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Readers who enjoyed Heiresses of Russ 2012 by Connie Wilkins, Katherine Fabian, Anna Meadows, Sunny Moraine, Lisa Nohealani Morton, Erin Sheppard, S.L. Knapp, David D. Levine, Lindy Cameron, Amal El-Mohtar, Laird Barron, Desirina Boskovich, Nalo Hopkinson & An Owomoyela also liked the following books featuring the same tropes, story themes, relationship dynamics and character types.
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The Hod King by Josiah Bancroft
21 ratingsFearing an uprising, the Sphinx sends Senlin to investigate a plot that has taken hold in the ringdom of Pelphia. Alone in the city, Senlin infiltrates a bloody arena where hods battle for the public's entertainment. But his investigation is quickly derailed by a gruesome crime and an unexpected reunion... -
![Часова битва by Natalia Shcherba, Наталья Щерба]()
Часова битва by Natalia Shcherba, Наталья Щерба
10 ratings«Часова битва» - це шоста, завершальна, книга циклу «Часодії».У Василини і Феша попереду важкі випробування. Скоро настане значна мить - вирішальна битва за трон Часу. Зодче Коло збентежене: Василина Огнєва пішла в учениці до Астрагора, найзапеклішого ворога всіх часівників Ефлари, Феш Драгоцій зник невідомо куди, і незрозуміло, чого очікувати ключникам у майбутньому...Categorized as:
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![The Emperor's Bone Palace by Hailey Turner]()
The Emperor's Bone Palace by Hailey Turner
6 ratingsEvery heart is meant to break.THE NAMELESS. As a warden, Soren’s duty is to guard against the dead, but he was never trained to guard against his heart. Drawn into a web of Solarian politics, Soren finds himself at the center of a storm of his own making, unwilling to break free if it means losing the man he loves... -
![Trial by Fire by Jada Fisher]()
Trial by Fire by Jada Fisher
10 ratingsIn a world full of darkness, the light of the sun is the only thing that can keep the Dark at bay. And dragons are the only thing that can protect the light.Tennegan Felter (Ten) is a humble servant in Epoch Sol, a beacon of light in a world full of darkness. Her deepest desire is to serve the city she loves and defend it from the creatures of the Dark that live all around... -
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![The Zero Secret by Christopher G. Nuttall]()
The Zero Secret by Christopher G. Nuttall
6 ratingsA thousand years ago, an empire died. No one knew why. Not until now.Seven years ago, Caitlyn “Cat” Aguirre - the first of the magicless Zeros - was kidnapped and taken to the ruins of the Eternal City. There, she discovered the dread secret behind the collapse of the Thousand-Year Empire, a secret she knew she didn’t dare share with the world... -
![The Devil that Broke Us by S.C. Wilson]()
The Devil that Broke Us by S.C. Wilson
6 ratingsJesse McGinnis has it all—the woman she loves—two beautiful children—a successful career... -
![Lord of the High Reaches by James Haddock]()
Lord of the High Reaches by James Haddock
8 ratingsHis human father named him Cam, as he and his clan were chameleon cats. Kol-ha is what the clan called him, which means shame in clannish. Being a half-breed, Cam was not allowed to take the test to become a clan member. Cam decides that rather than not being worthy to be part of the clan, the clan is not worthy of him. Taking nothing, he leaves the clan to find his place in the world... -
![Making Money: The Play by Stephen Briggs, Terry Pratchett]()
Making Money: The Play by Stephen Briggs, Terry Pratchett
14 ratingsPlay based on Terry Pratchett's book, Making Money.Lord Vetinari wants to overhaul the banks of Ankh-Morpork so he appoints former con-man Albert Spangler, aka Moist von Lipwig, to the position of Mater of the Royal Mint, attached to a senior post at the Bank of Ankh-Morpork... -
![Empire's Run: Otherworld Academy 04 by Deacon Frost]()
Empire's Run: Otherworld Academy 04 by Deacon Frost
6 ratingsThe Venture returned to the Academy to find it surrounded by the might of the empire. Levi Walker and his lovers must survive while under siege from the greatest military force the dimensions have ever known... -
![Peril: Elven Alliance Collected Stories Volume One by Tara Grayce]()
Peril: Elven Alliance Collected Stories Volume One by Tara Grayce
