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Find Me by Ashley N. Rostek
One year ago…My family is gone. My parents. My twin sister. All of them murdered by the man who has stalked me for years. He nearly killed me, too. But I got away and he’s still out there, searching for me. He won’t find me. At least, I hope not. Thanks to WITSEC, I’ve been given a new life with a new identity...Categorized as:
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Fallen Crest Family by Tijan
Samantha and Mason are together. Everyone knows it. Not everyone is dealing with it. While Mason's ready to give them the middle finger, there's one not going away. Her mother. Threats are issued. Ultimatums are given. Even blackmail is used, but only Samantha can put a stop to Analise. However, when a trauma from her past is triggered, she may not have the courage or strength to do what's needed...Categorized as:
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Long Way Down by Krista Ritchie, Becca Ritchie
Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsThe TikTok sensation Addicted Series continues with Long Way Down , now in a print edition with special bonus material!With a seven-year age difference, Ryke Meadows and Daisy Calloway have faced an uphill battle in the eyes of the world and their families. Known as the most adventurous, fast-paced couple, their next step has always been elusive to the rabid media...Categorized as:
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Bear by Leila James
Nothing they do can fix me. I’m beyond repair. Life at Bainbridge Hall is everything I feared it would be, yet these bastards have me in a choke hold. With each passing day, I struggle with my growing affection for them. The lines I drew in the beginning have begun to blur.I should’ve left … back before feelings were involved... -
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Be My Brayshaw by Meagan Brandy
From USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Meagan Brandy comes an enemies-to-lovers, standalone romance about love, lies, and finding the strength to forgive."Cross one, cross all."That's the Brayshaw way.She should have realized this before sliding into our world with secrets too big to bury.She didn't and now the target is on her back...Categorized as:
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Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 111 ratingsCheck out the #1 New York Times bestseller Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty, called “a surefire hit” by Entertainment Weekly. "The secrets burrowed in this seemingly placid small town...are so suburban noir they would make David Lynch clap with glee.. -
Fighting for Flight by J.B. Salsbury
What happens when in order to win, you’re forced to lose? The only daughter of an infamous Las Vegas pimp, Raven Morretti grew up an outsider. Liberated from the neglectful home of her prostitute mother, she finds solace as a mechanic. With few friends, she’s content with the simple life. Flying under the radar is all she knows, and more than she expects... -
This Life and All the Rest by Brit Benson
She thinks our story is over. It’s just beginning. Lennon Washington has been the star of every dream, every nightmare, since the day I lost her.Since the moment I let my demons win, and she slipped through my fingers. Her memory has haunted me. Changed me. Broken me and remade me.And I’d all but given up on us.Now tragedy has brought her back into my life... -
Logan Kade by Tijan
People think that just because they know my name, my reputation, and my family that they know me. They don't.They say I’m a manwhore, but who wouldn’t be with my face and body? They say I’m a partier, and that's not going to change. They say I'm a fighter, and hell yes I am. F*ck with mine, and I’ll f*ck you back ten times worse.So, yes. Maybe what they say is true, but that’s not all of me...Categorized as:
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Skin by B.B. Easton
With Netflix adapting BB's 44 CHAPTERS ABOUT 4 MEN into a new series, you're going to want the full story behind her roller-coaster love story with the ultimate bad boy. Because BB Easton had so much fun writing her bestselling, award-winning memoir, she decided to give each of her four men his own steamy standalone...Categorized as:
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Speed by B.B. Easton
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsWith Netflix adapting BB's 44 CHAPTERS ABOUT 4 MEN into a new series, you're going to want the full story behind her outrageous adventures. Because BB Easton had so much fun writing her bestselling, award-winning memoir, she decided to give each of her four men his own steamy standalone...Categorized as:
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What's Left of Me by Amanda Maxlyn
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsLife works in mysterious ways. Four years ago I became known as the girl with cancer. I refuse to cry. And I refuse to give in. A relationship with a man is the last thing I’m looking for right now, but one night with Parker changes everything. He is persistent, and he knows what he wants. Me. He doesn’t treat me like I’m fragile. But he doesn’t know, and I’m not ready to tell him... -
