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Dealing with Mapinguari and Dogged Engineers by A.J. Sherwood
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAs Shakespeare once said, the course of true love never did run smooth.Since parting with Adrien after their first case, Hugh Quartermain has committed himself to one he wants Adrien. With the months’ long trip to Brazil ahead of them, Hugh should have no problem confessing, right?The problem is the universe seems determined to thwart Hugh... -
A (Non) Comprehensive Guide to Sea Serpents by A.J. Sherwood
Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsTwo new apprentices. One charming engineer. A potential battle with both sea serpents and evil sorcerers.When Sorcerer Adrien Danvers takes on a job that leads him into the slums of England, he never imagined he’d end up with not one, but two apprentices. Despite his doubts in himself, he’s the only chance the two pre-teens have to escape their hellish life... -
The Three Brooches by Katherine Lowry Logan
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWhen Kit MacKlenna returned to her soul mate in the 19th century, Elliott Fraser thought he would never see his beloved goddaughter again. But when a message from Kit is discovered in a 135-year-old painting, Elliot must either ignore Kit's request for help or test the Legend of the Three Brooches...Categorized as:
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Bourne by Lisa Tawn Bergren
Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsBOURNE picks up right where TORRENT left off...Find out what has happened to men returning from the battle, gravely wounded, to the Betarrinis, fighting for the men they love, and just who is hunting them next..Categorized as:
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Tributary by Lisa Tawn Bergren
Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsLia struggles to overcome the fear that constant battle has heaped upon her; Gabi and Marcello face an unexpected crisis; and Lord Greco just may be ready to leave the grief and loss of his past behind him, so that he might grab hold of the future..Categorized as:
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Cascade by Lisa Tawn Bergren
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsWhat if you not only fell back through time...but fell in love, too?Gabi knows she's left her heart in the fourteenth century, and she persuades Lia to help her to return, even though they know doing so will risk their very lives...Categorized as:
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Kiss of the Highlander by Karen Marie Moning
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 45 ratingsA 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... -
Torrent by Lisa Tawn Bergren
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsWould you sacrifice your future ... for an uncertain past?Gabriella and Evangelia Betarrini are just two normal American teenagers. Normal--except for the fact that they time travel to fourteenth-century Italy, where they've lived in castles, become swept up in historic battles, and fallen in love with handsome knights willing to do anything to keep them alive...Categorized as:
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The Dark Highlander by Karen Marie Moning
Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars · 43 ratingsJourney to a world of ancient magic, breathtaking sensuality, thrilling time-travel.... Journey to the world of The Dark Highlander. Crisscrossing the continents and the centuries, here is a novel as gripping as it is sensual—an electrifying adventure that will leave you breathless... -
The Kraken King and the Crumbling Walls 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 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... -
Entangled With You by Diana Knightley
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsMagnus and Kaitlyn are trying to heal. To live. To love.But they're entangled in futures and pasts that threaten to pull them apart."You get scared?""Aye, sometimes. Mostly for ye. I am scared I winna be able tae keep ye safe."There are vessels that must be secured. A castle with walls that have been breached. A baby about to be born and a future that demands to be reckoned with...Categorized as:
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The House on the Hill by Irina Shapiro
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsStill grieving the death of her husband, Lauren leaves the hubbub of Boston for the peaceful shores of Cape Cod, where she hopes to come to terms with her loss and devote herself to her writing...Categorized as:
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Reticence by Gail Carriger
Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsBookish and proper Percival Tunstell finds himself out of his depth when floating cities, spirited plumbing, and soggy biscuits collide in this delightful conclusion to NYT bestselling author Gail Carriger's The Custard Protocol series.Percival Tunstell loves that his sister and her best friend are building themselves a family of misfits aboard their airship, The Spotted Custard...Categorized as:
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Highland Protector by Catherine Bybee
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsNo ordinary hero can save Amber from death... it will take a Highland Protector Amber MacCoinnich survival depends on her traveling to the twenty first century, or so her mother’s premonition told her. Death taunts Amber and offers peace in her endless pain. Without the mysterious savior her mother spoke of, Amber prepares for death only to wake with a handsome, dark stranger in her bed... -
The Kraken King by Meljean Brook
Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsA former smuggler and thief, Ariq-better known as the Kraken King-doesn't know what to make of the clever, mysterious woman he rescues from an airship besieged by marauders. Unsure if she's a spy or a pawn in someone else's game, Ariq isn't about to let her out of his sight until he finds out... -
Lacewood by Jessica James
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA love story that spans centuries… Two people trying to escape their pasts find a connection through an old house—and fulfill a destiny through the secrets it shares. Part love story, part ghost story, Lacewood is a timeless novel about love and loss, roots and belonging, and spirits of the past that refuse to be quieted.Categorized as:
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Nessy's Locket by A.W. Exley
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsDragons have taken up residence at Lowestoft and Queen Victoria is not amused. The queen is on the warpath and to protect the mythical beasts from treasure hunters, Cara needs to find the foundation stone from the Great Wall of China. To add to her problems, there's a strange box hidden deep under the Lowestoft estate that makes her skin crawl and steals the air from her lungs...Categorized as:
