Books like 'Did They Break You'
Readers who enjoyed Did They Break You by K.V. Rose also liked the following books featuring the same tropes, story themes, relationship dynamics and character types.
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Reforming Kent: A Stand-Alone Enemies to Lovers Romance by Siobhan Davis
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsAn enemies-to-lovers new adult romance from USA Today bestseller Siobhan Davis. Standalone with HEA and no cliffhanger. Kent Rogue. Troublemaker. Bad Boy. Delinquent. Everyone thinks they know who I am, but they know nothing. And that’s how I prefer it. Keeping my demons under lock and key is my only survival tactic. Until she enters my life, turning it upside down. She thinks she can fix me... -
Love Delayed (Waiting to Breathe ) by Love Belvin
Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWhat happens when Zoey Barrett, an ingenuous Princeton scholar, meets NBA All-star rocker-boy, Stenton Rogers? Zoey has her life all planned out. She’s working hard at her degree and to help her family stay afloat financially. Stenton’s at the top of his game on the court, but off, his life is out of bounds... -
Teach Me by Alexandria House
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsStable, safe, predictable - all words that aptly describe Professor Nadia Day's life. An existence she's carefully crafted for herself despite her unconventional upbringing and what, to her, is an unseemly past. More than anything, she wants to forget her unstable history, and the last thing she would ever do is rock the boat when it comes to her life and livelihood... -
Bradford Brawler by Sheridan Anne
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsI can’t say I’ve ever wished for someone to be bitten right on the tip of their junk by a giant bull ant before, but Tanner Morgan—the only man capable of making me want to scream and cream at the same damn time—just might be the guy to change that... -
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Broken Love by Stacey Marie Brown
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsLife shattered my bones, now it wants to break my heart. Jaymerson Holloway thought all her grief and pain were behind her. Unfortunately, life has other ideas. Where stories don’t end happily. Where hearts shattered into pieces and love slips through your fingers...Categorized as:
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Dear Love, I Hate You: An Enemies-to-Lovers Romance by Eliah Greenwood
Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsIt all started with an anonymous letter. He wasn’t supposed to find it—no one was. And he definitely wasn’t supposed to answer it. We end up talking through letters and sticky notes in a book. One sticky note. Two sticky notes. Ten sticky notes. All baring our darkest, deepest secrets. It’s all fun and games until I find out who my pen pal is... Xavier Emery... -
Wicked Knight #1 (Knight's Ridge Empire) by Tracy Lorraine
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsUSA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Tracy Lorraine brings you a new dark mafia, high school bully romance series.The truth is meant to set you free… but not my truth.Mine has sent me deeper and darker, feeding my need for revenge. I want blood for those who wronged me and my family. And my so-called truth is ripping me apart, in a way lies never could... -
Real Girl by Sheridan Anne
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsLucien Valentine must die.It’s the thought that’s kept me going for four long years. I’ve imagined it, dreamed about it, relished in it. I want it so bad, but the question is, do I have what it takes to make it happen?Taking a life isn’t for the faint-hearted. Just ask Lucien, he knows.He’s taken me back to where it all started and I know exactly how it’s going to go... -
The Vengeance You Crave by Tracy Lorraine
Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsIt’s been almost six years since she ruined what we had. Her lies shattered years of friendship and ripped apart the future we planned. After I called her a liar and revoked my trust, she left town and never looked back. In a cruel twist of fate, she’s returned. But I’m not the wounded boy she left behind. I’m a man now. A man full of anger, resentment and loss... -
Love Is In the Air Volume 1 by Susan Stoker, P.J. Fiala
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratings30 of your favorite authors come together to celebrate love and romance in this anthology featuring brand new, original short stories.All proceeds will go to the American Heart Association.Featured authors include:A.M. Kusi, Abbie Zanders, Alley Ciz, Anna Blakely, Anna Brooks, Becca Steele, Cora Kenborn, Darcy Burke, Elizabeth SaFleur, Emery Rose, Greer Bailey, Ivy Layne, J. Kenner, Jeana E... -
Do You Dare? by Lylah James
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsWhat happens when a dare goes too far?Maddox Coulter. Reckless bad boy. Infamous playboy. My nemesis. And now my best friend.I know he'll never leave me hanging. He knows I'll never refuse a dare. Everywhere we go we turn heads, but it's not like that.Until it is.For one of us, anyway.I've always known he would be my downfall. But I trusted him to catch me.He proved me wrong... -
Bradford Bastard by Sheridan Anne
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThere are three things I know for sure.One, hot wax on the coochie ain’t for everybody. Two, diamonds aren’t a girl’s best friend—tampons are. And three, Tanner Morgan is an asshole.I’m sure if I hadn’t spilled beer all over him and gave a subtle suggestion of where he could shove his best friend’s dick, perhaps we would have started out on a better note... -
