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  • Pulse by Gail McHugh

    Pulse by Gail McHugh

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    How do you keep existing when your heart is so splintered, so completely torn to shreds, your pulse is fading?You’re… broken. How do you move forward when every breath is nothing more than a constant ache? Living becomes an insidious reminder that you threw away the single largest part of yourself. Your… soul. No amount of distraction can pull you from the torture of losing your… life...
  • Collide by Gail McHugh

    Collide by Gail McHugh

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    Her mind tried to fight a bloody battle against what her body already knew. She wanted him, and she wanted him bad.On the heels of college graduation and the unexpected death of her mother, Emily Cooper moves to New York City to join her boyfriend for a fresh start...
  • Exposed by Raven St. Pierre

    Exposed by Raven St. Pierre

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Librarian's note: Alternate cover edition of ASIN B00KOIW1T6. Walking away seemed like her only option. Letting go was the one thing he couldn’t do. Sam and AJ have spent the last five years trying to get over their painful breakup. Both have moved on, but neither has fully healed from the wounds of the past...
  • Shattered Legacy : A Dark Bully Romance by Caitlyn Dare

    Shattered Legacy : A Dark Bully Romance by Caitlyn Dare

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Mia Thompson wants only one thing: to survive Gravestone University, graduate, and get far far away from her hometown and its archaic traditions.But she’s about to become a pawn in a game she doesn’t understand.Bexley Danforth wants only one thing: to keep his head down, survive four years at college, and get far far away from his past and the mistakes that haunt him...
  • Vengeful Rotten Casualties by Lucy Smoke

    Vengeful Rotten Casualties by Lucy Smoke

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    I sold my soul to the devil only to turn around and slit his throat… Thomas Kincaid took everything from me. My mother. My hopes. My innocence.Now, it’s my turn.He thought he was safe.They all did.They were wrong.Men always think they can take without ever having to deal with the consequences. Well, now I’m back, and I'm the last consequence they’ll ever see...
  • Sail by M. Mabie

    Sail by M. Mabie

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    This isn’t just a two-year long one-night stand. It’s my life. This is my life. Our life. It isn’t just some careless affair. I’ve made the worst decisions a woman could, but I’ll earn my second chance. She can try keeping all the guilt for herself, but I’m just as much to blame. Loving Casey wasn’t my biggest mistake. Fighting it for so long was. I’ll show her how fearless our love makes me...
  • Away by B.A. Wolfe

    Away by B.A. Wolfe

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    What good is running AWAY when you only end up lost? Cassandra Pierce had her whole "perfect" life planned out by her parents. One night of pure weakness and lust has her running away from it all and seeking refuge in Alamosa with her best friend. But it seems life has other plans for her when she finds herself lost in the small town of Keaton. Jason Bradley is a charming country guy...
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    angst  drama  realistic  sad  steamy  university  book  contemporary
  • Torn Hearts by Claire Contreras, Madison Seidler

    Torn Hearts by Claire Contreras, Madison Seidler

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    **This novella is part of the Kaleidoscope Hearts Series, and is meant to be read in between Kaleidoscope Hearts and Paper Hearts (which releases September 10, 2015).** I met a boy once. He made my heart go into a frenzy every time he looked at me, and my knees go weak whenever he touched me. The beginning of our love was beautiful that even its demise was bittersweet. I met a girl once...
  • Savage Reckoning by T.L Smith

    Savage Reckoning by T.L Smith

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    She was everything, yet she was nothing. She was there, then she wasn’t. I didn’t expect her, never wanted her. But there she was, everywhere yet nowhere. She drew me in with her looks. Locked me with her first words, then stole me with her lust. She was everything I didn’t know I was searching for, yet nothing I needed. She was a conundrum, difficult and confusing...
  • The Other Daughter by Janet Nissenson

