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  • Glass by Ellen Hopkins

    Glass by Ellen Hopkins

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    Crank. Glass. Ice. Crystal. Whatever you call it, it's all the same: a monster. And once it's got hold of you, this monster will never let you go. Kristina thinks she can control it. Now with a baby to care for, she's determined to be the one deciding when and how much, the one calling the shots. But the monster is too strong, and before she knows it, Kristina is back in its grips...
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    angst  dark  drama  family  high-school  realistic  sad  teens
  • She's Dating the Gangster by Bianca B. Bernardino, Boizei Malicdem

    She's Dating the Gangster by Bianca B. Bernardino, Boizei Malicdem

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    It all started when 17-year-old Athena Dizon unwittingly plays a trick on resident heartthrob and bad boy, Kenji de los Reyes. All of a sudden, she finds herself pretending—unwillingly at that—to be his girlfriend to make his ex jealous...
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    drama  realistic  sad  teens  book  contemporary  fiction  humor
  • No Place Like Home by Barbara Samuel

    No Place Like Home by Barbara Samuel

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Twenty-one years ago, Jewel Sabatino left her childhood behind and never looked back. After a magical taste of fame, she found herself alone with a son to raise and very few options. Now she has left New York for the hills of Colorado, unsure if her family will welcome her back. For Jewel, coming home is falling into a world that smells of Italian restaurants and home-baked pies...
    Categorized as:
    drama  family  grief  sad  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary
  • 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...
  • White Locks by Rose B. Mashal

    White Locks by Rose B. Mashal

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    When love knocked on Marie's door, she had a hard time denying her heart what it wanted. Especially after she'd found her black keys. Now Marie finally realizes that home is not where she was born, or where she'd lived all of her life. Home is where her Love is. It's time for her to follow her heart...
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    angst  dark  drama  family  sad  adult  book  contemporary
  • Okay by Danielle Pearl

    Okay by Danielle Pearl

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    After the horrors she's survived over the past year, Rory never expected to find the one thing she certainly wasn't looking for - love. But after the painful realization that her past has left her a dangerous liability to the person she cares for the most, she finally understands that for her and Sam, love means letting go...
  • Carter by R.J. Lewis

    Carter by R.J. Lewis

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Childhood friends to lovers story. This is a story about a rising rock star and a love-struck girl. Leah: I was a fool in love. From the moment I saw him, Carter Matheson had always been it for me. I just wished he felt the same way. We grew up together in poverty, seeking solace in one another through our love for music. His voice swept me off my feet...
  • Three Hearts, One Soul by Bec Botefuhr

    Three Hearts, One Soul by Bec Botefuhr

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    My dark and light, my heaven and hell, my day and night, my sunshine and rain, they are my perfect opposites." Life isn't always beautiful, it doesn't always take you down the right path, it doesn't always make you laugh and it certainly doesn't always go as planned. My story starts with Whiskey and Jase Levanox. My best friends. A piece of my soul. My glue. My bind. My everything...
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    alpha-mc  angst  dark  love-triangle  sad  adult  book  contemporary
  • Virtue and Vice by Ninya Tippett

    Virtue and Vice by Ninya Tippett

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    "If I'm going down, I might as well pick my poison. I pick you." *** A Cobalt Bay Billionaires story. *** She couldn’t be sure whether he was her predator or protector... but she was doomed to love him either way. *** It was a summer they will never forget...
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    alpha-mc  dark  drama  sad  adult  age-gap  book  contemporary
  • Marry Me Mad: The Rousseaus #2 by Katy Regnery

    Marry Me Mad: The Rousseaus #2 by Katy Regnery

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Did you fall in love with The English Brothers? Were you hot for the Winslows? Katy Regnery's New York Times bestselling Blueberry Lane series continues with The Rousseau siblings in 2016! For as long as Madeleine “Mad” Rousseau can remember, she’s been the “sweet” twin to her sister Jax’s “sassy.” But after an especially painful break-up, Mad decides she’s had enough of being sweet...
  • 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...
  • A Breath Too Late by Rocky Callen

    A Breath Too Late by Rocky Callen

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    For fans of Girl in Pieces, All the Bright Places, and Girl, Interrupted comes a haunting and breathtaking YA contemporary debut novel that packs a powerful message: hope can be found in the darkness.Seventeen-year-old Ellie had no hope left. Yet the day after she dies by suicide, she finds herself in the midst of an out-of-body experience...
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    realistic  high-school  drama  sad  family  dark  grief  young-adult
  • Save Me by Amanda Heath

