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Three years after a failed uprising, rebels face crushing rule, internal betrayal, and near unstoppable enemies.
The Shadow Casket
Fantasy · Epic Fantasy · Historical Fantasy · Sword and Sorcery
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Three years after a failed uprising, rebels face crushing rule, internal betrayal, and near unstoppable enemies. As revolution falters, a long lost weapon resurfaces with the power to change everything or destroy what little hope remains. The Shadow Casket is an epic fantasy of rebellion, sacrifice, and dangerous power from Chris Wooding.
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A BAND OF REBELS.
A TRAITOR IN THEIR MIDST.
A REVOLUTION ABOUT TO BEGIN.
It's been three years since Aren seized the Ember Blade. Three years since they struck the spark they hoped would ignite the revolution. But the flame has failed to catch. The Krodans have crushed Ossia in an iron grip of terror. The revolution seems further away than ever.
Far in the north, the Dawnwardens seek to unite the fractious clans of the Fell Folk and create a stronghold from which to retake their land. But even if they can overcome the danger of treachery from within, they still have to contend with the dreadknights. Only the druidess Vika can resist these near-unstoppable foes, and there's only one of her.
But what if there was a weapon that could destroy the dreadknights? A weapon of such power it could turn the tide? A weapon that, if it fell into the wrong hands, might mean the end of all hope?
The Shadow Casket has returned from out of the past, and it will save or damn them all.
'The Ember Blade is Lord of the Rings for the modern generation - an epic world full of history, depth and adventure' Ed McDonald, author of Daughter of Redwinter
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In 1901 Oxford, apprentice bookbinder Lilian Delaney uncovers a hidden letter inside a burned book that hints at forbidden love and murder.
The Bookbinder’s Secret
Fantasy · Historical Fantasy
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In 1901 Oxford, apprentice bookbinder Lilian Delaney uncovers a hidden letter inside a burned book that hints at forbidden love and murder. As she hunts for the remaining pages across London, rivals emerge and danger mounts. The Bookbinder’s Secret is a gripping historical mystery about obsession and hidden truths.
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Every book tells a story. This one tells a secret.
A young bookbinder begins a hunt for the truth when a confession hidden beneath the binding of a burned book reveals a story of forbidden love, lost fortune, and murder.
Lilian ("Lily") Delaney, apprentice to a master bookbinder in Oxford in 1901, chafes at the confines of her life. She is trapped between the oppressiveness of her father’s failing bookshop and still being an apprentice in a man’s profession. But when she’s given a burned book during a visit to a collector, she finds, hidden beneath the binding, a fifty-year-old letter speaking of love, fortune, and murder.
Lily is pulled into the mystery of the young lovers, a story of forbidden love, and discovers there are more books and more hidden pages telling their story. Lilian becomes obsessed with the story but she is not the only one looking for the remaining books and what began as a diverting intrigue quickly becomes a very dangerous pursuit.
Lily's search leads her from the eccentric booksellers of London to the private libraries of unscrupulous collectors and the dusty archives of society papers, deep into the heart of the mystery. But with sinister forces closing in, willing to do anything for the books, Lilian’s world begins to fall apart and she must decide if uncovering the truth is worth the risk to her own life.
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Ravenna Maffei hides forbidden magic in a city that would destroy her for it.
Graceless Heart
Fantasy · Historical Fantasy
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Ravenna Maffei hides forbidden magic in a city that would destroy her for it. When she is captured by Florence’s ruling immortals, survival means serving their most dangerous heir. As war against magic looms, Ravenna must navigate desire, captivity, and power that could reshape the world. Graceless Heart is a sweeping adult fantasy from a #1 New York Times bestselling author.
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#1 New York Times bestseller Isabel Ibañez in her adult debut: a gorgeous, historical, and romantic fantasy that will leave readers breathless for more!
She was never meant to be seen. Now she’s a weapon the world can’t ignore.
As a sculptress, Ravenna Maffei has always shaped beauty from stone but she has a terrible secret. Desperate to save her brother, she enters a competition hosted by Florence’s most feared immortal family, revealing a dark power in a city where magic is forbidden.