Pieces for You by Genna Rulon
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsSamantha Whitney survived unimaginable tragedy only to discover she had been betrayed by a man who claimed to love her. Shattered, Sam spends months at a safe haven trying to piece herself back together. Ready or not, the time has come for her to return home. As Sam struggles to resume a life that no longer feels familiar, she finds unwavering support in an unexpected, familiar face... -
Christmas Eve at Cranberry Cross by Kate Forster
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsNo one loves Christmas more than editorial assistant Eve Pilkins.But when her boss hits her with a huge deadline on Christmas Day, it looks like Eve's favourite time of the year might be cancelled. Armed with as much enthusiasm as she can muster, she travels to the coldest part of England, tasked with ensuring brooding author Edward Priest finishes his latest novel on time... -
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Savage Delight by Sara Wolf
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 35 ratingsLight meets dark. Secrets meet truth. It's been three years, twenty-five weeks, and five days since Isis Blake fell in love, and if she has it her way, it'll stretch into infinity. After a run-in with her mom’s ex-boyfriend, she scrabbles to remember what she’s lost to amnesia... -
The Forever Crew by C.M. Stunich
The secret is out. I’m officially dating the entire Student Council, but that’s not the only thing that’s outside the norm at Adamson All-Boys Academy. Nah, I think the murders are a bit more remarkable, although my dad might disagree. He’s not exactly thrilled with my fake fiancé or the other four boys that make my pulse race... -
Fall With Me by Lucy Smoke
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIsaac Icari: The God of Hazelwood University. My stepbrother.My lover.My enemy.It was dangerous to let myself be swept up by him but he’s a drug that I crave.I should have walked away the second I realized what he was involved with, when he revealed who his father truly was.Now it’s too late.We should have known better. Get too close to the sun and you get burned... -
Scorned Love by Victoria Paige
Shallow. Unappealing.Nico De Lucci’s biting opinion of her is seared into Ivy’s brain.Not that she should care.No way is she giving Nico the power to whittle away at her self-confidence.Confidence she fought so hard to achieve.Obnoxious. Mr. Satan.Choice words Ivy Wu reserves especially for him.He will do anything and say anything to protect his sister from Ivy’s influence...Categorized as:
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Release by Aly Martinez
From USA Today Bestselling Author Aly Martinez comes an all new standalone. Growing up, Ramsey Stewart branded my soul in ways time could never heal. At twelve, he asked me to be his girlfriend. At thirteen, he gave me my first kiss. By sixteen, we’d fallen in love, planned a future together, and had our eyes set on the horizon. Love never fails, right? But for Ramsey, it did... -
Savage Games by Rachel Leigh
I shouldn’t be here. Let me rephrase that…I never wanted to be here. I didn’t ask for any of this. Not the society I was born into. Definitely not the academy I’m supposed to attend. And sure as hell not the group I’m forced to play nice with. Unfortunately, one too many school suspensions has catapulted me into the world I swore I’d never live in...Categorized as:
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Lilah by Ashlyn Montgomery
He'd never met someone with such a bubbly personality. Not to mention the wildness and odd phrases she'd say every five minutes. He hates it. He hates how he can't stay away from it. He hates what she does to him; it's not like him to chase after some girl. She gets under his skin like no other.She'd never met someone with such a bad attitude. He's ill-mannered and menacing...Categorized as:
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Brutal Precious by Sara Wolf
Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsLife meets death. The end meets the beginning. Eighteen-year-old Isis Blake hasn’t fallen in love in three years, forty-three weeks, and two days. Or so she thinks. The boy she maybe-sort-of-definitely loved has dropped off the face of the planet after his girlfriend's death, leaving a Jack-shaped hole...Categorized as:
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Like Gravity by Julie Johnson
Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsTwenty year-old Brooklyn “Bee” Turner is no stranger to grief. After witnessing her mother’s brutal murder at age six, Brooklyn is guarded, damaged, and – by all accounts – a bitch. And that’s just the way she likes it, if it means keeping everyone at arm’s length... -
The Saint by Kelsey Clayton
DELANEYCruel.Heartless.A mistake waiting to happen.Knox Vaughn is the epitome of a bad boy.He's trouble in a sexy-as-sin package. I know it.They know it.Even he knows it. But, it's like a moth to the flame.I can't stay away—even though I'm going to get burned.You know what they say,The sinners are much more fun. And this saint is changing the game.KNOXSweet.Innocent.Valedictorian... -
