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  • Dark Legacy by Tracy Lorraine

    Dark Legacy by Tracy Lorraine

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 11 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. We knew it wasn’t going to be easy.That our love could start a war...Dear reader,Dark Legacy is the twelfth book in my Knight's Ridge Empire series, and the third book of Calli and Batman's story...
  • Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys

    Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 49 ratings
    While the Titanic and Lusitania are both well-documented disasters, the single greatest tragedy in maritime history is the little-known January 30, 1945 sinking in the Baltic Sea by a Soviet submarine of the Wilhelm Gustloff, a German cruise liner that was supposed to ferry wartime personnel and refugees to safety from the advancing Red Army...
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  • Still Jaded by Tijan

    Still Jaded by Tijan

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    Sheldon, Bryce, and Corrigan ruled their school until a killer wanted to rule them. Three years later, Bryce’s back home from Europe the local celebrity jock. Corrigan’s busy running his fraternity and Sheldon's about to be pulled back into the social world of drama...
  • Corrupt Union by Tracy Lorraine

    Corrupt Union by Tracy Lorraine

    Rated: 4.62 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 11 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...
  • Bradford Butcher by Sheridan Anne

    Bradford Butcher by Sheridan Anne

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 23 ratings
    One life. Two lives. Three lives. Four.My hands are stained from the blood and the gore.The screams and cries of agonizing pain.If I lose them now, I’ll never be the same.My sister, my cousin … my whole damn world.It was my worst nightmare come to life, and I don’t know how the hell I’m supposed to survive.I thought that night was the end of it...
  • Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty

    Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 83 ratings
    Check out the #1 New York Times bestseller Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty, called “a surefire hit” by Entertainment Weekly.   "The secrets burrowed in this seemingly placid small town...are so suburban noir they would make David Lynch clap with glee..
    Categorized as:
    suspense  mystery  contemporary  abuse  dark  young adult  humor  rape
  • Real Girl by Sheridan Anne

    Real Girl by Sheridan Anne

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Lucien 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...
  • Hometown Girl Memories by Kirsten Fullmer

    Hometown Girl Memories by Kirsten Fullmer

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    "I was crying one minute and laughing the next. A definite must read!" Winnie is content in her role as the reining matriarch of Smithville, but when a letter arrives from a long-lost friend, the door to her past is reopened. Memories come flooding in, drawing her back to 1968, her college days; a time filled with people and events she hasn’t allowed herself to recall...
  • You'd Be Home Now by Kathleen Glasgow

    You'd Be Home Now by Kathleen Glasgow

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    From the New York Times bestselling author of Girl in Pieces comes a breathtaking story about a town, its tragedies, and the quiet beauty of everyday life.For all of Emory's life she's been told who she is. In town she's the rich one--the great-great-granddaughter of the mill's founder. At school she's hot Maddie Ward's younger sister...
  • Wild Girl by Sheridan Anne

    Wild Girl by Sheridan Anne

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Have you ever known what it feels like to die?It’s not great. Trust me, I don’t recommend it.I’ve always said that my life is about surviving, but I didn’t realize how true that was until the devil sent me soaring off a bridge with the love of my life and lodged a bullet through my thigh.It’s not my time to die...
  • Barbie B*tch by Sheridan Anne

    Barbie B*tch by Sheridan Anne

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    Cold-blooded murder. Do I have it in me? I’ve watched the people I love commit the worst kinds of crimes and within the blink of an eye, I could be just like them. I feel the jagged glass beneath my fingers, but do I have the strength to follow this through? How much of my soul am I willing to sacrifice to make this right?Nic was supposed to be my rock...
  • Requiem by Callie Hart

    Requiem by Callie Hart

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 22 ratings
    SORRELLHe’s going to pay for what he’s done…Theo Merchant was born into a kind of privilege I’ve never known.He has everything I don’t: Money. A private school education. Popularity. A bright and shiny future, full of success to look forward to. He took the only thing I had going for me—my best friend, Rachel. Now that she’s gone, I have nothing left to lose.I will infiltrate his world...
  • Before I Break by Portia Moore

    Before I Break by Portia Moore

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Out of the past six years of my life, I only remember about half of it. After a dozen doctors and thousands in medical bills, I was diagnosed with a rare neurological disorder--one that causes me to lose track of time. Sometimes it’s hours, days or even weeks with no recollection of anything. The good thing is it's been almost two years since I had my last ‘black out’...
  • Out of the Dark by Danah Logan

