Rescued by the Alien Bull Rider

Ursa Dax

A grumpy alien cowboy, a pregnant human woman, and the power of finding family in the most unexpected of places…When I lose my home and my horse all in the same afternoon, I’m forced to take painful stock of my situation. I’m twenty-three years old. Single. And pregnant. I’ve always been the glass-half-full sort of gal, but things are looking truly dire as I stare down my rapidly approaching due date. That’s when I hear about Zabria Prinar One. A ranching outpost planet where a bunch of lonely alien cowboys are waiting for brides. I grew up on a ranch – surely I have enough to offer that one of them will want me. Even if my own family doesn’t. So I book a shuttle and go. But my pilot abandons me in a random field, leaving me to face down the intimidating elements alone. Including one very angry alien bull about to charge. Just before I get gored, a powerful rider with white eyes comes thundering out of the darkness to save me. His name is Zohro. He’s beautiful and pink – the colour of all my favourite things. He is also possibly the grumpiest and most impatient male I have ever met. But I don’t care. There’s a protective streak in him that makes me feel so safe, no matter how fierce his frowns are. Within moments of meeting him, I know that he’s the one I want to marry. I just have to tell him that I’m pregnant with another man’s child first…

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Piranesi

Susanna Clarke

Piranesi’s house is no ordinary building: its rooms are infinite, its corridors endless, its walls are lined with thousands upon thousands of statues, each one different from all the others. Within the labyrinth of halls an ocean is imprisoned; waves thunder up staircases, rooms are flooded in an instant. But Piranesi is not afraid; he understands the tides as he understands the pattern of the labyrinth itself. He lives to explore the house. There is one other person in the house—a man called The Other, who visits Piranesi twice a week and asks for help with research into A Great and Secret Knowledge. But as Piranesi explores, evidence emerges of another person, and a terrible truth begins to unravel, revealing a world beyond the one Piranesi has always known.

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The Court of Venus

Bel Banta

'Our kind has many names. Planetborn. Sorcerer. Witch or wizard. Magician.' In Alvion, magicians have influenced and ruled beside kings for thousands of years. Blessed at birth by one of the seven planets, their abilities are miraculous and extremely rare. Magicians born under Saturn can speak to the dead. Venusborn charm the living. Moonborn manipulate emotions and memory, and alter their own appearance. Mercuryborn create new languages and decode ciphers.It’s been years since Moonborn magician Bianca was forced to leave court. Even longer since she has seen her old childhood pink-haired, Venus-ruled Roland who has risen to become the most dangerous living magician and courtier in her absence. When Bianca is invited back into the fold for the new queen’s coronation, she agrees; she’s eager to use this as an opportunity to investigate the mysterious death of Prince Hal and mourn the more recent loss of her and Roland’s former mentor Prospero. But court is not as she remembered it’s now on the brink of chaos.Roland - sensual, beautiful, and infuriating - has taken over Prospero’s role as the King’s advisor. And he’s been tasked with the same impossible assignment that saw Prospero and multiple queens’ heads helping the King secure an heir. For the sake of their mutually beloved Hal, and to save themselves from the surrounding scheming courtiers, Bianca and Roland reluctantly become allies. But their investigation will uncover more than they’d bargained for. It will upend everything they thought they knew about each other— and magic itself.Set in a fantasy world inspired by Tudor England and the real astrologers who advised kings, THE COURT OF VENUS is Bel Banta's fantasy debut and a beautifully written historical novel about rival magicians.

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Bride of the Shark Clan Vol. 1

Satomichi

Two island clans use a yearly bride offering to keep the peace, but an accidental steamy encounter threatens to change things forever! Rival island clans have kept the peace for years through an annual bride offering made by the weaker clan, but the son of that clan’s chief is tired of this archaic system and intends to shake things up. Unfortunately, fate intervenes, and before he’s able to put his plan into place, he finds himself at his rival’s mercy in more ways than one! Far off in the ocean exists a mysterious island inhabited by two rival clans. To keep the peace, the Tangata clan provides a yearly offering of one of their warriors to the more powerful Miyaru, who are said to be descended from sharks! Avel, the Tangata chief’s son, is growing increasingly dissatisfied with this arrangement…and with the Miyaru. When he is attacked by a jungle cat, a member of the Miyaru clan, Tukiri, comes to his rescue. Surprised by his rival’s friendly, gentle nature, Avel lets his guard down, but when Tukiri notices Avel is bleeding, his demeanor suddenly changes—and so does his appearance!

