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  • The Rose and the Thorn by Michael J. Sullivan

    The Rose and the Thorn by Michael J. Sullivan

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    TWO THIEVES WANT ANSWERS. RIYRIA IS BORN.For more than a year Royce Melborn has tried to forget Gwen DeLancy, the woman who saved him and his partner Hadrian Blackwater from certain death. Unable to get her out of his mind, the two thieves return to Medford but receive a very different reception --- Gwen refuses to see them...
  • 어느 날 공주가 되어버렸다 2 by Plutus, 스푼

    어느 날 공주가 되어버렸다 2 by Plutus, 스푼

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    어느 날 눈을 떠보니 공주님이 되었다!금수저를 입에 물고 태어난 건 좋은데,하필이면 친아버지의 손에 죽는 비운의 공주라니!피도 눈물도 없는 냉혈한 황제 클로드!Chapters 14-24...
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  • The Lost by Irina Shapiro

    The Lost by Irina Shapiro

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    2018. When a skeleton is found entangled in the roots of an ancient tree on Rhys Morgan’s country estate, Quinn is persuaded to come out of retirement to film one more episode of the Echoes from the Past series. But the nameless skeleton proves to be the least of her problems when secrets from the past suddenly come to light and a new threat looms over her family.1777...
  • The Hanging Tree by Irina Shapiro

    The Hanging Tree by Irina Shapiro

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    In 1640, Alys Bailey was accused of witchcraft and sentenced to hang. Today, Alys is said to haunt Lockwood Hall, the Tudor manor house where she died. When Nicole Rayburn travels to Lockwood Hall and begins to research Alys’s story for a new book, she discovers startling irregularities in Alys’s case. Nicole’s suspicions mount as every answer leads to more questions...
  • Magic Lessons by Alice Hoffman

    Magic Lessons by Alice Hoffman

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    In an unforgettable novel that traces a centuries-old curse to its source, beloved author Alice Hoffman unveils the story of Maria Owens, accused of witchcraft in Salem, and matriarch of a line of the amazing Owens women and men featured in Practical Magic and The Rules of Magic...
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    witches  magic  fantasy  historical  paranormal
  • Dreaming Death by Heather Graham

    Dreaming Death by Heather Graham

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    SWEET DREAMS AREN’T MADE OF THISEver since she was a child, Stacey Hanson has had strange dreams—and sometimes they come true. Her skills and experience led her straight to the FBI’s Krewe of Hunters. Now a serial killer is stalking Washington, DC, and people are scared. And it will be Stacey’s first case...
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    suspense  mystery  historical  paranormal  fantasy
  • The Healer's Secret by Helen Pryke

    The Healer's Secret by Helen Pryke

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Book #1 in the Healer series.From medieval times to present day, the Healer saga spans generations of the Innocenti family, telling the stories of the women healers whose lives are entwined with legends, curses, and tragedy.Jennifer’s life isn’t going as she planned. Fired from her job and on the brink of divorce, her only salvation lies at the bottom of a wine bottle...
  • The Matchmaker's Gift by Lynda Cohen Loigman

    The Matchmaker's Gift by Lynda Cohen Loigman

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    From Lynda Cohen Loigman, the bestselling author of The Two-Family House and The Wartime Sisters, comes a heartwarming story of two extraordinary women from two different eras who defy expectations to utilize their unique gift of seeing soulmates in the most unexpected places in The Matchmaker's Gift...
  • A Treacherous Curse by Deanna Raybourn

    A Treacherous Curse by Deanna Raybourn

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Members of an Egyptian expedition fall victim to an ancient mummy's curse in a thrilling Veronica Speedwell novel from the New York Times bestselling author of the Lady Julia Grey mysteries.   London, 1888...
  • The Prison of Buried Hopes by C.J. Archer

    The Prison of Buried Hopes by C.J. Archer

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    In the fifth instalment of this epic fantasy series, a journey south brings together nine eclectic friends and leads them ever closer to answers – and danger. On their journey south to Freedland, Josie, Dane and their friends sense that someone is following them. Hiding in the twin cities of Merrin Fahl seems like their best course of action – until they’re recognized by strangers...
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    magic  mystery  historical  fantasy  paranormal
  • Infinity by Maggie Shayne