    Out of the Dark by Danah Logan

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    LillyMy name is the only truth they didn’t take from me.Betrayed by my family, my desperate need for answers put me back on his radar.The one person who was never supposed to find me.Again.I was unprepared for the world I got thrust into—the connection we shared.The deeper I dug, the more unstable my future became.With Rhys as my anchor, I will fight to bring my past out of the dark...
  • Dangerous Girls by Abigail Haas, Abby McDonald

    Dangerous Girls by Abigail Haas, Abby McDonald

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    It's Spring Break of senior year. Anna, her boyfriend Tate, her best friend Elise, and a few other close friends are off to a debaucherous trip to Aruba that promises to be the time of their lives. But when Elise is found brutally murdered, Anna finds herself trapped in a country not her own, fighting against vile and contemptuous accusations...
  • Game by Barry Lyga

    Game by Barry Lyga

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    Billy grinned. “Oh, New York,” he whispered. “We’re gonna have so much fun.” I Hunt Killers introduced the world to Jazz, the son of history’s most infamous serial killer, Billy Dent. In an effort to prove murder didn’t run in the family, Jazz teamed with the police in the small town of Lobo’s Nod to solve a deadly case...
  • Shattered Legacy : A Dark Bully Romance by Caitlyn Dare

    Shattered Legacy : A Dark Bully Romance by Caitlyn Dare

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Mia Thompson wants only one thing: to survive Gravestone University, graduate, and get far far away from her hometown and its archaic traditions.But she’s about to become a pawn in a game she doesn’t understand.Bexley Danforth wants only one thing: to keep his head down, survive four years at college, and get far far away from his past and the mistakes that haunt him...
  • The Female of the Species by Mindy McGinnis

    The Female of the Species by Mindy McGinnis

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    A contemporary YA novel that examines rape culture through alternating perspectives. Alex Craft knows how to kill someone. And she doesn’t feel bad about it.Three years ago, when her older sister, Anna, was murdered and the killer walked free, Alex uncaged the language she knows best—the language of violence. While her own crime goes unpunished, Alex knows she can’t be trusted among other people...
  • Born Wrong by C.M. Stunich

    Born Wrong by C.M. Stunich

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    When you're born wrong, sometimes you get bent and you get f*cked. Sometimes your life takes you places you don't want to go.Sometimes, it does. Dax McCann is as cold as ice. I'm intrigued by him. But I can't get close to him either. His music strokes my soul, butchers my broken heart. I wish he'd see me, but he only sees her...
  • Ugly Girl by Sheridan Anne

    Ugly Girl by Sheridan Anne

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Slade Cruz is a d*@k.He’s intimidating, sexy as sin, and unpredictably wild. His eyes draw me in while his vicious smirk screams at me to run and never look back. I’m a toy to him, a pawn to use in his devilish games.I’ve already suffered through hell and back and if it’s games he wants then it’s games he’ll get, but he should be warned, this time it’s my turn to play the lead...
  • The Execution by Ruby Vincent

    The Execution by Ruby Vincent

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    They think they won. The Elite thought it would end at the battle, but I'm taking them to war. I will topple Landon, Michael, and Cole off their thrones even if it means bringing the system to its knees. Tensions are boiling beneath the surface of Breakbattle Academy. Protests are erupting, the lower classes are fighting back, and the Elites aren’t as invulnerable as they thought...
  • Wicked Promises by S. Massery

    Wicked Promises by S. Massery

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 18 ratings
    I made a promise to Caleb, and I intended to keep it.I just didn’t anticipate the aftermath.One betrayal.One lie.One devastating cover up.It’s all out in the open now, and this time, I’m not running away.The secrets I hold are enough to destroy us.The truth is supposed to set us free—but we aren’t destined for freedom.This is a dark high school bully romance with mature content and themes...
  • Wicked Games by S. Massery

    Wicked Games by S. Massery

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 17 ratings
    *A Dark High School Bully Romance*I loved him. He betrayed me.He tried to ruin my chance of happiness, but I'm not going down so easily.There are questions I need answered. Secrets that need to be brought into the light. And a king who needs to be taken off his throne.They say all’s fair in love and war. But if Caleb Asher taught me anything, it’s that what we have is definitely not love...
  • Unstable by Alexandra Ivy

    Unstable by Alexandra Ivy

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    WHEN IT COMES TO KILLINGA dead man in a cemetery isn’t news—unless he’s found on top of a grave, with a bullet through his head. The body belongs to Jude Henley, who was supposed to be buried below. Instead, the grave contains the remains of Staci Gale, thought to have run away nearly three decades ago...
  • These Dark Hearts by L.A. Cotton

