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The Rossetti Letter

Christi Phillips · 391 pages

A novel of seventeenth-century Venice and a modern woman's search for a courtesan's secret history.

VeniceDual TimelineHistorical FictionMultiple POV
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The Shadow of the Lion

Mercedes Lackey, Eric Flint, Dave Freer · 825 pages

"Three writers (the others are Eric Flint and Dave Freer) collaborate on this massive concoction of alternate history, high fantasy, and historical romance set in the sixteenth-century Venice of an alternate world in which Catholicism is factionalized, the Hohenstauffens instead of the Habsburgs rule the Holy Roman Empire, magic works, and the grand duke of Lithuania is trying to use that magic ag

VeniceWitches & WitchcraftMultiple POVFantasy
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Shadow of Night

Deborah Harkness · 592 pages

Picking up from A Discovery of Witches’ cliffhanger ending, Shadow of Night takes Diana and Matthew on a trip through time to Elizabethan London, where they are plunged into a world of spies, magic, and a coterie of Matthew’s old friends, the School of Night. As the search for Ashmole 782 deepens and Diana seeks out a witch to tutor her in magic, the net of Matthew’s past tightens around them, and

ParisWitches & WitchcraftHistorical FictionMultiple POV
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The Once and Future Witches

Alix E. Harrow · 517 pages

Fairy Tale RetellingWitches & WitchcraftMultiple POVHistorical Fiction
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The Lost Bookshop

Evie Woods

The Keeper of Stories meets The Lost Apothecary in this evocative and charming novel full of mystery and secrets. ‘The thing about books,’ she said ‘is that they help you to imagine a life bigger and better than you could ever dream of.’ On a quiet street in Dublin, a lost bookshop is waiting to be found… For too long, Opaline, Martha and Henry have been the side characters in their own lives.

Dual TimelineParisMultiple POVHistorical Fiction
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Klucz Sarah

Tatiana de Rosnay · 366 pages

ParisDual TimelineHistorical FictionMultiple POV
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Beastly

Alex Flinn · 320 pages

A beast. Not quite wolf or bear, gorilla or dog but a horrible new creature who walks upright — a creature with fangs and claws and hair springing from every pore. I am a monster.You think I'm talking fairy tales? No way. The place is New York City. The time is now. It's no deformity, no disease. And I'll stay this way forever — ruined — unless I can break the spell.Yes, the spell, the one the wit

Fairy Tale RetellingWitches & WitchcraftMultiple POVFantasy
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As Old as Time

Liz Braswell · 496 pages

Fairy Tale RetellingDual TimelineFantasyMultiple POV
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The Alice Network

Kate Quinn · 503 pages

"It's 1947 and American college girl Charlie St. Clair is pregnant, unmarried, and on the verge of being thrown out of her very proper family. She's also nursing a fervent belief that her beloved French cousin Rose, who disappeared in Nazi-occupied France during the war, might still be alive somewhere. So when Charlie's family banishes her to Europe to have her "little problem" take care of, Charl

Dual TimelineParisMultiple POVHistorical Fiction
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Out of Oz

Gregory Maguire · 568 pages

Glinda, former Throne Minister, held under house arrest by General Cherrystone, obtains the infamous Grimmerie, supposedly a volume of magical lore, coveted by Oz. Meanwhile, Lir's daughter Rain begins her quest to discover her true identity and unravel the layers of political and personal secrets that have caused strife and division in Oz.

Fairy Tale RetellingWitches & WitchcraftMultiple POVFantasy
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Weyward

Emilia Hart · 392 pages

Dual TimelineWitches & WitchcraftMultiple POVHistorical Fiction
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The Perfume Collector

Kathleen Tessaro · 456 pages

Newlywed Grace Monroe doesn't fit anyone's expectations of a successful 1950s London socialite, least of all her own. When she receives an unexpected inheritance from a complete stranger, Madame Eva d'Orsey, Grace is drawn to uncover the identity of her mysterious benefactor. Weaving through the decades, from 1920s New York to Monte Carlo, Paris, and London, the story Grace uncovers is that of an

Dual TimelineParisMultiple POVHistorical Fiction
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Sepulchre

Kate Mosse · 664 pages

Dual TimelineParisMultiple POVHistorical Fiction
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Malas

Marcela Fuentes · 375 pages

Dual TimelineWitches & WitchcraftMultiple POVHistorical Fiction
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Phoenix and Ashes

Mercedes Lackey · 442 pages

In this dark and atmospheric rendition of the Cinderella fairy tale, an intelligent young Englishwoman is made into a virtual slave by her evil stepmother. Her only hope of rescue comes in the shape of a scarred World War I pilot of noble blood, whose own powers over the elements are about to be needed more than ever.

Fairy Tale RetellingWitches & WitchcraftHistorical FictionFantasy
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A Sorceress Comes to Call

T. Kingfisher · 321 pages

Fairy Tale RetellingWitches & WitchcraftMultiple POVFantasy
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Juniper & Thorn

Ava Reid · 368 pages

Fairy Tale RetellingWitches & WitchcraftFantasyFemale Lead
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The Glassblower of Murano

Marina Fiorato · 348 pages

VeniceDual TimelineHistorical FictionFemale Lead
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Reawakened

Odette Beane · 337 pages

Strangers don't come to Storybrooke. The town's residents are victims of a curse--trapped by an Evil Queen in a world without magic, they don't remember that they were once Snow White, Prince Charming, Jiminy Cricket, and other characters from a fairytale world. The curse keeps them in Storybrooke, and keeps everyone else out...until a dark stranger with a typewriter arrives on a motorcycle. Au

Fairy Tale RetellingWitches & WitchcraftMultiple POVFantasy
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Honeymoon in Paris

Jojo Moyes

ParisDual TimelineHistorical FictionMultiple POV
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Revolution

Jennifer Donnelly · 491 pages

"Andi is broken. She is failing school and failing life. Since the death of her brother, all she cares about is music. Taken to Paris by her estranged father, she makes a discovery there that could transform everything. Hidden in the compartment of an old guitar case is a lost diary from Revolutionary France. Alexandrine is a street performer who is trying to save a young life from the devastation

Dual TimelineParisMultiple POVHistorical Fiction
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Home

Leila S. Chudori · 498 pages

Dual TimelineParisMultiple POVHistorical Fiction
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The Silver Rose

Susan Carroll · 515 pages

From Brittany’s fog-shrouded forests to the elegant dark heart of Paris’s royal court, one woman must challenge a country’s destiny–and her own dangerous fate. France, 1585. She is the youngest and most powerful of the “Sisters of Faire Isle,” women known far and wide for their extraordinary mystical abilities. Skilled in healing and able to forecast the future of those around her, Miri Chene

ParisWitches & WitchcraftHistorical FictionFantasy
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Dark Shimmer

Donna Jo Napoli · 353 pages

A retelling of Snow White from the evil step mother's point of view as fifteen-year-old Dolce grows up on islands in a Venetian lagoon where she learns how to make mirrors, but when her mother dies she is taken in by a widower and his daughter while she secretly continues making mirrors and slowly goes mad from mercury poisoning.

Fairy Tale RetellingVeniceFantasyFemale Lead

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