    Infinity by Maggie Shayne

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    For five centuries, Immortal High Witch Nicodimus has been suspended in an eternity of darkness. His heart was stolen away in the ultimate betrayal by his love Arianna... Now Arianna discovers a way to bring him back. But the power that returns Nicodimus to her arms also summons an ancient enemy. To fight this dark danger, they must confront the past--and reclaim infinity..
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    witches  magic  paranormal  fantasy  historical
  • The Witchwood Knot by Olivia Atwater

    The Witchwood Knot by Olivia Atwater

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Olivia Atwater returns to the world of Half a Soul with “a sharp and beautiful gothic romance” (Alix E. Harrow). Dive into The Witchwood Knot, and enjoy a dark faerie tale set in a magical version of Victorian England.The faeries of Witchwood Manor have stolen its young lord. His governess intends to steal him back.Victorian governess Winifred Hall knows a con when she sees one...
  • The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton

    The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 38 ratings
    A foundling, an old book of dark fairy tales, a secret garden, an aristocratic family, a love denied, and a mystery. The Forgotten Garden is a captivating, atmospheric and compulsively readable story of the past, secrets, family and memory from the international best-selling author Kate Morton. Cassandra is lost, alone and grieving...
  • The Great Witch of Brittany by Louisa Morgan

    The Great Witch of Brittany by Louisa Morgan

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Return to the world of A Secret History of Witches with the bewitching tale of Ursule Orchiere and her discovery of magical abilities that will not only change the course of her life but every generation that comes after her. Brittany, 1741There hasn’t been a witch born in the Orchière clan for generations...
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    witches  magic  fantasy  paranormal  historical
  • Silent in the Sanctuary by Deanna Raybourn

    Silent in the Sanctuary by Deanna Raybourn

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    fresh from a six-month sojourn in Italy, Lady Julia returns home to Sussex to find her father's estate crowded with family and friends— but dark deeds are afoot at the deconsecrated abbey, and a murderer roams the ancient cloisters...
  • The Unforgiven by Heather Graham

    The Unforgiven by Heather Graham

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A tragic past. An uncertain futureTwelve years after the grisly murder of her parents, Kaitlyn Delaney has finally found peace. She has friends, a good job, a place to call home and a new life to live. But then a shadow creeps in from Katie’s past, reminding her that she will never completely escape its terrifying grip...
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    mystery  suspense  historical  paranormal  fantasy
  • The Forbidden by Heather Graham

    The Forbidden by Heather Graham

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    She is someone's darkest desire Playing the victim of a vampire king on an island off New Orleans is actress Avalon Morgan’s creepiest role to date. It’s also scary good fun—until the victim of a real killer is discovered on set, laid out for all to see. With production shut down, Avalon can’t stop thinking about the chilling crime scene, or Finley Stirling, the FBI agent working the case...
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    mystery  suspense  paranormal  historical  fantasy
  • The High Priest's Daughter by Katie Cross

    The High Priest's Daughter by Katie Cross

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Never Underestimate the Power of a Liberated Witch. Despite swirling rumors of war, seventeen-year-old Bianca Monroe is living without restraint for the first time. With no curse to hinder her and her enemy, Miss Mabel, imprisoned in an impervious dungeon, she’s finally free. Nothing lasts forever...
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    magic  witches  historical  fantasy  paranormal
  • The Strangers on Montagu Street by Karen White

    The Strangers on Montagu Street by Karen White

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 22 ratings
    With her relationship with writer Jack Treholm as shaky as the foundation of her family home, Melanie’s juggling a number of problems. Like restoring her Tradd Street house...and resisting her mother’s pressure to ‘go public’ with her talent—a sixth sense that unites them to the lost souls of the dead. But Melanie never anticipated her new problem...
  • Mariana by Susanna Kearsley

    Mariana by Susanna Kearsley

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    From 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...
  • Eternal Love: The Immortal Witch Series by Maggie Shayne