    These Dark Hearts by L.A. Cotton

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Harleigh Wren Maguire has loved Phoenix Wilder for as long as she can remember.He's everything she isn't.Brave.Reckless.One-hundred percent unapologetic.But it's Halloween... the perfect excuse to dress up and be someone you're not. To step out of your comfort zone and do things you wouldn't usually do.And Harleigh is determined to make her best friend notice her for once.There's only one problem...
  • Tough Luck by C.M. Stunich

    Tough Luck by C.M. Stunich

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    * This is NOT the last book in the series. There will be later books featuring Turner and Naomi again, and they also appear in this volume quite a bit. ;) Ronnie McGuire is my target. But I wish he wasn't. I didn't sign up for this destruction, this pain. In his music, I hear his soul crying out for me...
  • The Dead List by Jennifer L. Armentrout

    The Dead List by Jennifer L. Armentrout

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    It's Ella's senior year of high school and she and her best friend Linds plan to make it the best year ever. At Brock Cochran's end of summer pool party, the girls vow to have as much fun as possible before they head off to different colleges next fall. But when Ella is mysteriously attacked on her way home from the party, everything changes...
  • Requiem: A Dark Academia Enemies-to-Lovers Standalone Novel by Callie Hart

    Requiem: A Dark Academia Enemies-to-Lovers Standalone Novel by Callie Hart

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    USA Today Bestselling Author Callie Hart returns with a decadent dark academia, enemies-to-lovers rollercoaster, where hidden secrets are never what they seem... SORRELLHe’s going to pay for what he’s done…Theo Merchant was born into a kind of privilege I’ve never known.He has everything I don’t: Money. A private school education. Popularity...
  • Get Bent by C.M. Stunich

    Get Bent by C.M. Stunich

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    Naomi Knox is missing. I don't even f*cking know whether she's dead or alive. What I do know is that she's the air I need to breathe. She's my redemption, an all consuming fire that burns in my blood. And I'll do anything to find her. Anything. Even if it means the end for me. & & & Turner Campbell is searching. But he has no f*cking clue what it is he's searching for...
  • Ómorphi by C. (Cody) Kennedy

    Ómorphi by C. (Cody) Kennedy

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    "Hauntingly beautiful, a book that you never wanted to end because you were so much a part of the characters lives. When you finish the book you want to know more, to pick up the phone and call Christy. Magically written, the voices and setting of the story were so clear you lived each moment with the characters...
  • Sadie by Courtney Summers

    Sadie by Courtney Summers

    Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 60 ratings
    A missing girl on a journey of revenge. A Serial-like podcast following the clues she's left behind. And an ending you won't be able to stop talking about.Sadie hasn't had an easy life. Growing up on her own, she's been raising her sister Mattie in an isolated small town, trying her best to provide a normal life and keep their heads above water...
  • I Hunt Killers by Barry Lyga

    I Hunt Killers by Barry Lyga

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    What if the world's worst serial killer...was your dad? Jasper "Jazz" Dent is a likable teenager. A charmer, one might say. But he's also the son of the world's most infamous serial killer, and for Dear Old Dad, Take Your Son to Work Day was year-round. Jazz has witnessed crime scenes the way cops wish they could—from the criminal's point of view. And now bodies are piling up in Lobo's Nod...
  • If You Find Me by Emily Murdoch

    If You Find Me by Emily Murdoch

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    There are some things you can’t leave behind… A broken-down camper hidden deep in a national forest is the only home fifteen year-old Carey can remember. The trees keep guard over her threadbare existence, with the one bright spot being Carey’s younger sister, Jenessa, who depends on Carey for her very survival...
  • Only for You by Genna Rulon

    Only for You by Genna Rulon

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    “In its purest form love is self-sacrificing, eternal, selfless, enduring, truthful, forgiving and indulgent. It also feels an awful lot like a kick to the stomach when you try to fight it!” All Everleigh Carsen wanted to do was complete her final semester at Hensley University and begin the life she carefully planned...
  • They The Pretty Stars by Eden O'Neill

    They The Pretty Stars by Eden O'Neill

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 18 ratings
    In Maywood Heights, stars burn bright. They fall even harder.They call them the Court, an elite boys club who rule Windsor Preparatory Academy like gods among men. And, of course, they're led by Hercules himself.Royal Prinze-yes, that's actually his name--walks around both the school and the town like he owns them. His affiliation to the prestigious Court only gives him more clout...
  • Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson

    Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson

    Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars
    · 82 ratings
    Melinda Sordino busted an end-of-summer party by calling the cops. Now her old friends won't talk to her, and people she doesn't even know hate her from a distance. The safest place to be is alone, inside her own head. But even that's not safe...
  • The Falling of Hadley by Jessica Sorensen

