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High Stakes & Epic Worlds
Gothic & Atmospheric fantasy
Fate. Magic & Mythology
Academic. Cozy & Hidden Magic
Spicy & Supernatural
High Stakes & Epic Worlds
If you like fantasy's in epic alternate worlds and high stakes situations start here.
Lara is a princess trained from birth to be a deadly spy and assassin, all for the purpose of bringing down the legendary Bridge Kingdom. She marries the enemy King, Aren, intending to dismantle his defenses from the inside, but she soon discovers th...
The Bridge Kingdom (Deluxe Edition) (The Bridge Kingdom Series #1)
Katsa is "Graced" with a terrifying skill: the ability to kill anyone with her bare hands, a power her uncle the King uses to maintain his reign of terror. Fiercely independent and wary of any form of domesticity, Katsa eventually rebels to seek the ...
Graceling (Graceling Realm Series #1)
Vin is a street urchin surviving in a world where ash falls from the sky and an immortal ruler has reigned for a thousand years. She discovers she is a Mistborn, capable of "burning" metals to gain incredible powers, and joins a crew of thieves plann...
Mistborn: The Final Empire (Mistborn Series #1)|
Naime is the daughter of a Sultan who is losing his mind, and she is determined to claim her right to rule in a society that doesn't want a woman on the throne. To secure her kingdom’s future, she must form a secret alliance with a powerful mage from...
Reign & Ruin
Alizeh is a disposable servant in the eyes of the world, but in reality, she is the long-lost heir to an ancient Jinn kingdom. She must hide her true identity and her strange, magical eyes while working in the palace of the humans who hunted her peop...
This Woven Kingdom (This Woven Kingdom Series #1)
Gothic & Atmospheric fantasy
if you're looking for misty woods, ancient curses and a touch of darkness, these titles are the perfect fit together.
Isobel is a prodigy portrait artist whose talent is coveted by the fair folk, who cannot create art themselves. When she paints a mortal emotion into the eyes of a faerie prince, she is whisked away to stand trial in the autumn court. Isobel uses her...
An Enchantment of Ravens
Elisabeth Scrivener has grown up in a Great Library where magical grimoires are dangerous creatures that must be chained to the shelves. When she is framed for an act of sabotage, she must team up with a sorcerer she’s been taught to distrust to clea...
Sorcery of Thorns
Alessandra is tired of being overlooked and decides the best way to gain power is to woo the Shadow King, marry him, and then kill him. She is unapologetically ambitious and morally grey, caring more about her own advancement than being "likable." Th...
The Shadows between Us
Elspeth Spindle lives in a mist-locked kingdom where magic is forbidden and those who possess it are hunted. She carries a secret: a "Nightmare" lives in her mind, a monster that protects her but is slowly consuming her soul. When she meets a highway...
One Dark Window
Fate. Magic & Mythology
If you like your books to be about mythology and fate like me this can be something right up your alley.
Ildiko is a human princess of no consequence, and Brishen is the spare prince of a subterranean race; both find each other physically repulsive due to their different species. Forced into a political marriage, they decide to become allies and friends...
Radiance|eBook
In this lush One Thousand and One Nights retelling, Shahrzad volunteers to marry a murderous Caliph who takes a new bride every night only to execute her at sunrise. Shahrzad isn't looking for love; she’s looking for vengeance for her best friend, us...
The Wrath and the Dawn (Wrath and the Dawn Series #1)
Odessa is a master necromancer who "changes" the dead into the Shaded so they can continue to serve the kingdom, but she must follow strict rules to prevent them from becoming monsters. When a conspiracy begins to rot the kingdom from the inside, Ode...
Reign of the Fallen
Lark has been silent since the day her mother was executed for having magic, a secret she must keep to survive in a kingdom that fears "Spinners." When she is taken by the young King Tjer, she must find her voice and her power to save a land that wou...
The Bird and the Sword
Cat Fisa is a "Siphon" who can steal magic, living in hiding as a circus performer to avoid being used as a political weapon. When a warlord named Griffin kidnaps her to help him build a better world, she fights him every step of the way with a sharp...
A Promise of Fire
Academic. Cozy & Hidden Magic
These books often feature scholarly protagonists, hidden magical societies, or a “learning the ropes journey”.
Louise le Blanc is a witch who has fled her coven and renounced magic to live as a thief in a city where her kind are hunted. When a stunt goes wrong, she is forced into a marriage with Reid Diggory, a sworn witch-hunter who values principle above al...
Serpent & Dove (Serpent & Dove Series #1)
Yelena is a prisoner facing execution who is offered a stay of proceedings if she agrees to become the Commander's food taster—and potential sacrificial lamb. Under the tutelage of the cold and dangerous Valek, she learns to master poisons and uncove...
Poison Study: A Novel
Emily Wilde is a socially awkward but brilliant professor who travels to a remote Nordic village to study "the Hidden Ones." She is fiercely independent and prefers the company of books and dry research to people, especially her handsome academic riv...
Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (B&N Exclusive Edition) (Emily Wilde Series #1)|BN Exclusive
Alanna of Trebond wants to be a knight, but her society only allows girls to be ladies-in-waiting. She swaps places with her twin brother, disguising herself as a boy to enter the royal palace and begin her training as a page. Alanna is the blueprint...
Alanna: The First Adventure (Song of the Lioness Series #1)
Spicy & Supernatural
Spicy and supernatural books that you can enjoy to blow off some steam.
Saoris is a mortal scavenger living in a world where the Fae are beautiful, cruel, and deadly. When she accidentally kills a Fae soldier, she is thrust into a world of courtly intrigue and forced to survive alongside a mysterious, silver-haired warri...
Quicksilver (Deluxe Limited Edition)|
Sascha Duncan is a "Psy" in a world where her race has conditioned themselves to feel no emotion, but she is secretly "broken" by her capacity to feel. She enters a business alliance with Lucas Hunter, a changeling alpha who is everything she is taug...
Slave to Sensation (Psy-Changeling Series #1