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1) Warriors
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Joanna just wants to spend the holiday curled up with her coven of handsome professors, but family obligations wait for no one. Instead of wintery cuddles, she's up to her neck in the Pike brothers and their wives, a cast of political figures invited to their dinner parties and, worst of all, Callum's father, Duncan. Duncan Pike is a nasty piece of work-not only did he place a young Callum in the heart of an ugly war, he disapproves of Isaac and Aiden.
Duncan...
2) Immersed
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2022
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What if love turned you into a monster? Forget petticoats and demure female behavior. Melusine Doré prefers armored corsets and knives and slays evil creatures for a living. The grim and gruesome don’t frighten her; she’ll take on a cyclops or a dragon and not even break a sweat. But when her rival, the charismatic Levi Cannon, comes to town, all her buried fears begin to surface. Melusine realizes she is in danger of something much more horrifying...
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"The Queen of paranormal romance."
-USA Today
A classic from #1 New York Times bestselling author Christine Feehan, Lair of the Lion is a dark-edged and enthralling take on the beloved "Beauty and the Beast" fairy tale. It is the breathtaking story of a beautiful, penniless aristocrat who promises herself to the handsome, powerful, mysterious, and not wholly human Don Nicolai DeMarco in order to free her imprisoned brother-even though legend has...
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An uncrowned queen. A rebel on the run. A legacy of lies.
The Corvo Kingdom is on the brink of ruin. The wasting sickness is spreading, the queen is dying, and the people are living under the constant threat of invasion. The fate of the realm rests on the shoulders of a woman reluctant to embrace her destiny.
Princess Delphinia is a prisoner of privilege, haunted by the ghosts of her past. She has spent ten years shielding her son from her consort's...
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Three women.
Three epic love stories.
Three soul-stirring adventures.
Centuries after the boom of the Industrial Revolution, violent storms plague Victorian America, and the frills and frivolities of the Romantic Era are a distant memory.
These are the stories of the civilizations lost and forgotten. Of the heartache, strength, and courage of those who remain, fighting for their lives and those they love.
Steeped with beautifully flawed characters...
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Foreword INDIES Winner for Fantasy. Royal Dragonfly Award Winner for Fantasy. "A charming retelling"-Locus Magazine
An unforgettable fantasy retelling of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice that is romantic, funny, and more relevant than ever.
Elizabeth Bennet is hiding a forbidden power. She can speak to draca, the fire-breathing creatures kept as status symbols by English gentry. But Mr. Darcy has noticed, and he has his own dark secret.
When Elizabeth's...
7) Teacup Magic
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Perfect for lovers of gaslamp fantasy and Regency comedy-of-manners.
Miss Seabourne investigates! Murder mysteries, high society sorcery and family scandals abound in this magical Regency-inspired fantasy world. This collection contains the first three Teacup Magic cozy gaslamp fantasy novellas.
1) Tea and Sympathetic Magic
Miss Mnemosyne Seabourne teams up with a fascinating spellcracker to foil the kidnapping of the Duke of Storm.
Featuring: charmed...
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England's deadliest secrets are at risk. So is the man Lily is about to marry.
As World War I rages across Europe, a military officer is brutally murdered in a remote English country house. Lord Strangford is the only suspect.
To clear his name, Lily must unravel the bizarre secrets that surround the corpse. It's a quest that takes her from the besieged Yorkshire coast to the heart of the empire as a brilliant and relentless police inspector haunts...
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Used as a pawn all her life, this young mage is about to take control of the game....
Seraphina Winyard is something feared by many…a woman mage. When she comes of age, Sera is determined to seize control of her life, but she faces opposition from an unknown opponent. This set contains:
1. Opening Gambit
When her former guardian is murdered, suspicion falls on Sera. She must discover how to wield her power to find the true murderer before her...
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If you love Amanda Quick, Mary Jo Putney, Deanna Raybourn, and Victoria Holt, you will love Haunting Miss Trentwood!
Mary Trentwood is horrified when she watches her father crawl from his grave the day of his funeral. Mistaking the newly-arrived Alexander Hartwell to be her father's solicitor, Mary welcomes him into her home, not realizing he hunts a blackmailer.