    The Other Daughter by Janet Nissenson

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Twenty-one year-old Scarlett Strohman has had to walk a difficult path thus far in her young life. Raised by a neglectful mother and an alcoholic grandmother before entering the foster care system, she's never met the father who abandoned her before birth. Scarlett is tough, embittered, and has a chip on her shoulder that's nearly as big as her goal to make something meaningful out of her life...
  • I'm With You by Taylor Dean

    I'm With You by Taylor Dean

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Alternate Cover Edition ASIN B00JNYQCUQ ISBN 978-1493659142 Same book, new cover! Can three little words irrevocably change your life? When the doctors inform Chloe Brennan that her pregnancy is “incompatible with life,” her subsequent choices will change her path forever...
    Categorized as:
    angst  cheating  domestic-drama  drama  grief  sad  adult  betrayal
  • A Vow to Cherish by Deborah Raney

    A Vow to Cherish by Deborah Raney

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The battle they face will either ruin them or bring the deepest fulfillment they could ever know. When his precious wife receives a devastating diagnosis, John Brighton feels his world has fallen apart. As Ellen slips away from him day by day, their love is tested as never before...
    Categorized as:
    angst  cheating  domestic-drama  drama  love-triangle  sad  adult  book
  • Metamorphosis by Erin Noelle

    Metamorphosis by Erin Noelle

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Scarlett MacGregor has lived a very sheltered life courtesy of her over-the-top controlling parents. Having never been to a co-ed party, much less on a date, Scarlett has relied on her books, her music, and living vicariously through her best friend Evie to keep her sanity as she's patiently awaited her freedom from their rule...
  • Dusty by YellowBella, TeamBella23

    Dusty by YellowBella, TeamBella23

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Now published as InnocentsShe loves him. He loves her crazy. She's a hopeless romantic. He's just hopeless. She's afraid to let go. He won't let her. A story about a silly girl in love with a foolish boy. Here, forever is a lie...
  • Trashy Foreplay by Gemma James

    Trashy Foreplay by Gemma James

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Never flirt with temptation. Never lust after what I can’t have. And never, under any circumstances, screw a married man again. By the time this story is told, I’ll have failed at all three… With my heart and reputation in ruins, I can’t afford to make another mistake...
  • Chasing Us: A Second Chance Love Triangle by Kat T. Masen

    Chasing Us: A Second Chance Love Triangle by Kat T. Masen

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    I was never supposed to fall in love with a married man. My best friend’s brother. I’d made too many mistakes in my past. Like last night—when I married Lex Edwards impulsively. In a bid to finally find their happily ever after, Lex and Charlie find themselves on a journey of learning how to love again. They began a new future to move forward from a broken past, finally together at last...
  • Ambrosia by Erin Noelle

    Ambrosia by Erin Noelle

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    After coming to terms with the tragedy that rocked her world, Scarlett MacGregor has returned to try to pick up the pieces of the broken relationships that she left behind. Ash and Mason were left devastated and heartbroken following Scarlett’s sudden, unannounced departure. They are both ready and willing to forgive her and welcome her back into their lives with open arms...
  • Before Now by Cheryl McIntyre

    Before Now by Cheryl McIntyre

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Park Reed is a bastard in every sense of the word. He hasn't always been this way. But after his heart was broken by the only girl he ever loved, being heartless gets him through the day and allows him to fill his nights with the nameless girls he has no intentions of seeing again. He now lives his life following his ever-growing list of “life lessons.”Lucy Braden is everything Park is not...
  • You're Mine Tonight by Lucia Franco

    You're Mine Tonight by Lucia Franco

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    I’m a lover and a player, a Hollywood socialite with a reputation I strive to live up to. But when I meet Brody, my soul ignites with an ombré of colors. The tortured artist is a dangerous addiction, and the perfect companion to my party girl ways.Then I meet River at an audition to play his co-star. He’s a slow burn that soothes my reckless heart...
  • Kin Series Complete Set by Jennifer Foor

