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Left in charge of failing plantations at sixteen, Eliza Lucas refuses to accept ruin as her inheritance.
The Indigo Girl
Historical Fiction · Literary Fiction · Women's Fiction
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Left in charge of failing plantations at sixteen, Eliza Lucas refuses to accept ruin as her inheritance. In The Indigo Girl, she pursues the secret process of producing indigo dye in colonial South Carolina, risking reputation, fortune, and safety amid political unrest and slavery. This historical novel explores ambition, forbidden alliances, and the moral cost of building wealth in a world defined by constraint.
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In this incredible story of ambition, betrayal, and sacrifice, an extraordinary sixteen-year-old girl in Colonial South Carolina defies all expectations to achieve her dream.
The year is 1739. Eliza Lucas is sixteen years old when her father leaves her in charge of their family’s three plantations in rural South Carolina and then proceeds to bleed the estates dry in pursuit of his military ambitions. Tensions with the British, and with the Spanish in Florida, just a short way down the coast, are rising, and slaves are starting to become restless. Her mother wants nothing more than for their South Carolina endeavor to fail so they can go back to England. Soon her family is in danger of losing everything.
Upon hearing how much the French pay for indigo dye, Eliza believes it’s the key to their salvation. But everyone tells her it’s impossible, and no one will share the secret to making it. Thwarted at nearly every turn, even by her own family, Eliza finds that her only allies are an aging horticulturalist, an older and married gentleman lawyer, and a slave with whom she strikes a dangerous deal: teach her the intricate thousand-year-old secret process of making indigo dye and in return—against the laws of the day—she will teach the slaves to read.
So begins an incredible story of love, dangerous and hidden friendships, ambition, betrayal, and sacrifice.
Based on historical documents, including Eliza’s letters, this is a historical fiction account of how a teenage girl produced indigo dye, which became one of the largest exports out of South Carolina, an export that laid the foundation for the incredible wealth of several Southern families who still live on today. Although largely overlooked by historians, the accomplishments of Eliza Lucas influenced the course of US history. When she passed away in 1793, President George Washington served as a pallbearer at her funeral.
This book is set between 1739 and 1744, with romance, intrigue, forbidden friendships, and political and financial threats weaving together to form the story of a remarkable young woman whose actions were before their time: the story of the indigo girl.
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A fun fit for readers who like queer romantic fantasy with amateur magic, cursed clients, murder, and chaotic humor.
An Amateur Witch’s Guide to Murder
LGBTQIA+ · Gay Romance · Paranormal Romance
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Mateo needs money for an exorcism, so he starts posing as an Occult Specialist despite his shaky magic and the demon trapped inside him. When a cursed rich client pulls him into a deadly magical conspiracy, every spell makes the demon stronger, with a 4.4-star rating from more than 50 Amazon reviewers. A fun fit for readers who like queer romantic fantasy with amateur magic, cursed clients, murder, and chaotic humor.
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A wannabe witch tries to break a curse on a clueless client in this laugh-out-loud debut, for fans of queer romantic fantasy by T. J. Klune and Tamsyn Muir.
Mateo Borrero has 99 problems—and all of them hinge on his missing bruja mother and the demon she trapped inside his body.
Mateo's mother forbade him from ever using magic, but now that she’s gone, magic’s his only marketable skill, and he’d really like an exorcism—which costs money he doesn’t have. What’s the harm in making a quick buck by calling himself an Occult Specialist and chanting a few half-remembered spells in his crappy Spanish?
Enter Topher, a naive nepo baby with a curse that keeps killing people around him. Most importantly, he’s rich and too clueless to clock that Mateo—and his (absolutely-not-the-assistant) astral projecting best friend Ophelia—have never actually had a client before. Lifting Topher’s bad luck curse should be simple, but as luck would have it, nothing is simple, and Topher–who Mateo sort of, kind of likes–might be at the center of a deadly magical conspiracy.
To make matters worse, the more magic Mateo does, the stronger the demon inside him grows and the more he wants to eat people. But would caving to the urges of an ancient evil really be that bad if it helps him get a payday?
Legends and Lattes meets A Grim Reaper’s Guide to Catching a Killer in this hilarious and charming queer romantic fantasy readers won’t want to miss.
