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  • The ​Missing of Clairdelune by Christelle Dabos

    The ​Missing of Clairdelune by Christelle Dabos

    Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    Book Two in the Internationally Bestselling Mirror Visitor QuartetWhen our heroine Ophelia is promoted to Vice-storyteller by Farouk, the ancestral Spirit of Pole, she finds herself unexpectedly thrust into the public spotlight and her special gift is revealed to all...
  • Memories of Prophecies by Davis Ashura

    Memories of Prophecies by Davis Ashura

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The memories of the past may be forgotten, but prophecies linger.Cinder Shade and his fellow cadets have survived a brutal mission in the vast wilds of the Dagger Mountains. Laying to rest many of their brother warriors, they return to the Third Directorate, battered, bruised, and weary of soul.But the world turns, and new challenges press...
  • The Silent Shield by Jeff Wheeler

    The Silent Shield by Jeff Wheeler

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    Thrust into the heart of events threatening to rip her kingdom apart, young Trynne Kiskaddon will gain new powers and see old allies fall and new heroes rise as the battle for the kingdom and the lands beyond begins.Courtly intrigue and rumors of invasion plunge Kingfountain into turmoil as the search for Trynne’s father begins in earnest...
  • The Forsaken Throne by Jeff Wheeler

    The Forsaken Throne by Jeff Wheeler

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    A devastating disaster has left the Forbidden Court in ashes, its fountains destroyed, and its magic at risk. It was destined as the site of Trynne Kiskaddon’s coronation as empress. Now, all Trynne can imagine is the roar of flames, the cries of Gahalatine’s people, and the smell of cinders in a city gone dark...
  • The Twelve Dancing Princesses by K.M. Shea

    The Twelve Dancing Princesses by K.M. Shea

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Quinn is a loyal soldier of Farset, willing to risk her life on behalf of her country and squad. So, when a fellow soldier volunteers for a dangerous mission, Quinn joins him. Their assignment is to investigate the nightly disappearance of the twelve royal princesses, a mystery none have solved as those who attempt it vanish...
  • Soulblade by Lindsay Buroker

    Soulblade by Lindsay Buroker

    Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    It’s been a week since the dragon Morishtomaric fell, and Sardelle is not convinced that Ridge is truly gone. With a companion who thinks he’s a god and a soldier who would happily kill her, she heads back to the mountains to look for signs that Ridge survived. What they uncover threatens to destroy their country and all they care about...
  • The Hollow Crown by Jeff Wheeler

    The Hollow Crown by Jeff Wheeler

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    Following the downfall of a tyrant, years have passed in prosperity for the kingdom of Ceredigion. Now, as the time comes to celebrate the new king’s nuptials, the specter of a new enemy emerges to destroy all that has been painstakingly built in those years.Tryneowy Kiskaddon has grown up learning military and diplomatic strategy from her father, one of the king’s closest advisors...
  • The Legendary Inge by Kate Stradling

    The Legendary Inge by Kate Stradling

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    An alternative cover edition for this ASIN can be found here.Plagued by misfortune, Ingrid Norling treks into the woods to clear her head. She emerges a monster-slayer, the shaken executioner of a creature so ferocious that even the king’s strongest warriors could not destroy it...
  • Raptor by Lindsay Buroker

    Raptor by Lindsay Buroker

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Responsible for her friend’s death, Lieutenant Caslin Ahn wants nothing more than to be left alone. She no longer deserves the company of comrades or the fulfillment she felt as a Wolf Squadron fighter pilot. But a summons from the king leaves her with no choice but to rejoin her teammates...
  • Hero at the Fall by Alwyn Hamilton

    Hero at the Fall by Alwyn Hamilton

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    When gunslinging Amani Al'Hiza escaped her dead-end town, she never imagined she'd join a revolution, let alone lead one. But after the bloodthirsty Sultan of Miraji imprisoned the Rebel Prince Ahmed in the mythical city of Eremot, she doesn't have a choice...
  • Avian by Nicole Conway