Now a captive in the cutthroat city of Florence, Ravenna is forced into a dangerous task where failure meets certain death at the hands of Saturnino dei Luni, the immortal family's mesmerizing but merciless heir. But as he draws her closer, Ravenna realizes the true threat lies beyond Florence’s walls.
The Pope’s war against magic is closing in, and Ravenna is no longer just a prisoner but a prize to be claimed. As trusting the wrong person becomes lethal, Ravenna must survive the treacherous line between a pope's obsession and the seductive immortal who might be the end of her — or surrender her power to a city on the brink of war.
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In The Wolf and the Woodsman, exile and survival give way to a bond neither character can afford to trust.
The Wolf and the Woodsman
Fantasy · Teen + Young Adult · Dark Fantasy · Epic Fantasy · Historical Fantasy
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In The Wolf and the Woodsman, exile and survival give way to a bond neither character can afford to trust. After Évike is surrendered for a king’s sacrifice, she is forced into an uneasy alliance with a disgraced captain whose fate is tied to her own. This is historical fantasy steeped in folklore, political tension, hidden magic, and a slow-burn romance shaped by betrayal and belonging.
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In the vein of Naomi Novik’s New York Times bestseller Spinning Silver and Katherine Arden’s national bestseller The Bear and the Nightingale, this unforgettable debut— inspired by Hungarian history and Jewish mythology—follows a young pagan woman with hidden powers and a one-eyed captain of the Woodsmen as they form an unlikely alliance to thwart a tyrant.
In her forest-veiled pagan village, Évike is the only woman without power, making her an outcast clearly abandoned by the gods. The
villagers blame her corrupted bloodline—her father was a Yehuli man, one of the much-loathed servants of the fanatical king. When soldiers arrive from the Holy Order of Woodsmen to claim a pagan girl for the king’s blood sacrifice, Évike is betrayed by her fellow villagers and surrendered.
But when monsters attack the Woodsmen and their captive en route, slaughtering everyone but Évike and the cold, one-eyed captain, they
have no choice but to rely on each other. Except he’s no ordinary Woodsman—he’s the disgraced prince, Gáspár Bárány, whose father needs pagan magic to consolidate his power. Gáspár fears that his cruelly zealous brother plans to seize the throne and instigate a violent reign that would damn the pagans and the Yehuli alike. As the son of a reviled foreign queen, Gáspár understands what it’s like to be an outcast, and he and Évike make a tenuous pact to stop his brother.
As their mission takes them from the bitter northern tundra to the smog-choked capital, their mutual loathing slowly turns to affection,
bound by a shared history of alienation and oppression. However, trust can easily turn to betrayal, and as Évike reconnects with her estranged father and discovers her own hidden magic, she and Gáspár need to decide whose side they’re on, and what they’re willing to give up for a nation that never cared for them at all.
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Thistlefoot is a lyrical modern fairy tale about estranged siblings, inherited magic, and the weight of memory.
Thistlefoot
Fantasy · Historical Fantasy
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Thistlefoot is a lyrical modern fairy tale about estranged siblings, inherited magic, and the weight of memory. When Bellatine and Isaac inherit a sentient house on chicken legs, they’re pulled into a cross-country journey shaped by Jewish folklore, family trauma, and a relentless shadow from the past. Tender, strange, and quietly devastating.
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In the tradition of modern fairy tales like Naomi Novik's Spinning Silver comes an immersive fantasy saga, a debut novel about estranged siblings who are reunited after receiving a mysterious inheritance.
“A wonderfully imaginative, wholly enchanting novel of witness, survival, memory, and family that reads like a fairy tale godfathered by Tim Burton in a wild America alive with wonders and devils alike. Thistlefoot shimmers with magic and mayhem and a thrilling emotional momentum.” —Libba Bray, bestselling author of The Diviners
The Yaga siblings—Bellatine, a young woodworker, and Isaac, a wayfaring street performer and con artist—have been estranged since childhood, separated both by resentment and by wide miles of American highway. But when they learn that they are to receive an inheritance, the siblings agree to meet—only to discover that their bequest isn’t land or money, but something far stranger: a sentient house on chicken legs.
