Books like 'The Chosen'
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The Witch's Tree: An unforgettable, heart-breaking, gripping timeslip novel for 2022 by Elena Collins
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA tale as old as time. A spirit that has never rested.Present dayAs a love affair comes to an end, and with it her dreams for her future, artist Selena needs a retreat. The picture-postcard Sloe Cottage in the Somerset village of Ashcombe promises to be the perfect place to forget her problems, and Selena settles into her new home as spring arrives...Categorized as:
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When the Moon Shines by Lucia Ashta
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWelcome to Traitor’s Den. I hope you like it here, because there’s no leaving the small western town that’s more theme park than authentic. Once you walk through the portal, you’re stuck as a boot heel in a half foot of mud.I’ve never seen the outside world and I don’t care. The cannon-toting, trigger-happy residents here are like family, even if most of them are a few spoons short of a full set...Categorized as:
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Gambling on Her Dragon by Anna Lowe, Michelle Fox
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsGambling with love, betting on magic. Welcome to Charmed in Vegas. Shifter Trey Dixon can play poker like his wolf can howl, but what he doesn't know about the shady underworld of Las Vegas gambling might just get him killed. By the end of one crazy night, he’s sucked into trouble — and falling hard for the petite dragon shifter who steals his winnings along with his heart...Categorized as:
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Runes, Ruin & Redemption by Maz Maddox
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsRedemption has long evaded the former Enforcer, Sebastian. Viewed as a monster, Sebastian has roamed the country in hiding, running from his bloody past and failures. A series of mistakes has left him hopelessly lost and waist deep in dark, uncharted territory. In order to escape certain death, he makes a deal that may seal his fate. Lucas has been chasing after his heart for years... -
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The Silver Shooter: A Rose Gallagher Mystery by Erin Lindsey
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsErin Lindsey's third historical mystery The Silver Shooter follows Rose Gallagher as she tracks a monster and searches for treasure in the wilds of the Dakota Territory.It's the spring of 1887, and Rose Gallagher is finally coming into her own...Categorized as:
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In the Valley of the Sun by Andy Davidson
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFor readers of Joe Hill, Cormac McCarthy, and classic Anne Rice, a chilling tale of suspense and horror set deep in the Texas desert. Travis Stillwell spends his nights searching out women in West Texas honky-tonks. What he does with them doesn’t make him proud, just quiets the demons for a little while...Categorized as:
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Make Me No Grave by Hayley Stone
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsPerfect for fans of Red Dead Redemption and Lila Bowen's Wake of Vultures, this gun-blazing weird western introduces gentleman marshal, Apostle Richardson, as he faces off against bloodthirsty outlaws, flesh witches, ruthless vigilantes, and more in this magical reimagining of the Old West.Almena Guillory, better known as the Grizzly Queen of the West, has done plenty to warrant the noose, but U...Categorized as:
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The Hidden Goddess by M.K. Hobson
Rated: 3.73 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsIn a brilliant mix of magic, history, and romance, M. K. Hobson moves her feisty young Witch, Emily Edwards, from the Old West of 1876 to turn-of-the-nineteenth-century New York City, whose polished surfaces conceal as much danger as anything west of the Rockies. Like it or not, Emily has fallen in love with Dreadnought Stanton, a New York Warlock as irresistible as he is insufferable...Categorized as:
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The Native Star by M.K. Hobson
Rated: 3.58 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsIn the tradition of Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, this brilliant first novel fuses history, fantasy, and romance. Prepare to be enchanted by M. K. Hobson's captivating take on the Wild, Wild West. The year is 1876. In the small Sierra Nevada settlement of Lost Pine, the town witch, Emily Edwards, is being run out of business by an influx of mail-order patent magics...Categorized as:
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The Lost Metal by Brandon Sanderson
Return to Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn world of Scadrial as its second era, which began with The Alloy of Law, comes to its conclusion.For years, frontier lawman turned big-city senator Waxillium Ladrian has hunted the shadowy organization the Set-with his late uncle and his sister among their leaders-since they started kidnapping people with the power of Allomancy in their bloodlines... -
Dungeon Deposed 3 by William D. Arand
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsRyker only had one goal in his life right now: Turn a certain adventuring guild into a flaming wreck while dancing merrily through the smoldering ruins. All for the chance to get back at a handful of people. It didn’t work out that way though. At all... -
The Russian Cage by Charlaine Harris
#1 New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author Charlaine Harris is at her best in this alternate history of the United States where magic is an acknowledged but despised power in this third installment of the Gunnie Rose series... -
The Doctor by C.S. Poe
1882—Gillian Hamilton, magic caster and Special Agent with the Federal Bureau of Magic and Steam, has been stripped of his title, badge, and freedom. Gillian’s true name and powers have been exposed, so now he’s kept under lock and key. To make a tragedy worse, Gunner the Deadly has returned to his life out in the Wild West and has not been heard from since... -
All the Dead Shall Weep by Charlaine Harris
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 18 ratings#1 New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author returns with the fifth installment in the bestselling Gunnie Rose series as sisters Lizbeth Rose and Felicia as well as brother Eli and Peter, are reunited in Texoma only to break apart before the Wizard’s Ball held in San Diego, which will determine all their fates... -
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A Longer Fall by Charlaine Harris
