their American Republic allies stand on the brink of war against the vampire clans of the north. However, the alliance's horrific strategy for total victory drives Adele to abandon her duty and embark on a desperate quest to keep her nation from staining its hands with genocide... -
![The Immorality Engine by George Mann]()
The Immorality Engine by George Mann
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsOn the surface, life is going well for Victorian special agent Sir Maurice Newbury, who has brilliantly solved several nigh-impossible cases for Queen Victoria with his indomitable assistant, Miss Veronica Hobbes, by his side. But these facts haven’t stopped Newbury from succumbing increasingly frequently to his dire flirtation with the lure of opium...Categorized as:
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![Mission: Improper by Bec McMaster]()
Mission: Improper by Bec McMaster
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThree years ago, London society changed forever, with a revolution placing the widowed Queen firmly on the throne her blue blood husband tried to take from her...Categorized as:
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![A Study in Darkness by Emma Jane Holloway]()
A Study in Darkness by Emma Jane Holloway
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWhen a bomb goes off at 221B Baker Street, Evelina Cooper is thrown into her Uncle Sherlock’s world of mystery and murder. But just when she thought it was safe to return to the ballroom, old, new, and even dead enemies are clamoring for a place on her dance card...Categorized as:
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![Dearly, Beloved by Lia Habel]()
Dearly, Beloved by Lia Habel
Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsCan the living coexist with the living dead? That’s the question that has New Victorian society fiercely divided ever since the mysterious plague known as “The Laz” hit the city of New London and turned thousands into walking corpses. But while some of these zombies are mindless monsters, hungry for human flesh, others can still think, speak, reason, and control their ravenous new appetites...Categorized as:
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![Soulless by Gail Carriger]()
Soulless by Gail Carriger
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 71 ratingsAlexia Tarabotti is laboring under a great many social tribulations. First, she has no soul. Second, she's a spinster whose father is both Italian and dead. Third, she was rudely attacked by a vampire, breaking all standards of social etiquette...Categorized as:
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![The Devious Dr. Jekyll by Viola Carr]()
The Devious Dr. Jekyll by Viola Carr
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsDr. Eliza Jekyll, heroine of the electrifying The Diabolical Miss Hyde—an edgy steampunk retelling of the classic Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde—investigates a bizarre murder case in an alternate Victorian London while battling her treacherous secret half: Lizzie Hyde.Solving the infamous Chopper case has helped crime scene physician Dr...Categorized as:
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![Mongrel by K.Z. Snow]()
Mongrel by K.Z. Snow
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsHunzinger's Mechanical Circus, a rollicking seaside carnival where imagination meets machinery, shines as the only bright spot in the dreary city of Purinton. A shadow is cast there one day when a tall, cloaked figure approaches the stand of Will Marchman, a young patent-medicine salesman. Fanule Perfidor, commonly known as the Dog King, isn't welcome at the Circus... -
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Carniepunk: The Three Lives of Lydia by Delilah S. Dawson
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSet in the enchanting land of Sang, a Blud series urban fantasy short story by the winner of Romantic Times Reviewer’s Choice Award for Best Steampunk, Delilah S. Dawson, from the thrilling Carniepunk anthology.The question isn’t whether Charlie Dregs has met Lydia, a Sang riff on Lydia the Tattooed Lady, but rather whether the woman has even met herself... -
![The Dastardly Miss Lizzie by Viola Carr]()
The Dastardly Miss Lizzie by Viola Carr
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDr. Eliza Jekyll must turn to her dark side, Miss Lizzie Hyde, to stop a madman targeting London’s most important scientists and sorcerers terrorizing the city with dark magic in this third Electric Empire novel—a dazzlingly original steampunk fantasy set in the gritty world of alternate Victorian London, with echoes of H G. Wells classic, The Time MachineBeing two people in one body isn’t easy... -
![God Save the Queen by Kate Locke]()
God Save the Queen by Kate Locke
Rated: 3.85 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsQueen Victoria rules with an immortal fist. The undead matriarch of a Britain where the Aristocracy is made up of werewolves and vampires, where goblins live underground and mothers know better than to let their children out after dark...Categorized as:
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![The Iron Duke by Meljean Brook]()
The Iron Duke by Meljean Brook
Rated: 3.81 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsAfter the Iron Duke freed England from Horde control, he instantly became a national hero. Now Rhys Trahaearn has built a merchant empire on the power - and fear - of his name. And when a dead body is dropped from an airship onto his doorstep, bringing Detective Inspector Mina Wentworth into his dangerous world, he intends to make her his next possession...Categorized as:
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![Dearly, Departed by Lia Habel]()
Dearly, Departed by Lia Habel
Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsLove can never die.Love conquers all, so they say. But can Cupid’s arrow pierce the hearts of the living and the dead - or rather, the undead? Can a proper young Victorian lady find true love in the arms of a dashing zombie? The year is 2195. The place is New Victoria - a high-tech nation modeled on the manners, mores, and fashions of an antique era...Categorized as:
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![Tarnished Knight by Bec McMaster]()
Tarnished Knight by Bec McMaster
Rated: 3.76 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsIn the steam-fuelled world of Victorian London, vampires, werewolves and slasher gangs stalk the night and a man made partly of metal is about to discover just how far he'll go to protect the woman he loves…After a vicious vampire attack left him struggling to leash the dark urges of the craving virus, John "Rip" Doolan thinks he's finally starting to master the darkness within...Categorized as:
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![The Alchemy of Moonlight by David Ferraro]()
The Alchemy of Moonlight by David Ferraro
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen Emile’s aunt declares he must marry or be disowned for being gay—he runs away to hide as a servant in Count Montoni’s mansion. In their service, Emile tends to the family who all suffer a strange affliction on the full moon... -
