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About Time by Jodi Taylor
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsAfter their heroic efforts to safeguard the Acropolis and prevent the Paris Time-Stop, the Time Police have gone from zero to hero in but a single bound.Then one fateful mission to apprehend a minor criminal selling dodgy historical artefacts blows up in all their faces. An officer is attacked within TPHQ. A prisoner is murdered...Categorized as:
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![Lost In Time : An Old Fashion Western by S.A. Ison]()
Lost In Time : An Old Fashion Western by S.A. Ison
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSawyer Reed is heading home after rambling for seven years after the Civil War ended. His family's cattle ranch is waiting, and he is ready to get to work. On his way home from Mexico, Sawyer runs into a mysterious woman who will change his life and his future forever. Josephine Alverez is a chef at a posh restaurant in San Antonio, Texas in the year 2020...Categorized as:
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![A Perfect Storm by Jodi Taylor]()
A Perfect Storm by Jodi Taylor
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThe brand new short story in the bestselling series, The Chronicles of St Mary’s...Categorized as:
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![Eclipse 2: New Science Fiction and Fantasy by Jonathan Strahan]()
Eclipse 2: New Science Fiction and Fantasy by Jonathan Strahan
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsAn eclipse is a rare and unusual event, when the world is transformed and the sky becomes a dark eldritch thing. It's a time when anything could happen, when any kind of story just might be true. That sense of the strange and wonderful guides Eclipse: New Science Fiction and Fantasy, the second volume in an exciting new annual anthology series edited by acclaimed anthologist Jonathan Strahan...Categorized as:
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![The Children of First Man by James Alexander Thom]()
The Children of First Man by James Alexander Thom
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWith its beautifully written and deeply felt descriptions of the feelings the first white settlers and Native Americans had for each other, THE CHILDREN OF FIRST MAN tells the fascinating story of a European people gradually absorbed into the Amerindian culture until their literacy was lost and their Christian religion submerged in the legend of a Welsh Prince named Madoc, the First Man... -
![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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![Agatha H. and the Siege of Mechanicsburg: Girl Genius, Book Four by Phil Foglio, Kaja Foglio]()
Agatha H. and the Siege of Mechanicsburg: Girl Genius, Book Four by Phil Foglio, Kaja Foglio
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn a time when the Industrial Revolution has become an all-out war, mad science rules the world—with mixed success. In Agatha H and the Siege of Mechanicsburg, Agatha Heterodyne, the last of the Heterodyne family, has returned to her family’s hereditary town with the might of the Wulfenbach Empire hot on her heels...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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![Chasing the Green Fairy by Melanie Karsak]()
Chasing the Green Fairy by Melanie Karsak
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA sabotaged airship.A recovering opium addict.A messenger with life-shattering news.With the 1824 British airship qualifying race only weeks away, Lily Stargazer is at the top of her game. She’s racing like a pro, truly in love, and living clean. But on one ill-omened day, everything changes...Categorized as:
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![Do Overs: A Time Travel Thriller of Sudden Second Chances by Jon Spoelstra]()
Do Overs: A Time Travel Thriller of Sudden Second Chances by Jon Spoelstra
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTime travel: This is the trip you gotta take. And then when you take it--wham--you are faced with a savage choice of do-overs to correct past blunders. Roy Hobbs blew the cash windfall from his best-seller book. Gone was his money, and then his wife Rachel was murdered with the killer never found. Roy chose to pick up the pieces, riding into his sunset as a crime reporter in a smaller market...Categorized as:
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![Codi by Roxie McClaine]()
Codi by Roxie McClaine
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA single mom who doesn't need a man. A luxury android who will prove her wrong.Codi can’t remember anything. He doesn’t know where he came from or why he’s in serious need of repairs. All he knows is that Denise rescued and re-activated him, and now he never wants to leave her side... -
![Runaway Hucow by Lizzy Bequin]()
Runaway Hucow by Lizzy Bequin
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsYou can run, little hucow, But you can’t hide your desire.Tess Bradford is a hucow, and she’s on the auction block to be sold to the highest bidder. The men at the auction want her for her milk, but the tall dark stranger with the bulging muscles and deadly horns wants so much more. He wants Tess to be his mate, but not his alone. He has two herd brothers, and they share everything together... -
![Fields of Air by Shelley Adina]()
Fields of Air by Shelley Adina
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsBook 10 in the Magnificent Devices steampunk series! Her father started a war. She intends to stop it. Her father may have sacrificed his own life to save hers, but heiress Gloria Meriwether-Astor is finding it difficult to forgive him...Categorized as:
