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Voyager by Diana Gabaldon
Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars · 74 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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Drums of Autumn by Diana Gabaldon
Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars · 73 ratingsIn this breathtaking novel, rich in history and adventure, #1 New York Times bestselling author Diana Gabaldon continues the story of Claire Randall and Jamie Fraser that started with the now-classic novel Outlander and continued in Dragonfly in Amber and Voyager. Once again spanning continents and centuries, Gabaldon has created a work of sheer brilliance...Categorized as:
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Dragonfly in Amber by Diana Gabaldon
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 76 ratingsAn alternate cover edition can be found here.From the author of Outlander... a magnificent epic that once again sweeps us back in time to the drama and passion of 18th-century Scotland...For twenty years Claire Randall has kept her secrets. But now she is returning with her grown daughter to Scotland's majestic mist-shrouded hills... -
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Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 91 ratingsThe year is 1945. Claire Randall, a former combat nurse, is just back from the war and reunited with her husband on a second honeymoon when she walks through a standing stone in one of the ancient circles that dot the British Isles. Suddenly she is a Sassenach—an “outlander”—in a Scotland torn by war and raiding border clans in the year of Our Lord...1743...Categorized as:
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![Magic's Price by Mercedes Lackey]()
Magic's Price by Mercedes Lackey
Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars · 41 ratingsThe final chapter in Mercedes Lackey's spellbinding fantasy trilogy! The Herald-Mage, Vanyel, and his Companion, Yfandes, are alone responsible for saving the once-peaceful kingdom of Valdemar from the forces of a master who wields a dark, forbidding magic. And if either Vanyel or Yfandes falters, both Valdemar and its Herald-Mage must pay the ultimate price... -
![A Leaf on the Wind of All Hallows by Diana Gabaldon]()
A Leaf on the Wind of All Hallows by Diana Gabaldon
Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars · 39 ratingsAvailable for the first time as an exclusive eBook in this original Outlander novella, Diana Gabaldon reveals what really happened to Roger MacKenzie Wakefield’s parents. Orphaned during World War II, Roger believed that his mother died during the London Blitz, and that his father, an RAF pilot, was killed in combat. But in An Echo in the Bone, Roger discovers that this may not be the whole story...Categorized as:
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![The Lady Has a Past by Amanda Quick]()
The Lady Has a Past by Amanda Quick
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsBeauty and glamour meet deception and revenge in this electrifying novel by New York Times bestselling author Amanda Quick.Investigative apprentice Lyra Brazier, the newest resident of Burning Cove, is unsettled when her boss suddenly goes on a health retreat at an exclusive spa and disappears without another word...Categorized as:
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![A Trail of Fire by Diana Gabaldon]()
A Trail of Fire by Diana Gabaldon
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsFour extraordinary stories featuring characters from the bestselling OUTLANDER series. In Lord John and the Plague of Zombies Lord John Grey is posted to Jamaica to assist the Governor as he faces a most unusual kind of uprising among the colony's slave population...Categorized as:
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![Proper Scoundrels by Allie Therin]()
Proper Scoundrels by Allie Therin
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsDon’t miss this spin-off from Allie Therin's acclaimed Magic in Manhattan universe! Their scandalous pasts have left them wounded and unworthy—and hopelessly perfect together. London, 1925Sebastian de Leon is adjusting to life after three years spent enthralled by blood magic...Categorized as:
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![The Lady Julia Grey Bundle by Deanna Raybourn]()
The Lady Julia Grey Bundle by Deanna Raybourn
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsTo say that I met Nicholas Brisbane over my husband's dead body is not entirely accurate. Edward, it should be noted, was still twitching on the floor. Starting with her husband's sudden death, Lady Julia Grey is swept into a world of mystery and deceit. It is also the world of the enigmatic and maddeningly attractive private investigator Nicholas Brisbane.. -
![A Knight in Shining Armor by Jude Deveraux]()
A Knight in Shining Armor by Jude Deveraux
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 42 ratingsan alternate cover editions can be found here and hereNew York Times bestselling author Jude Deveraux will capture your heart with signature classic novel, a time-travel romance featuring a present-day heroine and a dashing hero from the sixteenth century!Abandoned by a cruel fate, lovely Dougless Montgomery lies weeping upon a cold tombstone in an English church...Categorized as:
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![The Reigning and the Rule by Calia Read]()
The Reigning and the Rule by Calia Read
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsÉtienne Lacroix and I had a fire I thought would never die. Our love was timeless. An irreversible decision sent me back to the present day with a family I barely recognize, but I am determined to find a way back to Étienne. I can survive time. But I can’t survive life without him. Time bends to no one’s demands, so I must fight with everything I have to return to the past... -
