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Drama High: Pushin' by L. Divine
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIf only there was a potion to make all Jayd Jackson's troubles disappear. . . Even though Jayd's finished with the AP exams and finally has some space of her own at her mother's house, she's got to deal with the drama all around her... -
Renegade Path by Autumn Jones Lake
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA Lost Kings MC World Novel USA Today bestselling author Autumn Jones Lake delivers an unforgettable story of heart-wrenching first love. ROMANFrom the minute I met Juliet, I wanted to shield her from the world’s ugliness. We’d both already suffered more heartache than anyone should experience in a lifetime... -
Every Last Drop by Sarah Robinson
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsNow a 2021 RWA's Vivian Award Finalist in Mainstream Fiction with a Central Romance. The first contemporary women's fiction novel by bestselling romance author Sarah Robinson sure to break your heart and test your limits as the characters dive into taboo topics that make you reconsider everything you once knew. Marry the love of my life.Become a mother.Write a book.Number one was complete... -
Queen Rose by Leila James
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAria WarringtonPopular, rich, spoiled.She rules Rosehaven with her wicked attitude.Every queen needs her king.Yet, her secrets loom, dark and devastating.She’s damaged.More broken than anyone knows.But maybe our love can save us both...Categorized as:
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Brutal Revelation by P.H. Nix
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSchool’s out, but the fun never arrived.The enemy is no longer on our doorstep. They’re inside, wreaking havoc in the form of both perceived friends and known foes.Making what was supposed to be a summer of celebration into an endless string of heartache that led us to one Brutal Revelation.Brutal Revelation is a novella in the Edgewood Academy Elite Series... -
This is All: The Pillow Book of Cordelia Kenn by Aidan Chambers
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsSubtitled The Pillow Book of Cordelia Kenn this is the story of Cordelia from the time she is 15 until she is 20. She is pregnant and plans to give this account to her daughter on her 16th birthday so that they can share their youth together... -
A Rose for Melinda by Lurlene McDaniel
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsTold in letters, journal entries, e-mails, doctors’ reports, and instant messages, the heartbreaking story of an aspiring ballet dancer battling leukemia. From: Melinda Skye To: Readers Subject: Jesse Hi! I can’t believe it. What a surprise from Jesse... -
Five Years From Now by Paige Toon
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsWhat if you met the right person at the wrong time? Nell and Van meet as children when their parents fall in love, but soon they are forced worlds apart. Five years later, they find each other. Their bond is rekindled and new feelings take hold, but once again they must separate... -
Breathe by N.M. Catalano
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSnake Hell is ruled by a queen. She wears stilettos like a boss, fishnets like a porn star, and carries weapons like makeup. She crashed into my life at the absolute worst time, because life’s a bitch like that. But there’s no way I’m letting her leave. She’s bat-shit crazy, and she’s mine. Correction, she’s ours. Because I’m not sure how long I can give her. But she belongs to us now... -
Glass Heart Hero by Lindsey Iler
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLoyalty. Corruption. Family.A gauntlet rooted in love and jealousy may be the destruction of the students at Glass Heart Academy.DelaneyParts of me were stolen in the confines of a dark room. No matter how hard I fought, I got nowhere. The damage has already been done.Now I find myself in the arms of an unexpected boy... -
Tension by R.L. Griffin
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe Stella who emerges from the rubble of the bombing in Montana is a woman full of conflict. She knows she should be grateful that she lived when others didn't, but after waking in the hospital as a celebrity, complete with a new moniker, she's bitter and distrustful, questioning everything in her life. She's unsure of her friends, her new boyfriend, and her job... -
Just Me by L.A. Fiore
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsLark O'Bannion learned early that life isn't really like a fairy tale. Parents don't always love their children unconditionally, damsels, or even terrified and lonely little girls, are usually left to deal with their distress alone, Prince Charming rarely, if ever, comes riding to the rescue, and happily-ever-afters are a lovely concept but, in reality, are few and far between...Categorized as:
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Heathers the Musical by Laurence O'Keefe, Kevin Murphy
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsHeathers The Musical is the darkly delicious story of Veronica Sawyer, a brainy, beautiful teenage misfit who hustles her way into the most powerful and ruthless clique at Westerberg High: the Heathers. But before she can get comfortable atop the high school food chain, Veronica falls in love with the dangerously sexy new kid J.D...Categorized as:
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Falling to Pieces by Jamie Canosa
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSuffering the bitter tongues of her alcoholic mother and cruel boyfriend, Jade struggles just to look at herself in the mirror. She hates her life, her insecurities, her ineptitudes, but most of all . . . Jade hates herself. She wants nothing more than to disappear, and everyone seems happy to let her. Until Kiernan Parks moves back into town... -
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The Beautiful Now by Michelle Leighton
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFrom New York Times , USA Today , and Wall Street Journal Bestselling Author M. Leighton comes an epic tale of a love so deep it defies all the odds, breaks all the rules, and promises never to die. Dane James worked my stepfather's fields. He was the boy next door. Strong. Hardworking. Forbidden. From the moment we met, we were star-crossed lovers--always wanting, never having... -
Sara's Promise by Deanna Lynn Sletten
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsDo you believe in soul mates? William Grafton had the perfect life with his lovely wife, Sara, and two wonderful children. But one day his perfect forever was shattered when Sara died suddenly, leaving him alone to raise his children and wonder how he would ever get through life without his soul mate... -
Love at Last Sight by Jordan Lynde
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratings“Rose, I’m sorry, but your eyesight will be gone by the end of this year.” Who knew one simple sentence could change a life so drastically? Rose is a normal seventeen year old girl with a normal life, normal friends, and what she thought to be normal vision. When she receives the news her vision is slowly deteriorating, she doesn't know what to think. Her life is over... -
The Stars Don't Lie by Boo Walker
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA man who thought he put his shattered past behind him embarks on a reflective journey home in a heartfelt novel by the bestselling author of The Singing Trees and A Spanish Sunrise.Haunted by a tragic decision he made twenty years ago, veterinarian Dr. Carver Livingston has not once returned to his Vermont hometown... -
You Then, Me Now by Nick Alexander
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsShe’s given her daughter everything. Now it’s time to give her the truth. Becky’s father is not just absent: he’s a mystery, a gaping hole in her past. He died before she was born and for her mother, Laura, the subject is strictly off-limits. But when Laura books an unexpected trip to Greece, Becky decides to join her, determined to get closer to her mother—and to the truth... -
Christina by Leanne Davis
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMy entire life I’ve lived with shadows lurking behind what otherwise appears like the perfect family. My mother often disappears into her bedroom for days at a time because her life becomes too much to deal with. I never understood it. I know there are family secrets. I hear the whispers and innuendos. But no one wants me to know the truth. The thing is: I’m not a little girl anymore... -
Reunited: A Novella by Helen Hardt
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTrue love comes once in a lifetime. Will she grab her second chance? When Kathryn Abbott moves back to her hometown following her divorce, she doesn’t expect to run into Brett Falcone, the Italian Stallion. If possible, he’s even more appealing than he was twenty years ago when she, the nerd queen, tutored the popular baseball star... -
Disaster Girl by Michelle Dayton
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe only thing she knows better than walking into a disaster is digging herself out of one.Tess Greene knows disaster—dating disasters, computer disasters, family disasters, you name it. But just when her life is finally almost perfect, she’s targeted by an internet celebrity who runs a revenge porn site admired by douchebags across the country... -
Fallen Rose by Leila James
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLyla TaylorBeautiful gymnast with bite.She keeps her walls a mile high.We’ve fallen hard for each other.If she uses me, it will tear me apart.Nothing’s ever felt this real to me.She’s everything I’ve been waiting for.And losing her will break my heart.Welcome back to Rosehaven Academy.This is a mature new adult high school series and contains situations that some readers might find offensive...Categorized as:
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Unbroken Rules by Eliah Greenwood
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsLies, passion, betrayal. Discover the last book of the teen sensation that captured 30,000,000 hearts across the globe today! Haze and Winter’s relationship has been a fight from day one. From crazy exes, to psycho families, to heart-wrenching betrayal, the couple has been through hell and back and lived to tell the tale... -
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Wished for You by K.D. Robichaux
