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  • Trust Again by Mona Kasten

    Trust Again by Mona Kasten

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    She's given up on love. But he's not giving up on her. The moment she meets Spencer Cosgrove, Dawn knows she's in trouble. Spencer is sexy. Funny. Charming. Just her type. Or what used to be her type, before she vowed to steer clear of realtionships. Everyone gets hurt in the end, Dawn believes...
  • The Last Song: Music from the Motion Picture Soundtrack by Hal Leonard Corporation

    The Last Song: Music from the Motion Picture Soundtrack by Hal Leonard Corporation

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Note: this is a book of musical scores.PVG Licensed Art & Soundtrack14 songs from the hit movie adapted from Nicholas Sparks' bestselling book and starring Miley Cyrus...
  • John & Jackie by T.J. Klune

    John & Jackie by T.J. Klune

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    John and Jackie first laid eyes on each other when they were twelve years old. Now, seventy-one years later, Jack prepares to give his beloved husband the ultimate gift. Before he does, they'll relive five key moments from their younger lives together over the course of a single afternoon...
  • Campus Chronicles: Kamaria & Kyree's Story by Cion Lee

    Campus Chronicles: Kamaria & Kyree's Story by Cion Lee

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Kamaria Laurent has spent majority of her college career flying under the radar. As a plus sized girl who's always faced criticism from her peers and family, all she wants to do is stay out the way and get her degree. That all changes when she meets Mr. Popularity himself, Kyree Pierre. Kyree has had the opposite college experience from Kamaria...
  • Feel Again – Érezz újra! by Mona Kasten

    Feel Again – Érezz újra! by Mona Kasten

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Úgy volt, hogy Isaac csak egy projekt lesz a számára – de Sawyer szívének más tervei voltak.Sawyer Dixon fiatal és kemény – és kívülálló. A szülei halála óta senkit nem enged közel magához; ám ez megváltozik, amikor megismerkedik Isaac Granttel. A kocka Isaac a szemüvegével és különös ruháival valójában szöges ellentéte azoknak, akik bejönnek neki...
  • Always Ever After by Claire Kingsley

    Always Ever After by Claire Kingsley

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Braxton and Kylie have been married for over a year, and Kylie is busy helping Selene get ready for her upcoming wedding. Kylie and Selene go out of town for a bachelorette party weekend, and Kylie gets a little—or maybe it’s a big—surprise. But springing the news on Braxton is harder than Kylie thought...
  • Ashes falling for The Sky 2 by Nine Gorman, Mathieu Guibé

    Ashes falling for The Sky 2 by Nine Gorman, Mathieu Guibé

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Suite et fin d'Ashes falling for the sky.Après un cliffhanger insoutenable, on retrouve Sky et Ash aux prises avec leurs démons. La réunion de ces deux destins brisés ne se fera pas sans de nouvelles blessures, et révélations sur leurs passés. Nine Gorman et Mathieu Guibé livrent une suite touchante, riche en thématiques fortes, et dont le final ne laissera personne indifférent...
  • My Kinda Wedding by Lacey Black

    My Kinda Wedding by Lacey Black

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    You are cordially invited to celebrate the marriage of Meghan Summer to Nicholas Adams, D.D.S., at four o’clock in the afternoon on Saturday, the sixth of May, at the beachside home of Alison Jane and Sawyer Randall. Reception to follow. The Summer family comes together once more as the final sister prepares to tie the knot...
  • Ocean by Jo Raven

    Ocean by Jo Raven

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Meet OCEAN, the newest of the Damage Control Boys, set in the world of the bestselling series Inked Brotherhood. *** Grab it at the low release promo price - price goes up next week!! *** This is New Adult Contemporary Romance. I thought I was a normal kid once. Do normal kids have to beg door to door for food? Not sure. It wasn’t always that bad, I guess—and then it was. Really fucking bad...
  • Welcome To My World by Sable Hunter

    Welcome To My World by Sable Hunter

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Continue the Hell Yeah! Series with book 14...The first time Bowie Travis Malone laid eyes on Cassie Cartwright, she knocked him for a loop. He was as drawn to her side as a moth to a flame. A green eyed angel with golden hair, she made his heart hammer in his chest and his body ache to hold her close...
  • 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...
  • You're So Vain by Whitney Dineen

