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An Imperfect Gentleman by Wendy Vella
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsRuined in the eyes of society, and removed from the only world they’d ever known, the Nightingale siblings vow never to be victims again. They will build their new life on what they’d once ignored. Being a clairvoyant is an excellent survival skill.A power he vows will not control him…After society turned its back on the Nightingales, Alexander knew it was time to face what he’d always denied...Categorized as:
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The Orphans of Ardwick by Emma Hornby
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAfter a cold, hard winter on the streets, three orphan children are about to give up hope when an unexpected turn of events brings them to the doorstep of a grand house in Ardwick, Manchester. Taken in by the firm but kind-hearted cook, the young friends can hardly believe their luck...Categorized as:
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Trial by Fire by Jada Fisher
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn a world full of darkness, the light of the sun is the only thing that can keep the Dark at bay. And dragons are the only thing that can protect the light.Tennegan Felter (Ten) is a humble servant in Epoch Sol, a beacon of light in a world full of darkness. Her deepest desire is to serve the city she loves and defend it from the creatures of the Dark that live all around... -
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... -
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Vision of Danger by Wendy Vella
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFrom USA Today Bestseller Wendy Vella comes an exciting Regency series about legend, love and destiny, with a hint of magic …Wounded war hero Captain Wolf Sinclair has recovered physically from the hell he endured fighting for his country, but in his head, he still exists in the dark...Categorized as:
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Changing Nature by April White
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsImmortal Descendants are disappearing one by one, and seventeen-year-old Clocker Saira Elian is next on the list…Saira and Archer’s London summer is carefree and romantic, until a brazen attempt to capture Saira looks suspiciously like the handiwork of the Descendants of War. When the kidnappings of other Descendants come to light and Mr...Categorized as:
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Touched by Danger by Wendy Vella
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFrom USA Today Bestseller Wendy Vella comes an exciting Regency series about legend, love and destiny, with a hint of magic …Healer, Essex Sinclair understands her family’s heightened senses are a result of a long-ago pact between the Sinclairs and the powerful Raven family, but has always struggled to feel worthy of bearing the legendary Sinclair name...Categorized as:
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Scent of Danger by Wendy Vella
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFrom USA Today Bestseller Wendy Vella comes an exciting Regency series about legend, love and destiny, with a hint of magic …As the illegitimate sister of the Duke of Raven, Emily knows only too well how society judges a woman like her, and what a debt of gratitude she owes her family... -
Peril: Elven Alliance Collected Stories Volume One by Tara Grayce
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA dangerous mission to a foreign kingdom isn't the ideal honeymoon.Jalissa, princess of the elves, thought she knew what she was getting into when she married Edmund, the spy prince of Escarland. But a week after their wedding, they must embark on a dangerous mission to an enemy nation, putting their wits, their skills, and their new marriage to the test in ways they never imagined...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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Spindles and Thorns by Melanie Karsak
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThree blessings. One curse. A beauty whose life will change forever. When Aurora and her twin brother Aubrey were born, a dark mage cursed on their eighteenth birthday, the twins would suffer the torment of eternal sleep. Aurora and Aubrey’s parents, being sensible wizards, eviscerated the mage. Unfortunately, dark magic doesn’t go quietly. Aurora and Aubrey were left orphans...Categorized as:
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Tempting Danger by Wendy Vella
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFrom USA Today Bestseller Wendy Vella comes an exciting Regency series about legend, love and destiny, with a hint of magic …With his demons well and truly leashed, reformed gambler, Lord Nicholas Braithwaite is tasked with finding a missing baby. Needing help, it comes in the form of the woman from his visions...Categorized as:
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A Dangerous Ruse by Tilly Wallace
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsHer opponents have her cornered, unless Sera makes an unexpected move… Seraphina continues to pick at the secrets entangling her. Then, during a ball, she spots a piece of enchanted jewellery eerily similar to the bracelet she once wore. But before she can find out about its origins, its owner is murdered. At least this time no one is blaming Sera...Categorized as:
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Elven Fury by Lindsay Buroker
Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsJev Dharrow is trying to convince his father to cancel his arranged marriage so he can wed Zenia, the woman he loves. But when elven assassins arrive in the city, all his personal problems must be set aside. They are after his good friend, Lornysh, an elf who has saved Jev's life a dozen times over the years...Categorized as:
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Wicked at Heart by Danelle Harmon
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsEngland, 1813. Damon de Wolfe, the sixth Marquess of Morninghall is dark, diabolical, and very, very dangerous. Tortured by his past and driven by his desire for revenge, the former naval hero has fallen from grace after infuriating his superiors. Now seething with anger in his lowly role of prison ship commander, he has locked away his brutal childhood memories and allows no one into his world...Categorized as:
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Outlander - Az utazó 2. kötet by Diana Gabaldon
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFrom the author of the breathtaking bestsellers Outlander and Dragonfly in Amber , the extraordinary saga continues. Their passionate encounter happened long ago by whatever measurement Claire Randall took. Two decades before, she had traveled back in time and into the arms of a gallant eighteenth-century Scot named Jamie Fraser...Categorized as:
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Servant of the Crown by Brian McClellan
Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsCaptain Tamas is an ambitious young officer in the Adran army. As a commoner, he is one of very few without noble blood to hold a rank. When he challenges the son of a duke over an insult, the subsequent duel lands him in hot water with the nobility and the royal cabal of Privileged sorcerers...Categorized as:
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The Tempest Sea by Robin D. Mahle
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA rescue mission turns into a fight against a force more powerful than they could have imagined.With the amulet still stuck around her neck, Addie must outwit her powerful captors who will do anything to get to the power held within the ancient artifact. If they find out she doesn’t know how to use it, she’s dead...Categorized as:
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Madness in Meryton: A Pride & Prejudice Variation by Jayne Bamber
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsJane and Elizabeth Bennet return home from Netherfield, and two days of heavy rain confine them indoors with their quarrelsome younger sisters, a mother in perpetual need of smelling salts, and their tedious cousin, Mr. Collins... -
Playing the Jack by Mary Brown
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFrom the back of the book: In 1785, a runaway orphan is picked up by a group of travelling players led by the mysterious Jack. With Fat Annie, largest woman on earth, and a troupe of dwarf acrobats, Sprat soon learns the tricks of the trade. Later, snatched from the streets of London, a new arrival at a notorious brothel is taught some very different tricks...Categorized as:
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Song of the Wolf by Rosanne Bittner
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBorn to be a Holy Woman among the Cheyenne, Medicine Wolf’s life as a young child is saved by a pack of wolves that keeps her from freezing to death. From then on, wolves are her guiding spirit and her protector. As she grows into womanhood, Medicine Wolf is forced to live among whites for one year, in an effort to learn the way of the white man...Categorized as:
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The Forgotten World by Robin D. Mahle
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsClark thought he knew what grief was. Addie thought she understood the dangers of the Tempest Sea.They couldn’t have been more wrong.When their only chance at survival lands them on opposite ends of an island that shouldn’t exist, they will both be forced to contend with the consequences of their latest mistakes – and each other’s...Categorized as:
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Shell Game by Benny Lawrence
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsLife in a remote fishing village in the middle of a civil war is neither safe nor inspiring. So, when an opportunity comes along for village girl Lynn to be kidnapped and enslaved by Darren, a ruthless pirate queen, she takes full advantage of it. But Darren is neither as ruthless nor as piratical as she appears at first glance--and Lynn's not exactly what she seems to be, either... -
Sea and Sand by Alex Lidell
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAn 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...Categorized as:
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Monarch by A.R. Ivanovich
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsRune Thayer’s rebellion in Cape Hill has placed all of Breakwater in danger. Now, Katelyn Kestrel and her best friend Kyle must do something that no one in the Western Kingdom has ever attempted: travel North into enemy territory and request aid from none other than Prince Varion himself. Before they are able to depart, Katelyn is unwillingly brought face-to-face with Prince Raserion... -
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Price of Freedom by A.C. Crispin
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsTwenty-five-year-old Jack Sparrow is a clean-cut merchant seaman pursuing a legitimate career as a first mate for the East India Trading Company. He sometimes thinks back to his boyhood pirating days, but he doesn't miss Teague's scrutiny or the constant threat of the noose...Categorized as:
