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Magic's Price by Mercedes Lackey
Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars · 41 ratingsThe final chapter in Mercedes Lackey's spellbinding fantasy trilogy! The Herald-Mage, Vanyel, and his Companion, Yfandes, are alone responsible for saving the once-peaceful kingdom of Valdemar from the forces of a master who wields a dark, forbidding magic. And if either Vanyel or Yfandes falters, both Valdemar and its Herald-Mage must pay the ultimate price... -
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Tryst by Elswyth Thane
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsHilary Shenstone is dead, yet he haunts his old home. Only animals and a young girl Sabrina can sense his presence. The old housekeeper is aware of this, and helps Sabrina to contact the spirit... -
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Marina by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 54 ratingsFifteen-year-old Oscar Drai meets the strange Marina while he's exploring an old quarter of Barcelona. She leads Oscar to a cemetery, where they watch a macabre ritual that occurs on the last Sunday of each month. At exactly ten o'clock in the morning, a woman shrouded in a black velvet cloak descends from her carriage to place a single rose on an unmarked grave...Categorized as:
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The Loss by Julie Plec
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFamily is power.The Original vampire family swore it to each other a thousand years ago. They pledged to remain together always and forever. But even when you're immortal, promises are hard to keep. After a hurricane destroyed their city, Klaus, Elijah and Rebekah Mikaelson have rebuilt New Orleans to even greater glory. The year is 1766. The witches live on the fringes in the bayou... -
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![The Sherwood Ring by Elizabeth Marie Pope]()
The Sherwood Ring by Elizabeth Marie Pope
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsNewly orphaned Peggy Grahame is caught off-guard when she first arrives at her family's ancestral estate. Her eccentric uncle Enos drives away her only new acquaintance, Pat, a handsome British scholar, then leaves Peggy to fend for herself. But she is not alone. The house is full of mysteries and ghosts...Categorized as:
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The Disappearances by Emily Bain Murphy
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsWhat if the ordinary things in life suddenly…disappeared?Aila Quinn’s mother, Juliet, has always been a mystery: vibrant yet guarded, she keeps her secrets beyond Aila’s reach. When Juliet dies, Aila and her younger brother Miles are sent to live in Sterling, a rural town far from home--and the place where Juliet grew up.Sterling is a place with mysteries of its own...Categorized as:
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The Ghost and Mrs. Muir by R.A. Dick, Josephine Leslie
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 28 ratingsBurdened by debt after her husband's death, Lucy Muir insists on moving into the very cheap Gull Cottage in the quaint seaside village of Whitecliff, despite multiple warnings that the house is haunted. Upon discovering the rumors to be true, the young widow ends up forming a special companionship with the ghost of handsome former sea captain Daniel Gregg... -
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A Fine and Private Place by Peter S. Beagle
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsThis classic tale from the author of The Last Unicorn is a journey between the realms of the living and the dead, and a testament to the eternal power of love.Michael Morgan was not ready to die, but his funeral was carried out just the same. Trapped in the dark limbo between life and death as a ghost, he searches for an escape. Instead, he discovers the beautiful Laura.. -
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The Warrior's Princess by Barbara Erskine
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsHer fateful life would echo through time.When Jess is attacked by someone she once trusted, she flees to her sister's house in the Welsh borders to recuperate. But she is disturbed by the cries of a mysterious child.Two thousand years before, the same valley is the site of a great battle between Caratacus, king of the British tribes, and the invanding Romans...Categorized as:
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![The Cruel Dark by Bea Northwick]()
The Cruel Dark by Bea Northwick
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsMillicent Foxboro is haunted.Not by ghosts but by the anguish of her past and the uncertainty of her future. After all, even in the progressive year of 1928, most people would balk at hiring a woman who’d spent two months in a mental ward for traumatic amnesia...Categorized as:
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A Man Rides Through by Stephen R. Donaldson
Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsIn The Mirror of Her Dreams, the dazzling first volume of Mordant's Need, New York Times bestselling author Stephen R. Donaldson introduced us to the richly imagined world of Mordant, where mirrors are magical portals into places of beauty and terror. Now, with A Man Rides Through, Donaldson brings the story of Terisa Morgan to an unforgettable conclusion..Categorized as:
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Nocturnal by Clio Evans
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsI was his toxic obsession. He was my sadistic monster.Nora:When I took a job at St. Thorns university as a psychology professor, I encountered something—someone—unexplainable. Fascinating. And deadly.Alec Briar had the eyes of a killer.He’s a botanist who would rather rot in his greenhouse alone than deal with students, professors, or me... -
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A Witch in Time by Constance Sayers
