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Marissa Doyle
$5.99 (Novel)
ISBN 978-1-63632-002-1
A BVC Original
War. Spies. Gossip and lies. Mythical creatures. Falling in love. And it’s still only July.
What Lies Beneath
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Putting the Fun in Funeral
Everyday Disasters: Book 1
by Diana Pharaoh Francis
$4.99 (Novel) ISBN 978-1-61138-750-6
A BVC Original
Celebrating death never felt so good.
Beck Wyatt has always hated her mother–enough to kill her. As luck would have it, someone beats her to murdering Mommy Dearest and now Beck gets to plan the tackiest funeral the world has ever seen for the worst woman she’s ever known.
Empress
by Alma Alexander
$4.99 (Novel) ISBN 978-1-61138-579-3
A BVC Original
A whispered prayer on a holy mountain:
“Give me the life I was meant to live.”
She understood the passions and the cruelty of men; she knew the despair and the strength of women.
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Evergreen
by Marissa Doyle
$4.99
(Novel) ISBN 978-1-61138-824-4
A BVC Original
A deadly power walks the forest…but a worse one stalks her.
It’s 1901–a brave new century–and seventeen-year-old Grace Boisvert thinks it’s high time to forget that she’s a dryad; being able to talk to trees just doesn’t seem very useful in the automobile age. A little hair dye to touch up her green roots, and she’s off to join her best friend Alice Roosevelt for a visit to glamorous Newport, RI, with her family’s warnings not to fall for any human boys ringing in her ears.
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It Happened at the Ball
Edited by Sherwood Smith
The pleasure of your company is requested.
Graceful feet tracing courtly steps.
Eyes in jeweled masks meeting across a room of twirling dancers.
Gloved hands touching fleetingly–or gripping swords…
Anything can happen at a ball.
You are invited to enjoy stories of fancy and fantasy from thirteen authors, framed in the splendor and elegance of a ballroom. Be it at a house party for diplomats and thieves, or Almacks in a side-universe in which the Patronesses have magic, or a medieval festival just after the plague years …
Prepare to be swept into the enchantment of the dance!
Topaz Dreams
Crystal Magic: Book 2
by Patricia Rice
$6.99 (Novel) ISBN 978-1-61138-731-5
A BVC Original
An empathic woman searching for safety, an architect yearning for dreams–and the ghost house that endangers them both.
Teddy Devine-Baker arrives in her childhood home of Hillvale with a box of crystals and an attitude. Her empathic gift has ruined one relationship and most of her jewelry business, leaving her determined to learn more about a talent she’s never properly respected.
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Sapphire Nights
Crystal Magic: Book 1
by Patricia Rice
$6.99
(Novel) ISBN 978-1-61138-721-6
A BVC Original
A lawman haunted by his past…a scientist haunted by her future.
Samantha Moon arrives in Hillvale–population 325 lives and countless ghosts–in a fog as thick as the one circling the aging mountain town. Bereft of friends and family, money and memory, all she has to her name is a stray cat…
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Gothic West
by Jill Zeller
$4.99 (Novel) ISBN 978-1-61138-709-4
A tutor with painful memories takes a job in the ruins of Las Vegas. A nurse comes to the Sawtooth Mountains to become a caretaker on a ranch. Each is escaping ghosts of the past. Each runs head-long into more that they’ve ever seen.
Halves and half-nots. Haves and have-nots. He was a Have-not and the woman uncomfortably sharing a train nook with him was a Have. There was no in-between any more.
Wizardry of Jewish Women
by Gillian Polack
$4.99 (Novel) ISBN 978-1-61138-685-1
Pink tutus, sarcasm, amulets and bushfires: that is suburban fantasy in Australian cities. It is magic.
Life is never quite what it seems, even without the lost family heritage delivered to Judith and Belinda in boxes.
Judith (who owns the haunted lemon tree and half the boxes) wants an ordinary life. Mostly.