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Paperglass by A.R. Ivanovich
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsSurviving a narrow brush with death convinced Katelyn Kestrel that she must never return to the war-torn Outside World. Safe again within the sanctuary of Haven Valley, she has forced herself to forget Rune Thayer, the young Dragoon soldier who had sacrificed everything to save her... -
Into the Hourglass by Emily R. King
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIn the second book in The Evermore Chronicles by Emily R. King, Everley Donovan plunges into the roiling waves of a strange new world to hunt a wicked prince who cheated time. Everley Donovan’s mission: retrieve the hallowed sword of Avelyn stolen by the wicked Prince Killian, who slayed her family and left her for dead. Should she fail, the seven worlds will come to an end, as could time itself... -
Empire of Shadows by Jacquelyn Benson
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsNice Victorian ladies don’t run off to find legendary lost cities.One trifling little arrest shouldn’t have cost Ellie Mallory her job, but it’s only the latest in a line of injustices facing any educated woman with archaeological ambitions.When Ellie stumbles across the map to a mysterious ancient city, she knows she’s holding her chance to revolutionize Pre-Colombian history...Categorized as:
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Storming by K.M. Weiland
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn the high-flying, heady world of 1920s aviation, brash pilot Robert “Hitch” Hitchcock’s life does a barrel roll when a young woman in an old-fashioned ball gown falls from the clouds smack in front of his biplane. As fearless as she is peculiar, Jael immediately proves she’s game for just about anything, including wing-walking in his struggling airshow... -
The Lawless by William W. Johnstone, J.A. Johnstone
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Greatest Western Writers Of The 21st CenturyThey survived the perilous thousand-mile journey to the far edges of the Texas frontier. Now the family that tamed the Wild West must fight to defend their home from a ruthless band hell-bent on stealing g it away. A Kerrigan Never Back DownKate Kerrigan has seen the blood-soaked face of war...Categorized as:
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Third Degree Yearn by Laney Hatcher
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen I was just a girl, I gave my heart to the housekeeper’s son. He took it with him when he left and I never got it back.I’ve loved Julian Moore for as long as I can remember. But my plans for a future were stolen before we ever got the chance. Playmates at four. Constant companions at nine. And the undisputed love of my young life by sixteen. We were best friends through it all...Categorized as:
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The Emperor’s Aeronaut by Shelley Adina, R.E. Scott
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsNapoleon is determined to conquer the world with his steam-powered weapons. Nothing in England can stop him … except two young lady inventors.In 1819, France is surrounded by armies. With Russia in the north, the Karlsruhe Confederacy in the east, and a pirate kingdom in the south, Napoleon cannot break out, nor can the English Navy seem to break in. Europe teeters on the edge of a sword...Categorized as:
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The Bird of the River by Kage Baker
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn this new story set in the world of The Anvil of the World and The House of the Stag, two teenagers join the crew of a huge river barge after their addict mother is drowned. The girl and her half-breed younger brother try to make the barge their new home... -
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Race to the Bottom of the Sea by Lindsay Eagar
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsCan a clever young inventor uncover a ruthless pirate’s heart of gold? Thrilling sea adventure takes on a hint of steampunk in the second book by the author of the acclaimed Hour of the Bees.When her parents, the great marine scientists Dr. and Dr. Quail, are killed in a tragic accident, eleven-year-old Fidelia Quail is racked by grief — and guilt...Categorized as:
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When Ash Falls by Rachel Van Dyken
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratings#1 New York Times Bestselling Author Rachel Van Dyken returns to regency romance with the last and final installment in The London Fairy Tales series...A regency retelling of Snow White and The Seven Dwarves.Ashton Wolfsbane, Earl of Grimm, has taken a vow of celibacy after blaming himself for his sister in laws death... -
Lessons in Enchantment by Patricia Rice
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsCan a straitlaced engineer, three psychic children, and a lonely witch find love?The daughter of an earl, Lady Phoebe Malcolm Duncan has the ability to talk to animals. She longs to be a veterinarian, but education requires more coin than she possesses. When the walls of her home come tumbling down, she has to take two steps back—to servitude...Categorized as:
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Compromise & Consequence by Sue Barr