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsA young woman in Belle Epoque France is cursed to relive a doomed love affair through many lifetimes, as both troubled muse and frustrated artist.In 1895, sixteen-year-old Juliet LaCompte has a passionate, doomed romance with the married Parisian painter Auguste Marchant... -
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The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars · 45 ratingsFirst published in French as a serial in 1909, The Phantom of the Opera is a riveting story that revolves around the young, Swedish Christine Daaé. Her father, a famous musician, dies, and she is raised in the Paris Opera House with his dying promise of a protective angel of music to guide her...Categorized as:
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![Silence for the Dead by Simone St. James]()
Silence for the Dead by Simone St. James
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIn 1919, Kitty Weekes, pretty, resourceful, and on the run, falsifies her background to obtain a nursing position at Portis House, a remote hospital for soldiers left shell-shocked by the horrors of the Great War. Hiding the shame of their mental instability in what was once a magnificent private estate, the patients suffer from nervous attacks and tormenting dreams...Categorized as:
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![An Inquiry Into Love and Death by Simone St. James]()
An Inquiry Into Love and Death by Simone St. James
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsAfter her ghost-hunting uncle Toby dies, Oxford student Jillian must drive to the seaside village of Rothewell to pack up his belongings. Almost immediately, terrifying events convince Jillian that an angry spirit is trying to enter the house... -
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Wildwood Magic by Willa Reece
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratings"An enchanting tale full of magical moments." — Library JournalA woman escapes her abusive husband and finds shelter in an enchanted orchard in this spellbinding novel of magic, resilience, and self-discovery from the author of Wildwood Whispers.Here be witches and wayward girls…In a town nestled in the Appalachian Mountains, Rachel Smith has found a new life tending a lush apple orchard...Categorized as:
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![Writ in Blood by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro]()
Writ in Blood by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAmbitious in its scope and provocative in its content, the saga of the undying Count Saint-Germain is a monumental feat of the imagination.Chelsea Quinn Yarbro's novels have powerfully captured Saint-Germain throughout his long existence, from the temples of Ancient Egypt to our present century... -
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Touch Not the Cat by Mary Stewart
Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsBryony Ashley knows that Ashley Court, the grand estate, is both hell and paradise -- once elegant and beautiful, yet shrouded in shadow. After the tragic death of her father, Bryony returns from abroad to find that his estate is to become the responsibility of her cousin Emory. Her family's estate with its load of debt is no longer her worry...Categorized as:
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![The Other Side of Midnight by Simone St. James]()
The Other Side of Midnight by Simone St. James
Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe award-winning author of The Haunting of Maddy Clare and Silence for the Dead, presents another mesmerizing gothic story of intrigue...London, 1925. Glamorous medium Gloria Sutter made her fortune helping the bereaved contact loved ones killed during the Great War... -
![Dragon's Bait by Vivian Vande Velde]()
Dragon's Bait by Vivian Vande Velde
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsFifteen-year-old Alys is not a witch. But that doesn't matter—the villagers think she is and have staked her out on a hillside as a sacrifice to the local dragon. It's late, it's cold, and it's raining, and Alys can think of only one thing—revenge...Categorized as:
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The Mirror of Her Dreams by Stephen R. Donaldson
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsWith The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, Stephen R. Donaldson changed the face of fantasy fiction forever. In The Mirror of Her Dreams, the astonishing first novel in the two-volume Mordant’s Need series, Donaldson shows us a world of wondrous beauty and seductive illusion, where mirrors hold the deadliest of magics and nothing is what it seems. . .Categorized as:
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![The Haunting of Maddy Clare by Simone St. James]()
The Haunting of Maddy Clare by Simone St. James
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsSarah Piper's lonely, threadbare existence changes when her temporary agency sends her to assist a ghost hunter. Alistair Gellis—rich, handsome, scarred by World War I, and obsessed with ghosts—has been summoned to investigate the spirit of nineteen-year-old maid Maddy Clare, who is haunting the barn where she committed suicide... -
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Nocturne by Karina Halle
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA vampire romance so dark it’ll bite.He’s not just dangerous—he’s designed to destroy you.Blood. Obsession. Murder.And a love story twisted enough to hurt so good.Los Angeles, 1947.The city is drowning in secrets and blood—and Lena Reid just lost her best friend to the shadows.Elizabeth Short is dead. The press calls her the Black Dahlia.Lena wants answers. Closure. Revenge... -
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![Deerskin by Robin McKinley]()
Deerskin by Robin McKinley
