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  • November 9 by Colleen Hoover

    November 9 by Colleen Hoover

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 51 ratings
    Beloved #1 New York Times bestselling author Colleen Hoover returns with an unforgettable love story between a writer and his unexpected muse.Fallon meets Ben, an aspiring novelist, the day before her scheduled cross-country move. Their untimely attraction leads them to spend Fallon’s last day in L.A...
  • Elude by Rachel Van Dyken

    Elude by Rachel Van Dyken

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    This book is the sixth book in the internationally bestselling Eagle Elite Series. It's an interconnected stand alone novel with no cliffhanger. Twenty-Four hours before we were to be married--I offered to shoot her. Ten hours before our wedding--I made a mockery of her dying wish. Five hours before we were going to say our vows--I promised I'd never love her...
  • Heart Bones: Despre agonia unor inimi frânte by Colleen Hoover

    Heart Bones: Despre agonia unor inimi frânte by Colleen Hoover

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 46 ratings
    Life and a dismal last name are the only two things Beyah Grim's parents ever gave her. After carving her path all on her own, Beyah is well on her way to bigger and better things, thanks to no one but herself...
  • Moonshine Kiss by Lucy Score, Claire Kingsley

    Moonshine Kiss by Lucy Score, Claire Kingsley

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    All those years of adolescent fantasies and this was how Bowie Bodine first touched my boobs. And he apologized. Real life was stupid and unfair. Small town deputy Cassidy Tucker’s dating life is a train wreck on repeat. All she ever wanted was a solid partner. A man to share pajamas with. The handsome, big-hearted Bowie Bodine. Wait. Scratch that. Mr...
  • Always: A Legacy Novel by Bethany-Kris

    Always: A Legacy Novel by Bethany-Kris

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A Legacy Novel A wild boy. A sly girl. Cross Donati defines trouble. He does what he wants because he’s never known anything different. He’s unapologetic, and he owns it. Catherine Marcello is every bit a good girl … on the outside. Her entire world is a legacy, and she lives it. She’s curious, and she’s exploring it. She chases bad things. He never learned to be good...
  • The Brightest Sunset by Aly Martinez

    The Brightest Sunset by Aly Martinez

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Sticks and stones will break my bones, but words will never harm me. Lies. Words destroyed me. “I’m sorry. She didn’t make it.” “Daddy, he can’t breathe!” “There’s nothing more we can do for your son.” Sticks and stones will break my bones, but words will never harm me. More lies. Those syllables and letters became my executioner...
  • Ember by Rachel Van Dyken

    Ember by Rachel Van Dyken

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    I am a Killer. A Rapist. A Monster.I know only pain and survival. That is until the Cappo's sister walked into my life. And changed everything.She's a light who makes my darkness darker, her smile makes my heart turn to ice, and I can't escape the fear her seductive looks instill--knowing it's only a matter of time before I fail--again, and take her for myself.This is the story of my redemption...
  • Wrecked Palace by Catherine Cowles

    Wrecked Palace by Catherine Cowles

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    One night was all it took for everything to change.From college student to guardian in a single breath.My siblings became my world.No time for date nights or romantic dreams.I traded quiet weekends for sleepless nights.Giving my all to make sure they were cared for.But Griffin had a brokenness that called to me—one that mirrored my own.Gruff and just a little bit reckless...
  • Il tuo meraviglioso silenzio by Katja Millay

    Il tuo meraviglioso silenzio by Katja Millay

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 41 ratings
    I live in a world without magic or miracles. A place where there are no clairvoyants or shapeshifters, no angels or superhuman boys to save you. A place where people die and music disintegrates and things suck. I am pressed so hard against the earth by the weight of reality that some days I wonder how I am still able to lift my feet to walk...
  • Undeserving by Madeline Sheehan

    Undeserving by Madeline Sheehan

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Warning: This isn’t a romance, but instead a tale of love between two despairing people, from two different worlds, both aching for something more. Debbie Reynolds is a runaway, New York City-bound...
  • El Santo by M. Robinson

    El Santo by M. Robinson

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    I didn’t know darkness and evil lurked inside me until I had to murder in order to survive. Forced to become my own worst enemy. With so much blood on my hands, I was surprised I could still see my own skin. I killed. I tortured. I loved… I played God while I was rotting in Hell. Thriving on control and power was the only way I knew how to live. There were no other options...
  • More Than We Can Tell by Brigid Kemmerer

    More Than We Can Tell by Brigid Kemmerer

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    Rev Fletcher is battling the demons of his past. But with loving adoptive parents by his side, he’s managed to keep them at bay...until he gets a letter from his abusive father and the trauma of his childhood comes hurtling back.Emma Blue spends her time perfecting the computer game she built from scratch, rather than facing her parents’ crumbling marriage...
  • A Worthy Man by Jaime Reese

