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  • Anastasia by Sophie Lark

    Anastasia by Sophie Lark

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 29 ratings
    Anastasia is the princess no one needs: the fourth daughter born to an emperor without a son, and the only royal lacking a magical gift.Until she collides with a young Cossack rebel, changing both their lives forever.Damien is taken from everything he knows and raised as a ward of the Romanovs.Anastasia develops a strange kind of magic shared only by the Black Monk Rasputin...
  • The Cursed Witch by R.L. Perez

    The Cursed Witch by R.L. Perez

    Rated: 3.60 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    Brielle Gerrick can’t access her magic. In an effort to awaken her powers, she gets sucked into a time portal—to a castle in Spain in the year 1735.The castle is attacked by demons. Their leader is a shape-shifting vampire named Leo Serrano, an arrogant creep who enjoys taunting Brielle.When Brielle’s dark powers awaken, the others in the castle turn on her...
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  • The First Bright Thing by J.R. Dawson

    The First Bright Thing by J.R. Dawson

    Rated: 3.62 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    If you knew how dark tomorrow would be, what would you do with today?The First Bright Thing by J. R. Dawson is a spellbinding debut for fans of The Night Circus and The Invisible Life of Addie La Rue.Welcome to the Circus of the Fantasticals.Ringmaster – Rin, to those who know her best – can jump to different moments in time as easily as her wife, Odette, soars from bar to bar on the trapeze...
  • Winds of Salem by Melissa de la Cruz

    Winds of Salem by Melissa de la Cruz

    Rated: 3.56 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 22 ratings
    Modern-day witch Freya Beauchamp is cast back in time to 1692 amongst the Salem Witch Trials by an enemy spell, as her present-day family attempts to reopen the passages of time to bring her home. SOON TO BE A LIFETIME TELEVISION SERIES! Freya Beauchamp is trapped in 1692, in Salem of all places, with no recollection of her past...
  • Serpent's Kiss by Melissa de la Cruz

    Serpent's Kiss by Melissa de la Cruz

    Rated: 3.47 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 23 ratings
    Joanna and her daughters, bookish Ingrid and wild-child Freya, are just settling into the newfound peace that has been cast over their small, off-the map town of North Hampton. With the centuries-old restriction against practicing magic lifted, casting spells, mixing potions, and curing troubled souls has never felt so good for the three witches...
  • End of Days by Susan Ee

    End of Days by Susan Ee

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 89 ratings
    End of Days is the explosive conclusion to Susan Ee’s bestselling Penryn & the End of Days trilogy. After a daring escape from the angels, Penryn and Raffe are on the run. They’re both desperate to find a doctor who can reverse the twisted changes inflicted by the angels on Raffe and Penryn’s sister...
  • The Book of Life by Deborah Harkness

    The Book of Life by Deborah Harkness

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 103 ratings
    After traveling through time in Shadow of Night , the second book in Deborah Harkness’s enchanting series, historian and witch Diana Bishop and vampire scientist Matthew Clairmont return to the present to face new crises and old enemies. At Matthew’s ancestral home at Sept-Tours, they reunite with the cast of characters from A Discovery of Witches --with one significant exception...
  • The Invasion of the Tearling by Erika Johansen

    The Invasion of the Tearling by Erika Johansen

    Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 49 ratings
    Kelsea Glynn is the Queen of the Tearling. Despite her youth, she has quickly asserted herself as a fair, just and powerful ruler.However, power is a double-edged sword, and small actions can have grave consequences...
  • Never a Hero by Vanessa Len

    Never a Hero by Vanessa Len

    Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    This sequel to the contemporary fantasy Only a Monster will take Joan deeper into the monster world, where treacherous secrets and even more danger await. Despite all of the odds, Joan achieved the impossible. She reset the timeline, saved her family – and destroyed the hero, Nick. But her success has come at a terrible cost. She alone remembers what happened...
  • The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

    The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

    Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 153 ratings
    This is the extraordinary love story of Clare and Henry, who met when Clare was six and Henry was thirty-six, and were married when Clare was twenty-two and Henry was thirty. Impossible but true, because Henry suffers from a rare condition where his genetic clock periodically resets and he finds himself pulled suddenly into his past or future...
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    m-f  magic  mystery  new adult  suspense  angst  male-pov  time travel
  • Midwinterblood by Marcus Sedgwick

    Midwinterblood by Marcus Sedgwick

    Rated: 3.78 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Have you ever had the feeling that you've lived another life? Been somewhere that has felt totally familiar, even though you've never been there before, or felt that you know someone well, even though you are meeting them for the first time? It happens...
  • Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs

    Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs

    Rated: 3.54 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 163 ratings
    A mysterious island. An abandoned orphanage. A strange collection of curious photographs. A horrific family tragedy sets sixteen-year-old Jacob journeying to a remote island off the coast of Wales, where he discovers the crumbling ruins of Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children...
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