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsKayla’s Chick Rant & Book Blog Blog Post: 1/17/15 My name is Kayla and I’m a blogger who believes in fairy tales. Through the anonymity of my blog, along with my reviews of the steamy novels I like to read, I tell the stories of my own search for love... -
It Only Hurts at First by Allison Rogers
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAlice Matthews used to be one of those girls. Pretty, popular, perfect. Now, she's that girl. Armed with oversized sweatshirts to cover the scars on her wrists, Alice has two objectives in high school. First, avoid Scott Henderson at all costs. Second, avoid everyone else.By now, Scott’s unwanted advances shouldn’t come as a surprise...Categorized as:
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Theo by Amanda Prowse
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThere are two sides to every love story... Anna Cole grew up in care, and wants to start a family of her own. Theo Montgomery had a loveless childhood, and wants to find his soulmate. Then, one day, Theo meets Anna, and Anna meets Theo. Each shows the other how to love. And each shows the other what heartbreak feels like... This is Theo's story... -
Letting Ana Go by Anonymous
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsIn the tradition of Go Ask Alice and Lucy in the Sky, a harrowing account of anorexia and addiction.She was a good girl from a good family, with everything she could want or need. But below the surface, she felt like she could never be good enough. Like she could never live up to the expectations that surrounded her. Like she couldn’t do anything to make a change... -
War Of Hearts: A Dark Bully High School Romance by Mallory Fox
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHow easy is it to end the life of the one you love?To destroy them, take them to pieces until there’s nothing left, not even a bloody corpse to mourn over.Very f*cking easy. I should know.Light a spark, throw the match, and watch it all burn... -
Beautiful Lies by Heather Bentley
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFrom the couture clothes, private jets and homes around the globe, I have the best of everything. But looks can be deceiving, and in my family, deception is an art form. So, I bide my time and count the days until I’m free. Heiress Christina Harcourt lives a life surrounded by the finest this world has to offer. Unfortunately, what she wants most can’t be bought... -
Crazy Love by Amir Abrams
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIf everyone wants to say I'm trippin', well, that's their problem. . . If you saw my boo Sincere, you'd totally understand why I've dropped everything--even my besties--to be with him 24/7... -
Love Brewing by Liz Crowe
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA Family Saga with humor, heat and heart--not to mention beer, bourbon and basketball! Every family has one—the black sheep, the problem child, the prodigal. But Dominic Sean Love could teach all of those guys a lesson or two. Stuck in the middle of a boisterous group of siblings, he’s given “acting out” a new meaning from day one... -
Tainted by Crazy by Abby McCarthy
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhat do you do when your boyfriend of five years is sleeping with your best friend and you’re in a dead-end job, breaking your back for mere pennies? I’ll tell you what I did. I did the one thing I’ve been dreading for the last thirteen years, I finally went home. I needed to get back on my feet and I needed my Grams. As much as I wanted to pretend life was working for me, it wasn’t... -
Theoretically Straight by Alexander C. Eberhart, Amy Bailey
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTheo Briggs is a rule follower. A decent student in his junior year, an appeasing son, and a lifelong Christian, just trying to make it through high school unscathed… and maybe create a viral video in the process.Caleb Raynard is a romantic... -
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The Way Back Home by Alecia Whitaker
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMusic sensation Bird Barrett is hitting the road, headlining her first national tour after the launch of her second album. Singing to sold-out crowds can mess with a girl's sense of perspective though. Luckily Bird has her older brother Dylan and her best friend Stella along for the ride to keep her grounded... -
The Lie that Binds us by Isabella Phoenix
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAaron showed me what it was to feel protected, loved, and cherished. Then, he destroyed me without so much as a goodbye.He left me alone, to pick up the pieces of my shattered heart. Years went by and I fooled myself into thinking I had moved on, content with a secure job and the new man in my life. Unfortunately, something that was truly broken cannot be fixed without leaving deep scars... -
Hated by Mercy Amare
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsEverything in my life is perfect. I have a family. My music is now going my way. And I have Stephan. Forever. All my dreams are coming true. But the problem with perfection is that eventually everything falls apart. And my whole life is crumbling around me — piece by piece. I am just trying to get through the next few months with my sanity intact, but that seems like an impossible feat... -
1462 South Broadway by K.C. Decker
