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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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Nine Ladies: A Pride and Prejudice Variation by Heather Moll
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHow can Darcy and Elizabeth overcome 200 years of differences in this era-spanning love story?The Darcy family has grudgingly kept the secret about the power contained within a nearby stone circle called Nine Ladies. Fitzwilliam Darcy is forced to contend with this secret when a young woman from the future appears at Pemberley... -
![Lycans and Legends by Melanie Karsak]()
Lycans and Legends by Melanie Karsak
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSomeone is trying to assassinate the Queen.After stopping a mysterious preternatural assailant wielding an enchanted dagger, Clemeny is on the hunt. Why is someone after Victoria? To find answers, Clemeny Louvel must travel to the one place she's been avoiding, the Summer Country. Among the mist and standing stones, secrets about her case-and herself-are hiding... -
![Mandrake Company by Ruby Lionsdrake]()
Mandrake Company by Ruby Lionsdrake
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSeven sizzling science-fiction romance novels!If you loved Star Wars and Firefly, but wanted way more romance, this is the series for you...Categorized as:
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![Wrighting Old Wrongs by Maria Grace]()
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... -
![All Fun and Games by Honor Raconteur]()
All Fun and Games by Honor Raconteur
Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIt’s all fun and games until someone gets murdered.Well, the Queen’s Own certainly isn’t having fun, because what’s worse than one case? Two, of course. And what’s worse than two? Whatever madness Jamie’s currently in.The body count is rising, all the MO’s are different, and cleaning charms have wiped the murder scenes of clues... -
![Nessy's Locket by A.W. Exley]()
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... -
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The Gangster by C.S. Poe
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratings1881—Special Agent Gillian Hamilton, magic caster for the Federal Bureau of Magic and Steam, has recovered from injuries obtained while in Shallow Grave, Arizona. Now back in New York City, Gillian makes an arrest on New Year’s Eve that leads to information on a gangster, known only as Tick Tock, who’s perfected utilizing elemental magic ammunition...Categorized as:
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Howls and Hallows by Melanie Karsak
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsYou're invited to the All Hallows Ball.*Werewolves prohibited.Busy tracking down thieving werewolves in London, Clemeny is surprised when Edwin asks her to lead a new case in the Fenlands of east England.The Cabell family is haunted by a curse. Something in the misty moors surrounding Cabell Manor has come howling just days before the exclusive All Hallows Ball. How gauche... -
![Moseh's Staff by A.W. Exley]()
Moseh's Staff by A.W. Exley
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsAll things must come to an end... London is in the frozen grip of an unnatural winter and Queen Victoria wants answers. Cara and Nate know who - the Curator. The queen's artifact hunters just don't know what is responsible. Cara is on the trail of an ancient and powerful artifact capable of freezing a city and stirring demons. First she must confront her past and her father's history...Categorized as:
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![When I Fall in Love by Lynn Kurland]()
When I Fall in Love by Lynn Kurland
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsNicholas de Piaget is finished with demoiselles more interested in his riches than his heart. He is certain he’ll spend the rest of his life in his leaky castle, watching others enjoy wedded bliss, until he stumbles upon a flame-haired maiden in distress. His honor demands that he help her return home – if only his heart would allow it... -
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The Highlander's Bargain by Barbara Longley
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsBefore he can settle down, blond-haired, blue-eyed Robley of clan MacKintosh needs to taste true adventure. So when the faerie, Madame Giselle, asks him to retrieve her stolen property in exchange for two enchanted tokens that will whisk him across the centuries, he jumps at the chance... -
![Once Upon a Time Travel by Sariah Wilson]()
Once Upon a Time Travel by Sariah Wilson
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsOnce upon a time…Recent college grad Emma Damon knows the Rose Room in Hartley Hall is off limits, which is exactly why she can’t wait to get inside. Once she enters the forbidden room, Emma learns more about the history of the museum than she ever intended to know.Waking up confused and shocked in 1816, all Emma wants is to return to her cozy home with flushing toilets and disposable razors... -
![Finding You in Time by Bess McBride]()
Finding You in Time by Bess McBride
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsREVISED AND UPDATED (No new content) Book Four of the best-selling Train Through Time series, a historical time travel romance series set in and around Seattle, Spokane, Wenatchee and Montana in the early 1900s. Nathan Carpenter has lost the woman he loves...on a train...to another time. He has lost everything, even himself as he cannot find a way to return to his own time...to 1906...Categorized as:
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![Goblins and Snowflakes: An Elves and the Shoemaker Retelling by Melanie Karsak]()