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Coed Demon Sluts: Pog
Book 5 of Coed Demon Sluts
by Jennifer Stevenson
$4.99 (Novel)
ISBN 978-1-61138-630-1
A BVC Original
Aren’t you tired of doing everything right?
Wouldn’t you like a second chance to go back and do it wrong?
Coed Demon Sluts. Always room on the team.
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Wings of Fire
by Alma Alexander
$2.99 (Novel) ISBN 978-1-61138-670-7
A BVC Original
Sabrina had no idea that her life was so deeply rooted in the mystical and the legendary — not until she found herself in the middle of a war between Heaven and Earth, in the company of a handful of creatures whom she had not believed possible before that moment… and not sure whose side she was on.
By Jove
by Marissa Doyle
$4.99
(Novel) ISBN 978-1-61138-659-2
Whom the gods love…
After three soul-destroying years of teaching unenthusiastic middle-schoolers, Theodora Fairchild is thrilled to be a student again, pursuing her doctorate in Latin. She’s sure John Winthrop University will be the intellectual home she’s always longed for, the place where she’ll finally fit in. But her teaching days aren’t quite over: Theo starts giving “humanities” lessons to sweetly nerdy post-doc Grant Proctor–and loses her heart.
Orcas Intrigue
Book 1 of the Chameleon Chronicles
by Laura Gayle
$3.99 (Novel) ISBN 978-1-61138-638-7
A BVC Original
Can a woman prone to vanishing when life gets tough learn to stand her ground–and find herself in the process?
Camille Tate has always run away…but vanishing whenever life gets too frightening has never solved anything.
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Whisper of Magic
Unexpected Magic: Book 2
by Patricia Rice
$6.99 (Novel) ISBN 978-1-61138-586-1
A BVC Original
The death of Celeste Rochester’s father on the voyage from Jamaica to London leaves her and her young siblings nearly penniless in a foreign country. Forced to battle lawyers for her inheritance and the roof over their heads, Celeste uses her only weapon: her mysteriously compelling voice.
Magic in the Stars
Unexpected Magic: Book 1
by Patricia Rice
$4.99
A BVC Original
As an astrologer, Lady Azenor Dougall sadly realizes her stars are a danger to her beloved siblings and has banished herself from her Scots home. As the Malcolm family librarian, she dutifully creates zodiac charts for her often eccentric and mysterious relations–until the day she realizes a dire conjunction of planets spells a fatal threat in a distant branch of the family.
The Incubus Job
Mission: Magic
by Diana Pharaoh Francis
$2.99 (Novel) ISBN 978-1-61138-585-4
A BVC Original
It’s tough to have a conscience when you kill for a living.
So six years ago, Mallory Jade gave up killing. Now she’s a fixer. Got a problem with a demon? She can help. Infestation of pixies? She’s got you covered. Kidnapped by an undead lich? She’s on her way. Anything you need, so long as she doesn’t have to kill. It’s her one unbreakable rule.
Monroe’s Test
by Jill Zeller
$6.99
(Novel)
ISBN 978-1-61138-593-9
A BVC Original
The emergence of a long lost Marilyn Monroe screen test for Alfred Hitchcock overturns a young woman’s life, and the violent secret kept by the man who loves her threatens both of them.
After losing her sister in a terrible climbing accident, Sydney Wormley’s life spins out of control. But lately things are looking up. She’s broken it off with her married boss and has begun dating handsome Adam Gray.
Pacifica
by Jill Zeller
$5.99
ISBN 978-1-61138-573-1
A BVC Original
Leaving is the same as arriving.
In pursuit of her art, fleeing an unhappy affair, Nola Lynch sails from New York, through the Panama Canal, to California. Alone.
The year is 1914. Nola anticipates romance, excitement, adventure, and she finds it all in a ship-board magician with a dark secret and in a seance gone horribly wrong.
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Formidable Lord Quentin
A Rebellious Sons Novel
by Patricia Rice
$6.99 (Novel) ISBN 978-1-61138-444-4
A Book View Café Original
He’s a tradesman; she’s a marchioness. They have only one thing in common….