#1 New York Times bestselling author Charlaine Harris returns with the second of the Gunnie Rose series, in which Lizbeth is hired onto a new crew, transporting a crate into Dixie, the self-exiled southeast territory of the former United States. What the crate contains is something so powerful, that forces from across three territories want to possess it...Categorized as:
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Magnificent Devices by Shelley Adina
Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsAn air voyage to remember turns into a disaster no one may survive. With her orphaned charges, Lady Claire Trevelyan joins the Earl of Dunsmuir’s family on an airship voyage to the Americas. If she can stay out of Lord James Selwyn’s way until her eighteenth birthday, she will be of age and cannot be forced into marriage...Categorized as:
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Like a River Glorious by Rae Carson
Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsAfter a harrowing journey across the country, Leah Westfall and her friends have finally arrived in California and are ready to make their fortunes in the Gold Rush. Lee has a special advantage over the other new arrivals in California—she has the ability to sense gold, a secret known only by her handsome best friend Jefferson and her murdering uncle Hiram...Categorized as:
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The Legend of the Bloodstone by E.B. Brown
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 15 ratings"Perhaps I will cut your throat as you tried to cut mine. Will I still want to touch you when your blood is on my hands? Or will it chase your ghost from my thoughts?" He held his hands out and considered his open palms for a moment, shaking his head. "I think not. I think still you would haunt me...Categorized as:
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No Place Like Home by Seanan McGuire
Road trips are wonderful things, filled with adventure, excitement, and questionable lodgings, but there comes a time in every man's life where all he wants is the chance to sleep in his own bed, eat at his own table, and reunite his colony of talking pantheistic mice with their fellows, thus making sleep a little bit more likely...Categorized as:
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Treason of Hawks by Lila Bowen
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSupernatural creatures create chaos across an unforgiving western landscape in the conclusion of a propulsive and cinematic fantasy adventure series that began with Wake of Vultures. "I don't care what else you've seen in the bookstore today. Buy this book because it's the thrilling, delightfully written, and important one you've always wanted to read... -
Flash Gold by Lindsay Buroker
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsEighteen-year-old Kali McAlister enters her steam-powered "dogless sled" in a race, intending to win the thousand-dollar prize and escape remote Moose Hollow forever. The problem? Fortune seekers and airship pirates are after her for the secret to flash gold, her late father's alchemical masterpiece...Categorized as:
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An Easy Death by Charlaine Harris
#1 New York Times bestseller Charlaine Harris (Sookie Stackhouse mysteries, True Blood, Midnight Crossing) delivers the first thriller in a new trilogy that presents a chilling alternate history of the United States where everyone believes in magic—but no one is sure whether they can trust it...Categorized as:
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Walk on Earth a Stranger by Rae Carson
Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars · 33 ratingsA teenage girl whose magical ability to find gold puts her in a dangerous position during the American Gold Rush...Categorized as:
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Karen Memory by Elizabeth Bear
“You ain’t gonna like what I have to tell you, but I’m gonna tell you anyway. See, my name is Karen Memery, like memory only spelt with an e, and I’m one of the girls what works in the Hôtel Mon Cherie on Amity Street. Hôtel has a little hat over the o like that. It’s French, so Beatrice tells me...Categorized as:
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Elysium Girls by Kate Pentecost
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn this sweeping Dust Bowl-inspired fantasy, a ten-year game between Life and Death pits the walled Oklahoma city of Elysium-including a girl gang of witches and a demon who longs for humanity-against the supernatural in order to judge mankind.When Sal is named Successor to Mother Morevna, a powerful witch and leader of Elysium, she jumps at the chance to prove herself to the town...Categorized as:
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Into the Bright Unknown by Rae Carson
Rated: 3.81 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsThe stunning conclusion to Rae Carson’s New York Times–bestselling Gold Seer trilogy. Leah Westfall’s journey has been one of ever-present peril, hidden magic, harsh realities, loss, life, determination, and love. She has searched for a place to belong and a place—and people—to call home, people who can accept a girl with magical powers that prove to be both blessing and curse...Categorized as:
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Rebel of the Sands by Alwyn Hamilton
Mortals rule the desert nation of Miraji, but mythical beasts still roam the wild and remote areas, and rumor has it that somewhere, djinn still perform their magic. For humans, it’s an unforgiving place, especially if you’re poor, orphaned, or female.Amani Al’Hiza is all three... -
Revenge and the Wild by Michelle Modesto
Rated: 3.74 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsThe two-bit town of Rogue City is a lawless place, full of dark magic and saloon brawls, monsters and six-shooters. But it’s perfect for seventeen-year-old Westie, the notorious adopted daughter of local inventor Nigel Butler.Westie was only a child when she lost her arm and her family to cannibals on the wagon trail...Categorized as:
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The Girl with Ghost Eyes by M.H. Boroson
Rated: 3.77 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIt’s the end of the nineteenth century in San Francisco’s Chinatown, and ghost hunters from the Maoshan traditions of Daoism keep malevolent spiritual forces at bay. Li-lin, the daughter of a renowned Daoshi exorcist, is a young widow burdened with yin eyes—the unique ability to see the spirit world...Categorized as:
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Relic by Renee Collins
Rated: 3.57 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAfter a raging fire consumes her town and kills her parents, Maggie Davis is on her own to protect her younger sister and survive the best she can in the Colorado town of Burning Mesa...Categorized as:
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