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  • Ponniyin Selvan- Whirlwinds : Part 2 by Kalki

    Ponniyin Selvan- Whirlwinds : Part 2 by Kalki

    Rated: 4.65 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    Whirlwinds, the exciting second part of Kalki R Krishnamurthy's historic magnum opus Ponniyin Selvan, our hero Vallavarayan Vandhiyathevan's adventures continue as he rides into marshy quagmires, befriends a mysterious girl, becomes the object of intense suspicion by the wily Pazhuvettarayars - and meets the hero of his dreams...
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    mystery  suspense  historical  fantasy  war  length-long
  • Sword of Slaughter by Kalki

    Sword of Slaughter by Kalki

    Rated: 4.65 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    Kalki Krishnamurthy’s Ponniyin Selvan is a masterpiece that has enthralled generations of Tamil readers. Many authors have written phenomenal books in Tamil literature after Kalki Krishnamurthy, but Ponniyin Selvan remains the most popular, widely-read novel...
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    suspense  mystery  historical  fantasy  war  length-long
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  • The Ringed Castle by Dorothy Dunnett

    The Ringed Castle by Dorothy Dunnett

    Rated: 4.62 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    For the first time Dunnett's Lymond Chronicles are available in the United States in quality paperback editions.Fifth in the legendary Lymond Chronicles , The Ringed Castle leaps from Mary Tudor's England to the barbaric Russia of Ivan the Terrible. Francis Crawford of Lymond moves to Muscovy, where he becomes advisor and general to the half-mad tsar...
  • Whirlwinds by Kalki

    Whirlwinds by Kalki

    Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Whirlwinds, the exciting second part of Kalki R Krishnamurthy's historic magnum opus Ponniyin Selvan, our hero Vallavarayan Vandhiyathevan's adventures continue as he rides into marshy quagmires, befriends a mysterious girl, becomes the object of intense suspicion by the wily Pazhuvettarayars - and meets the hero of his dreams...
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    mystery  suspense  historical  fantasy  war  length-long
  • A Dangerous Collaboration by Deanna Raybourn

    A Dangerous Collaboration by Deanna Raybourn

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 30 ratings
    Veronica Speedwell returns in another adventure filled with secrets and betrayal from Deanna Raybourn, the New York Times bestselling author of the Lady Julia Grey Mysteries. Victorian adventuress Veronica Speedwell is whisked off to a remote island off the tip of Cornwall when her natural historian colleague Stoker's brother calls in a favor...
  • The Moon Sister by Lucinda Riley

    The Moon Sister by Lucinda Riley

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    From New York Times bestselling author and “remarkable reading phenomenon” (Lancashire Post) Lucinda Riley, The Moon Sister transports you to the grandeur of the remote Scottish Highlands and the gypsy caves of Granada, just as Spain descends into civil war, interweaving the stories of two women searching for their destinies, at the risk of potentially losing their chance at love...
  • A Sinister Revenge by Deanna Raybourn

    A Sinister Revenge by Deanna Raybourn

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 25 ratings
    Veronica must find and stop a devious killer when a group of old friends is targeted for death in this new adventure from the New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award-nominated author Deanna Raybourn.Veronica's natural-historian beau, Stoker, has been away in Bavaria for months and their relationship is at an impasse...
  • The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton

    The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 45 ratings
    A lost child: On the eve of the First World War, a little girl is found abandoned on a ship to Australia. A mysterious woman called the Authoress had promised to look after her - but has disappeared without a trace. A terrible secret: On the night of her twenty-first birthday, Nell Andrews learns a secret that will change her life forever...
  • The City of Tears by Kate Mosse

    The City of Tears by Kate Mosse

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    Following on from the Sunday Times number one bestseller, The Burning Chambers, Kate Mosse's The City of Tears is the second thrilling historical epic in The Burning Chambers series, for fans of Ken Follett and Dan Brown...
  • Dovetail by Karen McQuestion

