Dukes, Fake Dating, & More

The Solar and the Void

In a lush world impressed by the historical past and folklore of South America, a sweeping epic fantasy of colonialism, historical magic, and two younger girls’s quest for belonging unfolds.

Reina is determined.

Caught residing on the sides of society, her solely salvation lies in an invite from a grandmother she’s by no means recognized. However the journey is harmful, and prayer can’t at all times avert catastrophe.

Attacked by creatures that stalk the area, Reina is on the verge of dying till her grandmother, a darkish sorceress, intervenes. Now depending on the Doña’s magic for her life, Reina will do something to earn—and maintain—her favor. Even the bidding of an historical god who whispers to her at night time.

Eva Kesare is undesirable.

Illegitimate and of combined heritage, Eva is her household’s disgrace. She tries her finest to be good and to cover her oddities. However Eva is hiding a secret: magic calls to her.

Eva is aware of she ought to struggle the temptation. Magic is the signal of the darkish god, and utilizing it’s punishable by dying. But, it’s arduous to disclaim energy when it has at all times been denied to you. Eva is strolling a harmful path, one which will get stranger each day. And, in the long run, she’ll turn into one thing she by no means imagined.

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It Needed to Be a Duke

USA At the moment bestselling writer Vivienne Lorret launches a brand new collection with a glowing romance a few spinster, a duke, and a pretend engagement that blurs the strains between enemies and lovers…

Verity Hartley at all times tells the reality. Properly, principally. Nevertheless, when her snooty neighbor returns to their small hamlet to brag about having a grand Season, a plethora of ballgowns, and so many suitors that she can not presumably determine which one to marry, Verity tells a lie. She claims to be betrothed. To a duke. Who occurs to be her household’s sworn enemy. However what are the percentages that he would ever be taught of this one, little, innocent falsehood?

Magnus Warring, the Duke of Longhurst, is on the precipice of marrying an heiress to save lots of his property from monetary damage. A minimum of, he was. Till he hears an unbelievable rumor that he’s already betrothed. To the daughter of a liar, cheat, and swindler! Needing to guard his status, he hunts down the perpetrator. And when he finds the untamed beguiler, she has the audacity to ask him to lie for her. To faux to be her fiancé!

One week, that’s all Verity wants. Then Magnus can return to his life. However nothing is ever that easy. Generally it doesn’t take that lengthy to fall in love, even with the enemy.

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The Forest of Stolen Ladies

Suspenseful and richly atmospheric, June Hur’s The Forest of Stolen Ladies is a haunting historic thriller positive to maintain readers guessing till the final web page.

1426, Joseon (Korea). Hwani’s household has by no means been the identical since she and her youthful sister went lacking and have been later discovered unconscious within the forest close to a grotesque crime scene.

Years later, Detective Min—Hwani’s father—learns that 13 women have lately disappeared from the identical forest that almost stole his daughters. He travels to their hometown on the island of Jeju to analyze… solely to fade as effectively.

Decided to seek out her father and clear up the case that tore their household aside, Hwani returns residence to choose up the path. As she digs into the secrets and techniques of the small village—and collides along with her now estranged sister, Maewol—Hwani comes to appreciate that the reply may lie inside her personal buried recollections of what occurred within the forest all these years in the past.

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Dragged to the Marriage ceremony

The Marriage ceremony Date meets The Birdcage on this laugh-out-loud homosexual romantic comedy from Andrew Gray

He’s right here to slay…however will he keep?

James Petika resides the only homosexual life he at all times wished. A police officer in Chicago, he has an excellent job, good buddies—and he’s two thousand miles away from his household’s expectations. He additionally has an issue: he wants a date for his sister’s marriage ceremony in Missoula, Montana, however his household has no concept that he’s homosexual, and he’d prefer to maintain it that method.

The answer? Daniel Bonafonte aka Lala Traviata, the queen of the Chicago drag scene. Lala is the true factor: she will sing, she will dance—and she will throw extra shade than a photo voltaic eclipse. One drink and loads of dishing later, Daniel agrees to assist James out and be his incognito date to the marriage.

Daniel’s drag-diva expertise are put to the take a look at instantly, with the bride’s ill-fitting marriage ceremony costume, a groom who’s a hazard on the dance ground and extra drama than auditions for a homosexual males’s refrain. Faking this relationship—and ignoring the very actual emotions growing between them—would possibly simply be the efficiency of their lives.

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