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![The Change by S.M. Stirling]()
The Change by S.M. Stirling
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsALL-NEW STORIES OF THE EMBERVERSEby S.M. Stirling, Harry Turtledove, Walter Jon Williams, John Birmingham, John Barnes, Jane Lindskold, and more...S. M...Categorized as:
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![Forbidden Planet by Cheree Alsop]()
Forbidden Planet by Cheree Alsop
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWhen Captain Nova Ardis acquires the services of a dangerous, tattooed gladiator, she knows she’s taking a risk—but she would do anything for family.Kove has survived most of his life in the gladiator arena and now, on the eve of winning his freedom, he is sold once again. At least being the captain’s bodyguard shouldn’t be too hard compared to the bloody life he’s lived...Categorized as:
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![Peacemaker by Lindsay Buroker]()
Peacemaker by Lindsay Buroker
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsHalf-breed tinkerer Kali McAlister doesn’t care that the gold rush has stormed into Dawson and prospectors are flooding the north—all she wants is to finish construction of her airship, so she can escape the Yukon and see the world...Categorized as:
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![Hunted by Lindsay Buroker]()
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]()
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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![Brilliant Devices by Shelley Adina]()
Brilliant Devices by Shelley Adina
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsBook four in the Magnificent Devices steampunk series! A lady of resources has the power to change the world-if she can stay alive long enough to do it. Lady Claire Trevelyan had been looking forward to glittering balls, congenial society, and relief from pursuit during her stay with Lord and Lady Dunsmuir in the Canadas. Well, perhaps not entirely...Categorized as:
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![Mothstorm by Philip Reeve]()
Mothstorm by Philip Reeve
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA sinister cloud had appeared on the edge of the Solar System, and seemed to be moving closer. Rather than sit idly by, my family and I decided that we should investigate whatever monstrous force of darkness hid within...Categorized as:
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![Tin Swift by Devon Monk]()
Tin Swift by Devon Monk
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIn steam age America, men, monsters, machines and magic battle to claim the same scrap of earth and sky. In this chaos, one man fights to hold on to his humanity--and his honor. . . Life on the frontier is full of deceit and danger, but bounty hunter Cedar Hunt is a man whose word is his bond. Cursed with becoming a beast every full moon, Cedar once believed his destiny was to be alone...Categorized as:
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![Cold Copper by Devon Monk]()
Cold Copper by Devon Monk
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn steam age America, men, monsters, machines, and magic battle to claim the same scrap of earth and sky. In this madness, one man struggles to keep his humanity, his honor, and his hell-bent mission intact... Bounty hunter and lycanthrope Cedar Hunt vowed to track down all seven pieces of the Holder—a strange device capable of deadly destruction...Categorized as:
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![Coilhunter by Dean F. Wilson]()
Coilhunter by Dean F. Wilson
Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsWelcome to the Wild North, a desolate wasteland where criminals go to hide—if they can outlast the drought and the dangers of the desert. Or the dangers of something else. Meet Nox, the Coilhunter. A mechanic and toymaker by trade, a bounty hunter by circumstance. He isn't in it for the money. He's in it for justice, and there's a lot of justice that needs to be paid...Categorized as:
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![Rustkiller by Dean F. Wilson]()
Rustkiller by Dean F. Wilson
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWelcome to the Rust Valley. The Wild North is full of nasty places, but there are some places you just don’t go. One of them is that scrapyard desert known as the Rust Valley. It’s where vehicles go to die. That’s why you don’t go in after them. The bounty hunter Nox made a promise to himself that he’d never be caught dead there...Categorized as:
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![Devices Brightly Shining by Shelley Adina]()
Devices Brightly Shining by Shelley Adina
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsOn the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me Dreadful relations, high expectations, And a sudden urge to pull up ropes and flee. It is the event of the season—on Twelfth Night, the Dunsmuirs have invited the cream of London society to celebrate the marriage of Lady Claire and Andrew Malvern at a reception to which the Prince Consort himself is expected... -
![Operation: Endgame by Pip Ballantine, Tee Morris]()
Operation: Endgame by Pip Ballantine, Tee Morris
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsJoin Agents Books and Braun on their final adventure with the Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences!There is no time to rest for Eliza D Braun and Wellington Thornhill Books. The man who has haunted and hounded them since the fall of the Maestro, Doctor Henry Jekyll, is now on a killing spree, using bizarre, theatrical murders as a way to taunt their inability to capture the...Categorized as:
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![In the Company of Thieves by Kage Baker]()
In the Company of Thieves by Kage Baker
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEspionage, time travel, and affairs gone terribly wrong define this final collection of Kage Baker’s stories in the Company series. The employees of Dr. Zeus Incorporated have discovered a nearly foolproof recipe for success: combining time travel and immortals...Categorized as:
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![Fields of Iron by Shelley Adina]()
Fields of Iron by Shelley Adina
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratings“What do you propose, sir?” He held her astonished gaze as he went down upon one knee. “Why … I propose...Categorized as:
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![Skull Island by Will Murray, Michael McConnohie]()
Skull Island by Will Murray, Michael McConnohie
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen King Kong famously fell from his death perch on the summit of the Empire State Building early in 1933, the question on many moviegoers' minds was: Where the heck was Doc Savage? For the tallest skyscraper in Manhattan was also the world headquarters of the famous superman-scientist known as the Man of Bronze... -
![Countdown: The Liberators by Tom Kratman]()
Countdown: The Liberators by Tom Kratman
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBack in ActionOld Soldiers never die...except inside, when they lack a reason to live. Old soldier Wes Stauer is dying inside, from sheer lack of purpose.And then comes the knock on the door: "Our leader's son and heir has been kidnapped. We don't know where he is. We need you to get him back for us. The people who have him are numerous, warlike, and well armed. But money is no object...Categorized as:
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![The Time Ships by Stephen Baxter]()
The Time Ships by Stephen Baxter
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThere is a secret passage through time...and it leads all the way to the end of Eternity. But the journey has a terrible cost. It alters not only the future but the "present" in which we live.A century after the publication of H. G... -
![Magnificent Devices by Shelley Adina]()
Magnificent Devices by Shelley Adina
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsAn air voyage to remember turns into a disaster no one may survive.With her orphaned charges, Lady Claire Trevelyan joins the Earl of Dunsmuir’s family on an airship voyage to the Americas. If she can stay out of Lord James Selwyn’s way until her eighteenth birthday, she will be of age and cannot be forced into marriage...Categorized as:
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![By Fire Above by Robyn Bennis]()
By Fire Above by Robyn Bennis
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 11 ratings"All's fair in love and war," according to airship captain Josette Dupre, until her hometown becomes occupied by the enemy and her mother a prisoner of war. Then it becomes, "Nothing's fair except bombing those Vins to high hell...Categorized as:
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![The Clockwork Witch by Michelle D. Sonnier]()
The Clockwork Witch by Michelle D. Sonnier
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe seventh daughter of a seventh daughter, Arabella is destined to disappoint, when she was expected to shine. Though she descends from a long line of gifted witches she has earned the moniker of a "brown bud" showing no sign of magical talent. When it truly seems her lot can grow no worse, she discovers an unnatural affinity for...of all things...technology...Categorized as:
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![Gunpowder & Embers by John Ringo, Kacey Ezell]()
Gunpowder & Embers by John Ringo, Kacey Ezell
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn the smoking ruins of our world, will the struggle for yesterday's technology spark tomorrow's global war? A new postapocalyptic novel, in which a young cowboy claims his destiny—and tries to prevent a catastophic war—from New York Times best-selling author John Ringo, Kacey Ezell, and Christopher L. Smith. WAR IN THE SMOKING RUINS OF TOMORROW! Thirty years ago, the world ended...Categorized as:
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![Hell Hath No Fury by David Weber, Linda Evans]()
Hell Hath No Fury by David Weber, Linda Evans
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIt began with two men. They came from very different worlds—entirely different universes, in fact—one using sorcery and the other using mental powers and steam-age technology. They met in a virgin forest on a duplicate planet Earth. Neither side knows who shot first, but each blames the other, and it doesn't really matter, now, because war has begun...Categorized as:
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![The Monster War by Alan Gratz]()
The Monster War by Alan Gratz
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Monster War is the third book in the action-packed, steampunk League of Seven series by acclaimed author Alan Gratz.Having discovered the monstrous secret of his origins, Archie Dent is no longer certain that he is worthy to be a member of the League of Seven. But with new enemies to face, he realizes that he may not have the luxury of questioning his destiny... -
![The Great Martian War: Invasion! by Scott Washburn]()
The Great Martian War: Invasion! by Scott Washburn