Why is Trentwood's ghost determined to make everyone think Mary is insane? Why is Hartwell...
11) The Silk Factory
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A beautiful and eerie story of love and memory from the author of The Moon Field. Anyone who's ever lost someone is haunted Rosie Milford inherits a house in an old silk factory after her mother's death and moves there with her young children. The discovery of a shocking truth about her own childhood, when she is already reeling from the breakup of her marriage, fills her with distrust and fearfulness. Then she starts seeing a strange child, wandering...
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WHAT'S IN THE BOX?EVERYONE'S DYING TO KNOW. An international crisis threatens to plunge the world into war at the dawn of the Twentieth Century, but the British Foreign Office finds itself blinded by the bizarre deaths of crucial agents and informants as it struggles to stave off the coming conflagration. For help, they turn to an unconventional outsider, Inspector Jenkins of Scotland Yard, who soon finds himself on the trail of a mysterious man with...
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Audiolibro narrado en castellano. La leyenda de Sleepy Hollow es un relato de fantasmas escrito por Washington Irving en 1820 de los más populares e importantes de la cultura norteamericana siendo así uno de los relatos más típicos en las noches de Halloween y ha tenido muchas adaptaciones a cine, teatro y televisión.
Narra la andanzas de un profesor de escuela extremadamente supersticioso llamado Ichabod Crane que se enamora de la joven Katrina...
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2022
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When a rogue magician is murdered and secret government papers disappear, Maia and Len must race against time to find the murderer and the papers to decide the fate of all of England's magicians. Lennox Davies is no stranger to plots, lies, and even murder. As an agent for England's Magical Intelligence Agency, that is all in a day's work for him. But this time, the stakes are personal, the last loose ends from a job that ended in tragedy for him...
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Charlotte E. English
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2022
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Konrad Savast is the Malykant: foremost and most secret servant of the God of Death. His job? To track down the foulest of murderers and bring them to The Malykt's Justice. No mercy. No quarter.Danil Dubin is a murderer. He knows this because he's been told - by the many witnesses to his crime.Only, he has no memory of it himself.It's part of a spate of similar killings, and Konrad must act. But how can he deliver The Malykt's justice to a man with...
16) The Brass Queen
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She knows a liar when she sees one. He knows a fraud when he meets one.
In a steam-powered world, Miss Constance Haltwhistle is the last in a line of blue-blooded rogues. Selling firearms under her alias, the "Brass Queen," she has kept her baronial estate's coffers full. But when US spy J. F. Trusdale saves her from assassins, she's pulled into a search for a scientist with an invisibility serum. As royal foes create an invisible army to start a...
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She'll win back her freedom, even if she has to steal it.
Nimona Weston has a debt to pay. Her father's dealings with the dark society known as the Trust cost Nim her freedom. There's one way out of the contract on her life and that's to bide her time and pay magic's tithes. But when the Trust assigns Nim to a task in the king's own castle, her freedom is not the only thing she'll risk.
Warrick Spenser has a secret. As king's seneschal, he should...
18) Competence
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Custard protocol volume 3
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2018.
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"When she uncovers rumors of a new kind of vampire, Prim and the Custard crew embark on a mission to Peru. There, they encounter airship pirates and strange atmospheric phenomena, and are mistaken for representatives of the Spanish Inquisition. Forced into extreme subterfuge (and some rather ridiculous outfits) Prim must also answer three of life's most challenging questions."--Amazon.com.
19) Odessa Fremont
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The Guardians of the Time Stream is a steampunk-ish series set during the reconstruction of the United States in the decades following the Civil War.
Technology is on the rise, with locomotives and steam-powered industry, airships and other experiments in slightly anachronistic technology. A fascination with travel around the world and the exploration of other cultures, especially ancient cultures, is on the rise.
One thing to keep in mind is that...
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Charlotte E. English
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2022
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'If you had not already realised it, this is a very strange house you are come to.'The Scions of the House of Werth are all born normal. It is what happens afterwards that sets them apart.It is not easy being the most supernatural family in England. Nell talks to the dead; Lord Werth is too often to be found out in the churchyard at the dead of night; and the less said about Lord Bedgberry, the better.Only Miss Gussie Werth has missed out on the family...
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