    You're So Vain by Whitney Dineen

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Family drama is something Lutéce Choate struggles to avoid. With a mother who’s an award-winning country western song writer, an aunt who’s a Country Music Hall of Famer, and a brother who’s a rock star, it hasn’t exactly been a low-key kind of life, and she’s ready for a break...
  • 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...
  • 47 Things by Lilliana Anderson

    47 Things by Lilliana Anderson

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    ***CONTENT WARNING*** New Adult Standalone Romance for ages 18+ due to sex scenes and adult situations. "What's your name, sweetheart?".... That was the first thing. I wasn't his sweetheart, and he should have already known my name. But, that was the moment I became caught in Tyler Lohan's sight...
  • 68 Days And Counting by Nikki20038

    68 Days And Counting by Nikki20038

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    ~Sequel to The Bad Boy And The Tomboy~Macy Anderson and Sam Cahill are together in Manchester, England living the new university life. Their relationship is striving as they meet new people and experience different things and strengthen their beautiful relationship. But then again there's soccer, the Cahill family and girls because where there's Sam Cahill there will also be many girls...
  • Ashes falling for the Sky by Nine Gorman, Mathieu Guibé

    Ashes falling for the Sky by Nine Gorman, Mathieu Guibé

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Il n'est qu'une pluie de cendres. Elle s'est noyée dans un ciel trop vaste. Lors de la soirée de pré-rentrée à l'université, Sky décidée à laisser ses démons derrière elle, jette son dévolu sur Ash. Prête à assumer cette aventure d'un soir, elle ignore les avertissements de sa colocataire et se lance dans le jeu de la séduction, mais perd lamentablement la partie...
  • Loving Kalvin by Siobhan Davis

    Loving Kalvin by Siobhan Davis

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A friends-to-lovers second-chance romance from USA Today bestseller Siobhan Davis. Standalone with HEA and no cliffhanger. Lana I knew it would end in disaster, but I didn't listen to reason. I didn't care. Because I loved him so much. Kalvin Kennedy ruled my heart. Until he destroyed it. Shattered it so completely that I became someone else. Someone I loathed...
  • Finding Forever by L.L. Collins

    Finding Forever by L.L. Collins

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Lacey Russell has had enough heartbreak and loss for one lifetime. Turning tragedy into motivation, she becomes a veterinarian to honor her mother’s memory. She knows the path her life is on and she decided long ago that falling in love is not part of that plan. She’s seen firsthand that all it does is cause sorrow and pain...
    Categorized as:
    grief  sad  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  romance
  • Game Ender by B.J. Harvey

    Game Ender by B.J. Harvey

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    From USA Today bestselling author BJ Harvey comes the fourth and final book in the Game series and this time, it's the last two single friends left standing; the reformed playboy and the single mom. *** "You have chlamydia." Three words no man wants to hear...
  • 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...
  • Crush by Kelsie Rae

    Crush by Kelsie Rae

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Kelsie Rae’s Crush is an emotionally charged, friends-to-lovers contemporary romance written in K. Bromberg’s Everyday Heroes Worlds project.I signed up to be a surrogate because the dating pool is that shallow. Besides, my uterus might as well get used before it starts to grow cobwebs, right? Go figure that fate would screw with me as soon as I check in at my first doctor's appointment...
  • Losing Love by Laura Ashley Gallagher

    Losing Love by Laura Ashley Gallagher

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Losing Love and Watch Over My Life are both standalone books in the What Will Be book series and can be read in any order, but it is recommended that both are read before If By Chance).To fall in love with her future, she must face the consequences of her past.When I was nineteen, I had a plan. Work hard, become a teacher, and spend the rest of my life with my childhood sweetheart, Nick...
  • My Valentine Seduction by Serenity Woods

    My Valentine Seduction by Serenity Woods

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A ‘friends to lovers’ romanceTeddiLife’s tough. I can’t argue with that. I’m not referring to being blind. That brings its own challenges, but I’ve never let it hold me back from doing anything I wanted to do. I’m talking about losing my partner before the age of thirty. I thought I had it all figured out—marriage, kids, the whole parcel, neatly tied up with a bow, but it wasn’t meant to be...
  • 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:
    friends-to-lovers  grief  sad  adult  angst  betrayal  book  cheating
  • Relent by Rachel Schurig