6 ratingsA dangerous mission to a foreign kingdom isn't the ideal honeymoon.Jalissa, princess of the elves, thought she knew what she was getting into when she married Edmund, the spy prince of Escarland. But a week after their wedding, they must embark on a dangerous mission to an enemy nation, putting their wits, their skills, and their new marriage to the test in ways they never imagined...Categorized as:
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![This Gilded Abyss by Rebecca Thorne]()
This Gilded Abyss by Rebecca Thorne
6 ratingsSergeant Nix Marr is a damn good soldier. She’s also desperate to leave her haunted past deep in the bioluminescent ocean, buried alongside her best friend, Quian. So, when Subarch Kessandra, Valkesh’s favorite royal–and Nix’s loathed ex–requests Nix’s help investigating a massacre in the abyssal city of Fall, Nix refuses. Vehemently.She should have known Kessandra would fight back... -
![Nottingham: The True Story of Robyn Hood by Anna Burke]()
Nottingham: The True Story of Robyn Hood by Anna Burke
10 ratingsRobyn Hood didn’t set out to rob the rich, but in Nottingham, nothing ever goes according to plan....After a fateful hunting accident sends her on the run from the law, Robyn finds herself deep in the heart of Sherwood Forest... -
![Soras by Erik Schubach]()
Soras by Erik Schubach
6 ratingsLaney Herder and Lady Celeste, are called upon by the Lipei of the Mountain Gypsies as their Soras, to help free their leader who had been kidnapped, and to stop a war between the realms of Sparo and the Gypsies. Again, Laney is thrown into a world and politics that seem alien to her... -
![Masquerade by Erik Schubach]()
Masquerade by Erik Schubach
6 ratingsAlmost three thousand years after an extinction level event on Earth, mankind seeks to regain its former glory, in a new world where magic and technology collide. Laney Herder finds herself thrust into an adventure not of her choosing as Prince George asks for her assistance, in her role as a Sora of the Mountain Gypsies... -
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![Outlier: Rebellion by Daryl Banner]()
Outlier: Rebellion by Daryl Banner
6 ratings“Those in power will do whatever they can to get away with everything they can.”The world is destroyed, save for the Last City Of Atlas where every citizen is born with a unique, special ability and, for some unknown reason, humans no longer sleep or dream... -
![The Mapmakers Union by M.J. Fletcher]()
The Mapmakers Union by M.J. Fletcher
6 ratingsChloe Masters has a death wish, at least according to her friends. Still reeling from the loss of one of those closest to her she is living life on the edge. One by one she is pushing everyone away. Leaving her with the very person who betrayed her... Faith... -
![Skeleton Key Guild by M.J. Fletcher]()
Skeleton Key Guild by M.J. Fletcher
6 ratingsHer parents dead, her sister missing, and those she loves branded traitors to the Old Kind... Chloe Masters is on the run.To fulfill a parent’s dying wish she will do anything to save the sister she has never met... -
![Lastland by A.R. Ivanovich]()
Lastland by A.R. Ivanovich
8 ratingsAfter a devastating attack on the Northern capital, Prince Raserion has taken everything from Katelyn Kestrel . . . everything but her will to fight back and save the people of Haven.Out of the ashes of a burning city, Prince Varion, ruler of the Northern Kingdom, resurfaces, intent on ending the seven-hundred-year war once and for all. But he can’t succeed without Katelyn’s help... -
![Elevation of the Marked by March McCarron]()
Elevation of the Marked by March McCarron
8 ratingsAn alternative cover edition for this ASIN can be found here.When an enemy can alter your thoughts, you can trust nothing—not even your own mind. Bray and Yarrow escaped with their lives, believing that Quade Asher and his Elevated planned to start a war. Soon they will learn the truth: Quade need not fight a single battle; he has already won... -
![The Gallows Black by Sam Sykes]()
The Gallows Black by Sam Sykes
8 ratingsA standalone epic fantasy novella starring Sal the Cacophony, who Pierce Brown called a "protagonist for the ages," from Sam Sykes' widely acclaimed Seven Blades in Black. To the city of Last Word, one of the last freeholds in a land rent asunder by magic, Sal the Cacophony comes with gun, a blade, and a burning need for revenge... -
