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Speculative
A Slow Ascent of Madness | ReddOscar | Horror, Lovecraftian (NA) (I) (F)→($)
Free until December 2023
Newlyweds Charles and Abigail desire wealth beyond their dreams and have heard rumours of gold beneath the town of Sageburn. People have flocked from miles around in the hunt for luxurious wealth but find more than gold beneath the hills of Sageburn…
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Thriller & Mystery
Rook | TK Eldridge | Mystery, Romantic Suspense (N)
Book One in the Chess Club Mystery Series
Billionaire logistics magnate Grant Foster hasn't been back to Lakeridge, North Carolina in over a dozen years. Not since his father's funeral.
Now he's back for another funeral - one for his old high-school friend, Wes Davenport. Most people wouldn’t understand why Grant and Wes would be friends, but their high school Chess club became family until their teacher was murdered two weeks before graduation. That had broken something, and they all scattered far and wide - except for Wes, who'd stayed in Lakeridge.
Now Wes is dead and the Club is returning to bury their friend - and help figure out who killed him. For Grant, coming home brings back a lot of memories and a lot of pain. All the money in the world can't fix that, or the loneliness in his life. He'd let himself forget what family truly meant and being back with his Club brothers is a sharp reminder. Will coming back heal what's broken in him, or break him worse than before? Paperback | Hardcover | Everywhere else
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Faire Exchange | Alex Scott | Fantasy, Middle Grade (N) (C) (F)
Jeremy is terrified of the new girl. Zoe despises her. Martin got hit by one of her spells. Gregg can't take his eyes off her. Nadia accidentally became her best friend. Halley looks up to her. Her fellow Faire Folk can't stand her.
Tsarina "Rina" Algruent—that's Lady Rina to you—is one of many children from the realm of Faerie sent to human schools as part of a new exchange program to restore relations with Earth. But when she joins Mrs. Horn's fifth grade class, Lady Rina quickly begins terrorizing her classmates with magical pranks. While other kids at other schools are enchanted with their new guests, Rina's behavior is so cursed it threatens to cause an interdimensional incident.
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