    A Worthy Man by Jaime Reese

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A story of two men and the boundless love that forever changed them. Vannguard Shaw has spent the last ten years serving a life sentence and adjusting to the ache of solitude. He accepts his fate, a sacrifice for the only man he ever loved and the one person who saw beyond his rough edges...
  • The Law of Moses by Amy Harmon

    The Law of Moses by Amy Harmon

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 44 ratings
    If I tell you right up front, right in the beginning that I lost him, it will be easier for you to bear. You will know it’s coming, and it will hurt. But you’ll be able to prepare.Someone found him in a laundry basket at the Quick Wash, wrapped in a towel, a few hours old and close to death...
  • Forbidden to Love: A Stand-alone Dark Mafia Second Chance Forbidden Romance by Siobhan Davis, Regina Wamba

    Forbidden to Love: A Stand-alone Dark Mafia Second Chance Forbidden Romance by Siobhan Davis, Regina Wamba

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    A new stand-alone dark mafia romance from USA Today & Wall Street Journal bestselling author, Siobhan Davis.Natalia Mazzone has grown up knowing she is promised to a made man. As the only daughter of one of New York’s most powerful mafia dons, she knows she can’t refuse. It’s her duty, and she would never dishonor her beloved father.But the man she’s promised to is a monster...
  • Keep This Promise by Corinne Michaels

    Keep This Promise by Corinne Michaels

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    I am about to lose everything.My home. My name. My future.My husband was involved in something that could cost us our lives, and on his deathbed, he demands my daughter and I flee Britain. I had no idea he found her biological father, Holden James, in Rose Canyon, and that’s where we’d start over.The moment we see each other, feelings I’d long forgotten rush over me...
  • Sabotaged by Dani Pettrey

    Sabotaged by Dani Pettrey

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Growing up, goody-two-shoes Kirra Jacobs and troublemaker Reef McKenna were always at odds. Now paired together on Yancey's search-and-rescue canine unit, they begin to put aside old arguments as they come to see each other in a different light. Then a call comes in from the Iditarod that will push them to their limits. Kirra's uncle, a musher in the race, has disappeared...
  • The Moth and the Flame by B.B. Reid

    The Moth and the Flame by B.B. Reid

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    They're the best of friends or the worst of friends. Neither one is letting go.THE FLAMEHere lies Louchana Valentine. She was a homeless, orphaned virgin.I never cared what my gravestone would say until I landed in deep with a powerful gangster. Lucky for me, my best friend happens to be ruthless too. I should feel guilty that he's forced to turn on the man who's been a father to him...
  • Deception by Aleatha Romig

    Deception by Aleatha Romig

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    "Infidelity - it isn't what you think" It all began in Del Mar, a chance meeting with a single rule--one week only. Or did it? Lennox ‘Nox’ Demetri and Alexandria ‘Charli’ Collins had every intention of following their agreement but rules are made to be broken. In CUNNING they are reunited with Nox setting down new rules for the game and Charli having no choice but to follow them...
  • The Sweet Gum Tree by Katherine Allred

    The Sweet Gum Tree by Katherine Allred

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Sweet tea, corn bread, and soup beans—everyday fare for eight-year-old Alix French, the precocious darling of a respected southern family. But nothing was ordinary about the day she met ten-year-old Nick Anderson, a boy from the wrong side of town...
  • Redemption by J.M. Darhower

    Redemption by J.M. Darhower

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    In this thrilling and sexy follow-up to Sempre, two young lovers struggle to keep their relationship intact after they become deeply enmeshed in the dangerous mafia-run crime ring they once tried to overthrow.Haven Antonelli and Carmine DeMarco have been through a lot. Haven was taken in by Carmine’s father, and with his family’s help, she escaped a gruesome fate...
  • Wild Like the Wind by Kristen Ashley

    Wild Like the Wind by Kristen Ashley

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    The brother known as Hound has a reputation. He’s all about cracking heads, having a good time, and when the Chaos Motorcycle Club needs someone to do the tough job, they call on him.But Hound has a secret. He fell in love with a woman years ago. She’s untouchable. Unattainable. And even when her status changes, for Hound, it remains the same...
  • Fighting for Us by Claire Kingsley

    Fighting for Us by Claire Kingsley

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    How long would you wait for the love of your life? The Asher Bailey who comes home to his quirky small town isn’t the same man who put a ring on Grace’s finger. He’s bigger, harder, haunted. Forced to give up Grace and everything else that was good in his life for a prison sentence he barely survived...
  • Ugly Love by Colleen Hoover

    Ugly Love by Colleen Hoover

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 56 ratings
    When Tate Collins meets airline pilot Miles Archer, she knows it isn’t love at first sight. They wouldn’t even go so far as to consider themselves friends. The only thing Tate and Miles have in common is an undeniable mutual attraction. Once their desires are out in the open, they realize they have the perfect set-up...
  • Perfect Wreckage (The Wrecked Series) by Catherine Cowles