    Kin Series Complete Set by Jennifer Foor

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The Full Kin Series including an exclusive Novella, Renew Me. Following this family of cousins while they struggle through life and each find love...
  • No Quarter by Kelli Jean, Jovana Shirley

    No Quarter by Kelli Jean, Jovana Shirley

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Kenna “All of his pain, I was always the cause of it. Even if indirectly. All roads led to Kenna, I supposed.” My Madman brings me to life—but it comes at a price. I’m the one who faces his demons when they decide to crawl out of the hell inside his head. One thing is certain: it’s not my forgiveness that is needed. Phil must forgive himself before there’s chance for us...
  • The Dark Angel Series Box Set by Kat T. Masen

    The Dark Angel Series Box Set by Kat T. Masen

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Complete box set of the Dark Angel series (4 books) Into the darkness – Book 1 What began as an affair seven years earlier has since become a tragic love story, a tale of two souls fighting to be together with only their love to guide them. But as people make mistakes, they find themselves once again reliving the past, asking the questions that have remained unanswered. Until now...
  • Lithium Tides: A Lithium Springs Novel by Carmel Rhodes

    Lithium Tides: A Lithium Springs Novel by Carmel Rhodes

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Whose bed is this? That was Kensie’s first thought as she peeled her eyes open to find herself in an unfamiliar room. She noted the crumpled red dress, tiny black thong, and Louboutin heels in the corner. Whose arms are these? That was her second thought as the tattooed arms engulfing her tightened their grip. Her phone buzzed on the nightstand...
  • His Best Friend  (A MFM Ménage) by Vivian Ward

    His Best Friend (A MFM Ménage) by Vivian Ward

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Falling for him could ruin everything. We had everything, the kind of love that only exists in fairy tales. Our love was stronger than the homes my husband builds until the walls of our marriage began crumbling around us. Slowly, everything began slipping away. When the weight of everything came crashing down on me, Harley was there...
  • Secret Love by Isabella White, Regina Wamba

    Secret Love by Isabella White, Regina Wamba

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Guarding a secret and playing with fire has never been a good combination. Four years ago, Holly Scallenger embarked on the most difficult journey of her life. As if being a single parent isn't already stressful enough, Holly also attended med-school, in hopes of heping other pregnant women in a way she wasn't helped...
  • KEPT: A Second Chance Fairy Tale by A.C. Bextor

    KEPT: A Second Chance Fairy Tale by A.C. Bextor

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    KEPT is a 368-page stand-alone contemporary romance novel written for those who still believe in fairy tales. A complete love story. No cliffhanger. Please note: Due to content, this book should not be read by those under the age of 18. Michael   She’s a pain in my ass. She’s everything I know I don’t want or need. She’s the reason I’ve fought the darkness for so long...
  • Regrets by Nicole Dykes

    Regrets by Nicole Dykes

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Healing after a tragedy is hard enough. Doing it when you’re haunted by past betrayal and so many things left unsaid?Feels nearly hopeless...
  • His to Cherish by Stacey Lynn

    His to Cherish by Stacey Lynn

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Can two hearts entwined by hardship move on to form a healthy bond? From the author of His to Love and His to Protect, this tender, bittersweet romance brings together a man who loses everything—and a woman with everything to give...
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    angst  drama  grief  multi-pov  sad  steamy  adult  book
  • Chance by G. Bailey

    Chance by G. Bailey

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The Kings are dangerous, that's what everyone says, but how can Maisy run from a second chance with the man she has always loved? 

