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  • Love Me Whole by Nicky James

    Love Me Whole by Nicky James

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Twenty-eight-year-old Oryn Patterson isn’t like other people. Being an extremely shy, social introvert is only part of the problem. Oryn has dissociative identity disorder. He may look like a normal man on the outside, but spend five minutes with him, and his daily struggles begin to show. Oryn shares his life and headspace with five distinctively different alters...
  • Carry the Ocean by Heidi Cullinan

    Carry the Ocean by Heidi Cullinan

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    Normal is just a setting on the dryer.High school graduate Jeremey Samson is looking forward to burying his head under the covers and sleeping until it’s time to leave for college. Then a tornado named Emmet Washington enters his life. The double major in math and computer science is handsome, forward, wicked smart, interested in dating Jeremey—and he’s autistic...
  • Missing Pieces by Ivy Smoak

    Missing Pieces by Ivy Smoak

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Hailey - He's still in love with his ex. And I refuse to be a consolation prize. So why did I just agree to a spur of the moment road trip with him? I just have to keep reminding myself that I'm doing this for me. It has nothing to do with the gorgeous man staring at me like I'm a crazy person.Tyler - Why is she climbing into my car uninvited? I don't care how sweet her smile is...
  • Saving Brad by Siobhan Davis, Fiona Jayde Media

    Saving Brad by Siobhan Davis, Fiona Jayde Media

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Brad: I’m in love with my best friend’s girl. She knows it. He knows it. Everyone knows it. Faye will never be mine, but try telling that to my stupid heart. An endless rotation of girls streams in and out of my bedroom in a desperate attempt to forget her, but nothing eases the horrid ache in my chest. Rejection isn’t anything new for me, but it hasn’t gotten any easier...
  • Jaded: Zane and Honor by Tess Thompson

    Jaded: Zane and Honor by Tess Thompson

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Zane Shaw isn't the type to cower in a corner, until he meets Honor Sullivan. She's the most phenomenal woman he's ever met, but he's been burned before and so he's doomed to fall for her from a distance. If only his past hadn't left him so weary, perhaps he could be the man he was raised to be. Honor Sullivan has too much at stake to get distracted by a man. But Zane Shaw isn't just any man...
  • Scarred: Trey and Autumn by Tess Thompson

    Scarred: Trey and Autumn by Tess Thompson

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    For Autumn Hickman, online dating has been an exercise in nothing more than coffee and failure. There simply isn’t a man on the planet who can compare to her best friend, Trey Wattson. And while Trey is everything Autumn has ever wanted in a partner, she knows the man who loves life’s most beautiful things could never cherish anything as scarred and mangled as her...
  • Gabriel's Rapture by Sylvain Reynard

    Gabriel's Rapture by Sylvain Reynard

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 40 ratings
    National bestselling author Sylvain Reynard continues the story of Gabriel and Julia, two lovers bound together by their darkest desires. But those very desires may destroy them . . . Professor Gabriel Emerson has embarked on a passionate, yet clandestine affair with his former student Julia Mitchell...
  • Carved in Ice by Ivy Smoak

    Carved in Ice by Ivy Smoak

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    When I was little, I dreamed my life would be a fairy tale. But it just so happens that I don't need a knight in shining armor to save me anymore. I'm made of freaking steel. It's time for answers. Time for vengeance. And time to finally unmask the notorious V. There's no going back now. See what happens in the epic conclusion of the Made of Steel series...
  • The Ending I Want by Samantha Towle

    The Ending I Want by Samantha Towle

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Taylor Shaw had the perfect life—until she was sixteen. That was when everything changed. From that moment on, life went from bad to worse…to the worst.After recovering from a brain tumor, months later, she suffers the tragic loss of her whole family.Since that fateful day, she’s been coasting through life.Now, the brain tumor has returned, and Taylor decides she’s had enough...
  • Complicated Love: A Black Light Novel by Livia Grant

    Complicated Love: A Black Light Novel by Livia Grant

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    ★Keeping two lovers in sync is hard enough. Three is incredibly complicated.★ Jaxson, Chase, and Emma may have officially bit off more than they can chew. Already running two wildly successful clubs in Washington D.C., they decide to expand, opening Runway West and Black Light West in luxurious Beverly Hills, California.  But there is no relaxing for the infamous threesome...
  • Forged in Flames by Ivy Smoak

    Forged in Flames by Ivy Smoak

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    I remember when I thought my life would be like the fairy tales I read about. I'd do anything to go back in time when everything was so simple. When my knight in shining armor had a face and a name. When my biggest secret was that I snuck out at night to watch the stars.I'm worried that there's a sickness in me, swallowing me whole. I don't understand what's happening to me...
  • Three Complete Novels: Heaven/Dawn/Ruby by V.C. Andrews

