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Blade of Fortriu: Book Two of The Bridei Chronicles

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The Shadowed Land

Signe Pike · 400 pages

Celtic MythologyScotlandRoyal CourtPolitical Intrigue
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The Mists of Avalon

Marion Zimmer Bradley · 876 pages

When Morgan le Fay (Morgaine) has to sacrifice her virginity during fertility rites, the man who impregnates her is her younger brother Arthur, who she turns against when she thinks he has betrayed the old religion of Avalon.

Celtic MythologyRoyal CourtPolitical IntrigueMultiple POV
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The Oleander Sword

Tasha Suri · 513 pages

Royal CourtPolitical IntrigueSoldiers and WarfareAtmospheric
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A River Enchanted

Rebecca Ross · 467 pages

Celtic MythologyScotlandAtmosphericPolitical Intrigue
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Falls the Shadow

Sharon Kay Penman · 580 pages

Royal CourtPolitical IntrigueSoldiers and WarfareAtmospheric
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Taliesin

Stephen R. Lawhead · 512 pages

Celtic MythologyAtmosphericMultiple POVFantasy
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Priestess of Avalon

Marion Zimmer Bradley, Diana L. Paxson · 394 pages

Celtic MythologyRoyal CourtPolitical IntrigueFantasy
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Midnight Never Come

Marie Brennan · 400 pages

England flourishes under the hand of its Virgin Queen: Elizabeth, Gloriana, last and most powerful of the Tudor monarchs. But a great light casts a great shadow.In hidden catacombs beneath London , a second Queen holds court: Invidiana, ruler of faerie England , and a dark mirror to the glory above. In the thirty years since Elizabeth ascended her throne, fae and mortal politics have become inext

Royal CourtPolitical IntrigueAtmosphericHistorical Fiction
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Macbeth

William Shakespeare · 135 pages

Royal CourtScotlandPolitical IntrigueAtmospheric
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Dragonfly in Amber

Diana Gabaldon · 947 pages

From the author of Outlander... a magnificent epic that once again sweeps us back in time to the drama and passion of 18th-century Scotland...For twenty years Claire Randall has kept her secrets. But now she is returning with her grown daughter to Scotland's majestic mist-shrouded hills. Here Claire plans to reveal a truth as stunning as the events that gave it birth: about the mystery of an anc

ScotlandPolitical IntrigueAtmosphericSoldiers and Warfare
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A Reaper at the Gates

Sabaa Tahir · 458 pages

The Blood Shrike, Helene Aquilla, is assailed on all sides. Emperor Marcus, haunted by his past, grows increasingly unstable, while the Commandant capitalizes on his madness to bolster her own power. As Helene searches for a way to hold back the approaching darkness, her sister's life and the lives of all those in the Empire hang in the balance.

Royal CourtPolitical IntrigueSoldiers and WarfareFantasy
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Druids

Morgan Llywelyn · 404 pages

Fifteen-year-old Ainvar, protege of the chief druid of the Order of the Wise, leads his Celtic Carnute tribe against Caesar's Roman legions who are attempting to conquer Gaul. Annotation. "Mine was the vast dark sky and the spaces between the stars that called out to me; mine was the promise of magic." So spoke the young Celt Ainvar, centuries before the enchanted age of Arthur and Merlin. An orph

Celtic MythologySoldiers and WarfareAtmosphericHistorical Fiction
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The Kingdom of Copper

S. A. Chakraborty · 684 pages

S. A. Chakraborty continues the sweeping adventure begun in The City of Brass—"the best adult fantasy I’ve read since The Name of the Wind" (#1 New York Times bestselling author Sabaa Tahir)—conjuring a world where djinn summon flames with the snap of a finger and waters run deep with old magic; where blood can be dangerous as any spell, and a clever con artist from Cairo will alter the fate of a

Royal CourtPolitical IntrigueAtmosphericMultiple POV
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Furies of Calderon

Jim Butcher · 512 pages

Royal CourtPolitical IntrigueSoldiers and WarfareFantasy
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The Dragonbone Chair

Tad Williams · 672 pages

In the peaceful land of Osten Ard, the good king is dying-and a long-dreaded evil is about to be unleashed. Only Simon, a lowly castle scullion apprenticed to a secret order dedicated to halting the coming darkness, can solve the dangerous riddle that offers salvation to the land.

Royal CourtPolitical IntrigueAtmosphericMultiple POV
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A Conspiracy of Kings

Megan Whalen Turner · 316 pages

Kidnapped and sold into slavery, Sophos, an unwilling prince, tries to save his country from being destroyed by rebellion and exploited by the conniving Mede empire.

Royal CourtPolitical IntrigueSoldiers and WarfareFantasy
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A Song of Wraiths and Ruin

Roseanne A. Brown · 466 pages

Royal CourtPolitical IntrigueAtmosphericMultiple POV
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The Other Queen

Philippa Gregory · 438 pages

Two women competing for a man’s heart. Two queens fighting to the death for dominance. The untold story of Mary, Queen of Scots. Fleeing rebels in Scotland on Queen Elizabeth’s false promise of sanctuary, Mary, Queen of Scots, finds herself imprisoned as the “guest” of George Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury, and his indomitable wife, Bess of Hardwick. Soon the newly married couple’s home becomes the

Royal CourtScotlandPolitical IntrigueHistorical Fiction
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Dark Haven

Gail Z. Martin

Royal CourtPolitical IntrigueSoldiers and WarfareMultiple POV
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The Blood Knight

Greg Keyes, J. Gregory Keyes · 576 pages

Royal CourtPolitical IntrigueSoldiers and WarfareFantasy
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The Foxglove King

Hannah Whitten · 467 pages

Royal CourtPolitical IntrigueAtmosphericMultiple POV
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Royal Airs

Sharon Shinn · 386 pages

****Master storyteller Sharon Shinn created the thrilling and enduring world of Welce in her acclaimed novel* Troubled Waters*. Return with her to that elemental universe in this tale of secrecy, romance, and a battle for power...*** Josetta is a princess of one of the Five Families. But she is far from the throne, so she is free to spend her days working in the poorest sections of the city.

Royal CourtPolitical IntrigueAtmosphericMultiple POV
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The Kingdom of Copper: A Novel (The Daevabad Trilogy)

Shannon A. Chakraborty · 640 pages

Royal CourtPolitical IntrigueAtmosphericFantasy
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The Crimson Crown

Cinda Williams Chima · 598 pages

"In the fourth and final novel in the Seven Realms series, Queen Raisa 'ana Marianna and Han Alister join forces to right a thousand-year-old wrong"--

Royal CourtPolitical IntrigueSoldiers and WarfareMultiple POV

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