Thistlefoot, as the house is called, has arrived from the Yagas’ ancestral home outside Kyiv—but not alone. A sinister figure known only as the Longshadow Man has tracked it to American shores, bearing with him violent secrets from the past: fiery memories that have hidden in Isaac and Bellatine’s blood for generations. As the Yaga siblings embark with Thistlefoot on a final cross-country tour of their family’s traveling theater show, the Longshadow Man follows in relentless pursuit, seeding destruction in his wake. Ultimately, time, magic, and legacy must collide—erupting in a powerful conflagration to determine who gets to remember the past and craft a new future.
An enchanted adventure illuminated by Jewish myth and adorned with lyrical prose as tantalizing and sweet as briar berries, Thistlefoot is a sweeping epic rich in Eastern European folklore: a powerful and poignant exploration of healing from multi-generational trauma told by a bold new talent.
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The Book of Gothel tells the origin story behind Rapunzel’s tower, centering the witch history forgot.
The Book of Gothel
Fantasy · Historical Fantasy
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The Book of Gothel tells the origin story behind Rapunzel’s tower, centering the witch history forgot. Set in medieval Germany, it follows Haelewise as she finds refuge, forbidden magic, and hard-won power among women surviving church control and noble cruelty. Lush, feminist, and quietly fierce, it explores how history becomes myth—and who gets blamed.
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Everyone knows the story of Rapunzel in her tower, but do you know the story of the witch who put her there? Mary McMyne's spellbinding debut, rich with historical detail and forbidden magic, reveals the truth behind the fairy tales—the truth only a witch could tell.
"Smart, swift, sure-footed and fleet-winged, The Book of Gothel launches its magic from a most reliable source: the troubled heart. Mary McMyne is a magician."—Gregory Maguire, NYT bestselling author of Wicked
Germany, 1156. With her strange black eyes and even stranger fainting spells, young Haelewise has never quite fit in. Shunned by her village, her only solace lies in the stories her mother tells of child-stealing witches, of princes in wolf-skins, and of an ancient tower cloaked in mist, where women will find shelter if they are brave enough to seek it.
When her mother dies, Haelewise is left unmoored. With nothing left for her in her village, she sets out to find the legendary tower her mother spoke of—a place called Gothel, where she meets a wise woman willing to take Haelewise under her wing. There, she discovers that magic is found not only in the realm of fairy tales.
But Haelewise is not the only woman to seek refuge at Gothel. It's also a haven for a girl named Rika, who carries with her a secret the church strives to keep hidden. A secret that reveals a dark world of ancient spells and murderous nobles, behind the world Haelewise has always known.
Praise for The Book of Gothel:
"A sprawling epic, full of magic, love, and heartbreak." —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"A luscious origin story." —Booklist (starred review)
"A sweeping, sharp story of how history twists into fairy tales and back again." —Hannah Whitten, New York Times bestselling author
"Sparkles with the intermingled magic of gods and goddesses, seers and wise women." —Louisa Morgan, author of A Secret History of Witches
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A single strange gift opens the door to a relationship shaped by mystery, quiet longing, and forces that never fully explain themselves.
The Watchmaker of Filigree Street
Fantasy · LGBTQIA+ · Historical Fantasy · Steampunk
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A single strange gift opens the door to a relationship shaped by mystery, quiet longing, and forces that never fully explain themselves. In The Watchmaker of Filigree Street, Thaniel Steepleton follows an impossible pocket watch to Keita Mori, a watchmaker whose hidden knowledge begins to unsettle everything around him. This historical fantasy with steampunk touches blends magic, intellect, and emotional restraint into an atmospheric, intricately layered story.
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For readers of Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, an enchanting, bestselling novel that sweeps readers into a magical Victorian London inhabited by a clockwork octopus and a mysterious watchmaker who is not at all what he first appears.
1883. Thaniel Steepleton returns home to his tiny London apartment to find a gold pocket watch on his pillow. Six months later, the mysterious timepiece saves his life, drawing him away from a blast that destroys Scotland Yard. At last, he goes in search of its maker, Keita Mori, a kind, lonely immigrant from Japan. Although Mori seems harmless, a chain of unexplainable events soon suggests he must be hiding something. When Grace Carrow, an Oxford physicist, unwittingly interferes, Thaniel is torn between opposing loyalties.