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Milkteeth

Caitlin Starling

From the bestselling author of The Death of Jane Lawrence comes a new, genre-bending supernatural horror about a vampire broodmother fighting against her own monstrous descent. Beatrice is a a vampire responsible for nursing newly made fledglings through the first years of their unlife. She nests in an abandoned, isolated warren of office space beneath her patron's skyscraper, raising two fractious Gorgeous—once a heartthrob, now to all appearances a living corpse—who longs for the return of the lover who made him immortal with all the fervor of a rebellious teen, and Fortunata, the scion of Beatrice's mistress, alien and ambitious in her desires. But when Beatrice decides to take on a third fledgling, the product of an attempted siring gone wrong, teetering between vampiric purity and ghoulish depravity, Beatrice finds herself strained to breaking between the societal and physical demands of her position, her own ravenous hunger, and an obsessive need to discover what’s happening to her—because her body is changing too, transforming her into something even more monstrous. She begins to crave the taste of flesh, something anathema to all vampires, and to swing between desperate hunger and vicious power. Desperate to master herself once more, Beatrice courts a mortal OBGYN who might be able to unravel the secrets of her unnatural anatomy. But soon their connection threatens the secrecy of her vampiric coven as well as the safety and development of her dependent nurslings… and the humans they stand to slaughter if left to their own devices.

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A Gentleman in Moscow

Amor Towles

He can't leave. You won't want to. With his breakout novel Rules of Civility, Amor Towles established himself as a master of absorbing, sophisticated fiction, bringing late-1930s Manhattan to life with splendid atmosphere and a flawless command of style. A Gentleman in Moscow immerses us in another elegantly drawn era with the story of Count Alexander Rostov. When, in 1922, the thirty-year-old Count is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, he is sentenced to house arrest in the Metropol, a grand hotel across the street from the Kremlin. An indomitable man of erudition and wit, Rostov must now live in an attic room while some of the most tumultuous decades in Russian history are unfolding outside the hotel’s doors. Unexpectedly, the Count's reduced circumstances provide him entry to a much larger world of emotional discovery as he forges friendships with the hotel's other denizens, including a willful actress, a shrewd Kremlinite, a gregarious American, and a temperamental chef. But when fate suddenly puts the life of a young girl in his hands, he must draw on all his ingenuity to protect the future she so deserves. Brimming with humor, a glittering cast of characters, and one beautifully rendered scene after another, this singular novel casts a spell as it relates the Count’s endeavor to gain a deeper understanding of what it means to be a man of purpose.

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The Emperor's Enemy

Jasmine Mas

When the hunter is hunted… who becomes prey? The Emperor’s Enemy is an addictive true enemies-to-lovers dark romantasy with a heroine who doesn’t need saving, an enemy she can’t escape, and a war neither of them plans to lose. Welcome to the Unsurvivable Love Duet, the all-new series by Jasmine Mas, bestselling author of Blood of Hercules. Zora Ravenal didn’t join the Crimson Army to be a hero. She joined to destroy the empire. A skilled hunter hardened by loss with a concerning capacity for stubbornness, Zora claws her way into becoming a Knight Mage: the Commonwealth’s deadliest defense against the Empire’s storm magic and her people’s only hope. It almost works. Now she’s stuck in a war she can’t walk away from, hiding dangerous secrets, and shoved into very close quarters with the one man she should never be alone with. He’s a Royal Mage with a body count, a temper, and an unsettling obsession… withher. Now they’re partners. Sort of. If “partners” means being forced to train together, trust each other with their lives, and somehow not kill each other in the process. But the Royal Mage isn’t just dangerous—he’s paying attention. And the longer they’re forced to remain in each other’s orbit, the more twisted everything becomes. Who’s hunting who? Perfect if you love: - True enemies-to-lovers - Sarcastic banter - A spicy slow burn - Touch her and die - Female rage - A shocking twist you will NOT see coming

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Captive Prince (Captive Prince, #1)

C.S. Pacat

From global phenomenon C. S. Pacat comes the first in her critically acclaimed trilogy—with a bonus story. Damen is a warrior hero to his people, and the rightful heir to the throne of Akielos. But when his half brother seizes power, Damen is captured, stripped of his identity, and sent to serve the prince of an enemy nation as a pleasure slave. Beautiful, manipulative, and deadly, his new master, Prince Laurent, epitomizes the worst of the court at Vere. But in the lethal political web of the Veretian court, nothing is as it seems, and when Damen finds himself caught up in a play for the throne, he must work together with Laurent to survive and save his country. For Damen, there is just one rule: never, ever reveal his true identity. Because the one man Damen needs is the one man who has more reason to hate him than anyone else… Includes an exclusive extra story!

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