![Wizard's First Rule by Terry Goodkind]()
Wizard's First Rule by Terry Goodkind
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 75 ratingsIn the aftermath of the brutal murder of his father, a mysterious woman, Kahlan Amnell, appears in Richard Cypher's forest sanctuary seeking help . . . and more. His world, his very beliefs, are shattered when ancient debts come due with thundering violence... -
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Forgetting to Remember by M.J. Rose
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDiscover a spellbinding love story in this dazzling time-travel adventure from the NYT bestselling author of The Last Tiara, M.J. Rose...Categorized as:
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The Vanished Bride of Northfield House by Phyllis M. Newman
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsEngland, 1922. Times are hard. Anne Chatham is a clever, modest young woman with little money, no prospects for marriage, and a never-shared secret—she can see spirits. Anne finds employment as a typist at Northfield House, the grand country manor of the Wellington family. Her employer, the wheelchair-bound Mr. Wellington, is kindly. His haughty wife is not... -
![The Secrets of Hawthorn Place by Jenni Keer]()
The Secrets of Hawthorn Place by Jenni Keer
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsTwo houses, hundreds of miles apart...yet connected always.When life throws Molly Butterfield a curveball, she decides to spend some time with her recently widowed granddad, Wally, at Hawthorn Place, his quirky Victorian house on the Dorset coast...Categorized as:
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![The Beautiful Strangers by Camille Di Maio]()
The Beautiful Strangers by Camille Di Maio
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA legendary hotel on the Pacific becomes a haven where dreams, love, and a beguiling mystery come alive.1958. Kate Morgan, tethered to her family’s failing San Francisco restaurant, is looking for an escape. She gets her chance by honoring a cryptic plea from her grandfather: find the beautiful stranger... -
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Star Cursed by Jessica Spotswood
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsWith the Brotherhood persecuting witches like never before, a divided Sisterhood desperately needs Cate to come into her Prophesied powers. And after Cate's friend Sachi is arrested for using magic, a war-thirsty Sister offers to help her find answers—if Cate is willing to endanger everyone she loves... -
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Marina by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 54 ratingsFifteen-year-old Oscar Drai meets the strange Marina while he's exploring an old quarter of Barcelona. She leads Oscar to a cemetery, where they watch a macabre ritual that occurs on the last Sunday of each month. At exactly ten o'clock in the morning, a woman shrouded in a black velvet cloak descends from her carriage to place a single rose on an unmarked grave...Categorized as:
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The Perilous Gard by Elizabeth Marie Pope
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsIn 1558, while exiled by Queen Mary Tudor to a remote castle known as Perilous Gard, young Kate Sutton becomes involved in a series of mysterious events that lead her to an underground world peopled by Fairy Folk—whose customs are even older than the Druids’ and include human sacrifice...Categorized as:
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![Mariana by Susanna Kearsley]()
Mariana by Susanna Kearsley
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsFrom the winner of the Catherine Cookson Fiction Prize, this mesmerizing, suspenseful, and richly atmospheric tale of time travel draws us into the heart of a heroine we won't soon forget...The first time Julia Beckett saw Greywethers she was only five, but she knew that it was her house. And now that she’s at last become its owner, she suspects that she was drawn there for a reason...Categorized as:
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![The Firebird by Susanna Kearsley]()
The Firebird by Susanna Kearsley
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsNicola Marter was born with a gift. When she touches an object, she sometimes glimpses those who have owned it before. When a woman arrives with a small wooden carving at the gallery Nicola works at, she can see the object’s history and knows that it was named after the Firebird—the mythical creature from an old Russian fable...Categorized as:
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![Gather the Bones by Alison Stuart]()
Gather the Bones by Alison Stuart
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEngland 1923 and the Great War still casts a dark shadow over the lives of ordinary people. Grieving widow, Helen Morrow and her husband’s cousin, the wounded and reclusive Paul, are haunted not only by the horrors of the trenches but ghosts from another time and another conflict... -
![Weeping in the Wings by Terry Lynn Thomas]()
Weeping in the Wings by Terry Lynn Thomas
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSan Francisco, March 1943Sarah Bennett harbors two secrets: She sees ghosts, and she’s in love with a spy.When Sarah takes a job with occult expert Dr. Matthew Geisler, he promises to help her understand the sorrowful spirit that seems to have attached itself to her—a spirit whose incessant weeping only she can hear... -
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![The Mind's Eye by K.C. Finn]()
The Mind's Eye by K.C. Finn
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA girl with a telepathic gift finds a boy clinging to his last hope during the war-torn climate of Europe, 1940. At fifteen, Kit Cavendish is one the oldest evacuees to escape London at the start of the Second World War due to a long term illness that sees her stuck in a wheelchair most of the time...Categorized as:
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The Darkest Hour by Barbara Erskine
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFrom the Sunday Times bestselling author comes an epic tale of love, passion and heartbreak.In the summer of 1940, eyes are focussed on the skies above the South of England: the Battle for Britain has just begun. But Evie Lucas has eyes for no-one but a dashing young pilot called Tony... -
![The Sherwood Ring by Elizabeth Marie Pope]()
The Sherwood Ring by Elizabeth Marie Pope
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsNewly orphaned Peggy Grahame is caught off-guard when she first arrives at her family's ancestral estate. Her eccentric uncle Enos drives away her only new acquaintance, Pat, a handsome British scholar, then leaves Peggy to fend for herself. But she is not alone. The house is full of mysteries and ghosts...Categorized as:
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Lady of Hay by Barbara Erskine
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThis masterfully crafted first novel tells the spellbinding story of a contemporary woman who discovers her past life as a 12th-century Welsh noblewoman. Erskine's extraordinary romance has been translated into 17 languages and has sold well over a million copies worldwide... -
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The Disappearances by Emily Bain Murphy
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsWhat if the ordinary things in life suddenly…disappeared?Aila Quinn’s mother, Juliet, has always been a mystery: vibrant yet guarded, she keeps her secrets beyond Aila’s reach. When Juliet dies, Aila and her younger brother Miles are sent to live in Sterling, a rural town far from home--and the place where Juliet grew up.Sterling is a place with mysteries of its own...Categorized as:
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![Starcrossed by Allie Therin]()
Starcrossed by Allie Therin
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWhen everything they’ve built is threatened, only their bond remains…New York, 1925Psychometric Rory Brodigan’s life hasn’t been the same since the day he met Arthur Kenzie. Arthur’s continued quest to contain supernatural relics that pose a threat to the world has captured Rory’s imagination—and his heart...Categorized as:
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A Vision of Light by Judith Merkle Riley
Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsThe bestselling novel that introduces Margaret of Ashbury and launches a trilogy featuring this irrepressible woman.Margaret of Ashbury wants to write her life story. However, like most women in fourteenth-century England, she is illiterate... -
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The Ghost and Mrs. Muir by R.A. Dick, Josephine Leslie
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 28 ratingsBurdened by debt after her husband's death, Lucy Muir insists on moving into the very cheap Gull Cottage in the quaint seaside village of Whitecliff, despite multiple warnings that the house is haunted. Upon discovering the rumors to be true, the young widow ends up forming a special companionship with the ghost of handsome former sea captain Daniel Gregg... -
![Wonderstruck by Allie Therin]()
Wonderstruck by Allie Therin
Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsDon’t miss the stunning conclusion to Allie Therin’s Magic in Manhattan series! New York, 1925 Arthur Kenzie is on a mission: to destroy the powerful supernatural relic that threatens Manhattan—and all the nonmagical minds in the world. So far his search has been fruitless. All it has done is keep him from the man he loves...Categorized as:
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![The Plastic Magician by Charlie N. Holmberg]()
The Plastic Magician by Charlie N. Holmberg
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsWall Street Journal bestselling author Charlie N. Holmberg returns to the enchanting world of The Paper Magician.Alvie Brechenmacher has arrived in London to begin her training in Polymaking—the magical discipline of bespelling plastic. Polymaking is the newest form of magic, and in a field where there is so much left to learn, every Polymaker dreams of making the next big discovery... -
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![Scandal's Bride by Stephanie Laurens]()
Scandal's Bride by Stephanie Laurens
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsHow can an honourable lady like Lady Catriona Hennessy unite with a rake like Richard Cynster? Though charmed by his commanding presence, she cannot give up her independence...Categorized as:
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![Malice at the Palace by Rhys Bowen]()
Malice at the Palace by Rhys Bowen
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsLady Georgiana Rannoch won’t deny that being thirty-fifth in line for the British throne has its advantages. Unfortunately, money isn’t one of them. And sometimes making ends meet requires her to investigate a little royal wrongdoing."While my beau Darcy is off on a mysterious mission, I am once again caught between my high birth and empty purse...Categorized as:
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![The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare]()
The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare
Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars · 67 ratingsThis Newbery Award winner brings to life the witch hysteria of Puritan New England...Categorized as:
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![The Mirror by Marlys Millhiser]()
The Mirror by Marlys Millhiser
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsOn the eve of her wedding in 1978, Shay Garrett peers into the antique mirror in her family's longtime home, the famous Victorian Gingerbread House on Pearl Street in Boulder, Colorado, and falls unconscious only to wake in the body of her own grandmother Brandy on the eve of her wedding—in 1900. The virginal Brandy, in turn, awakes in Shay's body to discover herself pregnant...Categorized as:
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Close Up by Amanda Quick
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsWelcome to Burning Cove, California where 1930s Hollywood glamour conceals a ruthless killer… Vivian Brazier never thought life as an art photographer would include nightly wake-up calls to snap photos of grisly crime scenes or headshots for aspiring male actors. Although she is set on a career of transforming photography into a new art form, she knows her current work is what’s paying the bills...Categorized as:
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![A Fine and Private Place by Peter S. Beagle]()
A Fine and Private Place by Peter S. Beagle
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsThis classic tale from the author of The Last Unicorn is a journey between the realms of the living and the dead, and a testament to the eternal power of love.Michael Morgan was not ready to die, but his funeral was carried out just the same. Trapped in the dark limbo between life and death as a ghost, he searches for an escape. Instead, he discovers the beautiful Laura.. -
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A Pretty Deceit by Anna Lee Huber
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn the aftermath of the Great War, the line between friend and foe may be hard to discern, even for indomitable former Secret Service agent Verity Kent, in award-winning author Anna Lee Huber’s thrilling mystery series. Peacetime has brought little respite for Verity Kent. Intrigue still abounds, even within her own family...Categorized as:
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The Warrior's Princess by Barbara Erskine
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsHer fateful life would echo through time.When Jess is attacked by someone she once trusted, she flees to her sister's house in the Welsh borders to recuperate. But she is disturbed by the cries of a mysterious child.Two thousand years before, the same valley is the site of a great battle between Caratacus, king of the British tribes, and the invanding Romans...Categorized as:
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![The Girl in the Painting by Tea Cooper]()
The Girl in the Painting by Tea Cooper
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFor readers of the The True Story of Maddie Bright, The Woman in the Green Dress and The Birdman's Wife comes this atmospheric and richly detailed Australian historical mystery from a bestselling Australian author.Maitland 1913. Miss Elizabeth Quinn is something of an institution in Maitland Town...Categorized as:
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Fragments by Monique Martin
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsProfessor Simon Cross and his assistant, Elizabeth West, thought their time traveling days were over. That's before they stumble across a World War II photograph -- with missing time traveler, Evan Eldridge, injured and in desperate need of help.They find Evan in 1942 London, ill and not quite sure what's happened...Categorized as:
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![Portrait of Jennie by Robert Nathan, Peter S. Beagle]()
Portrait of Jennie by Robert Nathan, Peter S. Beagle
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWho was she? Where had she come from?Was Jennie a dream, a memory, a lovely ghost from the past? Or had she stepped from anther world into this? Eben Adams could only guess at the answer. But he understood that Jennie, because she dared to love him, had fused past and present into the delightful delicate magic of "now... -
![The Devil's Due by Monique Martin]()
The Devil's Due by Monique Martin
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsTime travelers Simon and Elizabeth return in book four of the Out of Time series.Simon and Elizabeth's plans for their honeymoon are interrupted when they discover a list of unfinished business hidden in Simon's grandfather's journal... -
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Phoenix and Ashes by Mercedes Lackey
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 32 ratingsMercedes Lackey's magical Elemental Masters series recasts familiar fairy tales in a richly-imagined alternate Victorian worldEleanor Robinson’s life had shattered when Father volunteered for the Great War, leaving her alone with a woman he had just married... -
![A Witch in Time by Constance Sayers]()
A Witch in Time by Constance Sayers
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsA young woman in Belle Epoque France is cursed to relive a doomed love affair through many lifetimes, as both troubled muse and frustrated artist.In 1895, sixteen-year-old Juliet LaCompte has a passionate, doomed romance with the married Parisian painter Auguste Marchant... -
![The Dravenhearst Brides by Lindsay Barrett]()
The Dravenhearst Brides by Lindsay Barrett
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAn heiress with a haunted past enters a marriage of convenience with a man as tempting as the devil himself…and likely just as ruinous.After a scandalous debut sent her into recluse, heiress Margaret Greenbrier returns to the Louisville social circuit for the 1933 season. Laudanum prescription or no, Margot is not crazy. She’s not...Categorized as:
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![The Phantom Tree by Nicola Cornick]()
The Phantom Tree by Nicola Cornick
Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars · 26 ratings“My name is Mary Seymour and I am the daughter of one queen and the niece of another.”Browsing antiques shops in Wiltshire, Alison Bannister stumbles across a delicate old portrait—supposedly of Anne Boleyn. Except Alison knows better...Categorized as:
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