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The Kraken King and the Scribbling Spinster by Meljean Brook
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA former smuggler and thief, Ariq—better known as the Kraken King—doesn’t know what to make of the clever, mysterious woman he rescues from an airship besieged by marauders...Categorized as:
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Gladly Beyond by Nichole Van, Alan Carlson
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsClaire Raythorn arrives in Florence, Italy, shattered, alone, and anxious to rebuild her life--preferably without men. But she soon finds herself hunted and haunted--literally--when a mysterious stalker dressed like Mr. Darcy from BBC central casting appears in her photos...and only her photos...Categorized as:
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Warrior of My Own by Diana Knightley
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsMy husband pushed back his chair and dropped to his knees in front of me. His head bowed — he spoke in a stream like a prayer. “I die when I am in the past, how dost ye know when tae declare me dead? You could decide it, call me dead, and I canna blame ye for it. Because I am. But I daena want tae be, I want tae live — with ye.” — Magnus 1702 There are things left undone...Categorized as:
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Begin Where We Are by Diana Knightley
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsMagnus leaves. He fights. He tries to survive. “Can you tell me what happened tae her, how she ended?” — Magnus in 2381 Magnus is forced to travel to an uncertain future, to fight for a throne he doesn't want.And he couldn't bring Kaitlyn, because it's too dangerous by far.So Kaitlyn tries to live on without him. She's two hundred sixty-three years in the past now. Nothing but dust...Categorized as:
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A Knight in Shining Armor by Jude Deveraux
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 42 ratingsan alternate cover editions can be found here and hereNew York Times bestselling author Jude Deveraux will capture your heart with signature classic novel, a time-travel romance featuring a present-day heroine and a dashing hero from the sixteenth century!Abandoned by a cruel fate, lovely Dougless Montgomery lies weeping upon a cold tombstone in an English church...Categorized as:
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Highland Shifter by Catherine Bybee
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsHelen Adams has a knack for finding lost objects, but the Simon McAllister she finds isn’t what she expected. The missing California teen is now a grown man—a kilted, sword wielding, Highland warrior. A mysterious Druid book and Helen’s sixth sense send her to Scotland in search of a missing boy... -
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With Every Breath by Lynn Kurland
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWhen medieval laird Robert Cameron pounds on Sunny Phillips's door, he isn't paying a social call. He's braved a trip onto enemy soil to fetch the MacLeod witch, a crone renowned for her healing powers. But the woman who opens her door to him is enchanting and young... and not from his century. **This is a Read Pink edition...Categorized as:
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Redeeming Vows by Catherine Bybee
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFor her own safety, modern day, single mom, Lizzy McAllister is forced to bow to the medieval men who surround her when she's thrust back in time to the sixteenth century against her will. When Lizzie finds herself trapped in time with Fin, the one man she finds both irresistible and maddening, she agrees to combine forces with him to rid Scotland of the evil witch, Grainna... -
Timeless Moments by Michelle Kidd
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsJack Vines has the Victorian home of his dreams-or so it seems until he discovers an intriguing beauty lurking in the shadows. Stunned, he finds they share the house but live a century apart. The realization leads him to questions so disturbing it changes both their lives forever. She is a prisoner of the past, shrouded in a world of dark mysteries...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... -
The Surviving Trace by Calia Read
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 31 ratingsWill is my fiancé. The shy man I met years ago in college. The person I’m supposed to spend the rest of my life with. This is the life I’ve always wanted until finding a picture of four men changes everything… Étienne says he’s my husband and the year is 1912. He can’t stand the sight of me, but I don’t know why. Oh, and he’s one of the men from the picture...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... -
Amazing Grace by Elizabeth Davies
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThis is the second novel in the Resurrection seriesAs Grace's health deteriorates in her own world and she moves ever closer to her death, she returns to the past where Roman is waiting for her and she falls deeper in love with a man whose sole purpose in life is his quest for blood...Categorized as:
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Sanctifying Grace by Elizabeth Davies
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThis is the third and final novel in the Resurrection series. Grace is at the end of her life, Roman by her side. He has failed in his quest to discover how to resurrect those humans who can be enthralled and now Grace is facing certain death. How can Roman live without her - she has be a part of his life for millennia, but all he can do now is to be there for her... -
Carried Away by Kamery Solomon
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFrom Kamery Solomon, #1 bestselling genre author and creator of the international bestseller SWEPT AWAY, comes CARRIED AWAY (The Swept Away Saga, Book Two), a continuation of the time travel, pirate adventure that stole your heart!Ever since his friend, Samantha, drowned in the Treasure Pit, he’s been running from her ghost... -
Edane by Hazel Hunter
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA fun-loving American gal, a brooding clan of ancient warriors, and a dangerous castle full of traps. What could possibly go wrong? From the moment that Edane mag Raith rescues Nellie from a pursuing Sluath, he is smitten. But while he’s certain that she is the woman from his dreams, she doesn’t seem so sure... -
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Forgetting to Remember by M.J. Rose
