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Unclaimed Mate: Lethal Legacy Vampire Series by D.M. Mortier
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsRe-released... Luka Petrov refused to let the brutal legacy of his Slavic vampire father and the unsavory legacy of his human mother define him. As Dhampirs, he and his brothers had vampiric powers and wealth that ensured that they were feared and revered in both the immortal and human worlds. Fate gave him a mate he neither wanted nor needed...Categorized as:
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Jessamine by Shani Struthers
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"The dead of night, Jess, I wish they'd leave me alone."Jessamin Wade's husband is dead - a death she feels wholly responsible for. As a way of coping with her grief, she keeps him 'alive' in her imagination - talking to him every day, laughing with him, remembering the good times they had together... -
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Sacrificed: Heart Beyond the Spires by Bey Deckard
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsNovel (127,090 words)Genre(s): Historical Fantasy, Erotic Action/Adventure, Polyamory, LGBT+/GSMReunited once more, the crew of Baal’s Heart must make the long and treacherous journey south to the towering spires of the Devil’s Isles...Categorized as:
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![Tamed & Unleashed: The Highlander's Vivacious Wife by Bree Wolf]()
Tamed & Unleashed: The Highlander's Vivacious Wife by Bree Wolf
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA forgotten night. A stolen child. And a stranger who feels all too familiar. Waking up alone after a drunken night with a stranger in Gretna Green, CLAUDIA DAVENPORT, sister to Viscount Ashwood, finds herself still unmarried…and with child... -
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![The Pen and the Sword by Olan Thorensen]()
The Pen and the Sword by Olan Thorensen
Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsDestiny’s Crucible: Joe Colsco boarded a flight from San Francisco to Chicago to attend a national chemistry meeting. Through a freak accident, he never sets foot on Earth again. He is unaware he has been poured into a crucible, where time and trials will transform him in ways unimagined, and that will send him and his descendants to a destiny beyond one planet...Categorized as:
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![The Assassin's Promise by Merri Bright]()
The Assassin's Promise by Merri Bright
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsShe was bred to be lovely. She turned out lethal.After escaping an evil king bent on reviving an extinct, magical line, Roya promised to dedicate her life to ridding the world of abusive tyrants. But when her mentor, Thorn, flunks her out of the Assassins Guild, she flees her humiliation and runs straight into danger... -
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Confessor by Terry Goodkind
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 47 ratingsDescending into darkness, about to be overwhelmed by evil, those people still free are powerless to stop the coming dawn of a savage new world, while Richard faces the guilt of knowing that he must let it happen. Alone, he must bear the weight of a sin he dare not confess to the one person he loves…and has lost... -
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The Ghost Tree by Barbara Erskine
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsBefore you follow the path into your family’s history, beware of the secrets you may find…The new novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author.Ruth has returned to Edinburgh after many years of exile, left rootless by the end of her marriage, career and now the death of her father. She is now faced with the daunting task of clearing his house... -
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Incendiary by Elisabeth
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratings“You will find your true love when it’s time. The one which carries the name that means ‘fiery love’ or ‘born of flames’ will be the one for you. She will be born with one purpose…to be yours.” –says Aphrodite, the Goddess of Love. Paris I am Paris, born Alexander of Troy, the killer of the great Achilles, a man who killed my brother and a man that most thought couldn’t die... -
![Fated: Blood and Redemption by Bey Deckard]()
Fated: Blood and Redemption by Bey Deckard
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsNovel (117,000+ words)Genre(s): Historical Fantasy, Erotic Action/Adventure, Polyamory, LGBT+/GSMWith the captain’s mind in shambles, Jon and Tom set out to find the passage home through the black mountain range, hoping to find a cure for Baltsaros’s madness... -
![On the Edge of Darkness by Barbara Erskine]()
On the Edge of Darkness by Barbara Erskine
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe eagerly awaited new novel by the author of LADY OF HAY and HOUSE OF ECHOES is the story of a woman trapped in the wrong time. Abandoned by her twentieth century lover, she plots a terrible revenge on him and his family. Adam Craig is fourteen when, near an isolated Celtic stone in the wild Scottish Highlands, he meets Brid, whose exotic, gypsy-like dress and strange attitudes fascinate him... -
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Mind of the Phoenix by Jamie McLachlan
