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  • The Crown of Valencia by Catherine Friend

    The Crown of Valencia by Catherine Friend

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Ex-lovers can really mess up your life. Kate Vincent's ex, Anna, certainly does. Not only does Anna interfere in Kate's love life, but she totally screws up the world by traveling back in time to 11th century Spain and changing one crucial event. As any sane person knows, you cannot alter an event in history without altering everything that follows—but Anna has an agenda, and a score to settle...
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    historical  fantasy  f-f  time travel  paranormal
  • Scatter by Molly J. Bragg

    Scatter by Molly J. Bragg

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 14 ratings
    When Deputy US Marshal Danielle ‘Danny’ Martin was told she’d gotten a promotion, she expected to be leading her own fugitive retrieval team. Instead, she got transferred to Pontian Florida of all places, and assigned to a Superhero support detail for Focus, a seemingly immortal superhero who is also one of the most famous lesbian icons on the planet...
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  • Future Wife by Nicole Pyland

    Future Wife by Nicole Pyland

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Imagine meeting a stranger one day, only for that stranger to say, “I’m your future wife.” This is exactly what happens to Carter when she heads out of town for work. There’s one problem with this: Carter is already married, and not to this stranger.Ryder has been working on time travel since she was a little kid listening to her great-grandmother tell stories of the past...
  • Midlife is the Cat's Meow by Miranda MacLeod, T.B. Markinson

    Midlife is the Cat's Meow by Miranda MacLeod, T.B. Markinson

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A witch without powers. A secret to die for. A midlife sapphic awakening.A few months ago, I thought I had it all. My life as a forty-something suburban mom in Cleveland might not have been stimulating, but sometimes excitement is overrated. Like when FBI agents knock down your door on the hunt for your crook of a husband. Thrilling? Maybe. But I wouldn’t recommend it...
  • This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone

    This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 72 ratings
    Two time-traveling agents from warring futures, working their way through the past, begin to exchange letters—and fall in love in this thrilling and romantic book from award-winning authors Amal-El Mohtar and Max Gladstone. Among the ashes of a dying world, an agent of the Commandant finds a letter. It reads: Burn before reading...
  • Life Is Strange: Waves by Emma Vieceli

    Life Is Strange: Waves by Emma Vieceli

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Beloved heroines Max and Chloe return, in the official comic for smash hit game series Life Is Strange! Three years after the events of Life Is Strange: Dust, Max Caulfield has been left stranded on the shores of an unfamiliar reality. Her new world seems too good to be true: Rachel, a girl who suffered a terrible fate in Max's timeline, is alive and well, and with Chloe...
  • One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston

    One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 82 ratings
    From the New York Times bestselling author of Red, White & Royal Blue comes a new romantic comedy that will stop readers in their tracks...Cynical twenty-three-year old August doesn’t believe in much. She doesn’t believe in psychics, or easily forged friendships, or finding the kind of love they make movies about...
  • Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh

    Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    A thrillingly told queer space opera about the wreckage of war, the family you find, and who you must become when every choice is stripped from you, Some Desperate Glory is Astounding Award Winner Emily Tesh’s highly anticipated debut novel. While we live, the enemy shall fear us. Since she was born, Kyr has trained for the day she can avenge the murder of planet Earth...
  • Bitterthorn by Kat Dunn

    Bitterthorn by Kat Dunn

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Blumwald is a town overshadowed by an ancient curse: in a sinister castle in the depths of the wild wood lives a monstrous Witch. Once a generation, she comes to claim a companion to return with her – never to be seen again. Now that time is drawing near once more...Mina, daughter of the duke, is grieving and lonely. She has lost all hope of any future for herself in Blumwald...
  • The Light Brigade by Kameron Hurley

    The Light Brigade by Kameron Hurley

    Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    The Light Brigade: it’s what soldiers fighting the war against Mars call the ones who come back…different. Grunts in the corporate corps get busted down into light to travel to and from interplanetary battlefronts. Everyone is changed by what the corps must do in order to break them down into light...
  • Forget This Ever Happened by Cassandra Rose Clarke

    Forget This Ever Happened by Cassandra Rose Clarke

    Rated: 3.77 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Sometimes there's a town called Indianola. And sometimes there isn't.Summer, 1993. Claire has been dumped in rural Indianola, Texas, to spend her whole vacation taking care of mean, sickly Grammy. There's nothing too remarkable about Indianola: it's run-down, shabby, and stifling hot, a pin-dot on the Gulf Coast.Well, there is one remarkable thing, she discovers. Something otherworldly...
  • Where Echoes Die by Courtney Gould

    Where Echoes Die by Courtney Gould

    Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 14 ratings
    Beck Birsching has been adrift since the death of her mother, a brilliant but troubled investigative reporter. She finds herself unable to stop herself from slipping into memories of happier days, clamoring for a time when things were normal...
  • Jane, Unlimited by Kristin Cashore

    Jane, Unlimited by Kristin Cashore

    Rated: 3.34 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    If you could change your story, would you?Jane has lived a mostly ordinary life, raised by her recently deceased aunt Magnolia, whom she counted on to turn life into an adventure. Without Aunt Magnolia, Jane is directionless...
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