![Stormbreak by Natalie C. Parker]()
Stormbreak by Natalie C. Parker
12 ratingsIn this conclusion to the Seafire trilogy, Caledonia Styx will risk everything--her heart, her crew, and even her life--to defeat Lir and take back the Bullet Seas once and for all.Aric Athair is dead. But the fight for the Bullet Seas is far from over... -
![The Edge Chronicles Maps by Paul Stewart, Chris Riddell]()
The Edge Chronicles Maps by Paul Stewart, Chris Riddell
6 ratingsTwo beautifully illustrated maps, plus a book of characters, places and extra facts to enhance reading the Edge Chronicles adventures. Now sadly out of print.The Deepwoods, the Stone Gardens, the Edgewater River, Undertown and Screetown, New Sanctaphrax, and the Free Glades...Categorized as:
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![Alistair Grim's Odd Aquaticum by Gregory Funaro]()
Alistair Grim's Odd Aquaticum by Gregory Funaro
6 ratingsWhen Grubb, an orphan and runaway chimney sweep, entered the wondrous world of the Odditorium, his life changed forever. Apprenticed to the mechanical marvel’s strange proprietor, Alistair Grim, Grubb unfortunately must settle into his new position on the lam, as the whole of London is convinced that Alistair Grim is a villain bent on mass destruction...Categorized as:
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![The Dragon Machine by Ben S. Dobson]()
The Dragon Machine by Ben S. Dobson
6 ratingsA missing girl leads the Magebreakers into a deadly race, with her life as the prize. Thaless is still reeling from the actions of the assassin known as the Emperor’s Mask, and in the aftermath, believers in magical superiority have been greatly emboldened... -
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![The Apple-Tree Throne by Premee Mohamed]()
The Apple-Tree Throne by Premee Mohamed
6 ratingsIt is the turn of the century in an England that never was. Bright new aqua-plants are generating electricity for the streetlights; news can be easily had on the radio-viz; and in Gundisalvus' Land, the war is over and the soldiers are beginning to trickle home. Amongst these is Lt... -
![The Timeseer's Gambit by Kate McIntyre]()
The Timeseer's Gambit by Kate McIntyre
6 ratingsIt’s been three months since mild-mannered Christopher Buckley began working with Olivia Faraday, the eccentric Deathsniffer. They’ve hunted killers, solved murders, and learned to work together. But their greatest challenges are yet to come…As a brutal heat wave wracks an increasingly unstable Darrington City, someone is killing young priests. Worse, they are using bound elementals to do it...Categorized as:
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![The Empress And the Acolyte by Jane Fletcher]()
The Empress And the Acolyte by Jane Fletcher
8 ratingsAfter three years of studying with the Empress Bykoda, Jemeryl has learned all that the elderly sorcerer can teach her and is ready to return to Lyremouth. However, before she leaves, Bykoda reveals a grim secret, an oracle of death, and askes her to perform one final assignment... -
![Caroline's Heart by Austin Chant]()
Caroline's Heart by Austin Chant
8 ratingsCecily lost her soulmate years ago, leaving her with nothing but the clockwork heart that once beat in Caroline's chest. They say it's impossible to bring back the dead, yet Cecily's resurrection spell is nearly complete and grows more powerful by the day... -
![The Wastes of Keldora by Alex Raizman]()
The Wastes of Keldora by Alex Raizman
8 ratingsAfter one too many failed inventions, Julian has hit rock bottom.Summoned to another world where gods and monsters roam, Julian continues his streak of bad luck. Rather than touching the Godcore directly, he let his smartphone absorb it... -
![Clockwork Lives by Kevin J. Anderson, Neil Peart]()
Clockwork Lives by Kevin J. Anderson, Neil Peart
10 ratingsSome lives can be summed up in a sentence or two. Other lives are epics. In Clockwork Angels , #1 bestselling author Kevin J. Anderson and legendary Rush drummer and lyricist Neil Peart created a fabulous, adventurous steampunk world in a novel to accompany the smash Rush concept album of the same name... -
![Blood and Tempest by Jon Skovron]()
Blood and Tempest by Jon Skovron
