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Alex Jordan is the owner of Finials and Facades Renovation and Restoration Services, making her able to pursue her love of restoring Victorian-style homes in the town of Danger Cove. But her recent acquisition of the stately Marlton House has led to a showdown with town real estate mogul, and now, she has needs to restore the old house and flip it for a profit as quickly as possible. But Alex gets more than she bargained for when a Hawaiian shirt-clad tourist with a bullet in his head turns up in the home's bathtub.

Princess Isabelle Louise was raised for one thing: to secure a marriage alliance for the good of her people. All her hopes for a kind husband are dashed when the dark and dangerous Prince of the Fae comes seeking a human princess for his bride. Suddenly married and thrust into a world of vicious magic and lethal bargains, Isabelle discovers too late the secret her bridegroom concealed from her: that she is the key to his plan to usurp the throne. And now she is the object of the High King's wrath.

After years on the run, Adelaide thinks her lonely and dangerous life as a thief is finally over. But her world is upended when a witch steals her away to a faraway kingdom, to perform an impossible heist. If Adelaide fails, her newfound family would be sacrificed to a beast. To complete her mission, she’s forced to assume the role of a noblewoman and enter a royal competition. The prize is the hand of the elusive Crown Prince. Elimination means certain death.

Return to Hearts Bend, Tennessee, in this novel by NYT best-selling author Rachel Hauck and Carrie Padgett, for a sweet story of healing and second chances.

After years on the run, Adelaide thinks her lonely and dangerous life as a thief is finally over. But her world is upended when a witch steals her away to a faraway kingdom to perform an impossible heist. If Adelaide fails, her newfound family would be sacrificed to a beast. To complete her mission, she’s forced to assume the role of a noblewoman and enter a royal competition. The prize is the hand of the elusive crown prince. Elimination means certain death.

One week. Five contestants. One prince. A devastating decision. Before, she avoided elimination. Now, she must win. Chosen as one of the final five in the bride search, Ada has one last chance to find the golden lamp and save her family. Yet with Cyrus no longer her partner-in-crime, but her target, her plans unravel, tearing her between duty and desire. Now she has one week to pass three increasingly difficult tests fit for a queen.

Mary finds herself alone after the only person who understands her, who has helped groom her to leave and travel to the East to live as a proper white lady, suddenly dies of yellow jack fever, which threatens to kill everyone at the plantation who is white. Now alone, with nothing to lose, Mary sees her chance to escape. It is then she strikes up a friendship with a boy her age who wants freedom and a new life as much as she does. Canada is his goal.

The magical heralds emerged from the mist. I hadn’t thought they’d seen me, but before I knew it, I was tasked with choosing the guide for the next merlin in exchange for the ability to read. They didn’t even ask me if I wanted this! Now, all I had to do was survive. I didn’t know magic. I didn’t know how or even if I could carry out the herald’s task. But the one thing I did know was that I wanted to make a difference in the world. I became a healer. Then the herald’s prophecy started knocking on my door and my life became even more complicated.

3,000 is a collection of 28 short stories written over the course of 28 weeks. Each story is either told from a female perspective or features a woman as the main character.

You thought you knew the story of Cinderella...You were wrong. The kingdom needs an heir and Princess Charmaine is quite aware that the job rests solely upon her shoulders... As a servant in the castle kitchens, Cynder knows his place beneath the royals...When the two meet, sparks fly...and not just the magical kind.

If ever a whole town could be haunted, Devil's Moon, Kentucky would be that town. Ripley Van Raden, or Rip as her friends call her, has come back to her hometown to start her own ghost tour business. That's not her only career path, though. Librarian by day and ghost tour guide by night, Rip is ready to take on the ghosts following her around and the mysterious residents who show up for more than the tour in the Devil's Moon Cemetery.

Having been born into a life of wealth and privilege, Edith Wharton was part of the small clique of aristocratic families that held sway over New York City's social and cultural life at the turn of the nineteenth century. In The Age of Innocence, Wharton looks back fondly on the life that was enjoyed by the privileged class of the East Coast before the many changes wrought by World War I.

In a corrupted Cahraman, Ada is back on the streets, struggling to save her friends and the kingdom from the fallout of her devastating mistake. The only way to redeem herself is to put things back as they were, but that seems impossible when her enemy is all-powerful. When Cyrus and her friends escape, their reunion turns bittersweet as her part in Nariman’s takeover is exposed. Now that Cyrus no longer trusts her, there is only one thing that could fix everything: the lamp.

The dead want Ripley Van Raden’s attention. Two of Ripley Van Raden’s favorite things are books and ghosts. Not necessarily in that particular order. Rip, as her friends call her, guides people on a haunted tour through her hometown of Devil's Moon, Kentucky. Ripley is also a librarian by day. That’s where the books come in. Of course it’s no surprise that the library is haunted too. The ghost of the first librarian roams the stacks of Bilson Library, sending Ripley text messages and emails. That’s the only way the ghost knows how to communicate.

Sarah, Jonnie, and Katie, known as the Sunshine Mystery Magic Club in Brookhaven Middle School, certainly can’t afford a magic wand. That doesn’t mean they can’t make one. Right? But when they run into powers beyond their control and vanish, the special forces get called in to investigate who, or what, is behind this sudden magic in their neighborhood.

Welcome to Avalon, the gate to other worlds. Here, King Arthur, Merlin, and the evil enchantress Morgana Le Fey were real. They’re ancient history now, but the seeds of our government are based upon what they left behind. The wizard’s council makes sure the nobles, guilds, and clans play nice. Supporting them are the realm knights, sorcerers, and sorceresses of the realm.

After a very painful — and very public — divorce from her cheating football star husband, Kaley Kalua just wants some peace and privacy. Cramming only the essentials (clothes, shoes, and makeup) into her Prada duffel bag, Kaley returns to her hometown of Aloha Lagoon to manage her Aunt Rikki’s clothing shop, the Happy Hula Dress Boutique. A new job, new friends, and a change of scenery are just what she needs to turn her life around. It doesn’t hurt that Kaley’s handsome childhood best friend, Noa Kahele, has also moved back to the small resort town.

I opened my mouth at the absolute wrong time and declared I was High Lady Petra Abara of Gawain. Instead of spells and bullets, this war is being fought in the streets with words. If I am elevated, two of the top three nobles in Avalon would be women. The conservative faction in Chambers would like to plant me six feet under, or failing that, drop me into a ravine. Since they can’t do either, they are trying to dig up as much dirt as they can about me, then shout it in the streets. But what is truth can wander through the gray, and some people will believe what they want.

From USA Today best-selling author Anne Marie Stoddard comes a frighteningly fashionable mystery that asks the question: What do zombies, vampires, and beauty pageants have in common? They’re all about to make Kaley Kalua’s life a waking nightmare.

Have you ever wished you could run away and leave your life behind? Born on the "Day of the Wanderer," Lisa Dailey has always been filled with wanderlust. Although she and her husband had planned to take their family on a 'round-the-world adventure, she didn't expect their plans to come together on the heels of grief, after losing seven family members in five years.