Hunter by Tracy Lorraine
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsI’m a nobody... until everybody realizes who I am and who I’m related to.Then it’s like a giant target is painted on my back. They all think they can use me to climb the Rosewood High royalty ladder.They obviously underestimate me. I won’t cower down or give in.They can’t break me. But he can... without even trying.Zayn Hunter.He doesn’t want to use me.. -
Cruel Abandon: A Dark College Bully Romance by S. Massery
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratings*A Dark College Bully Romance*We're all hiding something.I have a confession: I’m a big, fat liar.My family thinks I’m in college on a scholarship.They assume I worked hard enough to get a full ride.The truth is much worse, but I wasn’t worried.My secret was safe.Wrong.It only takes one girl to disrupt my plans.To disintegrate the facade I’ve been building.To ruin everything... -
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The Devastation You Reap by Tracy Lorraine
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsUSA Today & Wall Street Journal bestselling author Tracy Lorraine brings you a new dark bully college romance within her Maddison Kings world. For years I've kept my secrets.Kept the darkest, most twisted parts of myself buried from everyone around me... -
The Retaliation You Deliver by Tracy Lorraine
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWhen something seems too good to be true. It’s usually because it is.A lesson I learned the hard way.Every single fear I had about falling for Leon, has just come true in the most brutal way.The sweet guy act he’s been putting on the past few weeks is over.The cold, hard truth is... he never wanted me. He only wanted retaliation.And like a fool, I played right into his wicked scheme... -
The After Series Slipcase Set by Anna Todd
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsPlease Note That The Following Individual Books As Per Original ISBN and Cover Image In this Listing shall be Dispatched Collectively: The Complete After Series Collection 5 Books Box Set by Anna Todd: After Ever Happy: After Ever Happy...Life will never be the same... -
Taint Her: A Dark High School Bully Romance by Caitlyn Dare
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsHe wants to ruin her. She wants to save him.Hadley Rexford was a distraction I didn’t need. But when she discovers me with blood on my hands, I know I can’t walk away without demanding her silence.I’ll taint her.Torment her.In the end, I’ll ruin her.Cole Jagger was a puzzle I wanted to solve. But he refuses to let me in, and now I’m ensnared in his trap.He’s cold.Immoral... -
Beneath the Stands: An Enemies to Lovers, Best Friend's Brother Romance (Sugarlake Series, Book Two) by Emily McIntire
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsBeccaI hated before I loved.I loved and then I lost.And the only man I’ve ever wanted is the one out of reach.Temptation is the Devil’s candy, but I lost my faith in God years ago.He’s forbidden.Off-limits.My biggest secret.One I’m determined to take to my grave.I’ve learned to live in the ghost of his memory. Craving his touch, but relieved he never comes home.Until one day, he does... -
Everything I Have by A.K. Evans
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsEmme James lives in darkness. Ever since her abusive relationship ended in heartbreaking tragedy, she's kept herself secluded to protect herself and those she loves. Unfortunately, Emme's plans to remain unattached fall apart the moment Zane Cunningham sets his sights on her. A professional snowboarder at the top of his game, Zane does not need a distraction... -
Fragile Things by Samantha Lovelock
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsPoe Halliday was an accident. A chance meeting that changed my life forever.My mother didn't have secrets; her secrets had her. After she disappeared, I had nothing.Or so I thought.When the invitation arrived, the opportunity to learn about my mother's past was too great to pass up. Heading west to meet an aunt I had never heard of, I knew I was taking a risk, but I craved answers... -
Vengeful Rotten Casualties by Lucy Smoke
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsI 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... -
You and Me, Baby by Weston Parker
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe last thing I need is to fall in love. Especially with him…My twin sister has other plans.She works for a hot new dating agency that’s all the buzz.And I made a pact with her. If we were still unmarried at thirty, we’d put ourselves out there fully.Well, the time has come. And my sister isn’t letting up.Now I have to start “dating in the dark,” whatever that means...Categorized as:
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Until I Get You by Claire Contreras
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 11 ratings*This is a standalone, new adult, hockey romance novel that contains dark themes*3 years ago, she ruined my life. Now I'm going to return the favor...My reputation at Fairview University preceded me. I was the projected number-one pick in the NHL draft and the fan favorite at the rink. People wanted to be me or be with me. Except for Lyla James Marichal... -
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Clash by Cora Brent
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsTAYLOR I’m that poor little rich girl whose silver spoon was snatched right out of her pretty mouth. I lost everything. Now my everyday reality includes sleeping in my car and dining on whatever clearance food I can purchase with spare change. But my issues don’t end there. My nightmare family is hot on my heels and demanding something I don’t have. They won’t give up until I crack... -