    Save Me by Amanda Heath

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Save Me can be read as a standalone. “I don’t care! Do you hear me? I don’t care Pierce!” She screams at me. She is pissed and breathing fire. She has never looked so beautiful to me. Well when I can see her face and she isn’t turning away from me. “You care. You can pretend you don’t, but you do. You came all the way out here.” I pause grabbing her hand and swinging her around to face me...
  • The Girl in the Hoodie by SarcasticallyWitty

    The Girl in the Hoodie by SarcasticallyWitty

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    A girl moved to California two years ago.No one knows what she looks like.All they know is that she wears a hoodie...
  • Fallen Crest Alternative Version by Tijan

    Fallen Crest Alternative Version by Tijan

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    This book was originally written to be the sequel to Fallen Crest High. It was scrapped and not used. Fallen Crest Family was written instead as the number two book in the Fallen Crest Series. However; this version was posted on the author's page for free reading as a thank you to her readers. After reading what she posted, enough fans requested this story to be published so here it is...
    Categorized as:
    alpha-mc  angst  dark  family  high-school  realistic  teens  athlete
  • The Reluctant Dom by Tymber Dalton

    The Reluctant Dom by Tymber Dalton

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    (Suncoast Society series book #4, MFM, BDSM)Love hurts...if you're lucky. Kaden's dying, but before he goes he has one problem to solve--he must ask his oldest and dearest friend, Seth, to take over as Dom and Master to his beloved wife, Leah. Seth has always seen himself as the perpetual screwup and Kaden as the strong and steady one, so his friend's request rocks his world...
  • Blind Love by M.S. Brannon

    Blind Love by M.S. Brannon

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    “She is magnetic to me. Every emotion she feels pulls me that much closer to her charm and energy. For reasons unbeknownst to me, I want her to know what she means to me.” ~Jake Evans For Jake Evans, life was as it should be. No responsibilities. He was the master at embracing his reckless lifestyle whenever it presented itself...
  • Breaking Walls by Tracie Puckett

    Breaking Walls by Tracie Puckett

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    It’s not about the rules anymore. It’s about the sacrifice. She’s already given up too much to lose faith now. Gabe has walked away, and Mandy’s fate with the Raddick Initiative is hanging in the balance. Media attention has the whole town talking. Friends are making wild assumptions, and one of her own teammates has turned on her...
  • 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  family  friends-to-lovers  grief  sad  adult  book
  • 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...
  • Ballads of Suburbia by Stephanie Kuehnert

    Ballads of Suburbia by Stephanie Kuehnert

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    An aspiring film writer tells about her troubled teen years in the Chicago suburbs when she and her friends tried to escape the pain of their lives through rock music and drugs...
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    angst  dark  drama  family  realistic  sad  book  coming-of-age
  • 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...
  • A Broken Soul by Jessica Prince

    A Broken Soul by Jessica Prince

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    He’s terrified of loving her. Quinn Mallick already had his happily-ever-after, and in the blink of an eye, it was ripped away from him. Now he’s content to walk through the rest of his life carrying the weight of that guilt on his shoulders. He’s convinced he doesn’t deserve a second chance...
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    alpha-mc  angst  drama  friends-to-lovers  grief  sad  adult  book
  • Pushing the Limits by Katie McGarry

    Pushing the Limits by Katie McGarry

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 44 ratings
    "I won't tell anyone, Echo. I promise." Noah tucked a curl behind my ear. It had been so long since someone touched me like he did. Why did it have to be Noah Hutchins? His dark brown eyes shifted to my covered arms. "You didn't do that-did you? It was done to you?" No one ever asked that question. They stared. They whispered. They laughed. But they never asked.So wrong for each other..
  • A Good Boy Is Hard to Find by Suzanne Young

    A Good Boy Is Hard to Find by Suzanne Young

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Tessa Crimson's the sweet and spunky leader of the SOS (Society of Smitten Kittens), a cheer squad-turned-spy society dedicated to bringing dastardly boyfriends to justice, one cheater at a time. But after her center-court split with her boyfriend Aiden, Tessa has had to reevaluate her role in the SOS, and her closest friendships...
  • Caffeine: A Young Adult Romance by Livia Halteh

    Caffeine: A Young Adult Romance by Livia Halteh

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Aspen Haste struggles with things most teenagers have no problem dealing with. As a sixteen-year-old girl with crippling anxiety and currently on medication, her only solace is the same order she asks in Café de Fleur. This helps somewhat, but she still has to deal with the perils of teenage life, as well as her insomnia from the medication.Well . .
  • Cinderella dan Empat Kesatria by Baek Myo