    Perfect Wreckage (The Wrecked Series) by Catherine Cowles

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    My past taught me to play it safe.To stay far away from handsome men who promised it all.My life was good without them. Stable, secure, predictable. But one kiss showed me that I’d been playing it safe for far too long.One night, and all I wanted was more of his wildfire.One challenge and my carefully constructed walls tumbled down...
  • Boy Shattered by Eli Easton

    Boy Shattered by Eli Easton

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Brian You’ll make it out of here, Brian. I swear. I had everything—school quarterback, popular with girls, and my dad was proud of me. I told myself it didn’t matter no one knew the real me. And then I nearly died. Landon saved my life. He’s the bravest guy I know. He came out a few years ago, proud and fierce, and he ran into gunfire to help others. Me, I’m a mess...
  • Five by J.A. Huss

    Five by J.A. Huss

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Fifty million books ago I promised you a love story about Five and his Princess. This is their story. Five Aston has known Rory Shrike for as long as he can remember. He played with her in the sandbox. He went to every damn horse show just to be supportive...
  • Niro by Jessica Gadziala

    Niro by Jessica Gadziala

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    * You do not need to read the OG Henchmen to read this new series *Joining the MC had never been a question.Raised by an ex-cage-fighting member, Niro hadn’t seen any future for himself that didn’t involve bikes, guns, violence, and the brotherhood he’d learned to revere above all else. But joining the Henchmen meant he couldn’t have the only other thing in life he wanted.Andi...
  • The Color of Joy by Julianne MacLean

    The Color of Joy by Julianne MacLean

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The Color of Joy is USA Today bestselling author Julianne MacLean’s eighth instalment in her popular Color of Heaven series, which has delivered many happy sighs to thousands of readers worldwide and left them clamoring for more...
  • Saltwater Falls by Amelia Addler

    Saltwater Falls by Amelia Addler

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Lights, camera…romance!Now that Connor is home on San Juan Island, he knows it’s time to give up his carefree lifestyle and put down some roots. But then he meets a Hollywood-bound beauty and starts to question everything…Teresa has only one goal. She will succeed as a location scout for her first big-time film. Falling for the distractingly handsome Connor was not on her agenda...
  • When Ashes Fall by Marni Mann

    When Ashes Fall by Marni Mann

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    It’s been said that you can’t love two men at the same time. You can’t split your heart, soul, and body in half. But I’m here to tell you, you can. Dylan Cole is like ice, sharp and unpredictable, the thunder inside a tumultuous storm. Smith Reid is warmth, soft and gentle, perfect like a sunny day. Both are mine. But I can have only one. There are two sides to this tale...
  • A Scarcity of Condors by Suanne Laqueur

    A Scarcity of Condors by Suanne Laqueur

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Juleón "Jude" Tholet has survival in his DNA. His father, Cleón, lived through imprisonment and torture during Pinochet's military coup in Chile. His mother, Penny, risked everything to gain her husband's freedom and flee the country with their newborn son...
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    angst  drama  family  north-america  sad  usa  abuse  book
  • Riot Rules (Crooked Sinners) by Callie Hart

    Riot Rules (Crooked Sinners) by Callie Hart

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    CARRIEYou think you know me, but you’re wrong. You look at me and see Carrie, the girl with the wild hair and the wild clothes.Reliable Carrie. Friendly. Quirky. Perhaps a little strange.What do you really know about me, though? The details of my past are up for debate.I’ve been careful to hide my sins, and even more careful to follow the rules. I do as I’m told. I keep to myself...
  • Still Falling for You by Siobhan Davis

    Still Falling for You by Siobhan Davis

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    An emotional, angsty, second-chance romance from USA Today & Wall Street Journal bestselling author Siobhan Davis. Once there was a boy, with messy blond hair, vibrant blue eyes, and the most dazzling smile, who helped to mend all the dark, broken pieces inside me.Ryder made a bad situation better...
  • Saltwater Studios by Amelia Addler

    Saltwater Studios by Amelia Addler

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    The truth can set you free… or completely destroy you… Morgan Allen has neither the time nor the patience for shenanigans. Running her wedding photography business by day and searching for new evidence in the cold-case death of her mother by night leaves no room in her life for much else...
    Categorized as:
    epic  family  religion  sad  spirituality  adult  audiobook  book
  • 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...
  • The Good Samaritan by R.C. Boldt

    The Good Samaritan by R.C. Boldt

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The biggest story of her life is the one he wants to hide. I’m homeless by choice. I have no intention of returning to my former life after what I’ve done. This—living among the filth and discarded remnants of others—is what I deserve. As atonement for my sins, I give back; I help those who cannot help themselves. But it’s always under the guise of anonymity...
  • Fastball by Lisa Suzanne

