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  • Toxic Creek by K.C. Kean

    Toxic Creek by K.C. Kean

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    “It’s so nice when toxic people stop talking to you. It’s like the trash took itself out.”I had everything I ever wanted, until my life was flipped upside down. Now, I’m suddenly being forced to live in my parent’s hometown, with complete strangers. Like my heart isn’t broken enough. Could I fall any further?Yes. Yes, I could.Why might that be?The Allstars...
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    cruel-mc  high-school  suspense  book  contemporary  crime  dark  death
  • Dark Knight by Tracy Lorraine

    Dark Knight by Tracy Lorraine

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Tracy Lorraine brings you a new dark mafia, high school bully romance story set in the Knight's Ridge Empire world.She's the mafia princess he was meant to stay away from. And he did.Until that one night when he was able to hide his identity and his darkness under a different kind of mask. But one taste wasn't enough...
  • Hate Me by Jillian Dodd

    Hate Me by Jillian Dodd

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    I was told if I went away, he'd forget about me, lose interest, and move on. But he hasn't. In fact, my being gone has only made things worse. So it's time for me to take matters into my own hands. It's time for me to fight back. Hey, Vincent...
  • Say It Again by Catherine Bybee

    Say It Again by Catherine Bybee

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    A Wall Street Journal bestseller. In the final First Wives novel by New York Times bestselling author Catherine Bybee, falling in love could become the most dangerous dare of one woman’s life. Protector-for-hire Sasha Budanov is accustomed to life as a loner. Always on the move, she’s now reached a crossroad...
  • Payback Princess by C.M. Stunich

    Payback Princess by C.M. Stunich

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Finding out you’re the daughter of a famous serial killer isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.My father—the Seattle Slayer—is charismatic, intelligent, and charming.He’s also trying to teach me to kill people, so … his good qualities don’t seem to matter much.He’s kidnapped my boyfriend, a guy that I used to hate but grew to love.Parrish, I’m coming for you. I’ll do anything—anything—to keep you safe...
  • Twisted Creek by K.C. Kean

    Twisted Creek by K.C. Kean

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    I have nothing left to give this twisted town, not a single ounce. I’ve let them beat me down, almost break me, but it’s time I fixed my ‘Grady’ jersey, and show them I will do anything to protect what is mine.Trying to survive Knight’s Creek without Xavier, Hunter, and Tobias is harder than I care to admit. I have to give it my all and try again; I have to run...
  • Corrupt Union by Tracy Lorraine

    Corrupt Union by Tracy Lorraine

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    I found everything I didn’t know I needed. Accepted forgiveness I didn’t deserve.She fought for us. Killed for us. She was one of us. And there was no way I was letting her go… again. But I’m not the only one with wicked intentions for my siren. With her missing, we turn our blame to an obvious enemy. But our path of destruction could be leading us right into another trap...
  • Adore Me by Jillian Dodd

    Adore Me by Jillian Dodd

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Join Keatyn on Thanksgiving Break in this Keatyn Chronicles novella. I’ve finally become the kind of girl my little sisters could look up to. Except for the lies. Lying to my friends is killing me. And the longer I’m there—the closer we get—the more I feel like I’m being eaten from the inside out. If I go back to Eastbrooke, I’ll end up nothing but a shell. So I'm not going back...
  • Date Me by Jillian Dodd

    Date Me by Jillian Dodd

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    I’m not scripting my life anymore. I’m living it. I’m done with the God of all Hotties. I’m going to give my heart to the boy who I think deserves it. The boy whose kisses are hotter than molten lava. The boy who offered me the key to his heart. The boy who asked me to Homecoming in a big, sexy way. There are so many things to look forward to. Parties at the Cave...
  • Reckless Princess by Tracy Lorraine

    Reckless Princess by Tracy Lorraine

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
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  • Cameron's Control: by Vanessa Fewings, Louise Bohmer

    Cameron's Control: by Vanessa Fewings, Louise Bohmer

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Passion has a price. Fortune has a fate. In the realms of business and pleasure, Cameron Cole is a billionaire without equal. In the boardroom and the bedroom, Cameron quite simply dominates. One woman has pierced his infamous armor and unexpectedly seized his heart...
  • Wicked Empire by Tracy Lorraine