    Eternal Love: The Immortal Witch Series by Maggie Shayne

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Raven is a witch from the 1690s who flees the hangman’s noose in England to find a haven in Massachusetts Bay where the witch hysteria is about to tear her and her lover apart.Arianna’s beginnings were in the Scottish Highlands where her sister died to save her, and an immortal warrior loved her beyond reason and life itself...
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    witches  magic  fantasy  paranormal  historical
  • Carter Beats the Devil by Glen David Gold

    Carter Beats the Devil by Glen David Gold

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Glen David Gold's literary debut dazzled critics and fans from coast to coast. Now Carter's center stage for a spectacular paperback . . . The response to Glen David Gold's debut novel, Carter Beats the Devil , was extraordinary. He hypnotized us with his portrait of a 1920s magic-obsessed America and of Charles Carter--a.k.a...
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    magic  mystery  historical  paranormal  fantasy
  • The House That Death Built: A Gothic Thriller of Romance and Mystery by Mel Stone

    The House That Death Built: A Gothic Thriller of Romance and Mystery by Mel Stone

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    A country girl. A grieving stranger. And a secret that will bind them forever…Arthur knows nothing but sorrow. His past is filled with secrets, trials, and death. On his way to settle his affairs with his deceased wife’s family he tears his shirt and enters a small village shop for a repair. There he meets Joy.Joy is not impressed by the stranger visiting their little village...
  • The Mystery of Rufford Abbey: A dual timeline novel with a paranormal twist by Stephen Taylor

    The Mystery of Rufford Abbey: A dual timeline novel with a paranormal twist by Stephen Taylor

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    An absorbing Medieval mystery you won’t be able to put down! For fans of Freda Lightfoot, Anthony Doerr, Sebastian Faulks and Kate Atkinson...
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    magic  mystery  medieval  historical  paranormal  fantasy
  • Opening Gambit by Tilly Wallace

    Opening Gambit by Tilly Wallace

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    This pawn is going to take control of the game… Seraphina Winyard is an abomination—a female mage. The first magic wielder of her sex to reach adulthood in three hundred years, she is treated like a zoological exhibit and leads a restricted life. Determined to escape and control her own destiny, she seizes a chance for freedom. But when her guardian is murdered, suspicion falls on the young mage...
  • The Girl On Legare Street by Karen White

    The Girl On Legare Street by Karen White

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    Acclaimed author Karen White returns with the sequel to the national bestseller The House on Tradd Street. Melanie has grown accustomed to renovating old houses, but she never imagined she'd have to renovate her own life to include her estranged mother. Ginnette Prioleau Middleton left Charleston thirty-five years ago...
  • Remnant: A Caldwell & Feximal/Whyborne & Griffin Mystery by K.J. Charles, Jordan L. Hawk

    Remnant: A Caldwell & Feximal/Whyborne & Griffin Mystery by K.J. Charles, Jordan L. Hawk

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    London, 1899. The beautiful people are dying… A malevolent power is attacking London’s bright young things, and the only clue to what's happening is written in ancient Egyptian script. As ghost-hunter Simon Feximal and his companion Robert Caldwell investigate the mysterious deaths, the arrival in London of a notorious scholar-sorcerer seems to hold the answer to more than one of their problems...
  • The Darkest Hour by Barbara Erskine

    The Darkest Hour by Barbara Erskine

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    From 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...
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    suspense  mystery  historical  paranormal  war  fantasy
  • House of Shadows by Pamela Hartshorne

    House of Shadows by Pamela Hartshorne

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    When Kate Vavasour wakes in hospital, she can remember nothing about the family gathered around her bed, or of her life before the accident. The doctors diagnose post-traumatic amnesia and say the memories should start returning. Which they do . . . but these memories are not her own. They belong to Isabel Vavasour, who lived and died at Askerby Hall over four hundred years earlier . .
  • The Temple of Forgotten Secrets by C.J. Archer

    The Temple of Forgotten Secrets by C.J. Archer

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Glancia is plunged into perilous times, but it's the events in her village that worry Josie more. A terrible fire puts the lives of those she loves at risk and threatens to shatter the uneasy peace. Josie and the captain investigate the cause of the blaze, but powerful enemies try to stop them. As the dangers grow more intense, so do the feelings between Josie and the captain...
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    magic  mystery  historical  fantasy  paranormal
  • The Witch of Tin Mountain by Paulette Kennedy