    Relent by Rachel Schurig

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Levi has always been on the outside looking in. When your best friends make up one of the most famous rock bands in the country, living at the edge of the spotlight comes with the territory. Levi was pretty happy with the way things were; after all, helping the Ransome boys achieve their dreams was his dream too. But all of that changed when Levi fell for lead singer Daltrey Ransome’s girl...
  • Seduction by Alana Sapphire

    Seduction by Alana Sapphire

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    It’s not just physical…***Ellen***Lonely.Alone.There’s a distinct difference between the two, but what happens when you’re not one or the other, but both? Four years ago, I lost my old man and a part of myself. My son is the only thing keeping me going. I thought a casual relationship was the answer to my loneliness, but being the princess of the Death Dealers MC keeps the men away...
  • My Rebound by Carrie Ann Ryan

    My Rebound by Carrie Ann Ryan

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A rebound isn’t supposed to last. Though, sometimes, fate has other ideas in this opposites attract, friends with benefits romance.It wasn’t supposed to happen this way.Mackenzie Thomas started planning her future at the age of six. She knew the college she wanted, the career she needed, and the boy she would marry.Only he wasn’t supposed to break up with her in such a spectacular fashion...
  • Ryan: A Contemporary Romance by Giulia Lagomarsino

    Ryan: A Contemporary Romance by Giulia Lagomarsino

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Ryan is a contemporary romance and the final book in the series, For The Love Of A Good Woman.It can be read as a standalone, but the characters are intertwined throughout the series. “Ugh. I wish Jack was good. I swear he’s a swish and flick.” “What the-” I put my hand up to silence Jack and glared at him. He had a look of indignation on his face. “Drew always leaves a mess...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • What He Never Knew by Kandi Steiner

    What He Never Knew by Kandi Steiner

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    I never learn my lesson. And I always want what I can’t have. When Sarah Henderson walks into my life, I tell myself she’s off limits. She’s my student, sixteen years younger than me, and my boss’s niece. It doesn’t matter that I see the same pain reflected in her eyes that I have in my own, or that the dead organ better known as my heart kicks to life when she’s around...
    Categorized as:
    friends-to-lovers  grief  sad  university  abuse  adult  age-gap  angst
  • El tiempo que tuvimos by Cherry Chic

    El tiempo que tuvimos by Cherry Chic

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Liam y una historia de amor y recuerdos imposible de olvidar. Un nuevo e imprescindible standalone de la mano de Cherry Chic.Liam O'Callaghan y Grace Fitzgerald siempre han estado en la vida del otro.Desde pequeños han estado unidos por una la de reunirse cada dos años para firmar un contrato que los señala como mejores amigos y enterrarlo de nuevo dentro de una cajita bajo el Árbol de las Hadas...
  • Crushed by K. Webster

    Crushed by K. Webster

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    This story is a novella and a continuation of Jackson and Andi's story from book one, Broken. It is best to have at least read their story before continuing on with this book but it can be read as a standalone if necessary. Jackson and Andi have been through a lot. Against all odds, two broken people found each other and somehow became whole. Life should be perfect for them. But it’s not...
  • Mine To Kiss by Natasha Madison

    Mine To Kiss by Natasha Madison

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    From USA Today bestselling author Natasha Madison comes a small town, friends to lovers romance.Before she was mine to have, she was mine to kiss! I fell in love with Harlow on the first day I met her, when I was pulling open the door for her.She was everything you could want in a woman—smart, kind, funny, patient.I loved knowing she would be mine forever...
  • Mine Would Be You by K. Jamila

    Mine Would Be You by K. Jamila

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Valentina Scott is the epitome of a July thunderstorm.Now a cynic for love, she is left dark and brooding after her one and only relationship left her burned and broken. After throwing herself into work at Poze, a major fashion magazine, drunken nights with her friends in the city, and long therapy sessions, she still keeps the walls around her heart sealed up tight...
  • The Heart of Him by Katie Fox

    The Heart of Him by Katie Fox

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Sixteen months ago, Cassidy Porter lost the love of her life. Every day since has been a battle to carry on, but despite what her mother and sister say, she’s making progress—or is she? When she receives an invitation to attend a banquet in honor of the organ donors and their recipients, she has every reason to guard what remains of her shattered heart...
  • 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...
  • Days of You and Me: A Keeping Score Trilogy Sports Romance by Tawdra Kandle