    Avian by Nicole Conway

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Jaevid wants to pass his Avian year of training . . . but will he even survive it?What kind of power is lurking inside him? After a year of training to become a dragonrider, Jaevid Broadfeather has been sent home to rest during a three-month interlude. But when he returns to find the king drake has chosen Beckah Derrick as his new rider, Jaevid realizes something big is about to happen...
  • Traitor to the Throne by Alwyn Hamilton

    Traitor to the Throne by Alwyn Hamilton

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 39 ratings
    Rebel by chance. Traitor by choice.Gunslinger Amani al'Hiza fled her dead-end hometown on the back of a mythical horse with the mysterious foreigner Jin, seeking only her own freedom. Now she’s fighting to liberate the entire desert nation of Miraji from a bloodthirsty sultan who slew his own father to capture the throne...
  • Rumpelstiltskin by K.M. Shea

    Rumpelstiltskin by K.M. Shea

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    When 17-year-old Gemma, a seamstress, is ordered by the insane King Torgen to spin straw into gold or be put to death, she knows her life is forfeit. Unwilling to give up, Gemma tries to escape her prison, earning her the respect of the mysterious mage, Stil. Stil offers to complete the impossible task…for a price...
  • Dragon Tear by Lindsay Buroker

    Dragon Tear by Lindsay Buroker

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Now that Jev is no longer obligated to marry a manipulative noblewoman, Zenia can finally pursue a relationship with him. But there’s something else she must deal with first. She’s learned that the magical dragon-tear gem she wears around her neck is linked to a living dragon, one that is being held prisoner and tortured. Zenia owes her life several times over to the creature...
  • Puss in Boots by K.M. Shea

    Puss in Boots by K.M. Shea

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Though she dreams of adventure, Gabrielle—a peasant girl—is given only a cat for her inheritance and is told she must marry, immediately. So when the cat, Puss, offers her a life of excitement in exchange for a pair of boots, Gabrielle jumps at the opportunity. Through Puss’s cunning and Gabrielle’s good deeds, they become celebrated heroes in small villages across the country...
  • King's Warrior by Frost Kay

    King's Warrior by Frost Kay

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Revolution and war come with a price in the fourth volume of USA Today Bestselling Author Frost Kay’s The Aermian Feuds Series. Returning to Aermia should’ve been easy, but nightmares and death haunt her, leaving Sage as an outsider, even in her own family...
  • The Queen's Resistance by Rebecca Ross, Suzanne Elise Freeman

    The Queen's Resistance by Rebecca Ross, Suzanne Elise Freeman

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    The highly anticipated sequel to The Queen’s Rising!Finally, Brienna is a mistress of knowledge and is settling into her role as the daughter of Davin MacQuinn, a disgraced lord who returned to Maevana to reclaim his house. Though she’d just survived a revolution, one that will finally return a queen to the throne, she faces another difficult challenge...
  • Herald of the Witch's Mark by Kellen Graves

    Herald of the Witch's Mark by Kellen Graves

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Saffron finally has the one thing he's always wanted: a chance to attend school. To be able to do so alongside Prince Cylvan, even while glamoured as a high fey and pretending not to know one another, Saffron is eager to finally experience the education he's always dreamed of...
  • The Little Selkie by K.M. Shea

    The Little Selkie by K.M. Shea

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Dylan—a selkie—makes a terrible mistake when she brashly chases an evil sea witch onto land. Captured and stripped of her pelt—leaving her unable to return to the sea in her sea lion body—Dylan’s only chance of survival is to serve as the sea witch’s tool...
  • Cinderella and the Colonel by K.M. Shea

    Cinderella and the Colonel by K.M. Shea

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    An alternative cover edition for this ASIN can be found here.Scratching out a living in a land recovering from war and a hostile takeover, Cinderella—an orphaned, destitute duchess—is desperate to save her lands and servants in spite of the terrible taxes placed upon her by the Erlauf queen, even if it means she must don servants’ clothes and work like a commoner...
  • Sea of Starlight by Shari L. Tapscott