    Three Complete Novels: Heaven/Dawn/Ruby by V.C. Andrews

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    This volume features the first novels in three thrilling V.C. Andrews' series: "Heaven, Dawn, " and "Ruby"--an unprecedented hardcover collection--complete and unabridged--at an inviting price! Available...
  • Marry Me in Good Hope by Cindy Kirk

    Marry Me in Good Hope by Cindy Kirk

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Of all the things Hadley Newhouse expected to find in Good Hope, love wasn’t on the list. The baker extraordinaire has spent the last three years hiding her past and holding her breath. It isn’t that she likes being evasive. She just doesn’t want to open old wounds...
  • Light in the Shadows by A. Meredith Walters

    Light in the Shadows by A. Meredith Walters

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    In the bestselling sequel to Find You in the Dark, A. Meredith Walters continues the emotional story of Maggie, Clay, and the power of unconditional love.How do you keep going when you feel like your life is over?Maggie never thought she’d see Clay again. So, she attempts to put her life back together after her heart has been shattered to pieces...
  • Am I Normal Yet? by Holly Bourne

    Am I Normal Yet? by Holly Bourne

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    All Evie wants is to be normal. She’s almost off her meds and at a new college where no one knows her as the girl-who-went-crazy. She’s even going to parties and making friends. There’s only one thing left to tick off her list…But relationships are messy – especially relationships with teenage guys. They can make any girl feel like they’re going mad...
  • Stay with Me by Nicole Fiorina

    Stay with Me by Nicole Fiorina

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    In a desperate final attempt to save nineteen-year-old Mia from herself, she gets transferred to Dolor University, a reformatory college in the UK that housed deranged and dangerous young adults who viewed the private institution as their own personal playground. Mia didn’t care. She needed feelings to care...
  • Starfish by Akemi Dawn Bowman

    Starfish by Akemi Dawn Bowman

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    A William C. Morris Award Finalist A New York Public Library Best Book for Teens of 2017 A Junior Library Guild Selection “An empowering novel that will speak to many mixed-race teens.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) “Dazzling.” —Bustle “One of the most compelling reads of the year.” —Paste Magazine “This book is a gem...
  • Firefly Effect by K.K. Allen

    Firefly Effect by K.K. Allen

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    For years, tales of the Firefly Man were nothing more than elaborate rumors spread by residents in the Great Smoky Mountains.Until the night Evelyn Vaughn stumbled upon a dead body in the woods.Fear gripped her, and silence stole her voice.All while she watched the boy she was with that night take the fall.Fourteen years later, Evelyn is nothing more than a shell of her former self...
  • The Day She Came Back by Amanda Prowse

    The Day She Came Back by Amanda Prowse

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    When her loving, free-spirited grandmother Primrose passes away, Victoria is bereft, yet resilient—she has survived tragedy before. But even her strength is tested when a mysterious woman attends Prim’s funeral and claims to be the mother Victoria thought was dead...
  • If He Had Been with Me by Laura Nowlin

    If He Had Been with Me by Laura Nowlin

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    If he had been with me everything would have been different...I wasn't with Finn on that August night. But I should've been. It was raining, of course. And he and Sylvie were arguing as he drove down the slick road. No one ever says what they were arguing about. Other people think it's not important. They do not know there is another story. The story that lurks between the facts...
  • Black by Elin Peer

    Black by Elin Peer

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    "Some people grow up with caring families, summer camps, and birthday parties. Not me! If you saw me, your first thought would be: Goth girl – and then you would look the other way, like everyone else. But that’s okay, I get it, and I don’t care. Caring is a luxury I can’t afford. My life isn’t about caring...
  • Darkness Lurks by J.L. Drake

    Darkness Lurks by J.L. Drake

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Emily McPhee has struggled to overcome her father’s death... It’s not easy, but Emily finally has the life she wants. She’s an A student at Orange University and has a comfortable home and a great circle of friends. She’s also in love with handsome Orange PD officer Seth Connors. He doesn’t seem to return her feelings, though, so she tells herself his friendship is enough...
  • Blurring Lines by Chloe Walsh

    Blurring Lines by Chloe Walsh

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Mackenzie Moore's world came crashing down on her when she was just a child. Her innocence was robbed. Her future was corrupted and dismantled. The events of Mackenzie's past have morphed her into the heartless creature she comes across as. She trusts no one, feels nothing, and avoids everyone... everyone except her step-brother Cade...
  • Therapy by Kathryn Perez

    Therapy by Kathryn Perez

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Sometimes you have to get lost in order to be found... I’m needy. I’m broken. Cutting breaks through my numbness, but only opens more wounds. Depression, self-harm, bullying....that's my reality. Sex and guys....that's my escape. The space between the truth and lies is blurred leaving me torn, lost and confused...
  • Half Truths by Claire Contreras