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In a glamorous Greenwich Village loft shaped by art and excess, a young girl grows up without boundaries or a stable sense of self.
Everything/Nothing/Someone
Biographies & Memoirs
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In a glamorous Greenwich Village loft shaped by art and excess, a young girl grows up without boundaries or a stable sense of self. In Everything/Nothing/Someone, Alice Carrière traces her descent into dissociation, overmedication, and fractured identities as she searches for solid ground. This intimate memoir examines neglect, mental illness, and the fragile process of reclaiming identity through love and hard-won self recognition.
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New York Times Editor’s Choice * Indie Next Pick * Publishers Weekly Best Nonfiction 2023 * Kirkus Best Nonfiction 2023 * Amazon Best of the Month * B&N Most Anticipated * Jennette McCurdy Book Club Pick
A “remarkable” (New York Times Book Review) memoir that tells of a young woman’s coming-of-age amid glamour, excess, and neglect, and the love affair that, against the odds, allows her to save herself.
Alice Carrière grew up in a converted factory in Greenwich Village in the 1990s, an extravagant home based on the hyper-aestheticized vision of her artist mother, Jennifer Bartlett—with two studios, an indoor swimming pool, a rooftop garden with a koi pond, and multiple, cavernous rooms through which a steady stream of visitors flowed. Alice’s iconoclastic European father was a fleeting, atmospheric disturbance.
Alice grows up as a child living in an adult’s world, with little-to-no boundaries or supervision. As she enters adolescence, a dissociative disorder erases her identity, and overzealous doctors medicate her further into madness. In the absence of self, she inhabits various roles: as a patient in expensive psychiatric hospitals, the ingenue in destructive encounters with older men, a provocateur who weaponizes intellectual dazzle and outrageous candor—until a medication-induced psychosis brings these personas crashing down. Finally, a soulful connection with a generous and sensitive musician allows her to free herself from the pathologies that defined her and recognize her true self. With gallows humor and brutal honesty, Carrière has written a unique and mesmerizing narrative of emergence and, at last, cure.
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When a supposed suicide exposes a hidden pattern of disappearances, Sergeant Nicky Matthews senses something far darker in Hearts of the Missing.
Hearts of the Missing
Mystery · Police Procedural
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When a supposed suicide exposes a hidden pattern of disappearances, Sergeant Nicky Matthews senses something far darker in Hearts of the Missing. Assigned to investigate, she uncovers a killer targeting members of the Fire-Sky tribe because of their ancestry, threatening both the living and the spirits of the dead. As pressure mounts from every side, this mystery confronts justice, loyalty, and cultural survival.
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When an outside evil preys on the people she's charged to protect, will she sacrifice everything to keep them safe?
Members of the Fire-Sky tribe have disappeared with a trace, but no one takes notice except a young woman who turns up dead by suicide. Pueblo Police Sergeant Nicky Matthews is assigned to the case but nothing adds up ... until the suicide becomes a murder to hide the trail of a killer connected to dozens of missing tribe members.
As Nicky delves deeper, she discovers a chilling threat that strikes at the very heart of what it means to be Fire-Sky: the missing were murdered because of ancestry, and, in a vengeful twist, the killer ensures the spirits of those taken will wander forever, lost to their People.
With a hostile captain, interference by a politically powerful ex-lover, and a burgeoning relationship with an undercover agent investigating the murders, Nicky doesn't know who she can trust. And when those closest to her are put in jeopardy, Nicky must be willing to sacrifice everything to save the people she loves.
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In a near future shaped by climate collapse, age becomes a crime in The Forcing.
The Forcing
Dystopian · Mystery · Thriller · Suspense
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In a near future shaped by climate collapse, age becomes a crime in The Forcing. When a youth-led government exiles older citizens to the southern deserts, David Ashworth and his wife are stripped of their home and forced into a brutal new reality. As rumors of sanctuary spark a desperate escape, survival demands moral compromise in this stark, unsettling climate thriller.
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In a near future, where civilisation has collapsed, a government of youth has taken power in North America. All older people deemed responsible for the cataclysmic climate emergency are relocated, but a breakaway group escapes exile to seek freedom … at devastating cost…
'The dystopian future landscape of The Forcing comes with a heightened realism that grips and shakes you … provocative and insightful, visceral and terrifying' SciFi Now Book of the Month
' A superbly handled tale of struggle and survival in a maimed world' The Times
'Smart, gripping, and all too plausible … announces Paul E. Hardisty as the true heir to John Christopher' Tim Glister
The jaw-dropping, passionate and provocative climate-emergency thriller from one of the world's leading environmental scientists.