Goblins and Snowflakes: An Elves and the Shoemaker Retelling by Melanie Karsak
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsNever bargain with goblin men.Scarlette Rossetti thought her stay at Strawberry Hill Castle during the Christmas holiday would pass by uneventfully. She couldn't have been more wrong. Enticed by the delights of the nearby village of Twickenham, Scarlette's life would change in unimaginable ways.She never expected to be drawn magnetically to The Two Sisters Doll Shop and Toy Emporium... -
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Under an English Moon by Bess McBride
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsUnder an English Moon, Book Two of the bestselling Moonlight Wishes in Time series, a historical time travel romance series to England's late Georgian/Regency era. Lord Reginald Hamilton pines for a love of his own. The woman he fancied himself in love with has married another, and Reggie finds himself restless, at loose ends, and wondering where he will find his destiny... -
![A Fall in Time by Bess McBride]()
A Fall in Time by Bess McBride
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsREVISED AND UPDATED (No new content) Book Five of the bestselling Train Through Time series, a historical time travel romance series set in and around Seattle, Spokane, Wenatchee and Montana in the early 1900s. Sara Reed, a twenty-first century college student in Spokane, Washington, hears the train’s whistle every day as it passes by her apartment...Categorized as:
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![A Lesson in Patience by Jennifer Connors]()
A Lesson in Patience by Jennifer Connors
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsBook #3 of the Lesson SeriesThey say that third times a charm, but that couldn't be further from the truth for Ginny. In her latest adventure as a modern day woman trapped inside the body of a romance novel heroine, she finds herself in the late 19th century, on the frontier of America... -
![A Gentleman of Means by Shelley Adina]()
A Gentleman of Means by Shelley Adina
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsBook 8 in the Magnificent Devices steampunk series!How much must one sacrifice for the sake of friendship?Lady Claire Trevelyan has had to deal with betrayal before, in small ways and large. But none is quite so painful as the belief that Gloria Meriwether-Astor had deserted her and her friends and left them to die under the waters of Venice...Categorized as:
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![The Time Traveler's Daughter by Emma Strike]()
The Time Traveler's Daughter by Emma Strike
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsan alternate cover edition can be found hereHer father was a time traveler, and he’s left her with a mission...The year is 1929, and Catherine Christie’s world turns upside down when, on her 25th birthday, she receives a box from her long-dead father containing an explosive secret: he was a time traveler... -
![Love Came Just in Time by Lynn Kurland]()
Love Came Just in Time by Lynn Kurland
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFour classic novellas from the USA Today bestselling author, including "The Gift of Christmas Past," "The Three Wise Ghosts," "And the Groom Wore Tulle," and "The Icing on the Cake...Categorized as:
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![To Kiss in the Shadows by Lynn Kurland]()
To Kiss in the Shadows by Lynn Kurland
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsLianna of Grasleigh spends all her days weaving tapestries of dragons and shadows, avoiding the intrigues of court, and trying desperately with needle and thread to recapture the beauty she has lost. She dreams of a fearless knight to rescue her from the king's stern wardship.. -
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Divine by Nichole Van
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsTime is a vast cosmic sea, where each life exists as rippling circles on its surface, past and future being eternally present. And occasionally, one expanding ring tangles with that of another, linking two lives together even though separated by centuries..Categorized as:
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![Liberty by Lindsay Buroker]()
Liberty by Lindsay Buroker
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsKali has been working toward her dream of building an airship and escaping the frozen Yukon for so long that she can scarcely believe it’s close to becoming a reality. There’s just one problem. Cedar, her friend and business partner (and maybe a little more), is in jail, and the American authorities are on their way to hang him...Categorized as:
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![The Iron Fin by Anne Renwick]()
The Iron Fin by Anne Renwick
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA vampiric octopus hunting selkies. A torrid love affair. Traitors who prey on those closest to them in a bid for power. Isa McQuiston is caught between two worlds. Strange creatures are attacking her people, their injuries beyond her medical expertise. More than one fisherman has been tossed ashore by the waves, drained of blood, a severed tentacle piercing his flesh... -
![Shadow of the War Machine by Kristin Bailey]()
Shadow of the War Machine by Kristin Bailey
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMeg has come a long way from her days as a lowly housemaid, driven to learn the truth behind her parents’ murder. She’s since discovered that they were part of the Secret Order of Modern Amusementists — an underground society of inventors...Categorized as:
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Cold Stone & Ivy: The Ghost Club by H. Leighton Dickson