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMoira is a powerful empath, a psychic graced with the ability to read emotions and memories. Her skill is as much a curse as a gift, for in the harshly stratified city of Braxton empaths are slaves. Clever and beautiful, Moira has learned to rely on no one but herself. Determined to escape life as a concubine, she kills her master, and is imprisoned for the crime... -
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The Third Curse by Claire Luana, Jesikah Sundin
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFive cursed knights. A dying land. An enchanted bowl shrouded in myth and legend. Irish warrior and fifth knight Fionna Allán agonizes over an impossible choice. Either she saves her father and sister by betraying the three knights and king she loves, or she chooses her heart and dooms her family to death. Determined to find another way, Fionna strikes a bargain with Arthur Pendragon... -
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River of Destiny by Barbara Erskine
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFrom the bestselling author of Time’s Legacy and Lady of Hay comes a thrilling new novel, River of Destiny, an epic story that spans Anglo Saxon Britain, Victorian Suffolk and the present day.Perfect for fans of Kate Mosse’s Labyrinth.An Anglo Saxon burial ground that must not be disturbed.A Victorian tragedy of forbidden love...Categorized as:
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Ghost by Carole Cummings
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsDwelling in the land of Ada and defending magic users called the Jin, Fen Jacin-rei is a trained assassin and an Untouchable, one whose mind hosts the Voices of the Ancestors, spirits of long-dead magicians. His fate should be one of madness and solitude, yet Fen Jacin-rei desperately clings to his sanity and ferociously protects the family he loves... -
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The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson
Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars · 44 ratingsThe narrator of The Gargoyle is a very contemporary cynic, physically beautiful and sexually adept, who dwells in the moral vacuum that is modern life. As the book opens, he is driving along a dark road when he is distracted by what seems to be a flight of arrows. He crashes into a ravine and suffers horrible burns over much of his body... -
![The Shadow Catcher by Michelle Paver, Anna Bentinck]()
The Shadow Catcher by Michelle Paver, Anna Bentinck
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn the depths of the lush Jamaican forest stands a ruined house of haunting beauty. Abandoned for decades, it still casts its spell down the generations - a place of dreams, magic and madness. Worlds away, ten-year-old Madeleine's untroubled Scottish childhood is cut short after a fateful encounter with the handsome but hostile Cameron Lawe... -
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The Fifth Knight by Claire Luana, Jesikah Sundin
Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsFour cursed knights. One Warrior Princess. A faerie sword that binds their lives together. Fionna’s only hope to save her family lies across the Irish Sea. As a warrior princess of Ulster, the rival clann holding her father and sister for ransom knows she’ll pay any price to get them back. But even she couldn’t predict the task set before her—to steal a faerie sword from a king... -
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House of Many Shadows by Barbara Michaels
Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsMeg Rittenhouse fears she is losing her mind. The doctors tell her the strange and disturbing hallucinations she's been experiencing ever since her accident are all in her head, and that, with a little rest, the haunting visions will vanish. But accepting an invitation to stay with her cousin in the country may be the worst decision Meg has ever made... -
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Dragonfly by Resa Nelson
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsHow do you live in a peaceful nation when the blood running through your veins comes from a violent land?Betrayed. Broken. Lost.Trusting and naïve, Greeta knows she’s different. All she has to do is look at herself. She’s tall and pale, but lives among people who are small and dark... -
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Crimson Peak by Nancy Holder
Rated: 3.82 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsWhen her heart is stolen by a seductive stranger, a young woman is swept away to a house atop a mountain of blood-red clay: a place filled with secrets that will haunt her forever. Between desire and darkness, between mystery and madness, lies the truth behind Crimson Peak. From acclaimed director Guillermo del Toro...Categorized as:
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Cry to Heaven by Anne Rice
Rated: 3.85 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsAnne Rice brings to life the exquisite and otherworldly society of the eighteenth-century castrati, the delicate and alluring male sopranos whose graceful bodies and glorious voices brought them the adulation of the royal courts and grand opera houses of Europe, men who lived as idols, concealing their pain as they were adored as angels, yet shunned as half-men... -
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Pan by Knut Hamsun
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 32 ratingsLieutenant Thomas Glahn, a hunter and ex-military man, lives alone in a hut in the forest with his faithful dog Aesop. Upon meeting Edvarda, the daughter of a merchant in a nearby town, they are both strongly attracted to each other, but neither understands the other's love... -