    Dovetail by Karen McQuestion

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    From the bestselling author of Hello Love comes a spellbinding new novel of enduring love, family secrets, and mysterious death.Joe Arneson’s ordinary life is upended by troubling dreams of himself as a different man in another place and time. It isn’t until he visits his estranged grandmother, Pearl, in her Wisconsin hometown that a startling connection emerges...
  • The Premonition at Withers Farm by Jaime Jo Wright

    The Premonition at Withers Farm by Jaime Jo Wright

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    In 1910 Michigan, Perliett VanHilton is a self-proclaimed rural healer, leaving the local doctor, George Wasziak, convinced she practices quackery. It doesn't help that her mother, Maribeth VanHilton, is a Spiritualist who regularly offers her services to help others speak to their dearly departed...
  • How to Tame a Beastly Lord by Bree Wolf

    How to Tame a Beastly Lord by Bree Wolf

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    In this fairy tale Regency romance by USA Today bestselling and HOLT Medallion winning author BREE WOLF, a ruined lady and a scarred lord learn that happily-ever-after is never impossible.A fallen lady.A beastly lord.And a night out in the woods.Unmarried and with child, Lady Eugenie enters into a marriage of convenience to save herself and her unborn child from society's censure...
  • A Dangerous Fortune by Ken Follett

    A Dangerous Fortune by Ken Follett

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    In 1866, tragedy strikes at the exclusive Windfield School. A young student drowns in a mysterious accident involving a small circle of boys. The drowning and its aftermath initiates a spiraling circle of treachery that will span three decades and entwine many lives...
  • Night Train to Marrakech by Dinah Jefferies

    Night Train to Marrakech by Dinah Jefferies

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    MARRAKECH 1966 Vicky Baudin steps onto a train winding through Morocco, looking for the grandmother she has never met. It’s an epic journey that’ll take her to the edge of Atlas Mountains – and closer to the answers she’s been craving all her life. But dark secrets whisper amongst the dunes. And in unlocking the mystery of Clemence’s past, Vicky will unearth great danger too . .
  • A Place Called Freedom by Ken Follett

    A Place Called Freedom by Ken Follett

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER   Scotland, 1766. Sentenced to a life of misery in the brutal coal mines, twenty-one-year-old Mack McAsh hungers for escape. His only the beautiful, highborn Lizzie Hallim, who is trapped in her own kind of hell. Though separated by politics and position, these two restless young people are bound by their passionate search for a place called freedom...
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    mystery  suspense  historical  fantasy  length-long
  • Sealskin by Su Bristow

    Sealskin by Su Bristow

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Donald is a young fisherman, eking out a lonely living on the west coast of Scotland. One night he witnesses something miraculous, and makes a terrible mistake. His action changes lives—not only his own, but those of his family and the entire tightly knit community in which they live...
  • Firstborn by Tosca Lee

    Firstborn by Tosca Lee

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    From New York Times bestselling author Tosca Lee comes the much-anticipated, high-speed sequel to The Progeny. Face-to-face with her past, Audra Ellison now knows the secret she gave up everything—including her memory—to protect. A secret made vulnerable by her rediscovery, and so powerful neither the Historian nor the traitor Prince Nikola will ever let her live to keep it...
  • Dangerous Magic: A Pride & Prejudice Variation by Monica Fairview

    Dangerous Magic: A Pride & Prejudice Variation by Monica Fairview

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A sparkling tale of Regency England, a forced marriage, and two mages who must work together to save the Kingdom. Elizabeth Bennet is stunned when the Royal Mages come to her peaceful country home of Longbourn to take her away. She is even more bewildered when she is commanded to marry a powerful mage by the name of Fitzwilliam Darcy...
  • A Perilous Undertaking by Deanna Raybourn

    A Perilous Undertaking by Deanna Raybourn

    Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 30 ratings
    London, 1887. At the Curiosity Club, a ladies-only establishment for daring and intrepid women, Victorian adventuress Veronica Speedwell meets the mysterious Lady Sundridge, who begs her to take on an impossible task--saving society art patron Miles Ramsforth from execution...
  • Ridiculous! by D.L. Carter