Having married once out of desperation, the Virgin Widow Lady Belden has no intention of giving up her independence… until her long-lost siblings arrive on her doorstep. By law their guardianship belongs to the power-hungry marquess of Belden, but Bell will defy law and society to keep her newly reunited family together.
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California Girl
Tales of Love and Mystery: Book 5
by Patricia Rice
$4.99 (Novel) ISBN 978-1-61138-296-9
Alys Seagraves has lost a home and a husband–she’s not about to lose her best friend, Mame. The elderly widow disappears from her hospital bed with only the slightest of clues to her whereabouts. With no transportation or understanding of where Mame has gone, Alys commandeers her friend’s ancient pink Cadillac and uptight nephew, Elliot Ross, to aid in her search.
James Fairfax
by Adam Campan and Jane Austen
$3.95 (Novel) ISBN 978-1-61138-265-5
A gender-play experiment using Jane Austen’s beloved classic novel Emma — an alternate Regency where gay marriage is commonplace and love is gender-blind. Matchmaking Emma Woodhouse tries to find a suitable spouse for her lover Harriet Smith, and is embroiled in the secrets of the relationship between the mysterious and accomplished James Fairfax and the handsome Frank Churchill…
Dash of Enchantment
Dark Lords and Dangerous Ladies: Book 4
by Patricia Rice
$4.99 (Novel) ISBN 978-1-61138-247-1
Previously published as Touched By Magic
She was woman enough to tempt a saint–and lady enough to be dangerous
Lady Cassandra Howard has frequented gambling hells as her father’s lucky charm since childhood – but luck ran out along the way. Now, her brother intends to sell her into marriage with a wealthy, dissolute rake. Cass has done many things for her family, but this won’t be one of them.
Trouble with Air and Magic
California Malcolms: Book 2
by Patricia Rice
$6.99 (Novel) ISBN 978-1-61138-205-1
Dorothea Franklin’s life is sliding toward disaster just as surely as her house is crumbling into the Pacific. Her unusual talent for feng shui can’t bring harmony to her invalid father or prevent her brother from dying in an experimental helicopter crash. Or has he?
She turns to computer genius Conan Oswin, whose brother also reportedly died that day. When Dorothea informs Conan that she didn’t feel the vibrations of her brother’s death, he wants to dismiss her illogic… but his instinct for trouble is already on full alert. His attraction to her is almost as distracting as her nonsense about chi and harmony — nonsense that plants doubts about the deadly crash. If only she would quit twisting his head with temptation, he might be able to save their brothers and her life.
Interloper at Glencoe
by Julianne Ardian Lee
$4.99 (Novel) ISBN 978-1-61138-203-7
Nick Moulin is a rational, thinking man, who one day acquires a fascinating old book that brings him a dream of a beautiful woman and an adventure of long ago.
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Danse de la Folie
by Sherwood Smith
$4.95
(Novel) ISBN 978-1-61138-193-1
A light-hearted Regency folly, starring Miss Clarissa Harlowe who wants a quiet life-but falls in love with a smuggler, the marquess of St. Tarval.
Tarval’s sister, Lady Kitty, is determined to write a dramatic Gothic to save her brother’s mortgaged estate-if she can reach London.
Clarissa’s much-pursued cousin, Mr. Philip Devereaux, is inexplicably intrigued by Lady Kitty, who is doing her best to encourage the match between him and Clarissa, except that Clarissa is now betrothed to . . . Lord Wilburfolde.
And so the madness of changing partners begins in the dance of love.
Laldasa: Beloved Slave
by Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff
(Novel)
ISBN 978-0-9828440-8-3
$4.99
Laldasa is Sanskrit for “beloved slave” — a fitting title for a story of class boundaries, racial prejudices and the one power capable of overcoming them. It’s the story of one small woman battling a political machinery over which she has no control and one supposedly powerful man who realizes that he is as much a pawn of the machinery as the casteless woman he befriends.