The Destruction You Desire by Tracy Lorraine
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsAfter six years of living in denial, Luca is finally faced with the truth. A brutal discovery he refused to accept when I needed him most.Now the vengeance he so desperately craves isn’t directed at me, but the monster responsible for destroying all our lives.That might put us on the same side this time, but that doesn’t mean I can forgive him for not believing me... -
My Favorite Sin by Skyla Summers
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsAlly Hastings is my obsession, the one girl I never should have fallen in love with.She ran away from me for a year, filled with shame, insisting our feelings for each other are wrong and we can’t give into temptation. No more sneaking around. No more stolen kisses.Now Ally is back in town, ignoring our past, trying to date other guys and move on from me... -
Pedal to the Metal by Eden Connor
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsMy love life? It’s complicated. I walked away from my stepbrothers again, this time to make my mother happy. To make my best friend Caroline happy. And what did those bad boys do? They put Caroline in the car and came after me... -
Turn & Burn by Eden Connor
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWhen asked to be the keynote speaker to honor my stepfather’s twenty-fifth year with Ridenhour Racing, I was determined to get even with my stepbrothers. When I took an instant dislike to the team's young superstar, Dale knocked my plans awry by betting his prized '71 Barracuda Hemi against Kolby’s new Audi RS7 that I could beat the rising NASCAR superstar in a drag race... -
Fall On Me by Chloe Walsh
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratings"Kyle Carter knew every inch of my body. Every fraction of my soul. He was the first man I'd ever been with intimately. The first to break my heart. The first to put it back together again. He was my first, my last and my everything that came in between." In the aftermath of Rachel's vicious attack, Lee and Kyle must once again pick up the pieces of their broken world and move forward... -
The Betrayal You Serve by Tracy Lorraine
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsVor der Wahrheit kann man nicht weglaufen …Sie verändert alles.Ihre Geheimisse sind zwar ans Licht gekommen, aber meine hängen immer noch wie ein Schatten über uns.Ein Verrat, der sie einem anderen in die Arme treibt.Doch es fühlt sich an, als hätte mir jemand einen Dolch ins Herz gerammt.Nur, dass ich selbst den Dolch in der Hand hielt... -
The Deception You Weave by Tracy Lorraine
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsI never could hide from him.Kane Legend always finds me.And now he’s found out the truth.The dark secret I’ve been hiding, the one that’s been slowly poisoning me from the inside out.The pain of the words falling from my lips, is nothing compared to the look of devastation in his eyes. Or the rage that follows.The way I thought he hated me back then is nothing compared to the damage he can do now... -
When Rivals Lose by J.L. Beck, C. Hallman
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsHARLOW Darkness surrounds me. Who am I? I don’t remember anything. Every memory of my life gone. I wake in a hospital not knowing my own name. I don’t know these people who claim to be are my parents, but they take care of me, they show me pictures… and introduce me to my fiancé? I guess I was living a perfect life before my accident. I had it all, so I try to remember... -
Savage Little Lies by Eden O'Neill
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsTiny. Twisted. Secrets.The news about what happened to Dorian’s uncle rocks the town. Especially when a private school’s educator turns up dead. The focus surrounding the events that occurred that night shifts, and no one knows that more than the Legacy boys’ dark prince. Dorian’s looking for answers in the hours following the harrowing truths revealed in that video... -
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Cruel Kisses: A Dark Bully Lovers-to-Enemies-to-Maybe Lovers Romance by Thandiwe Mpofu, Thandie
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsShe’s gone… good riddance to tormenting, cold nightmares that come in the form of sweet but devious kisses.⠀Thing is, without her here, there’s a fiery riot in my heart I can't control.⠀She left a bloody feud brewing in my house.⠀That Little Minx caused chaos and hell to break loose between my brother and me as only she can.⠀She kissed me and imprinted her broken soul to my darkness... -
Green Light by Jescie Hall
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsFrom Amazon's bestselling author Jescie Hall comes a new dark college romance about one man's online obsession with his new stepsister.K1ngK0br@: I fell for your lies, and you sucked me into your twisted game. You made me crave your taste, hungered for your full attention. I gave you everything, only for you to go ghost. You hollowed my heart, sending me into a spiral of self-destruction... -
STEPDORK by A.E. Murphy
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsRaven and Travis sitting in a tree, doing things they shouldn’t be. HA… yeah, right. Raven hates her stepbrother with a passion, and she’s certain Travis returns the sentiment because he makes life at home with him hell. He ruined her favorite T-shirt, damn it... -
Cold as Ice by Rachel Jonas, Nikki Thorne