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Transcend by Christine Fonseca
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSemi-Finalist in Kindle Book Review 2013 Indie Book AwardsAll seventeen-year-old composer Ien Montgomery desires is an escape from his family's rigid expectations for his life; someone to inspire his music. When he meets a beautiful violin-prodigy, Kiera McDougal, his life music takes on new life. With her, he imagines a future outside of his parents’ control... -
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![The Immortal Games by Annaliese Avery]()
The Immortal Games by Annaliese Avery
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAn explosive new romantasy YA, perfect for fans of The Hunger Games and Lore.Every Lunar Eclipse signifies the beginning of The Immortal Games: an epic set of games played by the Gods of Olympus, with randomly-selected humans as their Tokens. The stakes are high; the Gods covet entertainment and glory above all else, for the Tokens, it's about survival.17-year-old Ara wants revenge... -
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Wait for What Will Come by Barbara Michaels
Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe last of an ancient Cornish clan, Carla Tregellas has inherited her historic ancestral home: a massive mansion looming high up on the jagged cliffs of Cornwall. From the moment Carla takes possession of the grand manor she feels right at home, warmly welcomed by everyone—except the strange and secretive housekeeper, Mrs... -
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Houses of Stone by Barbara Michaels
Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsEnglish professor Karen Holloway stumbles upon the find of a lifetime: a battered, faded manuscript, the lost masterpiece of a 19th-century poet called Ismene. While racing against other scholars to bring Ismene's true identity to light, she is haunted by a tormented voice screaming out to her from the Virginia woods... -
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The Phoenix Dance by Dia Calhoun
Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA journey through madness and mania.On the island of Faranor in the kingdom of Windward, twelve princesses dance their shoes to shreds each night. No one knows why. Not the king or queen. Not the knights, lords, or ladies-in-waiting. When the queen blames the royal shoemaker, his apprentice, Phoenix Dance, puts her life at risk to solve the mystery...Categorized as:
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Silver-Tongued Devil by Jennifer Blake
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsBlake's a master at romantic fiction.--The Chattanooga TimesBestselling author Jennifer Blake is at her sensual best in this sultry tale of love and hate, revenge and redemption that moves from the spicy heat of New Orleans to a lush sugar plantation on the Mississippi. . . .The Angel--He saved her life, then made her his prisoner... -
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Named of the Dragon by Susanna Kearsley
Rated: 3.82 of 5 stars · 33 ratingsTormented by horrific nightmares since the death of her baby five years before, literary agent Lyn Ravenshaw agrees to accompany an author to Wales, where she encounters an eccentric young widow desperately afraid for her own infant's safety and a reclusive playwright who could be her only salvation... -
![Here I Stay by Barbara Michaels]()
Here I Stay by Barbara Michaels
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsAndrea Torgesen is certain that hard work is exactly what her younger brother Jim needs to help him recover from the trauma of a serious car accident—and turning a decrepit old mansion into a beautiful country inn seems to be the perfect project. But unearthly voices and eerie visions haunt Jim from almost the first instant he sets foot in the dreary old house... -
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Ligeia by Edgar Allan Poe
Rated: 3.76 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsLigeia is a short story written by Edgar Allan Poe and first published in 1838. Ligeia is widely considered to be one of the top 100 greatest books of all time. This great novel will surely attract a whole new generation of readers. For many, Ligeia is required reading for various courses and curriculum's... -
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The Grey Beginning by Barbara Michaels
Rated: 3.69 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsDevastated by her husband's death, Kathy Malone has traveled to his childhood home, hoping to come to terms with the recent tragedy. Here in the beautiful rolling hills of Tuscany, she seeks solace—and discovers something sinister instead... -
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The Confessions of Max Tivoli by Andrew Sean Greer
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 18 ratings"We are each the love of someone's life." So begins The Confessions of Max Tivoli, a heartbreaking love story with a narrator like no other.Born with the physical appearance of an elderly man, Max grows older mentally like any child, but his body appears to age backwards, growing younger every year...Categorized as:
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![The Woman in the Lake by Nicola Cornick]()
The Woman in the Lake by Nicola Cornick
Rated: 3.58 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFrom the bestselling author of House of Shadows and The Phantom Tree comes a spellbinding tale of jealousy, greed, plotting and revenge—part history, part mystery—for fans of Kate Morton, Susanna Kearsley and Barbara ErskineLondon, 1765Lady Isabella Gerard, a respectable member of Georgian society, orders her maid to take her new golden gown and destroy it, its shimmering beauty tainted by the... -