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Civilisation is collapsing…
Frustrated and angry after years of denial and inaction, in a last-ditch attempt to stave off disaster, a government of youth has taken power in North America, and a policy of institutionalised ageism has been introduced. All those older than the prescribed age are deemed responsible for the current state of the world, and are to be 'relocated', their property and assets confiscated.
David Ashworth, known by his friends and students as Teacher, and his wife May, find themselves among the thousands being moved to 'new accommodation' in the abandoned southern deserts – thrown together with a wealthy industrialist and his wife, a high court lawyer, two recent immigrants to America, and a hospital worker. Together, they must come to terms with their new lives in a land rendered unrecognisable.
As the terrible truth of their situation is revealed, lured by rumours of a tropical sanctuary where they can live in peace, they plan a perilous escape. But the world outside is more dangerous than they could ever have imagined. And for those who survive, nothing will ever be the same again…
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A playful bet to date a good guy brings her face to face with the one who once got away in The Good Guy Challenge.
The Good Guy Challenge
Romance · RomCom · Sports Romance
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A playful bet to date a good guy brings her face to face with the one who once got away in The Good Guy Challenge. Ellie agrees to fake date pro football star Gabe Clements for a week, expecting something safe and predictable. Instead, their pretend relationship reignites old feelings and sparks undeniable heat in this steamy, second chance sports romance.
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Fake real dating the one who got away? Sign me up…
There’s just something about bad boys. Tattoos and leather jackets, am I right?
Trouble is, my last boyfriend was a teensy bit too bad and now he’s in prison. Yikes.
When my friends challenge me to take a dip in the good guy side of the dating pool, I see their dating bet and I raise it, looking up the guy I crushed on growing up.
With a winning grin and heart of gold, Gabe Clements is now the star receiver for a pro football team.
Except, the supposed good guy turns out to be nothing like I imagined. He’s better. He’s growly, possessive, smoldering.
And he’s determined too. At the end of the night, he asks me to be his fake real girlfriend for the rest of the week.
Sounds like my kind of dating challenge since he’s a good guy by day, and a very dirty man after dark.
I’ll cure my bad boy blues in no time.
Well, as long as I don’t fall for Gabe’s big heart too.
The Good Guy Challenge is Gabe and Ellie's romance. It's a standalone romance in The Dating Games series! You'll also enjoy The Virgin Next Door!
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Magic is both her salvation and her slow undoing in The Moorwitch.
The Moorwitch
Romantasy · Historical Fantasy
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Magic is both her salvation and her slow undoing in The Moorwitch. Rose Pryor, a gifted Weaver bound by a dangerous fae bargain, must pose as a governess on the Scottish moors to uncover a hidden gateway to Faerie before her power dies. Torn between a controlling fae handler and a guarded young laird, she faces a choice between survival and love in this gothic romantic fantasy
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In this sweeping romantic fantasy from bestselling author Jessica Khoury, a young witch caught in a twisted bargain with the fae must disguise herself as a governess and uncover the gateway to the realm of faerie in order to save her dying magic and escape the clutches of her controlling fae handler—even as she finds herself falling for her new employer, an enigmatic young Scottish laird and the owner of a crumbling estate brimming with secrets.
Rose Pryor has sacrificed everything for magic. As a Weaver skilled in the craft of spinning spells with thread and needle, she’s always chosen magic over love, and it was magic that brought her to Lachlan, the fae with whom Rose once struck a sinister deal in order to escape her abusive home. After years of running from her past, Rose has finally managed to build a new life for herself as a teacher in a school for young Weavers. But Rose has a secret: Her magic is waning, and every spell she weaves to train her students is slowly killing her.
When Lachlan returns to collect the debt Rose owes him, she finds herself on a perilous journey to the Scottish moors where she must find him an ancient gateway to the realm of the fae, lest her precious magic be forfeit. But when her quest pits her against Conrad, a young laird with a soul as lonely as her own who hires Rose to work as a governess for his rebellious young sister, Rose finds herself torn between her promise to Lachlan and her budding feelings for her new employer as her search for the gateway puts both her magic and her heart at stake.