    Wicked Empire by Tracy Lorraine

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Tracy Lorraine brings you the next installment of her new dark mafia, high school bully romance series.She didn’t want to believe me.She wanted to believe the threat wasn’t really there.But as the sirens ring out in the distance and she stares down into my eyes, she can no longer deny what’s right in front of her...
  • Reckless Dynasty by Tracy Lorraine

    Reckless Dynasty by Tracy Lorraine

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    My life has been full of half-truths tangled in lies—I’d been to hell and back more times than I could count. But nothing could have prepared me for the fear in her voice, and then the sight of that building going up in flames. After the way I treated her, the way I hurt her, I’d earned that pain back tenfold. I deserved to lose the only bit of light in my dark, twisted life...
  • Glass Heart Broken: A Dark High School Bully Romance by Lindsey Iler

    Glass Heart Broken: A Dark High School Bully Romance by Lindsey Iler

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    LIES. SECRETS. MAYHEM.The campus of Glass Heart Academy will never be the same once we’re through with it.PalmerThey tried to break me, but they underestimated my strength. When Marek says things aren’t always what they seem, I don’t want to believe him. Now, I know the dark truth in his words...
  • Entangled by R. Phillips

    Entangled by R. Phillips

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    “These stars of ours were written in darkness and bound with light…”I fell in love with them thirty-five million heartbeats apart and an ocean away.One shaped me at the scratch of a pen and the other remade me with the strum of a note.And the truth is that I loved them both, desperately.I never foresaw our worlds colliding...
  • Kiss Me by Jillian Dodd

    Kiss Me by Jillian Dodd

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    An alternate cover edition of this ASIN B00AEEFKZ2 can be found hereFrom USA Today, bestselling author Jillian Dodd comes the second book in the addictive Keatyn Chronicles series. Discover a breathless fairy-tale romance with swoon-worthy characters, suspense, and a glittering celebrity world...
  • Hear No Evil: A New Adult College Romance by Ivy Fox

    Hear No Evil: A New Adult College Romance by Ivy Fox

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Evil cannot take hold of an unconsenting soul.Do not be amazed that hell is empty, since all the devils live here.One by one, they will meet their hellish fate.One down…Three to go.EastonA tyrannous society has discovered our most atrocious secret and decided to wage war on us.They’ve had their fun with Finn, and now it’s my turn to be their little puppet...
  • Party Crashers by Heather Long

    Party Crashers by Heather Long

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    From the moment I learned she was coming to our school, I had a gut feeling it would end in disaster. Out of all the schools in the world, why did Kaitlin Crosse have to choose ours? Her presence confused my brothers and created tension between them, but I soon realized my initial assumptions about her were completely wrong...
  • Battling Destiny by Danielle Stewart

    Battling Destiny by Danielle Stewart

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Michael Cooper has his life together. He is the successful lawyer all his friends turn to when they find themselves in trouble, and he and his beautiful wife just welcomed their newborn daughter to the world. In just under two years, he went from a cocky bachelor to a quintessential family man with a close-knit group of friends. Yes, Michael Cooper has his life together...
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    suspense  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  mystery  romance
  • Reaper by Rachel Leigh

    Reaper by Rachel Leigh

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    They call me the reaper.Saying I have no soul. A heart that’s charred black. I tell them it’s true,because it is. I’ve been hiding in the shadows.Stealing secrets, destroying the lives of those who deserve it. But there’s one story to be told before this book closes. My story. Don’t be fooled, it’s not a fairytale. I’m no prince.And I certainly don’t want a princess...
  • Vandal: An MM Bully Romance by Rachel Leigh

    Vandal: An MM Bully Romance by Rachel Leigh

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    I have a secret. A deep and painful secret that has been feasting on my insides. Clawing at my heart and lacerating it in a slow and painful agony. If Wyatt thinks that he can just walk into my life and rattle things up,he’s got another thing coming.He’s nothing to me.Scum.Dirt.As good as dead.You see, I have a secret, but so does he...
  • Fragile Things by Samantha Lovelock