    The Witch of Tin Mountain by Paulette Kennedy

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 21 ratings
    In Depression-era Arkansas, something wicked has come to a haunted mountain town in a novel of uncanny suspense by the author of Parting the Veil.Blood and power bind three generations of women in the Ozark Mountains. So does an evil that’s followed them across the decades.1931. Gracelynn Doherty lives peacefully on Tin Mountain, helping her adoptive granny work her cures...
  • The Novice by Trudi Canavan

    The Novice by Trudi Canavan

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 38 ratings
    "Even if a magician's powers surface of their own accord, he will soon be dead if he does not gain the knowledge of how to control them." Alone among all the novices in the Magicians' Guild, only Sonea comes from lowly beginnings. Yet she has won powerful allies—including Lord Dannyl, newly promoted to Guild Ambassador...
  • Skirting The Grave by Annette Blair

    Skirting The Grave by Annette Blair

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Not just a matter of who done it, but who is it? Even though Maddie has her hands full running Vintage Magic and dealing with the visions she gets from the garments, she’s agreed to plan her sister Sherri’s baby shower and take on a new fashion design intern. But when Maddie goes to the Mystic train station to pick her up, she finds a murder scene instead. The victim: intern Isobel York...
  • Magpie Lane by Lucy Atkins

    Magpie Lane by Lucy Atkins

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    When the eight-year-old daughter of an Oxford College Master vanishes in the middle of the night, police turn to the Scottish nanny, Dee, for answers...
  • The Color of Light by Karen White

    The Color of Light by Karen White

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    At thirty-two, pregnant and recently divorced, Jillian Parrish and her seven-year-old daughter find refuge and solace on Pawleys Island, South Carolina. Jillian had experienced her best childhood memories here-until her best friend Lauren Mills disappeared, never to be found. At the time, Linc Rising, Lauren's boyfriend and Jillian's confidant, had been a suspect in Lauren's disappearance...
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    suspense  mystery  historical  paranormal  fantasy
  • Death by Diamonds by Annette Blair

    Death by Diamonds by Annette Blair

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    May the real criminal shine through . . . Madeira loves her vintage clothing store, but the visions she gets from the garments can be hard to handle, especially when she knows the garment's owner. At first she's thrilled to receive a package containing the beautifully bejeweled dress she designed for actress and old friend Dominique DeLong while in fashion school...
  • Shadows Stir at Seven Sisters by M.L. Bullock

    Shadows Stir at Seven Sisters by M.L. Bullock

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Seven Sisters, an antebellum restoration in downtown Mobile, has come to life recently...and not in ways historian Carrie Jo Jardine had expected. After battling and surviving a dangerous encounter with a visitor from the past, Carrie Jo and Seven Sisters’ handsome owner Ashland Stuart have one last mystery to uncover...
  • The Beauty Within by H.L Day

    The Beauty Within by H.L Day

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    “You will be trapped in stone forevermore, your beauty hidden by a façade so ugly that people will not like to look upon it. You will feel, but you will not be able to speak. You will hear, but you will not be able to communicate. You will endure across the ages, a silent witness to the decades that go by...
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    mystery  witches  paranormal  m-m  fantasy  historical
  • Out Front the Following Sea by Leah Angstman

    Out Front the Following Sea by Leah Angstman

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Out Front the Following Sea is a historical epic of one woman’s survival in a time when the wilderness is still wild, heresy is publicly punishable, and being independent is worse than scorned — it is a death sentence...
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    witches  suspense  historical  war  fantasy  paranormal
  • Manners and Monsters by Tilly Wallace

    Manners and Monsters by Tilly Wallace

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 8 ratings
    A lady never reveals the true extent of her decay...Hannah Miles lives a quiet existence, helping her parents conduct research into a most terrible affliction - until a gruesome murder during her best friend's engagement party pulls her from the shadows. With her specialist's knowledge and demure disposition, Hannah is requested to aid the investigation...
  • The House Witch by Delemhach