    Ridiculous! by D.L. Carter

    Rated: 3.99 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 19 ratings
    Identity theft regency style. After the death of her miserly cousin Antony North, Millicent Boarder is determined her family should never be poor or vulnerable again. To protect them she conceals her cousin's death and assumes his identity. Now she must face the Ton and the world as Mr. North and accept the price she must pay for her family's safety -- she will never be loved...
  • When We Were Gods by Colin Falconer

    When We Were Gods by Colin Falconer

    Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Caesar, Antony, Cleopatra, Augustus. Only one can rule. Only one can live.Alexandria, 51 BC: When Cleopatra VII assumes the throne of Egypt, the Roman empire rules the Mediterranean with an iron fist. But Cleopatra has an audacious plan to change the course of history. Allied first with Caesar and then with his protégé Marc Antony, she dares to challenge the might of Rome...
  • Dreaming Death by J. Kathleen Cheney

    Dreaming Death by J. Kathleen Cheney

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    In the Novels of the Golden City, J. Kathleen Cheney created a “mesmerizing” (Publishers Weekly) realm where magic, history, and intrigue combine. Now, she presents a new world ruled by psychic talents and fatal magic... Shironne Anjir's status as a sensitive is both a gift and a curse...
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    suspense  mystery  fantasy  historical  magic  length-long
  • The Smoke Hunter by Jacquelyn Benson

    The Smoke Hunter by Jacquelyn Benson

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    "Indiana Jones meets Lara Croft in Benson's engrossing action thriller."-RT Book Reviews, Top Pick THE DEBUT OF A CAPTIVATING VOICE AND RIVETING STORYTELLER!Frustrated suffragette and would-be archaeologist Ellie Mallory stumbles across a map to a city that shouldn't exist, a jungle metropolis alive and flourishing centuries after the Mayan civilization mysteriously collapsed...
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    suspense  mystery  historical  fantasy  length-long
  • The Fair Botanists by Sara Sheridan

    The Fair Botanists by Sara Sheridan

    Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Could one rare plant hold the key to a thousand riches?It's the summer of 1822 and Edinburgh is abuzz with rumours of King George IV's impending visit. In botanical circles, however, a different kind of excitement has gripped the city. In the newly-installed Botanic Garden, the Agave Americana plant looks set to flower - an event that only occurs once every few decades...
  • Never Conspire with a Sinful Baron by Renee Ann Miller

    Never Conspire with a Sinful Baron by Renee Ann Miller

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    Last season, Lady Nina Trent fell for a scoundrel. This year, she intends to choose more wisely... When a duke more interested in fox hunting and sports than womanizing comes to town, Nina thinks him the perfect catch. Sadly, he doesn't seem to notice her...
  • Angel's Mask by Jessica Mason

    Angel's Mask by Jessica Mason

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    The timeless tale of The Phantom of the Opera brought to life as never before...Christine Daaé arrives penniless and hopeless at the steps of the great Paris Opera House, in search of an angel. What finds her instead is a man in a mask named Erik, a tortured soul masquerading as a ghost. Fascinated by Christine, Erik dons a new mask to be close to that of the Angel of Music...
  • Secrets to Reveal by Tilly Wallace

    Secrets to Reveal by Tilly Wallace

    Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Every heart holds a secret, but some are harder to reveal than others... England, 1812. Aster Simmons lives a quiet and orderly existence working as a secretary and indulging in her love for puzzles--until her routine is disrupted by the arrival of an impertinent Scotsman who lounges around her office like an overgrown dog...
  • The Scent of Jasmine by Jude Deveraux

    The Scent of Jasmine by Jude Deveraux

    Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 16 ratings
    Would you risk your life—on the love of a lifetime? Charleston, 1799: A daughter of Southern gentility and a gifted painter, Catherine Edilean Harcourt has no lack of suitors at home in Virginia, waiting to fulfill her dream of marriage and family. But Cay’s adventurous spirit, fostered by growing up with her three brothers, is piqued while visiting her godfather in South Carolina...
  • Murder at the Mayfair Hotel by C.J. Archer