I've been called a lot of names. Heartbreaker, broken, dirty fighter, and yet the one I'd never thought I'd be called, is the only name I care about now, father.
Sebastian King has only ever loved one girl, but he lost her once, and he won't be doing it again...
  • Untimely You by K. Webster

    Untimely You by K. Webster

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    He can't love her. It simply won't work. Besides, he's already bound to the prison he created. A life that owns him. She craves to help him. She'll make it work. His secrets test the limits of her sanity and morals. Yet he owns her. The chains will break free. The demon will be released. And he'll be hungry for...her...
  • The Beats in Rift by Ker Dukey

    The Beats in Rift by Ker Dukey

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    I was invisible, until they saw me. When circumstance forced me and the Jacob twins to spend two weeks of the summer together, the bond we formed would impact us all, altering our lives. Fate, entwining us forever. They became my best friends, my family, my first love...
  • Rose of Thorne by Mia Michelle

    Rose of Thorne by Mia Michelle

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    When a drunk driver tragically orphans Skylar Rose at the age of sixteen, she leaves her dreams behind and takes on the daunting task of helping her elderly grandmother raise her young sister. While other girls her age were living a typical carefree life, she was picking up double shifts at a local café and struggling to pay the bills...
  • Afraid to Fly by S.L. Jennings

    Afraid to Fly by S.L. Jennings

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Dominic Trevino had been called a lot of things.Manwhore.Womanizer.Slut.But he was most notoriously known as Dirty Dom.Because that was who he was…for the most part.It just wasn’t all he was.His tortured past was as stained as his licentious reputation, and that was exactly how he’d designed it...
    Categorized as:
    angst  cheating  dark  domestic-drama  multi-pov  sad  steamy  abuse
  • The Edge of Darkness by Melissa Andrea

    The Edge of Darkness by Melissa Andrea

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Librarian's Note: This is an alternate cover for ASIN B00D4AAU08 I loved to dance, but I don’t anymore. I was in an accident I don’t remember… or maybe I don’t want to remember. Either way, every day since, has been… an adjustment and I’m left with a constant reminder that nothing is forever. Now, my life is a tangled web of darkness filled with deceit, hate, betrayal and lies...
    Categorized as:
    angst  dark  drama  forbidden-love  multi-pov  sad  steamy  university
  • Replace Me by Jennifer Foor

    Replace Me by Jennifer Foor

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Replace Me is book 2 in the ongoing KIN series. To get the best enjoyment, and be able to follow the storyline and characters, please read book 1, Repair Me, prior to reading this book. Lacey Travis has wanted Shayne Hutchinson since she was 15, when they first met at the beach and she was just a blip on his radar. As adults, they finally begin dating...
  • Twisted Affair Vol. 4 by M.S. Parker

    Twisted Affair Vol. 4 by M.S. Parker

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    My life was almost back on track. I actually enjoyed my job. I had a gorgeous wife who my family loved, and an equally gorgeous girlfriend who I loved. But I couldn't shake this feeling that it was all going to hell soon. As Blayne Westmore tries to juggle the woman he's married to and the woman he's in love with, he begins to see that things aren't as simple as he'd hoped...
  • Interrupted by Amy Queau

    Interrupted by Amy Queau

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Librarian's note: This is an alternate cover edition for ASIN: B00DXH238Y. After the emotional turmoil that was ‘Jesse’ subsides, Charlie manages to find peace with her decision to leave him, despite her conscience telling her otherwise. Saying goodbye to the drama proves to be an easier task than she anticipated...
  • Sweet Alibi by Adriane Leigh

    Sweet Alibi by Adriane Leigh

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    From USA Today Bestselling author Adriane Leigh comes a passionate contemporary romance about giving in to desire so sharp and sweet it threatens to consume... Georgia Montgomery is desperate for an escape from the life she’s been leading. The perfect job, the perfect apartment, the perfect boyfriend—all are on the cusp of driving her over the edge...
  • Breathing You In by S. Moose

    Breathing You In by S. Moose

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Tragedy brings them together. Life may tear them apart. Two years after losing my wife and unborn child, I’m at rock bottom. I blanket my life with addictions to ease the pain. Until life takes me on a detour, guiding me for a path I never expected...
    Categorized as:
    angst  cheating  domestic-drama  drama  sad  adult  betrayal  book
  • Wicked Prince by Fawn Bailey