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsNATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER! FIRST PLACE WINNER OF THE NATIONAL EXCELLENCE IN ROMANCE FICTION AWARD! 1462 South Broadway is a smoking hot example of how kink and BDSM can be sexy and playful instead of always brooding or deviant... -
Obsession by Susan Lewis
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsCorrie Browne is an ordinary girl with extraordinary ambitions. Determined to find the father she has never known, her search takes her from the quiet Suffolk village where she lives, to a new life in London, a fastpaced television career—and to three people who come to dominate her life... -
Ethan Between Us by Anna Myers, Julia Laserna
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsEthan is different. He is gorgeous, easy to talk to, and a uniquely gifted pianist. But his musical talent is both a gift and a curse. The doctors label him a schizophrenic, as he claims to have been taught by a long-dead, 19th-century composer... -
Dead Girls Never Talk by S.J. Sylvis
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAMAZON Top 50 Bestselling Author, SJ Sylvis, brings an addictive interconnected standalone boarding school romance set in a deliciously dark world packed with angst and off-the-charts chemistry.CadeLoving her was like breathing air—it was hard to live without.Journey Smith was quiet and guarded, and above all else…beautiful. When we were alone, I grew to know the girl behind the stormy eyes...Categorized as:
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Every Colour of You: The gorgeous, heart-warming love story readers can't stop talking about by Amelia Mandeville
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWhat happens when someone who lives every day to the full meets someone who can only see reasons to stop living? ------------- We had a story - short, but not a simple one. I couldn't stay here and explain it all to you. If you really want to know, you'll have to take time out of your day. You'll have to read it... Zoe's life is full of colour... -
The Wideness of the Sea by Katie Curtis
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsAnna Goodrich is a 28-year-old artist in New York City, out on a Friday night in the city when she gets the call that her uncle has suddenly died. When she returns home to mid-coast Maine for his funeral, she faces all that she left behind when she left seven years earlier. The pain of her own mother’s death, the fractured relationships with her father, and her first love... -
Guarding His Sunshine by Cassi Hart
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMissyWhat do you do when you’re in danger and no one believes you? I have a stalker. I know that I do, even though I’ve never seen him. But everyone keeps telling me it’s all in my head. And when my unwanted admirer makes a bold and dangerous move, I do the only thing I can. I flee... -
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Miss Me Not by Tiffany King
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsMiss 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... -
Ashes by Dylan Page
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFate is as fickle as an unattended flame, you never know what’s going to happen—and sometimes all that’s left are the ashes.Twice now my life has been altered by the choice of someone else.The first time I was ten; when my mom got married she moved us into a better neighborhood, which meant I had to leave behind everything and everyone I loved... -
Toxic by Raquel Valldeperas
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsI didn't mean to let everything get so bad. I never had control over the variables in my life, and that was okay. That's just the way it was. But the drugs were supposed to be my constant, my escape, my refuge. They weren't supposed to pull me under and hold me down, bring me to the brink of death and keep me in that in-between state... -
Pulled Within by Marni Mann
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsStorms can't last forever…can they? For five long years, Rae Ryan has lived in a storm over which she has no control. Little by little, everything has been taken away from her—her job, her relationship, her best friend and her home. Plagued by nightmares and a terrible family secret, she carries her scars as much on the inside as she does on the outside... -
How to Rock Break-Ups and Make-Ups by Meg Haston
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAfter a humiliating tumble down the social ladder, Kacey Simon is back on top, where she belongs. She's lost her lisp, traded in her Coke-bottle glasses for contacts, and learned that brutal honesty isn't always the best policy. Best of all, she's made up with Zander and her BFFs and reclaimed her spot as Gravity's lead singer... -
First Chances by Komal Kant
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratings“Sometimes your first love isn’t your last.” Hadie Swinton isn’t a good girl anymore. After losing the love of her life, she is determined to shed her bookworm image and reinvent herself—even if that means pushing away the only person who may be able to heal her. Eddie Cavallari is sick of being the nice guy who always finishes last...
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