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A Fashionable Indulgence

K.J. Charles · 264 pages

**In the first novel of an explosive new series from K. J. Charles, a young gentleman and his elegant mentor fight for love in a world of wealth, power, and manipulation.** When he learns that he could be the heir to an unexpected fortune, Harry Vane rejects his past as a Radical fighting for government reform and sets about wooing his lovely cousin. But his heart is captured instead by the mos

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His Client

Ava March

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Innocent Hearts

Radclyffe · 203 pages

In 1860's Montana Territory, Kate Beecher, a young woman from Boston, faces the hardships and hard choices of life on the frontier. Just eighteen and quietly struggling against the social constraints of the era, Kate meets a woman who fires first her imagination, and then her dreams. Jessie Forbes, a fiercely independent rancher, finds in Kate the passion she never knew she had been missing. This

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Learned by Heart

Emma Donoghue · 338 pages

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Of Honor and Love

S.J. Frost · 81 pages

To save his life, Jonathon Addison made a twisted deal that's taken him to the distant nation of Japan, where the death of another means freedom for himself. Kazuhiro Takezaki is a lord and samurai living a country strained for rebellion. When he meets Jonathon, he can't help but he drawn to the man's exotic beauty. As their passion takes hold, danger looms in the secret Jonathon keeps. - Publishe

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Sweetwater

Lisa Henry · 222 pages

**Wyoming Territory, 1870** Elijah Carter is afflicted. Most of the townsfolk of South Pass City treat him as a simpleton because he's deaf, but that's not his only problem. Something in Elijah runs contrary to nature and to God. Something that Elijah desperately tries to keep hidden. Harlan Crane, owner of the Empire saloon, knows Elijah for what he is—and for all the ungodly things he want

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Song of Oestend

Marie Sexton · 416 pages

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Unhinge the Universe

Aleksandr Voinov, L.A. Witt · 250 pages

*December 1944, the Battle of the Bulge* SS Lieutenant Hagen Friedrichs is the sole survivor of a party sent to retrieve his brother—and the highly sensitive information he’s carrying—from behind enemy lines. But his daring rescue attempt fails, and Hagen becomes the prisoner. Allied command has ordered Captain John Nicholls to extract critical intelligence from their new Nazi POW. His secre

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Captain's Surrender

Alex Beecroft · 187 pages

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The Actor and the Earl

Rebecca Cohen · 216 pages

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Beguiled

Joanna Chambers · 286 pages

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Brothers of the Wild North Sea

Harper Fox · 396 pages

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A Private Gentleman

Heidi Cullinan · 388 pages

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The Ruin of a Rake

Cat Sebastian · 326 pages

Rogue. Libertine. Rake. Lord Courtenay has been called many things and has never much cared. But after the publication of a salacious novel supposedly based on his exploits, he finds himself shunned from society. Unable to see his nephew, he is willing to do anything to improve his reputation, even if that means spending time with the most proper man in London. ** Julian Medlock has spent years be

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Skybound

Aleksandr Voinov · 46 pages

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Atmosphere: A Love Story

Taylor Jenkins Reid · 352 pages

Joan Goodwin has been obsessed with the stars for as long as she can remember. Thoughtful and reserved, Joan is content with her life as a professor of physics and astronomy at Rice University and as aunt to her precocious niece, Frances. That is, until she comes across an advertisement seeking the first women scientists to join NASA’s Space Shuttle program. Suddenly, Joan burns to be one of the f

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The Kingdoms

Natasha Pulley · 448 pages

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The Song of Achilles

Madeline Miller · 368 pages

This is the story of the seige of Troy from the perspective of Achilles best-friend Patroclus. Although Patroclus is outcast from his home for disappointing his father he manages to be the only mortal who can keep up with the half-God Archilles. Even though many will know the facts behind the story the telling is fresh and engaging.

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Love in Exile

Samantha Kane · 164 pages

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When the Tides Held the Moon

Venessa Vida Kelley · 466 pages

The Shape of Water meets The Greatest Showman in this beautifully illustrated queer historical cozy fantasy, as a young Puerto Rican immigrant goes through a journey of love and self-discovery after capturing a merman for a Coney Island sideshow act in turn-of-the 20th century New York. “Venessa gives life to the most unexpected things. I have a strong, strong feeling that this is the start of som

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Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil

V E Schwab · 544 pages

This is a story about hunger. 1532. Santo Domingo de la Calzada. A young girl grows up wild and wily—her beauty is only outmatched by her dreams of escape. But María knows she can only ever be a prize, or a pawn, in the games played by men. When an alluring stranger offers an alternate path, María makes a desperate choice. She vows to have no regrets. This is a story about love. 1827. London

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Ransom

Lee Rowan · 308 pages

Lt. David Archer, an officer in the Royal Navy, is hopelessly in love with his shipmate, Lt. William Marshall. When a pirate kidnaps the two men and forces them to survive in close quarters, William and David must admit their true feelings for each other. And as they attempt to escape, they face yet another challenge. Will their love be strong enough to hold them together in a society where love b

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Into Deep Waters

Kaje Harper · 176 pages

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