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  • Say You Swear by Meagan Brandy

    Say You Swear by Meagan Brandy

    Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    A College Romance...Coming February 18th. For years, I’ve dreamt of what college life could bring and while some things changed, there was always one constant. It didn’t matter how wild I allowed my imagination to run, it always led me to the same place in the end. It led me to him. My future was clear, and he was it. Until suddenly ... he wasn’t...
  • The Harder You Fall by L.A. Cotton

    The Harder You Fall by L.A. Cotton

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Cocky football players, school rivalry, and the girls who get in their way. Get ready … The Raiders are back for one final play! Mya Hernandez has scars. The kind that run deep and leave marks. Rixon is only supposed to be a temporary place to hide, but it's quickly becoming something more...
  • What the Heart Learns by Jessica Gadziala

    What the Heart Learns by Jessica Gadziala

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Liam has always preferred spending his life inside books, only looking up to occasionally growl at customers in his shop. Until the day someone new comes to town. A woman who could keep up with him, someone who sees beyond his guards, who makes him want something decidedly non -fiction for a change. The only problem is, Riley has a secret. One that just might tear them apart...
  • The Jock by Tal Bauer

    The Jock by Tal Bauer

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Wes Van de Hoek clawed his way off his family’s West Texas ranch under the Friday night lights, earning a football scholarship to the state’s best university. Three years in, he has it all: he’s the starting tight end, team captain, and, according to ESPN, maybe the best college football player in the nation. But he’s been keeping a secret from everyone...
  • Styx & Stones by Carmen Jenner

    Styx & Stones by Carmen Jenner

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    We thought we had forever. We were wrong. Alaska Stone is everything I've ever dreamed of. For years, I’ve watched her in the halls, wanted her, but she never knew I existed. Not until she walked into my chemo session. For me, it was love at first sight. For her? It might take a little longer. But hey, it’s not like we’re on a deadline or anything...
  • Sombra by Leslie McAdam

    Sombra by Leslie McAdam

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Everything in moderation. Including virtue. I step off the plane in Madrid and meet his warm eyes. His crooked smile. His devastating charm. Worse, he’s courteous. Honorable. Sensuous. Impossibly attractive. Tavo awakens my desires—my body—without even touching it. I don’t want to be attracted to him. I’ve made my promises. My future has already been determined. I'm wearing a ring...
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    angst  drama  multi-pov  steamy  university  adult  book  contemporary
  • Now Open Your Eyes by Nicole Fiorina, Oliver Masters

    Now Open Your Eyes by Nicole Fiorina, Oliver Masters

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    MIA. It was so close, I'd tasted it–the freedom. But the only thing I could taste now was the end. Over the last two years, I’d let all outside forces dictate my life, my feelings, my head. I’d allowed everyone to control what my punishment should be for all my wrong-doings. I’d been tested and learned my lesson. I’d paid my dues and suffered long enough...
  • No Regrets Book 1 by Aimee Noalane

    No Regrets Book 1 by Aimee Noalane

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    He left you. He's gone. And so are you. If life ever taught me anything, it's that nothing should be taken for granted. One moment... is all it takes to break a promise. Friendship becomes love. One second... is all takes to end a life. Love becomes pain. One distraction... is all it took to change our destiny. Pain becomes hate. One moment, one second, one distraction...
  • Under a Different Sky by Lindsey Iler

    Under a Different Sky by Lindsey Iler

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    My life is a mess. I'm walking around with a black eye. My position on the hockey team is questionable at best, and if that’s not bad enough, I think I'm falling for my dead girlfriend's best friend. Every day, it's a fight to feel alive, and yet, I drink to numb the pain. Everyone is standing back, watching me fall apart. Everyone except Hannah...
  • Melody by Helen Hardt

    Melody by Helen Hardt

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    He’s the melody in her mind… Beautiful Brianna Steel has her life planned out. Graduate college early. Check. Work with her father in the Steel family orchard. Check. Marry Jesse Pike. No check there. Jesse has never given her a look. Finagling her way onto a rock and roll tour with Jesse and his band, Dragonlock, should help move her final goal along. At least Brianna hopes it will...
  • 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...
  • 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
  • Evolve Series Box Set by S.E. Hall

    Evolve Series Box Set by S.E. Hall

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Fall in love with The Evolve Series by NYTimes & USA Today Bestselling author S.E...
  • Dying Wish by Margaret McHeyzer