    Cinderella dan Empat Kesatria by Baek Myo

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Eun Ha Won benar-benar seperti Cinderella. Sungguh tak disangka, kakek yang ditolong Ha Won di jalan ternyata Direktur Kang—pengusaha Korea yang sangat kaya. Dan dia bersedia membantu mewujudkan keinginan Ha Won: keluar dari rumah yang ditinggalinya bersama sang ibu tiri. Ha Won pun kemudian tinggal di rumah mewah bersama tiga cucu tampan sang direktur dan pengawal pribadi yang keren...
  • Somewhere Between Life and Death by Lurlene McDaniel

    Somewhere Between Life and Death by Lurlene McDaniel

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The celebration isn't supposed to end in tragedy. The night of their high-school drama group's cast party starts out as fun for sisters Amy and Erin. Their lives come crashing down when Amy takes the car to get more food and has a horrible accident. Erin and her family pray for Amy to awaken from her coma...
  • Love My Way by Kate Sterritt

    Love My Way by Kate Sterritt

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Her name is Emerson Hart and she is the love of his life. Unfortunately, he’s not the only love of hers. And therein lies the problem...
  • Four Summers by Nyrae Dawn

    Four Summers by Nyrae Dawn

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Charlotte Gates is tired of being Charlie Rae. She loves the lake she was raised on, their rental cabins, and spending her nights under the stars…but inside she yearns for more. After his freshman year, Nathaniel Chase’s family spends their first summer at The Village. From the beginning Charlotte intrigues him...
  • The Accidental Life of Jessie Jefferson by Paige Toon

    The Accidental Life of Jessie Jefferson by Paige Toon

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The first YA fiction novel, from the bestselling adult author Paige Toon. Meet Jessie, the daughter of Johnny Jefferson, as featured in Johnny Be Good and Baby Be Mine… My fifteenth birthday was the worst day of my life, and it's inconceivable to think that any single day in my future will ever be as bad. My mum was killed in a freak accident on her way to pick up my cake...
  • Never Can Tell by C.M. Stunich

    Never Can Tell by C.M. Stunich

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Never Can Tell (The Fourth Book Follow Up to the Never say Never Trilogy) Some stories are Never finished being told. After all, we're all victims of heartache and strife at some point. Maybe I'm a little more susceptible to both, but I've got an ace up my sleeve. I've got Ty McCabe. He's helped me survive a lot. More than I ever thought possible...
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    alpha-mc  angst  dark  drama  family  adult  book  contemporary
  • Bastard by J.L. Perry

    Bastard by J.L. Perry

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    The #1 Bestseller. A heartbreakingly beautiful love story.***FULL LENGTH STANDALONE READ WITH HEA***Warning - Contains coarse language and sexual content. This book is recommended for 18 years and over. My name is Carter Reynolds . I was born a bastard and I'll die a bastard. I learnt it at a young age, and nothing and nobody can change that...
  • One Night with a Billionaire ~ Jason by J.S. Scott

    One Night with a Billionaire ~ Jason by J.S. Scott

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Included in "Billionaire Unmasked ~ Jason (The Billionaire's Obsession, #6)"My name is Hope Sinclair, and I’m a liar. I’ve deceived everyone, including my own brothers, in an effort to hide what I do and who I really am. It’s not that I don’t want to be honest, but I really have no choice...
  • A French Girl in New York by Anna Adams

    A French Girl in New York by Anna Adams

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Maude Laurent is a spirited sixteen-year-old orphan who grew up in a small, provincial town in the north of France with a passion for piano and a beautiful voice. One day in Paris, she is discovered by an American music producer who takes her to New York to live with him and his close-knit family while producing her first album, with help from teen pop star, Matt...
  • Flat-Out Matt by Jessica Park

    Flat-Out Matt by Jessica Park

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Matt is a junior at MIT. He’s geeky, he's witty, he's brilliant. And he’s also very, very stupid. When beautiful, cool, insightful Julie moves in with Matt’s family, why (oh why!) does he pretend to be his absent brother Finn for her alleged benefit? It seems harmless enough until her short-term stay becomes permanent. And until it snowballs into heart-squeezing insanity...
  • Falling Into You by Jasinda Wilder

    Falling Into You by Jasinda Wilder

    Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    I wasn't always in love with Colton Calloway; I was in love with his younger brother, Kyle, first. Kyle was my first one true love, my first in every way. Then, one stormy August night, he died, and the person I was died with him. Colton didn't teach me how to live. He didn't heal the pain. He didn't make it okay. He taught me how to hurt, how to not be okay, and, eventually, how to let go...
  • Boulevard by Flor M. Salvador