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsOne misstep is all it takes to forever change the lives of Elizabeth Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy.During the ball at Netherfield Park, Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy are irretrievably compromised and forced to marry. Angered beyond reason, Mr. Darcy prepares the vilest marriage settlement known to man, forcing Mr...Categorized as:
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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... -
The Imposter's Inheritance by C.J. Archer
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA sordid scandal rocks the Glass household and threatens to ruin Matt's family unless he can suppress it. But after word gets out, and a rare magical coronet is stolen, he and India find themselves scrambling to recover the heirloom and suppress the gossip before reputations are ruined...Categorized as:
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Cinder Bella by Kathleen Shoop
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsNEXT GENERATION INDIE BOOK AWARDS--ROMANCEShe never had anything.He lost everything.Together they create a Christmas to remember.December, 1893--Shadyside, PennsylvaniaBella Darling lives in a cozy barn at Maple Grove, an estate owned by industrialist Archibald Westminster...Categorized as:
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The Swordmaster's Daughter by Terri Green
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhitefriars London 1604When her father bans her from fighting after an unfortunate incident with a stray sword, Lucinda Evans is determined to continue fencing. She recruits a small group of women with an urgent need to defend themselves, training them in secret as the Sisters of the Sword...Categorized as:
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The Ever Falls by Robin D. Mahle
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe epic conclusion to The World Apart Series.Addie and Clark have just defeated one evil, only to have another closer to home than they thought possible.They thought they were finally safe, but Spectrum has been waiting for them.And this time, there are more lives at stake than anyone could’ve imagined... -
So Silver Bright by Lisa Mantchev
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAct Three, Scene OneBertie thinks her quest is almost done. With the help of Ariel and the rest of her friends, she has managed to find her father and rescue Nate from Sedna, the Sea Goddess. Now, all she has to do is reunite her father, the Scrimshander, with her mother, Ophelia, and she will finally have a true family of her own...Categorized as:
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The Wisdom of Madness by C.J. Archer
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWith Alice determined to discover the truth about her past, and Seth determined to help her, the couple find themselves sucked into a world where nothing is as it seems and no one can be trusted. On the run to escape a mad queen's wrath, and with an entire realm looking for them, tensions fray and friendships are tested...Categorized as:
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The Cursed One by Ronda Thompson
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsNew York Times bestselling author Ronda Thompson captivates readers in her darkly seductive Regency werewolf romance series, the Wild Wulfs of London…Wed and widowed in one day, stunning socialite Amelia Sinclair’s honeymoon is anything but typical. Then again, neither is Amelia—rebellious and impulsive, marrying Robert Collingsworth was the one sensible thing she ever did... -
Ribelle in amore by Bertrice Small, Daniela Mariani
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsBrilliant, Outspoken, Willful - No One Dared Challenge Stunning Miranda’s Wild Ways... Except Jared Dunham. Betrothed to this wildcat in a pact that allowed Miranda to remain mistress of her ancestral home off the New England coast, the roguish merchant adventurer turns his wife’s burning rage to searing ecstasy as he fires her most wanton desires... -
Blacksouls by Nicole Castroman
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsNicole Castroman brings the dangerous pirate ports of the Caribbean to life in this vibrant sequel to Blackhearts—the reimagined origin story of history’s most infamous pirate, Blackbeard.Edward “Teach” Drummond is setting sail to the Caribbean as first mate on the most celebrated merchant ship in the British fleet—until he rebels against his captain...Categorized as:
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The Master of Heathcrest Hall by Galen Beckett
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsEven as her husband is about to attain undreamed-of power, Ivy Quent fears for her family’s safety. With war looming and turmoil sweeping the nation of Altania, Ivy finds the long-abandoned manor on the moors a temporary haven. But nowhere is really safe from the treachery that threatens all the Quents have risked to achieve...Categorized as:
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Whispered Music by Rachel Van Dyken
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFind out if love prevails in this regency retelling of how Beauty tamed the savage Beast… Scarred at a young age, Dominique Maksylov, Royal Prince of Russia, has lived a reclusive life. As a musical prodigy, his music has made him famous, but few ever see his face. He never ventures into polite society, but when he discovers he is the only heir to the Earldom of Harriss, he goes to one ball...Categorized as:
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