    Days of You and Me: A Keeping Score Trilogy Sports Romance by Tawdra Kandle

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The stunning and emotional conclusion to the Keeping Score Trilogy! Once upon a time, not that long ago, I had just about everything I ever wanted. I was a star football player at one of the best colleges in the country, and I had the girl I’d always loved by my side. The promise of a future most guys can only dream about was close enough to touch...
  • A Thousand Broken Pieces by Tillie Cole

    A Thousand Broken Pieces by Tillie Cole

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Can two broken hearts make a whole. . . ? After losing her beloved sister three years ago, Savanna Litchfield has been living half a life. When Savannah's therapist suggests joining a trip around the world for grieving teens she agrees to go clutching tightly to the unread journal her sister left behind. Seventeen-year-old Cael Woods is angry...
  • 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...
  • Every Mended Heart by Nik Knight

    Every Mended Heart by Nik Knight

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Two broken souls searching for hope. One love that redeems them both.After everything Silas and Ben have fought for, it seems the true battle has only just begun. As rumors spread through the school, Silas's already strained relationship with Ben starts to crack from the added pressure. His personal bully is back and determined to tear Silas down at every turn...
  • Chasing Perfect by Melanie Shawn

    Chasing Perfect by Melanie Shawn

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    They’d been best friends since elementary school, knew each other’s secrets, and supported each other in times of need…Sandy Cooper and Hunter Blakely were there for each other no matter what…until one epic graduation night changed everything… For Sandy, her sexy best friend knew too much of the life she wanted to get away from...
  • This Is Love by Caroline Nolan

    This Is Love by Caroline Nolan

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A debut novel by Caroline Nolan that will have you falling in love not just once, but twice.                   Rachel Miller had love, life and happiness...until she didn't.Uncertain of how to cope and move on without him, Rachel's life comes to halt as she mourns the loss of her fiance Ben. Then one night she discovers it doesn't have to...
  • La chimica dell'amore by Paola Chiozza

    La chimica dell'amore by Paola Chiozza

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    L’amore è solo questione di chimica?Sì, se ti chiami Isaac Goldsmith, sei il professore di biologia molecolare più S.N.S. (sadico, nerd e sexy) di tutta Berkeley e credi nei legami atomici primari più di quelli tra esseri umani. Tutto può essere spiegato con una semplice formula, anche i sentimenti. Eppure, se c’è un’unica cosa in cui Isaac ha sempre creduto, è l’amicizia con Audrey Carpenter...
  • Tame This by Hadley Quinn

    Tame This by Hadley Quinn

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    (This book contains mature content, including sex and language. Not intended for readers under the age of 18) KISS THIS continues with Jay’s story, a rebel of his own sort with the need for freedom and unfiltered opinions. His days of unruly behavior and risky decisions have dealt him a hand that he’s still trying to overcome as he seeks to accomplish his business dreams...
  • A Seal Upon Your Heart by Pepper Pace

    A Seal Upon Your Heart by Pepper Pace

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Jane used to have a different name, a different life—but that was before she was rescued from the refugee camp after the Rwandan genocide and brought to the convent to be raised. Now she is being dismissed, told to go out into the world...
  • Let Me Go by Michelle Lynn

    Let Me Go by Michelle Lynn

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    My name is Rob Winters, aka, Jackass. Even to my closest friends. I wasn’t always so arrogant and condescending. It only took one night to change me—one point twenty-seven seconds, to be exact. When tragedy struck, I promised myself, no matter what, unbreakable chains would lock my heart. If one veers too close or digs too deep, the cruel and mean bastard many hate is unleashed...
  • 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:
    friends-to-lovers  grief  sad  adult  angst  book  contemporary  drama
  • Waking up in Vegas by Natasha Preston

    Waking up in Vegas by Natasha Preston

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    There are bad hangovers, then there’s waking up married to your brother’s idiot friend. On the trip of a lifetime, a drunken Wren and intoxicated Brody stumble upon a wedding ceremony and decide to tag along for the ride...
  • Jocking Jameson by Jillian Quinn

    Jocking Jameson by Jillian Quinn

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    I never meant to fall for my best friend…After a bad breakup, I’m not looking for another relationship. I’d rather drown my sorrows in beer, hockey, and video games. And that’s how I end up kissing Shannon.After a few drinks, one kiss leads to another…And before I know it, I’m breaking my no-dating rules.But when my past crashes into our future, we need more than chemistry to stay together...
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