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The Heist by Julie Weaver
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsFreya I’ll do anything to escape the controlling monster who’s tormented me for years, even if it means putting my life at the mercy of a criminal. When Kane Daniels breaks into my gilded cage, he doesn’t realize his loot will include more than gold and diamonds—it’ll include me...Categorized as:
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Pine River by Tijan
Pine River was supposed to be a new start for me.And it was, especially attending school with my three overprotective cousins, who were the triplets at the top of the social hierarchy.Except they weren't alone there, and the first day when I came to school, I saw him. Scout Raiden.Tall. Lean. Tattooed. Mesmerizing.He was a golden god with dark and piercing eyes-looking like he wanted to eat me up... -
Lovely Vicious by Sara Wolf
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 38 ratings1.Don't talk about love. 2.Don't think about love. 3.Thinking and talking about love leads to Love, which is the enemy... For 17-year-old Isis Blake, the list has one goal: to ensure she never falls in love again. Ever. As Isis and her mom settle into their new home in Buttcrack-of-Nowhere, Ohio, Isis is rockin' the purple hair and a beat up old car..Categorized as:
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Playing with Fire by L.J. Shen
A broken boy on the path to destruction.A scarred girl without direction.A love story carved in secrets, inked with pain and sealed with a lie.Grace Shaw and West St. Claire are arctic opposites.She is the strange girl from the food truck.He is the mysterious underground fighter who stormed into her sleepy Texan college town on his motorcycle one day, and has been wreaking havoc since...Categorized as:
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Crybaby by Monica James, Michelle Lancaster
Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsMy name is Rev.I like long walks on the beach.A neat scotch.And I like stealing from rich losers who have no idea the town’s Big Bad Wolf screwed their wives six ways to Sunday.Such a scandal, indeed.I have one end goal—to get out of this town.I’m a loner. And that’s by choice.People aren’t really my thing. That is…until I meet her. The little firecracker who sets more than my soul on fire... -
I Hunt Killers by Barry Lyga
Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars · 32 ratingsWhat if the world's worst serial killer...was your dad? Jasper "Jazz" Dent is a likable teenager. A charmer, one might say. But he's also the son of the world's most infamous serial killer, and for Dear Old Dad, Take Your Son to Work Day was year-round. Jazz has witnessed crime scenes the way cops wish they could—from the criminal's point of view. And now bodies are piling up in Lobo's Nod... -
The Perfect Fit by Sadie Kincaid
One wannabe writer from Brooklyn. Three insanely hot billionaires. One very indecent proposal. West Archer, Ezekiel Cavanagh, and Xander King. AKA The Unholy Trinity. Ruthless. Ambitious. Intimidating. With dark tastes and even darker desires, they’ve been searching for the perfect woman to fit into their unique lifestyle for over a decade...Categorized as:
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Finding Parker by Scott Hildreth
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWe have all heard it before. From a mother, father, friend or maybe a complete stranger. “If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is." But what if it wasn’t? Parker Bale finds himself in this exact predicament. A gentlemen with a very unique past, Parker completed college and is on the hunt for a job. Almost immediately he is offered the career of a lifetime... -
True Love Way by Mary Elizabeth
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsThe uncomplicated explanation: Penelope Finnel’s mind isn't to be trusted. It’s betrayed her.Unable to escape the imbalance she was born with, waking up in the morning is a never-ending game of Russian Roulette. After moving to a new town, she’s afraid no one will understand the cloud cover above Castle Rain, Washington isn’t the only reason everything’s gloomy...Categorized as:
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Remember Me Forever by Sara Wolf
Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsIsis Blake hasn’t fallen in love in three years, forty-three weeks, and two days. Or so she thinks. The boy she maybe-sort-of-definitely loved and sort-of-maybe-definitely hated has dropped off the face of the planet in the face of tragedy, leaving a Jack Hunter–shaped hole. Determined to be happy, Isis fills it in with lies and puts on a brave smile for her new life at Ohio State University...Categorized as:
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Conquer Your Love by J.C. Reed
Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars · 31 ratingsMeeting Jett was like bad luck. Dangerous. Unpredictable. And better avoided. In his game, the stakes are high. But are they worth the risk? Brooke Stewart, a realtor in New York, finds forgetting is hard, but forgiving is harder. When the man she trusted, betrayed her, the only way to forget is to move on... -