    Sea of Starlight by Shari L. Tapscott

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    After meeting the mysterious woman of the forest, Rhys and Amalia are left questioning everything they know about the feuding kingdoms’ history, the two royal families that began the war, and their own turbulent relationship.There is only one place to find answers—in Draegan, the cursed kingdom that lies across the Chasm...
  • Asperfell by Jamie Thomas

    Asperfell by Jamie Thomas

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Only the darkest and most dangerous of Mages are sentenced to pass through the gate to Asperfell. Not one has ever returned.Never did Briony dream she might set foot in the otherworldly prison of Asperfell. She was, after all, neither Mage nor criminal...
  • Dragon Spear by Jessica Day George

    Dragon Spear by Jessica Day George

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    For Creel, all is right with the world. The dragon king, Shardas, and his queen, Velika, have made a comfy home on the Far Isles, and humans and dragons seem to be at peace. It's the perfect time for Creel to plan her wedding to Prince Luka. Well, it was perfect -- until Velika gets kidnapped, and Creel and Luka set off to save her...
  • A Kingdom of Nomads by S.B. Nova

    A Kingdom of Nomads by S.B. Nova

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    As the darkness grows, so must the light…Branded as enemies of the fae kingdom, Serena and her friends are on the run from the witch queen, Morgan. They reach sanctuary, only to discover shocking secrets that separate them.Serena’s newfound destiny takes her to a land plagued by endless war. To survive there, she is forced to bloody her sword, escape an evil king, and confront a god...
  • A Marriage of Necessity: Two Princes this time by Lisa Oliver

    A Marriage of Necessity: Two Princes this time by Lisa Oliver

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A Marriage of Necessity - Jasper and Avalon I owe my mother everything. Jasper, the youngest Prince from Lowenthorp, had one driving need - to get away from the castle. After being abducted, abused, and having lost an eye, Jasper believed his only chance of keeping his Mother safe was to be as far away from her as possible...
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  • Warsong by Elizabeth Vaughan

    Warsong by Elizabeth Vaughan

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The magic has come back to the Plains. The Warrior Priests are no more. The traditions are changing—too quickly for some. Joden has only ever wanted to be a Singer, to know all of the songs. When the time comes for his Trials, he is challenged to take the old paths—and it ends in disaster. But his broken heart and broken body are found by Amyu . . . and she knows what it is to live with pain...
  • Sea and Sand by Alex Lidell

    Sea and Sand by Alex Lidell

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    An impossible diplomatic mission. Dangerously growing magic. A distrustful crew. Can Nile beat back the rising tide of war before it’s too late? Six months have passed since Princess Nile Greysik changed the course of the Tirik war and earned her place in the Felielle navy . . . or thought she did...
  • Elf Prince by Tara Grayce

    Elf Prince by Tara Grayce

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Farrendel would do anything to keep from killing again...even marry a human princess.Farrendel Laesornysh, the younger elf prince of Tarenhiel, has become the elves' foremost warrior. He is no stranger to killing. But when the humans propose a marriage alliance during a diplomatic meeting, he is desperate enough to avoid more killing to agree...
  • War and Wind by Alex Lidell

    War and Wind by Alex Lidell

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A cowardly captain. An incompetent crew. A mission she can't fail. Nile and her small band of loyal midshipmen saved the ship, and Captain Rima might just kill them for it . . . one young officer at a time. No one and nothing on the Aurora is safe anymore, least of all Nile’s explosive secrets or her connection with Domenic, which vibrates between them like a cutlass speared into the deck...
  • Age of Auroras by Shari L. Tapscott

    Age of Auroras by Shari L. Tapscott

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Temporary peace has settled across Draegan as a new era begins for the cursed kingdom, but the royals know that tranquility is fleeting. In order to fulfill the magic and save the continent from its imminent destruction, Rhys and Amalia must once again return to Renove and see the rightful king ascend his throne...
  • Pool of Dreams by Sam Burns, W.M. Fawkes