    Dying Wish by Margaret McHeyzer

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    I have three major loves in my life: my family, my best friend Becky, and ballet. Elijah Turner is quickly becoming the fourth.He's been around as long as I can remember. But now he's much more than just the annoying guy at school.My life was working out perfectly...until it got turned upside down...
  • Taming Trouble by Jiffy Kate

    Taming Trouble by Jiffy Kate

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The day Tucker Benoit left his father's farm in French Settlement to pursue his love of music was the best day of his life. Or so he thought... After years of booze, girls, drugs, and gigs, Tucker finds himself back where he started. Only this time, he finds solace on the farm that once isolated him from the world...
  • Rapture by Skye Jordan

    Rapture by Skye Jordan

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    New York Times bestselling author Skye Jordan brings you another steamy Renegades story! As a premier stuntwoman in Hollywood, Zahara Parrish is no stranger to risk. Neglected as a child, she learned early on never to depend on others to keep her safe. Now, she’s as protective over her heart as she is over her hard earned success, which is why she’ll never mix business and pleasure...
  • Tyson by Sheridan Anne

    Tyson by Sheridan Anne

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Brylee - It was supposed to be a one-time thing which quickly turned into two, and then three. Don’t ask me how, but now I can't seem count the times on one hand, let alone two. I'm in trouble. I never intended for this to be something more, but he has the ability to keep drawing me back in. He's coming for me. He's always wanted more, but this time, I don't think he's going to let me go...
  • Tragic Lies by L.A. Cotton

    Tragic Lies by L.A. Cotton

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    From bestselling author of the Rixon Raiders comes a new spin-off next generation series. More angst...More drama...More Raiders...
  • STEPDORK by A.E. Murphy

    STEPDORK by A.E. Murphy

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Raven and Travis sitting in a tree, doing things they shouldn’t be. HA… yeah, right. Raven hates her stepbrother with a passion, and she’s certain Travis returns the sentiment because he makes life at home with him hell. He ruined her favorite T-shirt, damn it...
  • Mistletoe Baby by Taryn Quinn

    Mistletoe Baby by Taryn Quinn

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    I wasn't looking for my very own Cinderella...but I found her.Braking too fast when it's snowing? Bad.Crashing your new sports car? Worse.Kissing a beautiful stranger with lips that taste like vanilla who flees without sharing her digits...or even her name? Worst of all.But I was determined not to leave small town Crescent Cove before Christmas without finding my gorgeous mysterious woman...
  • Expect Me by Lacey Black

    Expect Me by Lacey Black

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Travis Stevens struggles to move on and forget about the one amazing night he spent tangled up in the sheets with a beautiful woman who disappeared just before dawn. Now she’s just a memory that he can’t ignore...
  • Learning to Heal by R.D. Cole

    Learning to Heal by R.D. Cole

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    "If Fools rush in, then most people in love are idiots. And I'm the biggest one of all." -Jazz Meet Jasmine Coleman. She's the girl that's outgoing, beautiful, and full of self-assurance- a confidence that’s forced to cover the scars she hides. When rushing into love becomes a heartbreaking mistake the last piece of it disappears...
  • See Through Heart by Amie Knight

    See Through Heart by Amie Knight

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Ainsley came into my life in a flurry of vibrant colors, lighting my world up when all seemed lost. It wasn’t our quiet nights by the creek or stolen kisses surrounded by a sea of cotton that saved me. It was her. She was my comfort when life threw one ugly tragedy after another at me. Until she dealt me the greatest blow...
  • The Price of Mason by Linda Kage

    The Price of Mason by Linda Kage

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    I might’ve ruined any chance I ever had at a meaningful relationship when I decided to become a male prostitute at eighteen, but that was okay. I paid off my mom’s debt, the rent, my sister’s hospital bills. I put food on the table and kept eviction notices at bay. It was worth it...
  • Maybe Now by Colleen Hoover

    Maybe Now by Colleen Hoover

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    What is more important? Friendship, loyalty or love? Colleen Hoover and Griffin Peterson collaborate once again to bring fans of Maybe Someday back into the musical world of Ridge Lawson and Sydney Blake. And Maggie. And Warren and Bridgette. This full length novel is a follow-up to the New York Times bestselling novel, Maybe Someday...
  • Because of Ellison by M.S. Willis

    Because of Ellison by M.S. Willis

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    When I was nineteen years old, I lived for sex, drugs and a good party. I had it all - good looks, a fast car and a hot girlfriend. Nothing in life was more important. That was, until I met Ellison James…. Since the moment I first saw her she was a raging bull; tackling me in the mud and throwing out insults as fast as her tongue could form the sound...
  • Beyond These Walls by J.L. Berg, Jovana Shirley