    Murder at the Mayfair Hotel by C.J. Archer

    Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    It was the most fashionable place to stay in London, until murder made a reservation. Solve the puzzle in this new cozy historical mystery from USA Today bestselling author of the Glass and Steele series.December 1899. After the death of her beloved grandmother, Cleopatra Fox moves into the luxury hotel owned by her estranged uncle in the hopes of putting hardship and loneliness behind her...
  • The Burning Chambers by Kate Mosse

    The Burning Chambers by Kate Mosse

    Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    Carcassonne 1562: Nineteen-year-old Minou Joubert receives an anonymous letter at her father’s bookshop. Sealed with a distinctive family crest, it contains just five words: SHE KNOWS THAT YOU LIVE. But before Minou can decipher the mysterious message, a chance encounter with a young Huguenot convert, Piet Reydon, changes her destiny forever...
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    mystery  suspense  historical  fantasy  length-epic
  • The Way of All Flesh by Ambrose Parry

    The Way of All Flesh by Ambrose Parry

    Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Edinburgh, 1847. Will Raven is a medical student, apprenticing for the brilliant and renowned Dr Simpson. Sarah Fisher is Simpson’s housemaid, and has all of Raven’s intelligence but none of his privileges.As bodies begin to appear across the Old Town, Raven and Sarah find themselves propelled headlong into the darkest shadows of Edinburgh’s underworld...
  • The Princess: A Medieval Romance by Claire Delacroix

    The Princess: A Medieval Romance by Claire Delacroix

    Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Princess Brianna of Tullymullagh is determined to marry only for love-until her father's holding is conquered and the king decrees that she must wed one of the victor's sons. Thinking she can outwit this condition, Brianna issues a the son who brings her a gift that makes her laugh will win her hand. Thus begins the Bride Quest of the three brothers Fitzgavin...
  • The Fair Botanists by Sara Sheridan

    The Fair Botanists by Sara Sheridan

    Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    It's the summer of 1822 and Edinburgh is abuzz with rumours of King George IV's impending visit. In botanical circles, however, a different kind of excitement has gripped the city. In the newly-installed Botanic Garden, the Agave Americana plant looks set to flower - an event which only occurs once in several decades...
  • Dreamland by Nancy Bilyeau

    Dreamland by Nancy Bilyeau

    Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    'Achingly believable' - Publishers Weekly 'Beautifully written and impeccably researched, Dreamland is a rollicking ride...
  • The Dark Enquiry by Deanna Raybourn

    The Dark Enquiry by Deanna Raybourn

    Rated: 3.91 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Partners now in marriage and in trade, Lady Julia and Nicholas Brisbane have finally returned from abroad to set up housekeeping in London. But merging their respective collections of gadgets, pets and servants leaves little room for the harried newlyweds themselves, let alone Brisbane’s private enquiry business...
  • The Dollmaker by Morgan Shamy

    The Dollmaker by Morgan Shamy

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    “A tour de force that has it all.” —Annelise Ryan, USA Today bestselling author of A Death in Door County “You will devour this book.” —Barbara Conrey, USA Today bestselling author of Nowhere Near Goodbye and international bestselling author of My Secret to KeepNo one is safe. Not when the Dollmaker lurks in the shadows...
  • A Secret Life by C.J. Archer

    A Secret Life by C.J. Archer

    Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Minerva Peabody needs a man. Unfortunately she picked the wrong one. The impoverished playwright has a dream to see her plays performed on stage but in Elizabethan England, not only are women considered the inferior sex, they simply do NOT write plays...
  • Silent Night by Deanna Raybourn

    Silent Night by Deanna Raybourn

    Rated: 3.82 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    'Tis the season for an investigation! Lady Julia and Nicholas Brisbane return for a Christmas caper at Bellmont Abbey—. After a year of marriage—and numerous adventures—Lady Julia and Brisbane hope for a quiet, intimate Christmas together—until they find themselves at her father's ancestral estate, Bellmont Abbey, with her eccentric family and a menagerie of animals...
  • The Third Son by Elise Marion