The Watchmaker of Filigree Street is a sweeping, atmospheric narrative that takes the reader on an unexpected journey through Victorian London, Japan as its civil war crumbles long-standing traditions, and beyond. Blending historical events with dazzling flights of fancy, it opens doors to a strange and magical past.
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Good for readers who want epic historical fantasy with steampunk elements, political danger, and magic tied to bloodlines.
Cold Magic
Fantasy · Epic Fantasy · Fantasy Adventure · Historical Fantasy · Steampunk
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Cold Magic follows Cat and Bee, two young women caught between science, industry, family secrets, and the old magic that still rules their world, with a 3.7-star average from more than 9,300 Goodreads ratings. Good for readers who want epic historical fantasy with steampunk elements, political danger, and magic tied to bloodlines.
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From one of the genre's finest writers comes a bold new epic fantasy in which science and magic are locked in a deadly struggle.
It is the dawn of a new age. . . The Industrial Revolution has begun, factories are springing up across the country, and new technologies are transforming in the cities. But the old ways do not die easy.
Cat and Bee are part of this revolution. Young women at college, learning of the science that will shape their future and ignorant of the magics that rule their families. But all of that will change when the Cold Mages come for Cat. New dangers lurk around every corner and hidden threats menace her every move. If blood can't be trusted, who can you trust?
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A city on the edge of catastrophe becomes even more volatile when the one person who can protect it is forced into hiding.
Breath of Earth
Fantasy · LGBTQIA+ · Historical Fantasy · Steampunk
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A city on the edge of catastrophe becomes even more volatile when the one person who can protect it is forced into hiding. In Breath of Earth, Ingrid Carmichael must outrun assassins, political unrest, and the threat of a devastating earthquake while reckoning with the true scale of her geomantic power. This steampunk historical fantasy blends elemental magic, alternate history, and mounting geopolitical tension with a sweeping, dangerous atmosphere.
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After the earth’s power under her city is suddenly left unprotected, a young geomancer must rely on her unique magic to survive in this fresh fantasy standalone from the author of the acclaimed The Clockwork Dagger.
In an alternate 1906, the United States and Japan have forged a powerful confederation— the Unified Pacific—in an attempt to dominate the world. Their first target is a vulnerable China. In San Francisco, headstrong secretary Ingrid Carmichael is assisting a group of powerful geomancer wardens who have no idea of the depth of her own talent—or that she is the only woman to possess such skills.
When assassins kill the wardens, Ingrid and her mentor are protected by her incredible magic. But the pair is far from safe. Without its full force of guardian geomancers, the city is on the brink of a cataclysmic earthquake that will expose the earth’s power to masterminds determined to control the energy for their own dark ends. The danger escalates when Chinese refugees, preparing to fight the encroaching American and Japanese forces, fracture the uneasy alliance between the Pacific allies, transforming San Francisco into a veritable powder keg. And the slightest tremor will set it off. . . .
Forced on the run, Ingrid makes some shocking discoveries about herself. Her already considerable magic has grown even more fearsome . . . and she may be the fulcrum on which the balance of world power rests.
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A ruined city sealed behind walls becomes even more dangerous when a son disappears into the heart of it.
Boneshaker
Steampunk · Fantasy · Historical Fantasy
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A ruined city sealed behind walls becomes even more dangerous when a son disappears into the heart of it. In Boneshaker, Briar Wilkes enters a poisoned, undead-filled Seattle to bring Ezekiel home, facing the fallout of one catastrophic invention and the history tied to her family’s name. This steampunk adventure blends survival, horror, and alternate history with a grim, propulsive atmosphere.
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In the early days of the Civil War, rumors of gold in the frozen Klondike brought hordes of newcomers to the Pacific Northwest. Anxious to compete, Russian prospectors commissioned inventor Leviticus Blue to create a great machine that could mine through Alaska's ice. Thus was Dr. Blue's Incredible Bone-Shaking Drill Engine born.