10 ratingsThe thrilling conclusion to Jon Skovron's adventure fantasy series, two young people from a fracturing empire spread across savage seas must find a way to keep their nation together. Still reeling from the events at Dawn's Light, Hope struggles to understand what it means to be a warrior who has vowed to never again take up a sword.Red is enjoying his new role as imperial spy... -
![The Brothers' War by Jeff Grubb]()
The Brothers' War by Jeff Grubb
14 ratingsThe Myth. The Magic.Dominarian legends speak of a mighty conflict, obscured by the mists of history. Of a conflict between the brothers Urza and Mishra for supremacy on the continent of Terisiare. Of titantic engines that scarred and twisted the very planet. Of a final battle that sank continents and shook the skies.The saga of the Brothers' War... -
![The Ascent to Godhood by Neon Yang]()
The Ascent to Godhood by Neon Yang
14 ratingsThe Protector is dead.For fifty years, the Protector ruled, reshaping her country in her image and driving her enemies to the corners of the map. For half a century the world turned around her as she built her armies, trained her Tensors, and grasped at the reins of fate itself. Now she is dead. Her followers will quiver, her enemies rejoice... -
![The Deathsniffer's Assistant by Kate McIntyre]()
The Deathsniffer's Assistant by Kate McIntyre
10 ratingsThe Deathsniffer’s Assistant is a fantasy novel with a unique pseudo-Edwardian setting and a murder mystery twist... -
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![Spirited by Julie Cohen]()
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![The Last Temptations of Iago Wick by Jennifer Rainey]()
The Last Temptations of Iago Wick by Jennifer Rainey
6 ratingsThis is an alternate cover edition for B06WGVBNG7 The city of Marlowe, Massachusetts is a lovely place to settle down… just ask its two resident demons.For centuries, Iago Wick and his partner, Dante Lovelace, have meddled in the affairs of Man for the benefit of Hell—and had a damnably good time doing it... -
![Kate on a Hot Tin Roof by Niall Teasdale]()
Kate on a Hot Tin Roof by Niall Teasdale
6 ratingsKate should not exist. The product of a mad scientist of great talent, she is the fusion of man and beast only made possible but the power of the Wonder Metal, Unobtainium. When Charles Barstow-Hall’s grandfather discovered Unobtainium in Scotland, he had no idea that it would change the world, and even less idea of the extent of that change...Categorized as:
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![Mother of Souls by Heather Rose Jones]()
Mother of Souls by Heather Rose Jones
6 ratingsAt last! Return to the enchanted realm of Alpennia for the eagerly awaited sequel to Daughter of Mystery and The Mystic Marriage.All her life, Serafina Talarico has searched in vain for a place where she and her mystical talents belong. She never found it in Rome—the city of her birth—where her family’s Ethiopian origins marked them as immigrants...Categorized as:
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![Arrivals by Ellen Kushner, Paul Witcover]()
Arrivals by Ellen Kushner, Paul Witcover
6 ratingsSwordplay, scandal, and sex—welcome to the world of Tremontaine, a glittering new chapter in Ellen Kushner's classic Riverside series... -
![Moonpowder by John Rocco]()
Moonpowder by John Rocco
6 ratingsYoung Eli Trebuckle is the "fixer of all things fixable." He fixes the vacuum cleaner, the fan, and even the radio, hoping to catch some news of his father who is away at war. But there's one thing that Eli simply can't fix-his bad dreams. It's the same one over and over again: a mountain of junk, a prize just beyond his reach, and a fall... -
![Czterdzieści i cztery by Krzysztof Piskorski]()
Czterdzieści i cztery by Krzysztof Piskorski
6 ratingsNowa, długo oczekiwana powieść Krzysztofa Piskorskiego, laureata Nagrody im. Janusza A. Zajdla oraz dwóch Złotych Wyróżnień Nagrody Literackie im. Jerzego Żuławskiego. Autor „Cieniorytu”, nazwanego przez Jacka Dukaja „światotwórstwem najwyższej klasy”, rozwija tym razem wizję świata, w którym niezwykła technologia miesza się ze słowiańską magią oraz epoką narodowych powstań i Wielkiej Emigracji...Categorized as:
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![Rise of the Seventh Moon by Rich Wulf]()
Rise of the Seventh Moon by Rich Wulf