![Strange and Ever After by Susan Dennard]()
Strange and Ever After by Susan Dennard
Rated: 3.78 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsIn the conclusion to the trilogy that Publishers Weekly called “a roaring—and addictive—gothic world,” Eleanor Fitt must control her growing power, face her feelings for Daniel, and confront the evil necromancer Marcus...all before it’s too late.With supernatural forces, epic romance, and a mysterious Egyptian city, Eleanor and her team are set for an adventure they will never forget... -
![The Nightmare Garden by Caitlin Kittredge]()
The Nightmare Garden by Caitlin Kittredge
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsEverything Aoife thought she knew about the world was a lie. Her brother isn't at Ravenhouse. Her best friend isn't who she thought he was. And there's no such thing as the Necrovirus. Her mother didn't go mad from a dormant strain, she's simply allergic to iron. As is Aoife. Because Aoife is no ordinary girl. Like her brother, Conrad, she is half human and half Fae, from the land of Thorn...Categorized as:
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![Tarnished by Karina Cooper]()
Tarnished by Karina Cooper
Rated: 3.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsMy name is Cherry St. Croix. Society would claim that I am a well-heeled miss with an unfortunate familial reputation. They've no idea of the truth of it. In my secret world, I hunt down vagrants, thieves . . . and now, a murderer. For a monster stalks London's streets, leaving a trail of mystery and murder below the fog... -
![The Diabolical Miss Hyde by Viola Carr]()
The Diabolical Miss Hyde by Viola Carr
Rated: 3.64 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsForensic science, magic, mystery, and romance mix in this edgy steampunk fantasy—a retelling of the horror classic, in which Dr. Eliza Jekyll, daughter of the infamous Dr. Henry Jekyll—pursues a dangerous murderer in an alternate Victorian London.In an electrified Victorian London, Dr. Eliza Jekyll is a crime scene investigator, hunting killers with newfangled technological gadgets...Categorized as:
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![The Doomsday Vault by Steven Harper]()
The Doomsday Vault by Steven Harper
Rated: 3.58 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIn a clockwork Britannia, Alice's prospects are slim. At 21, her age and her unladylike interest in automatons have sealed her fate as an undesirable marriage prospect. But a devastating plague sends Alice off in a direction beyond the pale—towards a clandestine organization, mad inventors, life-altering secrets, and into the arms of an intrepid fiddle-playing airship pilot...Categorized as:
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![Pure by Julianna Baggott]()
Pure by Julianna Baggott
Rated: 3.73 of 5 stars · 38 ratingsWe know you are here, our brothers and sisters . . . Pressia barely remembers the Detonations or much about life during the Before. In her sleeping cabinet behind the rubble of an old barbershop where she lives with her grandfather, she thinks about what is lost-how the world went from amusement parks, movie theaters, birthday parties, fathers and mothers . . -
![Dance of the Red Death by Bethany Griffin]()
Dance of the Red Death by Bethany Griffin
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsBethany Griffin continues the journey of Araby Worth in Dance of the Red Death—the sequel to her teen novel Masque of the Red Death. In Dance of the Red Death, Araby’s world is in shambles—betrayal, death, disease, and evil forces surround her. She has no one to trust. But she finds herself and discovers that she will fight for the people she loves, and for her city...Categorized as:
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Incarnation by Emma Cornwall
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn the steampunk world of Victorian London, a beautiful vampire seeks out the author of Dracula -- to set the record straight . . .If one is to believe Bram Stoker’s legendary vampire tale, Lucy Weston is Dracula’s most wanton creation, a sexual creature of the night who preys on innocent boys...Categorized as:
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![Wicked as They Come by Delilah S. Dawson]()
Wicked as They Come by Delilah S. Dawson
Rated: 3.65 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsWhen nurse Tish Everett forced open the pesky but lovely locket she found at an estate sale, she had no idea she was answering the call of Criminy Stain, from the far off land of Sang. He’d cast a spell for her, but when she’s transported right to him, she’s not so sure she’s ready to be under the spell of another man. (It didn’t go so well last time with controlling, abusive, domineering Jeff...Categorized as:
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![Something Strange and Deadly by Susan Dennard]()
Something Strange and Deadly by Susan Dennard
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 37 ratingsThere's something strange and deadly loose in Philadelphia. . . .Eleanor Fitt has a lot to worry about.Her brother has gone missing, her family has fallen on hard times, and her mother is determined to marry her off to any rich young man who walks by. But this is nothing compared to what she's just read in the newspaper:The Dead are rising in Philadelphia...Categorized as:
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![Masque of the Red Death by Bethany Griffin]()
Masque of the Red Death by Bethany Griffin
Rated: 3.65 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsEverything is in ruins.A devastating plague has decimated the population, and those who are left live in fear of catching it as the city crumbles around them.So what does Araby Worth have to live for?Nights in the Debauchery Club, beautiful dresses, glittery makeup . . . and tantalizing ways to forget it all...Categorized as:
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![The Iron Thorn by Caitlin Kittredge]()
The Iron Thorn by Caitlin Kittredge
Rated: 3.57 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsIn the city of Lovecraft, the Proctors rule and a great Engine turns below the streets, grinding any resistance to their order to dust. The necrovirus is blamed for Lovecraft's epidemic of madness, for the strange and eldritch creatures that roam the streets after dark, and for everything that the city leaders deem Heretical—born of the belief in magic and witchcraft... -
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Out of Time by Monique Martin
Rated: 3.48 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsProfessor Simon Cross has spent his life searching for evidence of vampires and avoiding emotional entanglements. When a mysterious accident transports Simon and his new assistant, Elizabeth West, back in time, Simon finally finds both the proof that he's been looking for, and the romance that he hasn't...Categorized as:
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