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The Black Prism turns power into a ticking clock, where magic, empire, and family secrets threaten to fracture a fragile peace.
The Black Prism
Fantasy · Epic Fantasy · Fantasy Adventure · Grim Dark
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The Black Prism turns power into a ticking clock, where magic, empire, and family secrets threaten to fracture a fragile peace. Gavin Guile rules as the Prism, a man whose brilliance keeps nations from collapsing, but the discovery of a hidden son forces him into a conflict no spell can simplify. This is epic fantasy built on political pressure, controlled magic, and dangerous legacy.
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In a world where magic is tightly controlled, the most powerful man in history must choose between his kingdom and his son in the first book in the epic NYT bestselling Lightbringer series.
Guile is the Prism. He is high priest and emperor, a man whose power, wit, and charm are all that preserves a tenuous peace. Yet Prisms never last, and Guile knows exactly how long he has left to live.
When Guile discovers he has a son, born in a far kingdom after the war that put him in power, he must decide how much he's willing to pay to protect a secret that could tear his world apart.
If you loved the action and adventure of the Night Angel trilogy, you will devour this incredible epic fantasy series by Brent Weeks.
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Behind enemy lines, survival becomes the only certainty.
The Long Patrol
Historical Fiction · Thriller · War Fiction
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Behind enemy lines, survival becomes the only certainty. In The Long Patrol, a handpicked Army unit during the battle for Guadalcanal ventures into the jungle to arm and train a guerrilla force, only to find themselves cut off and hunted. As casualties mount and loyalties fracture, this World War II novel follows soldiers forced to confront isolation, betrayal, and the cost of holding the line.
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During the bloody battle for Guadalcanal, one Army unit’s mission to infiltrate enemy lines to arm and train a guerrilla force of natives goes horribly wrong. The 164th Regiment of the Army 'Americal' Division has come to reinforce the beleaguered 1st Marine Division, which has been fighting the Japanese for months. It will be the Division’s first combat test, as well as its bloodiest. The fighting has come to a standstill with neither side giving ground.
The 164th is desperate to break the stalemate and the mounting casualties. Their possible solution comes in the form of a British Coast Watcher. Thomas Welch offers to take a small unit into the jungle to meet up with a force of natives to instigate a guerrilla war against the Japanese rear. A unit from Able Company is selected for the job. Each man’s been battle-tested, defending Henderson field from hordes of attacking Japanese.
The mission goes badly from the outset and the unit is cut off and desperate to continue their mission. As the battle for Guadalcanal rages, their mission changes. As more men fall, the likelihood of completing it is slipping away. Alone, hurt and betrayed, they find themselves as the only soldiers able to deliver victory from the jaws of defeat.
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A young woman vanishes in 1799 Manhattan, and her death ignites a trial that will reshape a nation’s rivals.
The Girl from Greenwich Street
Thriller · Mystery · Historical Thriller
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A young woman vanishes in 1799 Manhattan, and her death ignites a trial that will reshape a nation’s rivals. In The Girl from Greenwich Street, the real-life murder of Elma Sands draws Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr into an uneasy alliance as they defend the accused. Blending courtroom drama with political intrigue, this historical novel explores ambition, reputation, and justice at America’s uneasy dawn.
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“This is historical fiction at its best.” —Book Reporter
Based on the true story of a famous trial, this gripping historical mystery is Law and Order: 1800, as Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr investigate the shocking murder of a young woman who everyone—and no one—seemed to know.
At the start of a new century, a shocking murder in 1800s New York transfixes Manhattan, forcing bitter rivals Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr to work together to save a man from the gallows.
Just before Christmas 1799, Elma Sands slips out of her Quaker cousin’s boarding house—and doesn’t come home. Has she eloped? Run away? No one knows—until her body appears in the Manhattan Well.
Her family insists they know who killed her. Handbills circulate around the city accusing a carpenter named Levi Weeks of seducing and murdering Elma.
But privately, quietly, Levi’s wealthy brother calls in a special favor….
Aaron Burr’s legal practice can’t finance both his expensive tastes and his ambition to win the 1800 New York elections. To defend Levi Weeks is a double win: a hefty fee plus a chance to grab headlines.