    The Falling of Hadley by Jessica Sorensen

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    My life is getting more complicated the longer I remain in Honeyton. But I'm tough. I always have been. But trying to handle everything on my own is becoming difficult, especially when I discover a family secret. I hate to admit it, but I may need some help if I want to protect my sisters. And the only people I may be able to turn to for help are my next-door neighbors who drive me insane...
  • Ava: A Dark Bully College Romance by Leslie Luckie

    Ava: A Dark Bully College Romance by Leslie Luckie

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Ava The minute we walked through the gates of Blackheath Academy I knew we weren’t welcome. It was us against them. The Club Brats against the Elite. Bastian de Trafford was their ringleader, but I wasn’t about to go down without a fight. Only - that fight would be so much easier if he didn’t look like a god of old...
  • Hate List by Jennifer Brown

    Hate List by Jennifer Brown

    Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    Five months ago, Valerie Leftman's boyfriend, Nick, opened fire on their school cafeteria. Shot trying to stop him, Valerie inadvertently saved the life of a classmate, but was implicated in the shootings because of the list she helped create. A list of people and things she and Nick hated. The list he used to pick his targets...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  mystery  contemporary  young adult  abuse  dark
  • Right Behind You by Gail Giles

    Right Behind You by Gail Giles

    Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    When he was nine, Kip set another child on fire. Now, after years in a juvenile ward, he is ready for a fresh start. But the ghosts of his past soon demand justice, and he must reveal his painful secret...
    Categorized as:
    mystery  suspense  contemporary  young adult  dark
  • A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner

    A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner

    Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Faulkner’s most famous, most popular, and most anthologized short story, “A Rose for Emily” evokes the terms Southern gothic and grotesque, two types of literature in which the general tone is one of gloom, terror, and understated violence...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  mystery  contemporary  young adult  dark
  • Half Truths by Claire Contreras

    Half Truths by Claire Contreras

    Rated: 4.04 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...
  • We the Pretty Stars by Eden O'Neill

    We the Pretty Stars by Eden O'Neill

    Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    He's a supernova... wild and untamed but I refuse to let his light die. If need be, I'll be that light for him.We'll end this together.The body count is rising in Maywood Heights and Royal seems determined to add to that number. He wants to take out those who hurt Paige. Though I want justice too, I'm not sure how far his need for revenge will take him. These flames might consume him in the end...
  • Marrow by Tarryn Fisher

    Marrow by Tarryn Fisher

    Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    In the Bone there is a house. In the house there is a girl. In the girl there is a darkness. Margo is not like other girls. She lives in a derelict neighborhood called the Bone, in a cursed house, with her cursed mother, who hasn’t spoken to her in over two years. She lives her days feeling invisible...
  • Court Kept by Eden O'Neill

    Court Kept by Eden O'Neill

    Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    The black hole has sucked me in... and I don't want to get out.Ramses plan is dark. It can GET dark but not only am I here for it I'm so ready. It's time to bring some justice in this town. It's time to open some f*cking doors and be a voice for someone who didn't have one. My sister Paige didn't get to tell her story. What happened to her was covered up and I'm going to prove that...
  • Saints by Cassie James

    Saints by Cassie James

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Nothing brings a group of people together quite like a dead body...
  • Going Under by S. Walden

    Going Under by S. Walden

    Rated: 3.99 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Brooke Wright has only two goals her senior year at Charity Run High School: stay out of trouble and learn to forgive herself for the past. Forgiveness proves elusive, and trouble finds her anyway when she discovers a secret club at school connected to the death of her best friend...
  • Teen Killers Club by Lily Sparks

    Teen Killers Club by Lily Sparks

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Framed for the murder of her best friend, a young girl joins a super-secret society of teenage assassins to avoid a lifetime behind bars--and discovers her own true self--in this mesmerizing debut novel. Seventeen-year-old Signal Deere has raised eyebrows for years as an unhappy Goth misfit from the trailer park...
  • What She Found in the Woods by Josephine Angelini

    What She Found in the Woods by Josephine Angelini

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Magda just wants to forget what happened. But there's a nightmare lurking —and it's coming for her...This is Magda’s last chance. Recovering from a scandal at her elite New York City private school that threw her life into a tailspin, she’s shipped off to live with her grandparents in the Pacific Northwest for the summer...
  • Treacherous by Chloe Walsh

    Treacherous by Chloe Walsh

    Rated: 3.99 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Noah Messina has spent his whole life fighting. It's in his blood. It's in his breeding. His way out of a family he didn't choose to be a part of. Fighting is his only focus... Until Teagan walks into his life, and Noah realizes he's met the one woman who could alter his future... the one woman who could make him lose it all..
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