    Half Truths by Claire Contreras

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    You’ve heard of these groups – the secretive ones that only the crème de la crème are invited into, the ones outsiders speculate about for centuries – I’m the second in my family invited to attend, but to them, I’m fresh meat. New blood. New money, too. They think they’ll elbow past me, that I’m here for their amusement, for them to walk all over, they’ll find out soon enough that I’m not...
  • Risk by Cora Brent

    Risk by Cora Brent

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    “I’d seen enough of Creed Gentry to know he might be the worst thing I could do. Yet one lustful glance from him scrambled every piece of sanity I owned.” Truly… My life hasn’t been uneventful and a few things should have sunk in by now. I’m a tired age twenty one with a laundry list of heartbreaks. Most of all I know what carnage comes from carelessly risking the heart...
  • Broken Silence by Natasha Preston

    Broken Silence by Natasha Preston

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Four years after Oakley left for Australia, the trial is ready to begin. After coming to the decision that she needs to face her abusers to finally be able to move on, Oakley and her family return to England to give evidence in person...
  • Christina by Leanne Davis

    Christina by Leanne Davis

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    My 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...
  • Hesitate by Anna Brooks

    Hesitate by Anna Brooks

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    When I opened the file and saw her face, I knew I was in trouble. The first time she put her hand in mine, I should have simply taken her home and continued to keep her safe from a distance. But her pull was too strong, her beauty too irresistible, and before I knew it was happening, she’d brought me to my knees. I wasn’t the only one who was falling, though...
  • The Truth She Knew by Andrew Brown

    The Truth She Knew by Andrew Brown

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Mama didn’t want me. In fact, she would’ve traded my soul back for someone different if God would’ve let her, but he didn’t, so she was stuck with me. For eighteen-year-old Lacey, life at home is a rollercoaster. She doesn’t think she’ll ever be good enough to truly deserve Mama’s love. But when Lacey enters college and meets Walker, everything starts to change...
  • The Rebound: A Novel by J.R. Rogue

    The Rebound: A Novel by J.R. Rogue

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Some love affairs aren’t meant for the public eye. Some love affairs won’t survive the fallout. Calliope das Dores is not the perfect rebound, even if her name means "muse". She is not who I should be running to. But I want her anyway. She keeps telling me my squeaky-clean image can’t handle the scandal, but this want between us is not black and white, and it never will be...
  • Prove Me Right by Anna Brooks

    Prove Me Right by Anna Brooks

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    One weakness can change everything. Meara and Liam were friends before they could talk, in love since they could drive, and planning their future before they graduated high school. In order to start the life they’ve always dreamed of, Liam just has to finish his tour with the band. He doesn't want anyone else. Liam's only ever had eyes for Meara, and he can't wait to finally get home to her...
  • Hunger for Life by Andy Marr

    Hunger for Life by Andy Marr

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    On the day of his graduation, James says goodbye to the future and moves back to his parents’ house in Myreton, the sleepy village of his childhood. He’s not happy, but the thought of continuing his life anywhere else seems unthinkable while his sister, Emma, continues to suffer with the illness that’s plagued her since she was a child...
  • Butterflies & Vicious Lies by Kayleigh King

    Butterflies & Vicious Lies by Kayleigh King

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    I told her my secrets and she told me gilded lies. The words that dripped from her lips like honey were nothing but empty promises.Her betrayal blindsided me.Posie had been my constant. My anchor. My calm. Until she wasn’t.Now she’s my enemy.Before I could even the score, she fled to the other side of the country where she thought she was safe from my wrath.She was wrong...
  • Ugly by Margaret McHeyzer

    Ugly by Margaret McHeyzer

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    *To watch the trailer, click on my author name above. If I were dead, I wouldn't be able to see.If I were dead, I wouldn't be able to feel.If I were dead, he'd never raise his hand to me again.If I were dead, his words wouldn't cut as deep as they do.If I were dead, I'd be beautiful and I wouldn't be so...ugly.I'm not dead...but I wish I was.*This is a dark YA/NA standalone, full-length novel...
  • Aaron by J.P. Barnaby

    Aaron by J.P. Barnaby

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    I can’t describe what it’s like to want to scream every minute of every day. Two years after a terrifying night of pain destroyed his normal teenage existence, Aaron Downing still clings to the hope that one day, he will be a fully functional human being. But his life remains a constant string of nightmares, flashbacks, and fear...
  • Incognito by Siobhan Davis

    Incognito by Siobhan Davis

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    A new adult STANDALONE college romance from USA Today bestselling author Siobhan Davis. A troubled popstar forced into hiding… A sweet small-town girl overcoming tragedy… And the kind of love that only happens once in a lifetime. Dakota’s dreams of attending Juilliard were shattered the night tragedy struck her family...
  • Candy by Luke Davies