Rated: 3.91 of 5 stars · 39 ratingsAs Princess Lissla Lissar reaches womanhood, it is clear to all the kingdom that in her beauty she is the image of her dead mother, the queen. But this likeness forces her to flee from her father's lust and madness; and in the pain and horror of that flight she forgets who she is and what it is she flees from: forgets almost everything but the love and loyalty of her dog, Ash, who accompanies her... -
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Edith Holler by Edward Carey
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe witty and entrancing story of a young woman trapped in a ramshackle English playhouse—and the mysterious figure who threatens the its very survivalThe year is 1901. England’s beloved queen has died, and her aging son has finally taken the throne... -
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The Oracle Glass by Judith Merkle Riley
Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsWith imaginative verve, intelligence, and exceptional detail, The Oracle Glass captures the rich tang of one of history's most irresistible eras. Spinning actual police records from the reign of Louis XIV into a darkly captivating story, it follows the fortunes of Genevieve Pasquier, a fifteen-year-old girl who has been transformed into an imperious, seemingly infallible fortune-teller..Categorized as:
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Stormqueen! by Marion Zimmer Bradley
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe great epic of Darkover did not begin with the Terrans' arrival. For in those years, the power of the matrix was first learned--and misused in a power struggle that could have made Darkover a duplicate of Terra... -
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The Cure for Dreaming by Cat Winters
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsOlivia Mead is a headstrong, independent girl—a suffragist—in an age that prefers its girls to be docile. It’s 1900 in Oregon, and Olivia’s father, concerned that she’s headed for trouble, convinces a stage mesmerist to try to hypnotize the rebellion out of her...Categorized as:
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The Shape of Water by Guillermo del Toro, Daniel Kraus
Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars · 35 ratingsIt is 1962, and Elisa Esposito—mute her whole life, orphaned as a child—is struggling with her humdrum existence as a janitor working the graveyard shift at Baltimore’s Occam Aerospace Research Center. Were it not for Zelda, a protective coworker, and Giles, her loving neighbor, she doesn’t know how she’d make it through the day... -
![Look for Me by Moonlight by Mary Downing Hahn]()
Look for Me by Moonlight by Mary Downing Hahn
Rated: 3.82 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsWhen the mysterious Vincent Morthanos arrives to stay at her father's inn, 16-year-old Cynda is mesmerized. His charm and sensitivity are irresistible. His attentiveness is constant. Cynda's sure she's in love. Daring to hope that the stranger shares her feelings, Cynda is innocently blind to who he really is--or to the terrible danger of coming under his spell... -
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Crimson Peak by Nancy Holder
Rated: 3.82 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsWhen her heart is stolen by a seductive stranger, a young woman is swept away to a house atop a mountain of blood-red clay: a place filled with secrets that will haunt her forever. Between desire and darkness, between mystery and madness, lies the truth behind Crimson Peak. From acclaimed director Guillermo del Toro...Categorized as:
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Fateful by Claudia Gray
Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars · 38 ratingsA tragic tale about falling in love on the world's most infamous ill-fated sea voyage as heroine, Tess, discovers darker secrets that lie beneath the doomed crossing. and a hidden brotherhood that threaten to tear her lover from her forever...Categorized as:
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![Cry to Heaven by Anne Rice]()
Cry to Heaven by Anne Rice
Rated: 3.85 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsAnne Rice brings to life the exquisite and otherworldly society of the eighteenth-century castrati, the delicate and alluring male sopranos whose graceful bodies and glorious voices brought them the adulation of the royal courts and grand opera houses of Europe, men who lived as idols, concealing their pain as they were adored as angels, yet shunned as half-men... -
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Elske by Cynthia Voigt
Rated: 3.87 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsTwo Women Elske -- a girl with no future, until her grandmother's sacrifice saves her from certain death Beriel -- an imperious princess, determined to claim the kingdom that is her birthright Fate brings them together, both exiles, one servant to the other...Categorized as:
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![The Midget's House by Anita Bartholomew]()
The Midget's House by Anita Bartholomew
Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsLibrarian's Note: this is an alternate cover edition - ASIN: B005T4GLGOMarisa Delano is thrilled when she unexpectedly inherits the fairy-tale like cottage on the Sarasota, Florida bay front. What she doesn’t know is that another woman, Lucinda Lacey, a sideshow midget who died on the property in 1924, still inhabits it. And Lucinda has no intention of giving up her home to the new owner... -
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In the Shadow of Blackbirds by Cat Winters
Rated: 3.84 of 5 stars · 35 ratingsIn 1918, the world seems on the verge of apocalypse. Americans roam the streets in gauze masks to ward off the deadly Spanish influenza, and the government ships young men to the front lines of a brutal war, creating an atmosphere of fear and confusion...Categorized as:
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Lost Among the Living by Simone St. James
Rated: 3.78 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsEngland, 1921. Three years after her husband, Alex, disappeared, shot down over Germany, Jo Manders still mourns his loss. Working as a paid companion to Alex's wealthy, condescending aunt, Dottie Forsyth, Jo travels to the family’s estate in the Sussex countryside... -
![The Ladies of the Secret Circus by Constance Sayers]()
The Ladies of the Secret Circus by Constance Sayers
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsParis, 1925: To enter the Secret Circus is to enter a world of wonder-a world where women tame magnificent beasts, carousels take you back in time, and trapeze artists float across the sky. But each daring feat has a cost...Categorized as:
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![The King of Elfland's Daughter by Lord Dunsany, Neil Gaiman]()
The King of Elfland's Daughter by Lord Dunsany, Neil Gaiman
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsThe poetic style and sweeping grandeur of The King of Elfland's Daughter has made it one of the most beloved fantasy novels of our time, a masterpiece that influenced some of the greatest contemporary fantasists. The heartbreaking story of a marriage between a mortal man and an elf princess is a masterful tapestry of the fairy tale following the "happily ever after...Categorized as:
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![Unnatural Issue by Mercedes Lackey]()
Unnatural Issue by Mercedes Lackey
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsA brand-new Elemental Masters novel from the national bestselling author Mercedes Lackey. Richard Whitestone is an Elemental Earth Master. Blaming himself for the death of his beloved wife in childbirth, he has sworn never to set eyes on his daughter, Suzanne... -
![The Mercy of Thin Air by Ronlyn Domingue]()
The Mercy of Thin Air by Ronlyn Domingue
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsNew Orleans, 1920s.Raziela Nolan is in the throes of a magnificent love affair when she dies in a tragic accident. In an instant, she leaves behind her one true love and her dream of becoming a doctor—but somehow, she still remains. Immediately after her death, Razi chooses to stay between—a realm that exists after life and before whatever lies beyond it... -
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The Golden Key by Melanie Rawn, Kate Elliott
Rated: 3.82 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsIn Tira Verte births, marriages, treaties and all official documents are painted, not written. The paintings by certain males of the Grijalva family are also magical. This book tells the story of one such painter-magician's obsession with power, with life, and with a love he can never claim...Categorized as:
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Deathless by Catherynne M. Valente
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 40 ratingsKoschei the Deathless is to Russian folklore what devils or wicked witches are to European culture: a menacing, evil figure; the villain of countless stories which have been passed on through story and text for generations... -
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![The Color of Light by Helen Maryles Shankman]()
The Color of Light by Helen Maryles Shankman
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsNEW YORK CITY, 1992. At the American Academy of Classical Art, popular opinion has it that the school’s handsome and mysterious founder, Raphael Sinclair, is a vampire. It is a rumor Rafe does nothing to dispel.Scholarship student Tessa Moss has long dreamed of the chance to study at Rafe’s Academy... -
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Descent into Dust by Jacqueline Lepore
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLondon 1926. Widow Emma Andrews 25 sees black cloud in shape of man around angelic little Henrietta. Valerian Fox recognizes master vampire he hunts, Marius. Hen's nursemaid Miss Harris sets Emma's family against the widow...Categorized as:
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![The Secret by Margit Sandemo]()
The Secret by Margit Sandemo
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 12 ratings(Description from the back of the book)SAGAEN OM ISFOLKET - etterkommerne til den onde Tengel, som hadde inngått en pakt med djevelen...Allerede som barn hørte Eskil Lind om "Huset i Eldafjord" og den utrolige skatten som skulle være gjemt der. Etter det drømte han stadig om skatten, og da han ble voksen, satte han ut for å lete etter den... -
![The Dark on the Other Side by Barbara Michaels]()
The Dark on the Other Side by Barbara Michaels
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsEverywhere she turns, Linda Randolph hears voices: from empty dark corners and lonely rooms. But it is the house itself that speaks the loudest, telling Linda to run for her life. Her husband, Gordon, the noted statesman and scholar, suggests she's losing her mind... -
![Ella, the Slayer by A.W. Exley]()
Ella, the Slayer by A.W. Exley
Rated: 3.69 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsSeventeen-year-old Ella copes the best she can; caring for her war-injured father, scrubbing the floors, and slaying the undead that attack the locals. Vermin they're called, like rats they spread pestilence with their bite. Ella's world collides with another when she nearly decapitates a handsome stranger, who is very much alive... -
![The Uninvited by Cat Winters]()
The Uninvited by Cat Winters
Rated: 3.69 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsTwenty-five year old Ivy Rowan rises from her bed after being struck by the flu, only to discover the world has been torn apart in just a few short days.But Ivy’s life-long gift—or curse—remains. For she sees the uninvited ones—ghosts of loved ones who appear to her, unasked, unwelcomed, for they always herald impending death...
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