But on its first test run the Boneshaker went terribly awry, destroying several blocks of downtown Seattle and unearthing a subterranean vein of blight gas that turned anyone who breathed it into the living dead.
Now it is sixteen years later, and a wall has been built to enclose the devastated and toxic city. Just beyond it lives Blue's widow, Briar Wilkes. Life is hard with a ruined reputation and a teenaged boy to support, but she and Ezekiel are managing. Until Ezekiel undertakes a secret crusade to rewrite history.
His quest will take him under the wall and into a city teeming with ravenous undead, air pirates, criminal overlords, and heavily armed refugees. And only Briar can bring him out alive.
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A good pick for readers who like whimsical magical training, inventive spellcraft, and darker danger beneath a charming fantasy world.
The Paper Magician
Teen + Young Adult · Fantasy · Epic Fantasy · Historical Fantasy
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Called “a vibrant writer with an excellent voice and great world building” by Brandon Sanderson, The Paper Magician follows Ceony Twill, a top graduate reluctantly apprenticed to paper magician Emery Thane, as she discovers the possibilities of paper magic and confronts a practitioner of forbidden flesh magic to save him, with a 4.1-star rating from more than 28,900 Amazon reviewers. A good pick for readers who like whimsical magical training, inventive spellcraft, and darker danger beneath a charming fantasy world.
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“Charlie is a vibrant writer with an excellent voice and great world building. I thoroughly enjoyed the Paper Magician.” —Brandon Sanderson, author of Mistborn and The Way of Kings
Ceony Twill arrives at the cottage of Magician Emery Thane with a broken heart. Having graduated at the top of her class from the Tagis Praff School for the Magically Inclined, Ceony is assigned an apprenticeship in paper magic despite her dreams of bespelling metal. And once she’s bonded to paper, that will be her only magic…forever.
Yet the spells Ceony learns under the strange yet kind Thane turn out to be more marvelous than she could have ever imagined—animating paper creatures, bringing stories to life via ghostly images, even reading fortunes. But as she discovers these wonders, Ceony also learns of the extraordinary dangers of forbidden magic.
An Excisioner—a practitioner of dark, flesh magic—invades the cottage and rips Thane’s heart from his chest. To save her teacher’s life, Ceony must face the evil magician and embark on an unbelievable adventure that will take her into the chambers of Thane’s still-beating heart—and reveal the very soul of the man.
From the imaginative mind of debut author Charlie N. Holmberg, The Paper Magician is an extraordinary adventure both dark and whimsical that will delight readers of all ages.
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As Aline nears the throne, Falcio val Mond believes the dream of law restored is finally within reach.
Tyrant’s Throne
Fantasy · Epic Fantasy · Fantasy Adventure · Historical Fantasy
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As Aline nears the throne, Falcio val Mond believes the dream of law restored is finally within reach. But a rising warlord, an old enemy, and a new claimant threaten to tear Tristia apart. Racing north with the Greatcoats, Falcio must decide what justice demands when loyalty and love are the cost. Tyrant’s Throne delivers a powerful conclusion to Sebastien de Castell’s acclaimed epic fantasy series.
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Would you - could you? - uphold the law at the cost of those you love?
Falcio val Mond, First Cantor of the Greatcoats, is on the brink of fulfilling his dead King's dream: Aline is about to take the throne and restore the rule of law once and for all.
But for the Greatcoats, nothing is ever that simple. In neighbouring Avares, an enigmatic new warlord is uniting the barbarian armies and even worse, he is rumoured to have a new ally: Falcio's old nemesis Trin. With the armies of Avares at her back, she'll be unstoppable.
Falcio, Kest and Brasti go racing north to stop her, but in those cold, treacherous climes they discover something altogether different - and far more dangerous: a new player plans to take the throne of Tristia, and the Greatcoats, for all their determination and skill, may not be able to stop him.
'This is the best book of the series' Goodreads reviewer
'I will cherish this amazing quartet for as long as I live' Goodreads reviewer
'Sebastien de Castell is among my favorites authors; his Greatcoats series listed among my most beloved fantasy series ever, resting proudly next to those of Tolkien, Donaldson, and many more' Goodreads reviewer
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