    Fragile Things by Samantha Lovelock

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Poe 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...
  • Reign by Ketley Allison

    Reign by Ketley Allison

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    CALLIEI always thought at Briarcliff Academy, Chase Stone was the ultimate ruler.He had the followers. The brutal upbringing. The supplicants.I’m the nobody he tortured, then loved, then ignored.Until I became the somebody of the Virtues.Now, Chase will tell you my exiling is for my own good and that he wants to shield me.He’s wrong...
  • Twisted Games by Elena Lawson

    Twisted Games by Elena Lawson

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Twisted Games is a full-length dark enemies-to-lovers reverse harem romance, meaning the main character will have more than one love interest. It is book three in the Boys of Briar Hall series and should be read after Wicked Trials...
  • Thorns of Decision by Breeana Puttroff

    Thorns of Decision by Breeana Puttroff

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Quinn Robbins was prepared for her mother to be angry. After all, she'd disappeared for two days without warning; to visit the world on the other side of the Dusk Gate that nobody else knows exists. What she wasn't prepared for was seeing her mother calmly sitting there, waiting for her return, as if Megan Robbins somehow knew the secret, too...
  • Save Me by Tiffany Snow

    Save Me by Tiffany Snow

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    In this fast-paced romantic suspense, China Mack will make one final choice. Computer genius China Mack may be the former head of Vigilance, the government’s clandestine spy program, but she can still be knocked off balance. And two back-to-back personal blows have thrown her into a tailspin...
  • Find Me by Tiffany Snow

    Find Me by Tiffany Snow

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    As the head of the government’s secret Vigilance spy program, computer guru China Mack already has her hands full when her billionaire boyfriend, Jackson Cooper, asks for one of them in marriage.Thrown for a loop by the sudden proposal, China’s usually well-ordered life takes another hit when someone tries to assassinate the president...
  • Break Me by Tiffany Snow

    Break Me by Tiffany Snow

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Just a few weeks ago, computer prodigy China Mack’s typical night in involved Endor Star Wars pajamas and a sensible bedtime. Now she’s dating gorgeous tech guru Jackson Cooper—one of Forbes’s Top Ten Eligible Billionaires—much to the Twitterverse’s delight.Turns out, going from socially inept hermit to poster girl for geek chic has its challenges...
  • Heathen: A Dark Enemies to Lovers Romance by Rachel Leigh

    Heathen: A Dark Enemies to Lovers Romance by Rachel Leigh

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    I’ve done very bad things. I’m not a good man. There’s skeletons in my closet And blood on my hands.I should be reaching for that sliver of light. But deep in the darkness lies the loyalty of my friends. Along with the secrets we’ve buried. It’s become comfortable and safe and all I really know. It’s all that I deserve. Yet, there’s someone who thinks I’m worthy of conviction...
  • Fractured Reign: Dark College Bully Romance by Caitlyn Dare

    Fractured Reign: Dark College Bully Romance by Caitlyn Dare

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    When Mia wakes up in the hospital with no memory of how she got there, she braces herself for bad news.But nothing can ever prepare her for the truth.Betrayed by the very people who were supposed to protect her, Mia no longer knows who to trust.All Bexley wants is to fix things for the girl he loves, and keep those around him safe.Even if it means embracing his legacy...
  • Wrong Crowd by Lisa Helen Gray

    Wrong Crowd by Lisa Helen Gray

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    My entire world was turned upside down the day my mum died. I feared what my life would become when an aunt I never knew about came swooping in and threw me into the unknown. She was rich. I couldn’t even afford a pack of gum. We were complete opposites, yet I wanted a fresh start in life, and she was promising to give me that. I just had to live with her for a year, until I graduated college...
  • Keeping Kyler by Siobhan Davis, Fiona Jayde

    Keeping Kyler by Siobhan Davis, Fiona Jayde

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    ★☆ Special pre-order price. Will increase upon release. ★☆ Book three in the captivating Kennedy Boys series. Description coming soon. "Lashings of drama, hot chemistry, and great banter. Perfect for fans of Tijan...
  • Losing Kyler by Siobhan Davis