    Fastball by Lisa Suzanne

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    It was over as quickly as it started…or at least I thought it was. But as it turns out, I can’t stay away. Life keeps throwing us together, and it seems like she’s everywhere all at once. She’s in the same house as me, in the bedroom next to mine as I dream about what she’s doing in there...
  • Stamos by Kathleen Ball

    Stamos by Kathleen Ball

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Renowned USA Today Bestselling Author Kathleen Ball presents a captivating tale of redemption and love in her latest release, a Sweet Contemporary Western Romance.Joy, a young woman with a troubled past, finally gains eligibility for a work release program after spending years in prison...
  • A Different Blue by Amy Harmon

    A Different Blue by Amy Harmon

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    The Spencer Hill Press release will have bonus content never before available.Blue Echohawk doesn't know who she is. She doesn't know her real name or when she was born. Abandoned at two and raised by a drifter, she didn't attend school until she was ten years old. At nineteen, when most kids her age are attending college or moving on with life, she is just a senior in high school...
  • Own the Wind by Kristen Ashley

    Own the Wind by Kristen Ashley

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Too hot to handle...Tabitha Allen grew up in the thick of Chaos--the Chaos Motorcycle Club, that is. Her father is Chaos' leader, and the club has always had her back. But one rider was different from the start. When Tabby was running wild, Shy Cage was there. When tragedy tore her life apart, he helped her piece it back together. And now, Tabby's thinking about much more than friendship..
  • Defiance Falls by Ali Dean

    Defiance Falls by Ali Dean

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    *99 Cent SALE for Preorder only! Will go up to full price upon release.* All I wanted was a little trouble. Okay, so maybe choosing Cruz Donovan’s 18th birthday party wasn’t the way to go about it. Three years ago, I fell for him. I thought he fell for me too. But when he broke it off, he took my heart and, as if that wasn’t enough, he took my best friends too...
  • 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...
  • On Deck by Lisa Suzanne

    On Deck by Lisa Suzanne

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    When a family emergency reminds us all how short life can be, Alexis’s father moves up the wedding date. She’s forced to wrestle with her father’s emotional manipulation as we fall harder and harder for one another and her wedding day moves closer. We’re keeping a huge secret from her father and her rabid fan base, and we both feel the walls closing in on us...
  • Wedding at Sea by Melissa Tagg

    Wedding at Sea by Melissa Tagg

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Lilian doesn’t remember anything about her life before the day Maggie Muir found her on her front porch—a toddler, abandoned and alone. And maybe that’s okay. She has a beautiful life at Muir Farm, including an adopted family she adores and a successful career as a lawyer. But she also has a secret . . . one that raises just as many questions about her future as it does her unknown past...
  • Tastes Like Candy by Lauren Gilley

    Tastes Like Candy by Lauren Gilley

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Raised by a widower and a pack of uncles, Michelle Calloway has known only one way of life, that of the Lean Dogs MC, London chapter. When circumstances force her to flee to America, she fears her days of working alongside the club are over. But Derek Snow isn't the sort of man to let talent go to waste...
  • Corrode by Ella Fields

    Corrode by Ella Fields

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A standalone second chance romance. It didn't matter how young we were. We just knew. Forever was stamped on our hearts, no matter what forces tried to keep us apart. They tried, and they failed. We were happy. We lived, we loved, and we made plans. But as the years went by, we watched helplessly as those plans faded into dusty aspirations. Yet we endured...
  • Steadfast by Sarina Bowen

    Steadfast by Sarina Bowen

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    She’s the only one who ever loved him—and the only one he can never have. Jude lost everything one spring day when he crashed his car into an apple tree on the side of the road. A man is dead, and there's no way he can ever right that wrong. He’d steer clear of Colebury, Vermont forever if he could. But an ex-con in recovery for his drug addiction can’t find a job just anywhere...
  • Aggro by Carrie Gray, Coralee June

    Aggro by Carrie Gray, Coralee June

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Two boys.One tragedy.Grief bonds us.The mystery of this murder will break us.My best friend was brutally ripped from this world, but her brother and boyfriend are still here.One of them wants to use me.The other wants to forget me.Both of them make me feel alive.We’ll find Violet’s murderer, no matter the cost.Two boys.One tragedy.Grief bonds us.Love will tear us apart...
  • Sheriff's Secret by K. Webster

    Sheriff's Secret by K. Webster

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    From USA Today bestselling author K Webster comes a steamy and emotional MM romance!When you’re the sheriff of Brigs Ferry Bay, certain things are expected of you.Marry a local girl, settle down, have a few kids. You know, the small-town dream.But I’ve got a secret I’m terrified will get out.I’m gay.Not bi. Not curious. Not confused.Just gay.So, settling for that dream won’t be happening...
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