    Beyond These Walls by J.L. Berg, Jovana Shirley

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Happily ever after. That was what we were supposed to have. Pudding cups, sandy toes and a lifetime of making each and every one of our dreams come true—that is the future I’d promised her. I could see it in my dreams, hold it in my hands, but then I watched as all of our hopes and wishes suddenly slipped through my fingers like sand...
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    angst  drama  multi-pov  sad  steamy  adult  audiobook  book
  • Perfecting Patience by Tabatha Vargo

    Perfecting Patience by Tabatha Vargo

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Sometimes happy endings are just the beginning of an even harder road. Although her aunt and sister believe she should get help to deal with her past demons, Patience believes the only thing she needs is Zeke. When he comes back into her world, her life couldn’t be more perfect. Except old demons pick the worst time to surface, and once again their happiness is threatened...
  • Falling for Hadie by Komal Kant

    Falling for Hadie by Komal Kant

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    “Sometimes there is a single moment that changes your life forever.” Hadie Swinton is giving up on boys. After a disastrous relationship, she is convinced that all males are the same—arrogant, self-assured, and complete jerks. Lincoln Bracks is giving up on his old life. After moving to a new town to escape the problems plaguing him, he is set against ever getting close to anyone again...
    Categorized as:
    angst  drama  high-school  multi-pov  realistic  sad  university  book
  • Backdraft by H.M. Ward

    Backdraft by H.M. Ward

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    When Mari realizes that Trystan is the internet megastar, Day Jones, she can’t speak. Every time she listens to his song, it leaves her feeling so much. That song is bewitching. Everyone she knows heard it. As soon as it appeared on YouTube, it went viral, and then the guy who wrote it disappeared. Despite agents and record labels trying to lure Day5705 out, he remains anonymous...
  • Only One by Tammy Falkner

    Only One by Tammy Falkner

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    He knows the value of life. She's still learning...
  • Lost to You by A.L. Jackson

    Lost to You by A.L. Jackson

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    People come into our lives. Some stay, and many go. Some build us up, while most tear us down. They become our friends, our enemies, our lovers, our tormentors. Christian Davison came into mine, and I knew I’d never be the same. To Elizabeth Ayers, New York City had always been a dream. She’s worked her entire young life to make it here...
  • Runaways by Nicole Dykes

    Runaways by Nicole Dykes

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Runaways . . .You’ve heard about kids running away, but do we ever truly know why they run?Rae and Law had no choice. Forced to run when life let them down, when it was either leave or be subjected to an unimaginable fate.Can they survive?Two young people, completely alone on the streets with nothing but each other.This is their story...
  • Just Like the Movies by Natasha Preston

    Just Like the Movies by Natasha Preston

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    He was mine for ten years, and now he belongs to Hollywood. Spencer Lowe, Hollywood’s newest golden boy, has hit the big time. Coming from a small town in England, he never imagined starring in a movie or becoming a household name. Offers from producers come as fast as offers from women...
  • Wet Dreams by Emily Bishop

    Wet Dreams by Emily Bishop

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    I knew with one look. She’s the one. The face of my modeling agency empire. What are the chances I would find her working at the local diner? Years of fake Barbie’s have built a fortress around me. Demi’s not like the others. We have a real connection. One that makes it hard to keep it professional. I’ll smile. She’ll blush. I’ll rise to the occasion. She’ll bend over backwards to accommodate...
  • Sean by Sheridan Anne

    Sean by Sheridan Anne

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Sean -I’m a shell of the man I used to be.Three years ago, my world shattered.My wife died the day my daughter was born and she took my soul with her.I’ve never been able to get it back.Not until she came and saved me.Gigi -He came storming into my ER screaming for help.I never thought that moment would define the rest of my life.He’s broken and tortured, but not for long...
  • Say You're Mine by Siobhan Davis

    Say You're Mine by Siobhan Davis

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    I never intended to fall in love. This girl had goals and guys were an unwelcome distraction.Until I met Garrick, my sophomore year of college, and he blasted through the walls I kept around my heart, tearing them down.He knew what he wanted, and he wanted me.Falling hard and fast, I experienced the rollercoaster highs and lows of first love...
  • CLOSER by Carmen Jenner

    CLOSER by Carmen Jenner

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Levi Quinn has it all—money, groupies, a panty-melting smile, and a really big d*ck. At least, he had it all. Until an angry redhead joined the Taint world tour and turned his life upside-down. Levi fell in love with her. His bandmate did too. It did not end well...
  • Forever Us by Rebel Hart