    Losing Kyler by Siobhan Davis

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Condemned to repeat the sins of the past... Faye thought losing her parents was the most devastating thing to happen to her, but she was wrong. Her uncle’s scandalous revelation has sent her into a tailspin, leaving her questioning her entire existence. Everything she believed is built on a lie. And the one person she shares a passionate, soul-deep connection with can’t be there for her...
  • Never His Girl: Dark High School Bully Romance by Nikki Thorne, Rachel Jonas

    Never His Girl: Dark High School Bully Romance by Nikki Thorne, Rachel Jonas

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    West Golden--Football star. Playboy. Dead to me.Nothing puts the final bullet in a girl’s rep like a leaked sex tape. Especially one starring her and the cocky quarterback who’s had it out for her since day one. Yep, you guessed it. That girl is me.At Cypress Prep, West is king, but all I see when I look at him is the wicked prick who gets off on trying to break me.His plaything.Go ahead...
  • No Brainer by A.J. Lape

    No Brainer by A.J. Lape

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Two weeks before junior year, Darcy hops a plane to Orlando for a little R&R with her best friend Dylan and his family. Fresh off the heels of solving three murders in Valley, she is ready to sit back and enjoy the vacation capital of the world…maybe if you're a noun. Darcy Walker, however, is nothing but verb...
  • Catherine Coulter Collection: The Cove, The Maze, and Eleventh Hour by Catherine Coulter

    Catherine Coulter Collection: The Cove, The Maze, and Eleventh Hour by Catherine Coulter

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The Cove (Sandra Burr, Joyce Bean, Melissa Coates): The Cove is a quaint little postcard town made up only of old folk who sell the World's Greatest Ice Cream - a secret recipe that brings lots of tourists into town. Into The Cove comes Sally Brainerd, daughter of murdered Amory St. John of Washington, D.C., seeking sanctuary, and FBI Special Agent James Quinlan who's undercover and after her...
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    suspense  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  mystery  romance
  • When Fate Isn't Enough by Isabelle Richards

    When Fate Isn't Enough by Isabelle Richards

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Can a romance that was written in the stars survive real life? Lily Clark and Gavin Edwards met when their lives collided in a crazy twist of fate. Their relationship started amidst chaos, fraught with danger, passion, and love. Building a life together will take more than destiny, especially when ghosts from their pasts try to tear them apart...
  • Delectable Lies by Shauna Mairéad

    Delectable Lies by Shauna Mairéad

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Never feed your fears, Saoirse, because if you do, they will eat you alive.Those were the last words my mother uttered before the masked men arrived.She begged me to run, to save myself from the past she kept hidden.But here's the thing, the past doesn't stay buried forever, and somebody has to pay the price for the choices she made.All the King's horses and all the King's men..
  • Evergreen Academy - The Complete Series by Ruby Vincent

    Evergreen Academy - The Complete Series by Ruby Vincent

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The Complete Evergreen Academy Series Evergreen Academy was meant to be my fresh start. My hair was on point. My skin was flawless. And now I wore the hell out of my clothes instead of hiding them. Even running into Ryder hadn't thrown me. So what that the silver-eyed devil who tormented me for years now ruled my new school with a band of boys everyone called the Knights...
  • Savage Gods by Natalie Bennett

    Savage Gods by Natalie Bennett

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A queen is said to be the most powerful piece on the board, but no one ever mentions that she’s maneuvered by the king. I gave myself to a monster to save the ones who betrayed me.I let myself be crowned queen of a world I didn’t understand, making me not only a prisoner, but the perfect pawn.Judas Barron is even more lethal than I could have ever imagined.A savage god in a league of his own...
  • Devious Kisses by Thandiwe Mpofu