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsFollowing the defeat of the Martian invasion of Britain, a new threat to humanity lands in the American west... -
![The Martian Emperor by Andrew Mayne]()
The Martian Emperor by Andrew Mayne
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsDescription from the author's website:Who is the Martian Emperor?When a giant airship descends on New York City in 1892 and threatens destruction if the world doesn’t submit to the Martian flag, it’s up to the mysterious Smith, inventor and adventurer to find out what forces are at work... -
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Steam Legion by Evan Currie
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe Library would not burn. Dyna of Sparta would not allow it, on her life and her ancestors she so swore.An Epic adventure set during the Early Roman Empire's era of expansion and unrest. Steam Legion develops from a real historical crossroads and explodes out in a new direction, derailing our history centuries before the first railroads were invented...Categorized as:
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![The Enceladus Crisis by Michael J. Martinez]()
The Enceladus Crisis by Michael J. Martinez
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTwo dimensions collided on the rust-red deserts of Mars—and are destined to become entangled once more in this sequel to the critically acclaimed The Daedalus Incident.Lieutenant Commander Shaila Jain has been given the assignment of her dreams: the first manned mission to Saturn. But there’s competition and complications when she arrives aboard the survey ship Armstrong...Categorized as:
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![The Clockwork Cathedral by Heather Blackwood]()
The Clockwork Cathedral by Heather Blackwood
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMedical student Felicia Sanchez is only trying to help an injured man when she slips through a time rip and into a 19th century New Orleans, one very different than the one she knows from history books.The only person who can get her home is Professor Seamus Connor, a former convict seeking a quiet life of obscurity... -
![Alt.History 101 by Samuel Peralta, Ken Liu]()
Alt.History 101 by Samuel Peralta, Ken Liu
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe future is history... From Samuel Peralta, creator of the #1 bestselling Future Chronicles anthology series, comes a new speculative anthology series that turns the world you know upside down.In Alt...Categorized as:
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![The Ninth Circle by R.M. Meluch]()
The Ninth Circle by R.M. Meluch
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFifth in the hard-hitting military science-fiction series. On the distant world of Zoe, an expedition finds DNA-based life. When alien invaders are also discovered, Glenn Hamilton calls on the U.S.S. Merrimack for help. But the Ninth Circle and the Palatine Empire have also found Zoe. Soon everyone will be on a collision course to determine the fate of this planet...Categorized as:
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![Rouille by Floriane Soulas]()
Rouille by Floriane Soulas
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsParis, 1897. Les plus grandes puissances européennes se sont lancées à l'assaut de la Lune et de nouveaux matériaux découverts sur le satellite envahissent peu à peu la Terre. Ces grandes avancées scientifiques révolutionnent l'industrie et la médecine, mais pas pour tout le monde...Categorized as:
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Macaque Attack! by Gareth L. Powell
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Spitfire pilot monkey Ack-Ack Macaque faces a world on the brink in this adventure, the conclusion to his astonishing trilogy...Categorized as:
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![Archer's Lady by Moira Rogers]()
Archer's Lady by Moira Rogers
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe first book in this series is available for FREE. Download it + two other series starters: mrogers.link/free-sale Bloodhounds #3Accused of betraying the Bloodhound Guild, Archer's only chance of regaining the trust of his fellow hounds is to earn it--one dangerous job at a time. Crystal Springs may be the worst yet... -
![Take Back Tomorrow by Richard Levesque]()
Take Back Tomorrow by Richard Levesque
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEddie Royce thinks he's got things all figured out. He's managed to cheat the system and gotten himself published in the sci fi pulps by "borrowing" plots from Shakespeare. He doesn’t mind being a cheat and a plagiarist as long as no one finds out...Categorized as:
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![How Few Remain by Harry Turtledove]()
How Few Remain by Harry Turtledove
Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsFrom the master of alternate history comes an epic of the second Civil War. It was an epoch of glory and success, of disaster and despair...1881: A generation after the South won the Civil War, America writhed once more in the bloody throes of battle. Furious over the annexation of key Mexican territory, the United States declared total war against the Confederate States of America once again... -
![From the Deep of the Dark by Stephen Hunt]()
From the Deep of the Dark by Stephen Hunt
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe streets of Middlesteel are under attack by an unseen enemy, leaving bloodless corpses in its trail. The newssheets scream vampire, but the truth is even more deadly than anyone knows.Charlotte Shades, Mistress of Mesmerism, is a thief—and a darned good one at that...
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