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsJack the Ripper gave her his heart. Now he wants it back. The year is 1888, the clockwork British Empire is crumbling and young writer Ivy Savage has literally received a heart in the post. Terrified, her father sends her north to a strange sanitarium in Lancashire where the brilliant but unpredictable “Mad Lord of Lasingstoke” makes his home...Categorized as:
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![Clara's Heart by Kitty Margo]()
Clara's Heart by Kitty Margo
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsRipped from the arms of the man she loves, Clara returns to her family, and her fiancé... -
![Burning Hope by Kathryn Ann Kingsley]()
Burning Hope by Kathryn Ann Kingsley
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsNero is a madman and a murderer…and now Hope belongs to him.Hope's life as an enslaved priestess in the Temple of Hera is all she has ever known. Born to slavery and the golden chain she wears around her neck, very little ever came as a surprise. But when she meets Nero, the only thing she can trust is that everything is about to change... -
![This Time Forever by Constance O'Day-Flannery]()
This Time Forever by Constance O'Day-Flannery
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsConstance O'Day-Flannery has touched millions of readers' hearts with her magical romances that stir the imagination. Now, she delivers the story of a fiery Irish woman who travels forward in time to the 20th century and meets the man who will change her fate--forever...Categorized as:
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![A Lesson in Pride by Jennifer Connors]()
A Lesson in Pride by Jennifer Connors
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBook #8 of the Lesson SeriesAs terrifying as it is to enter someone else's life in the middle of it, Ginny never imagined it would be her character's wedding night. Alone in a room with candles and champagne, Ginny realizes that's exactly what's happened.Grant Montgomery was the spare and never tried to be anything more... -
![Together Forever Across Time by Bess McBride]()
Together Forever Across Time by Bess McBride
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsStephen Sadler reluctantly attends the Seattle wedding of Robert Chamberlain to Ellie Standish, the woman who had captured his interest. There he says goodbye to the woman he thought he had fallen for...Categorized as:
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Twist of Fate by Kathryn Elizabeth Kelly
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTwist of Fate launches Kathryn Kelly’s Once Upon a Time Series Twist of Fate launches Kathryn Kelly’s Once Upon a Time Series…Centuries ago a young woman’s life was saved when a mysterious man opened a rift in time for her to escape through. But the rip didn’t heal, and now her descendants are inadvertently slipping through that portal... -
![A Lesson in Friendship by Jennifer Connors]()
A Lesson in Friendship by Jennifer Connors
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsBook #4 of the Lesson SeriesWith so many lessons to learn, Ginny's back in yet another novel adventure. Having been ripped from a good life in Wyoming, Ginny, a 21st century woman living in the past, has had enough. She doesn't want to meet another eligible gentleman and definitely doesn't want to fall in love.Baron Oliver Conway becomes her unsuspecting hero... -
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![A Lady of Integrity by Shelley Adina]()
A Lady of Integrity by Shelley Adina
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsBook 7 in the Magnificent Devices steampunk series! Will a daring rescue put a wedding and a future at risk? Lady Claire Trevelyan and renowned scientist Andrew Malvern are looking forward to domestic felicity in London when they are surprised by an unexpected visitor...Categorized as:
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Rebel Magisters by Shanna Swendson
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsTea, Love ... and Revolution!The Rebel Mechanics aren’t the only group plotting revolution against the magical British Empire. There are rebel magisters, as well, and Verity Newton and her magister employer, Lord Henry, know that the only way for the revolution to succeed is if both groups work together...Categorized as:
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![Beauty and Beastly: Steampunk Beauty and the Beast by Melanie Karsak]()
Beauty and Beastly: Steampunk Beauty and the Beast by Melanie Karsak
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn this tale as old as time, Isabella Hawking must tinker a solution to a heartbreaking mystery. When Isabelle and her papa set out from London on a sea voyage, Isabelle was thrilled. Visiting foreign courts, learning from master tinkers, and studying new ways to manipulate mechanicals sounded like a dream. But an unexpected gale turns the waters violent, and the ship is lost...Categorized as:
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![A Lesson in Forgiveness by Jennifer Connors]()
A Lesson in Forgiveness by Jennifer Connors
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsGinny figured being a 21st century woman, stuck in the past, playing other people's lives would be fun. It turns out, it's just work.Her new persona, Bethany, is a society daughter whose only purpose is to make an excellent marriage, while playing by a long list of rules. When her parents bring her to a house party so she can meet eligible bachelors, Bethany has her hands full...Categorized as:
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![Nero's Fiddle by A.W. Exley]()
Nero's Fiddle by A.W. Exley
