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A Queen's Game
by Katharine McGee
In the final decade of European empires, three young women face love and destiny. Queen Victoria's granddaughter Alix of Hesse falls for the wrong prince. Former French princess Hélène d'Orléans pursues the off-limits British heir Prince Eddy. May of Teck, long on the royal fringes, is determined to marry the future king. Katharine McGee's A Queen's Game follows their intertwined stories across glittering ballrooms and Scottish wilds during a pivotal historical moment.
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I Capture the Castle
by Dodie Smith
Through six turbulent months of 1934, 17-year-old Cassandra Mortmain keeps a journal, filling three notebooks with sharply funny yet poignant entries about her home, a ruined Suffolk castle, and her eccentric and penniless family. By the time the last diary shuts, there have been great changes in the Mortmain household, not the least of which is that Cassandra is deeply, hopelessly, in love.
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American Royals
by Katharine McGee
An alternate-history tale reimagines America as a monarchy and follows the experiences of a princess who struggles with her feelings for an off-limits boy, while her handsome twin brother is pursued by two very different girls.
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Caraval
by Stephanie Garber
Believing that she will never be allowed to participate in the annual Caraval performance when her ruthless father arranges her marriage, Scarlett receives the invitation she has always dreamed of before her sister, Tella, is kidnapped by the show's mastermind organizer.
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Longbourn
by Jo Baker
A reimagining of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice from the perspectives of its below-stairs servants captures the romance, intrigue and drama of the Bennet household from the sideline perspective of Sara, an orphaned housemaid who becomes subject to the arrival of the militia and the attentions of an ambitious former slave.
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Lightlark
by Alex Aster
In order to break a curse on her kingdom, Isla Crown, the young ruler of Wilding, must compete in the Centennial, a deadly game that only the rulers of six realms are invited to play, and to survive she must lie, cheat, and betray--even as love threatens to undo everything.
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Summers at Castle Auburn
by Sharon Shinn
Chronicles the story of Coriel Halsing, who had spent many glorious summers with her half-sister at Castle Auburn chasing and falling in love with a handsome prince who could never be hers, but now that she is grown, she begins to understand the dark side of the magical palace.
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The Davenports
by Krystal Marquis
In 1910, the wealthy Black Davenport family navigates love and society. Elder daughter Olivia falls for civil rights leader Washington DeWight. Car-loving Helen desires her sister's suitor. Maid Amy-Rose dreams of business ownership and forbidden love with John Davenport. Ruby schemes to win John's heart while finding unexpected romance. Inspired by C.R. Patterson's real story, this first book explores overlooked African American history through four determined young women discovering courage to choose their own paths.
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This Book Kills
by Ravena Guron
When introverted scholarship student Jess writes a short story in which a man's body is found in the woods with his head bashed in, she is drawn into the mystery when the most popular boy at their elite boarding school is murdered in the same way.
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Emma
by Jane Austen
Emma Woodhouse is one of Austen's most captivating and vivid characters. Beautiful, spoilt, vain and irrepressibly witty, Emma organizes the lives of the inhabitants of her sleepy little village and plays matchmaker with devastating effect.
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Ayesha at Last
by Uzma Jalaluddin
A modern Muslim adaptation of Pride and Prejudice finds a reluctant teacher who would avoid an arranged marriage setting aside her literary ambitions before falling in love with her perpetually single cousin's infuriatingly conservative fiancé.
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Belladonna
by Adalyn Grace
Orphaned nineteen-year-old Signa joins the eccentric Hawthorne family at their gloomy estate after her guardians' mysterious deaths. When the late matriarch's spirit claims she was poisoned, Signa realizes the family is in danger. She enlists a stable boy's help to find the killer, but her best chance lies with Death himself—a dangerous shadow who's always been near. Their growing connection proves more powerful and irresistible than she imagined, despite making her life hell.
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Red Queen
by Victoria Aveyard
When her latent supernatural powers manifest in front of a noble court, Mare, a thief in a world divided between commoners and superhumans, is forced to assume the role of lost princess before risking everything to help a growing rebellion.
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The Book of Atrix Wolfe
by Patricia A. McKillip
Twenty years ago, the powerful mage Atrix Wolfe unleashed an uncontrollable force that killed his beloved king. Now, the Queen of the Wood has offered him one last chance for redemption. She asks him to find her daughter, who vanished into the human world during the massacre he caused. No one has seen the princess-but deep in the kitchens of the Castle of Pelucir, there is a scullery maid who appeared out of nowhere one night long ago. She cannot speak and her eyes are full of sadness. But there are those who call her beautiful.
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