    The Third Son by Elise Marion

    Rated: 3.77 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Prince Damien, the spoiled youngest son of the king of Cardenas, finds that his world will never quite be the same again when a fiery Gypsy girl, Esmeralda, comes dancing into his privileged life. Rake. Rogue. Scoundrel. Each of these words has been used to describe Damien Largess, youngest prince of Cardenas, most frequently by his ridiculously somber eldest brother...
  • Christie, Agatha - Three Act Tragedy by Christie Agatha

    Christie, Agatha - Three Act Tragedy by Christie Agatha

    Rated: 3.84 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    At an apparently respectable dinner party, a vicar is the first to die...Thirteen guests arrived at dinner at the actor's house. It was to be a particularly unlucky evening for the mild-mannered Reverend Stephen Babbington, who choked on his cocktail, went into convulsions and died...
  • A Most Agreeable Murder by Julia Seales

    A Most Agreeable Murder by Julia Seales

    Rated: 3.77 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    When a wealthy bachelor drops dead at a ball, a young lady takes on the decidedly improper role of detective in this action-packed debut comedy of manners and murder. "If you grew up reading Jane Austen and Agatha Christie (or are a fan of Bridgerton and Knives Out), you will adore A Most Agreeable Murder...
  • The Tenth Gift by Jane Johnson

    The Tenth Gift by Jane Johnson

    Rated: 3.74 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    In an expensive London restaurant Julia Lovat receives a gift that will change her life. It appears to be a book of exquisite 17th-century embroidery patterns but on closer examination Julia finds it also contains faint diary entries...
  • Chanakya's Chant by Ashwin Sanghi

    Chanakya's Chant by Ashwin Sanghi

    Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    The year is 340 BC. A hunted, haunted Brahmin youth vows revenge for the gruesome murder of his beloved father. Cold, calculating, cruel and armed with a complete absence of accepted morals, he becomes the most powerful political strategist in Bharat and succeeds in uniting a ragged country against the invasion of the army of that demigod, Alexander the Great...
  • Midnight by Josephine Cox

    Midnight by Josephine Cox

    Rated: 3.56 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    No. 1 bestselling author Josephine Cox returns with a powerful, dark love story shrouded in shocking secrets and malignant forces. All Jack's life, the nightmares had haunted him, dragging him back to a place where it was always midnight! Molly and Jack are deeply in love but their relationship is being torn apart by Jack's nightmares...
  • Unladylike Lessons in Love by Amita Murray

    Unladylike Lessons in Love by Amita Murray

    Rated: 3.44 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Amita Murray takes us on a journey from the pleasure gardens of society to the dangerous streets of 19 th century London, in this spectacular romantic debut by an unforgettable new voice.  “Women mind their reputation if they want to marry. I don’t want to marry...
  • The Romance of the Forest by Ann Radcliffe

    The Romance of the Forest by Ann Radcliffe

    Rated: 3.48 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Set in a Roman Catholic Europe of violent passions and extreme oppression, the novel follows the fate of its heroine Adeline, who is mysteriously placed under the protection of a family fleeing Paris for debt. They take refuge in a ruined abbey in south-eastern France, where sinister relics of the past - a skeleton, a manuscript, and a rusty dagger - are discovered in concealed rooms...
  • The Sultan's Seal by Jenny White

    The Sultan's Seal by Jenny White

    Rated: 3.31 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Rich in sensuous detail, this first novel brilliantly captures the political and social upheavals of the waning Ottoman Empire. The naked body of a young Englishwoman washes up in Istanbul wearing a pendant inscribed with the seal of the deposed sultan. The death resembles the murder by strangulation of another English governess, a crime that was never solved...
  • Effi Briest illustriert by Theodor Fontane

    Effi Briest illustriert by Theodor Fontane

    Rated: 3.26 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    Nach einer behüteten Kindheit heiratet die 17jährige Effi, dem Willen ihrer Eltern entsprechend, den fast 20 Jahre älteren Baron von Innstetten, ein Jugendfreund ihrer Mutter, dem sie nach Kessin, einem kleinen Ort an der Ostsee folgt...
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    mystery  victorian  fantasy  historical
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