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Rebecca Buchanan Author Of A Witch Among Wolves

From Rebecca's 3 favorite reads in 2025.

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Rebecca's 3 favorite reads in 2025

Rebecca Buchanan Why Rebecca loves this book

I absolutely loved the evolving relationship between Ellie and Adam. She's smart, spunky, and brave. And he's smart enough to ignore the gender conventions of his day and embrace her intelligence and courage.

By Jacquelyn Benson ,

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2 authors picked Empire of Shadows as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

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Nice Victorian ladies don't run off to find legendary lost cities.

One trifling little arrest shouldn't have cost Ellie Mallory her job, but it's only the latest in a line of injustices facing any educated woman with archaeological ambitions.

When Ellie stumbles across the map to a mysterious ancient city, she knows she's holding her chance to revolutionize Pre-Colombian history. There's just one teensy complication. A ruthless villain wants it, and Ellie is all that stands in his way.

To race him to the ruins-and avoid being violently disposed of-she needs the help of maverick surveyor Adam Bates, a snake-wrangling…


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Aggressor by FX Holden,

It is April 1st, 2038. Day 60 of China's blockade of the rebel island of Taiwan.

The US government has agreed to provide Taiwan with a weapons system so advanced that it can disrupt the balance of power in the region. But what pilot would be crazy enough to run…

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From 5ldrr0hd's 3 favorite reads in 2024.

Unknown Author Why 5ldrr0hd loves this book

This was not the type of book I usually read or listen to. I’d seen a recommendation somewhere and it sounded intriguing. I could feel the emotions the characters felt by how their actions and dialogue were written. And the house was described in such detail, I could hear the creaks and groans of the old wood. As the main character remembered what really happened years before, I was drawn into her emotions. Yes, I cried. Several times! And another amazing narrator who knew exactly when to pause and when to rush as the characters did.

By Shannon Morgan ,

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1 author picked In the Lonely Hours as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

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In a bewitchingly melancholy, thrillingly modern ghost story for readers of Eve Chase, Megan Shepherd, and Lisa Jewell, the new inhabitants of a centuries-old castle perched on a remote island in northwest Scotland must confront its tragic and terrifying history...

On a small island in a remote corner of northwest Scotland lies Maundrell castle, owned by its wealthy namesake family for centuries—until now. Edwina Nunn is shocked to learn a relative she never heard of has bequeathed the castle and its land to her. What awaits Edie and her teenage daughter, Neve, is even more startling, for the castle is…


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