6 ratingsTo win a battle, a man must be prepared to sacrifice his life.To win peace, a man must be prepared to sacrifice much more. -- Ashrem d'Cannith Ashrem's Legacy . . . a powerful relic of the Last War lost for ages. Now it is found... -
![The Arcanist by Greg Curtis]()
The Arcanist by Greg Curtis
6 ratingsEdouard Severin was useless. Happily useless. The third son of Count Argus Severin he would not inherit the title of count nor the reins of House Barris. He was free to do what he liked with his life provided he didn't embarrass his family. And what he liked was to live in his ancient fort in the town of Breakwater, tinker with his machines and play with his magic. Life was good... -
![The Mechanical Messiah and Other Marvels of the Modern Age by Robert Rankin]()
The Mechanical Messiah and Other Marvels of the Modern Age by Robert Rankin
6 ratingsThe newest opus from the Master of Far Fetched Fiction features magic, mayhem, mechanical marvels, messianic madness, and the music hall Colonel Katterfelto has returned to London, having departed America under something of a cloud—of smoke, issuing from his Spiritual Laboratory, which the townsfolk of Wormcast, Arizona, marched upon with their flaming torches... -
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![Brewer by Kate Avery Ellison]()
Brewer by Kate Avery Ellison
6 ratings*This novella takes place during Bluewing, #4 in The Frost Chronicles series* Adam Brewer has a past, and he doesn't like to speak about it. Few know his journey from refugee to Thorns agent. Even fewer know the extent of his feelings for a certain fierce young woman. Stuck in a prison cell, he must stay sane...and hold on to hope that he'll see her again... -
![Deus Ex Mechanic by Ryann Fletcher]()
Deus Ex Mechanic by Ryann Fletcher
6 ratingsAlice is the best mechanic the corrupt Coalition regime has ever seen. When she’s kidnapped by an infamous vigilante space pirate named Violet, she has to make the hardest decision she’s ever made: escape back to the comfort of the Coalition, or risk everything to fight injustice?When Violet decided to ransack Coalition vessels, she never though she’d have to fight her feelings for Alice, too... -
![The Second Sight of Zachary Cloudesley by Sean Lusk]()
The Second Sight of Zachary Cloudesley by Sean Lusk
14 ratingsZachary Cloudesley is gifted in a remarkable way. But not all gifts are a blessing...Leadenhall Street, London, 1754.Raised amongst the cogs and springs of his father's workshop, Zachary Cloudesley has grown up surrounded by strange and enchanting clockwork automata. He is a happy child, beloved by his father Abel and the workmen who help bring his father's creations to life...Categorized as:
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![Eberron Campaign Setting by Keith Baker, Bill Slavicsek]()
Eberron Campaign Setting by Keith Baker, Bill Slavicsek
10 ratingsAn entirely new campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons® roleplaying game.During the spring and summer of 2002, Wizards of the Coast, Inc., put out a request to the gaming community for proposals for a new D&D game setting. 11,000 proposals and two years of development later, the Eberron Campaign Setting is the result of that search... -
![Rider of the Crown by Melissa McShane]()
Rider of the Crown by Melissa McShane
10 ratingsImogen, warrior of the Kirkellan tribes, has never wanted to be anything else. But when the long war between the Kirkellan and the country of Ruskald ends, the terms of the peace treaty require Imogen to be married to the vicious King of Ruskald for five years... -
![A Mountain Walked: Great Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos by S.T. Joshi, Robert Barbour Johnson]()
A Mountain Walked: Great Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos by S.T. Joshi, Robert Barbour Johnson
8 ratingsH. P. Lovecraft wrote “The Call of Cthulhu” in 1926, initiating the Cthulhu Mythos, one of the most widely imitated shared-world universes in weird fiction. Even in his lifetime, many other writers added to the Mythos, and after his death hundreds if not thousands of authors of weird, fantasy, and science fiction have added their distinctive elaborations on Lovecraft’s basic themes and ideas...
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