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDiscover a spellbinding love story in this dazzling time-travel adventure from the NYT bestselling author of The Last Tiara, M.J. Rose... -
Bound to the Orc Brute by Celeste King
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMy world is savage. All I can count on is that one day I will die.On this blasted Earth, the strong conquer the weak and being vulnerable means preparing to die. Except I’ve already made myself vulnerable.To an orc, no less.As a physician, my skills are needed to treat these monsters in their constant wars.But when I treat Ur, there is more than savagery that beats in his heart.There is honor...Categorized as:
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Three Wishes by Lisa Tawn Bergren
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsBE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR. BECAUSE YOU JUST MIGHT GET IT. Zara Ruiz is a normal California girl on the verge of graduating from high school and thinking about her dawning future. But when dusk brings a shattering loss—and she discovers a priceless object in the shallows of a tide pool—she is thrust a hundred-and-eighty years into the past... -
Falling for the Knight by Cecelia Mecca
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWhen she’s sent back to the past she finds new hope for the future. Hannah Sutton prides herself on being a strong, independent woman, perfectly in control of her career and personal life. But her orderly existence is upended when she and her sisters travel to Scotland and jump off an enchanted waterfall as a lark. After blacking out, she finds herself marooned near a castle in England, alone... -
Tethered by Meljean Brook
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsSurviving on the treacherous Iron Seas requires a heart of steel…but how can Yasmeen hope to survive when her heart has already been stolen by Archimedes Fox…?Tethered along the south dock of Port Fallow, Captain Yasmeen Corsair’s magnificent new airship, Lady Nergüi, awaits its departure with adventurer and treasure-hunter Archimedes Fox...Categorized as:
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Roses in Moonlight by Lynn Kurland
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsEscaping Into The Past…Derrick Cameron, antiquities dealer and adventurer, is furious when the priceless piece of Elizabethan lace he's been pursuing slips right by him, in the improbable custody of a mousy textile historian! But he will retrieve it, even if it means dragging a very skeptical, albeit adorable, Samantha back in time with him...Categorized as:
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Love Beyond Hope by Bethany Claire
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsLove is the most powerful kind of magic. Baodan McMillan values many things in life: friendship, loyalty, kindness, but certainly not love. After the tragic death of his wife many years ago, he hardened himself to the idea of giving his heart to another... -
Much Ado in the Moonlight by Lynn Kurland
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsLynn Kurland pens a wonderfully romantic tale about an eight-hundred-year-old ghost and the modern woman who turns his plans for a peaceful afterlife upside down…When Victoria McKinnon’s brother offers to finance her production of Hamlet, she leaps at the chance. She can’t imagine anything better than staging Shakespeare’s masterpiece in an honest-to-goodness English castle...Categorized as:
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Silent Vows by Catherine Bybee
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsMyra, a medieval virgin druidess, flees five hundred years into the future to escape death at the hands of a cursed witch and lands in the arms of a handsome but cynical twenty-first century cop. Officer Todd Blakely knows Myra is hiding something but can't resist her innocent charms. Destiny throws them both into a world of intrigue and mysticism... -
All For You by Lynn Kurland
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFALLING THROUGH TIME IS DANGEROUS… Peaches Alexander is thrilled to receive an unexpected invitation to a weekend party given by the handsome, eligible Duke of Kenneworth. The only problem: Stephen de Piaget, a stuffy medieval studies scholar who seems determined to get in the way...Categorized as:
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Tangled in Time by Barbara Longley
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA time-travel romance for fans of Diana Gabaldon and Hazel Hunter. To set him free from an ancient curse, she must travel to a time of myth and legend… Regan MacCarthy’s ability to see ghosts is a gift inherited from her Irish ancestors, but it’s one she’d dearly like to give back...Categorized as:
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Time and Space Between Us by Diana Knightley
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsCan they trust each other enough to survive the dangers that confront them? “Tis a truth I must warn ye of. I love ye, and tis brutal that ye are alive three hundred years away.” — Magnus 1702 Magnus and Kaitlyn try to begin their life together but there are dangerous forces that must be reckoned with. A time-journeying vessel that they can't seem to control...Categorized as:
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One Enchanted Evening by Lynn Kurland
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsTime-travel romances have made Lynn Kurland a bestseller in the here-and-now. A duty-bound knight has taken on the task of rebuilding the most dilapidated castle in all of England. A costume designer gets her chance to shine by showcasing her fairy- tale designs at an upscale party in an authentic medieval castle...Categorized as:
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Timeless by Gail Carriger
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 44 ratingsAlexia Tarabotti, Lady Maccon, has settled into domestic bliss. Of course, being Alexia, such bliss involves integrating werewolves into London High society, living in a vampire's second best closet, and coping with a precocious toddler who is prone to turning supernatural willy-nilly. Until, that is, she receives a summons that cannot be ignored...Categorized as:
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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...Categorized as:
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The Highlander's Touch by Karen Marie Moning
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 41 ratingsA WARRIOR OF IMMORTAL POWERSHe was a mighty Scottish warrior who lived in a world bound by ancient laws and timeless magic. But no immortal powers could prepare the laird of Castle Brodie for the lovely accursed lass who stood before him...
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