    Pool of Dreams by Sam Burns, W.M. Fawkes

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A fae who betrayed his prince for a doomed passion.Syren sacrificed the man he loved to spare humanity from the wrath of the fae. For three hundred years, he’s been stuck on the mortal plane, floating alone in his pool while his powers slipped away...
  • Dawn of Darkness by Shari L. Tapscott

    Dawn of Darkness by Shari L. Tapscott

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Princess Amalia of Renove expected to find plague and death when she and Rhys entered the kingdom of Draegan, but she didn’t realize she’d find herself in a nest of lies and deception.Now the princess’s world is crumbling. She must learn to navigate a wicked court, where everyone wants something from her—including the one man she thought she could trust.And Amalia isn’t the only one struggling...
  • Division of the Marked by March McCarron

    Division of the Marked by March McCarron

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Alternative cover editions for this ASIN can be found here, here & here.As children, they meet.Bray and Yarrow have little in common. She’s all fire. He’s all heart. But the same ancient symbol brands their skin, marking them as members of the Chisanta—a superhuman society of scholars and warriors...
  • The Consort by K.A. Linde

    The Consort by K.A. Linde

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    After the loss of a friend and a false imprisonment in an Eleysian dungeon, Cyrene has no interest in destiny. Her heart was shattered, friends scattered, and her home is nothing but a pretty illusion. Even her magic won’t cooperate. Only desperation can turn her to the last person she should trust: Prince Kael. His darkness mirrors a growing force lurking within her...
  • Chosen Champion by Elise Kova

    Chosen Champion by Elise Kova

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A princess on the run, with enemies on all sides... Vi Solaris is on the eve of getting everything she’s ever wanted—her family, her home, her throne—and to save the world she’s going to have to give it all up.The Empire sees her as their Crown Princess, returning at long last. But Vi only sees visions of fate guiding her to the world’s gruesome end...
  • Forest of Firelight by Shari L. Tapscott

    Forest of Firelight by Shari L. Tapscott

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    After the sudden death of her brother, Princess Amalia is charged with what feels like an impossible task—she must choose the next king. Youthful thoughts of love are pushed aside as she accepts her fate, setting upon a quest throughout the kingdom to find a man worthy of her father’s throne.Little does Amalia know, someone has already set his sights on her...
  • Swan Lake by K.M. Shea

    Swan Lake by K.M. Shea

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Will she choose to save her country or free herself?Cursed to be a swan by day, Odette spends her nights leading a band of smugglers and delivering illegal goods. Though she longs for her spell to be broken, she is stuck flattering the evil sorcerer who cursed her...
  • The Warrior Queen by Emily R. King

    The Warrior Queen by Emily R. King

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    In the final volume of The Hundredth Queen Series, Kalinda will risk everything to save the man she loves.Kalinda has brought peace to the Tarachand Empire, at least for now. Bhutas no longer need to hide their gifts. The last of the rebels have been banished. And Prince Ashwin is set to take over as rajah.But for Kalinda, this all came at a great loss. Her childhood home. Her best friend...
  • Blood Ties by Lindsay Buroker

    Blood Ties by Lindsay Buroker

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Recently appointed Crown Agents Jev and Zenia must prove that they're worthy of their new jobs and young King Targyon’s trust. Their mission? To research the strange “disease of the blood” that killed Targyon’s three cousins and left him unexpectedly ruling an entire kingdom at barely twenty years of age. There are just a few problems...
  • Of the Curse or the Crown by V.B. Lacey

    Of the Curse or the Crown by V.B. Lacey

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Princess Diaries 2 meets King Midas in this swoon-worthy forbidden romance fantasy standalone.An heir. An Empress. A Queen.As a former rebel leader, Clarissa Aris is no stranger to power. She’s ready to reclaim the throne of the Veridian Empire and is eager to guide her people out of a past of violence and into a better future...
  • Princess Ahira by K.M. Shea

    Princess Ahira by K.M. Shea

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Once upon a time? Please! What a joke.Princess Ahira is not your average damsel in distress. She hates being a princess and constantly tries to flee from her mother and her lectures. Pleasantly, her life is shattered on the eve of her sixteenth birthday when she is kidnapped by dragons...
  • Enigma by Lindsay Buroker