    Forever Us by Rebel Hart

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The HEA that Rae and Clinton really deserve.College wasn't kind to Clinton and Rae, but they somehow made it out to the other side. With jobs they adore and an apartment that's growing much too small, they find themselves on the brink of a massive life achievement. Excitement is mounting. Surprises are around every corner.But one particular surprise catches both of them off-guard...
  • Wilder Mind by Taryn Quinn

    Wilder Mind by Taryn Quinn

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Forever is the lyric he has on repeat.   Rockstar Myles Vaughn quit his band to escape the pressures of fame. He’s ready to leave LA and the glamorous music scene behind, but only if he has his best friend, Felicity Hudson, by his side.   And in his bed, clad in nothing but her tattoos...
  • Echoes of Us by Carina Adams

    Echoes of Us by Carina Adams

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Young love.Unpredictable. Fleeting. They say it never lasts.Falling in love when you’re a teenager isn’t supposed to shape your life, but it had defined us.I was fifteen when I fell for the boy with stars in his eyes. At seventeen, desperate to fight the currents pulling us apart, against our families’ wishes, I married him...
  • Provocative by Alex Lucian

    Provocative by Alex Lucian

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Coming home to a quiet, dark house. Meals by myself, because she was already done. Excuses and apologies, they were never enough. But even with that, when I touched her-when she arched under me and pulled me deeper- we couldn't get back to where we needed to be. Where we used to be. It was all frustration. Loneliness. Loss...
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    angst  high-school  multi-pov  sad  steamy  university  adult  age-gap
  • The Hazards of Sex on the Beach by Alyssa Rose Ivy

    The Hazards of Sex on the Beach by Alyssa Rose Ivy

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    One broken heart, one drink too many, one steamy night in the sand... No one warns you about the dangers of drinking with a broken heart. At least no one warned me. I never imagined I'd fall for a musician, especially not one like Chase, but then again I never expected to have my heart broken into a million pieces by the frat guy I thought was the love of my life...
  • Unforgettable by Marley Valentine

    Unforgettable by Marley Valentine

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    One night with Reeve Hale wasn’t enough. I knew it when I kissed him, I knew it when I slept with him, and I was certain of it when I walked out of his motel room the very next day. So when the shy, gorgeous man is introduced as our newest employee at Vino and Veritas, I can’t help but conjure up all the ridiculous ways to convince him to repeat that unforgettable night...
  • My Butterfly by Laura Miller

    My Butterfly by Laura Miller

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    If you got a second chance to be with your first love, would you take it? "This is pure romance at its best." ~Romantic Reading Escapes "One of the most beautiful love stories I have ever read." ~Jelena's Book Blog From the author who brought you the national bestselling novel Butterfly Weeds comes the heartwarming story of small-town firefighter Will Stephens...
    Categorized as:
    angst  drama  high-school  sad  university  book  contemporary  fiction
  • 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...
    Categorized as:
    angst  drama  friends-to-lovers  multi-pov  sad  steamy  adult  book
  • Temptation by J.D. Hawkins

    Temptation by J.D. Hawkins

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    What happens when the boy you've wanted your whole life finally wants you back? I'm used to taking what I want, being the best at what I do. During the day, I make big bucks as New York's premiere consultant. At night, I can get any girl I lay my eyes on...
  • Wake by Abria Mattina

    Wake by Abria Mattina

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Eighteen isn’t too young to run your life into the ground, but it’s not too old to fix it, either. The desire for change drives Willa Kirk from St. John’s, Newfoundland back to her hometown of Smiths Falls, Ontario, away from her mistakes and the place where her sister died...
  • Toe the Line by Penelope Ward

    Toe the Line by Penelope Ward

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    From New York Times bestselling author Penelope Ward comes a friends-to-lovers story spanning more than a decade…At first, I thought I’d hate spending the summer with Archie Remington—the conceited son of my parents’ friends. What I knew about Archie: he was gorgeous, pre-law, and had always treated me like I didn’t exist when we were younger...
  • The Temptation of Dirty Secrets by Holly Renee

    The Temptation of Dirty Secrets by Holly Renee

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Captivating. Vulnerable. Agonizing. Seductive. Frankie Clermont was supposed to be like a sister to me for as long as I’d known her. But no one knew the depths of our lies. I had been in love with her before… before everything changed what we could be. Undeniably connected and effortlessly infatuated, the two of us had remained each other’s weaknesses through everything...
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