    The House Witch by Delemhach

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 12 ratings
    A mysterious new cook has arrived for the King of Daxaria's household. With his strange appearance and guarded personality, many members of the staff, and even some of the nobility, are curious about him. However, with the rumors of a war on the horizon, and the Queen pregnant with her second child, there isn’t time to worry about an eccentric stranger...
  • The Valley of the Wolves by Laura Gallego García

    The Valley of the Wolves by Laura Gallego García

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Dana attends a school of magic with only one other student. She has a great love only she can see. And only she can unravel these mysteries and become mistress of the Valley of the Wolves. Ever since Dana was a little girl, Kai has been her best friend and constant companion--even though she's the only one who can see him...
  • The Eight by Katherine Neville

    The Eight by Katherine Neville

    Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    When two young women in France of 1790 discover the Montglane Chess Service in Montglane Abbey, they recognize its mystic ability to provide anyone playing it with unlimited power and desperately scatter its pieces around the world. But in 1972, computer expert Catherine "Cat" Velis is hired to recover the chess pieces--and is caught up in a nefarious, globe-spanning conspiracy...
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    suspense  mystery  magic  historical  paranormal  fantasy
  • Legacy of Kings by C.S. Friedman

    Legacy of Kings by C.S. Friedman

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    The young peasant woman Kamala has proven strong and determined enough to claim the most powerful Magister sorcery for herself-but now the Magisters hunt her for killing one of their own. Her only hope of survival lies in the northern Protectorates, where spells are warped by a curse called the Wrath that even the Magisters fear...
  • This Rough Magic by Mary Stewart

    This Rough Magic by Mary Stewart

    Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    When Lucy's sister Phyllida suggests that she join her for a quiet holiday on the island of Corfu, Lucy is overjoyed. Her work as an actress has temporarily come to a halt. But the peaceful idyll does not last long...
  • A Proper Dragon by E.B. Wheeler

    A Proper Dragon by E.B. Wheeler

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    If Phoebe's magic doesn't behave, London will be a disaster.Phoebe Hart is one of the dragon-linked, those chosen by a young dragon as a companion, who get magic in return. Her family and country neighbors have never been happy about her abilities, so she hopes to find her place in London...
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    magic  mystery  fantasy  historical  regency  paranormal
  • Warlock: A Novel of Ancient Egypt by Wilbur Smith

    Warlock: A Novel of Ancient Egypt by Wilbur Smith

    Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    One of the world's most acclaimed adventure writers returns to the world of ancient Egypt with the stunning sequel to the New York Times bestselling River God. In the wake of a sixty-year war over the reign of the kingdoms of Egypt, two young pharaohs have risen to claim power, but only one can succeed, deciding the fate of his empire forever..
  • Moonlight Falls on Seven Sisters by M.L. Bullock

    Moonlight Falls on Seven Sisters by M.L. Bullock

    Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    When a young, wealthy heiress, Calpurnia Cottonwood, disappears from Seven Sisters in 1850, rumors swirl. But no trace of the girl had ever been found--until now. Historian Carrie Jo Jardine and her handsome employer, Ashland Stuart, find clues to the heiress' whereabouts and even more mysteries are revealed. With Carrie Jo's ability to dream about the past, she watches a sinister plot unfold...
  • Let the Dead Keep Their Secrets by Rosemary Simpson

    Let the Dead Keep Their Secrets by Rosemary Simpson

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    For fans of HBO’s The Gilded Age, explore the dark side of the alluring world of America’s 19th century elite in this gripping series of riveting mysteries… In Gilded Age New York, heiress Prudence MacKenzie and ex-Pinkerton Geoffrey Hunter investigate crimes that take them from the slums of Five Points in lower Manhattan to the Fifth Avenue mansions of society's elite...
  • Gone with the Witch by Annette Blair

    Gone with the Witch by Annette Blair

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    The Cartwright triplets use their magic for good and their good looks for seduction. When beautiful bad girl Storm Cartwright hears the sound of a baby crying every time she's near Aiden McCloud, she turns on the charm. Because she's sure it means a child is in need?and that the handsome antiques restorer is the key to finding it...
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