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The Ashes & the Star-Cursed King

Carissa Broadbent

The Bookish Box Exclusive Luxe Edition of The Ashes & the Star-Cursed King Love is a sacrifice at the altar of power.In the wake of the Kejari, everything Oraya once thought to be true has been destroyed. A prisoner in her own kingdom, grieving the only family she ever had, and reeling from a gutting betrayal, she no longer even knows the truth of her own blood. She's left only with one certainty:

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The Cruel Prince

Holly Black · 377 pages

**GUARD YOUR MORTAL HEART.** JUDE WAS SEVEN WHEN HER PARENTS were murdered and she and her two sisters were stolen away to live in the treacherous High Court of Faerie. Ten years later, Jude wants nothing more than to belong there, despite her mortality. But many of the fey despise humans. Especially Prince Cardan, the youngest and wickedest son of the High King. To win a place at the Court,

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El rey malvado

Holly Black, Jaime Valero · 464 pages

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Poison Study

Maria V. Snyder · 409 pages

About to be executed for murder, Yelena is offered an extraordinary reprieve. She'll eat the best meals, have rooms in the palace-and risk assassination by anyone trying to kill the Commander of Ixia.And so Yelena chooses to become a food taster. But the chief of security, leaving nothing to chance, deliberately feeds her Butterfly's Dust and only by appearing for her daily antidote will she delay

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The Lotus Empire

Tasha Suri · 494 pages

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The Shadows Between Us

Tricia Levenseller · 352 pages

Alessandra is tired of being overlooked, but she has a plan to gain power: 1) Woo the Shadow King. 2) Marry him. 3) Kill him and take his kingdom for herself. No one knows the extent of the freshly crowned Shadow King’s power. Some say he can command the shadows that swirl around him to do his bidding. Others say they speak to him, whispering the thoughts of his enemies. Regardless, Alessa

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For She Is Wrath

Emily Varga · 389 pages

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Eona: The Last Dragoneye

Alison Goodman · 637 pages

Eon has been revealed as Eona, the first female Dragoneye in hundreds of years. Along with fellow rebels Ryko and Lady Dela, she is on the run from High Lord Sethon's army. The renegades are on a quest for the black folio, stolen by the drug-riddled Dillon; they must also find Kygo, the young Pearl Emperor, who needs Eona's power and the black folio if he is to wrest back his throne from the selfs

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Kingsbane

Claire Legrand · 608 pages

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Onyx Storm

Rebecca Yarros · 527 pages

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The Wolf of Oren-yaro

K.S. Villoso · 488 pages

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A Storm of Swords: Blood and Gold

George R.R. Martin · 656 pages

Fear cuts deeper than swords The Starks are scattered. Robb Stark may be King in the North, but he must bend to the will of the old tyrant Walder Frey if he is to hold his crown. And while his youngest sister, Arya, has escaped the clutches of the depraved Cersei Lannister and her son, the capricious boy-king Joffrey, Sansa Stark remains their captive, trapped in marriage with Joffrey's deformed

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A Court of Mist and Fury

Sarah J. Maas · 626 pages

Feyre has undergone more trials than one human woman can carry in her heart. Though she's now been granted the powers and lifespan of the High Fae, she is haunted by her time Under the Mountain and the terrible deeds she performed to save the lives of Tamlin and his people. As her marriage to Tamlin approaches, Feyre's hollowness and nightmares consume her. She finds herself split into two diff

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The Wrath and the Dawn

Renee Ahdieh · 404 pages

A sumptuous and epically told love story inspired by A Thousand and One Nights Every dawn brings horror to a different family in a land ruled by a killer. Khalid, the eighteen-year-old Caliph of Khorasan, takes a new bride each night only to have her executed at sunrise. So it is a suspicious surprise when sixteen-year-old Shahrzad volunteers to marry Khalid. But she does so with a clever plan

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Glass Sword

Victoria Aveyard · 444 pages

in this science fiction, norta is separated by blood. red and silver, silvers being the rich and higher in the society with an ability that makes life much easier. while reds below a servant's life, and much poorer. mare barrow a red blood. somehow finds herself In the scarlet guard. a group of red bloods rebelling against the royal family and other silvers. when mare discovers her abi

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A Kiss of Shadows

Laurell K. Hamilton · 468 pages

"All it would take was my true name being mentioned after dark, and it would float back to my aunt. She was the Queen of Air and Darkness, and that meant that anything said in the dark was hers to hear, eventually. The fact that spotting the missing Elven American Princess had become more popular than spotting Elvis helped. Her magic was always chasing blind leads. Princess Meredith skiing in Utah

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The Young Elites

Marie Lu · 392 pages

I am tired of being used, hurt, and cast aside. Adelina Amouteru is a survivor of the blood fever. A decade ago, the deadly illness swept through her nation. Most of the infected perished, while many of the children who survived were left with strange markings. Adelina’s black hair turned silver, her lashes went pale, and now she has only a jagged scar where her left eye once was. Her cruel fat

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Immortal Longings

Chloe Gong · 384 pages

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Gold

Raven Kennedy

Book 5 of this adult fantasy series continues in this epic story inspired by the myth of King Midas, fae, and fated romance. "Find me in another life. Find me in them all." Every end is also a beginning. I thought I was going to die, and would have if it weren't for Slade. The only way he could save me was to open a rip between worlds. The only way for me to save myself was to go through it. Somet

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The Foxglove King

Hannah Whitten · 467 pages

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Ruin and Rising

Leigh Bardugo · 403 pages

"The Darkling rules Ravka from his shadow throne. Alina forges new alliances as she and Mal search for Morozova's last amplifier. But as she begins to unravel the Darkling's secrets, she reveals a past that alters her understanding of the bond they share and the power she wields"--Provided by publisher.

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Shadowfever

Karen Marie Moning · 594 pages

Alina is dead and her sister Mac has returned to Ireland, the country that expelled them, to hunt her sister's murderer. But after discovering that she descends from a bloodline both gifted and cursed, she descends into an epic battle between humans and Fae immortals as the Sinsar Dubh turns on her, and begins mowing a deadly path through those she loves. Mac's journey will force her to face the t

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Two Dark Reigns

Kendare Blake · 463 pages

Queen Katharine has waited her entire life to wear the crown. But now that she finally has it, the murmurs of dissent grow louder by the day. There s also the alarming issue of whether her sisters are actually dead or if they re waiting in the wings to usurp the throne.

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A Monsoon Rising

Thea Guanzon · 400 pages

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