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThis is book 2 in the SAVAGE KINGS OF BRADWYN U series.Don't be alarmed by the date. I always push those out just in case, but you'll have a copy in your hands before you know it! Final blurb and cover coming soon...***More about COLD AS ICE The male characters in this series proudly wave all 99+ of their red flags... -
Twisted Obsession Prequel: Meeting Melody by S. Massery
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsShort prequel story for Jacob Rhodes and Melody Cameron.Twisted Obsession (their full length book) is coming October 25, 2023... -
You Will Bow by Rachel Leigh
Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsMy first year at college has been anything but ordinary. After spending so much energy trying to protect my secret, I failed to realize it’s not the past I need to fear—It’s my future that’s at stake. I’ve finally found someone who doesn’t judge me for my sins and stays by my side while I trudge through the shadowy corners of my past.The only problem is, his friends have other plans... -
Offside by Avery Keelan
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThis listing refers to the Wattpad edition of Offside. For ARC reviews and other reviews of the published version, please see my other listing for Offside, which has the subtitle Rules of the Game #1.*2021 Watty Award winner: Romance category... -
Wicked Summer Knight by Tracy Lorraine
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsUSA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Tracy Lorraine brings you a new dark mafia, high school bully romance series.She’s in the wrong place at the right time…Gunshots echo, reverberating through me, allowing me to feel something… anything other than the pain that consumes me.That should be a warning to stay away, but for some reason, she comes closer. Intruding on my silence... -
Professor's Kiss by Sienna Blake
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsDanny O’Donaghue. Indie rock god. Lady killer. The devil with midnight hair and blue-flame eyes. After six years I thought the pain of what he’d done to me had faded. Guess not. Because I’m standing in this crowded lecture hall of the most prestigious music school in Ireland, staring at the person who healed me when I was broken. Right before he shattered me beyond repair...Categorized as:
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Personal Foul by Maggie Rawdon
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratings“I’m her dirty little secret, the one she loves to hate.”She knows just what to say to cut deep, and I know how to press every single button she has.We hate each other, until one night after I lose the biggest football game of the year. When she offers the kind of mercy I need. It changes everything… until the next morning.Now I’m her dirty little secret, and she’s avoiding me like the plague... -
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What Sinners Love: A Dark Reverse Harem College Romance by Eva Ashwood
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsWhat Sinners Love is the explosive final book in the Sinners of Hawthorne University series!Note: The blurb below contains spoilers for the first two books, so I'd highly recommend not reading it until you've finished both When Sinners Play and How Sinners Fight.***All it took to blow my world apart was a single word.A name.Sabrina... -
The Hate of Loving You by Maya Hughes
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsSix years ago, in the dead of night, I woke up to a cold bed and an even colder future without her. I would’ve followed her anywhere and she left. I thought I’d moved on and left all she meant to me behind. But a first love is never easy to forget. Even harder when I once felt our love is inevitable--inescapable. And I’ve been proven right once again... -
The Fall of a God by Holly Renee
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsInnocent. Blameless. Pure. Heartbroken. Josie Vos belonged to the one family I hated more than anything. And I had forced her to despise me just as much. It didn't matter that I had lost track of my plan and fallen for my enemy. Irrevocably hurt and enraged by my deceit, she had no intentions of doing anything but watching me lose my throne. The secrets of our families can never be forgotten... -
Royal Elite Epilogue by Rina Kent
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsAll five couples of Royal Elite series come to life again in this long extended epilogue.Levi & AstridAiden & ElsaXander & KimberlyRonan & TealCole & SilverThis epilogue is set after the end of Royal Elite Series so all the previous books need to be read before this... -
Resilient Queen by Amber Vant
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsI never wanted this. Never asked for any of it. The corrupted, chaos of the past is playing catch-up with the present and nothing is as it seems. Everyone wants something. Me? All I want is the truth. I thought this was the end, but it turns out it’s only the beginning. The basis for a much darker twist of fate. Secrets are starting to unravel; relationships have grown fractured... -
Campus God: An Enemies-to-Lovers Football Romance by Jennifer Sucevic
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsCrosby Rhodes is considered a god when it comes to Western Wildcats football.And who knows?Maybe he actually is one. There’s certainly no shortage of girls on campus who agree with the sentiment. They swoon over his pretty face, dark messy hair, and hard body honed from years of lifting and two-a-day practices. That alone makes him catnip for the female species...
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