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The Jewel Trader of Pegu by Jeffrey Hantover
Rated: 3.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn the autumn of 1598, Abraham, a melancholy young Jewish gem merchant, seeks his fortune far from the imprisoning ghetto walls of Venice. Traveling halfway across the world, he lands in the lush and exotic Burmese kingdom of Pegu—an alien place, yet one where the jewel trader is not shunned for his faith. There is a price for his newfound freedom, however...Categorized as:
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Beauty's Release by A.N. Roquelaure, Anne Rice
Rated: 3.72 of 5 stars · 41 ratingsFrom Anne Rice, author of Beauty's Kingdom, the third book in the erotic Sleeping Beauty seriesBefore E.L. James' Fifty Shades of Grey and Sylvia Day's Bared to You,, there was Anne Rice’s provocative take on the timeless fairy tale “Sleeping Beauty... -
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The Wizard's Daughter by Barbara Michaels
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA penniless yet strikingly beautiful orphan, Marianne Ransom's indomitable spirit has enabled her to survive a cruel life on the backstreets of Victorian London. But it is her gift of second sight that carries her into the world of money and privilege—a power brought on by a strange twist of fate... -
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The Magician's Lie by Greer Macallister
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsWater for Elephants meets The Night Circus in The Magician's Lie, a debut novel in which the country's most notorious female illusionist stands accused of her husband's murder—and she has only one night to convince a small-town policeman of her innocence. The Amazing Arden is the most famous female illusionist of her day, renowned for her notorious trick of sawing a man in half on stage...Categorized as:
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The Love-Artist by Jane Alison
Rated: 3.35 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsWhy was Ovid, the most popular poet of his day, banished from Rome? Why do only two lines survive of his play Medea, reputedly his most passionate, most accomplished work? Between the known details of Ovid’s life and these enigmas, Jane Alison has created a haunting drama of psychological manipulation, and an ingenious meditation on love, art and immortality...Categorized as:
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Catacombs by Addison Cain
Rated: 3.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratings“There is no God for you but me. There is no heaven waiting for you. I own your soul and your body. I own your mind. I am your life and your only reason for existence.” Catacombs is a tale of pure horror featuring the ruling vampire lord and his captive Treasure. Be warned. Previously published in the anthology "When the Dark Wins"... -
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The Comet Seekers by Helen Sedgwick
Rated: 3.53 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsOne Day meets The Time Traveler's Wife in this spellbinding, magical debut novel about love, loss, hope and heartbreak that shows us that for each of us, the world can be as lonely or as beautiful as the comets that illuminate the skies above us.Róisín and François first meet in the snowy white expanse of Antarctica. And everything changes...Categorized as:
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The Gilly Salt Sisters by Tiffany Baker
Rated: 3.41 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsThe author of the New York Times bestselling The Little Giant of Aberdeen County returns with a magic-tinged tale of dreams, family secrets, and betrayals on a New England salt farm. In the isolated Cape Cod village of Prospect, the Gilly sisters are as different as can be... -
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The Lantern by Deborah Lawrenson
Rated: 3.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsSet in the lush countryside of Provence, Deborah Lawrenson’s The Lantern is an atmospheric modern gothic tale of love, suspicion, and murder, in the tradition of Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca. Drawn to a wealthy older man, Eve embarks on a whirlwind romance that soon offers a new life and a new home—Les Genévriers, a charming hamlet amid the fragrant lavender fields of Provence...Categorized as:
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![The Greatcoat by Helen Dunmore]()
The Greatcoat by Helen Dunmore
Rated: 3.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA terrifyingly atmospheric ghost story by the Orange-prize-winning Helen Dunmore. In the summer of 1954, newly wed Isabel Carey arrives in a Yorkshire town with her husband Philip. As a GP he spends much of his time working, while Isabel tries hard to adjust to the realities of married life... -
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Time Squared by Lesley Krueger
Rated: 2.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratings"I’ll dive right in and tell you that the novel, Time Squared by Lesley Krueger, which I’ve loved more than I’ve loved than any book I’ve read in ages, could be billed as Kate Atkinson’s Life After Life meets Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go, if we wanted to underline just how badly you really ought to read it. And oh, you really do." -- Critic Kerry Clare...
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