Alexander Hamilton has his own political aspirations; he isn’t going to let Burr monopolize the public’s attention. If Burr is defending Levi Weeks, then Hamilton will too. As the trial and the election draw near, Burr and Hamilton race against time to save a man’s life—and destroy each other.
Part murder mystery, part political thriller, part true crime, The Girl From Greenwich Street revisits a dark corner of history—with a surprising twist ending that reveals the true story of the woman at the center of the tale.
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An instant New York Times bestseller called “a tour de force of original thought, imagination and promise” by the Houston Chronicle, The Exiles follows women whose lives become…
The Exiles
Literary Fiction · Historical Fiction
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An instant New York Times bestseller called “a tour de force of original thought, imagination and promise” by the Houston Chronicle, The Exiles follows women whose lives become bound together amid imprisonment, transportation, and hardship in nineteenth-century Australia, with a 4.4-star rating from more than 12,000 Amazon reviewers. A good pick for historical fiction readers interested in women’s experiences, penal colonies, survival, and colonial Australia.
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AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
OPTIONED FOR TELEVISION BY BRUNA PAPANDREA, THE PRODUCER OF HBO'S BIG LITTLE LIES
“A tour de force of original thought, imagination and promise … Kline takes full advantage of fiction — its freedom to create compelling characters who fully illuminate monumental events to make history accessible and forever etched in our minds." — Houston Chronicle
The author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Orphan Train returns with an ambitious, emotionally resonant work of historical fiction about three women whose lives are bound together in nineteenth-century Australia and the hardships they weather together as they fight for redemption and freedom in a new society.
Seduced by her employer’s son, Evangeline, a naïve young governess in early nineteenth-century London, is discharged when her pregnancy is discovered and sent to the notorious Newgate Prison. After months in the fetid, overcrowded jail, she learns she is sentenced to “the land beyond the seas,” Van Diemen’s Land, a brutal British penal colony in Australia. Though uncertain of what awaits, Evangeline knows one thing: the child she carries will be born on the months-long voyage to this distant land.
During the journey on a repurposed slave ship, the Medea, Evangeline strikes up a friendship with Hazel, a girl little older than her former pupils who was sentenced to seven years transport for stealing a silver spoon. Canny where Evangeline is guileless, Hazel—a skilled midwife and herbalist—is soon offering home remedies to both prisoners and sailors in this powerful story of survival.
Though Australia has been home to Aboriginal people for more than 50,000 years, the British government in the 1840s considers its fledgling colony uninhabited and unsettled, and views the natives as an unpleasant nuisance. By the time the Medea arrives, many of them have been forcibly relocated, their land seized by white colonists. One of these relocated people is Mathinna, the orphaned daughter of the Chief of the Lowreenne tribe, who has been adopted by the new governor of Van Diemen’s Land.
In this gorgeous novel, Christina Baker Kline brilliantly recreates the beginnings of a new society in a beautiful and challenging land, telling the story of Australia from a fresh perspective, through the experiences of Evangeline, Hazel, and Mathinna. While life in Australia is punishing and often brutally unfair, it is also, for some, an opportunity: for redemption, for a new way of life, for unimagined freedom. Told in exquisite detail and incisive prose, The Exiles is a story of grace born from hardship, the unbreakable bonds of female friendships, and the unfettering of legacy.
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Ninety percent of humanity has become something feral, and the last line of defense waits alone in a bunker for orders that may never come.
The Remaining
Dystopian · Military Sci-Fi
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Ninety percent of humanity has become something feral, and the last line of defense waits alone in a bunker for orders that may never come. In The Remaining, Captain Lee Harden emerges into a devastated America ruled by hyper-aggressive survivors and collapsing systems. This post-apocalyptic thriller follows one soldier’s mission to restore structure in a world stripped to violence and survival.
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The first volume in D.J. Molles's bestselling series, now in a special edition with the bonus novella The Remaining: Faith.
In a steel-and-lead encased bunker a Special Forces soldier waits on his final orders.
On the surface a bacterium has turned 90% of the population into hyper-aggressive predators.
Now Captain Lee Harden must leave the bunker and venture into the wasteland to rekindle a shattered America.
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