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsOne death by spontaneous human combustion is a rare act of God. Two... is surely a freakish coincidence. Three... well, that's starting to look deliberate. Cara has a new role as Queen Victoria's artifact hunter, she's adapting to married life and living in a country manor that more closely resembles a mausoleum...Categorized as:
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Hunted by Lindsay Buroker
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsSelf-taught tinkerer Kali McAlister is determined to build an airship and escape the frigid Yukon forever. Unfortunately, she’s the heir to the secrets of flash gold, an alchemical energy source that tends to make her a popular target for bandits, gangsters, and pirates...Categorized as:
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Claimed by Lindsay Buroker
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsAfter years on the hunt, Cedar Kartes is finally within striking distance of Cudgel Conrad, the criminal who slew his brother and framed him for murder. With the help of Kali McAlister, his business partner and the woman he’s mustering the courage to court, he believes he can finally rid the world of a bloodthirsty felon. But nothing is ever easy in the Yukon...Categorized as:
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![Golden Braids and Dragon Blades: Steampunk Rapunzel by Melanie Karsak]()
Golden Braids and Dragon Blades: Steampunk Rapunzel by Melanie Karsak
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsBeing the heir to Camelot is a tangled mess. Rapunzel has spent her entire life living in Merlin's cave on the coast of Cornwall. Under the protection of her faerie guardian, Gothel, she’s stayed safe. Safe and bored. Dreaming of a life that looks more like a Jane Austen novel, Rapunzel fears she'll never have the chance to explore Victorian England's modern delights. Or meet a man. Or be kissed... -
![The Last Bloodcarver by Vanessa Le]()
The Last Bloodcarver by Vanessa Le
Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsThe tantalizing romance of These Violent Delights meets the mechanical wonders of Cinder in The Last Bloodcarver, the first in a two-book debut -- with a riveting medical magic system and lush Vietnam-inspired fantasy world.Nhika is a bloodcarver. A cold-hearted, ruthless being who can alter human biology with just a touch... -
![Her Own Devices by Shelley Adina]()
Her Own Devices by Shelley Adina
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsEscaped lunatics, lost children, vengeful lords, and love. Really, the situation is becoming quite impossible.Seventeen-year-old Lady Claire Trevelyan, left alone after the Arabian Bubble financial disaster claims home and family, now leads the cleverest gang in the London underworld...Categorized as:
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![The Silver Skull by Anne Renwick]()
The Silver Skull by Anne Renwick
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAn illegal border crossing.A fake marriage.A mad German count determined to create an army of unbreakable soldiers.Lady Olivia is not all she seems.Trained for marriage to an assigned political target, her skills lie in programming household steambots to serve tea, dress her hair...and sound the alarm while she picks locks and listens at doors... -
![Clara's Song by Kitty Margo]()
Clara's Song by Kitty Margo
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsClara was born with a veil, and the ability to see into the future. This much she knows. What she doesn’t know is what other gifts will be revealed when she turns eighteen in a few months. While her grandmother has been diligent in her efforts to prepare her for the inevitable changes to come, Clara can focus on precious little besides the devilishly handsome man she met at her coming out ball...Categorized as:
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![Clockwork Tangerine by Rhys Ford]()
Clockwork Tangerine by Rhys Ford
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe British Empire reigns supreme, and its young Queen Victoria has expanded her realm to St. Francisco, a bustling city of English lords and Chinese ghettos. St. Francisco is a jewel in the Empire’s crown and as deeply embroiled in the conflict between the Arcane and Science as its sister city, London—a very dark and dangerous battle... -
![The Unicorn's Tail by A.W. Exley]()
The Unicorn's Tail by A.W. Exley
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThis novella is a Victorian romance with a steampunk twist. It is a standalone read that compliments the Artifact Hunters series.Amy Hamilton is a good girl. She always did exactly as society demanded, kept her eyes downcast, never spoke out of turn, and hid the myriad of questions swirling in her brain...Categorized as:
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![Below the Salt: A Novel by Thomas B. Costain]()
Below the Salt: A Novel by Thomas B. Costain
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA vivid and violent tale of England and Europe and the signing of the magna charta, by the author of "the silver chalice" and "the black rose".England's King Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine had many children, the most famous of whom were Richard the Lionheart and John "Lackland". Another son, Geoffrey, died before his parents, but left 2 children: Arthur and Eleanor. And thereby hangs this tale... -
![Frankly, My Dear by Sandra Hill]()
Frankly, My Dear by Sandra Hill
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsLost in the Bayou...Selene has always had three great passions: men, food . . . and Gone With the Wind. Still, the glamorous model always seems to be starving for both nourishment and affection. Weary of the petty world of high fashion, she heads to New Orleans for one last shoot before she chucks it all and begins a whole new life...
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