    Candy by Luke Davies

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    "Candy is beside me, drenched in sweat. She's breathing gently, long slow breaths. I imagine her soul going in and out: wanting to leave, wanting to come back, wanting to leave, wanting to come back. The day will soon harden into what we need to do. But for now we have each other. . . ."He met Candy amid a lush Sydney summer. Gorgeous, sexy, free-spirited Candy...
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  • Chasing River by K.A. Tucker

    Chasing River by K.A. Tucker

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Armed with two years' worth of savings and the need to experience life outside the bubble of her Oregon small town, twenty-five-year old Amber Welles is prepared for anything. Except dying in Dublin. Had it not been for the bravery of a stranger, she might have. But he takes off before she has the chance to offer her gratitude. Twenty-four-year-old River Delaney is rattled...
  • Clean by Juno Dawson

    Clean by Juno Dawson

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    I can feel it swimming through my veins like glitter ... it's liquid gold.When socialite Lexi Volkov almost overdoses, she thinks she's hit rock bottom.She's wrong. Rock bottom is when she's forced into an exclusive rehab facility.From there, the only way is up for Lexi and her fellow inmates, including the mysterious Brady...
  • Letting Ana Go by Anonymous

    Letting Ana Go by Anonymous

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    In 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...
  • If There's No Tomorrow by Jennifer L. Armentrout

    If There's No Tomorrow by Jennifer L. Armentrout

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Lena Wise is always looking forward to tomorrow, especially at the start of her senior year. She's ready to pack in as much friend time as possible, to finish college applications and to maybe let her childhood best friend Sebastian know how she really feels about him. For Lena, the upcoming year is going to be epic—one of opportunities and chances...
  • How to Fall in Love by Cecelia Ahern

    How to Fall in Love by Cecelia Ahern

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    She has just two weeks. Two weeks to teach him how to fall in love – with his own life. Adam Basil and Christine Rose are thrown together late one night, when Christine is crossing the Halfpenny Bridge in Dublin. Adam is there, poised, threatening to jump. Adam is desperate – but Christine makes a crazy deal with him...
  • The Rise by Shari King, Shari Low

    The Rise by Shari King, Shari Low

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    When we bury our secrets, they always come back to haunt us...Their rise was meteoric.Only a few years before, they had been three friends from Glasgow, just trying to survive tough lives of danger and dysfunction.But on one Hollywood evening in 1993, they were on the world’s biggest stage, accepting their Oscar in front of the watching world.That night was the beginning of their careers...
  • The Last Summer by Ruthie Luhnow

    The Last Summer by Ruthie Luhnow

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    "It's not even really a first kiss if you're practicing on a friend." Trapped in a conservative prairie town, Alfie Alder has spent his whole life enduring bullying from his classmates and indifference from his teachers. Only one person has ever seen past Alfie's sarcastic, standoffish exterior—his best friend and the love of his life, Wynn...
  • Heartbreaker by Anna Brooks

    Heartbreaker by Anna Brooks

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    I wasn’t supposed to be in town for long. Get in, get the job done, and get out. Easy. Simple. She was never supposed to happen, and her baby girl sure as hell wasn’t part of my plans. I didn’t need the complication and I certainly wasn’t planning on staying. “Mommy’s scared, Ryan. Don’t leave.” Five words. That was all it took for my life to change forever...
  • Forever Ago by J. Rose

    Forever Ago by J. Rose

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    HALLIEI’m alone in the sea of my grief until I meet Zeke, a tornado of complications who leaves destruction in his wake. I fall hard and fast, despite all the warning signs.Our love story is far from a fairy-tale. But if it hurts, then it’s real.There’s a monster hiding beneath his tattooed skin, an addiction that will tear us apart...
  • All I Need by Emily Goodwin

    All I Need by Emily Goodwin

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    “My life was hell, nothing but pain and darkness.Every night I hoped I’d lay down to sleep and never wake up. I saw no reason to keep going. There was nothing for me, no promise of a better life. Every morning I woke up hoping this would be my last day.Then I met her, and everything changed...
  • Early from the Dance by David Payne

    Early from the Dance by David Payne

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Cary and Adam are best friends from opposite sides of the Killdeer, N.C., tracks. Then Jane McCrae comes into their lives like a hurricane. When Cary falls in love with her, the boy's twosome becomes a tightly knit group of three, and they make plans for their summer after high school graduation...
  • Roam by Anna Brooks

    Roam by Anna Brooks

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    She was my daughter’s best friend. She stood next to me and held my hand while my little girl’s pink casket was lowered into the ground. The last time I saw her she was chasing me down the street as I left the town that was slowly suffocating me to death. But now she’s a woman and she needs my help. So I’ll save her and ask for nothing in return...
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