    Wicked Prince by Fawn Bailey

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Book 2 of The Dazzling Court...
  • Filthy 5 by Megan D. Martin

    Filthy 5 by Megan D. Martin

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The fifth installment in the Filthy serial novel. Faye didn’t choose her path. Not really. She didn’t choose the drugs. The sex. She didn’t choose Taylor. But those are the things she ended up with. The fifth installment in the Filthy Serial Novel. Faye wants a choice now. She knows who she wants...
  • Sinful Desires: Vol. I by M.S. Parker

    Sinful Desires: Vol. I by M.S. Parker

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Why in the world had I agreed to go home for my five-year reunion when I hated pretty much all of my classmates? Right, because I was an idiot. I should've known better. When Las Vegas exotic dancer, Piper Black, goes back to Philadelphia for her reunion, she knows it's not going to be an enjoyable experience, and she's right...until she ends up sleeping with her high school crush...
  • The Muse by L.M. Halloran

    The Muse by L.M. Halloran

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Iris Eliot has survived a lot in her twenty-seven years, but she refuses to be labelled a victim. Now in her final year of graduate school, her dream is within reach. She’s ready to put the past behind her and embrace whatever the future brings. Until the future brings him...
  • The Evolution of Ivy: Poison: A psychological stalker romance by Lauren Campbell

    The Evolution of Ivy: Poison: A psychological stalker romance by Lauren Campbell

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Romance and Mental Instability collide in this gasp-worthy tale. STRONG LANGUAGE. STRONG SEXUAL CONTENT. Book 2 releasing in May. BLURB: "They won't recognize the new me. But they know the old me well—the me she harmed, and the me he loved. She thinks she has him. But I'm going to take him back. He thinks she's the one. But I'm going to show him he's wrong. I thought it was over...
  • Begin Again by Tamsyn Bester

    Begin Again by Tamsyn Bester

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    One year ago, Brody Scott made the biggest mistake of his life and has lived with his regret every day since then… One year ago, Demetria ‘Demi’ Rosemead watched the love of her life turn his back on her, leaving her to face one of the hardest things she’s ever had to go through on her own...
  • A Love so Tragic by Stevie J. Cole

    A Love so Tragic by Stevie J. Cole

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Promises. We all make them. Sometimes we break them. But what happens when the promise you break haunts your dreams, when that moment of betrayal echoes within every last beat of your heart? Love. Love is passionate, painful, and all consuming in the most brutal yet beautiful way...
  • The Ground Rules Rewritten by Roya Carmen

    The Ground Rules Rewritten by Roya Carmen

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Five simple rules. And it was very simple…until it wasn’t.It could have been much worse. We weren’t thinking straight and had put everything on the line – risking our marriages. So when Weston ended the arrangement, it was for the best – for all of us. But I was still heartbroken. I thought I’d shatter into a million pieces. I didn’t, I survived...
  • Torrid Affair by Callie Anderson

    Torrid Affair by Callie Anderson

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    I’m f*cked. The life I have lived for the past ten years is built solely on lies and secrets. But I can’t help myself. I’m in love with two different men. And one of them is my brother-in-law. He’s my drug. My fire. My addiction. But he’s married to my best friend. And I’m married to my husband. I’m not ashamed. I have no guilt. None. I’m not only f*cked. I’m a f*cked up person...
  • Fixated on You by Pamela Ann

    Fixated on You by Pamela Ann

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Emma Anderson’s career was thriving. Her personal life too—but she knew—it was all a ticking time bomb until everything blows up. What happens then? Even if he’s relationship with Emma was going great, Bass Cole still had a long way to go to make amends after the grief he’d caused Emma last year. No matter what the future held for them, he knew one thing—Emma owned his heart...
  • Something Real by Lexi Ryan

    Something Real by Lexi Ryan

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    After everything blew up on Christmas, Liz walked away from me, and I let her. She said she needed space and a chance to pursue her dreams. But we both knew she was running from the mess she made...
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