    Boulevard by Flor M. Salvador

    Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Luke y Hasley no eran el prototipo de una pareja perfecta. Sin embargo, ambos le pusieron una definición a lo que ellos crearon..
  • Wild Hearts: Trevor Monroe Part One by Blue Saffire

    Wild Hearts: Trevor Monroe Part One by Blue Saffire

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Award winning, Bestselling, Author Blue Saffire presents Wild Hearts: Lost Hearts Series TrevorI want a divorce and I want it now. I’m so tired of playing these games, but if I have to sit here in counseling, I’m going to make myself clear. At least, I think I am until Dr. Winsor asks a question that throws me back in time. My greatest regret. The one who was supposed to be my future...
  • The Design of Goodbye by Kara Renee

    The Design of Goodbye by Kara Renee

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A choice can change everything. Five lines and twenty-six words are all it takes for Madison Winters’s life to change forever.No one knows her mother abandoned her the summer before senior year with only a letter as a goodbye, and she’s determined to keep it that way...
  • Collision Course by S.C. Stephens

    Collision Course by S.C. Stephens

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Lucas had it all—popularity, a devoted girlfriend, a brotherly best friend, and a loving mother who would do anything for him. His life was right on course to be successful and fulfilling…until the crash changed everything.Late at night, during a sudden downpour, three young lives are lost and Lucas, the lone survivor, is left to face the consequences...
  • The Memory Book by Lara Avery

    The Memory Book by Lara Avery

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    The Memory Book by Lara Avery, a romance that unfolds through a series of journal entries, text messages and other mementos and features a teen girl diagnosed with a rare disease that causes memory loss...
  • Watch over Me by Tara Sivec

    Watch over Me by Tara Sivec

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Due to heavy subject matter, this book is recommended for ages 17+. From the USA Today Best Selling Author of A Beautiful Lie. Addison Snow is your typical teenager. She has a family that loves her, friends that make her laugh, and she's wrapped up in the excitement of graduating high school and going off to college to pursue her dream of becoming an author...
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    angst  dark  drama  family  high-school  realistic  sad  audiobook
  • Miss Me Not by Tiffany King

    Miss Me Not by Tiffany King

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Miss Me Not is a beautiful story of self-discovery, forgiveness, caring, and love. Madison Hanson's past demons have given her a shadow of an existence with little hope. With the sudden tragic death of a fellow student, Madison questions her own life choices, and is now forced to evaluate everything she thought she believed in...
    Categorized as:
    angst  dark  drama  family  high-school  realistic  sad  abuse
  • Take Care, Sara by Lindy Zart

    Take Care, Sara by Lindy Zart

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    You breathe in, you breathe out, and everything you know is gone. Sara Walker knows firsthand what it feels like to have your reality ripped away, scrambled, and shoved back at you in an undone puzzle where pieces are missing and nothing fits. She's lost so much and is struggling to live and to find the strength to forgive herself for being human...
  • Too Young to Die by Lurlene McDaniel

    Too Young to Die by Lurlene McDaniel

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    At sixteen, Melissa Austin has always worked hard to make things go her way. As the school year begins, her grades are up and she's even landed a coveted spot on the high school Brain Bowl team. She and her best friend, Jory Delaney, are determined to have the best junior year ever.Then suddenly Melissa must face some devastating news about her health...
  • Guys Do Not Do Secret Santa by Miranda Kenneally

    Guys Do Not Do Secret Santa by Miranda Kenneally

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A Catching Jordan short story (9 months before Catching Jordan...
  • Crash by Nicole Williams

    Crash by Nicole Williams

    Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars
    · 34 ratings
    Jude Ryder and Lucy Larson are this generation's Romeo and Juliet: Explosive. Sizzling. Tragic.A steamy summer encounter with bad boy Jude means trouble for Lucy. Her sights are set on becoming a ballerina, and she won't let anything get in her way . . . except Jude.He's got a rap sheet, dangerous mood swings, and a name that's been sighed, shouted, and cursed by who knows how many girls...
  • Reverence by Angelica Chase

    Reverence by Angelica Chase

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
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    Categorized as:
    alpha-mc  angst  dark  drama  family  love-triangle  realistic  adult
  • My High School Life by angellover254

    My High School Life by angellover254

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Meet Isabella Ace, a 300 pound girl who was voted the 'ugliest girl' at Woodway Prep; a school for the rich. Sick of all the bullies, mostly Thomas Reed, she decided to change. Eight months later she's back, better than ever, and ready for revenge. Throw in a teasing jock, a jealous cheerleader, a goth best friend, a childhood best friend, a hot trainer, and an overprotective brother...
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