    Devious Kisses by Thandiwe Mpofu

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    𝑺𝒐𝒎𝒆 𝒓𝒊𝒗𝒂𝒍𝒔 𝒄𝒂𝒏 𝒃𝒆 𝒇𝒂𝒕𝒂𝒍 𝒕𝒐 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒕, 𝒃𝒖𝒕... 𝑰𝒕'𝒔 𝑱𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝑯𝒊𝒈𝒉 𝑺𝒄𝒉𝒐𝒐𝒍.⠀⠀Here’s the 411 about high school—well, at least for my high school, Clintwood Academy.⠀⠀💋It’s a fucking warzone.⠀💋Everyone has a grudge against someone else. ⠀💋It’s the breeding ground for losers, jealous broken-hearted girls, and acne covered fools with zero game...
  • Coda by Jennifer Hartmann

    Coda by Jennifer Hartmann

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Six years ago, I hit rock bottom.In a desperate attempt to pull myself from the ashes, I had to burn the people I loved most.Now, those same people are drowning in darkness after their world is rocked by tragedy.I've made a business out of helping others, channeling my past trauma into a good cause. But when the one person who needs my help the most sends me away, I have another choice to make...
  • The Rescue by Nicholas Sparks

    The Rescue by Nicholas Sparks

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 41 ratings
    When confronted by raging fires or deadly accidents, volunteer fireman Taylor McAden feels compelled to take terrifying risks; but there is one leap of faith Taylor can't bring himself to make: He can't fall in love...
  • Echoes by Kristen Heitzmann

    Echoes by Kristen Heitzmann

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Romantic suspense from a best-selling novelist. Sequel to Unforgotten, Sofie Michelli goes to Sonoma to unravel her past, but returns to face the future...
  • The Elites by Ruby Vincent

    The Elites by Ruby Vincent

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Final Year, Final BattleI thought my biggest problem was being kicked off campus, but I'd rather trade my blazer for a skirt than an orange jumpsuit.There's a killer on campus and they think it's me. I have my boys on my side, but this might be one fight we can't win.Someone is determined to bring us down, but with enemies on all sides, the suspects are endless and I'm running out of time...
  • Tame Him: A Dark High School Bully Romance by Caitlyn Dare

    Tame Him: A Dark High School Bully Romance by Caitlyn Dare

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    𝗦𝗵𝗲 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗴𝗲𝘁 𝗵𝗶𝗺. 𝗛𝗲 𝘄𝗼𝗻’𝘁 𝗹𝗲𝘁 𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗴𝗼.Remi Tanner was only supposed to be a pawn in my game. But I screwed up. I broke her. And now I have to find a way to fix it. I want her.I need her. In the end, I’ll prove she’s the only thing that matters.Ace Jagger wasn’t supposed to imprint himself on my heart...
  • Soulless by Ivy Fox

    Soulless by Ivy Fox

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Nothing is ever as it seems.In a world where lies and deceit rule, my carefully hidden secrets weren’t an exception.The privileged hide behind masks that only elitism and power can provide.Yet, I’m still learning just how vile and ruthless you need to become to play their twisted game.In my naiveté, I thought my heart would always be safe in their hands.But I was wrong.So very wrong...
  • I Was Born Ruined by C.M. Stunich

    I Was Born Ruined by C.M. Stunich

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    What sort of girl loves sin like I do? What sort of person thrives in it? I'm the princess to a dirty throne of motorcycles and madness, daughter of the president of the Death by Daybreak Motorcycle Club. My father's four closest officers—men dressed in blood and death and sin—they're my honor guard, cloaked in leather vests and tattoos. Only, there's nothing honorable about them at all...
  • Night School Endgame by C.J. Daugherty

    Night School Endgame by C.J. Daugherty

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings
    Broken. Scattered. But not defeated.The spy is gone but the cost has been high - the rebels at Cimmeria Academy have lost their leader and Carter West is missing. Nathaniel can taste victory. But Allie and the other survivors aren't done yet. First they have to get Carter back. Then they plan to make Nathaniel pay.One way or another - the game must end...
  • A Promise of Torment by Mallory Fox

    A Promise of Torment by Mallory Fox

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Blood hides carnal desires. Power is overrated.Killing for family, tainted with nothing but love...My emotions are supposed to be dead.I was never meant to feel this. Pain. Anger. Rage. Feelings erode me from the inside.They make me weak. They make him more powerful.But I can't lose.Dante is my sweetness in hell. My father has me where he wants me. And my boys...well they think I'm all but lost...
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