    Enigma by Lindsay Buroker

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    After surviving ancient booby traps, deadly puzzles, and torture-happy imperial marines, cryptanalyst Tikaya Komitopis can’t wait to return home, even if that means explaining to her family how she came to love Fleet Admiral Rias Starcrest, the empire’s most notorious commander and the man responsible for the decimation of her people during the war...
  • Broken Lords by A.F. Dery

    Broken Lords by A.F. Dery

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Answering the High Lord's summons, the leaders of the Union meet at his Court. Thane, Dread Lord of Eladria, is among them and eager to see justice done to his former friend-turned-adversary, Malachi, but their meeting raises more questions than answers. An unexpected catastrophe shakes his trust to its very core and he is forced to question all he once held true...
  • The Dragon's Curse by Bethany Wiggins

    The Dragon's Curse by Bethany Wiggins

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    An action-packed fantasy adventure perfect for fans of Julie Kagawa's Talon and Renee Ahdieh's The Wrath and the Dawn about a princess who must fight the dragons trying to destroy her world. Six months ago, Princess Sorrowlynn stood beside Prince Golmarr to defeat the glass dragon...
  • Prisoner of Steel and Shadow by Meg Anne

    Prisoner of Steel and Shadow by Meg Anne

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A Kidnapped QueenA vengeful god has stolen everything from the queen of assassins. Her title. Her power. Her memories.Even her name.Now merely a ghost of her former self, Shadow must enter a deadly game and fight for her freedom or risk spending the rest of her life as a madman’s prisoner.But, in order to win, she may be forced to lose what’s left of her true self in the process...
  • A Bed of Blades by Kate Avery Ellison

    A Bed of Blades by Kate Avery Ellison

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Briand Varryda hasn't seen Kael and his company of Monarchists since they succeeded in destroying the Barrow Bridge and thwarting the march of the enemy. She's been hidden away for two years with the Hermit, forgotten. But when the Hermit protecting her is killed, she flees, hiding among thieves from the insidious Seekers. Briand doesn't want to be a pawn for the Monarchists or the Seekers...
  • Ella by Jessilyn Stewart Peaslee

    Ella by Jessilyn Stewart Peaslee

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Reserved yet resilient, Ella Blakeley lives with her cruel stepmother and stepsisters, without hope of escape—until the day Prince Kenton announces a ball that changes everything. Even without mice, magic, or fairy godmothers, Ella might discover a life that’s better than she ever dreamed. This intricately woven twist on Cinderella is an enchanting book you won’t be able to put down...
  • Crown of Destiny by Bertrice Small

    Crown of Destiny by Bertrice Small

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A hundred years have passed since the Faerie woman Lara last saved the world of Hetar from the darkness. Her youth and her beauty remain as always. The passing years, however, have taken many of her friends and kin. Her influence has waned. Those who remember her heroism in times of peril are few. Even her great-grandson, Cadarn, Dominus of Terah, denies her strong magic...
  • Prophecy by M.L. Fergus, Maureen Fergus

    Prophecy by M.L. Fergus, Maureen Fergus

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    An indentured servant girl, a handsome thief . . . and the start of an epic romantic adventure that will change the course of history, combining the romance and adventure of The Princess Bride with the political intrigue of Game of Thrones. For fans of Stephanie Garber, Leigh Bardugo, Shelby Mahurin and Jennifer L. Armentrout...
  • Once: Before Midnight / Golden / Wild Orchid by Cameron Dokey

    Once: Before Midnight / Golden / Wild Orchid by Cameron Dokey

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Read happily ever after with this magical repackage that includes three enchanting, retold fairy tales.In this value-priced bind-up of three beloved retellings, readers will journey to faraway fairy tale lands. Before Midnight revisits Cinderella's story in France, Golden puts a new spin on Rapunzel's romance, and Wild Orchid reimagines the Chinese tale of Mulan...
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