Temper for You by Genna Rulon
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 10 ratings"Life is messy. Love is messier." -Catch and Release Meg Adeio has led a life of isolation—not by choice, by necessity—until one act of heroism forces her out of seclusion. Despite a past shrouded in mystery, Meg is “adopted” by an eclectic group of friends that become the family she never had. Life was good for the first time in… ever... -
Released by Shay Savage
Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsOblivion is a sweet, sweet place. No pain. No disturbing thoughts of the past. No guilt from my recent actions. Deep down, there is still a part of me that knows how screwed up I am. I don’t see a way out, not now. Tria’s gone, and the possibility of her forgiving me in my current state is exactly zero... -
Teen Killers Club by Lily Sparks
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFramed for the murder of her best friend, a young girl joins a super-secret society of teenage assassins to avoid a lifetime behind bars--and discovers her own true self--in this mesmerizing debut novel. Seventeen-year-old Signal Deere has raised eyebrows for years as an unhappy Goth misfit from the trailer park...Categorized as:
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Forget Me Always by Sara Wolf
Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsAll warfare is deception. Even in high school. It’s been nineteen days since Isis Blake forgot about him. The boy she can't quite remember. She's stuck in the hospital with a turban-size bandage on her head, more Jell-o than a human being should ever face, and a tiny bit of localized amnesia. Her only goal? To get out of this place before she becomes a complete nutjob herself...Categorized as:
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Weightless by Kandi Steiner
I remember the lights. I remember I wanted to photograph them, the way the red and blue splashed across his cold, emotionless face. But I knew even if my feet could move from the place where they had cemented themselves to the ground and I could run for my camera, I wouldn’t be able to capture that moment...Categorized as:
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Clarity - The Complete Series by Loretta Lost
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThis bundle contains all three books in the Clarity series: Clarity Clarity 2 Clarity 3 Synopsis: Her world has always been dark, but he might be able to change everything... Fiercely independent Helen Winters was born completely blind, but she vowed never to let her disability keep her down... -
The Flowers of Evil, Vol. 1 by Shuzo Oshimi
Rated: 3.81 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsTakao Kasuga is a bookworm. And his favorite book right now is Baudelaire's Flowers of Evil. While the young man may often be seen lost in thought as he rabidly consumes page after page, Takao is not much of a student. Actually when we are first introduced to the middle school teen, we find him sneaking some reading as he receives and F on a recent language exam... -
You Don't Know Me by David Klass
Rated: 3.82 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsJohn ("My father named me after a toilet!") wrestles with the certainty that no one really knows him—not in his miserable home, and certainly not at school. It's true that no one can guess his hidden thoughts, which are hilarious, razor-sharp observations about lust, love, tubas, algebra, everything... -
Sometimes Never by Cheryl McIntyre
Rated: 3.81 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsHope didn't have the best role model when it came to relationships. She’s content with her current no-strings-attached extracurricular activity with the lead singer of her band. She’s never believed in love and commitment... -
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How to Kill Men and Get Away With It by Katy Brent
Meet Kitty Collins.FRIEND. LOVER. KILLER.Have you ever walked home at night, keys in hand, ready to throw a punch in self-defence? That’s how it all started. The killing spree, I mean.I sort of tripped into this role… Literally. The first one was following me. That guy from the nightclub who wouldn’t leave me alone. I pushed him, he stumbled, and fell onto his own broken wine bottle. Oops... -
Assuming Names: A Con Artist's Masquerade by Tanya Thompson
Rated: 3.66 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsWhen it was over, there were a lot of questions... -
Welcome to Sugartown by Carmen Jenner
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsAna Belle never wanted anything more than to hang up her apron, jump on her Vespa and ride off into the sunset, leaving Sugartown in the dust. Elijah Cade never wanted anything more than a hot meal, a side of hot arse and a soft place to lay his head at night where he could forget about his past. But you know what they say about wanting: you always want what you can’t have...
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